I'm trying to catch up after a couple of trips, too, and I'm also 
confused.  It seems that 2.8 is in a "beta" state (i.e., not yet 
considered completed, but only bug fixes going into it) and 2.9 is 
the current "alpha" (i.e., test pilots can get into the update 
stream).

Is this correct?

Mark

At 1:10 PM +0200 8/2/00, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>Hi
>
>Apparently I lost a lot of emails during my holidays.
>I would like to know what is the status of the next official
>releases.
>
>I was staying on the fact that 2.7 was official
>and that 2.8 was out but not that official and that 2.9 was in alpha.
>
>Is it right?
>When are the next official release planned?
>
>Thanks
>
>Stephane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
>"if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
>different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
>might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
>
>University of Bern, Institut fuer informatik and Mathematik
>IAM-SCG, 10 neubruckstrasse, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.

--------------------------
Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
(404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html