The NEWS file and the release announcements will make the reasons clear.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 1:07 PM Harry Thijssen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> In my opinion it is a bit confusing to have no release between november
> 2018 and august 2020 and then have release 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 in a few
> weeks.
> Package builders and users who are not following this list won't have a
> clue why.
>
> Stay safe
>
>
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:42:08 -0700
>> From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
>> To: Friedrich Beckmann <[email protected]>
>> Cc: John Darrington <[email protected]>, pspp-dev
>>         <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Give a 1.4.1-rc1 prelease to translation.org and wait?
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>> I know two ways to deal with translations and releases:
>> 1. Put out a prerelease for translators to work with, give them a few
>> weeks, and then do the release with the updated translations included.
>> 2. Put out a release and give it to the translators at the same time, then
>> do a second minor release a little later with the updated translations.
>> We used to do #1, but I favor #2 these days, because it likely gives users
>> an earlier opportunity to use the new release, even if some of the
>> translations aren't ready yet. Also, there will always be some
>> translations
>> that have not caught up, even if we give a few weeks in case #1.
>>
>> So, I am inclined to release 1.4.1 and make it available to the
>> translation
>> project, and then after translations get updated we can release 1.4.2.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:09 AM Friedrich Beckmann <
>> [email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I think we can still fix some stuff for the 1.4.1 release but my concern
>> > is that
>> > the translations are missing. Listening to Harry:
>> >
>> > > Yes the release version is always a bit more work.  And actually
>> nobody
>> > whats them because they need the translations too which is included in
>> > later test versions.  I usually take a version af a few weeks later as
>> teh
>> > released version.
>> >
>> > Therefore the translators need a pre release but that should not trigger
>> > all integrators to make a new release for the distributions. Of course
>> this
>> > only makes sense when we think that the changes will not affect the
>> > translation strings.
>> >
>> > Fritz
>> >
>> > > Am 04.09.2020 um 17:10 schrieb John Darrington <
>> > [email protected]>:
>> > >
>> > > Something wierd is going on with how the pspp.pot file is generated.
>>  I
>> > will
>> > > investigate this tomorrow.  This will surely have an effect on
>> whatever
>> > we
>> > > release next.
>> >
>>
>>

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