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Changelog

Release 1.7.2

  • ENNHNCEMENT: Added more diagnostic APIs to the API panel in Configuration
  • ENHANCEMENT: Added refresh button for picked folder in Configuration (UWP or File System Access API)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Added some extra directories of useful ZIM archives to Donwload library
  • ENHANCEMENT: Provide option to allow image manipulation (saving to disk or opening in new tab)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Provide contextual warnings for features that do not work well with dynamic content
  • ENHANCEMENT: Added help section in About concerning link handling, dynamic content, new windows, etc.
  • ENHANCEMENT: Verbose tooltips provided for several options in Configuration
  • UPDATE: Sample ZIM changed to wikipedia_en_100_nopic_2021-08.zim in order to reduce app size
  • UPDATE: New option to change right click to double right click for opening new window or tab
  • FIX: Issue preventing correct parsing of ZIM archive path in some contexts in SW mode
  • FIX: Some app crashes when switching the UWP app to SW mode
  • FIX: Printing in SW mode (load all images correctly before printing)
  • FIX: Restoring DOM after printing in SW mode
  • FIX: Issues with toolbars getting stuck on after searching for text in article
  • FIX: Better replication of infobox mobile and desktop styles
  • FIX: Typo in code causing some pages to load assets incorrectly in jQuery mode

Release 1.6.0

  • FEATURE: New dropdown in Download Library allows filtering the list of archives by subject (for some ZIM types)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Sorting the Download Library list by clicking on the Size / Last modified / Name headers
  • ENHANCEMENT: The app can now take advantage of native Promises (faster than Q)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Decompressors now loaded as fast binary WASM modules if the brower supports WebAssembly
  • UPDATE: Sample ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2021-07.zim
  • EXPERIMENTAL: Intalled PWA can now be opened offline when double-clicking ZIM archive (depends on File Handling API)
  • FIX: More displaced hatnotes corrected
  • FIX: Style injection code that would (rarely) cause an exception on some ZIM types

Release 1.5.0

  • FEATURE: Search with wildcards .*, .+ or regex syntax (?:my_regular_expression)
  • FEATURE: (Experimental) PWA is paritcipating in File Handling API origin trial
  • ENHANCEMENT: Significant speed-up by using native Promise API, or modern polyfill where needed
  • ENHANCEMENT: Added full usage/syntax notes for title search and Alphabetical Title Index
  • ENHANCEMENT: Include h4 headings in Table of Contents
  • ENHANCEMENT: Report number of titles scanned for long title searches
  • UPDATE: Sample ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2021-06.zim
  • FIX: Display of ZIM Archive Index
  • FIX: Bug which failed to detect images correctly in a new tab
  • FIX: Touch-zoom of contents of iframe no longer blanks part of the display
  • FIX: Broken zoom of contents of iframe (with UI buttons) in Internet Explorer
  • FIX: Bug setting up backlinks which caused some pages not to load
  • FIX: Unhandled exception when cite ref was not found

Release 1.4.2

  • ENHANCEMENT: Improve zooming and re-flowing the article contents in browsers that support the zoom style property
  • ENHANCEMENT: Add a Content Security Policy preventing contents of a page from connecting to online resources
  • FIX: Crash in UWP app after updating a ZIM archive
  • FIX: Improve handover from local code to PWA code to prevent rogue error message
  • FIX: Improve page composition timing for non-MS browsers

Release 1.4.1

  • FIX: Critical bug where article is not unhidden in time on slow systems in jQuery mode
  • FIX: Issues with dark mode in Gutenberg ZIMs using SW mode
  • FIX: Missing images from book lists in Gutenberg ZIMs

