Did I help spreading a hoax ?

My previous post was about the approval of the Catalan .cat TLD.

Is this true information or is this a hoax ? When I read about it on Friday, I tried to find the original press release on the ICANN web site, to no avail.
Still, Google News reports lots of press coverage about this .cat approval. BTW, all articles also mentioned (and commented) another decision of the ICANN (delay of .xxx approval).

So. Everyone and their dog writes about it, giving the same details, but there's no track of the original announcement...

It suddenly stroke me that this may be a total hoax. And I helped propagate it. :-(

I'll keep an eye on this...