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+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Pre-release of LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 3)
 
 We are pleased to announce the third public pre-release of LyX 2.0.0.
 
-Except usual bugfixing we tried to address some performance issues
-during this cycle, in particular we touched the following areas:
+Except usual bugfixing we addressed long-term slowness issues during this
+cycle, in particular we tried to improve performance of the following areas:
 * exporting of longer documents
 * editing of documents with rich inset structure
 * editing with opened outliner.