This is the original news file for the XXL DB in Milan 04 July 2011 : site open to XXL consortium users with demo (XMM-LSS) data 06 October 2011 : release to XXL consortium of first set of XXL data 10 May 2012 : ingested BCS (Rutgers) optical data and astrometric correction for south33 12 July 2012 : ingested CFHTLS T06 optical data and first astrometric correction for north33 22 January 2012 : more XXL north fields, more optical data including photometric redshifts south (BCS Rutgers and LMU) and north (CFHTLS T07 and CFHTLenS), redone astrometric correction for north33 using T07 23 January 2013 : replaced ds9 contours with per-band version 3-19 March 2013 : substantial, almost final ingestion of many north and south fields (including reprocessing of XMM-LSS and BCS), with update of all related optical tables and proper astrometric correction For XXL users listing of updates here has been discontinued in 2013 and is now reported on the XXL wiki pages