<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>
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. You can also find information about the next upcoming release here.
-Have a look, try it out (download links below) and let us know what you think.</p>
+<p> A summary of <a href="whats_new.html">What's new</a> for the latest, older and upcoming releases.</p>
<h3>Help needed</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. 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>
+<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',
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>Allow run-time loading / unloading of engines</h4>
-<p>A tricky issue, because in the current code initializing the engine is intertwined
-with initializing XBoard. And the whole idea is to be able to switch engine without
-losing your current settings or indeed your current game. So it will require some
-good thought about which options need to be reset (like -fd, for sure), and which
-should be kept.</p>
-
-<h4>Implement a tournament manager in XBoard</h4>
-<p>Currently XBoard supports only two-player matches. If run-time changing of the
-engine becomes possible, it wold be nice if people could also perform automatic
-round-robins or gauntlets between a group of engines.</p>
-
-<h4>Processing of engine PVs before display</h4>
-<p>Currently XBoard just displays what the engine prints for PV in its thinking output
-literally. Which often means long algebraic. It would be nice if the user can choose
-the display format, so it can be SAN or even some other format (e.g. descriptive
-notation or some specific Xangqi or Shogi format), possibly through invoking an
-external processor.</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
<h4>stable version</h4>
-<p>The current stable version
-is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.5.1</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>
-<ul>
-<li>A snapshot of the v4.5.x branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> 4.5.2.20110410 </a>. <br />
-This will become version 4.5.2. Precompiled packaged versions are/will be 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/ ">Windows</a>.
+<p> Windows builds of development version can be found at <a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/ ">HGM's web page</a>.
-<li>A snapshot of the master branch: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> master-20110411 </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://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>.
+<p>Furthermore we provide two development versions (tagged commits in git):</p>
+<ul>
+<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-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
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