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For going on 20 years, yes. I even add hashes for each package (i.e. the tarball & platform installers) to the end of the message and sign it. I find it odd and inconvenient when projects don't announce releases via email.

Agree

If there is a mailing list for the software, why not send releases information over there? It makes a lot of sense to me. I'm also subscribed to several, and some software also announce patches or security related stuff on mail lists. I see mail as a low barrier of entry (every developer has an email address).

What else would you use to notify interested people and be able to receive feedback at the same time?

Sure I think it makes sense to have this on the forum as well as a shadow post or something, I posted this https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/haproxy-1-8-officially-relea... will see if willy would like to keep this and perhaps create an announcemet category. Ultimately his call, but there has been a lot of 1.8 discussion on the forum lately.

Not only do people do it, but not too long ago it was the ONLY way people did it.

How else would they do it?