Advanced Content Authoring and Reporting - Pressbooks Updates and Changelog

Pressbooks is an innovative, open-source tool and is still emerging as an enterprise-level platform with predictable performance. Please take this into account when deciding to use Pressbooks for the creation of course and assignment materials. Learn@UW-Madison continues to track and document known issues with Pressbooks.

This document lists changes and updates related to components in UW-Madison's wisc.pb.unizin.org instance of Pressbooks, which is used for Advanced Content Authoring and Reporting (ACAR).

This document pertains specifically to the wisc.pb.unizin.org instance of Pressbooks, which is supported by pressbooks.com and provided to us as a member of the Unizin consortium. Instances at other Unizin member institutions or non-Unizin institutions may vary considerably from our setup.

For reference the components described here are:
  1. Wordpress. The open source content management system which is the backbone of around 33.5% of all websites. 
  2. Pressbooks. Pressbooks is an open-source wordpress plugin which transforms wordpress instances into a one-stop book authoring, hosting, and exporting platform for ebooks. 
  3. McLuhan. The primary theme used in our instance of pressbooks which controls the look and feel of the pressbooks hosted there.
  4. H5P. The plugin which allows for the authoring of H5P elements in pressbooks
  5. Hypothes.is. A plugin which allows for the creation of annotations in pressbooks

As of May 14nd, 2019
Component  Version   Notes
 Wordpress   5.1.1 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
  • Wordpress 5.1.1 added a number of security fixes and other minor maintenance and bug fixes.
  • Other security and performance updates.
 Pressbooks  5.7.2 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 McLuhan  2.8.3 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 H5P  1.13.1 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 Hypothes.is  0.5.0 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.

As of April 22nd, 2019
Component  Version   Notes
 Wordpress   5.1.1 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
  • Wordpress 5.1.1 added a number of security fixes and other minor maintenance and bug fixes.
  • Other security and performance updates.
 Pressbooks  5.6.5 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 McLuhan  2.7.3 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 H5P  1.11.3 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 Hypothes.is  0.5.0 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.


As of March 5th, 2019
Component  Version   Notes
 Wordpress   5.0.3 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
  • Wordpress 5.0 added the new block-based, ‘Gutenberg’ editor. This editor is disabled by default on Pressbooks, and the pressbooks team is continuing to work on how Pressbooks will incorporate the new editor.
  • Other security and performance updates.
 Pressbooks  5.7.1 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 McLuhan  2.8.2 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 H5P  1.13.1 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.
 Hypothes.is  0.5.0 Link to most recent changelog or release notes.



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Owner:Learn@UW Madison .Group:Learn@UW-Madison
Created:2019-01-23 14:14 CDTUpdated:2020-07-02 08:26 CDT
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