Release 1.4.0

  • ENHANCEMENT: Pre-calculate position and size of article namespace in legacy ZIMs (speeds up binary search)
  • ENHANCEMENT: New option to move navigation buttons to the top toolbar
  • UPDATE: Sample ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2021-05.zim
  • UPDATE: System dark/light mode now used for "auto" setting in modern browsers (as well as UWP)
  • UPDATE: KaTeX to v0.13.11
  • FIX: Double-clicking on archive failed to launch it in UWP app running in SW mode
  • FIX: Hover and active colours on buttons
  • FIX: Hide jump in page position during article load in Service Worker mode
  • FIX: Adjusted timing of hiding and showing the article during page composition
  • FIX: Intermittent failure to compose page in UWP app on mobile
  • FIX: Reposition multiple displaced hatnotes
  • FIX: Click on document reloads article when open new window feature is off
  • FIX: Bug which prevented auto launch of packaged file on first install
  • FIX: Issue preventing the article window from receiving focus for keyboard input

Release 1.3.2

  • FEATURE: Open a new browsable tab or window with right-click, long-press, ctrl-click, middle-click
  • UPDATE: Sample archive updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2021-04
  • UPDATE: Release Linux AppImage packages for Electron-based build
  • ENHANCEMENT: Alt-left or Ctrl-left (and same for right key) can now be used for navigation
  • FIX: Prevent flash between page loads by adapting empty screen to the selected theme color
  • FIX: Crash on upgrade of ZIM archive in some contexts
  • FIX: Subtitle dislplay on videos
  • FIX: Download of media and subtitles
  • FIX: Display of list-based home pages
  • FIX: Failure to apply dark theme to articles with no CSS
  • FIX: Bug affecting middle-click when opening a new window or tab
  • FIX: Bug which hid the file selectors when the app could not get a handle on a file or directory
  • FIX: Bug preventing touch navigation

Release 1.2.5

  • ENHANCEMENT: PWA now adapts if it was launched from a basic packaged app
  • UPDATE: Location of cached styles tweaked to reflect latest location in ZIM archives
  • UPDATE: Cached main pages for WikiMed and Wikivoyage updated and used by vanilla app
  • FIX: Properly define width of infoboxes in Wikimedia Destop style

Release 1.2.4

  • UPDATE: Packaged archive updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2021-03
  • ENHANCEMENT: Support v1 article index in no-namespace ZIM archives
  • ENHANECMENT: Detect and correct erroneous hard-coded sytling of navboxes in recent ZIMs
  • FIX: Correct width of infoboxes in Wikipedia Desktop style
  • FIX: Failure to recognize mouse click on title index entry
  • FIX: Issue preventing proper relocation of infobox when transforming to desktop style

Release 1.2.3

  • UPDATE: Better messaging around 'failure' to load SW mode (not a real failure)
  • FIX: Calculation of appRoot directory

Release 1.2.2

  • ENHANCEMENT: Use a list of customized start pages even if the app is generic
  • FIX: Map markers not showing in Service Worker mode
  • FIX: Implement internal app:// links for app-based assets
  • FIX: Race condition in handover to PWA code
  • FIX: Faulty permalinks

Release 1.2.1

  • UPDATE: Minor update to improve handover between local and PWA code
  • ENHANCEMENT: If app is running as a PWA, its identity is changed to Kiwix JS PWA
  • FIX: Display of masonry tiles in JQuery mode with latest ZIMs

Release 1.2.0

  • ENHANCEMENT: Enable Service Worker mode in UWP app
  • ENHANCEMENT: New domain pwa.kiwix.org for the PWA/UWP app
  • UPDATE: Preliminary support for ZIM archives with no namespace
  • UPDATE: Revised Privacy Policy to reflect PWA usage

Release 1.1.4

  • UPDATE: Included ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2021-01.zim
  • UPDATE: More consistent install prompt display in Configuration (for PWA)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Provide more robust upgrade process for PWAs, including notification banner
  • FIX: Disable HTTP cache when pre-caching upgraded app files
  • FIX: Switching to jQuery mode in the PWA app no longer prevents the app working offline
  • FIX: Display of masonry-style landing pages in SW mode
  • FIX: Inconsistent use of Settings Store during app initialization
  • FIX: Delete accidentally created Indexed Databases with wrong filename on startup (where possible)
  • FIX: Provide explicit Content Security Policy headers to reduce or eliminate CORS errors in SW mode
  • FIX: Broken manual display of images in SW mode
  • FIX: Broken "Open all headings" option in SW mode
  • FIX: Printing in SW mode
  • FIX: Bugs with reload of last visited article
  • META: Create-DraftRelease PowerShell script supports automatic creation of GitHub releases for more versions of the app

