changeset 6937:4799220fcf78 release

README.html: Prepare file ahead of 8.4 release. * installer-files/README.html: Prepare file ahead of 8.4 release.
author Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>
date Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:58:39 +0200
parents 7b62def65f7d
children 077c0a4d4016 4f25eb25a80b
files installer-files/README.html
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/installer-files/README.html	Mon Oct 09 11:28:54 2023 -0400
+++ b/installer-files/README.html	Thu Oct 26 13:58:39 2023 +0200
@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@
 <body>
 <h1>Welcome</h1>
 <p>Thank you for installing GNU Octave!</p>
-<p>Octave 8.3 is a minor release which mainly fixes bugs and regressions found
-since the release of version 8.2. It should be feature and API compatible to
-Octave 8.2.</p>
+<p>Octave 8.4 is a minor release which mainly fixes bugs and regressions found
+since the release of version 8.3. It should be feature and API compatible to
+Octave 8.3.</p>
 <p>Octave 8 is not feature or API compatible with Octave 7 or earlier. Binaries
 (<code>.oct</code> or <code>.mex</code> files) need to be re-built when
 upgrading from Octave 7 or earlier to this version.</p>
-<p>Octave 8 will be the last major version which is distributed for Windows
-32-bit (or WoW64).</p>
+<p>Binaries are no longer distributed for Windows 32-bit (or WoW64) by the
+Octave project. Please refer to other distributors if you still need them.
+32-bit Windows binaries of Octave are still available from
+<a href="https://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows#GNU_Octave_in_MSYS2">MSYS2</a>.
+</p>
 <p>Since Octave 7, the minimum required version of the Windows API is 6.1
 (Windows 7 or newer).</p>
 <p>A full list of changes can be found in the Release Notes from the News