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What happened to 3.14 (quarterly releases)?

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saratoga:
In the past we have gone years without releases.

rbhawaii:
the list is here

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/board,38.0.html

it was many years ago that we have gone years without releases . nothing in the recent past

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: rbhawaii on January 05, 2014, 04:54:55 PM ---the list is here
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you should rather check the release notes, that's a better and more complete overview:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes


--- Quote ---it was many years ago that we have gone years without releases . nothing in the recent past

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Which doesn't mean that we won't / shouldn't make more or less releases. People work on Rockbox in their free time, when nobody works on it no new releases will happen. Everyone is free to join in developing Rockbox :) Plus, the use of dedicated mp3 players is getting less -- with mobile phones these days the need is simply less. Oh, and a lot of developers consider Rockbox pretty much feature complete, and hunting bugs is much more work than implementing new stuff. At least usually :)

AlexP:
I'd say it's a combination of a number of things.

One is time, I've certainly had less recently
Another is indeed smartphones, I use Rockbox a huge amount less that I used to
Another is general stability - we seem to have a few problems knocking around with regressions.

rbhawaii:
my problem with smartphones is they are not mp3 players first... meaning they dont have enough space for a reasonable mp3 collection. my 240 gig ipod does not have enough space either but it is the biggest storage in the smallest package i could find. thats why rb is gold for me and why i look forward to the updates.   3.13 on the ipod seems very stable to me but i know there is a lot i dont know about the current state of the rb code. im greatful to all coders and contributors . its just sad to see what looks like the slow approach to a stop in interest.

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