Release 1.1.3

  • UPDATE: Included ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2020-12.zim
  • UPDATE: Support new location of mobile and desktop styles in Wikimedia ZIMs
  • UPDATE: Upgrade Settings store to use localStorage over cookies where available
  • ENHANCEMENT: Enable use of Native File System with NWJS
  • FIX: Styling of index-based landing pages
  • FIX: Bugs with file picking in Native FS

Release 1.1.2

  • UPDATE: Included ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2020-11.zim
  • UPDATE: WebP support (via polyfill) for older browsers including Windows Mobile
  • ENHANCEMENT: Improved block cache and faster conversion of file slice to blob
  • REGRESSION: Manual extraction of images reverted to one-by-one to prevent errors with WebP batch decoding
  • FIX: Critical error on some new Wikipedia articles containing equations
  • FIX: Prevent erroneous display of Active Content Warning with ZSTD archives
  • FIX: Reduce some cross-origin errors

Release 1.0.0

  • UPDATE: Included ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2020-09.zim
  • UPDATE: App now supports newest archives encoded with ZSTD compression
  • ENHANCEMENT: Decompression speed gains with ZSTD
  • ENHANCEMENT: Allow use of keyboard to select archive from archive list
  • ENHANCEMENT: Option to display articles with all sections open or closed
  • FIX: Prevent archive list from jumping to wrong archive on click
  • FIX: Critical error on load if packaged archive name has changed
  • FIX: Download links are no longer erroneously cached by the Service Worker
  • DEPRECATED: Scrolling information for new users

Release 0.9.9.992 (beta)

  • UPDATE: Included ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2020-08.zim
  • UPDATE: Some new Kiwix icons
  • FIX: Prevent extraneous titles appearing in search
  • FIX: Broken drag-and-drop
  • FIX: Bug with construction of backlinks preventing load of some Wikipedia articles
  • FIX: Calculate path of breakout icon correctly in SW mode
  • ENHANCEMENT: Use Native File System API in PWA version
  • ENHANCEMENT: Fix printing in the Electron app
  • ENHANCEMENT: Support launching Electron app from shortcut
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better error reporting in console log

Release 0.9.9.991 (beta)

  • FIX: Bug preventing all Kiwix apps accessing latest ZIMs (incorrect method of reading MIME type list)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Included ZIM changed to wikipedia_en_100_maxi_2020-06.zim
  • FIX: Several bugfixes to allow better running of Electron app in SW mode

Release 0.9.9.99 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Major upgrade to the title-search algorithm: search is now near-case-insensitive
  • UPDATE: Included sample ZIM updated to wikipedia_en_ray_charles_maxi_2020-05.zim

Release 0.9.9.98 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Make app compatible with Electron / NWJS as a packaged app
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better user experience for PWA version
  • ENHANCEMENT: Attempt to make app a little more usable on Android browsers
  • FIX: Incorrect layout when transforming WikiMed articles to desktop style
  • FIX: Failure to load landing page when backing into it from history.back
  • FIX: Incorrect hiding of toolbars after using in-page search
  • UPDATE: Update Q Promise support to v1.5.1

Release 0.9.9.97 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Intuitive toolbar hiding/showing on scroll down/up
  • ENHANCEMENT: Added block cache to speed up search considerably
  • ENHANCEMENT: Provide option to set number of results to find when searching
  • ENHANCEMENT: Provide app install experience for PWA
  • FIX: Search results can now be scrolled by touch on Windows 10 tablets
  • FIX: Corrected height of search results window so content is not hidden under footer
  • FIX: Prevent ugly jumping of iframe on new article load
  • FIX: Allow use of special characters in article search
  • FIX: Remove broken links to deprecated portable versions of archives
  • UPDATE: Added missing stylesheets for cache
  • UPDATE: Added some more initial files to load for PWA

