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Send an E-Mail to announce@apache.org starting as follows: "
The Empire-db team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Empire-db version 2.0.5.
Apache Empire-db is a lightweight data access and persistence component for relational databases based on JDBC. http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db
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Afterwards add description and list of changes.
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