Dear GnuCOBOL users, while this list is not directly affected by this change it is likely the case for some of you. The old side https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol is in the process of being migrated to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucobol Note: the general GnuCOBOL website https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol is not affected, other than - for now - forwarding to the first one, shortly to the second. If you use any reference - always use the official one https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol which won't vanish any time. The old download links and the site https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol will link to the new site, but "deep links" to the discussion boards and trackers won't work any more. References on the site itself like [bugs:123] or [7dc2941f] will still work fine, while URLs won't. If you have an old link and get the "Whoops, we can't find that page" or similar messages just replace the "open-cobol" part in the URL with "gnucobol". This may especially the case with browser history. Depending on your mail setup you may also want to adjust your mail filters. For all of you that directly use an svn checkout - please do a one-time relocate (nearly no network-io), depending on the protocol used svn relocate svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/gnucobol/code svn relocate svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/gnucobol/contrib svn relocate https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gnucobol/code svn relocate https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gnucobol/contrib (no matter how "deep" your checkout started). The site https://open-cobol.sourceforge.io will likely not be redirected, but the new location https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io already works. Note: Other than possibly broken deep links, there is one single downside: the download statistics are all reset to zero. While they were never accurate (many people get GnuCOBOL in source form from either the official pages https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol or https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol or via svn checkout or in binary form via the package managers they use or from external sites like the old OCIDE or Arnold Trembley's page) you may wonder where the old hundreds and thousands of downloads "went" when looking at the stats. They will build up over time again... I'm looking forward to the upcoming GnuCOBOL 3.1 RC2 which is planned for mid/end August 2020 (in case you do not follow in other places - GnuCOBOL 3.1 RC1 got out end of June 2020, see https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/news for some notes). As always: the final release will be announced here. Regards, Simon Sobisch
