Here is a quick status report from the trenches!
Claes Rosell stepped in two weeks ago and he is on a roll! Amongst many other things, Claes fixed the report designer preview issue and made BIRT 4.9.0 available for all platforms.
Freshly baked BIRT downloads are available for you to try [1] [2]
If you ask me, all of these are release candidates. Yes, that's right, release candidates! Thank you, Claes Rosell! 🙏
## Discussions
The discussions are starting to take off as well. This is where you, as a BIRT USER, can help. If you see a question that you can answer, please chip in [3].
The old forum is still very popular for people SEEKING answers, but there is nobody to actually answer [4].
## Special thanks
* to Henning Von Bargen
🙏
, Andrej, Steve Schafer and patric-r for testing! (Talking about testing, we added a whopping 423 report engine unit tests.)
* to Ed Merks and Alexander Fedorov for polishing the installer. It works great. Thanks, Collin Sutton for testing.
* to Christophe Loetz for working on the website [5] We can use help here as well to convert content from the old to the new site.
* to Alexander Fedorov
🙏 for support and reviews.
(Next time, make sure your name is here too! ;)
## Statistics
To the BIRTmobile, let's go!
Wim
