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@@ -15,13 +15,15 @@ named after a Perl Mongers group. The July 2011 release is code named
 "Beijing" after the host of the Beijing Perl Workshop 2011, which featured
 several Perl 6 related talks.
 
-Browsing the change log below, it might appear as though not much
-Rakudo development is taking place.  Nearly all of the development
-activity is now occurring in the "nom" 
-branch of the Rakudo repository (over 1200 commits since the 2011.05
-release).  This new branch will shortly become the mainline branch
-from which monthly releases are made, and already contains many
-important bugfixes and performance improvements.
+This will be the last compiler release made from the current "master"
+branch of Rakudo.  For the past several months, Rakudo compiler
+development has primarily occurred in the "nom" branch of the
+Rakudo repository (over 1200 commits since the 2011.05 release).
+Shortly after this release, the "nom" branch will become the new
+"master" branch and will be the source for future releases,
+including the 2011.08 release.  We expect there will be several
+releases in the near future -- watch http://rakudo.org/ for
+details.
 
 Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring in the
 master branch with this release include:
@@ -42,9 +44,15 @@ Moritz Lenz, Patrick R. Michaud, atrodo, Solomon Foster, bacek and others.
 If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on
 the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
 
-The next regular release of Rakudo (#44) is scheduled for August 18, 2011.
-See http://rakudo.org/2011/07/19/upcoming-rakudo-releases/ for more details.
-A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2011 is
-available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file.  In general, Rakudo
-development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
-Parrot monthly release.  Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.
+Rakudo has traditionally released two days after each Parrot
+monthly release.  Because the new version of the compiler has
+additional dependencies beyond Parrot, starting in August 2011 
+we will make releases sometime in the week following each monthly
+Parrot release.  (Parrot releases occur on the third Tuesday of 
+each month.) Thus the next regular release of Rakudo will occur 
+sometime before August 23, 2011.  We also expect to have additional
+"pre-release" versions of Rakudo and Rakudo Star prior to that date.
+
+A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2011
+is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file.
+