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1) Use * wiki list format.   
1) Use * wiki list format.   
2) Date items (in an HTML comment).
2) Always start on a new line and end with a linebreak.
3) Always start on a new line and end with a linebreak.
3) Date items (month and day at beginning of list item)
4) Do not leave a blank line between items.  
4) Do not leave a blank line between items.  
5) Keep this to about 4-5 items, and move older items to the archive as necessary/appropriate when adding new ones.
5) Keep this to about 4-5 items, and move older items to the archive as necessary/appropriate when adding new ones.


Suggested format:
* '''{Mmm. dd}''': {Short summary of news item, including discoverer if applicable, with any other relevant details}
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* '''Jan. 17''': new period-8 domino sparker, [[230P8]], is [http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=68099p68099 discovered by Arie Paap] and [http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=68104#p68104 reduced by 'Bullet51'].
* '''Oct. 9''': All 18-bit [[still life]]s [https://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=83979#p83979 are confirmed] to have valid [[glider syntheses]].
* '''Jan. 16-17''': Three new [[minstrel]]s  are found, plus a lucky connection of an existing minstrel to [[knightwave]], creating for the first time a [[grammar]] that allows for an infinite number of distinct [[elementary]] [[knightship]]s.
* '''Sep. 9''': The 17-in-17 Project [http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=82560#p82560 is completed], showing that every 17-bit [[still life]] can be [[glider synthesis|constructed]] using at most 16 [[glider]]s.
* '''Jan. 14''': Chris Rowett makes available a new version of LifeViewer, [http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=67890#p67890 Build 276], supporting a number of new classes of CA rules and several new labeling features for patterns.
* '''August 15''': Update to a previous news item from 21 April 2019 (see archive): all 15-bit [[still life]]s can [http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=81277#p81277 now be constructed] with at most 12 [[glider]]s.
* '''Jan. 10''': A new period-24 oscillator, [[dueling banjos]], turns up in an [[apgsearch]] soup search. Uses so far include a smaller [[period-24 glider gun]], with associated improvements to p16 and p48 glider guns and a p48 LWSS gun.
* '''July 16''': [[Dave Greene]] [http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=&p=79686#p79686 constructs] a [[large prime oscillator]] with a period equal to the largest Mersenne prime currently known, 2<sup>82589933</sup>-1.
* '''Jan. 3-7''': record-setting [[diehard]]s are found by [[Rob Liston]] and [[Apple Bottom]] via [[apgsearch]].


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