This release fixes several bugs and adds some new features. PHP 7.0 and 7.1 are now supported without warnings.

Added

• Possibility to control the footnote numbering - @troosan #1068
• Image creation from string - @troosan #937
• Introduced the \PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\NumberFormat simple type. - @troosan
• Support for ContextualSpacing - @postHawk #1088
• Possiblity to hide spelling and/or grammatical errors - @troosan #542
• Possiblity to set default document language as well as changing the language for each text element - @troosan #1108
• Support for Comments - @troosan #1067
• Support for paragraph textAlignment - @troosan #1165
• Add support for HTML underline tag in addHtml - @zNightFalLz #1186
• Allow to change cell width unit - @guillaume-ro-fr #986
• Allow to change the line height rule @troosan
• Implement PageBreak for odt writer @cookiekiller #863 #824
• Allow to force an update of all fields on opening a document - @troosan #951
• Allow adding a CheckBox in a TextRun - @irond #727
• Add support for HTML img tag - @srggroup #934
• Add support for password protection for docx - @mariahaubner #1019

Fixed

• Loosen dependency to Zend
• Images are not being printed when generating PDF - @hubertinio #1074 #431
• Fixed some PHP 7 warnings - @ likeuntomurphy #927
• Fixed Word 97 reader - @alsofronie @Benpxpx @mario-rivera #912 #920 #892
• Fixed image loading over https - @troosan #988
• Impossibility to set different even and odd page headers - @troosan #981
• Fixed Word2007 reader where unnecessary paragraphs were being created - @donghaobo #1043 #620
• Fixed Word2007 reader where margins were not being read correctly - @slowprog #885 #1008
• Impossible to add element PreserveText in Section - @rvanlaak #452
• Added missing options for numbering format - @troosan #1041
• Fixed impossibility to set a different footer for first page - @ctrlaltca #1116, @aoloe #875
• Fixed styles not being applied by HTML writer, better pdf output - @sarke #1047 #500 #1139
• Fixed read docx error when document contains image from remote url - @FBnil #1173 #1176
• Padded the $args array to remove error - @kaigoh #1150, @reformed #870
• Fix incorrect image size between windows and mac - @bskrtich #874
• Fix adding HTML table to document - @mogilvie @arivanbastos #324
• Fix parsing on/off values (w:val="true|false|1|0|on|off") - @troosan #1221 #1219
• Fix error on Empty Dropdown Entry - @ComputerTinker #592

Deprecated

• PhpWord->getProtection(), get it from the settings instead PhpWord->getSettings()->getDocumentProtection();