where is ess version 19.04? - emacs

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17063/how-to-setup-knitr-workflow-in-emacs recommends
version 19.04 as the setup for Knitr is much simplified. However I can't find version 19.04
http://ess.r-project.org/ has version 18.10.2 and links to a development version, 18.10.3snapshot, on github. It describes version 19.04 as "unreleased."

Thanks https://stackoverflow.com/users/6045390/j-f
Yes, https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/milestone/1 records ess 19.04
as 75% complete with "No due date".

I'm going to add my own answer to this, as I was deeply confused.
As far as I can tell, in a technical sense "ESS 19.04" does not exist - when people refer to ESS 19.04 they mean "the current development version of ESS", which lives here. The VERSION file there currently (September 2022) lists 18.10.3snapshot; the version number hasn't changed since 2018 even though there's been a lot of development since then.
The news file on the ESS page discusses 19.04 extensively, and lots of web resources refer to version 19.04 ... but good luck finding it!

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Update 2019-01-31: I am currently working on bringing this back to Kate: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17971 It will take another 2-3 weeks, though.
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I just read an article and learned about the HHVM which is built on the lines of JVM for Java. I went ahead and tried searching on the web, but found only articles about installing it on Ubuntu build 12 version.
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Full installation run-through guide.

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