Blog/2016-08

Release: v3.8.1.1 (2016-07-31 19:30 Sun)

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

(Wiki) Publish 2016-07 Arabic Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews

The 2016-07 versions of the Arabic wikis are up. You can get them through Download Central.

(PC) Fix "invalid title" when clicking on wikis in left-hand nav

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

(PC) Minor wikibase update for "renderSnaks"

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.

(Android) Fix random failure when restarting XOWA while downloading wikis

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.

Next release: v3.8.2

• Wikis: I'm going to work on Polish this week.
• New HTML database generator: I'm still been plugging away at the HTML generator. It's closer to 99% now, and I'll start phasing it in over the next few releases.
• Dynamic update of wiki pages: This was requested in https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/72 . This will probably take a few weeks. For next week, I'm going to work on the simpler "wikimedia API" calls.
• Redlinks for HTTP Server: This too has also slipped another week.
• mwad integration with the status bar: Another week of slippage here as well.