Major release notes

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IMPORTANT: only link to Redmine tickets in the public Archivematica project. If no public ticket exists, create a new ticket in the public Archivematica project and link it to the corresponding private ticket.

In the header, include any general notes about the release. For an example, see the
Archivematica 1.6 Release Notes.

ProjectName #.#

Each section (Archivematica, Storage Service, FIDO) should follow the same pattern.
Indicate the date of the release and include a short description about the scope of
the release, especially if there are large changes.

Released MM DD, YYYY.

Archivematica #.# includes two new features, which are amazing. There are also several bug fixes to improve all sorts of things.

New features

List new features as bullet points, indicating the name of the sponsor or
contributor (if available), a short description of the work, and links to
the Redmine ticket and/or Github pull request.

• Sponsored (Name of sponsor) Short description of feature - (link to Redmine ticket, link to PR)
• Sponsored (GE Aviation) Bag ingest improvements - (#8309)

Bug fixes

List bug fixes as bullet points and include links to the Redmine ticket and Github
pull request.

• Sponsored (Name of sponsor) Short description of the bug fix - (link to Redmine ticket, link to PR)
• Contributor (sevein) MCPServer: delete watchedDirectories/ duplicate - PR633
• Improvements to metadata.csv handling - (#7901, #8007)

New and upgraded tools

List which tool has been updated/upgraded and to which version.

• Tool updated to version #.#
• Elasticsearch updated to version 1.3

ProjectName #.# - clean template

Released MM DD, YYYY.

ProjectName #.# has one big, new, exciting feature and several small bug fixes.

New features

• Sponsored (Name of sponsor) Short description of feature - (link to Redmine ticket, link to PR)
• Contributor (Name of sponsor, link to Github profile) Short description of feature - (link to Redmine ticket, link to PR)

Bug fixes

• Short description of the bug fix - (link to Redmine ticket, link to PR)

New and upgraded tools

• Tool updated to version #.#