CHANGELOG.adoc

Asciidoctor EPUB3 Changelog

This document provides a high-level view of the changes to the Asciidoctor EPUB3 by release. For a detailed view of what has changed, refer to the commit history on GitHub.

Unreleased

• fix crash when running in environments with non-Unicode locale (#475)

• update Font Awesome Solid to 6.6.0

• bump the oldest supported Ruby version to 2.7

2.1.3 (2024-05-12) - @slonopotamus

• fix crash when section title contains inline anchor (#472)

• fix crash on an SVG image inside table cell (#470)

• lock gepub to 1.0.15 to workaround file descriptor leak (#474)

2.1.0 (2024-02-04) - @slonopotamus

• drop MOBI support

• add support for blocks in callouts (#463)

• stop packaging samples into gem (#462)

2.0.1 (2024-01-13) - @slonopotamus

• restore styling of <strong> and <em> (#461)

2.0.0 (2024-01-12) - @slonopotamus

• fix handling of chapters with Unicode titles for Mobi (#417)

• add XML declarations to XHTML files (#424 by @abbrev)

• bump the oldest supported Ruby to 2.6

• bump the oldest supported Asciidoctor to 2.0

• escape double quotes in alt text (#443)

• refactor btn styling to be more customizable (#450)

• fix duplicate HTML IDs in case the same footnote is used multiple times (#447)

• add initial support for :pygments-linenums-mode: inline (#451)

• line numbers are no longer selected when copying text from code snippets (#422)

• compress CSS to reduce its size

• preserve roles of admonition blocks (#420)

• use prose font for verse blocks (#394)

• add support for absolute cover image path (#419)

• add support for floating blocks (#405)

• fix <hN> tags for chapters (#388)

1.5.1 (2021-04-29) - @slonopotamus

• update Font Awesome Solid to 5.15.1

• use CSS for image size scaling instead of width attribute (#382)

• use pygments.rb 2.0.0 in CI

• add support for :back-cover-image: document attribute (#396)

• reenable Kindlegen support (#363)

• drop support for Ruby 2.3

1.5.0.alpha.19 (2020-10-21) - @slonopotamus

• add title and id support for literal blocks (#357)

• fix quotes not being properly escaped in section titles (#358)

• fix crash when encountering unsupported Asciidoctor node (#360)

• add support for 100%-wide table (#356)

• do not add multiple entries for same media files in book manifest (#370)

• do not add bogus entries to manifest when :data-uri: attribute is set (#371)

• add id support for listing blocks (#372)

• stop using deprecated epub:type for admonitions (#373)

• fix epub:type attributes for special sections (#374)

• fix font resize not working in iBooks (#368)

• fix visited link color in iBooks night mode (#366)

1.5.0.alpha.18 (2020-07-27) - @slonopotamus

• remove <b> from chapter subtitle (#123)

• improve tables support: cell content alignment, column width (#350)

• fix chapter titles to actually be chapter titles instead of document title (#343)

• store syntax highlighter CSS in a separate file (#339)

• initial landmarks support: appendix, bibliography, bodymatter, cover, frontmatter, glossary, index, preface, toc (#174)

• add support for in-document table of contents via :toc: document attribute (#174)

• add support for MathML (#10)

• rescale color palette to use darker shades of gray (#338)

• gracefully handle invalid :front-cover-image: value (#353)

1.5.0.alpha.17 (2020-05-25) - @slonopotamus

• support remote URLs for audio/video/image (#333, #334)

1.5.0.alpha.16 (2020-04-26) - @slonopotamus

• add basic audio and video support (#9)

• add support for [horizontal] definition list (#165)

• add proper handling of :data-uri: document attribute (#324)

• add support for customizable document splitting into chapters via epub-chapter-level attribute (#327)

• avoid outputting 'true' for unsupported blocks (#332)

1.5.0.alpha.15 (2020-03-11) - @slonopotamus

• support section numbering and captions (#20)

• fix <<anchor,link text>> to show link text (#317)

• add xref ids to paragraphs (#317)

• support syntax highlighting with CodeRay and Rouge (#262)

• pygments.rb is no longer auto-activated

• add series metadata (#307)

• fix Sony Reader crash (#152)

1.5.0.alpha.14 (2020-02-29) - @slonopotamus

• support conversion of article documents to a single-chapter file

• stop requiring specific include file scheme (#47)

• support special chapters like bibliography (#205)

• basedir now points to main document directory when processing chapter files (#190)

• fix image and listing numbers being reset in each chapter (#178)

• fix xref resolving between sub-includes of chapter files (#166)

• add support for contentless include files (#151)

• drop nonstandard <<chapter#>> xref syntax and instead support vanilla <<anchor>> or <<file#anchor>> syntax (#136)

• properly include bibliography generated by asciidoctor-bibtex (#206)

• require Asciidoctor 1.5.6+

• add support for book preamble (#303)

