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diff --git a/web/input/news/release-2-1.md b/web/input/news/release-2-1.md
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index 0000000..2dacda2
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@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+title: Version 2.1 Released
+author: Holger Weiß
+date: 2014-10-15
+---
+
+The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.1 of the
+Monitoring Plugins!  This release comes with various enhancements and fixes
+provided by more than ten contributors.  Many thanks to all of you!
+<end-of-teaser>
+
+For the list of notable changes in this release, see below.
+
+You can get the tarball from our [download page][download].
+
+## Enhancements
+
+* New `check_hpjd` `-p` option for port specification
+* New `./configure` `--with-qmail-qstat-command` option to specify the path to
+  `qmail-qstat(8)`
+* New `check_ifstatus` `-n` option to ignore interfaces by name
+* `check_ntp_peer` now has specific state output for each metric
+* New `check_mysql` `-n` option to ignore authentication failures
+* `check_tcp` now mentions IP address and port or socket name in error
+  messages
+* New `check_ntp_time` `-o` option to add expected offset
+* In verbose mode, `check_disk` now shows which partitions actually cause an
+  error state
+* `check_dig` now supports using the `drill(1)` tool
+* `check_dig` now supports the `-6` option
+* `check_file_age` now emits performance data
+
+## Fixes
+
+* Fix `check_jabber` to work with Openfire servers
+* Fix bad string matching in `check_oracle` when testing TNS server
+* Fix `check_ifstatus` performance data output
+* Fix certificate expire time output
+* `check_dns` now verifies that the answer is coming from the queried server
+* Fix `check_by_ssh` to accept `--hostname` as argument
+
+## Warnings
+
+* This release doesn't ship with an RPM spec file, please contribute to [PR
+  #1283][spec-issue] if you are interested in it
+
+[download]: /download.html
+[spec-issue]: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1283
+
+<!--% # vim:set filetype=markdown textwidth=78 joinspaces expandtab: # %-->
diff --git a/web/macros.py b/web/macros.py
index 1539093..97d36d3 100644
--- a/web/macros.py
+++ b/web/macros.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import email.utils
 import os.path
 import time
 
-plugins_release = '2.0'
+plugins_release = '2.1'
 mib_release = '1.0.1'
 release_notes = 'news/release-%s.html' % plugins_release.replace('.', '-')
 site_url = 'https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/'