From f07480bb57076bcfbadfdab14692c40270344b8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gnosygnu
+ The desktop app is a major release. It has a new autocomplete address bar, a new search system as well as minor parser fixes.
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+ The Android app is a major release. It has more updates for the new search system.
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+ The address bar now supports autocompletion. For example, open up English Wikipedia, and start typing
+ Unfortunately, the autocomplete uses the new search system, so old wikis need to upgrade the search databases. You can upgrade by any of the following:
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+ I completely rewrote the search system over the past several weeks. Most of these changes were meant for Android to handle fast searches with a slower processor. This new engine is now part of the desktop app, so desktop users get the same benefits as well. To summarize, here are the main benefits:
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+ The Android search system received more performance and accuracy improvements. Also, the Android version supports boolean searches as well. If you're using the new search system, you should definitely update your copy:
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+ If you haven't tried XOWA on Android, please give it a try. See https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/wiki/Android.
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+ Release: v3.3.4.1 (2016-03-27 19:30 Sun)
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+ (Desktop) New autocomplete address bar
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. The autocomplete is very fast and supports a lot of advanced functionality. For example you can do a search like earth + (history, future) -middle
directly in the address bar. See [[App/Search/Overview]] as well as [[Options/Search suggest]].
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Better performance: Search is much quicker. One word searches should come back subsecond and multiple words should come back in a few, with initial results coming back in the first second
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