Nicholas Yue wrote: > Hi, > > On the page http://gcc.gnu.org, it mentions that as of 13 March 2009, > the current release is the 4.4.0 series and there is now a 4.5.0 > development snapshot.
Actually, it's misleading. When that status message was sent, 4.4.0 series was actually in the lowest position on the list - 'Active development' - meaning that it was in a pre-release state. Since then, GCC 4.4.0 has become promoted to current release series (and gcc 4.2.x retired), the first release candidate is on its way, but the status message hasn't been updated yet, oops! > Given that the information was three weeks old, I am not sure if the > failure of 4.4.0 appearing in the release (mirror) was a technical error > of the release mechanism or a miscommunication of the status to the > people maintaining the web page. Hope that explains how the miscommunication occurred. There was an update posted to the list, but no formal status message yet that the front page could be pointed at; see the thread at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-03/msg00827.html cheers, DaveK
