<li><a href="#tag-A4">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="user_guide/UserGuide.html">On-line User Guide</a></li>
<li><a href="#tag-A5">More Screenshots</a></li>
- <li><a href="whats_new/4.6.1/index.html">What's New in 4.6.2?</a> (stable)</li>
+ <li><a href="whats_new/4.9.0/index.html">What's New in 4.9.0?</a>(stable)</li>
+ <li><a href="whats_new/4.8.0/index.html">What's New in 4.8.0?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="whats_new/4.7.3/index.html">What's New in 4.7.3?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="whats_new/4.7.2/index.html">What's New in 4.7.2?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="whats_new/4.7.1/index.html">What's New in 4.7.1?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="whats_new/4.7.0/index.html">What's New in 4.7.0?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="whats_new/4.6.2/index.html">What's New in 4.6.2?</a></li>
<li><a href="whats_new/4.6.1/index.html">What's New in 4.6.1?</a> (faulty)</li>
<li><a href="whats_new/4.6.0/index.html">What's New in 4.6.0?</a></li>
<li><a href="whats_new/4.5.3/index.html">What's New in 4.5.3?</a></li>
<li><a href="FAQ.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
</ul>
</td><td>
- <img src="whats_new/4.5.0/Spartan.png">
- <p>XBoard, playing some Chess variant</p>
-</td><td>
+ <img src="whats_new/SpartanGTK.png">
+ <p><i>XBoard GTK build, playing some Chess variant</i></p>
+</td><td valign="bottom">
<img src="whats_new/4.4.0/marble.png">
- <p>WinBoard, configured with marble board</p>
+ <p><i>WinBoard, configured with marble board</i></p>
</td></tr></table>
<h3><a name="tag-A1">Winboard</h3>
<h3><a name="download"></a>Downloading XBoard</h3>
-<h4>stable version (4.6.1)</h4>
+<h4>stable version (4.8.0)</h4>
<p>Sources of current stable version 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>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>
+and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/xboard">debian-sid</a>
(if you know of other distribution that package it, please let us
know).</p>
+<h4>Mac OSX Intel 10.7+ App</h4>
+<p1>A preconfigured app bundle of Xboard for Mac OSX can also be found at the <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=53274">Winboard Forum</a>.</p>
+
+
<h4>development version</h4>
<p>We regularly do so called 'developer releases', which include the newest and the latest we are working on.
If you want to <a href="#tag-A3">help us</a> test, or just want to use the new features, you might prefer to use those over the stable version.
</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 v4.6.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>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 v4.7.x branch in git) and xboardgit (latest version from the master branch in git). Packages are available for: Debian 6.0, Fedora 17/18, RedHat RHEL 6, opensuse 12.1/12.2/12.3/Tumbleweed/Factory, Centos 6, Arch, Ubunutu 10.04/12.04/12.10. These packages are generated automatically and are for testing purposes only. Please let us know if you have any problems related to XBoard or package dependencies.</p>
-<p> Windows builds of development version can be found at <a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/ ">HGM's web page</a>.
+<p> Windows builds of development version can often 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>
+<p>Furthermore we provide development versions (tagged commits in git):</p>
<ul>
-<li>A snapshot of the v4.6.x branch (a few commits behind the build server packages mentioned above): <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> 4.6.0.20120212 </a> <br />
-This is a release candidate for version 4.6.3. <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-20120212 </a>. <br />
-
-The master branch includes the development for v4.6.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> New GTK branch in git (no developer release available yet). </li>
+<li>A snapshot of the master branch is available: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> master-20130828</a>.</li>
+<li>A snapshot of the release branch is available: (no developer release available at the moment)</li>
</ul>
<h5>How to build the development version</h5>
<h6>git version</h6>
-<p> After cloning the git-repository or downloading and unpacking a snapshot tar ball,
-run ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then make and make install.</p>
+<p> The <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git">git repository</a> is available on Savannah. All branches can be viewed there. The web page also provides tar-balls of all tagged versions, these tar-balls are different from the ones that you can download from the <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> ftp-server </a> and you will need to run <code>./autogen.sh</code> on them as described below.</p>
+
+<p> If you want to get a copy of the repository you can clone it using the command <code>"git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/xboard.git"</code>. For more information on how to use git, please visit the git home page.</p>
-<h6>tar-balls</h6>
-<p> Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make and make install.</p>
+<p> After cloning the git-repository or downloading and unpacking a snapshot tar-ball from the git repository,
+run <code>./autogen.sh</code>, <code>./configure</code> and then <code>make</code> and <code>make install</code>.</p>
+<h6>tar-balls (from the ftp-server)</h6>
+<p> Unpack the tar ball and do <code>./configure</code> followed by <code>make</code> and <code>make install</code>.</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 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>
README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
of this article.</p>
-<p>Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
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