quoth the cambridge upload daemon:
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: cite.sty Author's name: Donald Arseneau Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cite Summary description: Bugfix release of cite.sty License type: other-free
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
There were two serious bugs found in the recent cite.sty: disappearing non-numeric citations and a broken [nosort] option. They are fixed in this 5.1 release
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cite.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite
(the catalogue entry on the web, will change to reflect the new version, overnight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team