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That's interesting: for me, the homepage just says "R version 3.0.0 (Masked Marvel) has been released on 2013-04-03." without any links. There's a What's New link in the sidebar, but it just takes me to mailing list archives.

While it initially looks like all that page, at the very bottom is a "Changes in R" section that has a link to the NEWS file.

Interesting -- there is no such link in the page that I land on.

nothing for me too

You seem to be using http://cran.r-project.org (which is what's actually mirrored) and not the linked webpage.

Correct, hence "all of the mirrors" :)

But it is a good point that it's surprising not to have Project landing page.

There was a mailing list discussion on it a while back, can't remember what the maintainers said was their reason for this.