Bug 742743

Summary: xboard-4.7.3 is available
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Upstream Release Monitoring <upstream-release-monitoring>
Component: xboardAssignee: Denise Dumas <ddumas>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: ddumas, i, rosset.filipe
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Description Upstream Release Monitoring 2011-10-02 11:06:18 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.5.3
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.5.2a
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 1 Upstream Release Monitoring 2011-10-28 11:22:41 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.5.3a
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.5.2a
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 3 Upstream Release Monitoring 2012-03-13 19:53:48 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.6.0
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.5.2a
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 4 Upstream Release Monitoring 2012-04-16 11:12:05 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.6.1
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.5.2a
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 5 Upstream Release Monitoring 2012-04-18 11:08:32 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.6.2
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.5.2a
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 6 Account closed by user 2012-10-05 14:48:36 UTC
** Version 4.6.2 **
   (for a more detailed list with screenshots see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.6.2/ )
   bugfix relase for 4.6.1
   * Suppress clear-board message after pasting FEN
   * Fix faking of castling rights after editing position with holdings
   * Fix second-engine variant test

** Version 4.6.1 **
   (for a more detailed list with screenshots see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.6.1/ )

   bugfix release for 4.6.0

   * Fix memory corruption bug on second-engine loading (through menu or in tournament),
     which could destroy -firstInitString
   * Fix bug loading a new engine through the menu (not loading it with the full game, 
     but just upto the current move)
   * Prefix engine command with "./" when a pathname is split up during install, so the engine actually runs (XB)
   * Fix fall-back to -ncp mode when engine does not start (cutting short the feature timeout)
   * Fix bug in position search for FRC castlings (where a King could 'fall off' the board)
   * Add a message to inform the user how to clear the board, in sweep-select edit-position mode
   * Fix a bug that could stop the clock when the board window was dragged (XB)
   * Fix switching off highlighting during game (so last highlights do not remain for the rest of the game)
   * Allow user to enter the name of a non-existing file when browsing for a save file (WB)
   * Make sure rarely used engine-related options (such as -firstNPS) are also correctly loaded during session
   * Correctly handle parsing of Crazyhouse promotions with legality-testing off
   * Fix click-click detour under-promotions, which were not working for non-captures
   * Don't strip path from engine command if directory is explicitly given in Load Engine dialog
   * Consistently make auxiliary windows top level-shells or not, with new -topLevel option (XB)
   * No longer fatal if second engine does not support current variant (just refuse Two Machines mode)
   * Scroll XBoard game list to keep selected item in view (XB)
   * Suppress spurious error popup when starting observing of bughouse games
   * Fix vertical axis ticks in eval graph with drop games
   * Put title on same line as menu bar only for -size 72 and larger (with -titleInWindow, XB)
   * Properly open and close debug file when switching debug mode through key binding Ctrl-D (XB)

** Version 4.6.0 **

   (for a more detailed list with screenshots see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.6.0/ )

   * Engine vs. Engine
    * Loading and installing engines through the menu
    * Running tournaments with more than two partipants
    * Stopping a match between two engines
    * Replacing a tourney participant
    * Playing openings in color-reversed pairs
    * Perpetual chasing in Xiangqi

   * Interface Improvements
    * Auto-Queen, and still under-promote?
    * Piece fonts and figurine fonts
    * Displaying PVs as SAN
    * Small scores in the Eval Graph
    * How close is the 50-move draw?
    * Sign of the engine scores
    * Loading frequently used engines
    * Collapsing groups of engines

   * Interactive Analysis
    * Playing moves from the PV
    * Rapidly changing the number of PVs
    * Setting the other side to move in analysis
    * Annotating a game with an engine

   * Other New Functionality
    * Searching a position in a PGN file
    * Editing the opening book
    * Recording game sequence number in PGN
    * Each tourney game its own debug file

   * XBoard -> WinBoard Convergence
    * Exporting the game list (XB)
    * A move type-in box (XB)
    * New-style Move History window (XB)
    * Associating XBoard with file types
    * Many Windows behave as one (XB)

** Version 4.5.3a **

   (see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.5.3a/ )

  * only changes to Winboard : build non JAW by default, fix compile errors

** Version 4.5.3 **

   (see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.5.3/ )

  * fixes of major bugs:
   * In the file-browse dialog . and .. no longer mask other files if they are non-first in the directory
   * Fix XBoard crash on showing an empty Engine Settings dialog, printing a message in stead
   * The XBoard Game List can now handle files with more than 1900 games, by paging through them
   * The state of the Move-History window is now remembered by XBoard even when the Engine-Output window is up
   * Fix crash on switching sounds in WinBoard under Windows Vista
   * Fix empty-string option values on XBoard command line (which were ignored)
   * Fix spurious vertical scrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window on clicking in it
   * Obey an engine's san feature when sending book moves to it
   * Fix XBoard crash when 'filtering' made Game List empty
   * Suppress clearing of Engine-Output window on automatic updates in analyze mode
   * Force Move-History refresh after loading/reverting variation
   * Fix closing brace, when joining two comments to same move

  * fixes of minor bugs:
   * Suppress playing sounds when no -soundProgram is set
   * Fix display of last move of last match game
   * Update window title after last game of match
   * Never one-click move when legality testing is off
   * Suppress playing book move when total weigth of all moves is zero
   * Restore echo after ^C killed XBoard during ICS password
   * Fix default of -remoteUser, which could cause crash when playing remote engines
   * Fix recognition of separators between options in -adapterCommand command line
   * Fix button sizing in generic popup
   * Fix translatability of 'Spartan Chess' menu item WB
   * Remove some duplicats from WB language template file
   * Fix spurious 'Unfinished' sounds during ICS examining
   * Fix bug in handling of partner command in zippy-mode bughouse games
   * Create more space in some WB dialogs to accomodate translations

  * Improvements benefitting the speaking version for the visually impaired (WB):
   * Implement NVDA support in JAWS version
   * Fix translation of spoken composite messages
   * Fix JAWS reading of Engine-Settings dialog by removing group-boxes
   * Add tab stops in WB generic popup
   * Reorder controls in Engine-Setings dialog WB, so they are tabbed through in logical order

  * fixed compiler warnings/errors and portability:
   * Fix use of random function in XBoard shuffle dialog callback
   * Fix inconsistent type of the variable 'shuffleOpenings'
   * Silence warnings during rpm build
   * Fix warnings XBoard file browser
   * Fix some warnings and header-file improvement

  * misc:
   * Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @, as work-around for Windows shortcut bug
   * Make occurrence of unknown option in settings file non-fatal
   * Stale output no longer lingers in the engine-output window when a new game starts
   * Popdown (stale) Comment window on new game

Comment 7 Account closed by user 2012-11-02 17:25:58 UTC
gnuchess already has been updated, any chance of having also xboard ?

-thanks-

Comment 8 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-02-21 09:42:47 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.7.0
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.6.2
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 10 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-05-06 10:08:22 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.7.1
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.6.2
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 11 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-09-01 23:20:15 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.7.2
Current version/release in Fedora Rawhide: 4.6.2-3.fc20
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 12 Upstream Release Monitoring 2014-01-07 10:26:04 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.7.3
Current version/release in Fedora Rawhide: 4.6.2-3.fc20
URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

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Comment 13 Christopher Meng 2014-01-20 07:13:29 UTC
Updates?