Dear Pressbooks User,

As a Pressbooks account holder in pressbooks.bccampus.ca, you have been placed on a mailing list to receive notifications about upgrades, service outages, and other events that affect your Pressbooks account. These outages will also affect open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca).

UPGRADE NOTICE
From October 5 at 6pm to October 6 at 2pm Pacific Time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) will be upgraded to version 5.26.0. You will not be able to login to your Pressbooks account during this time. Books that are set to public will still be accessible from their webbook homepage, but it is likely that all books will be unavailable for a short period of time between 6 and 7am on October 6.

Changes:

• MOBI removed as an export option: The tool Pressbooks was using to generate MOBI files is no longer supported and Amazon has encouraged people to produce EPUB files instead. As such, you will no longer be able to export your books as a MOBI file. Instead, EPUB will be the main eBook format available.
• Improved instructions and labels:
• Instructions updated on the “Clone a Book” page and the cover image upload on the “Book Info” page.
• The label for the Common Cartridge export option has been updated from “Weblinks” to “Common Cartridge (Weblinks)”
• H5P improvements:
• Links to H5P activities in the PDF will now go to the specific H5P activity instead of the beginning of the chapter.
• The H5P listing page of a book will now be broken up into pages with 20 activities per page to reduce load time.
• Visual Editor: Automatically insert LaTeX short codes from the visual editor.
• Updated default cover images for new books.

Bug fixes:

• Images without captions will now align properly in the PDF
• Fix for an issue that would cause HTML to be inserted in the PDF when a > symbol was inserted in the image alt text.

We are thoroughly testing the updated Pressbooks prior to the release and these improvements should not cause any issues with your existing books. But, if anything does come up, let us know right away at by replying to this email. Looking for more information? Check out the Pressbooks Updates page.

Sincerely,

The Open Education Team and BCcampus Support

BCcampus IT Support
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