Version v0.9.5 of SILE has been released and is available for download! New in in this release:

• Experimental package manager.

• The "smart" bare percent unit (where SILE guessed whether you meant height or width) has now moved from deprecated to error. Replace with %pw etc.

• Language support: variable spaces in Amharic (and other languages if enabled with the shaper.variablespaces setting), improvements to Japanese Ruby processing, Uyghur hyphenation revisited and improved, Armenian hyphenation added.

• You can now set the stretch and shrink values of a space using the shaper.spaceenlargementfactor, shaper.spaceshrinkfactor and shaper.spacestretchfactor settings.

• You can use - as input filename to pipe in from standard input, and - as output filename to pipe generated PDF to standard output.

• New letter class.

• New commands: \neverindent and \cr

• New units: ps (parskip) and bs (baselineskip)

• Links generated via the url package are hyperlinked in the PDF.

• You can now style folios (page numbers) by overriding the \foliostyle macro.

• Languages may define their own counting functions by providing a counter function; you may also lean on ICU’s number formatting to format numbers.

• ICU is now required for correct Unicode processing.

• Experimental support for SVG graphics and fonts. (see tests/simplesvg.sil)

• Users may select the Harfbuzz subshaping system used (coretext, graphite, fallback etc.) by setting the harfbuzz.subshapers setting.

• Fix typos in documentation (Thanks to Sean Leather, David Rowe).

Most other changes in this release are internal and non-user-visible, including:

• Introduced vertical kern nodes.

• Various fixes to pushback (end of page) logic, bidi implementation. ICU is now used for bidi.

• Updated various examples to work with current internals.

• Many and varied internal fixes and speedups, and improved coding style.