• add basic support for multi-part books (#304)

• do not include current date if :reproducible: attribute is set (#203)

• respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable for reproducible builds

• fix invalid markup produced for tables with footer (#295)

• add support for image width/height attributes (#183)

• log KindleGen warnings with WARNING log level (#291)

• convert stem blocks to <code>$stem_text</code> (#10)

• use imagedir from an image’s context during packaging (#282)

• fix images in tables not included in epub archive (#169)

• search for front-matter.html in document dir instead of CWD (#300)

• fix inline images not being included in epub archive (#30)

• add support for Font Awesome Solid 5.12.0 (#155)

• fix inline anchors missing their ids (#201)

• support multiple front-matter files via epub3-frontmatterdir attribute

• add support for multiple authors in book metadata

1.5.0.alpha.13 (2020-02-04) - @slonopotamus

• remove kindlegen and epubcheck-ruby from runtime dependencies (#288)

1.5.0.alpha.12 (2020-02-02) - @slonopotamus

• make kindlegen a runtime dependency so it installs automatically during gem install asciidoctor-epub3 (#270)

• make KINDLEGEN env var work again (#269)

• stop adding default front cover image (#180)

• enable Pygments on non-Windows JRuby platforms (#264)

• provide a human-readable error message when we fail to find KindleGen (#268)

• try to use KindleGen/EPUBCheck binary from $PATH (#276)

• add ebook-kindlegen-path/ebook-epubcheck-path attributes to override KindleGen/EPUBCheck executable location (#276)

1.5.0.alpha.11 (2020-01-26) - @slonopotamus

• drop unused dependencies: thread_safe, concurrent-ruby (#234)

• add support for Unicode characters in chapter IDs (#217)

• fix sample-book to be a valid book (#196)

• don’t insert quotation marks around quotes (#129)

• require at least Asciidoctor 1.5.3 (#245)

• remove Namo Reader font-icon quirk that produced invalid markup (#192)

• fix the (in)famous undefined method `to_ios' when given a document that doesn’t follow asciidoctor-epub3 rules (#7)

• route messages through the logger (#176)

• update EPUBCheck to 4.2.2.0 (#240)

• handle invalid revdate gracefully (#14)

• do not post-process EPUBCHECK env var, but use it as-is (#258)

• disable Pygments on JRuby to prevent hanging (#253)

• fix ENOENT error when trying to run EPUBCheck on JRuby on Windows (#256)

• fix ENOENT error when running kindlegen on JRuby on Windows (#154)

• set up CI for JRuby on Windows (#254)

1.5.0.alpha.10 (2020-01-20) - @slonopotamus

• fix deep xrefs between chapters when using Asciidoctor 2 (#210)

• switch from epubcheck to epubcheck-ruby (#224)

• set up a test suite (#11)

• set up rubocop to enforce a consistent code style (#223)

• use GitHub Actions for CI and release process (#218)

• fix JS causing malformed XML that prevented footnotes from being displayed in Calibre (#207)

• fix installing on Windows (#213, #216)

• upgrade pygments.rb to 1.2.1 (#216)

• gepub dependency is no longer locked to 1.0.2 and will use latest 1.0.x version

• fix -a ebook-validate not working on Windows (#232)

• fix crash when inline pass macro m contains an icon (#375)

1.5.0.alpha.9 (2019-04-04) - @mojavelinux

• allow converter to be used with Asciidoctor 2 (#185)

• upgrade gepub (and, indirectly, nokogiri) (#177)

• add support for start attribute on ordered list

• don’t add end mark to chapter when publication-type is book (#163)

• drop unsupported versions of Ruby from CI matrix

1.5.0.alpha.8 (2018-02-20) - @mojavelinux

• include inline images in EPUB3 archive (#5)

• allow chapter to begin with level-1 section title by adding support for negative leveloffset (#107)

• don’t transform the chapter title to uppercase (rely on CSS only) (#97)

• set correct mimetype for TTF files (#120)

• implement support for the custom xrefstyle for references within a chapter (#132)

• show correct path of front cover image and the current document when missing (#124)

• retain ID of block image (#141)

• retain ID of example block (#143)

• retain ID of admonition block (#146)

• transfer role specified on block image to output (#145)

• handle nil response from pygments.rb (#156)

• invert the colors for the chapter title (use black on white) (#96)

• darken font on Kindle Paperwhite devices (#67)

1.5.0.alpha.7 (2017-04-18) - @mojavelinux

• generate TOC levels in navigation document based on toclevels attribute (#90)

• automatically resolve title of reference between documents (#87)

• fix xref between chapter files (#27)

• don’t include byline in chapter header if the value of the publication-type attribute is book (#86)

• don’t include avatars if value of publication-type attribute is book (#53)

• make a stronger statement in the README about the dangers of the “Send to Kindle” tool

