December brought the feature that has aged best, and a good deal of new school support.
Declaring how you used AI
Universities increasingly expect a statement about generative-AI use in a
thesis. The template integrates the aidisclose package, so the
declaration is part of the document rather than something you improvise at the
end.
Three more ULisboa schools
FCUL (Faculdade de Ciências), IST (Instituto Superior Técnico) and ISEG (Lisbon School of Economics and Management) joined the supported list, and most schools received a new spine design.
Under the hood
stocksize.sty was rewritten in expl3, and page layout moved to the
geometry package instead of memoir's own mechanism — dull from the outside,
but it is what makes unusual paper sizes and margins behave predictably.