Release 0.9.9.96 (beta)

  • FIX: Broken display of Kiwix download library
  • FIX: Broken display of MathML when there are no images in the document
  • FIX: Search bar always remains on-screen if selected (in non-mobile contexts)
  • FIX: All images above the fold are now loaded (async timing of image scanning was premature)
  • FIX: Math typeset by KaTeX is rendered better when there are mbox statements (fbox is used instead)
  • FIX: Display-style maths SVGs are now correctly inverted in dark mode
  • FIX: Standard dark-mode SVGs in infoboxes and elsewhere are now displayed correctly without inversion
  • FIX: Truncated display of search box
  • UPDATE: Updated KaTeX library to v0.11.1
  • ENHANCEMENT: Include more files in PWA payload to allow better offline functionality in PWA scenarios
  • ENHANCEMENT: Appxbundle is now signed with Kiwix certificate for a better sideloading experience
  • KNOWN ISSUE: In mobile contexts, top bar always gets hidden by Bootstrap on scroll

Release 0.9.9.95 (beta)

  • UPDATE: Improved support for stylesheets in latest Wikipedia ZIMs
  • UPDATE: Updated the Privacy Policy
  • ENHANCEMENT: The base app (not UWP) can now be installed as a PWA (visit https://kiwix.github.io/kiwix-js-windows/www/index.html to try)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Assets are now cached in Service Worker mode
  • ENHANCEMENT: Support MathML in latest Wikimedia ZIMs
  • FIX: Fixed broken drag-and-drop
  • FIX: Enable page extraction in Service Worker mode
  • FIX: Rare condition where a missing ZIM causes the app to crash on load
  • FIX: Fixed broken display of active content warning

Release 0.9.9.94 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Provide an alert if a packaged or picked file cannot be found
  • ENHANCEMENT: App can now be compiled with Electron or NWJS to support Win XP/7/8.1 (see releases)
  • ENHANCEMENT: CORS errors are now detected and a message provided to the user to help resolve
  • ENHANCEMENT: Fallback to localStorage if cookies are not supported (e.g. running Chromium from file:///)
  • FIX: Bug with equations containing apostrophes
  • FIX: ZIMs running in quirks mode are now patched to run in standards mode
  • FIX: Better algorithm for adding missing notes backlinks
  • FIX: Better process for hiding navbar (though Bootstrap still ignores on mobile)
  • FIX: All blocks are now opened for details-summary tags
  • FIX: Bugs with the timing of display blanking between page loads
  • FIX: Missing target attribute for hyperlinks to some external files
  • FIX: Race condition preventing jQuery alert.hide() statements from running
  • FIX: Enable dark theme and style transformations in Service Worker mode
  • FIX: Enable printing in Service Worker mode
  • FIX: Critical page reload loop when switching styles in print dialogue
  • FIX: Update printing filters to support deatils-summary ZIMs
  • FIX: Rare condition where a missing ZIM causes the app to crash on load
  • FIX: Article is now re-loaded on change of content injection mode
  • FIX: Scripts no longer run in Quirks mode (for clients supporting Service Worker)
  • UPDATE: August 2019 update of Ray Charles ZIM

Release 0.9.9.91 (beta)

