Several weeks late, but still in 2006, I'm pleased to announce the first “candidate release” of DocBook V5.0!

I had really hoped that we could announce this milestone at the XML 2006 conference (nevermind that I didn't have a platform from which to make any such announcement), but it took longer than I expected to pull it together. I got it out in 2006, at least.

This release is the first “candidate release” of DocBook V5.0. The “betas” are behind us and that's a sure sign that the DocBook Technical Committee thinks it's just about finished. Mostly this release resolves the arbitrary metadata issue and fixes a few bugs:

  1. Made the content model of <blockquote> broader. It was restricted too far in the transition to 5.0.

  2. Fixed RFE 1575537: Allow markup from other namespaces in <info>.

  3. Fix the content model of <ackno> so that it's the same as DocBook 4.x.

  4. Fix bug where <caption> was accidentally allowed in CALS tables.

If you haven't tested V5.0, please do. If you have, and you found something you didn't like, please speak up soon!

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