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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE index 5db802a3067..120b203a565 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE @@ -1,11 +1,94 @@ -$Id: RELEASE,v 1.5 2011/06/08 18:45:46 lehman stable $ +$Id: RELEASE,v 1.6 2011/07/29 19:21:28 lehman stable $ + +RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.6 + +* Biber update, new mapping feature + + Biblatex 1.6 requires Biber 0.9.4. It will not work with any + previous release. Biber now supports user-space field mapping. + This means that you can set up mapping rules in the Biber + configuration file to deal with non-standard field names in .bib + files by mapping them to known field names. + +* Revised maxnames/minnames options + + Biber now supports max/mincitenames and max/minbibnames as + separate values. This improvement has prompted a refactoring of + the corresponding package options. In previous versions, there + were three sets of values: + + max/minnames -> backend+frontend default + max/mincitenames -> frontend only + max/minbibnames -> frontend only + + The backend would get max/minnames, the other values were only + used on the LaTeX end, defaulting to max/minnames. Depending on + the citation style, this could lead to ambiguous citations if + max/minnames was out of sync with max/mincitenames. (This wasn't + really obvious from reading the manual.) + + This can no longer happen. The new solution is simpler and + error-proof in this respect. The max/mincitenames and + max/minbibnames options do what their name indicates and are fully + supported by Biber. The max/minnames options now serve as master + options which set both max/minbibnames and max/mincitenames: + + max/minnames -> max/mincitenames + -> max/minbibnames + max/mincitenames -> frontend+backend + max/minbibnames -> frontend+backend + + We didn't bother to update the BibTeX backend as it is due to be + discontinued this fall anyway. The BibTeX backend will get the + max/mincitenames values only. + +* [CAVEAT] Removed local max/minnames and max/minitems options + + As part of the above change, I've removed the local max/minnames + and max/minitems options from \printbibliography and friends to + enforce consistency. Please use the global options instead. + +* Added maxalphanames/minalphanames [Biber only] + + With Biber, the 'labelalpha' field may now be configured + independently of max/mincitenames with the newly introduced + package options max/minalphanames. + +* MD5 hashes, per-name hashes [Biber only] + + With Biber, the hashes provided in the namehash/fullhash fields + are now standard MD5 hashes. This means that they are stable + across multiple runs, multiple refsections, and multiple + documents. + + We've also added per-name hashes. Every name in every name list + gets an MD5 hash, which is available in the 'hash' field. Note + that this field is only available locally in name formatting + directives. + +* Range compression/truncation + + This release features a new command for range compression (i.e., + format "123-128" as "123-8"). The command is configurable, can + handle lists of ranges separated by commas and/or semicolons, and + also normalizes the dashes. Note that combining this with + \mkpageprefix requires the field format to be set up in a specific + way. See \mkcomprange in the manual for details. + + I've also overhauled the command which truncates ranges by only + printing the starting page of the range. The original + \mkpagefirst has been removed because of its awkward syntax. It is + superseded by \mkfirstpage. Note that this change is not + backwards-compatible because the syntax of the new command is + slightly different. You may need to update some format + definitions. RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.5 * Biber update - Biblatex 1.5 requires Biber 0.9.3 or higher. It will not work with - any previous release. + Biblatex 1.5 requires Biber 0.9.3. It will not work with any + previous release. * More name disambiguation modes [Biber only] |