[Info-vax] New version of Putty released

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/14/2011 6:13 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Paul Sture wrote 2011-07-14 10:16:
>> In article<jaCJBU3ufsRs at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:
>>>> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com]
>>>> On Beh=
>>>> alf Of Paul Sture
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:17 AM
>>>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>>>> Subject: [Info-vax] New version of Putty released
>>>> Importance: Low
>>>>
>>>> PuTTY version 0.61 is released
>>>
>>> Still exhibits the wrap bug discussed in c.o.v in the last couple of
>>> weeks, when in double width or double height modes.
>>>
>>> No longer seems exhibit the bug in normal text mode. At least, I think
>>> 0.60 was.
>>
>> However, the author indicates his willingness to accept bug reports.
>> From the download page at
>>
>> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
>>
>> "The latest release version (beta 0.61). This will generally be a
>> version I think is reasonably likely to work well. If you have a problem
>> with the release version, it might be worth trying out the latest
>> development snapshot (below) to see if I've already fixed the bug,
>> before reporting it to me."
>
> So he himself regards the latest "release version" to be
> a "beta" release...

He is just saying that people should try the very latest if
they find a bug to save him time figuring out that the bug
is already fixed.

That could apply to beta and to very mature software.

Arne