enasequence · cocathail · Mar 26, 2025
diff --git a/about/news.rst b/about/news.rst
@@ -1,9 +1,28 @@
 =======
-News and Announcements
+ENA Announcements
 =======
 
-This page is for news items relating to the European Nucleotide Archive and service announcements.
+25/03/2025 - Checklist updates
+=============================
 
-.. admonition:: ENA Announcement
+*What has changed?*
 
-    This is an example of an ENA announcement
+The ENA has implemented some improvements to our underlying sample checklist systems.
+
+*When did it change?*
+
+These improvements were integrated into our TEST endpoints and interfaces in December 2024.
+As 24th March 2025, these improvements have been integrated into our production services.
+
+*How will it affect me?*
+
+Users should not see any effect on validation, however the validation messages that appear to users appear differently. This is due to the old system running on XML schema based validation, while the new system validates using JSON schema.
+
+A detailed table of how these error messages have changed can be found here: https://ena-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submit/samples/sample_checklist/sample_checklist_errors.html
+
+Should you experience any difficulties please raise a support request here: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/support
+
+01/01/2025
+=======================================
+
+This is a test announcement.
diff --git a/index.rst b/index.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ For submission guidelines and retrieval tutorials, please see the `ENA Training
    about/data_coordination
    about/policies
    about/data-standards
+   about/news
    about/funding
    about/events
 

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-docutils<0.18
+docutils<0.21