diff --git a/doc/ANNOUNCE b/doc/ANNOUNCE
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+++ b/doc/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.18.
+I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.19 !
 
 hledger is a robust, cross-platform, plain text accounting tool, with
 command-line, terminal and web UIs. It is a modern and largely
@@ -11,26 +11,29 @@ http://plaintextaccounting.org
 
 HIGHLIGHTS:
 
-Fixed JSON output;
-market prices inferred from transactions;
-more Ledger file compatibility;
-more flexible journal entries from CSV;
-misc. fixes and improvements.
+New aregister and codes commands,
+more powerful CSV conditional rules, 
+new sql output format,
+consistently default to flat mode,
+better colour control,
+cashflow report customisable like the others,
+more number/date/regexp parsing/validation,
+more speed.
 
 See all changes at https://hledger.org/release-notes .
-Thanks to release contributors Stephen Morgan, Dmitry Astapov, Henning
-Thielemann, Andriy Mykhaylyk, Pavan Rikhi, and Vladimir Sorokin.
+Thanks to release contributors Stephen Morgan, Dmitry Astapov, 
+Michael Sanders, Henning Thielemann, Martin Michlmayr, and Colin Woodbury.
 
 GETTING STARTED:
 
 Many install methods are described at http://hledger.org/download. 
 Here are three ways to build from source:
 
-  stack update; stack install --resolver=lts hledger-lib-1.18 hledger-1.18 hledger-ui-1.18 hledger-web-1.18 --silent
+  stack update; stack install --resolver=lts hledger-lib-1.19 hledger-1.19 hledger-ui-1.19 hledger-web-1.19 --silent
 
 or:
 
-  cabal v2-update; cabal v2-install hledger-1.18 hledger-web-1.18 hledger-ui-1.18
+  cabal v2-update; cabal v2-install hledger-1.19 hledger-web-1.19 hledger-ui-1.19
 
 or: