<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major
-forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and
-shogi (Japanese chess), in addition to many minor variants such as
+forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess),
+shogi (Japanese chess) and Makruk, in addition to many minor variants such as
Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca Chess. It displays a
chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads
and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a
<p>Development for Winboard, reporting bugs and any other requests can
also be done at the same places as for XBoard (see below).</p>
+<h3> What's new </h3>
+<p> Starting from 4.5.0 we will summarize the latest changes at <a href="whats_new.html">these</a> webpages. Have a look, try it out and let us know what you think.</p>
+
+<h3>Testers needed</h3>
+<p> Our next versions will have some major improvements and we are always looking for people who are willing to test those and give us feedback or new ideas. If you are interested, please send an email to our list at <a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org"><xboard-devel@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
+<h3>GTK developer needed</h3>
+<p> We are also working on merging Winboard and XBoard back into one version using a cross platform GTK-front end. This will help us clean up the code and make things like internationalization easier. Progress is slow though, so if you know want to help out there are lots of things waiting to be done. Email the <a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org">mailing list</a> for more information. </p>
+
<h3>Downloading XBoard</h3>
<h4>stable version</h4>
<p>The current stable version
-is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.2</a></p>
+is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.4</a></p>
<p>It can be found on the main GNU ftp server:
<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/</a> (via http) and
please <a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/xboard">use a mirror</a> if
possible.</p>
-Precompiled versions are available for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib/">openSUSE</a> and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xboard">debian-squeeze</a> (if you know of other distribution that package it, please let us know).
+<p>Precompiled versions are available
+for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib/">openSUSE</a>
+and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xboard">debian-squeeze</a>
+(if you know of other distribution that package it, please let us
+know).</p>
<h4>development version</h4>
<p>At the moment we have three developer versions:</p>
<ul>
-<li>A snapshot of the 4.4.3 branch:
- This will become the next stable version. <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.3.20100220</a>. A precompiled version is available for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">openSUSE</a>.
+<li>A snapshot of the 4.5.x branch: (same as master at the moment)
+<!-- This will become the next stable version. <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.4.20100806</a>.
+A precompiled version will available soon for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">openSUSE</a>. -->
</li>
-<li>A snapshot of the master branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">master-20100206</a>. <br />
- The master branch at this moment also includes changes that will go in future version, but not necessary in the next release. Since this includes lots of changes, chances for major bugs are higher. A precompiled version is available for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">openSUSE</a> and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xboard">debian</a>.
+<li>A snapshot of the master branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">master-20101211</a>. <br />
+ The master branch at this moment also includes changes that will go in future version, but not necessary in the next release. Since this includes lots of changes, chances for major bugs are higher. A precompiled packaged version is available for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">openSUSE </a> and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xboard">debian</a>.
</li>
-<li>A snapshot of the gtk branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">gtk-20100206</a>. <br />
+<li>A snapshot of the gtk branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">gtk-20100806</a>. <br />
In the gtk branch we are working on merging Winboard and Xboard back together using a gtk-frontend. This code doesn't work 100% yet, it will crash quite often, but you can almost play normal games against a machine already. A precompiled version is available for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">openSUSE</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>A very active forum is the <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/">WinBoard Forum</a> (where our current main developer HGM can be found).</p>
-<h3>Reporting Bugs</h3>
+<h3>Reporting Bugs and Requesting New Features</h3>
<p> If you think you found a bug, please check the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=xboard">bugtracker</a> for open and already closed bugs. If you found a new bug, please, file a bug-report either via our bug-related email list or in the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=xboard">bugtracker</a>.
-<!-- will be in the next release
+<p> For feature requests, please use our mailinglist: <a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org"><xboard-devel@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
+<!-- will be in one of the next releases
-<h3>Translating XBoard</h3>
<p>To translate XBoard's messages into other languages, please see the <a
projects / xboard.git / blobdiff