Editing GNU Aspell (section)

== Windows ports ==
{{As of|2017|7}}, the latest official Windows port of GNU Aspell was still 32-bit version 0.50.3 (Dec 2002), with dictionaries of similar age.<ref>[http://aspell.net/win32/ Aspell Windows port page]</ref> The developer says he has "no time and very little interest in maintaining a Windows port", and has been looking for somebody to maintain it.<ref>{{cite web |last=Atkinson |first=Kevin |date=2008-04-16 |title=Need Someone to Maintain Aspell Windows Port |url=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-announce/2008-04/msg00003.html |access-date=2008-07-06 |website=gnu.org}}</ref>  However, the [[LyX]] project maintains a separate fork of Aspell for Windows and dictionaries, and says "the LyX project has long solved the Windows packaging problem by forking Aspell."{{Citation needed|date=July 2017}} LyX is being maintained and {{As of|2023|10|lc=on}} the latest version is 2.3.7, dated 7 January 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=LyX News |url=http://www.lyx.org/News#item1 |access-date=2018-03-21 |website=lyx.org}}</ref>

The regularly updated [[Cygwin]] port of aspell can also be used in [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and it is the latest version.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}