improve release announcement

docs/announce/2016.01.md

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-# Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #95 (“??”)
+# Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #95 (2016.01)
 
 On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the
-January 2016 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #95 “??”. Rakudo is an implementation of
+January 2016 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #95. Rakudo is an implementation of
 Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].
 
-This is the first post-Christmas release of Rakudo Perl 6, and implements
-Perl v6.c. It includes bugfixes and optimizations on top of the 2015.12
-release of Rakudo, but no new features.
+This is the first post-Christmas release of Rakudo Perl 6, and continues
+to implement Perl v6.c. It includes bugfixes and optimizations on top of
+the 2015.12 release of Rakudo, but no new features.
+
+Thanks to all the individuals, companies, and organizations who donated
+money, services, equipment, or their employee's time to the effort.
+This includes efforts going back to 2000 over multiple Perl 6 related
+projects. As with our developer list on the Christmas release, our
+sincere apologies to anyone who was accidentally left off this list.
+
+    * ActiveState
+    * BBC
+    * Blackstar
+    * Booking.com
+    * craigslist
+    * Richard Dice of Toronto.pm
+    * Dijkmat
+    * Edument
+    * ETH Zürich
+    * Google (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/)
+    * Ian Hague
+    * Manning Publications
+    * Morgan Stanley
+    * Mozilla
+    * NLNet
+    * noris network AG
+    * O'Reilly Media
+    * Frédéric Schütz of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
+    * Stonehenge Consulting
+    * The Perl Foundation
+    * TPF's Perl 6 Core Development Fund sponsors (http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund)
+    * VA Linux
+    * WenZPerl
+    * Fritz Zaucker of Oetiker+Partner AG
+
+Upcoming releases in 2016 will include new functionality that is not
+part of the v6.c specification, available with a lexically scoped
+pragma. Our goal is to insure that anything that is tested as part of the
+v6.c spec will continue to work unchanged. There may be incremental
+spec releases this year as well.
 
 The tarball for this release is available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>.
 
@@ -15,24 +52,49 @@ distribution[^2] --- it’s announcing a new release of the compiler
 only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see
 <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>.
 
-The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle.
+The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, but please bear
+with us post-Christmas. We are working hard to insure that we don’t break
+anything now that we have a released spec, and it make take us a few months
+to settle back into a rhythm.
 
-Some of the changes in this release are outlined below:
+The changes in this release are outlined below:
 
 New in 2016.01:
-   + Stuff
-   + Nonsense
-
-These are only some of the changes in this release. For a more
-detailed list, see “docs/ChangeLog”.
-
-The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
-making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on
-the design docs, the Perl 6 test suite, MoarVM and the specification.
+   + Chained .grep calls on Supply fixed (RT #127297)
+   + Fixed interaction with perl6-debug and precompilation that resulted in an
+     endless loop
+   + re-enabled warning when smart-matching against a True or False literal
+   + Fixed internal error when reporting certain type errors (RT #127207)
+   + Fixed rare "duplicate definition of symbol" errors (RT #127107)
+   + Fixed interpolating of pairs with non-key strings into signatures
+   + Fixed error when smart-matching Seq against a Set (RT #127166)
+   + Improved error message when smart-matching against an S///-expression
+   + Fixed bad interaction between EXPORTHOW and multiple declarations (RT #126566)
+   + Fixed various issues regarding precompilation
+   + Improved accuracy of Complex.sqrt
+   + hyper now preserves order of results, as designed
+   + Range.sum on an empty, numeric Range is now 0
+   + Fixed Promise.allof() with an empty list of promises (RT #127101)
+   + Improved message on premature virtual method call (RT #127097)
+   + Better error message for module load failures of types that are part of
+     the setting
+   + Support for Readline in addition to Linenoise
 
 The following people contributed to this release:
 
-    + People
+Anthony Parsons
+Bart Wiegmans
+Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
+Francois Perrad
+Jimmy Zhuo
+Nova Patch
+Pawel Murias
+TimToady
+Timo Paulssen
+Tobias Leich
+Will "Coke" Coleda
+jnthn
+lizmat
 
 If you would like to contribute or find out more information, visit
 <http://perl6.org>, <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the