** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.4.0 ** XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read and write game files in PGN (portable game notation). WinBoard is a similar program for 32-bit Microsoft Windows. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence chess. A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version 4.4.0 includes many changes. It is the first major release of xboard/winboard after a fork of the project after version 4.2.7. It includes small changes made in the main line and changes made by a fork of Alessandro Scotti and lots of changes made afterwards by H.G. Muller (released as versions 4.3.x). This release represents a unified version of all changes made after the fork. It includes many new features and bugfixes. You can get both XBoard and WinBoard from the Savannah project pages: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ If you find a bug, please report it in the bug tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ or by email to bug-xboard (AT) gnu.org.