Checklist for 5.0.0-alpha.1 release.

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Tracks a number of items to be completed before an 5.0.0-alpha.1 can be considered ready for release

Task list

Asciidoctorj & Asciidoctor.js

• Kroki extension support . Support Kroki to generate diagrams #619 , Mermaid diagram generation failure starting v3.3.0 #622
• Support template dir & template engines for HTML.
• Support embedded and no-header-footer for HTML.
• Support template dir & template engines for Reveal.js.
• An extension can provide attributes, but attributes from the source set will take precendence in case of collisions.
• Warnings as errors.
• Intermediate working directories.
• Docinfo support.
• Configuration cache tests
• Up-to-date checks
• Build cache tests
• Relocation tests Absolute paths in gemPath can cause build cache miss #671
• Add external sources and resources, with builtBy option.
• Revisit secondary sources.
• Send reports to the warnings reporter for usage of classic plugins.
• Clean up old role="primary" from source blocks and replace with asciidoctor-tabs.
• Update known limitations adoc
• Validate GitHub Using git-based pdf themes fails on Gradle 7.1.1 #615.

Asciidoctorj only

• Diagram support (Ditaa, PlantUml, Syntrax)
• diagram-cachedir attribute injection for Diagram.
• Options including, catalog_assets, source_map, , eruby.
• Arbitrary output formatters from subprojects and from external libraries.
• Arbitrary extensions from subprojects and from external libraries.
• Can run with classpath isolation both in and out of the process.

Asciidoctor.js only

• Arbitrary output formatters
• Arbitrary extensions from NPM. AsciidoctorJS require not working #681

Related to

• d2 rendering does not work #741
• Community feedback request for Asciidoctor 5. #742
• Upgrade grolifant to 5.x to avoid breakage with Gradle 10 #751