Releases

§ 4.2.4 (2020-06-23)

This is the latest production-ready release of EPUBCheck, which provides complete support for checking conformance to the EPUB 3.2 family of specifications.

Version 4.2.4 is a maintenance release, made by the DAISY Consortium for the W3C. Many thanks to everyone who contributed!

This EPUBCheck version is also available in the Maven Central Repository as org.w3c:epubcheck:4.2.4.

§ Bug Fixes

• allow ‘doc-dedication’ role on ‘aside’ elements (023b783)
• allow ‘doc-glossary’ role on ‘section’ elements (12cda43)

§ 4.2.3 (2020-06-22)

§ Features

• update HTML schemas from the HTML Checker (22fa3b1), closes #1111
• downgrade PKG-012 (non-ASCII filenames) to USAGE (f368ee5), closes #1097 (thanks @slonopotamus!)
• downgrade RSC-004 (cannot decrypt resource) to INFO (#1136) (e732068)
• report empty title elements in XHTML Content Documents (#1135) (f115730), closes #1093
• ARIA: allow doc-epigraph on ‘section’ and doc-cover on ‘img’ (84a0979)
• update the XML ouput to the new JHOVE schema (0b346fd) (thanks @tledoux!)

§ Bug Fixes

• avoid OutOfMemoryError when computing image size (929806b) (thanks @DocJM!)
• fail gracefully when running on a non-EPUB file (#1134) (2083f05), closes #1050
• allow ‘a11y:certifierCredential’ as a link (484786f), closes #1140
• allow foreign namespaces in EPUB 2 SVGs (e3ffc37)

§ Other Improvements

• improve reporting of invalid URL host parts (d2728ee), closes #1034 #1079
• harmonize quotes usage in messages (#1132) (659ab76), closes #1071
• add an Automatic-Module-Name entry to the jar manifest (ee06724), closes #1128 (thanks @io7m!)
• deps upgrade commons-compress to v1.20 to remediate CVE-2019-12402 (928c26a), closes #1078
• deps upgrade guava to v24.1.1 to remediate CVE-2018-10237 (cec01fe)

§ 4.2.2 (2019-07-18)

§ Localization

• complete translation for Traditional Chinese (+ Danish/German/Korean tweaks) (#1058) (64558be), closes #1054

§ Features

• revert the spine/toc nav order check to a WARNING (#1056) (1f6a882), closes #1036

§ 4.2.1 (2019-05-20)

§ Bug Fixes

• allow doc-endnote on li children of ol (275fcd1), closes #1041
• update schemas from upstream HTML Checker (4d5a24d)

§ 4.2.0 (2019-04-23)

§ Bug Fixes

• allow any role on a elem with no href (b9ed8f6), closes #1022
• check trailing spaces in mimetype file (123c69f)
• remove restrictions on MathML annotation-xml (8a1b650), closes #1024
• report ZIP checks after the ‘Validating…’ message (73b0ee8), closes #1025

§ Features

• add new ‘voicing’ link relationship (97e9f1c)

§ Localization

• update localizedmessages for Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. (2f0d1716)

§ 4.2.0-rc (2019-03-18)

§ Bug Fixes

• allow epub:type on all HTML elements (2cafe64), closes #986
• allow ARIA role doc-glossary on section elements (0d9462f), closes #997
• allow images to point to SVG fragments (18afa9d), closes #987
• ignore SVG view fragments when checking cross refs (50b29f1), closes #987
• localize singular/plurals variants in summary (93b700f), closes #958
• parse CSS custom properties (0036e93), closes #790
• report all epub:type value checks as USAGE (f248483), closes #1009
• report duplicate landmarks nav entries as ERROR (d7be97c), closes #298
• revert FXL SVG rules to EPUB 3.0.1’s logic (ced3c15)
• revert the deprecation of display-seq (f81d8b8), closes #990
• script data blocks don’t need to be declared (05e5ac2)
• support ARIA global attributes in SVG (56ebcd8), closes #846

