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As Steve Jobs has announced yesterday at Apple’s WWDC a new version of XCode was introduced. SJ talked about version 3.0 being handed out to developers at WWDC. He said that during the final minutes of the keynote. Today I logged in to http://developer.apple.com expecting to be able to download the new version. Instead I found another version of XCode. Namely version 2.4. The last available version was 2.3 until now, so 2.4 is still an update. It also looks like the 2.4 version has the features that were promised for 3.0. But why is this now a minor update instead of the advertised major release? There is a difference in stepping up from 2.3 to 2.4 or up to 3.0.

Does Apple distribute another version to website visitors than they are distribution to WWDC developers? I actually don’t know what version WWDC attendees really got. Would be interesting to hear from someone that was there…

Update: looks like XCode 3.0 is due for release in ‘07. The XCode 2.4 seems just an update for 64bit and some other stuff which may be relevant for the new Mac pro systems. Developers at WWDC probably only got a sneak-peak to XCode 3.0 and got 2.4 on their handed-out dvd sets.

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