Version 5 Released

Almost five years after releasing version 4.0 of the speedata Publisher, it is time for version 5.0. This is a short announcement, since most changes have been covered before.

The speedata Publisher looks the same since its beginning, but there have been major changes under the hood since version 4:

• Integration of HarfBuzz for left to right and right to left text layout, even mixed (bidirectional) typesetting. Support for all kinds of fonts and font features.
• Full accessibility support.
• A rewritten XML and XPath 2.0 parser.
• Attachment of ZUGFeRD invoices.
• Greatly enhance enhance various subsystems such as HTML, MetaPost integration and paragraph builder.
• SAAS available with the speedata Pro plan.

There have been a few entries here in the blog (4.16, 4.18, 4.20)

Some statistics:

• There are 246 black box tests to check that all existing layouts keep working as before. This is 132 more than in version 4.
• A bit more than 220 development releases and 10 stable releases between 4.0 and 5.0
• 906 commits since 4.0
• Git stat tells me: 989 files changed, 66328 insertions, 18099 deletions
• More than 250 closed bug reports.

This would not be possible without all the bug reports and helpful comments from the users. So thank you very much!