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RISC OS 5.26 is alive!

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:18:00 GMT

The Open Source RISC OS source tree is now live on our site for your delectation. There are some things you need to know…

RISC OS has been up-versioned to 5.26 to signify the first official stable release of RISC OS under the Apache 2.0 license. This is actually functionally identical to 5.24, so we don’t have to retest everything as actually being stable. We’ve immediately up-versioned RISC OS again to 5.27 to reflect that it’s now in a development (beta) state between stable releases and carried-over all the 5.25 work into 5.27. Phew!

The ‘castle’ subdirectory is no more. It has been replaced by an Apache directory which has the same source components under it. All of the Castle-licensed files have their license headers replaced with Apache license header wording. This applies not only to those under the ‘apache’ directory, but for some under the ‘mixed’ directory.

The castle license PDF document is no more. It shouldn’t appear in RISC OS releases any more so if you spot one lurking somewhere, then let us know. Having said that, we’re not done yet. Our autobuilder hasn’t yet (at the time of writing) rebuilt all of the downloads so until that sorts itself out over the next couple of days, you may still see old downloads with the license in them.

There may also be some broken links around our site which are pointing to the old ‘castle’ subdirectory of the source tree. These will be fixed in the near future by causing those to redirect into the new ‘apache’ source subtree.

The wiki will no doubt have many pages which have some mention of the ‘castle’ part of the source tree. It would be great if the community could take it upon themselves to find and eliminate these over the coming days.

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    Steve Pampling (1551) said about 17 hours later:

    Nice example of “Castle” remaining here on the news page:

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    RISC OS is owned by Castle Technology Ltd and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

    Where the “Castle Technology Ltd” is a link that actually goes to https://www.riscosdev.com/

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    Steffen Huber (91) said 3 days later:

    5.26 not yet available from the downloads (I din’t really download them, just going by the text on the page!), but the “nightly build unstable” ones are already 5.27. Is this to be expected?

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    Chris Hall (132) said 3 days later:

    My understanding is that Castle Technology Ltd. still exists as a legal entity but is owned by ROD. Also from ROOL at the show that the autobuilder had stumbled – the sources are on line and you can build your own 5.26 rom but the roms are not yet there in pre-built form.

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