prepare a much better and up to date Windows documentation.
</p>
+<h4>Update the webpage</h4>
+<p>The content of the webpage could be updated with screenshots from
+the latest version. We also have a new tutorial that could be
+integrated. The webpage should also be integrated with git, so that
+all developers have access to it.</p>
+
<h3><a name="download"></a>Downloading XBoard</h3>
<h4>stable version</h4>
<p>The current stable version
-is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.5.0</a></p>
+is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.5.2a</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
<p>It would be great if people would like to help in the developing process. We can use all kinds of help, from people who just use the software and have a feature request (send them to developer mailing list), to people who can update/check the documentation and especially people who test development versions (send problems to the developer mailing list). </p>
-<p>At the moment we have three developer versions:</p>
+<p>At the <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud:/xboard">Open Build Server</a> we provide packages that can be installed in parallel to the normal xboard version. To do this the programs are renamed to xboardnext (latest from the v4.5.x branch in git) and xboardgit (latest version from the master branch in git). Packages are available for: Debian 6.0, Fedora 14, Fedora 15, Mandriva 2010, Mandriva 2010.1, RedHat RHEL 5, RedHat RHEL 6, opensuse 11.3, opensuse 11.4, opensuse Tumbleweed, opensuse Factory, Ubunut 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04.</p>
+
+<p> Windows builds of development version can be found at <a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/ ">HGM's web page</a>.
+
+<p>Furthermore we provide two development versions (tagged commits in git):</p>
<ul>
-<li>A snapshot of the 4.5.x branch: (nothing to see there since 4.5.0 has just been released)
-<!-- 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>A snapshot of the v4.5.x branch (a few commits behind the build server packages mentioned above): <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> (4.5.2 is the latest, so nothing new here) </a>. <br />
+This will become version 4.5.3. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xboard">Debian packages</a> of these tar-balls are available.
</li>
-<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 versions, but not necessary in the next release. Since this includes lots of changes, chances for major bugs are higher. Precompiled packaged versions are available for <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">openSUSE </a>, <a href="http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xboard">debian</a> and <a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.5.0.exe ">Windows</a>.
-
+<li>A snapshot of the master branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> master-20110507 </a>. <br />
+The master branch includes the development for v4.5.x and also has some more experimental features that need more testing and/or debugging. Precompiled packaged versions are available for <a href="http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xboard">debian</a> and <a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.5.0.exe ">Windows</a>. More current versions from the master branch can be downloaded via git or from the Open Build Server (see above).
</li>
-<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>
<h5>How to build the development version</h5>
<h6>git version</h6>
-<p> After cloning the git-repository, do ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then a make.</p>
+<p> After cloning the git-repository, run ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then make and make install.</p>
<h6>tar-balls</h6>
-<p> Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make.</p>
+<p> Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make and make install.</p>
<p>For development sources and other information, please see
README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
of this article.</p>
-<p>Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2009,2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this
<p>Updated:
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-$Date$
+$Date: 2011/06/04 20:10:23 $
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