<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>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>Downloading XBoard</h3>
<h4>stable version</h4>
<p>The current stable version
-is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.0</a></p>
+is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.3</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>
+<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>Current unstable version: is: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.1.pre</a>. </p>
+<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>
+
+<ul>
+<li>A snapshot of the 4.4.4 branch:
+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-20100806</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 will be available soon 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-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>
+
+<h6>tar-balls</h6>
+<p> Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make.</p>
+
<p>For development sources and other information, please see
the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/">XBoard project
page</a> at <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org">savannah.gnu.org</a>.</p>
-<p>A snapshot of the latest source code is available at
+<p>A snapshot of the latest source code for all branches is available at
the <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git">git
repository</a> on Savannah.</p>
+<h4>archive</h4>
+
+<p>You can also find an archive of old versions on <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/xboard/">the ftp server</a>.</p>
+
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p><a href="manual/">Documentation for XBoard</a> is available online,
looking at <em>/usr/doc/xboard/</em>,
<em>/usr/local/doc/xboard/</em>, or similar directories on your system.</p>
+<p>The Chess Engine Communication Protocol can be found <a href="engine-intf.html">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Screenshots</h3>
<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