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- <h2>Binary download</h2>
+ <h2>Ready packages</h2>
- <p>The binary download below is the recommended package for general
- use. It is pre-packaged with motor thrust curves from
+ <p>These are packages ready for use and are the recommended
+ download for normal users. They are pre-packaged with motor
+ thrust curves from
<a href="http://www.thrustcurve.org/">thrustcurve.org</a>.</p>
- <p><em>OpenRocket requires <strong>Java version 6</strong> or
- later. The Sun Java Runtime is recommended.</em></p>
+ <p>OpenRocket requires <strong>Java version 6</strong> or
+ later. The Sun Java Runtime is recommended.</p>
+ <h3>Development release</h3>
+
+ <p>The development release contains the latest and greatest
+ features, but may contain more bugs than the stable version.
+ Currently the development version is the recommended
+ download.</p>
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+ <h3>Stable release</h3>
+
+ <p>Occasionally during OpenRocket development focus will shift
+ from feature development towards getting all open bugs fix and
+ to produce a stable release. No updates are made to the
+ stable branch except for possible bug fixes, so the stable
+ release has less features than the development release.</p>
+
+ <p>The current stable release is
+ <tt><a class="main"
+ href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/files/openrocket/${stableversion}/OpenRocket-${stableversion}.jar/download">OpenRocket-<use stableversion>.jar</a></tt></p>
- <p>You can also join the
- <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openrocket-announce"><tt>OpenRocket-announce</tt> mailing list</a>
- to receive notification on new versions.</p>
+
+ <h3>Running OpenRocket</h3>
<p>OpenRocket can be started in most graphical environments (including
Windows) by double-clicking the package icon. No installation is
required.</p>
- <p>From the command line OpenRocket can be started by</p>
- <pre class="quote">$ java -jar OpenRocket-<use version>.jar</pre>
+ <p>From the command line OpenRocket can be started by
+ <span class="command">java -jar OpenRocket-<use version>.jar</span></p>
- <p>Older packages and source code are available from the
- <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/files/openrocket/">SourceForge repository</a>.</p>
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- <h2>Source code</h2>
+ <h2>Source code and older versions</h2>
- <p><strong>Source packages</strong> for OpenRocket are available in the
+ <p><strong>Source packages</strong> and older versions of
+ OpenRocket are available in the
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/files/openrocket/">SourceForge repository</a>.</p>
<p>Alternatively, the most recent development version can be