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** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.2.3 **

A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available.  Version
4.2.3 fixes a few bugs in the 4.2.2 release.  See the ChangeLog
entries below for details.

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.tim-mann.org/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 32-bit Microsoft Windows.  It
includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence
chess.

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.  If you find a bug not
listed there, please report it to me.

	--Tim Mann <tim.mann@compaq.com>

New ChangeLog entries:

xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
Tim Mann <tim.mann@compaq.com>

* Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.

* Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting.  If you had
HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).

* Modified premove again.  Now we are back to displaying the move
locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
prior to 4.2.1.  This is good because it lets you register your next
premove sooner.  As a better fix to the problem that the change in
4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending.  However, it's
probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
	
* Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
when both sigterm and reuse were turned off.  (Bug was in xboard only,
not winboard.)

* Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
PGN result "*" (unfinished).  This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
after loading an unfinished game.  I fixed this, and also changed it
to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
changing the tags to say it's an edited game.  It's not really clear
whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
changes, but that is harder to make work.

Tim Mann  tim.mann@compaq.com  http://www.tim-mann.org
Compaq Computer Corporation, Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA