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EPUBCheck version v5.0.0-beta-2 is available from https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/releases

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This is a preview release of the next major version of EPUBCheck, v5.0.0. It keeps on improving support for checking conformance to EPUB 3.3.

This EPUBCheck version is not available in the Maven Central Repository. It is only available (temporarily) as a binary on the GitHub release page.

This release was made by the DAISY Consortium for the W3C. Many thanks to everyone who contributed and reported issues!

Features
  • proper handling of URL parsing throughout all checks, based on the URL standard (using the Galimatias library)
  • reorganized tests for EPUB 3.3
  • allow SVG/MathML doctype declarations (6e44b39), closes #1192 #1114
  • allow any file extension (bdee846)
  • check discouraged HTML elements (base, rp, embed) (afb28cb), closes #1271
  • check Media Overlays total duration consistency (ee9c720), closes #1217
  • check that 'page-list' and 'landmarks' nav are flat lists (15825a5), closes #1279
  • check that publication resources are not in META-INF (61dbf53), closes #1227
  • HTML link element resources do not require fallbacks (8d77b0f), closes #1247
  • ignore Nav Doc nav elements with no epub:type (f989588), closes #1222
  • loosen restriction on where remote resources can be referenced (73fe57c), closes #1288
  • page-list nav does not have to match reading order (d0f12a9), closes #1237
  • report reserved string in XHTML custom attribute namespaces (bc86db8), closes #1190
  • restrict obfuscation to font core media types (a229edf), closes #1291
  • refactored API and internals (39888e2)
  • add new Core Media Types (ECMAScript, OPUS, WebP) (166256a), closes #1249 #1189
  • allow 'auto' value for the 'dir' attribute of Package Documents (a2e3a77), closes #1220
  • allow 'hreflang' attribute on Package Document link elements (e39a801), closes #1219
  • allow informative schema checking (reported as new RSC-024 and RSC-025) (a2516f0)
  • check that item URLs have no fragment (ec28b59), closes #1250
  • do not check conformance of SVG content (ba48aaa)
  • enable informative (USAGE) checking of SVG content conformance (b9ddf8f)
  • new check (OPF-092) for language tags well-formedness (52ebd80), closes #1221 #702
  • update checking of the Package Document 'refines' attribute (72366b4), closes #1226
  • update to latest schemas from the Nu HTML Checker (af7a5f7)
  • remove "under review" notice for toc nav ordering warning (fe08c59), closes #1194
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