<ahref="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2017-02_German_Wikipedia_and_2017-02_French_Wikipedia"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.1</span><spanclass="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2017-02 German Wikipedia and 2017-02 French Wikipedia</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Improve_performance_for_starting_app_as_well_as_creating_.2F_loading_personal_wikis"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.4</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Improve performance for starting app as well as creating / loading personal wikis</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Update_XULRunner_to_v31_for_Windows_machines"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.5</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Update XULRunner to v31 for Windows machines</span></a>
<ahref="#.28PC.29_Other_minor_fixes.2C_including_.3Fcurid_for_command-line_and_no_more_current_directory_for_logs"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.7</span><spanclass="toctext">(PC) Other minor fixes, including ?curid for command-line and no more current directory for logs</span></a>
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<ahref="#.3Fcurid_did_not_work_on_the_command-line"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.7.1</span><spanclass="toctext">?curid did not work on the command-line</span></a>
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<ahref="#No_more_current_directory_for_logs"><spanclass="tocnumber">1.7.2</span><spanclass="toctext">No more current directory for logs</span></a>
The PC version is a major release. It adds night mode, automatic page backup, performance improvements, an early-version of full-text search, and better support for French Wikipedia.
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2017-02_German_Wikipedia_and_2017-02_French_Wikipedia">(Wiki) Publish 2017-02 German Wikipedia and 2017-02 French Wikipedia</span>
XOWA now has night mode. To enable it, do Menu -> View -> Toggle Night mode. More info is at <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/UI/Night_mode.html"id="xolnki_17"title="App/UI/Night mode"class="xowa-visited">App/UI/Night_mode</a>
I implemented this feature over the past few days, so there may be some spots I missed. Also, if you have any suggestions about colors, CSS, or icons, please do contact me at <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Feedback.html"id="xolnki_18"title="Help/Feedback"class="xowa-visited">Help/Feedback</a>.
Go to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaCfg%3Fgrp%3Dxowa.wiki.edit.html"id="xolnki_19"title="Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.wiki.edit">Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.wiki.edit</a>
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Improve_performance_for_starting_app_as_well_as_creating_.2F_loading_personal_wikis">(PC) Improve performance for starting app as well as creating / loading personal wikis</span>
<b>Faster app startup on Windows machines</b>: Previously, the xowa.exe / xowa_64.exe would pre-allocate 256 MB on startup. On some machines, this seems to make bootup 20 to 30 seconds long. This build now doesn't allocate any pre-determined amount.
<b>Faster personal wiki loading</b>: XOWA used to load a database connection to every personal wikis at bootup. Now, XOWA will only load the database connection when it's opened.
The Main Page for 2017-02 French Wikipedia now uses the CSS flex directive. Unfortunately, this is not supported in XULRunner v24 but it is in XULRunner v31.
For Windows machines, XOWA now uses XULRunner v31. Note that 64-bit XULRunner is no longer available for download, so I used a copy I had downloaded a few years ago.
For Linux machines, XOWA still uses XULRunner v24. Unfortunately, XOWA can't upgrade to v31 because SWT doesn't support it on Linux. See: <ahref="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=437700"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=437700</a> The only alternative is to use webkit. See: <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/UI/HTML_Browser.html#WebKit"id="xolnki_20"title="App/UI/HTML Browser">App/UI/HTML_Browser#WebKit</a>
XOWA now has a basic full-text search feature. It should only be used for small wikis (like a personal wiki). It works by opening up every single page and searching for the text phrase. Although this sounds slow, it performs relatively quickly on modern generation machines (especially if you have a SSD). It also has the advantage of not taking up any space for search-indexing.
This feature will be expanded in the coming months, but any feedback is welcome. To try to it, go to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaSearch.html"id="xolnki_21"title="Special:XowaSearch"class="xowa-visited">Special:XowaSearch</a>
<spanclass="mw-headline"id=".28PC.29_Other_minor_fixes.2C_including_.3Fcurid_for_command-line_and_no_more_current_directory_for_logs">(PC) Other minor fixes, including ?curid for command-line and no more current directory for logs</span>
XOWA stores its logs at C:\xowa\user\anonymous\app\tmp\log. XOWA used to store the current directory in a folder called <code>current</code>. Unfortunately, this caused problems on Linux systems when two or more different-permissioned users were running XOWA.
<b>Full-text search</b>: I need to polish up the full-text search for personal wikis. In addition, I'm going to look at getting it working for the Wikimedia wikis
<li><ahref="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html"title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa"title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
<li><ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org"title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
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