# Processing 4.0 alpha 6 available!

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**Created:** [July 11, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172 "2021-07-11T16:00:02Z")\
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> [@CodeMasterX](#):
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> when is v4 going to come out?

Maybe in August? _Emphasis_ on the _maybe_… I do not know!  
See below:

> [@birthday Celebrating Processing 20th Anniversary](https://discourse.processing.org/t/celebrating-processing-20th-anniversary/30797):
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> Hi everyone wave As you may already know, this year is 20th anniversary of Processing! We think it’s nice to do something as a community towards August when Processing was “born” hatching_chick baby_chick Do you have any ideas? One idea we came up with is each of us make a poster or a card and submit them on discourse (here) / OpenProcessing / social media to make a gallery. If you have any ideas, feel free to share them on this thread memo

The Github repositories have more information.  
Some _excerpts_ are below and there is _detailed information_ on GitHub for the _full context_.

[GitHub - processing/processing: Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)](https://github.com/processing/processing) states:

> Using a [4.0 release](https://github.com/processing/processing4/releases) (even an alpha or beta version) is recommended if you find an issue.

[GitHub - benfry/processing4: Processing 4.x releases for Java 17](https://github.com/processing/processing4) states:

> We don’t have a schedule for a final release. This work is being done by a [tiny number of people](https://github.com/processing/processing4/graphs/contributors?from=2019-10-01&to=2021-12-31&type=c) who continue working on it, unpaid, because they care about it.

I currently use both and will report issues as I see them.  
They fixed 2 issues in last release that I was going to report!  
Seems like there is active work on this.

`:)`

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