Hi,

By the way, one crucial addition: version 20.09.7-LTS readme will remove dev version download link, as well as dev snapshot user guide link, too for consistency with 21.04.

Cheers,

Joseph

Hi all,

No, not an April Fool’s Day joke.

A few weeks ago I announced that the last development snapshot of SPL add-on will be released toward end of March, but events around the world (some of them affecting me a bit) caused it to be delayed. But there will be no more delay:

April 1^st development snapshot will be published in a few hours. And no, it won’t be the last dev snapshot – there will be two more dev snapshots, the last one will be identical to upcoming add-on version 21.04. After that, people on development snapshots will receive add-on version 21.04. I expect 21.04 itself (along with 20.09.7-LTS, the last 20.09.x release) to go live by next week at the earliest.

The snapshot release schedule is thus (can change without notice):

• April 1: readme updates.
• April 5: pressing SPL Assistant, Shift+F1 will open the stable version user guide as there is really no need for a dev snapshot guide anymore.
• April 7 at the earliest: final development snapshot, identical to version 21.04.

But add-on maintenance will continue for a while:

• Version 21.06 or 21.07 depending on when NVDA 2021.1 is released: localization updates, dev snapshot download link will be removed from readme and from community add-ons website, no changes to features whatsoever.
• Early fall: final stable version from me, mostly involving localization updates.
• Perhaps by the time NVDA 2022.1 is released: changes to support future NVDA releases; I might consider this upon request if there’s no-one maintaining the add-on then.

The most important thing to keep in mind is the second item – I’m hoping someone will sign up to maintain the add-on past 2021. I’ll end add-on maintenance on December 31, 2021.

Thanks.

Cheers,

Joseph