§ Features

• allow fonts to be remote resources (4d5a5a9), closes #871 #672
• allow remote resources in scripted content (1c90ae9), closes #869
• check duplicate IDs in the OCF encryption file (cab45e6), closes #306
• check image sources in picture and srcset (11bf628), closes #781
• check that toc & page-list nav are in reading order (8ba384f), closes #888
• disallow remote links in toc/landmarks/page-list nav (dd0805f), closes #890
• report use of non-preferred Core Media Types (ab13779), closes #873

§ Localization

• new localization: Danish (28ef69b, 40f7b64)
• new localization: Chinese (Taiwan) (46195ad)
• update localized messages for German (40f7b64)
• update localized messages for Italian (d954ae7, 864282a)

Note: the new messages introduced in v4.2.0 are not localized yet.

§ 4.2.0-beta (2019-02-25)

§ Bug Fixes

• allow foreign namespaces in SVG content documents (ca29c89), closes #491
• do not restrict ID refs to non-colon names (365e6e6), closes #783
• improve RelaxNG datatypes of date/time/duration attributes (ef5b94c), closes #775
• parse boolean/enumerated HTML attributes as case-insensitive (5b3533a), closes #941

§ Features

• add application/javascript as core media type (f4566b6), closes #874
• add new MO-only aside epub:type value (4404fff)
• allow the Compression element in the encryption file (ed6f1c4), closes #904
• basic schema support for HTML custom elements (356fac0), closes #932
• implement Structure Semantics Vocab changes for EPUB 3.2 (3454da5), closes #531 #903 #962 #963
• improve wording of message OPF-025 (cecaa76), closes #959
• remove epubsc from reserved prefixes (02397ec), closes #875
• report CSS absolute/fixed positioning as USAGE (672ac6d), closes #889
• set reported 3.x version to “3.2” (9965c19), closes #943
• support new rules related to FXL SVG sizing (17f5eee), closes #902
• suppress a couple irrelevant USAGE reports (b342db2)
• update Jing (schema processor) to v20181222 (cfca41b)
• update Package vocabularies and link element checks (99f882a), closes #883 #884 #885 #886 #887
• update recognized font Core Media types (ac2f1bd), closes #872 #339
• update the HTML schemas to the latest Nu HTML Checker version (8d3c77e)

§ 4.2.0-alpha-1 (2019-01-14)

§ Bug Fixes

• check MathML and XHTML content in epub:switch (976b9f6), closes #835
• messages of missing/incorrect locale cannot be translated (91fac12)

§ Features

• add ‘authority’ and ‘term’ as valid package metadata properties (2fe66cd)
• allow missing alttext or annotation-xml on MathML (e7bdbd2), closes #897
• deprecate epub:trigger and epub:switch (08123b2), closes #894 #895
• report aria-describedat as an ERROR (b4a9e7c), closes #896
• update the Package Document schema for EPUB 3.2 (1f12512), closes #883 #882 #881 #880 #879 #878 #877 #876
• update XHTML, SVG and MathML schemas (47d4926), closes #892 #779 #896 #893 #448
• API: deprecate EpubChecker#processEpubFile (3ed77fe)

§ 4.1.1 (2019-01-22)

§ Bug Fixes

• switch item property doesn’t apply to svg:switch (91b84ad), closes #857
• better check remote resources (85b5f77), closes #852
• better support the EPUB Accessibility Vocabulary (8a9cf63), closes #810
• consider all video/* as video media types (27ad571)
• do not check entity references in comment or CDATA (#949) (4307542), closes #800
• do not report CSS ‘font-size: 0’ as an error (4e17714), closes #922
• keep on processing after failing to read GIFs (2a244e7)
• messages of missing/incorrect locale cannot be translated (91fac12)
• resolve relative URIs against their base (d42ccd6), closes #527
• valid JPEG files were considered ‘corrupted’ (c4a2cfa), closes #850
• wrong report of duplicate landmarks in Nav Doc (#942) (e06a552), closes #926

