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<a href="#Release:_POSTPONED_.282016-07-24_23:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Release: POSTPONED (2016-07-24 23:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.7.3.1_.282016-07-17_20:30_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.3.1 (2016-07-17 20:30 Sun)</span></a>
<a href="#Release:_v3.7.4.1_.282016-07-25_19:00_Mon.29"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.4.1 (2016-07-25 19:00 Mon)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_English_Wikipedia"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 English Wikipedia</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_French_Wikipedia.2C_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 French Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span></a>
<a href="#.28Android.29_Add_screen_to_change_wiki_location_for_Download_Central"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Add screen to change wiki location for Download Central</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_Redirects_not_working_for_HTML_databases"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix Redirects not working for HTML databases</span></a>
<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_automatic_deletion_of_pagelinks_file"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix automatic deletion of pagelinks file</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_minor_Table_of_Contents_issues_for_Wikitext_.2F_HTML_databases"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix minor Table of Contents issues for Wikitext / HTML databases</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.7.4"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.7.4</span></a>
<a href="#Next_release:_v3.8.1"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.8.1</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_POSTPONED_.282016-07-24_23:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Release: POSTPONED (2016-07-24 23:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.7.2.1_.282016-07-10_21:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.2.1 (2016-07-10 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
<a href="#Release:_v3.7.3.1_.282016-07-17_20:30_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.3.1 (2016-07-17 20:30 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_Haitian_Wikipedia"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 Haitian Wikipedia</span></a>
<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_French_Wikipedia.2C_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 French Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_2016-07_English_Wikipedia_import_failure"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix 2016-07 English Wikipedia import failure</span></a>
<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_Redirects_not_working_for_HTML_databases"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix Redirects not working for HTML databases</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Server.29_Fix_images_not_showing_for_Wikitext_databases"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Server) Fix images not showing for Wikitext databases</span></a>
<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_minor_Table_of_Contents_issues_for_Wikitext_.2F_HTML_databases"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix minor Table of Contents issues for Wikitext / HTML databases</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Add_Table_of_Contents_support_for_HTML_databases_on_the_PC"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Add Table of Contents support for HTML databases on the PC</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Include_mwad_.28MediaWiki_API_dump.29_for_creating_XML_dumps_for_Wikia_and_other_wikis_.7Bcontributed_by_Mattze96.7D"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Include mwad (MediaWiki API dump) for creating XML dumps for Wikia and other wikis {contributed by Mattze96}</span></a>
<a href="#Next_release:_v3.7.4"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.7.4</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.7.2.1_.282016-07-10_21:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.2.1 (2016-07-10 21:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_minor_Wikibase_issues.2C_including_wikibase-item"><span class="tocnumber">3.6</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix minor Wikibase issues, including wikibase-item</span></a>
<a href="#.28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_Haitian_Wikipedia"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 Haitian Wikipedia</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Target_Java_1.7.2C_not_Java_1.8"><span class="tocnumber">3.7</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Target Java 1.7, not Java 1.8</span></a>
<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_2016-07_English_Wikipedia_import_failure"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix 2016-07 English Wikipedia import failure</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.7.3"><span class="tocnumber">3.8</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.7.3</span></a>
<a href="#.28Server.29_Fix_images_not_showing_for_Wikitext_databases"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">(Server) Fix images not showing for Wikitext databases</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Add_Table_of_Contents_support_for_HTML_databases_on_the_PC"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Add Table of Contents support for HTML databases on the PC</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.7.1.2_.282016-07-03_23:40_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.1.2 (2016-07-03 23:40 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC_.26_Android.29_Fix_broken_search_for_multiple_words_in_2016-05_wikis_and_earlier"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">(PC &amp; Android) Fix broken search for multiple words in 2016-05 wikis and earlier</span></a>
