Hyperion announces OS 3.1 update

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So does this mean we will now have a "fork" of AmigaOS 68k at 3.1, so we'll have 3.9 which has to fall the way-side for official updates while 3.1 gets official updates?

Yeah, to me, it feels like 3.5/3.9 was a dead-end fork, and development has resumed based on 3.1. AmigaOS 4.1 is based on the 3.1 codebase as well, and AROS/MorphOS are made to be API-compatible with 3.1.

In terms of features and eye-candy out of the box, 3.9 is probably still the best, but what matters in the end is that all the tools, commands, libraries, patches etc.

[AdvancedFollower]

Because 3.1 is full of bugs and annoyances?

3.9 is out of reach - a lot of the code is not available for maintenance.

Yeah, why not is a more appropriate question. Lots of people still use 3.x in classic Amigas, emulation etc. Probably way more than use AmigaOS 4.

Don't focus too much on the version number. AmigaOS is very modular. If most components are a higher version in 3.1.4 than 3.9, then which is the most up to date? It's just that 3.9 was already taken, and calling it something like 3.95 would have made it seem like a minor update to 3.9. Think of it as AmigaOS 3.14 (as in fourteen).