- The PC version is a major release. It adds better html database support for certain images, handles the lsth parser function, and makes minor changes to the Download Central Info page + This week has no release. I'm working on a variety of items based on issues at https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues Thanks to Ope30, markusmarech, and some anonymous others for all their input!
- The Android version is a major release. It also includes the same better support for certain images. -
-- The 2016-08 versions of both wikis are finally up. You can get them through Download Central. -
-- There was a small percentage (< .1%) of images that didn't appear in the HTML databases. These include the following: -
-- The fix for the first two items required a major change to the HTML database format. The following is a brief (though technical) summary: -
-<img data-xowa-image="0|220|110|-1|-1".
- - From a general user standpoint, this change should be entirely transparent. v3.8.5 will work with both the old HTML databases as well as the new ones. However, any version earlier v3.8.4 and earlier will not work with the new HTML databases. + The Czech wikis are done and being uploaded now. They should be ready by tomorrow in Download Central (click the Download icon to get a new list of wikis)
- Finally, the 2016-08 English and German Wikipedia are the first wikis to use the multi-threaded builder. This allowed me to cut down the English Wikipedia generation time from 80 hours to 12 hours (with 2 high-grade 8-core machines). This was a significant under-the-cover change, but hopefully most of the kinks have been worked out. + For wikis, I'm going to try to update 2016-09 English Wikipedia, but I want to work on adding Categories as well as a few other items.
-- I discovered that a number of English Wikipedia pages used the {{#lsth}} function. In brief, this function includes a section from another page on the current page. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10s_BC . I ended up rewriting the lst functions to support this behavior. -
-- Based on some welcome feedback from malakov1, I added a torrent link to the Download Central Info page. For example, Special:XowaDownloadCentralInfo?task id=96. Note that these torrent links are to the full archive.org folder, not the task. In particular, the following two types will be included: -
-- In most cases, you will need to manually exclude files from the torrent. Most torrent programs support this feature. For example, in qBittorrent do the following: -
-- In addition, the Download Central Info page now includes MD5 and file size info. -
-- I'm postponing the release till tomorrow night. I uploaded 2016-08 English and German Wikipedia, but there are a few minor tweaks I want to make before release. -
-- Thanks. -
-- I'm skipping the release this week. I'm still working on the 2016-08 English Wikipedia. I am close, but I still don't have a clean HTML dump yet. Please check again next week. -
-- The PC version has no release. -
-- The Android version has a trivial release to fix an uncommon crash when starting XOWA. -
-- Some quick details: -
-- For this version, I added better guards against null references around the cited code. Thanks to the anonymous users who sent me the crash reports -
-- The PC version is a major release. It fixes random "SSL peer shut down incorrectly" when downloading, "Script Error:Module Protection expiry" on many en.w pages, and some parser issues on pl.w. -
-- The Android version has no release. -
-- The 2016-07 versions of the Polish wikis are up. You can get them through Download Central. -
-- In the past week, XOWA would fail while downloading database dumps from the Wikimedia servers at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html . After some investigation, it looks like Wikimedia is currently resetting all connections at the 17 and 47 minute mark of every hour (EX: 1:17, 1:47, 2:17, 2:47, etc.) . For more info, see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2016-August/001325.html -
-- As the issue is still ongoing, I'm going to point XOWA to default to http://your.org instead. Note that your.org is an official backup as per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps . -
-- If you want to change your.org to point elsewhere, do the following: -
--https://dumps.wikimedia.org/, -http://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/, -http://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/, -http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/wikimedia/ --
- Many thanks to Kevin Day and your.org for their assistance and support with this issue. -
-- The 2016-07-20 version of English Wikipedia would show "Script error" on many pages. This was due to a minor typo on my side for "infinite" vs "infinity". It is fixed with of this release. -
-- Thanks to William to reporting this issue. -
-- Polish Wikipedia required two major changes: -
-- The PC version is a minor release. It fixes a bug with "invalid title" when clicking on the left-hand sidebar. -
-- The Android version is a minor release. It fixes a random crash when restarting the app while downloading wikis -
-- The 2016-07 versions of the Arabic wikis are up. You can get them through Download Central. -
-- This was kindly reported by markusmaresch in https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/73 . Basically, clicking on a wiki in the left-hand sidebar would fail with "invalid title". This was due to some changes I made with the UI in a recent release. -
-- v3.8.1 fixes the issue -
-- Wikidata (www.wikidata.org), or "Wikibase", is a continually evolving project. French Wikipedia started using two new methods recently: renderSnaks and renderSnak. I added support for these calls in this release. I also cleaned up some Wikibase code. -
-- A helpful anonymous user forwarded me a crash report for XOWA Android. Sometimes, XOWA Android would fail to restart when in the process of downloading wikis from Download Central. This was broken since the initial release of Download Central. -
-- This fix was pushed out by a separate Play Store release last week. It is included formally in the apk-build now. -
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