diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index a6933e7b8..2ca79e33b 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@
 			<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
 				and in WHATSNEW</li>
 		</ul>
+                                <p>While in open source projects a final release date strongly depends
+		  on the free time of the volunteers/committers, the final release is
+      expected one to two months maximum after this RC. So Ant 1.8.0 is
+      expected between mid February and mid March 2010.</p>
                         <h3 class="section">
       <a name="Ivy 2.1.0"></a>
       Ivy 2.1.0
diff --git a/xdocs/index.xml b/xdocs/index.xml
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@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
 			<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
 				and in WHATSNEW</li>
 		</ul>
+		<p>While in open source projects a final release date strongly depends
+		  on the free time of the volunteers/committers, the final release is
+      expected one to two months maximum after this RC. So Ant 1.8.0 is
+      expected between mid February and mid March 2010.</p>
 	</section>
   <section name="Ivy 2.1.0">
     <h3>October 8, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.1.0 Released</h3>