there are some small bug fixes in CVS and I would like to release 3.98.1 next Saturday.
The version is tagged RELEASE__3_98_1 from lame3_98 branch. It would be great if as many developers as possible check it out, test it and comment on it before next friday.
Especially the small change in matching given ID3v1 genre names at commandline should reduce maintenance cost. The formerly strict pattern matching caused lots of questions.