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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Tue Oct  2 13:18:00 PDT 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>To answer the questions raised about the release of version 4.5.28:
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  36 - There are a large number of people in the world who speak Dutch.  Even if
  37   not a majority, I think it appropriate to provide them with a translation
  38   as soon as possible.
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  40 - The release number (third part of the version number) is just that, a
  41   release number; all it indicates is the number of times I've released
  42   Services with the same major and minor version number.  It doesn't
  43   necessarily indicate a significant change in the program--sometimes I
  44   make a new release just to fix typos--and, unless there's a critical bug
  45   that the new release fixes (in which case I'll make a special note in the
  46   release announcement), it doesn't mean you need to upgrade.  At the
  47   moment, you can consider yourself up-to-date in terms of critical bug
  48   fixes if you're using version 4.5.26 or later.
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  50 - I don't have any particular thresholds for releasing--no &quot;fix X bugs
  51   between releases&quot; or &quot;don't release more than once every Y days&quot;.  I
  52   release when I feel that people would find a new release useful.
  53   Sometimes that results in things like this release, which does nothing
  54   but add a language file.  As mentioned above, if you don't feel like
  55   upgrading, then don't; it's that simple.
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  57 - Version 5.0 is progressing, slowly but surely.  I won't make any promises
  58   in terms of dates because it all depends on how much time I find to work
  59   on it, but if things go well I hope to have a beta version ready by the
  60   end of the year.  For the curious, a unified context diff of 4.5.28 and
  61   the current 5.0 code base comes to 65,976 lines (2.1MB).
  62
  63   --Andrew Church
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