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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE index 75462ea296c..ad41887ef80 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/RELEASE @@ -1,5 +1,114 @@ -$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' |