On Forge startup user could see a message e.g. taken from Forge RSS. This could help in such situations like this: http://forge.jboss.org/news/2013/04/08/forge-update.html

Possible workflow:
run forge -> request to rss/sth -> retrieved important messages -> show to user in e.g. console

Console is a starting point. It possibly could be developed into a more generic mechanism which could be used under different interfaces.