1 ** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.4.0 **
3 XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
4 serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
5 engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail
6 correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read
7 and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).
9 WinBoard is a similar program for 32-bit Microsoft Windows. It
10 includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence
13 A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
14 4.4.0 includes many changes. It is the first major release of
15 xboard/winboard after a fork of the project after version 4.2.7. It
16 includes small changes made in the main line and changes made by a
17 fork of Alessandro Scotti and lots of changes made afterwards by
18 H.G. Muller (released as versions 4.3.x). This release represents a
19 unified version of all changes made after the fork. It includes many
20 new features and bugfixes.
22 You can get both XBoard and WinBoard from the Savannah
25 https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
27 If you find a bug, please report it in the bug tracker at
28 https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ or by email to bug-xboard