EPUB 3.3 allows a [reserved set of external identifiers](https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/core/#app-identifiers-allowed) to be included in resources now. External entities are still [forbidden in the internal subset](https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/core/#sec-xml-constraints). See the [pull request](https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/pull/1368) for this one, as the issue(s) got a bit out of hand.