Depending on your location, it might be 2004 already; others will have to wait a few hours. Its hard to believe its 2004 already, and that jEdit is five and a half years old

I hope the entire jEdit community has a great holiday season. Also, jEdit 4.1pre7 will be out within the next couple of days. After this, there will only be a few bug fix releases until jEdit 4.1final.

Well, after spending three weeks in Canberra, I have now arrived in Ottawa, Canada. Now I have five hundred or so e-mails to read; if you tried to contact me within the last few weeks, please be patient - I will reply.

I am leaving New Zealand on the 29th June. I will be in Australia until the 20th July. During this time I will have e-mail access, however I will not be doing any jEdit development. On the 21st July, I am going to Canada. Once I settle in, I will resume jEdit development.

I hope you all have a happy new year's! Lets hope that 2002 is another great year for jEdit. I'm implementing soft wrap right now, and hope to release 4.0pre4, along with an updated XML plugin, in two weeks time or so.

The specs of the computer are:

• Pentium 4 1800 CPU
  
• 512 Mb SDRAM
  
• 40 Gb HD
  
• GeForce II MX 400 video card
  
• 19" monitor
  
• SB live sound card, with a nice set of speakers + subwoofer
  
• Microsoft optical mouse (only good product MS has ever made )
  
• No Windows XP! This saves 200 dollars.
  

As soon as the broadband link is in place, I will resume development of jEdit. Expect a 4.0pre3 very soon.