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-<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accept moves made with the mouse, and load and save games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:</p>
+<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for 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>
<ul>
<li>
Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.</li>
<h3> Other information</h3>
-<p> <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html">Tim's original pages</a> are still available.</p>
+<p> <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html">Tim's original pages</a> are still available.</p>
<h3>Downloading XBoard</h3>
-<h4> stable version</h4>
+<h4>stable version</h4>
-<p>Xboard can be found on the main GNU ftp server:
+<p> The current stable version is 4.2.7</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>
please <a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/xboard">use a mirror</a> if
possible.</p>
-<h4> new version</h4>
+<h4>development version</h4>
<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/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 will be made available soon.</p>
-
+<p>At the moment we are working hard on version 4.4.0, which should be out soon (that is summer 2009)</p>
+<p>A snapshot of the latest source code is available at the <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git">git repository</a> on Savannah.</p>
+<p> We also have test-packages available for debian (link will be available in the next few days, that is mid of 2009-07) and <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">opensuse</a> (rpm). Furthermore you can get a .tar.gz from alpha.gnu.org (also available in a few days, that is mid 2009-07). Keep in mind that these are still <strong>beta</strong>.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
-<p><a href="manual/">Documentation for Xboard</a> is available online, as
+<p><a href="manual/">Documentation for XBoard</a> is available online, as
is <a href="/manual/">documentation for most GNU software</a>. You may
-also find more information about Xboard by running <em>info xboard</em>
+also find more information about XBoard by running <em>info xboard</em>
or <em>man xboard</em>, or by looking at <em>/usr/doc/xboard/</em>,
<em>/usr/local/doc/xboard/</em>, or similar directories on your system.</p>
-<h3>Mailing Lists</h3>
+<h3>Screenshots</h3>
+
+<p>Will be added soon.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Links</h3>
+
+<p>We will add links soon for special topics, such as: computer chess, bughouse and other topics.</p>
+
+<h3>Frequently Asked Question(FAQ)</h3>
+
+<p>If you have any questions, please check out our <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a>.</p>
-<p>Xboard has two mailing lists:
+
+<h3>Mailing Lists and Discussion Forums</h3>
+
+<h4>mailing lists</h4>
+
+<p>XBoard has two mailing lists:
<a href="mailto:bug-xboard@gnu.org"><bug-xboard@gnu.org></a> and
<a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org"><xboard-devel@gnu.org></a>.</p>
<p>The main discussion list is
<a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org"><xboard-devel@gnu.org></a>,
-and is used to discuss most aspects of Xboard, including development and
-enhancement requests. Please send bug reports to <a href="mailto:bug-xboard@gnu.org"><bug-xboard@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+and is used to discuss most aspects of XBoard, including development
+and enhancement requests. Please send bug reports
+to <a href="mailto:bug-xboard@gnu.org"><bug-xboard@gnu.org></a>.</p>
-<p>Announcements about Xboard and most other GNU software are made on
+<p>Announcements about XBoard and most other GNU software are made on
<a href="mailto:info-gnu@gnu.org"><info-gnu@gnu.org></a>.</p>
<p>To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an empty
href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu">mailing list web
interface</a>.</p>
+<h4>discussion forums</h4>
+
+<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 Bug</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>.
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--<h3>Translating Xboard</h3>
+-<h3>Translating XBoard</h3>
-<p>To translate Xboard's messages into other languages, please see the <a
+<p>To translate XBoard's messages into other languages, please see the <a
href="http://translationproject.org/domain/xboard.html">Translation Project
-page for Xboard</a>. If you have a new translation of the message strings,
+page for XBoard</a>. If you have a new translation of the message strings,
or updates to the existing strings, please have the changes made in this
repository. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into
-Xboard. For more information, see the <a
+XBoard. For more information, see the <a
href="http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html">Translation
Project welcome page</a>.
-->
+
<h3>Maintainer</h3>
-<p>Xboard is currently being maintained by Tim Mann and Arun Persaud. Please
+<p>XBoard is currently being maintained by Tim Mann, Arun Persaud and H.G. Muller. Please
use the mailing lists above for contact.</p>
-<p>Please remember that development of Xboard, and GNU in general, is a
+<p>Please remember that development of XBoard, and GNU in general, is a
volunteer effort, and you also can contribute. For information, please
read <a href="/help/">How to help GNU</a>.</p>
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