Change log/2016

v3.4.3.1 (2016-04-17)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major.fix

• Parser: Fix Random pages not showing in Portal. [broken since: v3.3.4.1]

Resolved by: Serialize long for Luaj.

Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Earth_sciences

• Html: Fix "Other wikis" not showing in home wiki. [broken since: v3.4.2.1]

Resolved by: Add empty h3 after div logo.

• Html: Fix {{#DISPLAYTITLE}} not showing. [broken since: v3.1.5.1]

Resolved by: Pass display_title info to new page_banner manager.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gzip Diagnostics/ParserFunctions/DisplayTitle

• Parser: Fix broken script error "table expected, got nil" on a few dozen de.w pages. Message: Skriptfehler: @C:/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/LuaCommon/lualib/mwInit.lua:18 bad argument: table expected, got nil

Resolved by: Change server name to "//de.wikipedia.org" not "https://de.wikipedia.org".

Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_d’Italia_1996

minor.fix

• ParserFunctions: Change {{CANONICALURL}} from http to https. Example: https://home/wiki/Earth -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth x> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth.

• Parser: Fix broken tabs in <tabber> tag.

Resolved by: Split only on first =, not on all of them.

• Parser: Add parser for <TabView>. {requested by anonymous}

Links: Diagnostics/Xtns/Wikia/All

• Config: Do not keep downloading from Wikimedia Api if wiki was imported in offline mode.

Resolved by: Ignore fallback entries in site_cfg.

doc

• Doc: Change domain to http://xowa.org. {assisted by anonymous4}

Links: http://xowa.org

• Doc: Export all home wiki pages to http://xowa.org.

Links: http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents.html

Android

major.add

• App: Release XOWA Android to Play Store. {assisted by anonymous4}

Links: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa

• App: Support Android KitKat devices. {assisted by anonymous4}

Resolved by: Add multidex support.

• UI: Add icons for different resolutions.

• UI: Remove non-XOWA settings from settings screens.

• UI: Remove "Event logging", "Auto-log crash reports" and other settings.

v3.4.2.1 (2016-04-10)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major.fix

• Search: Reduce build time for search databases. {detected by William}

major.package

• Package: Upload consolidated images for English Wikipedia.

Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest

minor.add

• CSS: Update home CSS files to latest version from English Wikipedia. {detected by William}

• Parser: Add parser for RandomSelection tag. {requested by anonymous} Example: <choose><option>A</option><option>B</option></choose>.

Links: Diagnostics/Xtns/Wikia/All

• Parser: Add parser for Tabber tag. {requested by anonymous} Example: <tabber>tab1=A|-|tab2=B</tabber>.

Links: Diagnostics/Xtns/Wikia/All

Android

major.add

• UI: Add "Import New Wikis" page. {assisted by anonymous4}

• UI: Add "Wikis" list page.

minor.fix

• UI: Do not crash when pressing Random in home wiki. {detected by anonymous4}

• UI: Do not crash when pressing XOWA after History.

• UI: Remove "Nearby" pages.

• UI: Remove "Log in to Wikipedia".

v3.4.1.1 (2016-04-04)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major.fix

• Import: Fix offline import for large wikis. {detected by MacSquirrel-Jedi}

Links: Dashboard/Import/Offline

• Database: Open old .sqlite3 wikis. {detected by William}

Resolved by: Parse SQL comments in SQL master.

• Import: Allow upgrade of search for old .sqlite3 wikis. {detected by William}

major.add

• Files: Add page to delete old unused images.

Links: Dashboard/Files/Deletion

package

• Package: Release French Wikipedia 2016-03.

Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_frwiki_latest

v3.3.4.1 (2016-03-27)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major.add

• Search: Add autocomplete to url bar.

Links: App/Search/Address_bar

• Search: Improve performance of searches.

• Search: Assign numeric score to pages using PageRank.

Links: Options/Search

• Search: Handle titles with punctuation like "GNU/Linux", "o'clock", "Faster-than-light", "History of U.S.A. Science", "20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea" etc..

• Search: Improve boolean searches.

Links: App/Search

• Doc: Add search capabilities to the home wiki.

Resolved by: Upgrade home wiki to new search system.

minor.fix

• Scribunto: Fix script error on English Wikipedia category pages. Message: Script error: =Module:progress box:59 attempt to index ? (a number value)

Resolved by: Support "*" for Scribunto "pagesInCategory".

Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_February_2009

• Wikibase: Add hyperlinks to taxonomy navbar for about a few hundred en.w pages.

Resolved by: Support "from" atribute in "{{#property}}". Example: {{#property:p1|from=p2}}.

Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_eagle

• UI: Allow keybindings for all punctuation symbols.

Resolved by: Assign keycodes based on SWT const values.

minor.add

• Database: Minor performance improvements.

Resolved by: Upgrade sqlite-jdbc to 3.8.2.

• Setup: Always list correct version number in windows.exe files. {detected by anonymous}

• Extension.NewWindowLink: Handle {{#NewWindowLink}} for wikia wikis. {requested by anonymous}

trivial.add

• Wikibase: Add "adywiki" to list of known wikis.

• Wiki: Change site_stats from int to long.

Android

major.fix

• Search: Improve performance and accuracy of searches.

Resolved by: Remove unnecessary level of threading.

• Javascript: Fix table collapse / expand buttons not working.

Resolved by: Change javascript to call tableFull.setAttribute("style", 'display:none !important');.

• Search: Allow search for apostrophe words. {detected by anonymous4}

Resolved by: Search using prepared statements, not dynamic SQL. Example: search for "o'clock".

• Search: Allow search for "and", "or".

Resolved by: Change boolean AND operator to be "+" and OR operator to be ",".

v3.2.1.1 (2016-01-31)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major.fix

• Search: Fix search not working. [broken since: v3.1.1.1]

Resolved by: Assign correct word ids to search word.

Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Earth&fulltext=y

• Html: Fix English Wiktionary sections defaulting to collapsed but showing "hide". [broken since: v3.1.5.1]

Resolved by: Change mediawiki.gadget.navframe.js to explicitly set style.display.

Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green

major.add

• Build: Build application package for Raspberry Pi. {contributed by yonisolo}

package

• Package: Release English Wikipedia (2016-01).

Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest

• Package: Release English Wikis (2016-01).

Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest

doc

• Doc: Modify "Change log" entries to be more user-oriented.

v3.1.5.1 (2016-01-31)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major

• Luaj: Fix frontier pattern not working. Resolves error messages for every url reference on en.w pages. EX: Check |archiveurl= value (help). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
• Luaj: Handle backslash-escaped UTF8 sequences. Resolves error messages for many references on en.w pages. EX: Specials character in |encyclopedia= at position 11 (help). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
• Core: Parse decimals using US locale, not user locale. Resolves extremely wide pie charts on many de.w pages. {detected by markusmaresch} See: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausmannstätten
• Xtn.Pgbnr: Add {{PAGEBANNER}} extension. Resolves pagebanner not showing up on top of wikivoyage pages. See: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Stonehenge https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Munich https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cumbernauld Diagnostics/Xtns/Wikivoyage/All

minor

• Css: Remove from core.css #content a:link {color: #0645ad;}. Resolves wikivoyage banner links showing in blue instead of white. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
• Html: Add 'class="visible"' to content-sub node and 'client-js' to html node. Resolves extra gap at bottom of content-sub on wikivoyage pages. See: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Stonehenge

trivial

• Xtn.Mapsources: Parse key-value pairs from nested template calls. Resolves potential incorrect values for {{#dd2dms}} .
• Import.Dansguardian: Fix page-redirection-deletion for en.wikipedia.org.

Android

major

• Css: Show navbox and other tables.
• Css: Always center table.
• File: Replace img.src ? with %3F. Resolves images with question marks not showing. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_paintings
• Xtn.Hiero: Show hieroglyphics (available in 2016-01 English Wikipedia release). Resolves hieroglyphics not appearing. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra
• Css: Force table content to be transparent color in night mode.
• Log: Deactivate logging to external SD card (again). {detected by anonymous}

v3.1.4.2 (2016-01-28)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major

• Scribunto: Add built-in function: {{PROTECTIONEXPIRY}}. Resolves script error on many en.w pages. EX: Script error: @/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: gplx.Err: callParserFunction: function was not found: function=PROTECTIONEXPIRY. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
• Xtn.FlaggedRevs: Add scribunto function: getStabilitySettings. Resolves script error on many en.w pages. EX: Script error: =Module:Effective protection level:16 attempt to index ? (a nil value). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture

trivial

• Log: Do not log warnings when building category version1. Resolves numerous non-meaningful error messages in the log file.

