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.