The patch was submitted by Jana Ratajská.

The patch was submitted by Jana Ratajská.

The output of \thesis@block@assignment and \thesis@@{assignment} now
depends on the value of the new \ifthesis@digital@ conditional.

Unlike `\thesis@year`, `\thesis@seasonYear` takes into account the
fact that January and Fabruary of the year N still belong to the
fall semester of the year N-1.

By one's own -> On one's own
_, _ and _ -> _, _, and _

`\thesis@selectLocale` is no longer performed globally for the
entire document during `\thesis@load` (effectively overriding the
user's hyphenation settings, if Babel's or Polyglossia's
`\languagename` differs from `\thesis@locale`). Instead,
`\thesis@preamble` and `\thesis@postamble` now locally switch the
locale and expand `\thesis@blocks@preamble` and
`\thesis@blocks@postamble`, which are the new redefinables. Since
this breaks the behaviour of `\thesis@blocks@mainMatter`, whose
effects would also be local, `\thesis@blocks@mainMatter` is now
executed directly by `\thesis@preamble` after closing the group and
becomes a new part of the interface between the class and the style
files.

As a preparation for the future inclusion of bibliography support,
the /csquotes/ package is loaded, `\thesis@<locale>@csquotesStyle`
is a new part of the locale interface that sets the /csquotes/
style of a locale, and `\thesis@selectLocale` now switches the
/csquotes/ style.

were renamed to `\thesis@<locale>@spring` and `\thesis@<locale>@fall`.

The semantics have also changed. The `\thesis@parseDate` macro no
longer sets `\thesis@season` to `winter` if `\thesis@month` < 7 and to
`summer` otherwise. Instead, the `\thesis@season` macro is set to
`spring` if 2 > `\thesis@month` < 9 and to `fall` otherwise.

The `\thesis@academicYear` macro is no longer set to
`\thesis@year`-1/`\thesis@year` if `\thesis@month` < 7 and to
`\thesis@year`/`\thesis@year`+1 otherwise. Instead, the
`\thesis@academicYear` macro is set to
`\thesis@year`-1/`\thesis@year` if `\thesis@month` < 9 and to
`\thesis@year`/`\thesis@year`+1 otherwise.

These changed month ranges reflect more accurately the beginning and the
end of the spring and fall semesters.

`\def\thesis@locale{...}`, which also switches hyphenation patterns. The
macro definitions inside locale files are now global to account for the
fact that it now makes sense to include locale files on-site (and
therefore possibly inside a group) using the `\thesis@selectLocale`.

strings, which are now replaced by the hints.

user to have a separate Makefile for documents derived from example.tex.

The `\thesis@declaration` macro was added.