v3.1.4.1 (2016-01-24)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major

• Luaj: Return position as int not string when using "()" regex (resolves script error on several dozen en.d / ru.d pages ("attempt to compare string with number expected, got string")). See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/к https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/кагебешник https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/плавлавка
• Scribunto: Handle nested gsub calls when using callback functions (resolves script error on a few dozen en.d pages ("Unrecognized 3ms suffix pattern.")). See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/כלב
• Luaj: Handle multi-byte chars in lua variables (resolves script error on a few dozen en.d pages ("attempt to concatenate nil and string")). See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/どう https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/를
• Hzip: Handle jtidy moving <span class='headline'> outside of <h#> tag in rare combination of <center>, <span>, <div> (resolves a few dozen pages in en.s not showing). See: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Vital_Principle/Whole_text https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Avenarius_and_the_Standpoint_of_Pure_Experience/1

minor

• Scribunto: Handle multi-byte characters for lua bracketed regular expressions (resolves nothing known). See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/どう https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/를
• Luaj: Use HOUR_OF_DAY for os.time, not HOUR (resolves hour off by 12 for os.time calls). See: Diagnostics/Scribunto/Luaj
• Xtns.Dpl: Write href using full_db not page_txt; EX:Category:A B -> Category:A_B x> A B. See: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Speedy_deletions
• Xtns.Dpl: Encode quotes in href title (resolves broken links if page title has quotes). See: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Alphabetical_classification/All_Books
• Dumps.HTML: Add support for non-english File namespace (resolves many log messages when generating html dumps for non-english wikis).

trivial

• Hzip: Write file-title with correct case-sensitivity for wikis with a case-sensitive [[File:]] namespace.
• Html: Never change title bytes when passed to Xof_file_wkr_.Ttl_standardize(title) (nothing known in pc; affects hzip check for image links). See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/freedom_of_speech

doc

• Home: Redefine categories for Change log.

Android

major

• Search: Do additional searches to return some results sooner.
• Image: Load images directly in html if page has already been viewed.
• Url: Convert plus to space (affects pages not loading if canonical_url has plus for space). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fire_Emblem:Shadow_Dragon_characters
• App: Add "send email" to crash reporting.

v3.1.3.1 (2016-01-17)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

add

• Command-line: Expand instructions for generating HTML dumps. See: Dev/Command-line/Dumps

significant

• Import: Delete broken page redirects when importing wiki in dansguardian.
• Html: Show info.png and play.png from css, not HTML. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano

minor

• Gallery: Ignore items with invalid file titles; EX:<gallery>File:#A.png</gallery>.
• Url: Output "" instead of "file:///" if src is unknown.

trivial

• Parser.Lnki: Title-case page if link argument has xwiki alias to same wiki; EX:[[File:A.png|link=en:Help:a]] -> "Help:A" x> "Help:a". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guest_book/Archive_5

Android

fix

• Setup: Do not write log to SD card {detected by anonymous}.

add

• Special: Implement random.

change

• Html: Show video thumbs. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera
• Html: Show images from imageMap (available in next English Wikipedia release). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
• Html: Show images from fake-thumb divs. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_York
• Css: Change background-color to black for infobox / wikitable in night-mode {detected by anonymous} {detected by anonymous}. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

significant

• Html: Center gallery images.

minor

• Html: Change background color to transparent for Portal divs. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

v3.1.1.1 (2016-01-03)

fix

• Search: Generate correct counts for search words (affects search results sometimes being off). [broken since:v2.4.4]
• Url: Fix IPA audio links (affects IPA audio links would not download pronunciations when clicked); EX:[[File:A.png|link=file:///C:/A.png]] x> href='/wiki/file:///C:/A.png'. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven [broken since:v2.8.1]

change

• ParserFunctions: Handle <refs> inside {{#tag}} (affects incorrectly placed ref on 1 en.w page); EX:{{#tag:ref|<ref>a</ref>b}}. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterville_Ghost
• ParserFunctions: Add {{REVISIONSIZE}} (affects script error on 2 ru.w pages); EX:{{REVISIONSIZE}}. See: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Юршор https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Красноярск

significant

• Url: Process first # as anchor, not last (affects script error on 1 en.w page); EX:A#B#C -> "B#C" x> "C" . See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal
• Html: Remove magnify.png from HTML (use CSS). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven

minor

• Parser.Lnki: Handle link arguments to anchors within current page (affects links not working for images if they link to section within current page); EX:[[File:A.png|link=#B]]. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nauru

trivial

• Html: Remove underlines from "Redirected from" messages. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Solstice
• Html: Escape quotes in alt for gallery file_names (affects incorrect alts for gallery itm); EX:<gallery>File:A"b.png</gallery>. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Romania
• Html: Escape quotes in title for links on Category page (affects incorrect titles for category page links). See: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Solo_organ_piece
• Html: Do not output alt in caption if alt only has whitespace (affects useless <hr> when alt is just blank space); EX:[[File:A.png|thumb|alt= ]]. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird