diff --git a/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts b/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
index f5ac9094d0..6856a6f01b 100644
--- a/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ describe('protractor App', () => {
     expect<any>(page.getPageTitleText()).toEqual('DSpace Angular :: Home');
   });
 
-  it('should display header "Welcome to DSpace"', () => {
+  it('should contain a news section', () => {
     page.navigateTo();
-    expect<any>(page.getFirstHeaderText()).toEqual('Welcome to DSpace');
+    expect<any>(page.getHomePageNewsText()).toBeDefined();
   });
 });
diff --git a/e2e/app.po.ts b/e2e/app.po.ts
index d8d2acf120..54b5b55af3 100644
--- a/e2e/app.po.ts
+++ b/e2e/app.po.ts
@@ -9,11 +9,7 @@ export class ProtractorPage {
     return browser.getTitle();
   }
 
-  getFirstPText() {
-    return element(by.xpath('//p[1]')).getText();
-  }
-
-  getFirstHeaderText() {
-    return element(by.xpath('//h1[1]')).getText();
+  getHomePageNewsText() {
+    return element(by.xpath('//ds-home-news')).getText();
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/app/+home-page/home-news/home-news.component.html b/src/app/+home-page/home-news/home-news.component.html
index 2287329b37..47ceaac90f 100644
--- a/src/app/+home-page/home-news/home-news.component.html
+++ b/src/app/+home-page/home-news/home-news.component.html
@@ -3,16 +3,17 @@
     <div class="d-flex flex-wrap">
       <img class="mr-4 dspace-logo" src="assets/images/dspace-logo.svg" alt="" />
       <div>
-        <h1 class="display-3">Welcome to DSpace</h1>
-        <p class="lead">DSpace is an open source software platform that enables organisations to:</p>
+        <h1 class="display-3">Welcome to the DSpace 7 Preview Release</h1>
+        <p class="lead">DSpace is the world leading open source repository platform that enables organisations to:</p>
       </div>
     </div>
     <ul>
-      <li>capture and describe digital material using a submission workflow module, or a variety of programmatic ingest options
+      <li>easily ingest documents, audio, video, datasets and their corresponding Dublin Core metadata
       </li>
-      <li>distribute an organisation's digital assets over the web through a search and retrieval system
+      <li>open up this content to local and global audiences, thanks to the OAI-PMH interface and Google Scholar optimizations
       </li>
-      <li>preserve digital assets over the long term</li>
+      <li>issue permanent urls and trustworthy identifiers, including optional integrations with handle.net and DataCite DOI</li>
     </ul>
+    <p>Join an international community of <A HREF="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Positioning" TARGET="_NEW">leading institutions using DSpace</A>.</p>
   </div>
 </div>