[publican-list] Publican 3.0.0 is here at last!

[Joshua J Wulf]

Congratulations! There's a lot of hard work in there.  Looking forward 
to GA in the repos.

- Josh

On 10/31/2012 01:17 PM, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> Folks, after a protracted and complex development journey, Publican 
> 3.0.0 is here at last!
>
> We're very excited about this release for a number of reasons:
>
> * the documentation websites that Publican creates are completely 
> redesigned. We think they look a lot better now, and are certainly 
> more scalable. You can see a demo at: http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/ [1]
>
> * support for a per-user configuration file where you can set options 
> you commonly use, such as language and formats for builds, and your 
> name and email address to use in conjunction with...
>
> * the new "add_revision" command, that takes the manual work out of 
> maintaining document revision histories
>
> * independent revision histories for document translations, so that 
> the history of a translation can be captured accurately for the first 
> time
>
> * brands that consolidate their stock images and CSS in a central 
> location on web servers, to reduce redundant files and make it easy to 
> update the look of a brand without rebuilding all the books on the 
> site. Brands can also now be designed as variants on other brands, not 
> just variants on the publican default brand
>
> * PDF styles now optimised for wkhtmltopdf, completing the replacement 
> of FOP as our PDF mechanism. This gives us truly international PDF 
> support for the first time, including support for Indic languages and 
> right-to-left languages
>
> * Drupal support: export books ready for your Drupal instance to consume
>
> The full set of changes is described in the Release Notes here: 
> http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/3.0/html/Release_Notes/index.html
>
> You can find the source tarball, RPM spec file, and SRPM at 
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/ Expect to see Publican 
> 3.0.0 in Fedora and other Linux distributions in the near future. We 
> also hope to have a new build for Windows available within a week.
>
> Special thanks this time to the Red Hat writers and translators who 
> provided invaluable QE testing quite literally outside their day jobs; 
> and, as always, thanks to our tireless band of translators!
>
> Cheers
> Rudi
>
>
>
> [1] However, if you have an existing Publican website and don't want 
> to update your styles, Publican 3.0.0 can produce sites 
> backwards-compatible with Publican 2 styles
>
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