I have made a new release of my package `hyperref' on CTAN
(macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref); this is a LaTeX
package which aims to redefine all cross-referencing commands and
overload them with \special commands which can be used in hypertext
products. So far  the conventions of the HyperTeX project,
and Acrobat "pdfmark" commands for Distiller, are supported. 
Indexing and `back-referencing' work, as do arbitrary point
to point links, and network URLs.

There are three reasons for this release (4.01):

 a) Making the backend modular; support for a set of
    \special commands is now loaded in a .cfg file; this is
    preparing for support of dvi2pdf and tex2pdf; there are skeleton
    .cfg files for these options. Please don't ask me more about
    these projects - see the next issue of TUGboat.
 b) Seriously changing the pdfmark generation; having (finally) almost
    understood dvips, I now calculate things in a way that should
    work, and have View destinations that mean something. My 
    apologies to those who tried to understand the previous
    system, and are now even more baffled.
 c) Fixing support for the `natbib' package
 d) Fixing a few more problems; nothing dramatic --- the remaining
    serious problems of some bibliography styles remain.

The problems remaining to be fixed one day are:
 1. understanding and coping with *all* the bibliography packages out
    there (but you should use natbib, its excellent)
 2. making the Acrobat support more robust; the sizes of
    boxes around things, and the destination zooms, are not always right
 3. making the Acrobat support more configurable, and working
    more with the DOCINFO material

and of course finding better ways to avoid the fragility of overloading
some low-level LaTeX code which could change at any time.

Sebastian Rahtz
s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk