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diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT
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--- a/ANNOUNCEMENT
+++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT
@@ -1,24 +1,33 @@
 	A N N O U N C E M E N T
 
-	OpenLDAP 2.0-alpha
+	OpenLDAP 2.0-Alpha
 
 	The OpenLDAP Project is pleased to announce the availability
-	of OpenLDAP release 2.0-alpha, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
+	of OpenLDAP release 2.0-Alpha, a suite of the Lightweight Weight
 	Directory Protocol servers, clients, utilities, and development tools.
 
+	This release is for REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY.
+	This release is NOT FOR GENERAL USE.
+	This release is NOT feature complete nor well tested.
+
 	This release contains the following major enhancements:
 
 		* LDAPv3 support
-			- RFC2251 support
-			- named referrals
-			- named aliases
-		* SASL bind support
+			+ RFC2251-2256
+			+ named referrals
+			+ DNS SRV location
+		* SASL support
 		* TLS/SSL support
+		* IPv6 support
+		* LDAP over IPC support
 		* Updated C API 
-		* Additional SLAPD backends:
-			- LDAP backend
-			- Perl backend
-			- TCL backend
+		* Enhanced Standalone LDAP Server:
+			+ Updated Access Control System
+			+ Thread Pooling
+			+ DNS SRV referral backend
+			+ LDAP backend
+			+ new (Perl, SQL, TCL) programmable backends
+			+ Better tools
 
 	This release includes the following major components:
 
@@ -28,7 +37,7 @@
 		* -llber - a lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
 		* LDIF tools - data conversion tools for use with slapd
 		* LDAP gateways - finger, gopher, email to LDAP gateways
-		* LDAP mailers - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
+		* LDAP mailer - sendmail-compatibile mail delivery agents
 		* LDAP tools - A collection of command line LDAP utility programs
 
 	In addition, there are some contributed components:
@@ -46,13 +55,14 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 	the Internet to coordinate their activities.   The project is
 	managed by the OpenLDAP Foundation.
 
-	OpenLDAP software is derived from University of Michigan
-	LDAP release 3.3.
+	OpenLDAP LDAP implementation is derived from University of
+	Michigan LDAP release 3.3.
 
 
 AVAILABILITY
 
-	This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License.
+	This software is available under the OpenLDAP Public License,
+	an unrestrictive, "free," OSS-approved open source license.
 	For download information is available at:
 
 		http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/download/
@@ -60,23 +70,23 @@ AVAILABILITY
 
 SUPPORT
 
-	OpenLDAP software is user supported.
+	OpenLDAP software is user supported
 
 		http://www.openldap.org/support/
 
-	To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
-
-		http://www.openldap.org/its/
-
 	The project maintains a FAQ which you may find useful:
 
-		http://www.openldap.org/fag/
+		http://www.openldap.org/faq/
 
 	In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
 	related OpenLDAP.  A list of mailing lists is available at:
 
 		http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/
 
+	To report bugs, please use project's Issue Tracking System:
+
+		http://www.openldap.org/its/
+
 	The OpenLDAP home page containing lots of interesting information
 	and online documentation is available at this URL:
 
@@ -86,8 +96,7 @@ SUPPORT
 SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
 
 	This release has been ported to many UNIX (and UNIX-like) platforms
-	including AIX, Digital UNIX (OSF/1), FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux,
-	NetBSD, NexTSTEP, OpenBSD, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, and Ultrix.
-	The release has also be ported (in part or in whole) to other
-	platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows 95/NT.
+	including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and most commericial
+	UNIX systems.  The release has also been ported (in part or in whole)
+	to other platforms including BeOS, MacOS, and MS Windows NT/2000.