And what a very self-evident announcement to make, really!
I thought it'd be good to have an area dedicated to major new stuff going on. Given the speed of official and fandom activity, I'd doubt this will happen very often, but now we're ready when it does.
One of my planned ideas for the forum homepage is a banner highlighting the latest entry in this announcements subforum, as a sort of instant news section for community visitors. Probably the easiest way to handle creating those posts in the first place is just having a forum for them. And since this is ultimately just a thread like any other, it'll allow for everyone's comments as well, though making new posts here is locked to admins and mods.
Anyway, that's today's "news." Happy bug-breeding, everyone!