-NEWS! January 2004, Privoxy 3.0.3 is released. This is the another maintenance
-release of Privoxy which fixes more bugs, further refines the configuration and
-works around some known third-party problems. See the ChangeLog for complete
-details. Upgrading from 3.0.2 is recommended.
+As usual there are changes that effect the configuration. See the "ChangeLog",
+and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for
+details and specifics.
+
+This is a stable release, and marks a departure for Privoxy development.
+
+Previously, odd numbered releases were considered beta versions and were only
+released at the end of the development cycle when the code was already believed
+to be stable. Usually it was, so the stable release contained pretty much the
+same code, but got a higher version number. In the future we intend to release
+several snapshots between stable releases. There will probably still be about
+two stable releases per year, but hopefully about six snapshots instead of the
+two betas we have now. The intentions is to make testing without CVS access
+easier.