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2025-01-01 18:00:05

The official FreeDOS distribution has a slow update cycle because FreeDOS is already pretty complete. We released FreeDOS 1.3 in February 2022. But we've continued to work on it behind the scenes, including the monthly "test releases" with all the latest updates. And thanks to everyone who contributes to FreeDOS, we are excited to share the FreeDOS 1.4 Release Candidate 1 is now available! This has a ton of new changes and fixes since FreeDOS 1.3. This includes updates to the installer and version updates on many programs including fdisk, format, jemm, ldebug, bwbasic, dojs, dog, nasm, curl, mkeyb, edlin, blocek, htmlhelp, fdnet, more, fdimples, .. the list goes on - read the change log for the complete list. These updates should address many annoying bugs that folks have reported since version 1.3.

Please help test the new FreeDOS 1.4 distribution. Download FreeDOS 1.4 RC1 and test it out, and report any bugs. We look forward to testing the new version, and including more updates for FreeDOS 1.4 RC2 next month.