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Koodo Reader Changelog

What's new in Koodo Reader 1.6.6

Apr 6, 2024
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Optimized User Interface.
  • Improved touchpad sensitivity.
  • Enhanced chapter algorithm.
  • Bring back tooltips
  • Added functionality to confirm modifications by pressing the enter key.
  • FIXES:
  • Fixed issue where the search page couldn't be exited by clicking the close button.
  • Resolved problem of repeated highlights.
  • Addressed known issue with the input box.
  • Fixed non-functional Moyu mode.
  • Resolved issue where books couldn't be opened with a double click when the "open books in the main window" option was enabled.
  • Fixed issue where Text-to-Speech (TTS) didn't work when switching chapters.
  • Fixed issue where the app icon was not displayed on Linux.
  • Addressed known issue with multi-select functionality.
  • Corrected improperly displayed highlights in PDFs.
  • Fixed issue where the current reading chapter was not highlighted in the table of contents.
  • Resolved issue where hyperlinks in PDFs couldn't be opened.
  • Removed extra 0 in reading progress display.

New in Koodo Reader 1.6.5 (Feb 26, 2024)

  • NOTED:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodoreader.com for stable release.
  • NEW:
  • Dictionary optimization
  • UI optimization
  • Now you can adjust book margin in single and scrolling mode
  • Using space key to navigate to the next page is back
  • FIX:
  • Extra spacing between each paragragh
  • Repeated highlights when selecting multiple paragraphs
  • Text blocked when entering fullscreen mode
  • Wrong book displayed when opening book in the main window
  • Parsing issue with some mobi books
  • Popup not showing when selecting texts on touch screen (Please turn on touch screen mode in the setting)
  • Text blocked when enabling sliding animation
  • Mirror

New in Koodo Reader 1.6.3 (Jan 17, 2024)

  • New:
  • Now you can contact us right from the app, just click the Report button in the header
  • Add OneDrive, Google Drive, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, S3 and S3 Compatible for backup
  • Add Wikipedia for Dictionary with support for more than 300 languages
  • Google Dictionary now support more than 100 languages
  • Add pronounciations, audios, example sentence support to dictionary
  • Add book format to book info
  • Now you can batch add books to favorite
  • UI optimization
  • Fix:
  • Bing translation not working
  • Code display issue

New in Koodo Reader 1.6.2 (Jan 13, 2024)

  • Noted:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz/ for stable release.
  • New:
  • Now you can contact us right from the app, just click the Report button in the header
  • Add Deepl and Yandex for translation
  • Add OneDrive, Google Drive, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, S3 and S3 Compatible for backup
  • Add Wikipedia for Dictionary with support for more than 300 languages
  • Google Dictionary now support more than 100 languages
  • Add pronounciations, audios, example sentence support to dictionary
  • Add book format to book info
  • Now you can batch add books to favorite
  • UI optimization
  • Fix:
  • Bing translation not working
  • Code display issue

New in Koodo Reader 1.6.1 (Dec 17, 2023)

  • Noted:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz/ for stable release.
  • New:
  • UI optimization
  • Performance optimization
  • Mouse sensitivity optimization
  • Fix:
  • Highlight not displayed
  • Highlight displayed in the wrong position
  • Content navigation issue
  • Markdown file parse issue
  • Mimical background not displayed after customizing background color

New in Koodo Reader 1.6.0 (Nov 6, 2023)

  • NOTED:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz/ for stable release.
  • NEW:
  • UI optimization
  • Performance optimization
  • Multiselect function optimization
  • FIX:
  • Image ratio issue
  • Can't open markdown files
  • Garbled characters in txt files
  • Footnote and content navigation issue
  • Can't import pdf files when turning on auto precache
  • Can't enter fullscreen mode
  • Text overlapping
  • Popup position issue

