> On Mar 16, 2025, at 3:16 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> **I am bringing back a discussion from today's virtual get-together,
> about FreeDOS 1.4.
>
> It sounds like there are no blocking issues in FreeDOS 1.4 Release
> Candidate 3. (Yay!) So the next monthly test release will be "FreeDOS
> 1.4" (in other words, we will not have a "FreeDOS 1.4 Release
> Candidate 4").
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to have a major release on April 1
> (that's "April Fools Day" .. and a lot of websites still do "pranks"
> that day) so I propose this release schedule instead:
>
>
> 1. Jerome will release & announce "FreeDOS 1.4" to the "test"
> location, probably 4/1. This will otherwise be identified as "FreeDOS
> 1.4" .. but it just gets published in the "test" directory on Ibiblio:
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/
>
> 2. Folks can take the next few days to install it & look for any
> last-minute critical blocking issues.
>
> 3. If no issues are identified to the email list by the end of Friday
> 4/4, then on Saturday 4/5 I'll copy the new distribution to the new
> official "FreeDOS 1.4" directory on Ibiblio:
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.4/
>
> And at the same time, I'll also remove the RC3 announcement on the
> website's front page & on the "Download" page, and update the
> "Download" page to say "FreeDOS 1.4":
> https://www.freedos.org/download/
Sounds good to me.
:-)
Jerome
PS: I will call Jenny to let her know. Just send me her number.
(You would have had to be present during the meeting to understand this.)
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