<p>The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called
WinBoard.</p>
-<p>Development for Winboard as well as downloading it, reporting bugs
-and any other requests can be done at the same places as for
-XBoard.</p>
-<h3>Downloading XBoard/Winboard</h3>
+<p>You can find the download section for Winboard at
+the <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19">Winboard
+Forum</a>.</p>
+
+<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>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/">4.4.2</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
<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/</a> (via ftp).</p>
-<p>The Winboard binaries can also be found at those locations in the
-winboard directory
-(<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/winboard/">http</a>,<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/winboard/">ftp</a>)
- or at the <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=50387">Winboard forum</a>.</p>
<p>It can also be found on one of the <a href="/prep/ftp.html">mirrors
of ftp.gnu.org</a>;
<h4>development version</h4>
-<p>Current unstable
-version: see git repository. </p>
+<p>It would be great if people would like help in the developing process. We can use all kind 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... a big help would be people that test the latest git-version or the developer snapshots and send us bugreports.</p>
+
+<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. Nothing there since 4.4.2 just got released...</li>
+<li>A snapshot of the master branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">master-20091122</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.</li>
+<li>A snapshot of the gtk branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">gtk-20091122</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.</li>
+</ul>
<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>These are screenshots taken from the development version 4.4.0 (click to enlarge).</p>
+<p>These are screenshots taken from version 4.4.0 (click to enlarge).</p>
<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0.png" alt=" [screenshot normal game] " height="200" /></a>
<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-variant.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-variant.png" alt=" [screenshot bughouse game] " height="200" /></a>
<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-showgi.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-showgi.png" alt=" [screenshot bughouse game] " height="200" /></a>
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