The official site seems correspondingly obfuscated.

* http://www.ioccc.org/status.html says: “While the IOCCC is not open now, there is a tentative opening date for the next IOCCC.”

* http://www.ioccc.org/news.html says: “The IOCCC28, the 40th anniversary of the IOCCC is now scheduled to run from 2024-12-29 23:58:13.213455 UTC to 2025-04-01 23:29:31.374143 UTC!!!.”

The linked site makes the thing even more confusing by saying in the subtitle that the compo is about C++. No thanks, otherwise some of the production code we C++ devs see could be submitted to the competition as-is. Obfuscating C needs more work.

All in all, confusing but positive news. Looking forward to the entries, though we'll still have to wait some months.