After splitting the libraries another attempt can be done. The current user documentation system, based on latex and latex2html, is fragile and hard to configure. It needs to be stabilized. It is doing a very good job, but needs some changes to make nicer html output. In October 1999 the first release was done.
Users can get updates via ftp.
In order the reduce ftp traffic a mechanism is needed to make the updates selective, i.e. that only the parts needed are ftp-ed. It would also be nice if the dependencies are such that linking a program is based on changes in the source code and not on changes in a library. In that way a program is only linked when really needed, thus also ftp-ed when really needed. Multi-threading gets more and more common. After the release in October 1999 two formal releases are foreseen until the end of 2000.