svn commit: r1480468 - /gora/site/trunk/content/index.md

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Author: lewismc
Date: Wed May  8 21:24:11 2013
New Revision: 1480468

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1480468
Log:
add release announcement

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    gora/site/trunk/content/index.md

Modified: gora/site/trunk/content/index.md
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/gora/site/trunk/content/index.md?rev=1480468&r1=1480467&r2=1480468&view=diff
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--- gora/site/trunk/content/index.md (original)
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@@ -40,7 +40,24 @@ I would like to ...
 * ... get the [RDF DOAP descriptor for Gora](/current/doap_Gora.rdf)
 
 ## News
-      
+
+### 8 May, 2013: Apache Gora 0.3 Released
+<p>The Apache Gora team are proud to announce the release of Gora 0.3. 
+This point release offers users significant improvements to a number of modules
+ including a number of bug fixes, however of significant interest to the 
+DynamoDB community will be the addition of a gora-dynamodb datastore for 
+mapping and persisting objects to Amazon's DynamoDB [0]. Additionally the 
+release includes various improvements to the gora-core and gora-cassandra 
+modules as well as a new Web 
+Services API implementation which enables users to extend Gora to any cloud 
+storage platform. A full list of changes in this release can be seen in
+<a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/gora/0.3/CHANGES.txt">0.3-CHANGES.txt</a>.
+
+You can grab the maven release artifacts from 
+<a href="http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/gora/">Maven Central</a> 
+and can also get the Gora sources from our [downloads page](/downloads.html).
+</p>
+
 ### 12 September, 2012: Apache Gora at ApacheCon EU 2012
 <p>
   <a title="ApacheCon EU 2012" href="http://www.apachecon.eu/">