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.9 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • NOTED:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz/ for stable release.
  • NEW:
  • Major UI optimization
  • Book shelf moved to the sidebar
  • Add dictionary support, and the glossary can be exported too.
  • Now you choose source language for translation
  • Add dark mode, eye protection mode to pdf reader
  • Add reading progress support to pdf files
  • Add language support to Tibetan
  • Change default export format from xlsx to csv
  • Add new setting to not to crop cover in the book list
  • Add metadata support to pdf
  • Now the pdf cover is displayed by default
  • Add restoration warning
  • FIX:
  • TTS not working in some scenarios
  • Fix the extra scrollbar in pdf reader
  • Selected text blocked by popup

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.8 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • fix bug

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.7 (Jul 29, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Now you can precache book to increase its opening speed，this process might take a while for large files
  • Add option to auto precache books after import
  • UI optimization
  • Chapter algorithm optimization
  • FIXED:
  • TTS not working
  • Text blocked in scroll mode
  • Books sorting issue
  • Images display issue
  • Blank page in azw3 files
  • Footnote and content navigation issue in epub files
  • Batch adding books to shelf failed in some scenarios
  • UI setting not working in some books

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.6 (Jun 25, 2023)

  • NOTED:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz for stable release.
  • NEW:
  • UI optimization
  • Chapter algorithm optimization
  • Auto restart after changing settings
  • Package size optimization
  • Add option to hide floating button in PDF readers, thanks to @amaranthine-dev
  • Add language support to Armenian, Bulgarian and Indonesian
  • Now you can scroll the book with up and down key in scroll mode
  • Auto hide scrollbar in scroll mode
  • FIX:
  • Can't remember the correct reading position in some scenarios
  • Chapter navigation bug
  • Keyboard shortcuts not working in some scenarios
  • Language display bug
  • Can't add notes and highlights in pdf reader when using two-column mode
  • TTS not working in some scenarios
  • Wrong image size in some books
  • Wrong page height in scroll mode
  • Some chapters showing "00" in the header
  • Can't navigate to footnote and chapter in desktop version(Only working for epub)
  • Can't import some epub files
  • repeated content in the last two pages in some scenarios

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.5 (May 22, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Export books into zip
  • Export highlights and notes into excel
  • Add support to Bionic Reading
  • Add support to 32 bit Linux
  • Add speed support to Azure tts
  • FIX:
  • Auto highlight search results not working
  • Gap between two paragraph of tts text
  • Tags still exsit in notes after deleting
  • Icon not aligned when collapsing sidabar
  • Rendering issue in scroll mode
  • Footnote and content navigation issue in epub
  • Bookmark icon not showing in some scenerios
  • Shortcut not working in some scenerios

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.4 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Add more TTS voice options from Azure
  • Auto highlight search result in the book
  • Auto highlight tts text in the book
  • Add language support to Bengali, Dutch, Italian and Thai
  • Optimization on chapter analysis algorithm
  • FIX:
  • Can't open book when book name contains special characters
  • Bookmarks not showing after turning pages
  • Some books can't navigate to next chapter or add notes
  • Some books displayed on half of the screen
  • Can't delete books after disabling trash bin
  • Scrollbar too close to the text in scroll mode
  • Can't import some books

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.3 (Mar 19, 2023)

  • NOTED:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz for stable release.
  • NEW:
  • Optimizing memory usage and opening speed of epub and txt files
  • Now you can disable trash bin function in the Setting
  • Auto highlight and scroll to current chapter when reading
  • New option to hide books already added to the shelf
  • New option to delete book itself when removing it from shelf
  • New option to hide popup when selecting texts
  • Auto import books into the current shelf
  • Add Arm64 support to Windows and Linux
  • Koodo is now on Flathub Thanks to @proletarius101
  • FIX:
  • Books displayed on half of the screen
  • Pathname not changing after changing storage location
  • Text blocked in some scenerios
  • Images and stylesheet not loaded properly

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.2 (Feb 21, 2023)

