Major breaking changes

This release will include an overhaul to the IBM Plex Sass build pipeline. It will leverage Sass modules to allow for totally customized font-face declarations depending on the application's supported languages and font distribution preferences.

1. If your application is using the generated, all-language, all-weight css/sass currently shipped with Plex, there will be guidance on how to refine those styles.

2. If your project is using node-sass, it won't be able to utilize this new tooling. You'll likely want to migrate from node-sass to Dart Sass, as node-sass and the library it's based on are deprecated.

See #370 for 6.0 goals and progress.

Unreleased

IBM Plex Sans JP
IBM Plex Sans CN
IBM Plex Mono - Addition of glyphs /currency /prime /primedbl

IBM PLEX SANS ARABIC V1.2 - 2021-02-14

Added

Glyphs /alefMaksura_zain-ar.fina.rlig /alefMaksura_zain-ar.fina.rlig.short /alefMaksura_jeh-ar.fina.rlig /alefMaksura_jeh-ar.fina.rlig.short /alefMaksura_noon-ar.fina.rlig

Fixed

Mark placement on alternative form of /kaf
referenced in issue 284
Multiple spacing issues including /lam_meem ligatures
PostScript BlueScale values
FamilyClass value in OS/2 table

Changed

included logographs are not used by default anymore but can be activated through OpenType layout feature “dlig”
referenced in issue 336
abbreviated font names used for style mapping (name ID1 + ID2) to improve interoperability
Removed
Glyphs /tteh_reh-ar.fina.short /tteh_zain-ar.fina.short /tteh_rreh-ar.fina.short /tteh_jeh-ar.fina.short

IBM PLEX SANS HEBREW V1.3 - 2020-12-04

Fixed

placement of dot in glyph /lamed_holam-hb
placement of dot in glyph /lamed_dagesh_holam-hb
metrics of /resh-hb
referenced in issue 343
metrics of /tav-hb
PostScript BlueScale values
FamilyClass value in OS/2 table

Changed

abbreviated font names used for style mapping (name ID1 + ID2) to improve interoperability

Generated changelog

• breaking: don't include styles in GH release (99fd503)

• breaking: update Arabic, changes font name (65703ea)

• breaking: update Hebrew, changes font name (2fd23f1)

• breaking: begin sass module based build pipeline restructure (2383e47)

• chore: update release asset generation (1bf46cb)

• chore: update Arabic source files (1494f45)

• chore: remove unused dep, resolve sec issue (270ee7a)

• chore: update deps and resolve security warning (2b46ba7)

• chore(deps): bump bl from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3 (4cc1e50)

• chore: remove zip log (eff7734)