The next release is here. We spent quite some time fixing bugs, so here is the 4.41 bugfix release. As you can see it is called "Release Candidate". I will explain what the different types of releases mean for PB now:
- Alpha Release
These are development snapshots and are not given out to the public. Features are usually not fully finished. This is just to get some early feedback from a few people during development. - Beta Release
Beta means that all new features are implemented and nothing new will be added except bugfixes (except if a feature is found to be too incomplete to be usable). - Release Candidate
This is what used to be the "final beta release" before. In the release candidates we plan to fix only very critical bugs. Minor bugfixes will be postponed to the next version. We release them when we think the version is ready. At this point even people that do not try the betas should test the new version as its the last chance to discover a critical bug.
This release starts directly as a release candidate as there are no new features to test and we only need the validation that we did not break anything with our bugfixes before going to the final release. Releases that introduce new features will have a beta phase as usual.
Please test the new version and tell us whether the bugs marked as fixed are indeed gone and also let us know if any new problems show up. As usual this release can be downloaded on your account on http://www.purebasic.com/
The PureBasic Team
