<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major
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
+Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capablanca 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
front-end for many different chess services, including:</p>
<p>The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called
WinBoard.</p>
-<p>You can find the download section for Winboard at
+<p>You can find the download section for the stable version of Winboard at
the <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19">Winboard
-Forum</a>.</p>
+Forum</a> or try the link to a beta-version in the <a href="#download">download section</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>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> What's new </h3>
+<p> A summary of <a href="whats_new.html">What's new</a> for the latest, older and upcoming releases.</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>Help needed</h3>
-<h3>Downloading XBoard</h3>
+<p>We can always need more people to help out with XBoard/Winboard. Have a look at the following list in case you are interested:</p>
+
+<h4>Translators </h4>
+<p>We added support for different languages to XBoard and need people to translate it. The translation is handled by <a href="http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html">the translation project</a>. You can check on the <a href="http://translationproject.org/domain/xboard.html">current status</a> and how to <a href="http://translationproject.org/html/translators.html">join the translation project</a>. </p>
+
+<h4>Testers </h4>
+<p> We are always looking for people who are willing to test the latest new features 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> or just try out the program and reports bugs either to the email list or to the bug-tracker (see <a href="#download">below</a> for links).</p>
+
+<h4>GTK developer needed</h4>
+<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. We made some progress, if you know want to help out there are still lots of things waiting to be done. Email the <a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org">mailing list</a> for more information. </p>
+
+<h4>EPD test-suite capability</h4>
+<p>A sort of match mode where one engine automatically does a number of 'games',
+(using a position file filled with EPDs as starting positions),
+except that each 'game' lasts only for one move, and the 'result' is then computed
+by XBoard depending on if this move was the correct solution specified in the EPD.</p>
+
+<h4>Multi-board ICS mode</h4>
+<p>Implement a slave mode where XBoard forks itself, connecting a pipe between
+what normally would be the ICS socket of the child, and a new output channel
+of the parent, so that the parent can forward board and move lists belonging to
+a specific game to the slave dedicated to display it.</p>
+
+<h4>Update the documentation</h4>
+<p>The documentation could need some updates. In our effort to merge
+Winboard and XBoard back together, we also want to merge the RTF file
+back into the XBoard texinfo file. This will take some effort though,
+since the two versions still differ in several areas and this would
+need to be highlighted. The benefit would be though that we could
+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/">4.4.4</a></p>
+<p>The current stable version is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.5.3a</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 4.4.5 branch:
-Nothing here at the moment (just released 4.4.4).
-<!-- 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/"> 4.5.3.20110822 </a> (now outdated by the current release). <br />
+This is pre 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-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>A snapshot of the master branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> master-20110822 </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-4.5TM.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>
+<li> New GTK branch in git (no developer release available yet). </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
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