I thought I'd share some Legals-related news with the community as we edge up to our first Beta release.

First, as we enter Beta we will be formalizing the product name as "OpenLaszlo 4.0" or "OL4." You'll see less talk of "Legals" (or "Legal's") as a code name, and more talk of OL4. I expect that we will very soon see this release become the mainstream of OpenLaszlo development, and in anticipation it makes sense to position it as a successor to OpenLaszlo 3.x rather than as a separate project.

Second, about our first Beta release. We currently have a release candidate build in QA going through final qualification. Barring discovery of a significant problem, we expect to qualify this RC build later in the week, perhaps as soon as this Wednesday. We will make this RC build of OL4 B1 available on download.openlaszlo.org as soon as it it qualified. It is also available right now as a Tomcat deployment on labs.

However, the formal OL4 B1 release will be delayed until early January because the new Reference Guide is lagging a bit behind. The RefGuide needed work to support multiple runtimes and we took the opportunity to modernize it and to reduce the complexity of our doc tools. This work is going well, but a bit more slowly than expected. A beta isn't a beta without complete reference materials, so we will hold up the B1 release pending completion of that work.

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