BCcampus Pressbooks: Upgrade Notification - May 18, 2017

BCcampus OpedEd Dear Pressbooks User, UPGRADE NOTICE On Thursday , May 18, 2017 at 6:30am Pacific time, Pressbooks ( pressbooks.bccampus.ca ) and open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks ( opentextbc.ca ) will be upgraded from version 3.9.6 to version 3.9.8. You may experience a temporary or intermittent outage during this time. Pressbooks updates that will be noticeable to users are listed below. For a complete list of changes, see https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/releases . Features * Added support for Canadian Indigenous syllabics, which are used for the Chipewyan, Inuktitut, Plains Cree, Cree, Moose Cree, Slave, Northern Cree, Naskapi, Swampy Cree, Southern East Cree, and Ojibwa languages. * The paragraph separation option is now available for webbooks. * The section openings PDF theme option now supports additional options. * Part numbers are now displayed consistently across all formats. Fixes * Fixed an issue where hyphenation would be enabled in Prince exports even if it was disabled in theme options. * Added between section numbers and titles in the mPDF TOC. * Images on custom title pages are now exported as expected in EPUB and Kindle. * Print PDF exports are now available for download when export sharing is enabled. * Numberless chapters no longer display a lonely period in PDF outputs from SCSS v2 themes. * Importing as a draft now works for EPUB imports. Enhancements * Bold, italic, superscript, and subscript text is now properly imported from Word documents. * Inline language attributes are now properly imported from Word documents. * Those with a licensed copy of the BISAC subject headers can now display a multiple select instead of Pressbooks' default text input. * Can now set a book's target audience on the Book Information page. * The book language will now be set to the language selected when the book is registered. * The Comments column on the Organize page will now be hidden if comments are disabled. * Imported content can optionally be set to published status instead of draft. * Front matter, chapter, and back matter types will now be imported from Pressbooks WXR files. * Empty front matter, chapters, and back matter will now be imported from Pressbooks WXR files. * Completing an import from a Pressbooks WXR file will now correctly enumerate different content types instead of labelling all as chapters. * Pressbooks now supports third-party export formats. For questions, contact the BCcampus Helpdesk . Sincerely, BCcampus Helpdesk BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca
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