This release marked the change of PHPWord license from LGPL 2.1 to LGPL 3. Four new elements were added: TextBox, ListItemRun, Field, and Line. Relative and absolute positioning for images and textboxes were added. Writer classes were refactored into parts, elements, and styles. ODT and RTF features were enhanced. Ability to add elements to PHPWord object via HTML were implemented. RTF and HTML reader were initiated.

Features

• Image: Ability to define relative and absolute positioning - @basjan #217
• Footer: Conform footer with header by adding firstPage, evenPage and by inheritance - @basjan @ivanlanin #219
• Element: New TextBox element - @basjan @ivanlanin #228, #229, #231
• HTML: Ability to add elements to PHPWord object via html - @basjan #231
• Element: New ListItemRun element that can add a list item with inline formatting like a textrun - @basjan #235
• Table: Ability to add table inside a cell (nested table) - @ivanlanin #149
• RTF Writer: UTF8 support for RTF: Internal UTF8 text is converted to Unicode before writing - @ivanlanin #158
• Table: Ability to define table width (in percent and twip) and position - @ivanlanin #237
• RTF Writer: Ability to add links and page breaks in RTF - @ivanlanin #196
• ListItemRun: Remove fontStyle parameter because ListItemRun is inherited from TextRun and TextRun doesn't have fontStyle - @ivanlanin
• Config: Ability to use a config file to store various common settings - @ivanlanin #200
• ODT Writer: Enable inline font style in TextRun - @ivanlanin
• ODT Writer: Enable underline, strike/doublestrike, smallcaps/allcaps, superscript/subscript font style - @ivanlanin
• ODT Writer: Enable section and column - @ivanlanin
• PDF Writer: Add TCPDF and mPDF as optional PDF renderer library - @ivanlanin
• ODT Writer: Enable title element and custom document properties - @ivanlanin
• ODT Reader: Ability to read standard and custom document properties - @ivanlanin
• Word2007 Writer: Enable the missing custom document properties writer - @ivanlanin
• Image: Enable "image float left" - @ivanlanin #244
• RTF Writer: Ability to write document properties - @ivanlanin
• RTF Writer: Ability to write image - @ivanlanin
• Element: New Field element - @basjan #251
• RTF Reader: Basic RTF reader - @ivanlanin #72, #252
• Element: New Line element - @basjan #253
• Title: Ability to apply numbering in heading - @ivanlanin #193
• HTML Reader: Basic HTML reader - @ivanlanin #80, #254
• RTF Writer: Basic table writing - @ivanlanin #245

Bugfixes

• Header: All images added to the second header were assigned to the first header - @basjan #222
• Conversion: Fix conversion from cm to pixel, pixel to cm, and pixel to point - @basjan #233, #234
• PageBreak: Page break adds new line in the beginning of the new page - @ivanlanin #150
• Image: marginLeft and marginTop cannot accept float value - @ivanlanin #248
• Title: Orphan w:fldChar caused OpenOffice to crash when opening DOCX - @ivanlanin #236

Deprecated

• Static classes Footnotes, Endnotes, and TOC
• Writer\Word2007\Part: Numbering::writeNumbering(), Settings::writeSettings(), WebSettings::writeWebSettings(), ContentTypes::writeContentTypes(), Styles::writeStyles(), Document::writeDocument() all changed into write()
• Writer\Word2007\Part\DocProps: Split into Writer\Word2007\Part\DocPropsCore and Writer\Word2007\Part\DocPropsApp
• Element\Title::getBookmarkId() replaced by Element\Title::getRelationId()
• Writer\HTML::writeDocument: Replaced by Writer\HTML::getContent

Miscellaneous

• License: Change the project license from LGPL 2.1 into LGPL 3.0 - #211
• Word2007 Writer: New Style\Image class - @ivanlanin
• Refactor: Replace static classes Footnotes, Endnotes, and TOC with Collections - @ivanlanin #206
• QA: Reactivate phpcpd and phpmd on Travis - @ivanlanin
• Refactor: PHPMD recommendation: Change all get... method that returns boolean into is... or has... - @ivanlanin
• Docs: Create gh-pages branch for API documentation - @Progi1984 #154
• QA: Add .scrutinizer.yml and include composer.lock for preparation to Scrutinizer - @ivanlanin #186
• Writer: Refactor writer parts using composite pattern - @ivanlanin
• Docs: Show code quality and test code coverage badge on README
• Style: Change behaviour of set... function of boolean properties; when none is defined, assumed true - @ivanlanin
• Shared: Unify PHP ZipArchive and PCLZip features into PhpWord ZipArchive - @ivanlanin
• Docs: Create VERSION file - @ivanlanin
• QA: Improve dan update requirement check in samples folder - @ivanlanin