[publican-list] Publican 2.6 is out

[Ruediger Landmann]

Hi all;

Publican 2.6 is now available.

This release rolls up a long list of bugfixes and enhancements 
originally scheduled for inclusion with Publican 3.0. The decision to 
provide DocBook 5 support in Publican 3.0 has meant a delay in preparing 
that version for release, so 2.6 is our way of addressing a number of 
problems that we've known about for a while now.

Many of the changes in 2.6 address problems with building RPM packages 
in which to ship documents, and building websites with these RPM 
packages. These changes include:
* ensure that packages don't try to ship non-existent PDFs (BZ#661551)
* ensure that RPM spec files are valid and sane (BZ#663206, BZ#663203)
* make the publishing process a lot more robust, which also fixed a 
problem non-ASCII characters in tables of contents (BZ#661948)
* ensure that translated titles in tables of contents don't get lost 
when packages are rebuilt from SRPMs (BZ#662897)
* fix packaging for stand-alone sets (BZ#689347)
* make products with version number "0" display on website tables of 
contents (BZ#702550)
* support a new parameter in site config files to disable automatic 
updating of tables of contents; this is useful for large or busy sites 
where it makes more sense to update the tables of contents after 
installing a group of packages rather than update them after each 
package is installed. (BZ#719573)

Other highlights include:

* a new "publican rename" action to assist in renaming books to new 
titles, or for new products, or for new product versions (BZ#694698)
* a new "mainfile" parameter for publican.cfg that allows you to specify 
the XML file in which the root XML node is to be found (BZ#688585)

A full set of Release Notes is available at: 
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/2.6/html/Release_Notes/index.html 
and the Users' Guide for 2.6 is at 
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/2.6/html/Users_Guide/index.html

Special thanks this time go out to:
* Jared Morgan from Red Hat's Middleware documentation team for testing 
many of the changes that went into this version
* Bec Newton, also from the Middleware documentation team, for testing 
many changes, plus contributing better documentation for stand-alone 
<set>s for the Users' Guide, and for writing the Release Notes.
* Yuri Chornoivan, from the Fedora Localization Project, for catching 
multiple typos in Publican's output
* Luigi Votta, from the Fedora Documentation Project, for extensive 
proofreading and corrections to the Users' Guide

You can download the source from: 
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/Publican-2.6.tar.gz

Expect to see Publican 2.6 in Fedora very shortly; I'll send out a 
separate email when it's available in the testing repos.

Cheers!

Rudi