TEI P5 version 4.8.0 and Stylesheets version 7.57.0 release notes

Release 4.8.0 is codenamed ‘The Six Degrees Release’.

This release introduces new features and resolves a number of issues raised by the TEI community. The majority of these changes and corrections are a consequence of feature requests or bugs reported by the TEI community using the GitHub tracking system. A full list of the issues resolved in the course of this release cycle may be found under the 4.8.0 milestone. Very special thanks to Michael Beißwenger and Harald Lüngen for their essential contributions to the new computer-mediated communication chapter. Many thanks also to the community contributors who reported issues, sent bug fixes, and helped with the drafting that led to this release, including: John Bampton, Benjamin W. Bohl, Lou Burnard, Martin Holmes, Martin de la Iglesia, Jessica Lu, Dominique Meeùs, Kiyonori Nagasaki, Bastian Politycki, Klaus Rettinghaus, Daniel Schwarz, Peter Stadler, Christian Thomas, Conal Tuohy, and Nicolas Vaughan.

The following changes are particularly worth highlighting in this release:

New encoding features

Changes to content models

The following changes introduced with this release could invalidate ODD customizations in TEI projects. Those maintaining ODD customizations of the TEI should be aware of the following changes, and may need to adapt their ODD files accordingly.

ODD-breaking changes and deprecation
Improvements of prose and examples

Housekeeping

In addition, many improvements have been made to the XSLT stylesheets (which provide processing of TEI ODD files for Roma and TEIGarage as well as other TEI conversions). The Stylesheets are maintained separately from the Guidelines at https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets. A full list of the issues resolved in the course of this release cycle may be found under the 7.57.0 milestone.

Highlights of this release follow.

Date: 2024-07-08
released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/