If you are currently using the 1.x version, you should download the new version from http://download.activerenderer.com/. activeRenderer 2.0 comes with a full load of new features:

• The re-styled browser page displays regular outlines, outlined RSS feeds and even an outlined view of Radio's news aggregator. Take a look at http://demo.activerenderer.com/ Check out the 'world' and 'search' tabs in the selector for tons of RSS news feeds to explore. The browser page is now accessible through the desktop web site's top menu bar: there is a Browser option between the Home and News links.
• activeRenderer comes with a complete set of APIs, both RESTful and XML-RPC. I hope developers will create extension modules in different programming languages (Perl, Python, PHP and Java come to mind) so that it becomes easy to publish outlines from non Radio Userland systems, such as Movable Type for instance.
• activeRenderer now delivers enhanced RSS rendering, translating more RSS tags into the published outlines, even including ENT 1.0 topics, linked to the W4 k-collector service. You can now include outlined RSS feeds in your Web pages with the new rssBox macro. Check out the rssBox demo and tutorial.
• It is now possible to publish outlined documents to public sites hosted on different servers, by using Radio categories. More information in the updated FAQ. This feature has been requested by several power users for quite a while, and I needed it in a hurry to update the new activeRenderer site :-)

The HTML generated by activeRenderer is now cleaner and shorter, thanks to a new CSS based, table-less rendering technique. There is now a CSS powered preview mode for collapsed outline nodes, which can be turned on and off, together with wedge hiding, using a new page widget generated by the activeRendererFunctions Usertalk macro.

I've overhauled the activeRenderer web site at http://www.activerenderer.com/, upgrading the activeRenderer presentation and transclusion pages. I intend to post regularly to the activeRenderer RSS feed, providing more detailed information for some of activeRenderer's newer features, and upcoming new functions.

In addition, you may subscribe to 2 Yahoo based mailing lists:

• ar-announce - subscribe to ar-announce-subscribe at yahoogroups.com - for updates / new features / bug correction announcements.
• ar-support - subscribe to ar-support-subscribe at yahoogroups.com - contribute to ar-support at yahoogroups.com - to discuss activeRenderer use and solve installation / publishing issues.

A third, moderated, mailing list, ar-devel, is available for developers interested in creating activeRenderer API based modules, or expanding activeRenderer Usertalk functions.