@dgkf That is something you (or we all) would have to take up with R Core. I just report what I see at the useful RSS summary of changes to NEWS (update daily) and/or the github mirror of the SVN.
The lack of clear communication from either CRAN or R Core is not exactly new, and why we have things like these bots.
So in sum I guess your best bet to faster updates may be to become an R Core member to see their emails 🙃