twkozlowski came to our IRC channel today to point out that the link [1] to Commons' village pump found on our release page [2] is broken. I haven't searched through the history of the page, but according to that user, it seems like the announcement was never posted to that page.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Media_Viewer_Launching_Soon
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Large_Wikis