Enhancements
- Default Font: Allow specify Asisn font and Latin font separately
 - Writer ODText: Support for ListItemRun by @Progi1984 fixing #2159, #2620 in #2669
 - Writer HTML: Support for vAlign in Tables by @SpraxDev in #2675
 - Writer Word2007: Support for padding in Table Cell by @Azamat8405 in #2697
 - Added support for PHP 8.4 by @Progi1984 in #2660
 - Autoload : Allow to use PHPWord without Composer fixing #2543, #2552, #2716, #2717 in #2722
 - Add Default font color for Word by @Collie-IT in #2700
 - Writer HTML: Support Default font color by @MichaelPFrey in #2731
 - Writer ODText: Support Default font color by @MichaelPFrey in #2735
 - Add basic ruby text (phonetic guide) support for Word2007 and HTML Reader/Writer, RTF Writer, basic support for ODT writing by @Deadpikle in #2727
 - Reader HTML: Support font styles for h1/h6 by @Progi1984 fixing #2619 in #2737
 - Writer EPub3: Basic support by @Sambit003 fixing #55 in #2724
 - Writer Word2007: Added support for background and border color transparency in Text Box element by @Chudy20007 in #2555
 - Writer/Reader Word2007: Added support for the firstLineChars for Indentation by @liuzhilinux & @Progi1984 in #2753
 
Bug fixes
- Writer ODText: Support for images inside a textRun by @Progi1984 fixing #2240 in #2668
 - Allow vAlign and vMerge on Style\Cell to be set to null by @SpraxDev fixing #2673 in #2676
 - Reader HTML: Support for differents size units for table by @Progi1984 fixing #2384, #2701 in #2725
 - Reader Word2007: Respect paragraph indent units by @tugmaks & @Progi1984 fixing #507 in #2726
 - Reader Word2007: Support Header elements within Title elements by @SpraxDev fixing #2616, #2426 in #2674
 - Reader HTML: Support for inherit value for property line-height by @Progi1984 fixing #2683 in #2733
 - Writer HTML: Fixed null string for Text Elements by @armagedon007 and @Progi1984 in #2738
 - Template Processor: Fix 0 considered as empty string by @cavasinf, @SnipsMine and @Progi1984 fixing #2572, #2703 in #2748
 - Word2007 Writer : Corrected generating TOC to fix page number missing issues @jgiacomello in #2556
 - Enhanced error handling in encoding functions @michalschroeder in #2784
 
Miscellaneous
- Bump dompdf/dompdf from 2.0.4 to 3.0.0 by @dependabot fixing #2621 in #2666
 - Add test case to make sure vMerge defaults to 'continue' by @SpraxDev in #2677
 - Adding the possibility to use iterate search and replace with setValues by @moghwan in #2632
 - Add test cases that test the ODTText and Word2007 reader using the corresponding writer, increasing test coverage by @MichaelPFrey in #2745
 - Updated TOCTest to use static HTML content instead of external resource @michalschroeder in #2784
 - Bump PHPOffice/math from 0.2.0 to 0.3.0 by @eileenmcnaughton in #2785
 
Deprecations
- Deprecate 
PhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Paragraph::getIndent(): UsePhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Paragraph::getIndentLeft() - Deprecate 
PhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Paragraph::setHanging(): UsePhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Paragraph::setIndentHanging() - Deprecate 
PhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Paragraph::setIndent(): UsePhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Paragraph::setIndentLeft() 
BC Breaks
Notes
- Writer ODText previously used to set 'style:use-window-font-color' to 'true', now it is set to 'false'. (see #2735)
The effect of this attribute is "implementation dependent" (if implemented at all).
Setting it to false allows setting a default font color and improves interoperabilt,
but may break certain specific use cases.