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+We're excited to announce the release of OpenSearch ${RELEASE_VERSION}! :tada:! </br>
+
+• Download: https://opensearch.org/downloads.html </br>
+• Release Notes: https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/blob/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-${RELEASE_VERSION}.md </br>
+• Documentation: https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/about/ </br>
+For detailed information about what's new, check out our blog post: https://www.opensearch.org/blog/explore-OpenSearch-2-19/ </br>
+
+Thanks everyone for the help to release OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards ${RELEASE_VERSION}. </br>
+Component repo owners please create a github release based on the tags of ${RELEASE_VERSION}.0. </br>
+
+Here is the retrospective issue ${RELEASE_RETRO_ISSUE_LINK} for the release. Please feel free to share your valuable feedback to help us make improvements for the upcoming releases.
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