  • FIX: Remembered last page is now properly blanked on new archive load
  • FIX: The article content div is now hidden until the HTML for the requested article is injected
  • FIX: Number of stylesheets retrieved from ZIM was not being counted properly, causing some pages to load twice
  • FIX: New MediaWiki ZIMs with details-summary tags are now supported
  • FIX: Low-level ZIM reader now conforms to libzim logic in deriving title from url
  • FIX: Low-level ZIM reader now reads the MIME type list from the ZIM
  • FIX: A system alert utility is now provided, to avoid using synchronous alert()
  • FIX: Bug causing localStorage to fill up has been fixed
  • FIX: A workaround has been added for improperly coded hyperlinks in subdirectories in WikiMedia ZIM files
  • FIX: Various tweaks to cached and trasnformed styles
  • FIX: Many more equations now rendered correctly due to change of engine
  • FIX: Service Worker mode now works in browser context (not app context)
  • FIX: MathTex now rendered in Service Worker mode
  • UPDATE: Removed dependency on base tag, simplifying handling of hyperlinks
  • ENHANCEMENT: Links in clickable image maps (e.g. in Wikivoyage) are now supported
  • ENHANCEMENT: App code supports developer setting a custom start page for a packaged ZIM
  • ENHANCEMENT: A ZIM archive can be loaded through drag-and-drop of the file into the app
  • ENHANCEMENT: A ZIM archive can be loaded by double-clicking the file in Explorer
  • ENHANCEMENT: Article search results can now be selected with physical keyboard (down, up, enter keys)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better lazy image loading, and enable lazy loading for Service Worker mode
  • ENHANCEMENT: Subtle fade-in effect for lazy-loaded images
  • ENHANCEMENT: Allow breakout link to work in Service Worker mode
  • ENHANCEMENT: Change MathTex rendering engine from MathJax to KaTeX (much faster)

Release 0.9.9.90 (beta)

  • FIX: Remembered last page is now properly blanked on new archive load
  • FIX: Number of stylesheets retrieved from ZIM was not being counted properly, causing some pages to load twice
  • FIX: The article content div is now hidden until the HTML for the requested article is injected

Release 0.9.9.89 (beta)

  • FIX: Fixed regression preventing use of download library
  • FIX: Fixed problems searching for dirEntries with empty titles in new ZIMs
  • FIX: Correctly handle anchor links with a single #
  • ENHANCEMENT: Improved styling of checkboxes in light and dark modes

Release 0.9.9.88 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Article can now be sent to device's browser for reading, side-by-side viewing, printing
  • ENHANCEMENT: A breakout icon can optionally be shown on each page to enable sending page to browser (see Settings)
  • ENHANCEMENT: A new "auto" setting for dark mode and dark theme follows the system default for UWP apps
  • ENHANCEMENT: Checkbox and radio buttons are now styled and coloured for better visibility (also larger)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Packaged apps now default to showing the most appropriate ZIM archive types from Library
  • ENHANCEMENT: Streamlined the process for adding other languages of packaged app ZIM files
  • ENHANCEMENT: Language and date selectors in Library are now responsive to each other
  • ENHANCEMENT: Download link more clearly signalled
  • UPDATE: Deal with re-organized stylesheets in mwoffliner ZIMs
  • FIX: Fixed regression caused by removal of timeout for find in article function
  • FIX: App detects a language that is predominantly ASCII and uses left-side word searching in that case (Chinese open-type search should be unaffected)
  • FIX: Prevent crash if changing language selector on "wrong" screen
  • FIX: Prevent timeout-related crashes on slower
  • FIX: Prevent unusable app state after clicking non-Roman alphabet button in Archive Index

Release 0.9.9.87 (beta)

  • FIX: Removed timeout preventing fast typing for find in article function (Ctrl-F / Alt-F)
  • FIX: Allow searching in article for languages that do not use spaces (such as Chinese)

Release 0.9.9.85 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Support for playing media (video/audio) in the ZIM if the device has the required codec
  • ENHANCEMENT: Support for "downloading" media (e.g. videos+subtitles) from the ZIM
  • ENHANCEMENT: Media are launched via appropriate app selection menu after download (mobile)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Preliminary support for TED and dirtybiology ZIMs
  • ENHANCEMENT: Preliminary support for Project Gutenberg ZIMs
  • ENHANCEMENT: Support for "downloading" epub ebooks from Gutenberg ZIMs
  • ENHANCEMENT: Epubs are launched in Edge's built-in epub reader, or via app selection menu
  • ENHANCEMENT: Typing a space in search box now displays an Archive Index
  • ENHANCEMENT: Option to support non-Roman alphabets for Archive Index
  • ENHANCEMENT: If active content is detected in the ZIM, information is given about accessing the Index instead
  • FIX: Add startup bootloop crash prevention
  • FIX: Exceptions produced by unsupported JS in ZIM articles are now caught
  • FIX: Prevent app crash with malformed anchor references
  • FIX: Rogue ampersands in MathJax output are now correctly escaped
  • FIX: Correct logic in binary search so it doesn't stall if assets in A namespace have no title
  • FIX: Missing footnote reference numbers in desktop ZIMs transformed to mobile style
  • FIX: Assets with unescaped characters in URL should now be retrieved correctly
  • FIX: Individual extraction of images when images are disabled in Configuration

