XaoS 4.0pre4 is out

In May 2019 I announced some news on the forthcoming version of XaoS, namely, 4.0. In the meantime, mostly in January, more effort was put into the development and now we humbly announce version 4.0pre4. Soon we plan to release 4.0 and ask for some help on finalizing the translations.
Version 4.0 focuses on unifying the codebase. We removed lots of code that allowed several types of builds for various platforms, but now only the Qt platform is supported which is rich and powerful enough to have a modern application running on most systems. We hope that decision will allow us to continue the work on XaoS and also to invite more people to contribute!
From the user's perspective, several bugs have been fixed and some useful but minor changes have been added to the new version. Some highlights:

Formulas are easier to type

Now formula texts are lowercased and they can be typed in a more user friendly way:

The formula given here produces the Burning Ship fractal.

Formulas may reference to the number of iterations

Sometimes it is useful to reference the number of iterations in a formula. For example, the formula z=z±1/z can now be entered by typing z+(1/z)*(-1)^n as the user formula.

Various new fractals can be created in such a way. For example, the formula z^2+c*(-1)^n is one of such.

You can find more hints on entering user formulas in the wiki on GitHub.

Truetype fonts

Scalable fonts are now available to provide a better look during animations.

Please help us!

Is XaoS not yet available in your native language? There is already support for Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish, but we would appreciate your help to double check these translations or add other languages as well.