** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.5 ** A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version 4.0.5 is a quick update, mostly to fix two new bugs introduced in 4.0.4. (Version 4.0.4 was a more extensive update released last week that fixes many small bugs in 4.0.3 and adds a few minor features.) The new version has not been extensively tested, so please report any apparent new bugs. Some known bugs and deficiencies in previous versions have not been addressed. It is not necessary to report your favorite bug again if you have reported it before, unless the ChangeLog erroneously says it has been fixed. Most known bugs, deficiencies, and suggestions received are now listed in the ToDo file. You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web. In addition, they should soon be available from GNU FTP sites. - http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/ XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read and write game files in PGN (portable game notation). WinBoard is a similar program for Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence chess. Warning: WinBoard does not work on Windows 3.1 or 3.11, not even with Win32s. Report bugs in XBoard and WinBoard to me. --Tim Mann === New ChangeLog entries in 4.0.5 === * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html. * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla. * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at least if $WINDOWID is set. * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4. * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout; similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee for the bug report.