I periodically check rarewares to get the latest update to Lame and check this site to get info on what's recommended. Last I checked I thought 3.97b1 was going to become the recommended version of Lame and that would end the development on the 3.xx versions of Lame. I went to Rarewares and they are posting a 3.98a2 and no 3.97bxx at all. What did I miss? Anyone got a recap for me. I did a search on the forums here for 3.98 and it came up empty.

Look again, it starts at the second link on the page.
Encoders/decoders built using LAME 3.97 beta 1