I've downloaded the latest version - I noticed it was uploaded on the Gnu site back in October (I finally noticed). However, no info was provided as to what changes / improvement were made over the previous version.

Does anyone know if there were any changes that were significant? I haven't had any luck finding info on it. Not a big deal, but I was curious.

Thanks,

Pete

Hi Pete,

See the announcement of 1.04 made at BgOnline. In addition to the changes discussed there, the GnuBgID has been changed back to the original 1-line version.

Version 1.05.000 is expected very soon. It will fix a problem getting dice from random.org (which now requires https), and, in the Windows version, make a welcome change to a newer version of the mingw environment. See this message from bug-gnubg.

Mike

Thanks Mike.

Pete

Thanks Mike,

I don't get a chance to read the posts on here so appreciate your answer. I wanted to point out that random.org modified the way they serve random numbers to applications like ours. It originally broke older versions of GNUbg (< 1.05) and we ultimately used non-random numbers. I contacted the admins at random.org and for the next few months random.org has modified their web servers to allow older versions of GNUbg to use their services as they did previously.

What this means is that although random.org broke with GNUbg a few weeks back, it isn't currently a problem in versions < 1.05.000. This will change in a few months when our grace period is up.

If people use random.org for a source of numbers you will be required to upgrade to 1.05.000 or later (with new random.org support) when the grace period is over. I don't know exactly when that will be but I don't think we can expect it to work after April.

As for when we'll see an official 1.05.000, that will likely be Sunday February 8th.

There is also the possibility that 1.05.000 will be the last version to support Win 2000 and Windows XP. This is still not decided.

If one can't wait, there is a preview release of 1.05.000 available. This Requires Windows Vista (Or Windows Server 2008) and later. You can see this post on our mailing list:

https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnu.../msg07038.html

It is also worth mentioning that the change at random.org also broke XG. If you use random.org to generate dice rolls in XG, you need to install the fix Xavier recently published.

Mike