§ Features

• update localized messages for several languages (116e61b)

§ 4.1.0 (2018-11-26)

§ Bug Fixes

• silence a Saxon warning (Schematron XSLT) (5045d78b), closes #859
• fix path resolution in EpubNCXCheck (ctc package) (f572a861)
• handle IllegalStateException in NCX checker (25336894), closes #666
• check that the mimetype file is uncompressed (6764e250), closes #303
• fix wrong exit message for single file validation (68af5a9a), closes #740
• allow ARIA role attributes in SVG (49412e05), closes #769
• allow empty xml:lang attributes (392c2f68), closes #777
• handle no src uri in fonts, correct embedded font boolean in the XML output (a26f9c13), closes #773
• fix issues with landmarks checks ACC-008 (74d0bdd1), closes #457, #734
• fix focus issue when using EPUBCheck in a GUI app (cd63a166), closes #665
• fix incorrect warning ACC_011 (5e6a69af), closes #680
• make the type attribute optional on SVG style elements (275f6b6a), closes #688
• exit with error when directory is not found in expanded mode (e42d189c), closes #525
• fix a NullPointerException when checking an empty meta rendition element in OPF (42d75297), closes #727
• fix DefaultReportImpl to avoid duplicate path info in message locations (9321355b), closes #729
• fix broken OPF_060 and OPF_061 message format (9f0e7d12), closes #658
• fix broken OPF_060 and OPF_061 checks for duplicate ZIP entries (05e96f40), closes #728

§ Features

• allow the configuration of EPUBCheck’s locale (9b249956), closes #650, #498
• report invalid dc:identifier UUIDs validation (as WARNING) (48800a04), closes #853
• change --version and -version command line options to output EPUBCheck version (e498c61d), closes #743
• check files with extensions other than .epub (1b67e046), closes #490
• report file:// URL as INFO (8f7a2b7d), closes #289
• improve messages for OPF-058 and OPF-059 (5e33645e), closes #804
• enable NCX_001 check also for EPUB 3 when an NCX file is present (9715c352)
• report non-matching identifiers in OPF and NCX as an error again (515682dc)
• improved css font size validation (25c0b372), closes #529
• issue a WARNING when landmarks anchors are not unique (557308ef), closes #493
• issue a WARNING when guide/reference elements are not unique (25f28c01), closes #493
• partial update of OPF 2.0 RelaxNG schema to latest version (changing datatype text to anyURI for href attributes) (251aa936), closes #725
• display error/warning count in EPUBCheck results (b7babedf), closes #655
• add file path info in uri attributes of the XML report (c958c117), closes #540
• update the XHTML 1.1 RelaxNG schema to latest version (4c6fb49a)
• update the OPF20 RNG schema in sync with official schema to validate empty guide elements (6540b03d)
• report an ERROR when @clipBegin equals @clipEnd in SMIL Media Overlays (00716768), closes #568
• improve Nav Doc validation (d32de854), closes #763, #759
• update the NCX RelaxNG schema to add fixed list of pageTarget type values (b2c9e939), closes #761
• improve URL checks (a44a596b), closes #708
• rephrase messages RSC-005, RSC-016, RSC-017 (5ef44973)
• add JHove XSD schema declaration in XML output (e55039c9), closes #736
• add detailed resource info in RSC-008 messages (5f5ef7b7), closes #720
• add detailed resource info in RSC-007 messages (71a76ee4), closes #475

§ Maintenance

• change the project name to ‘EPUBCheck’ (dfd7fd27)
• update the minimum source code compatibility to Java 1.7 (9b249956)
• update the Saxon dependency to v9.8 (bf10f380)
• update the Apache commons-compress dependency to v1.18 (e7dfedd8)
• update the Google Guava dependency to v24.0 (befd9fc3)
• update the continuous integration build matrix, now testing from Java 7 up to Java 11 (fb84b23c)
• various translation updates (39a9a093, 6e3a8b41)