[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8-pre2 available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

I've uploaded yet another prerelease of RefDB, built from repository
version 140:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz

The bugfixes and improvements are listed below. Another reason for
this prerelease is that I've upgraded my development platform to
FreeBSD 6.1. As we've seen in the past, upgrades of the autotools
sometimes cause build failures on other platforms. I'd like to
encourage everyone with a little time on their hands to build both the
prerelease archive as well as the SVN version 140 to identify these
build problems as early as possible.

regards,
Markus

Bugfixes:

- queries for UR and L1-L4 fields now work again

- en2ris now properly imports the start and end page information from
  newer EndNote versions

- strings extending the length of limited size fields in t_refdb are
  now properly truncated during data import


Improvements:

- the refdba:listuser command now checks for the required database
  argument

- improved manpage layout by using new DocBook stylesheet capabilities
  when available, and workarounds for older stylesheet versions

- configure now simplifies the task of building modularized RefDB
  packages. You can now build server, clients, and doc packages
  separately. Additionally, you can switch off building docs and
  manpages to build the RefDB binaries from the SVN sourceson systems
  without an XML/DocBook toolchaiin

- the code that generates citation keys from author names was improved
  by using iconv to transliterate foreign characters. 



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