This release (code name: [Telstar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar)) is
the first in some time not to introduce any major new changes to
the TEI Guidelines. The Council has focused mainly on fixing
bugs and on tidying up parts of the Guidelines that needed
attention.
Highlights of this release include:
- As part of this release, the TEI Debian packages will
once more be available (
[#1441](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1441));
see the [TEI
Debian Package page](https://packages.tei-c.org/deb/) for instructions and pointers to
both the .deb
files themselves and to the new public PGP
key.
- listRelation can now be used directly inside
body (
[#1552](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1552)),
as well as anywhere else a list is
permitted.
- lb, pb, and cb are now properly glossed as beginnings
rather than as breaks (
[#1529](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1529)).
- name and rs are now permitted in the content model of
msName (
[#1597](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1597)).
- The defective attribute may now be used on rubric,
finalRubric, or colophon (
[#1642](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1642)).
- msDesc can now take the status attribute (
[#1583](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1583)).
- A new persona element has been added, to capture information about multiple
personalities of a person (
[#498](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/498)).
- A new element, annotationBlock, has been added for linguistic annotation of
transcribed speech (
[#539](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/539)).
- The Guidelines can once again be built while not online (
[#1602](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1602)).
- note is now permitted in respStmt (
[#1557](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1557)).
- Many improvements were made to Chapter 23 Using the TEI (
[#1587](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1587), [#1589](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1589), [#1590](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1590), [#1591](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1591) and [#1595](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1595)).
- The place attribute can now appear on head (
[#1466](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1466)).
- The affiliation, age,
birth, death, education,
faith, langKnowledge,
nationality, occupation,
residence, sex, and socecStatus
elements are now members of att.typed, and thus now have
type and subtype attributes (
[#1600](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1600))
- Some information about outdated XML processors has
been removed from Chapter vi Languages and
Character Sets (
[#1290](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1290));
and other portions of that chapter have been removed or
updated.
- The hand attribute can now appear on postscript (
[#1530](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1530)).
- Improved guidance on using xml:base (
[#1639](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1639)).
- Continuing the efforts started at the TEI2German Translatathon from 2016, additional German translations have been added to the TEI specifications.
In addition, dozens of wording improvements and corrections
of typographic errors have been made to the
Guidelines.
Many improvements have been made to the XSLT stylesheets
(which provide processing of TEI ODD files for [Roma](http://www.tei-c.org/Roma/) and [OxGarage](http://www.tei-c.org/ege-webclient/) as
well as other TEI conversions). The Stylesheets are maintained
separately from the Guidelines and are at [https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets](https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets).