[fermuch]

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?

[sams99]

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.