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HTML5 is a specification (see http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/) under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). As we write this book, the HTML5 specification is officially a Working Draft, which means it may go through additional revisions before becoming a recommendation. The recommendation will then go through a formal approval process, resulting in a specific version of the markup language. Meanwhile, independent from the W3C, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) also pursues development of the HTML specification (see http://whatwg.org/html).
Notice I didn’t mention a version number. That’s because the WHATWG recently decided to change tack and drop versioning entirely. A “living standard” is now how WHATWG defines HTML (see http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5). This new development model means that HTML is defined according to how it’s evolving, not as a version tied to features in a “snapshot” of time.