After a 4 year effort by a number of people, +with over 6168+ commits, the Great Fork Merge has been completed +and the Official IOCCC web site has been updated!
+A significant number of improvements has been made to the +IOCCC winning entries. +A number of fixes and improvements involve the ability of reasonable modern +Unix/Linux systems to be able to compile and even run them. +See FAQ Section 4 for +information on how to compile. +See the FAQ Section 8 +for details on changes made to the entries.
+We hope you enjoy the new and improved +Official IOCCC web site. +This web site is backed by the +IOCCC winner repo. +See FAQ Section 9 for +how you help improve / fix the we site, +or fix known bugs in IOCCC winning entries.
+The IOCCC28, the 40th anniversary of the IOCCC is now +scheduled to run from 2024-12-29 23:58:13.213455 UTC to 2025-04-01 23:29:31.374143 UTC!!!.
+Proposed and tentative IOCCC rules and IOCCC guidelines +have been released.
+See FAQ Section 0 for more information on how to enter.
+We continue to make good progress on the temp-test-ioccc website via the temp-test-ioccc repo.
@@ -462,7 +488,7 @@Once the submit server server is ready another FAQ will be added and that entry can be looked at alone.
-A number of issues from minor fixes have been applied to the temp-test-ioccc website via the temp-test-ioccc repo.
@@ -497,7 +523,7 @@It is our plan that IOCCC28 will occur in 2024, the 40th anniversary of the IOCCC.
-The website now is viewing by mobile devices such as cell phones and tablets. Devices with a screen resolution 1024 pixels and narrower are given a hamburger-style menu icon in place of @@ -519,7 +545,7 @@
Nearly all of the temp-test-ioccc website
website has undergone editorial review. Nearly all IOCCC winning entries
compile on modern systems and many have try.sh scripts to help you run them.
@@ -537,10 +563,10 @@
Stay tuned!
-We continue to make good progress on website. In the temp-test-ioccc GitHub repo we have made nearly 4600 changes to date!
All web pages, including this one, are now constructed from markdown files and/or JSON data files using tools found in the bin directory.
-We have been busy preparing for an important / significant update to this website. In the temp-test-ioccc GitHub repo we have made nearly 2645 changes to date.
While you are free to look at the temp-test-ioccc GitHub repo, please do not link to it as this repo and related website will disappear once the main @@ -596,7 +622,7 @@
Stay tuned!
-We added to the status.json page, a “status_date” JSON member whose value is the date @@ -608,7 +634,7 @@
"status_date" : "Mon Jan 30 02:28:44 PST 2023",
"latest_news" : "Mon Jan 30 02:28:44 PST 2023"As per the suggestion of Toni Mikkola (@Virtaava@home.social) we now maintain a status.json page on this website.
@@ -626,7 +652,7 @@We are planning to abandon our IOCCC Twitter feed in favor of our new IOCCC Mastodon feed.
@@ -661,7 +687,7 @@Stay tuned in Mastodon as we update you on our progress towards the next IOCCC!
-Source code has been released for version 0.8.1 2022-11-19 of the mkiocccentry repo, a GitHub repo that includes the official iocccsize tool, @@ -673,13 +699,13 @@
We are working on complete rebuild of this website as well.
-Source code has been released for version 0.24 2022-01-15 of the mkiocccentry tool, a tool that is based on, and is containing, the official iocccsize tool, will form a compressed tarball that a registered IOCCC contestant will upload to the submit server (when the contest is open of course).
-The Judges are continuing to work on re-tooling how we run the IOCCC. We are writing tools under various repositories our @@ -688,7 +714,7 @@
The Judges
are re-tooling how we run the IOCCC.
Our goal is to build a smoother, more rapid process centered around
diff --git a/news.md b/news.md
index f6bc9a0e76..eb790c5fba 100644
--- a/news.md
+++ b/news.md
@@ -13,6 +13,44 @@ for more information on Mastodon.
# News
+
+## 2024-12-28
+
+### Good News Everyone! :-)
+
+After a 4 year effort by a [number of people](thanks-for-help.html),
+with over 6168+ commits, the **Great Fork Merge** has been completed
+and the [Official IOCCC web site](index.html) has been updated!
+
+A significant number of improvements has been made to the
+[IOCCC winning entries](years.html).
+A number of fixes and improvements involve the ability of reasonable modern
+Unix/Linux systems to be able to compile and even run them.
+See [FAQ Section 4](faq.html#compiling) for
+information on how to compile.
+See the [FAQ Section 8](faq.html#changes)
+for details on changes made to the entries.
+
+We hope you enjoy the new and improved
+[Official IOCCC web site](index.html).
+This web site is backed by the
+[IOCCC winner repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner).
+See [FAQ Section 9](faq.html#help) for
+how you help [improve / fix the we site](faq.html#fix_website),
+or fix [known bugs in IOCCC winning entries](bugs.html).
+
+
+### IOCCC28 is starting!
+
+The IOCCC28, the [40th anniversary of the IOCCC](faq.html#ioccc_start) is now
+scheduled to run from **2024-12-29 23:58:13.213455 UTC** to **2025-04-01 23:29:31.374143 UTC**!!!.
+
+Proposed and tentative [IOCCC rules](next/rules.html) and [IOCCC guidelines](next/guidelines.html)
+have been released.
+
+See [FAQ Section 0](faq.html#enter_questions) for more information on how to enter.
+
+
## 2024-06-08
We continue to make good progress on the
diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml
index 39cebafc6b..04ac884e86 100644
--- a/sitemap.xml
+++ b/sitemap.xml
@@ -19718,11 +19718,11 @@
status.json
"no_comment" : "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec",
"IOCCC_status_version" : "1.0 2024-03-09",
"contest_status" : "closed",
- "news_update" : "2024-07-31T22:45:30+00:00",
+ "news_update" : "2024-12-29T07:03:37+00:00",
"status_update" : "2024-12-24T01:52:32+00:00"
}
diff --git a/status.json b/status.json
index d262c5ee8d..9f5c259870 100644
--- a/status.json
+++ b/status.json
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
"no_comment" : "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec",
"IOCCC_status_version" : "1.0 2024-03-09",
"contest_status" : "closed",
- "news_update" : "2024-07-31T22:45:30+00:00",
+ "news_update" : "2024-12-29T07:03:37+00:00",
"status_update" : "2024-12-24T01:52:32+00:00"
}