Hi Ivan54. We'll be off by a few days, with signs signaling a push to a larger portion of FR next week. Cc: Andy Haon.
And per news + notifications - we're making progress on notifications all up, with more at to share at Ignite 2017 (Sept 25-29), beyond what we shared showed during the May 16th SharePoint Virtual Summit. The general answer is yes, in the sense that news articles all up enter into the Microsoft Graph and bubble up via SharePoint home, SharePoint mobile apps and within the sites themselves - and would poteintially trigger a notification (we're looking at the signal to noise ratio and the threashold of notifications from an app in general - but it's more the inferred value/importance of the news that is being considered, in parallel to the list of them coming in... once you go Graph, you never go back! The right news, at the right time, on the right device -- might be a good way to think about how we're planning it - with plenty of feedback to come :-),
Cheers,
Mark