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Subject: [ANN] Puppet Strings vX.Y.Z Release

Hi all,

We're pleased to announce that version X.Y.Z of the Puppet Strings is being released today.

Puppet Strings provides a simple way to extract source documentation into useful docs. It is provided as a Ruby gem to be referenced within modules. See the [README](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-strings#installing-puppet-strings) for documentation on how to install and use it.


The new release of Puppet Strings provides the following enhancements:

* A
* B
* C

The new release also contains the following notable bugfixes:

* D
* E
* F

See the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-strings/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for a full list of changes

We encourage all module developers to review puppet-strings and use it when creating modules.

Please let us know of your experiences with Puppet Strings, either here, on [Slack](https://slack.puppet.com/) (#forge-modules), or on the [github repo](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-strings).


Thanks,
YOUR NAME
