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+RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 2.8
+
+* Biber version 1.8 is required for biblatex 2.8
+* Polyglossia is now better supported
+* The HYPHENATION field is now called LANGID. The old name still works for backwards compat. This
+ field does a lot more than just selecting hyphenation patterns and was misleading.
+* New field LANGIDOPTS for Polyglossia users allows specification of
+ language-specific options (like variants such as "american" english and
+ babelshorthands etc.). See the biblatex-examples.bib file which has been
+ converted to use the new field names and fields.
+* "babel" option renamed to "autolang". Old name generates a warning but
+ still works. Since Polyglossia support now basically works, this name is now
+ too package specific. There is a new value "langname" for this option
+ which is Polyglossia only and allows the use of the main polyglossia language
+ switching environment which can use the options given in the LANGIDOPTS field.
+* New value "year" for "datelabel" option
+* New internal field "datelabelsource" for package authors specifies which
+ date field the datelabel was generated from.
+
RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 2.7a
* Bugfix release for 2.7