--- layout: post title: News --- August 11, 2014
A new version is now available. From this point forward, dates will be used as the version string and all of SCOWL's components will be released simultaneously.

June 4, 2014
New redesigned website!

Also make additional Hunspell dictionaries available on an experimental bases.

January 6, 2011
A new version of SCOWL, corresponding Aspell and Hunspell dictionaries, and VarCon is now available. These are bug fix releases.

December 28, 2010
A new version of SCOWL, corresponding Aspell and Hunspell dictionaries, and VarCon is now available. The biggest changes are greatly improved Canadian and British wordlists due to a massive effort to verify the variant information in VarCon against authoritative sources. The American wordlist has also been improved.

December 5, 2008
An initial version of the official Hunspell en_US and en_CA dictionaries, created from SCOWL, is now available.

June 17, 2007
A new version of the offical 12Dicts package is now available which contains several new lists.

August 10, 2004
A new version of SCOWL, VarCon and, Alt12Dicts is now available.

January 27, 2003
A new version of the offical 12Dicts package is now available. It differs from previous versions by containing three additional lists which are not derived from the "classic" 2dicts sources. Changes to the classic lists are limited to error corrections.

January 3, 2003 A new version of SCOWL, AGID, and VarCon is now available.

June 7, 2001 A new version of the offical 12Dicts package is now available. It differs from previous versions primarily by replacement of one dictionary with another dictionary from the same publisher. Additionally, there have been many error corrections, especially to the 2of12inf list.

May 20, 2001 Finally updated the webpage to reflect the fact that a new version of SCOWL, and AGID was released in the beginning of April.

Added a link to the an online version of a Longman dictionary.

February 27, 2001 Added a link to the online version of the Encarta dictionary.

January 29, 2000
A new version of SCOWL, AGID, and VarCon is now available. A new package, "Ispell English Wordlists" is also available.

October 9, 2000
A new version of both the Official and Unofficial 12Dicts package is now available. These new versions contain a new word list of the inflected forms of words, many error corrections, and other changes resulting from new editions of some of the source dictionaries.

August 19,2000
A new revsion of SCOWL and AGID is now available.

The first version of "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" is now available

August 5, 2000
A new revision of SCOWL is now available. This version has more sensible upper case word (including proper names) at the default level.