Many software products have multiple supported releases deployed on customer sites. Documentation teams are often required to maintain documentation for all supported releases

This document (1.3 MB) outlines one solution for using Author-it Variants (introduced in v5.1) for maintaining documentation for multiple releases of software.

Also, this document (0.25 MB) outlines some alternative solutions.

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[Update: 2009-12-17] Updated document with information about removing older releases and an FAQ.

[Update: 2010-03-10] Updated 'Removing old releases' section with information about re-indexing the search and using release states to track the variants to be removed.