Dear Xbase++ community,

 During the development process of Xbase++ V 1.9, more than 500
 features of the product have been improved.  You will see that being
 reflected in more than 200 changes applied to the documentation in
 terms of new features and/or feature-set enhancements.

 Actually, we closed more than 200 PDRs and an array of these
 changes will prove to be of the benefit to all of you. The value
 added by Alaska Software to the new release, is estimated to amount
 to about 6 man-years of hard development work.

 Having said this, the bad news is that we are again behind our latest
 projection in terms of availability. The good news is that the master-
 build 1.90.331 is already being tested and validated. The Basic User
 Guides which comprises of about 350 pages has been released for
 production.

 The contents of the Subscriptions is ready, so that the packaging
 process can be triggered. All this is a tedious and time-consuming
 labor; however, we should be able to have it completed by the end of
 this week.

 Since the packaging process is the last step before CD-ROM production
 starts, the software packages will be readily available for download,
 ie. for the ESD (electronic-software-delivery), in the week before
 the US DevCon 2006 starts.

 Looking forward to meeting you at the forthcoming Xbase++ US DevCon
 2006 and/or at the European Advantage Conference in Frankfurt.

 Sincerely yours
 Steffen F. Pirsig
 Alaska Software