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-$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 $
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+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]