# About the Announcements category

**URL:** https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/17
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/17 "2018-03-21T13:50:45Z")
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### Author: ![davelester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/davelester/32/1927_2.png) [@davelester](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/davelester)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/17/1 "2018-03-21T13:50:45Z")

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The announcements category is for announcements relevant to developers such as release announcments, branching, and infrastructure updates. Creation of new topics in this category is by site admins and FoundationDB Core Team members only.