I'm pleased to announce the release of pandoc 2.15,
available in the usual places:

Binary packages & changelog:
  https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/2.15

Source & API documentation:
  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.15

For a full description of the changes, see the changelog. But
here are a few of the more prominent changes:

* A new option --sandbox will ensure that pandoc's readers and writers do
  no IO besides reading from the files specified on the command line and
  writing the output.  This restriction is enforced by the type system.
  Anyone who uses pandoc to process untrusted data should use this
  option (keeping in mind especially that some formats, such as RST,
  Org, and LaTeX, have directives for including files).  Note: filters, PDF
  production, and custom writers are unaffected.  If you use these features,
  you are responsible for considering the security risks. Those who
  maintain libraries (such as pypandoc) that run pandoc with a system
  call may want to consider adding --sandbox to the parameters used by
  default.

* Pandoc will now fall back to latin1 encoding for inputs that can’t be 
read as
  UTF-8. This is what it did previously for content fetched from the web and
not
  marked as to content type. It makes sense to do the same for local files. 
In
  this case a NotUTF8Encoded warning will be issued, indicating that pandoc 
is
  interpreting the input as latin1.

* SVG images can now be used with docx output.

* Support for Powerpoint output is much improved (thanks to the work of
  Emily Bourke).  See the changelog for full details.

* The LaTeX writer now uses babel exclusively for multilingual support.
  (We used to use polyglossia with xelatex.)  If you use a custom template,
  you will probably need to update it to take account of these changes.

* The --reference-location option now works with HTML output (thanks
  to Francesco Mazzoli).

* Native output is now formatted using pretty-show, which gives nicer
  results for tests and debugging (which is the main purpose of
  native output).

* gfm now supports footnotes.

* Better performance and error messages in Lua filters, due to Albert
Krewinkel.

* Code changes have been introduced (by Aner Lucero) which will streamline
  the addition of a real Figure block element in a future release.

API changes:

* Text.Pandoc.Logging: add NotUTF8Encoded constructor to LogMessage.

* Text.Pandoc.Class: Add readStdinStrict method to PandocMonad.

* Text.Pandoc.Class: Generalize type of extractMedia. It was uselessly
  restricted to PandocIO, instead of any instance of PandocMonad and 
MonadIO.

* Text.Pandoc.Shared: export splitSentences.

* Text.Pandoc.Class.PandocIO: derive MonadCatch, MonadThrow, MonadMask.

* Add module Text.Pandoc.Class.Sandbox, exporting sandbox via
Text.Pandoc.Class.

* Text.Pandoc.Filter: Generalize type of applyFilters from PandocIO to
  any instance of MonadIO and PandocMonad.

* Text.Pandoc.PDF: Generalize type of makePDF: instead of PandocIO, it
  can be used in any instance of PandocMonad, MonadIO, and MonadMask.

* Lua subsystem and custom writers: generalize types from PandocIO to
  any instance of PandocMonad and MonadIO [API change]. The type of runLua
  is now
  `(PandocMonad m, MonadIO m) => LuaE PandocError a -> m (Either PandocError
a)`.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, including new contributors Christophe
Dervieux, Ezwal, Francesco Mazzoli, Milan Bracke, Quinn, Samuel Tardieu,
Simon Schuster, and hseg; and stalwarts Albert Krewinkel, Aner Lucero,
Emily Bourke, Jeroen de Haas, Salim B, William Lupton, and nuew.

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