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@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ script, along with whatever supporting code you need, and we manage
 accepting student submissions, running your autograder at scale, and
 distributing the results back to students and to you.
 
+!!! note "Updates"
+    Our autograder platform is under active development! Check out the
+    [Updates](updates/) page to see what we've changed recently.
+
 # How it works
 
 As an instructor, you create a new assignment on Gradescope, and

diff --git a/docs/updates.md b/docs/updates.md
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+# Updates
+
+Here are some updates we've made to our autograder platform. If you have any questions or issues with any of these changes, please email [help@gradescope.com](mailto:help@gradescope.com).
+
+## September 4th, 2020
+
+- The Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS base images had their default Python installation upgraded from Python 2 to Python 3.
+	- See our [help documentation](../python3_issues/) if you suspect this is causing issues with your autograder setup.
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ theme: readthedocs
 extra_css: [gradescope.css]
 pages:
 - 'Home': index.md
+- 'Updates': updates.md
 - 'Getting Started': getting_started.md
 - 'Autograder Specifications': specs.md
 - 'Manual Grading': manual_grading.md
@@ -26,3 +27,5 @@ pages:
     - 'Native code via Python': diff.md
     - 'MySQL': mysql.md
 - 'Community Resources': resources.md
+markdown_extensions:
+  - admonition