DocBook V4.2 Release Candidate 1

Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:34:24 -0500
From:      Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
To:        docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject:   Announce: DocBook V4.2 Release Candidate 1

The DocBook Technical Committee is pleased to announce the release of DocBook V4.2 Release Candidate 1 in XML [1] and SGML [2].

DocBook V4.2 incorporates numerous enhancements over DocBook V4.1 and DocBook XML V4.1.2. These changes are documented in the DocBook Document Type [3] specification.

Development of DocBook V4.2 is "finished". The purpose of the Candidate Release phase is to encourage widespread testing of the latest DocBook release. If no problems are reported in the next 30 days, the DocBook Technical Committee plans to advance DocBook V4.2 to Committee Specification status.

Please give DocBook V4.2 a try in your favorite tools and report any problems that you encounter to the docbook@lists.oasis-open.org mailing list.

Be seeing you,
norm

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2CR1/
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2CR1/
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook-4.2-CR1.html

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | There is no excellent beauty that
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | hath not some strangeness in the
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | proportion.--Sir Francis Bacon

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See: "DocBook XML DTD."

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