The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: framed
Author's name: Donald Arseneau
Package version: 0.96
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/framed/
Summary description: Update to framed package: frames, shading, etc
that can have page-breaks
License type: other-free
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
This version of 'framed' has some more environments and built-in
commands for defining more complex frames.
Also, the documentation is improved slightly, but not a fully detailed
manual and tutorial. (The update is 7 months old now, with the
documentation holding it back from release.
The previous version had non-corresponding instructions!)
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/framed.html
or they may browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/framed/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow
morning (Cambridge time).