| Release 3.1 | Support for CICS Transaction Server for VSE 1.1 and above has been added. |
| Support for CICS/VSE releases prior to 2.3 and CICS/MVS releases prior to 4.1 has been dropped. | |
| Release 3.0 | CICS/Morning News is year 2000 compatible beginning with release 3.0. |
| Release time can be specified to determine when a news item is available for viewing. | |
| Priority can be assigned to each news item. | |
| Userids and/or Opid can be specified in the exclusion list. | |
| (Optional) The exclusion list can only be used during the signon process. | |
| The Signon program has been enhanced for compatibility with CICS 4.1 and up. | |
| (Optional) Added the feature to only view the news items created or changed since the last time the user accessed the news system via the signon process. | |
| Provided a new program as the ACF2 appendage program. | |
| An API has been made available to add news items from a CICS program. | |