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

[Ruediger Landmann]

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