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). 

We will be updating Pressbooks tomorrow. We apologize for the late notice, but there is a security issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. But there is good news! This surprise update means that we get to bring you a lot of great new features just before the holidays.  

UPGRADE NOTICE

On December 21, 2018, from TIME to TIME, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) will be upgraded to version 5.6.3. Your account will be unavailable during this time.

New features:

  • Glossary tool: Pressbooks now has a feature that allows you to mark words as glossary terms. In the webbook, the definition will pop up for these words when clicked. In the webbook and all export formats, you can generate a list of all glossary terms in your book's back matter organized alphabetically. See the Pressbooks User Guide for more information: Glossaries.
  • Expanded webbook table of contents: The table of contents that appears on the webbook home page is now expanded by default so all chapters that are contained within parts will be displayed.
  • Custom "Part" and "Chapter" labels: You can now customize "part" and "chapter" labels in exports. To do this, go to Appearance > Theme Options > Global Options.  For more information, see the "Customizable Section Labels" heading in the Numberless Chapters, Invisible Parts, and Customizable Section Labels chapter in thePressbooks User Guide.
  • Descriptive "Next" and "Previous" arrows in the webbook: The "next" and "previous" arrows used to navigate in the webbook will now show the title of the next and previous part or chapter title.
  • Add Digital Object Identifier (DOI) support at book and section level.
  • CC0 vs. Public Domain: You can now differentiate between books and resources that are under CC0 licences and those that are in the public domain.

Bug fixes and changes:

  • Issues with the cover generator have been fixed. 
  • Ensure that book language is used for part/chapter labels.
  • Fix conflict between footnote and media shortcodes.
  • Increase max_execution_time from 5 to 10 minutes for import, export, and clone operations.
  • Move the Contributors page under the Book Info menu.
  • Allow a new title to be entered when cloning a book.
  • Fix issue where a numberless chapter at the beginning of a book can cause chapter numbering errors in subsequent chapters.
  • Resize webbook contents when Hypothesis annotation pane is expended
  • Add Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, and Telugu languages
  • Differentiate link styles between print and digital PDF
  • Fix issue where people using Firefox could not open parts from the webbook table of contents

Sincerely,

The Open Education Team and BCcampus Helpdesk