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-$Id: RELEASE,v 0.9e 2010/10/09 16:39:36 lehman beta $
+$Id: RELEASE,v 1.0 2010/11/19 16:16:35 lehman stable $
 
+RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0
+
+Here it finally is, the long-awaited first stable release of
+biblatex. As the 0.9* releases have proven to be very mature and
+reliable, this release is essentially 0.9e with some localization
+updates and minor tweaks. It concludes the 0.9 development cycle
+rather than introducing completely new features.
+
+The stable status basically has two consequences. 1) We'll try to be
+more cautious in terms of backwards compatibility in the future and
+2) Biblatex moves to a different location on CTAN. See below for
+details.
+
+*  Development Roadmap
+
+   Over the course of the 1.x development cycle, you'll increasingly
+   see new features being added which are tagged as "Biber only" in
+   the manual. The BibTeX backend of Biblatex will be maintained for
+   some more time but it won't receive any feature updates. There is
+   a simple reason for that: the kind of features we'll introduce
+   can't be handled by BibTeX (that's why we have Biber, after all).
+
+   While you can stay with the BibTeX backend for some more time,
+   it's highly advisable to switch to Biber fairly soon as BibTeX
+   support will be discontinued at some point. To give you an idea
+   of the timescale: we're talking months rather than years.
+
+*  New location on CTAN
+
+   The package moves from
+
+	tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/
+   to
+	tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/
+   
+   The pre-bundled TDS archive moves from
+   
+	tex-archive/install/macros/latex/exptl/
+   to
+	tex-archive/install/macros/latex/contrib/
+
+*  New contrib location on CTAN
+
+   There's also a new location for contributed styles:
+   
+	tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/
+
+   The old exptl/biblatex-contrib/ directory is still available and
+   will keep being available as a staging area for styles which are
+   work in progress. If your style is considered stable, you may
+   want to move it to contrib/biblatex-contrib/. If it's
+   experimental, you may prefer exptl/biblatex-contrib/.
+
+*  Biber update
+
+   When updating Biblatex, make sure you also get the latest Biber
+   from this location:
+
+   http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/
+     biblatex-biber/current/
+
+   Ready-to-run binaries are here:
+   
+   http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/
+     biblatex-biber/current/binaries/
+
+*  Modified 'bibencoding' package option, new default
+
+   I've renamed 'bibencoding=inputenc' to 'bibencoding=auto' to make
+   it clear that this option is not specific to the inputenc package
+   and also works with XeTeX/LuaTeX in native UTF-8 mode.
+   bibencoding=inputenc is still supported as an alias.
+
+   'bibencoding=auto' is the new package default. This means that
+   biblatex by default assumes that the workflow is transparent,
+   i.e., that the .bib files use the same encoding as the .tex file.
+   Note that it is the input encoding of the .tex (!) file which is
+   detected automatically. If the .bib files use a different
+   encoding, you always need to specify it explicitly.
+   
+   If you prefer the old default, you can easily restore it by
+   adding the following like to your biblatex.cfg file:
+
+   \ExecuteBibliographyOptions{bibencoding=ascii}
+
+   The new default setting may trigger some warnings which have not
+   been triggered before. Consider this case:
+
+   \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
+   \usepackage{biblatex}
+   
+   This will trigger a warning instructing you to switch to bibtex8
+   or Biber. That's because the defaults are 'backend=bibtex' and
+   'bibencoding=auto'. The latter implies that the .bib files are
+   Latin1 encoded but traditional BibTeX can't handle that, hence
+   the warning. If the .bib files do in fact use Latin1 encoding it's
+   a good idea to heed the advice:
+   
+   \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
+   \usepackage[backend=bibtex8/biber]{biblatex}
+   
+   If they're Ascii, set the encoding explicitly:
+
+   \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
+   \usepackage[bibencoding=ascii]{biblatex}
+   
+   On the other hand, you may delete all old 'bibencoding=inputenc'
+   options as this is the default setting now.
+   
 RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9e
 
 *  Biber update, options 'sortupper', 'sortlocale'