diff --git a/docs/announce/2009-05 b/docs/announce/2009-05
index c8c1b3d709e..b4ebd09c267 100644
--- a/docs/announce/2009-05
+++ b/docs/announce/2009-05
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #17 ("Bratislava")
+Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #17 ("Stockholm")
 
 On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
 the May 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #17 "Stockholm".
@@ -13,19 +13,22 @@ the latest source directly from the main repository at github.
 More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo .
 
 Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named
-after a Perl Mongers group.  This release is named "Stockholm",
-a city in whose Perl Mongers group Carl Mäsak is a member. Carl is one of
-the main authors of November [2], Druid [3], proto [4], and other Perl
-6-based packages. He contributes patches to Rakudo, and has been stress-
-testing Rakudo over the past year, submitting nearly 400 bug reports.
+after a Perl Mongers group.  This release is named "Stockholm";
+Stockholm Perl Mongers will be holding a Perl 6 hackathon on May 29 [3].
+Perl 6 developer Carl Mäsak is a member of Stockholm Perl Mongers and
+a main author of November [4], Druid [5], proto [6], and other
+Perl 6-based packages.  Carl also contributes patches to Rakudo,
+and has been stress-testing Rakudo over the past year, submitting
+nearly 400 bug reports.
 
 In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes
 and improvements:
 
-* Rakudo is now passing XXX spectests, an increase of XXX
+* Rakudo is now passing 11,342 spectests, an increase of 875
   passing tests since the April 2009 release.  With this release
-  Rakudo is now passing approximately XX% of the available
-  spectest suite.
+  Rakudo is now passing 68% of the available spectest suite.
+
+* We now have an updated docs/ROADMAP .
 
 * Errors and stack traces now report the file name and line number
   in the original source code.
@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ and improvements:
 * More builtin functions and methods have been rewritten in
   Perl 6 and placed as part of the setting.
 
-* There are additional improvements and features in this release,
+* There are many additional improvements and features in this release,
   see docs/ChangeLog for a more complete list.
 
 The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
@@ -58,6 +61,8 @@ Have fun!
 
 References:
 [1]  Parrot, http://parrot.org/
-[2]  November wiki engine, http://github.com/viklund/november/
-[3]  Druid, http://github.com/masak/druid/
-[4]  Proto, http://github.com/masak/proto/
+[2]  Stockholm.pm, http://sthlm.pm.org/
+[3]  Stockholm Perl 6 hackathon, http://vic20.blipp.com/pipermail/kameler/2009-May/000318.html
+[4]  November wiki engine, http://github.com/viklund/november/
+[5]  Druid, http://github.com/masak/druid/
+[6]  Proto, http://github.com/masak/proto/