On 23 Feb 2024, Mariusz Tkaczyk uttered the following: > Release stuff is not necessary in repository. Remove it. ... it's actually pretty useful to have the ANNOUNCEs there for people building from the repo. Given that the changelog is not updated, having a summary of changes *somewhere* without having to grovel around in mailing list archives seems like a thing that shouldn't just be thrown out as "not necessary".