Release 0.9.9.8 (beta)

  • UPDATE: Ray Charles ZIM to October 2018 version
  • ENHANCEMENT: Add a modern CSS spinner and rework status messages
  • ENHANCEMENT: Neater presentation of article search results
  • FIX: Crash when previously picked archive has been moved or deleted
  • FIX: Support changed format of anchor references in latest English Wikipedia
  • FIX: Correctly apply mobile styles when one of the defaults is missing
  • FIX: Incorrect utf8 characters in mobile styles

Release 0.9.9.7 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Optimization of decompression process
  • WORKAROUND: Prevent periodic hang in Service Worker mode
  • FIX: Crash in RegExp engine caused by malformed backreferences in some articles

Release 0.9.9.6 (beta)

  • UPDATE: Mobile styles
  • ENHANCEMENT: New compile of decoding engine provides significant performance improvement
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better memory management to prevent app crashes
  • ENHANCEMENT: Reduced dependency on jQuery for further performance gains
  • ENHANCEMENT: Tweaks to dark theme
  • ENHANCEMENT: Improvements to show-hide sections toggle function with footnote/endnote references
  • FIX: Headers that open or close sections are no longer accidentally selected on tap or click
  • FIX: Descriptive text for UI controls is now non-selectable for cleaner app experience
  • FIX: Whitespace at the end of the page is now preserved when hiding reference section
  • FIX: Tapping headers now only opens and closes sections on narrow screens as intended by WikiMedia

Release 0.9.9.5 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Headings in article can be toggled open or closed with tap or click
  • ENHANCEMENT: Current page is cached in localStorage for very fast restart and reloading
  • ENHANCEMENT: Automatically switch to desktop style for better printing result
  • FIX: Bug which prevented switching the printing device (caused app crash)
  • FIX: Bug in download links preventing display of language codes that are substrings of other language codes

Release 0.9.9.4 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Experimental support for printing articles
  • ENHANCEMENT: Print zoom capability
  • ENHANCEMENT: Prevent printing of location pins
  • ENHANCEMENT: Set maximum page width to 100% before printing
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better presentation of About and Changelog information
  • WORKAROUND: MW-Offliner bug which places extraneous tags in some HTML id attributes

Release 0.9.9.3 (beta)

  • FIX: Article now reloads correctly when switching styles
  • FIX: Unhandled exception after using in-article word search
  • FIX: Browser history now remembered for first page load
  • ENHANCEMENT: Filter ZIM archives by date in download links
  • ENHANCEMENT: Option to remove maximum page width restriction for Wikipedia articles
  • ENHANCEMENT: Setting or clearing dark themes no longer require page reload
  • ENHANCEMENT: Wider range of infoboxes, and "homonymie" hatnotes supported
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better algorithm for moving first paragraph when there are stacked infoboxes

Release 0.9.9.2 (beta)

  • FIX: Added more padding for content hidden under the bottom bar
  • FIX: New mode of injecting HTML into iframe fixes baseUrl issues
  • ENHANCEMENT: Some code redundancy removed
  • ENHANCEMENT: Faster typesetting of TeX equations
  • ENHANCEMENT: Experimental support for equations in mathoverflow and related stackechange ZIMs
  • ENHANCEMENT: Dark theme support for stackexchange ZIMs
  • ENHANCEMENT: Uncluttered the UI for file selection

Release 0.9.9 (beta)

