# About the announcement category

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/about-the-announcement-category/40>\
**Category:** announcement\
**Created:** [May 28, 2021, 10:35am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/about-the-announcement-category/40 "2021-05-28T10:35:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![olblak](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/olblak/32/3_2.png) [@olblak](https://community.jenkins.io/u/olblak)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 10:35am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/about-the-announcement-category/40/1 "2021-05-28T10:35:43Z")

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