<a href="#.28PC.29_Include_mwad_.28MediaWiki_API_dump.29_for_creating_XML_dumps_for_Wikia_and_other_wikis_.7Bcontributed_by_Mattze96.7D"><span class="tocnumber">4.5</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Include mwad (MediaWiki API dump) for creating XML dumps for Wikia and other wikis {contributed by Mattze96}</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Fix_minor_Wikibase_issues.2C_including_wikibase-item"><span class="tocnumber">4.6</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Fix minor Wikibase issues, including wikibase-item</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.7.1.1_.282016-07-03_18:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.1.1 (2016-07-03 18:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_2016-06_German_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) 2016-06 German Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span></a>
<a href="#.28PC.29_Target_Java_1.7.2C_not_Java_1.8"><span class="tocnumber">4.7</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Target Java 1.7, not Java 1.8</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Support_Gallery"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Support Gallery</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC_.26_Android.29_More_minor_fixes_for_Download_Central_including_connection_disruption_and_WAKE_LOCK_fixes"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC &amp; Android) More minor fixes for Download Central including connection disruption and WAKE_LOCK fixes</span></a>
<a href="#Next_release:_v3.7.3"><span class="tocnumber">4.8</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.7.3</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.7.1.2_.282016-07-03_23:40_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.1.2 (2016-07-03 23:40 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Android.29_Multiple_fixes_for_severe_crashes"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Multiple fixes for severe crashes</span></a>
<a href="#.28PC_.26_Android.29_Fix_broken_search_for_multiple_words_in_2016-05_wikis_and_earlier"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">(PC &amp; Android) Fix broken search for multiple words in 2016-05 wikis and earlier</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.7.2"><span class="tocnumber">5.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.7.2</span></a>
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<a href="#Release:_v3.7.1.1_.282016-07-03_18:00_Sun.29"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Release: v3.7.1.1 (2016-07-03 18:00 Sun)</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Wiki.29_2016-06_German_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">(Wiki) 2016-06 German Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC.29_Support_Gallery"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">(PC) Support Gallery</span></a>
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<a href="#.28PC_.26_Android.29_More_minor_fixes_for_Download_Central_including_connection_disruption_and_WAKE_LOCK_fixes"><span class="tocnumber">6.3</span> <span class="toctext">(PC &amp; Android) More minor fixes for Download Central including connection disruption and WAKE_LOCK fixes</span></a>
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<a href="#.28Android.29_Multiple_fixes_for_severe_crashes"><span class="tocnumber">6.4</span> <span class="toctext">(Android) Multiple fixes for severe crashes</span></a>
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<a href="#Next_release:_v3.7.2"><span class="tocnumber">6.5</span> <span class="toctext">Next release: v3.7.2</span></a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_v3.7.4.1_.282016-07-25_19:00_Mon.29">Release: v3.7.4.1 (2016-07-25 19:00 Mon)</span>
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The PC version is a minor release. It fixes a build issue when building wikis from old dumps by command-line script.
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The Android version is a major release. It has a new screen to change the wiki location for Download Central
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_English_Wikipedia">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 English Wikipedia</span>
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The 2016-07 versions of English Wikipedia is up. You can get them through <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_10" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
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For images, if you want the latest:
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If you are a current user of 2016-06 English Wikipedia, you only need to download the 2016-07 Image Update to get the latest images.
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If you are a brand new user, you will need to download 2016-06 and 2016-07 Images
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For articles, if you want the latest:
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Regardless of whether or not you're a current user or a brand new user, you will need to download the entire 2016-07 Articles. There is no incremental version of the articles dump, though I'd like to have one up by end of the year.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Android.29_Add_screen_to_change_wiki_location_for_Download_Central">(Android) Add screen to change wiki location for Download Central</span>
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First, some background. XOWA Android tries to use the external SD card for downloading wikis. Unfortunately, this is not easy, as different devices may have different paths for the external SD card (it varies by Android version as well as by manufacturer). If XOWA doesn't guess correctly, then the wikis will be downloaded to internal memory
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In v3.7.1, I added some logic to try to correctly detect the external SD card for one device (BLU on Android Lollipop). In the process, I ended up making the detection worse for other devices.
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v3.7.4 attempts to fix this by reverting back to the previous detection strategy. In addition, I also included a new "folder selection" screen to manually choose the external SD card.