  • FIX: Reduced memory usage for decompressing multiple SVG images/equations to prevent crash on devices with 1GB RAM
  • FIX: Display bug causing Settings tab to remain selected after article load
  • FIX: Corrected dark-style backgrounds in some infoboxes on WikiMed
  • FIX: Loads landing page when an article is not found (instead of throwing a silent error)
  • WORKAROUND for misplaced hatnotes in mobile-style ZIMs
  • WORKAROUND for hidden IPA pronunciation information on some articles
  • ENHANCEMENT: 'Unclicking' a tab (Settings or About) now returns the user to the article
  • ENHANCEMENT: Activating dark theme for UI now activates article dark theme by default
  • ENHANCEMENT: Improved handling and display of file selectors
  • ENHANCEMENT: Clearer navigation signposting from About tab
  • ENHANCEMENT: Dedicated icon for WikiMed archives

Release 0.9.7 (beta)

  • UPDATE: January 2018 update of Wikivoyage ZIM archive to wikivoyage_en_all_novid_2018-01.zim
  • ENHANCEMENT: The Wikivoyage app now hides the file selectors by default in the Config menu to avoid confusion and to encourage use of Kiwix JS for anything not related to Wikivoyage
  • FIX: Added icon indicating that a link is to an external web site
  • ENHANCEMENT: Inject footnote backlinks if the ZIM doesn't have any
  • ENHANCEMENT: Support ZIMs that have subdirectories (Stackexchange family ZIMs)
  • FIX: Bugs in mobile to desktop style transformation
  • FIX: Issue with infoboxes and images not stacking correctly on mobile displays
  • FIX: Support new-style infoboxes in German Wikivoyage
  • FIX: Last-visited page was not being remembered when user picked the file as a single archive
  • FIX: Bug which prevented the dark mode by simple inversion from functioning
  • FIX: Issue with toolbar icons being misaligned on small screens

Release 0.9.6 (beta)

  • FIX: Prevent bottom toolbar from wrapping across two lines on small screens
  • ENHANCEMENT: Enabled autoloading of last-read page on app start (and privacy option to turn this off)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Geo-location co-ordinates in English and German Wikivoyage are represented with a location marker that links to the Maps app (opens map to show the precise location)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Telephone numbers marked with tel: links will attempt to open a relevant app for dialling (e.g., Skype or the People app) when selected
  • FIX: Links in Stackexchange ZIMs are now recognized and can be used to open the content
  • WORKAROUND: Some Wikivoyage entries have HTML showing in the header, and this is now (temporarily) suppressed (the HTML is interpreted) until the ZIMs are fixed
  • ENHANCEMENT: The toolbar icon now switches to a Wikivoyage logo if a Wikivoyage ZIM is loaded

Release 0.9.3 (beta)

  • WORKAROUND: Mis-aligned toolbar icons on smaller screens
  • FIX: Rogue HTML showing in some pages from recent ZIM archives
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better experience when scanning local storage for archives

Release 0.9.0 (beta)

  • ENHANCEMENT: Auto-loading of ZIM archives on device storage
  • ENHANCEMENT: In-page search / highlighting with Ctrl-F / Alt-F or tap on search button
  • ENHANCEMENT: Uses UWP APIs for sotrage: Future Access List so that users do not need to pick their ZIM file every time
  • ENHANCEMENT: Dark-themed User Interface
  • ENHANCEMENT: Experimental Wikipedia Dark Theme
  • ENHANCEMENT: Font scaling for articles and for the UI
  • ENHANCEMENT: Cleaner, minimalistic UI (eliminated hamburger menu due to poor navigability)
  • FIX: Display of SVG files is handled by careful queuing of images to send to the decompressor (fixes hang in articles with many equations)
  • ENHANCEMENT: If the TeX string of an equation is available, it will be typeset using MathJax (huge speed improvement)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Transform the layout of Wikipedia articles from desktop to mobile style and vice versa (experimental)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Disable the display of images, and extract them one-by-one as needed (for slow devices)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Only send images in current viewport to the decompressor, and prefetch configurable (by developer) number of images from above and below the viewport