Hot on the heels of CR2 comes CR3, the third “canididate release” of DocBook 5.0.

This week, the DocBook Technical Committee decided to set a “feature freeze” date for DocBook[L] V5.0. This sets us on a solid course for an official V5.0 release in the next couple of months. Any requests for enhancement received after 20 April 2007 will not be considered for DocBook V5.0. (Bug reports will, of course, continue to be addressed.)

The following RFEs have been accepted and incorporated into DocBook V5.0CR3:

  1. RFE 1679775: Changed semantics of <termdef>. A <firstterm> is now required (instead of a <glossterm> as in previous releases). This allows the definition of one term to refer to another.

  2. RFE 1682917: Added pgwide attribute to <example>.

  3. RFE 1644553: Added label attribute to CALS and HTML tables.

  4. RFE 1588693: Added an <acknowledgements> element, peer to <dedication>, replacing <ackno> which had only been available at the end of <article>.

  5. After several months of consideration and experimentation, we decided to allow <info> in HTML tables.

  6. RFE 1673820: Adopted “http://docbook.org/xlink/role/olink” as an XLink role (that is, the xlink:role attribute) value to identify OLinks expressed using XLink attributes.

You know the drill: download and test, test, test, please!

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