  • NOTED:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz for stable release.
  • NEW:
  • Switch to new render engine, please help us improve it by reporting bugs in issues section
  • Add format support to cb7, azw and mhtml
  • Add cover support to mobi, azw3, azw and comics
  • Add sliding animation to epub
  • Add language support to Arabic and turkish
  • Remove Google Analytics
  • FIX:
  • Footnote display issue
  • Book sorting issue
  • Heart icon not showing in cover mode
  • Page number and Chapter number not changing in progress panel
  • Comic book render issue
  • Bing translation not working
  • Some issue related to epub.js

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.1 (Dec 20, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Support built-in css in azw3 files
  • Support built-in font in epub files
  • Add covers to fb2 and pdf files (For PDF, you need to manually turn it on from the Setting)
  • Add reading progress to mobi, azw3, txt, fb2 files
  • Books with garble characters will not be imported from now on
  • Background color and text color change with night mode
  • Add Baidu Baike and Wikipedia to web search
  • Optimization on chapter analysis algorithm
  • Add Spanish, French, Portuguese and Persian translation thanks to the effort from the community
  • Now You can sort books in the shelf
  • Hide action dialog when mouse moves out of book cover
  • Now books have different icons in the file explorer according to their formats
  • New option to open external urls with built-in browser
  • Message box to ask whether to delete user settings when uninstalling
  • Option to open dev tool for debug
  • New option to turn on night mode with respect to system setting (Night mode based on your operating system)
  • Add keyboard shortcuts to pdf and djvu files
  • Web search engines add Naver.com
  • Add Japanese translation thanks to the effort from the community
  • Add TTS, text search, bookmark, reading time analysis support to all formats of books (PDF and DJVU not included )
  • Press F11 to enter or exit fullscreen mode
  • Add tutorial about how to work with Synology's webdav service
  • Our codebase has gone through major revision to improve its maintainability and robustness
  • Due to technique issue, web version of Koodo will stop supporting Tablet
  • Add German, Korean and Czech translation thanks for the effort from community
  • Add Google and Bing Translate, old translation service is deprecated and no longer usable
  • Add Polish translation thanks for the effort from community
  • Add Romanian translation thanks for the effort from community
  • Support MathML, TeX, and ASCIImath in epub files
  • Follow OS is now the default option for Apperance
  • FIXED:
  • Fix knowing bugs

New in Koodo Reader 1.5.0 Developer (Nov 20, 2022)

  • Noted:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz for stable release.
  • New
  • Support MathML, TeX, and ASCIImath in epub files
  • UI optimization
  • Follow OS is now the default option for Apperance
  • Our CI/CD workflow has now migrated from Appveyor to Github Action
  • Fix:
  • Translation not working in some scenerios
  • Can't import books after turning on Opening book without adding it to the library
  • Text partially blocked in scroll mode

New in Koodo Reader 1.4.9 Developer (Oct 17, 2022)

  • Noted:
  • This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodo.960960.xyz for stable release.
  • FIXED:
  • Batch import stopped unexpectedly
  • Can't open pdf after opening an epub book
  • Can't restore data when backup file is too large
  • Can't navigate chapters with chapter number
  • No warnings when importing failed
  • Pdf file can't be imported in some scenarios with Koodo warns "Duplicate Book"
  • Notes don't match the text in some scenarios
  • Reading time recording failed

New in Koodo Reader 1.3.9 (Aug 4, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Now you can highlight text and take notes on pdf, txt, mobi and azw3 files
  • double page mode and single page mode for cbr, cbz, cbt files
  • Improve launch speed for cbr, cbz, cbt files
  • Click Tab key to hide reader Window
  • Add sliding animation for mobi, azw3, txt and more
  • Reader option to switch between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese
  • UI Optimization
  • FIX:
  • Text at the end of each chapter not showing
  • Navigation issue when going back to last chapter
  • Can't go to centain chapter in scroll mode
  • Paragraph spacing not working in some books
  • Keyboard shortcut not working after navigating chapter
  • Page turning when editing notes
  • Can't enter fullscreen after exiting with keyboard shortcut
  • Can't redirect to the book from notes
  • Can't select the same text again
  • Can't double click to open large file
  • Can't open setting dialog when turning off update notification
  • Exported books is 4kb