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You can access this folder selection screen by clicking the "folder" icon in Download Central. Note that you will need to restart the app after you change the folder.
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Note that you can always manually download the wiki from archive.org and import them using the "XOWA file browser". The "XOWA file browser" is available through the "folder" icon on the "XOWA" Wikis page.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_automatic_deletion_of_pagelinks_file">(PC) Fix automatic deletion of pagelinks file</span>
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This was a minor bug with building wikis by command-line import for historical wikis (for example, English Wikipedia from 2016-01).
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XOWA would automatically delete all .gz files <b>after</b> the wiki was built but <b>before</b> the search score was built. This deletion was part of some over-zelous cleanup which deleted all .gz files, not just those that have been used. The .gz-deletion crashed the command-line build because it caused the pagelinks file to be deleted before it was used.
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I never caught this because I always work with the current dumps. For current dumps, the XOWA command-line script has a command (util.download) which automatically unzips the .gz file to .sql. The deleted .gz file didn't affect the build because the .sql file was available.
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v3.7.4 now only deletes .gz file after it is used.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.8.1">Next release: v3.8.1</span>
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<b>Wikis</b>: I'm going to do Arabic this week.
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<b>New HTML database generator</b>: I've still been working on the HTML generator. It's about 95% there, but the last 5% is pretty hard. I'm hoping it will be ready for 2016-08 English Wikipedia
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<b>mwad support</b>: This has slipped another week.
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<b>Redlinks for HTTP Server</b>: This too has also slipped another week.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release:_POSTPONED_.282016-07-24_23:00_Sun.29">Release: POSTPONED (2016-07-24 23:00 Sun)</span>
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Wiki.29_Publish_2016-07_French_Wikipedia.2C_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews">(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 French Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span>
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The 2016-07 versions of the French Wikis are up. You can get them through <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_10" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
The 2016-07 versions of the French Wikis are up. You can get them through <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_11" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_Redirects_not_working_for_HTML_databases">(PC) Fix Redirects not working for HTML databases</span>
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For those who are unaware, Mattze96 was the amazing developer who contributed the original HTTP Server code. This time, Mattze96 contributed mwad: the MediaWiki API dump tool. This tool allows creating XML dumps for Wikia and other wikis (<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://wiki.archlinux.org/</a>).
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If you use XOWA for Wikia wikis, or other non-Wikimedia wikis, you definitely want to try it out. For more info, see <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/mwad.html" id="xolnki_11" title="App/Import/mwad">App/Import/mwad</a> as well as <a href="https://github.com/Mattze96/mwad" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/Mattze96/mwad</a> and <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/66" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/66</a>
If you use XOWA for Wikia wikis, or other non-Wikimedia wikis, you definitely want to try it out. For more info, see <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/mwad.html" id="xolnki_12" title="App/Import/mwad">App/Import/mwad</a> as well as <a href="https://github.com/Mattze96/mwad" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/Mattze96/mwad</a> and <a href="https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/66" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/66</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Fix_minor_Wikibase_issues.2C_including_wikibase-item">(PC) Fix minor Wikibase issues, including wikibase-item</span>
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Wiki.29_2016-06_German_Wiktionary.2C_Wikisource.2C_Wikivoyage.2C_Wikiquote.2C_Wikibooks.2C_Wikiversity.2C_and_Wikinews">(Wiki) 2016-06 German Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews</span>
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These wikis are available at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_12" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
These wikis are available at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral.html" id="xolnki_13" title="Special:XowaDownloadCentral" class="xowa-visited">Download Central</a>.
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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28PC.29_Support_Gallery">(PC) Support Gallery</span>
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There were a number of fixes for crashes in uncommon scenarios. Most of these involved switching SD cards, or deleting wikis outside XOWA. The crash was bad enough such that XOWA would not work unless the Storage files were cleared (or XOWA was reinstalled).
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These are fixed in this version. For more info, see the <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Change_log.html" id="xolnki_13" title="Change log">Change log</a>
These are fixed in this version. For more info, see the <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Change_log.html" id="xolnki_14" title="Change log">Change log</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Next_release:_v3.7.2">Next release: v3.7.2</span>