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As of August 14, 2020, theEPUB 3 Working Group is now the maintainer of the EPUB 3 specifications.

The EPUB 3.4 revision started on February 11, 2025. It is chartered to run until February 5, 2027.

Editor's Drafts of documents under active development:

• EPUB 3 Overview
• EPUB 3.4 (On Recommendation track)
• EPUB Reading Systems 3.4 (On Recommendation track)
• EPUB Accessibility 1.1.1 (On Recommendation track)
• EPUB Accessibility Techniques 1.1.1

For more information about the meeting schedule, how to join or participate, etc., please consult thePublishing Maintenance Working Group's home page, or contribute to this repository via issues and comments.

On the 25th of May, 2023, theEPUB 3 Working Group published the following EPUB 3.3 Recommendations:

• EPUB 3.3,
• EPUB Reading Systems 3.3, and
• EPUB Accessibility 1.1.

For a complete list of publications by the Working Group, including all Working Group Notes, see theseparate index page.

The Working Group maintains anerrata file for all the specifications and notes. If you want to report a newerratum, please follow the guidelines in that file.

Some issues have been left open by the Working Groups asdeferred issues.Issues for specifications not actively maintained have beenmarked as abandoned and closed. These issues may be resurrected in the future if work is resumed on their respective specifications.

The contents of each folder are as follows:

• archive -- Specifications that are no longer in active development either because the revision has finished or work has been abandoned.
• epub33 -- The specifications revised as part of the 3.3 revision.
• epub34 -- The specifications being revised as part of the 3.4 revision.

Use the standard fork, branch, and pull request workflow to propose changes to the specification. Please make branch names informative—by including the issue or bug number for example.

Editorial changes that improve the readability of the spec or correct spelling or grammatical mistakes are welcome.

Please readCONTRIBUTING.md, about licensing contributions.

See the following for access to meeting minutes, sub-group work, discussions, etc. for past revisions:

• EPUB 3.0 - Available as a set of markdown files in the archive directory of this repository.
• EPUB 3.0.1 - Available as document files from Google Drive.
• EPUB 3.1 - Available as document files from Google Drive.
• EPUB 3.2 - Available from the EPUB 3 Community Group wiki.

Refer to theEPUB 3 Working Group's home page for information about the current revision.

W3C functions under acode of conduct.

For any further help, contactIvan Herman,Wendy Reid,Shinya Takami, orMatt Garrish.