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Chapter 3. Accuracy > Keep up with technical changes - Pg. 795

Accuracy Keep up with technical changes Technical information that is not current is inaccurate. Information can become outdated from one release to the next or within a development cycle. Each time that you publish a new edition of your information, ensure that trademarks, product names and release levels, and boilerplate information are current. Try to avoid mentioning specific release levels of products unless you have a valid technical reason to do so, as in the following cases: Marketing information that highlights the features of a new release or version of a product Restrictions that apply to a specific release In a 2002 commentary about Producing Quality Technical Information, the hand- book on which this book was based, Theo Mandel compares a Web site to a gar- den. He says, "You must pull weeds and replace plants and flowers on a timely