At 2025-12-31T04:45:47-0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 07:28:18PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Congratulations on the release!
> > 
> > At 2025-12-31T01:14:38+0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > 20251230 6.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
> > >   + update announcement
> > >   + corrected an ifdef needed for mouse support in MinGW/Windows
> > >   + eliminate remaining duplicate code between MinGW/Windows drivers
> > 
> > It appears that "doc/html/announce.html" is/was generated before
> > `@VERSION@` re-computation or substitution took place:
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/html/announce.html b/doc/html/announce.html
> > index 2aa03cfab..483bfe522 100644
> > --- a/doc/html/announce.html
> > +++ b/doc/html/announce.html
> > ...
> > @@ -154,10 +154,10 @@
> >    Notes</a></h2>
> > 
> >    <p>These notes are for <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>
> > -  6.5, released <strong>April 27, 2024</strong>.</p>
> > +  6.5, released <strong>December 30, 2025</strong>.</p>
> > 
> >    <p>This release is designed to be source-compatible with
> > -  <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> 5.0 through 6.4; providing
> > +  <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> 5.0 through 6.5; providing
> > 
> > The web page at <https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce.html>
> > also proclaims the version number of today's release as 6.5.
> 
> sigh.  I'll repair that (done).
> 
> In reviewing the page, I was looking mainly at the date, which wasn't
> showing up promptly due to some server cache.
> 
> fwiw, the server seems to be responsive now :-(

Speaking of responsiveness or the lack thereof, GNU infrastructure has
been getting blitzed for the past few days.  The Savannah bug tracker
going down has interfered with groff development.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2025-12/

I have a cynical theory that nevertheless offers a slim reed of hope.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2025-12/msg00028.html

Do you plan to announce to info-gnu as well?

Regards,
Branden

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