> (Answering only for Automake, because I've also been confused by > Akim's last statements about announcements that shouldn't be > considered official.) Sorry about this. I was trying to make a difference bw pre-released on my web site, and really released on GNU site. Maybe that was wrong :( It turns out that a beta, even if you emphasize the need to test it, is not tested as thoroughly as a real release. So I was finally quite happy with having a (pre-)release spread in our community first, then have some real feedback before making the real release. This caught a couple of weak releases by the past, but I realize that this releasing scheme is a bit obscure. Unfortunately it relied on this obscurity: it is important, if you want some real feedback, that many people use it as a real release. So if I flag it as a pre-release, I doubt it will be tested as thoroughly :( In the future I'll try to be clearer. And I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the feedback on Autoconf :)
