Kiwix is an offline-reader for web contents using the Mozilla framework and integrating a full-text search engine. This software allows for example to read offline Wikipedia.
This is done by reading the content of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open format with additional meta-data.
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Here are some key features of "Kiwix":
· Pure ZIM reader
· Case and diacritics insensitve full text search engine
· ZIM file generation scripts
· Bookmarks & Notes
· ZIM HTTP server
· PDF/HTML export
· Multilingual
· Search suggestions
· ZIM file Index capacity
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· FIXED: kiwix-manage generate wrong size for splitted ZIM files (ID: 3547892)
· FIXED: kiwix-install crashes
· FIXED: kiwix-serve memory leak on ARM (ID: 3538663)
· FIXED: Open link in new tab from the right-click contextual menu (ID: 3553735)
· FIXED: Hide bookmarks sidebar in the "library view" (ID: 3555848)
· FIXED: Better landing page loading in kiwix-plug (by introducing ip forwarding)
· FIXED: Unclean Windows Registery after uninstalling (ID: 3467455)
· FIXED: Problems in creating PDF/HTML from tabs (#362)
· FIXED: Kiwix crashes on MS/Windows with "special" files (#317)
· FIXED: 0.9rc1 broken Drag&Drop of files (regression)
· FIXED: Multiple bugs impacting kiwix-plug scripts
· FIXED: Server URL computation - was buggy in a few special cases (#363)
· FIXED: *.zimaa files management (improved)
· FIXED: Indexing progression computation (more accurate)
· FIXED: "verbose" mode in kiwix-install, kiwix-index and kiwix-serve
· FIXED: Ugly 16x16 kiwix icon
· FIXED: Broken suggestion/search textbox with “syllable input mode”
· FIXED: Buggy kiwix-manage remove feature
· FIXED: Internet Explorer compatibility with kiwix-serve.
· FIXED: Sporadicaly dying (serving big contents) kiwix-serve (#371)
· FIXED: 64bits kiwix crashes on Archlinux (#365)
· FIXED: Buggy filtering by size in the library
· FIXED: Weak windows handling with small screen resolution
· FIXED: kiwix- console tools do not start on OSX
· NEW: New supported user interface languages: Zazaki (diq), Javanese (jv), Khmer (km), Urdu (ur), Burmese (my), South Azerbaijani (azb)
· NEW: CTR+R to load random article (ID: 3549370)
· NEW: Improved server dialog window
· NEW: "Inverted colors" feature (ID: 3551975)
· NEW: Internationalisation of kiwix-plug welcome page (en, fr, de)
· NEW: Start Kiwix from the console with -search cmd line argument (ID: 3538176)
· NEW: Search suggestions in kiwix-serve (ID: 2945983)
· NEW: Xulrunner 14.0.1 (instead of 12)
· NEW: Desktop shortcut creation in Windows installer
· NEW: Ask to load content at the end of a download (ID: 3563964)
· NEW: if "/M/Description" empty, check "/M/Subtitle" (used by Mediawiki Collection ext.)
· NEW: Windows compilation using Visual Studio 2010
· NEW: kiwix-serve (HTTP server) for MS/Windows (#140)
· NEW: Persistent bookmark set over sessions (#188)
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