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-$Id: RELEASE,v 1.6 2011/07/29 19:21:28 lehman stable $
+$Id: RELEASE,v 1.7 2011/11/13 19:09:07 lehman stable $
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+RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.7
+
+* Biber update, new features
+
+ Biblatex 1.7 requires Biber 0.9.6. Biber is now based on Perl 5.14
+ with full Unicode 6.0 support. There's a bunch of other
+ improvements -- see the Biber manual for details.
+
+* XDATA containers [Biber only]
+
+ This release introduces the new @xdata entry type and the
+ corresponding xdata field. Essentially, the idea is that you can
+ dump frequently used data into an @xdata entry and reference that
+ where needed. It's a bit like crossref but doesn't imply any
+ logical (parent/child) relation. Or, to put it differently, it's a
+ bit like @string but covers more than one field. See the changelog
+ for pointers.
+
+* Extended option scoping [Biber only]
+
+ The package options related to name/list truncation and name
+ disambiguation are now conveniently settable globally/per-type/
+ per-entry. See the changelog for details. There's also a new
+ appendix with an overview of the scope of all options.
+
+* Field formats for dates
+
+ \printdate and friends now support 'virtual' field formats for all
+ dates. So, even though there is no 'date' field on the LaTeX end
+ of the workflow (only year/month/day and endyear/endmonth/endday),
+ you may now say:
+
+ \DeclareFieldFormat{date}{\textbf{#1}}
+
+ to print the date in boldface, for example. Technically, this is
+ equivalent to:
+
+ \DeclareFieldFormat{date}{\textbf{#1}}
+ \printtext[date]{\printdate}
+
+ except that it is readily built into \printdate.
+
+* Last-resort breakpoints for \url
+
+ URLs and DOIs consisting mostly or entirely of letters and numbers
+ may run into the margin if the \url command can't find suitable
+ breakpoints. I've introduced additional breakpoints after all
+ numbers and letters in the previous biblatex release in order to
+ deal with particularly nasty DOIS, but this turned out to be to
+ brute a solution.
+
+ To provide the best of both worlds, this release adds counters
+ which control the penalties associated with the additional
+ breakpoints. They are disabled by default but may be helpful (as a
+ last resort) if you need to deal with long and/or tricky DOIs. See
+ 'biburlnumpenalty' etc. in the manual for details. If you want to
+ enable the additional breakpoints, use high penalties; e.g.:
+
+ \setcounter{biburlnumpenalty}{9000}
+
+* Language support
+
+ Oleg Domanov contributed support for Russian. Note that the
+ Russian module requires UTF-8. Pieter Belmans updated the Dutch
+ language module.
RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.6