Kiwix 0.9 RC2 - Changelog

What's new in Kiwix 0.9 RC2:

January 3rd, 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)

What's new in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 5:

December 29th, 2011

· This beta fixes many issues related to Windows, especially with Windows7.

What's new in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 4:

November 2nd, 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)

What's new in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 3:

October 6th, 2011

· Many usability improvements and bugfixes were made.
· New static versions are available for Linux and Sugar.

What's new in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 2:

August 12th, 2011

· Many usability improvements and bugs fixes were made.
· Part of them were regressions introduced three weeks ago with the 0.9 beta1 release.

What's new in Kiwix 0.9 Beta 1:

July 22nd, 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

What's new in Kiwix 0.9 Alpha 7:

December 6th, 2010

· This version mainly fixes bugs.