[gimp-web/testing] 2.9.6: Add WebP section, adjust publishing date

[Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>]

commit 9e1c247f3b1bd048da3cb819f1a47216b27533d1
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Thu Aug 24 21:30:45 2017 +0300

    2.9.6: Add WebP section, adjust publishing date

 .../news/2017-08-22 GIMP 2.9.6 Released/index.md   |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
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diff --git a/content/news/2017-08-22 GIMP 2.9.6 Released/index.md b/content/news/2017-08-22 GIMP 2.9.6 
Released/index.md
index ec3d1ba..f93c080 100644
--- a/content/news/2017-08-22 GIMP 2.9.6 Released/index.md      
+++ b/content/news/2017-08-22 GIMP 2.9.6 Released/index.md      
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Title: GIMP 2.9.6 Released
-Date: 2017-08-23
+Date: 2017-08-24
 Category: News
 Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
 Slug: gimp-2-9-6-released
@@ -249,6 +249,22 @@ Pin Light, and Hard Mix blending modes. It also finally supports exporting
 layer groups and reads/writes the Pass Through mode in those. Additionally,
 GIMP now imports and exports color tags from/to PSD files.
 
+## WebP support
+
+We already shipped GIMP 2.9.2 with initial support for opening and exporting
+WebP files, however the plug-in was missing a number of essential features.
+Last year, we replaced it with a pre-existing plug-in initially written by
+[Nathan Osman](https://github.com/nathan-osman) back in 2011 and maintained
+through the years. We now ship it by default as part of GIMP.
+
+<figure>
+    <img src="{filename}gimp-2-9-6-webp-exporting.jpg" alt="WebP exporting in GIMP 2.9.6" width='772' 
height='561' />
+</figure>
+
+The new plug-in received additional contributions from Benoit Touchette and
+Pascal Massimino and supports both ICC profiles, metadata loading/exporting,
+and animation.
+
 ## Metadata Viewing and Editing
 
 Thanks to Benoit Touchette, GIMP now ships a new metadata viewer that