ok, so some other site released the news, then turbine decided to twitter it, Sapience confirmed it in this thread, Pax attendees were apparantly told about it, but nothing on the official forums? See anything wrong with this picture?

Cmon Turbine, don't you want folks that have been taking a break to come back? There should be a splashy announcement both by email to subscribers and a post on the announcement forum as well as a splash screen when logging into game. Is it that hard to advertise the release date? I don't know, it just seems like Turbine would be excited about this update, I know most of the players are.