W3C Open Source Software – News for 2025

b6+ version 1.132

2025-02-21 B6+, the slide framework, now includes a guide for style sheet writers, to help with making new slide styles.

html-xml-utils 8.7

2025-02-16 Version 8.7 of the HTML-XML-utils fixes a bug in hxnormalize that caused some lines in the output to be shorter than requested by the -l option.

b6+ version 1.124

2025-02-13 B6+, the slide framework, has two new features:

• B6+ supports a simple form of “slipshow” presentations: Rather than putting all topics on separate slides, you add them one by one to a long ‘scroll’ that automatically moves earlier topics up to make room for the next one. (See an example.)
• B6+ allows drawing on the slide with the mouse, e.g., to underline text or circle some items. This could replace a laser pointer and is also useful when screen-sharing in a video conference.

b6+ version 1.116

2025-01-06 B6+, the slide framework, now supports automatic slide shows, where the next slide appears after a given time. They can be paused with a key press. Running continuously in a loop is also possible.

b6+ version 1.111

2025-01-01 B6+, the slide framework, now has the possibility to pop up a table of contents while showing slides, to allow quickly jumping to a specific slide. The C key opens (and closes) the table of contents.

There are several other, smaller inprovements, including some to try and improve accessibility.