Hello. If I understand correctly, the thread https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-07/msg00678.html seems to say that variable 'org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists' has been removed; consistently, querying it with 'C-h v' fails.
Yet, it is still mentioned in the manual, in section 2.7 (and in the Variable index): 2.7 Plain lists =============== [...] A list ends whenever every item has ended, which means before any line less or equally indented than items at top level. It also ends before two blank lines(5). [...] (5) See also `org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'. -- EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) IPG (Institut de Physique du Globe) | alain.coch...@unistra.fr 5 rue René Descartes [bureau 106] | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France | Fax: +33 (0)3 68 85 01 25