• add ebook-compress flag to enable huffdic compression in kindlegen

• implement embedded to handle AsciiDoc table cell content (#69)

• go into more depth about how to structure the document in README (#45)

• explain how to adjust section level of chapters if they use level-2 headings

• don’t add content image to archive more than once (#76)

• warn when xref cannot be resolved and text is provided (#103)

• built-in avatar location should respect imagesdir (#2)

• change admonition icons (#72) (@PrimaryFeather)

• fix broken refs in bibliography (#19)

• remove text justification hack (#92)

• reset @page for CSS3-capable readers

• detect Calibre, set class attribute on body to calibre-desktop, add page margins

• force preformatted text to wrap in Gitden

• add svg property to front matter only if reference to SVG is detected

• switch from word-wrap to standard overflow-wrap property in stylesheet

• loosen letter spacing in quote attribute context

• adjust font size and margins on Gitden; force margins to be set

• document in README that using vw units causes Aldiko to crash

• drop trailing semi-colon in value of inline style attributes

• use standard format (from core) for warning and error messages

• update terminology in README; use ebook instead of e-book; refer to application as ereader

• allow front-cover-image to be specified using block image macro (#3)

• clean auto-generated file names for chapters (#46)

• register chapter ID in references

• only wrap open block content in div if id or role is defined (@rvolz)

• link to EPUB 3.1 spec from README

• set ebook-format-kf8 attribute when ebook-format is specified as mobi

• document the front-cover-image attribute properly

• update adb-push-book script to honor file extension if specified

• document limitations of applying page-break-* property on Kindle

• document that Asciidoctor is added as creator if creator attribute is not specified (#68)

• group optional gems in the :optional group; remove from gemspec

• upgrade kindlegen gem to 3.0.3

• upgrade Pygments to 1.1.1 and allow JRuby to install it

• document that Pygments bw style is used by default

• honor explicit table width even when autowidth option is set

• use method_defined? instead of respond_to? to check if method is already defined

• fix README typo, strong tag misspelled (@neontapir)

• fix name of bundler gem; add NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES to install command

• state in README that the spine document must only have include directives as content

1.5.0.alpha.6 (2016-01-05) - @mojavelinux

• disable text-rendering: optimizeLegibility on Kindle devices (#58)

• proxy CSS in KF8 format to work around KDP removing font-related CSS rules

• don’t append source when generating mobi file

• disable -webkit-hyphens to prevent Kindle for Mac from crashing (#26)

• don’t explicitly enable hyphenation

• disable hyphens in preformatted text

• don’t fail if source block is empty

• hide style element in body from Aldiko

• enable Original (Publisher) font option in iBooks client

• preserve heading & monospaced fonts in Kindle Paperwhite/Voyage

• force left justification in listings (fix for Namo)

• fix documentation regarding uuid attribute (@chkal)

• add note that currently images must be placed in a directory called images (@chkal)

• fix file type of avatar image in docs (@chkal)

• document how to install the pre-release gem (#38)

• use built-in font names for mobi7 (#56)

• document the epub3-stylesdir attribute

• prevent ellipsis from being used in inline code

• don’t include scoped icon CSS in KF8 format

• remove link color hack for Gitden since its already covered

• override heading and monospace fonts for non-Kindle epub3 readers

• wrap simple dd content in span to allow font to be controlled in iBooks

• enforce use of monospace font for preformatted elements

• upgrade kindlegen

• don’t allow UI button to wrap

• remove amzn-mobi from media query in CSS3-only file

• use CSS property word-wrap instead of word-break

• remove charset declaration from CSS

• switch samples to modern AsciiDoc syntax

issues resolved | git tag

1.5.0.alpha.5 (2015-11-01) - @mojavelinux

• implement -o flag (output file) (#31) (@chloerei)

• implement the converter method for floating_title (#36)

• don’t print kindlegen output if -q flag is used (#34)

• CLI now identifies as asciidoctor-epub3 (#32)

issues resolved | git tag

1.5.0.alpha.4 (2014-11-28) - @mojavelinux

• set ebook-format-epub3 attribute (#16)

• add box drawing symbols to M+ 1mn font

• switch version to 1.5.0.x to align with core

issues resolved | git tag

1.0.0.alpha.3 (2014-08-17) - @mojavelinux

• don’t attempt to chdir to DATA_DIR; use full path; for compatibility with AsciidoctorJ

• fix BOM regexp in JRuby (again)

• switch sample png avatars to jpg

• don’t install pygments.rb on JRuby

git tag

1.0.0.alpha.2 (2014-08-15) - @mojavelinux

• upgrade to Asciidoctor 1.5.0

• use new functionality of doctitle method for splitting up doctitle

• don’t put units on line-height in stylesheet

• use regexp to match the BOM character (used to fix text justification) in JRuby

git tag

1.0.0.alpha.1 (2014-07-29) - @mojavelinux

• initial pre-release

issues resolved | git tag