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-date = "2019-12-13"
+date = "2019-12-17"
 title = "Announcing Mio 0.7-alpha.1"
-description = "December 13th, 2019"
+description = "December 17th, 2019"
 menu = "blog"
 weight = 984
 +++
 
+We are excited to announce [Thomas de Zeeuw][Thomasdezeeuw] as
+the new lead of Mio. Mio is the low level I/O portability abstraction that
+backs Tokio and other Rust projects. Thomas has been behind most of
+the Mio 0.7 effort and will be continuing to lead the crate to 1.0. He has
+written the rest of the announcement.
+
+[Thomasdezeeuw]: https://github.com/Thomasdezeeuw
+
+-----
+
 Mio 0.7 is the work of [various contributors] over the course of roughly half a
 year. Compared to Mio version 0.6, version 0.7 reduces the size of the provided
 API in an attempt to simplify the implementation and usage. The API version 0.7