MadCap Software made their self-imposed deadline last night with the release of the Flare Sneak Peek. This release is not the final release, but more like a fourth beta that everyone can participate in. Technically, this is not the finished version, and MadCap plans on fixing more bugs before releasing the final version by the end of February.

As a result, MadCap does not guarantee that projects created with the Sneak Peek version will be 100% compatible with the final version.

Use this time to evaluate Flare's workflow and functionality. Remember that this is a version 1 release, and more changes are planned for the future.

If you pre-order Flare before 28 February 2006, you can save $350 off the retail price, and they will send you a licensing key that disables the random character generator in the Sneak Peek output.