What's new in Kiwix 0.9 RC2
Jan 3, 2013
- 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)
New in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 5 (Dec 29, 2011)
- This beta fixes many issues related to Windows, especially with Windows7.
New in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 4 (Nov 2, 2011)
- Fix regression, menu "last open" where not working anymore
- Fix regression, avoid restarting aria2 at program exit
- New content manager search/filter feature (ID: 3390515)
- Newly able to deal with more than one XML library feed
- Fixed missing link on feedback notification on OSX no growl (ID: 3419105)
- Better kiwix-serve default loading if no welcome page is defined in ZIM (ID: 3417227)
- Fixed Freezes on Windows 7 (ID: 3422838)
New in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 3 (Oct 6, 2011)
- Many usability improvements and bugfixes were made.
- New static versions are available for Linux and Sugar.
New in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 2 (Aug 12, 2011)
- Many usability improvements and bugs fixes were made.
- Part of them were regressions introduced three weeks ago with the 0.9 beta1 release.
New in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 1 (Jul 22, 2011)
- Remove a hard coded path in kiwix-compact.sh (ID: 3135956)
- Avoid the flickering during mouseover links after canceling the indexing
- Force loading no plugin to avoid any problem (with libmoon for example)
- kiwix-index backend argument is now an option and set as "xapian" per default
- Fix regressions responsible for lower case titles in result list (ID: 3147594)
- Implement the HTTP 404 error in kiwix-serve
- Fix a small bug in the indexing code to avoid forgetting around 100 articles per ZIM file
- Disable DNS prefetching for external links
- New locales: Polish, Dutch
- Open a ZIM file directly from the command line
- Gnome and KDE integration: mime-type recognition + icon & application associations (ZIM double-click feature)
- A list of ZIM files to download is dynamicaly downloaded in the help page if user online (ID: 3165272)
- Simplification and improvment of the searchbar (no search button anymore, always available, standardized, ...)
- New Find-in-text bar (like in firefox, at the bottom), to replace the dialogbox.
- Result sidebar removed and replaced by a result web page "a la google"
- Usage of jar files for a quicker startup
- kiwix-serve CPU usage improvement (ID: 3213104)
- New integrated content manager/downloader
- Introduction of Desktop notifications (ID: 3315162)
- New way to open link in new tab with shortcuts or drag&drop (ID: 3311320)
- Option to change the profile directory
New in Kiwix 0.9 Alpha 7 (Dec 6, 2010)
- This version mainly fixes bugs.