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+Release notes for version 0.9.8 [2011-08-31]:
+
+ - Starting with biblatex version 1.5, in order to adhere to the
+ author-date specification you will need to use Biber to process
+ your .bib files, as BibTeX (and its more recent variants) will no
+ longer provide all the required features. Unfortunately, however,
+ the current release of Biber (0.9.5) contains bugs that make it
+ tricky to use with biblatex-chicago. These bugs have been
+ addressed in 0.9.6 beta, which is available for various operating
+ systems in the development subdirectory of your SourceForge mirror,
+ e.g., ... b/project/bi/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber/development.
+ (If, by the time you read this, Biber 0.9.6 has already been
+ released, then so much the better.) Please see the start of
+ cms-dates-sample.pdf for more details.
+
+ - The switch to Biber for the author-date specification means that
+ biblatex now provides considerably enhanced handling of the various
+ date fields. I have attempted to document the relevant changes in
+ cms-dates-sample.pdf and in the "date" discussion in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf, but in my testing the only alterations I've
+ so far had to make to my .bib files involve adhering more closely
+ to the instructions for specifying date ranges. Biber doesn't like
+ {1968/75}, and will ignore it. Either use {1968/1975} or put
+ {1968--75} in the "year" field.
+
+ - In the notes & bibliography style, and mainly in Article, Letter,
+ Misc, and Review entries, previous releases of biblatex-chicago
+ recommended using the \isdot macro when you needed both to define a
+ field and not have it appear in the printed output. This mechanism
+ no longer works in biblatex 1.6, and while addressing the problem I
+ realized that relying on it covered over some inconsistencies and
+ bugs in my code, so from this release forward you will need to
+ modify your .bib and .tex files to use other, more standard
+ mechanisms to achieve the same ends, in particular the
+ \headlesscite commands and declaring "useauthor=false" in the
+ "options" field. Please consult the documentation in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf section 4.3.1, s.v. "isdot," for a list of
+ example entries where you can see these changes at work.
+
+ - The 16th-edition files are well under way, but still a work in
+ progress.
+
+Other changes in 0.9.8:
+
+ - Fixed the \smartcite citation command in, and added a \smartcites
+ command to, chicago-notes.cbx, so that the notes & bibliography
+ style no longer prints parentheses around citations produced using
+ \autocite(s) commands inside \footnote commands. Many thanks to
+ Louis-Dominique Dubeau for pointing out this error.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with the \lbx@fromlang command, which biblatex 1.6
+ no longer defines. Many thanks to Rembrandt Wolpert and Aaron
+ Lambert for pointing this out, and to Charles Schaum for posting a
+ temporary workaround in a newsgroup post.
+
+ - Version 1.6 of biblatex no longer allows you to redefine the
+ "minnames" and "maxnames" options in the \printbibliography
+ command, so I've defined "minbibnames" and "maxbibnames" in
+ biblatex-chicago.sty, instead. These parameters have been
+ available since version 1.1, so this is now the earliest version of
+ biblatex that will work with the Chicago styles. Of course, if the
+ (Chicago-recommended) values of these options don't suit your
+ needs, you can redefine them in your document preamble.
+
Release notes for version 0.9.7a [2011-03-17]:
- Added the \smartcite citation command to chicago-notes.cbx so that