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Release: v3.7.1.2 (2016-07-03 23:40 Sun)

(PC & Android) Fix broken search for multiple words in 2016-05 wikis and earlier

This fix was reported in https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/64 and https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/65

I broke then multiple-word search function when tweaking the search algorithm to reduce the importance of shorter pages. This bug affected 2016-05 wikis and earlier. I missed it because I'm working on 2016-06 wikis.

I put a fix in now and tested with a 2016-05 copy of English Wikipedia.

Thanks to William and Ope30 for reporting these issues!

Release: v3.7.1.1 (2016-07-03 18:00 Sun)

The PC version is a minor release. It adds Gallery support for HTML dtabases.

The Android version is a minor release. It fixes a number of severe crashes for outlier situations.

(Wiki) 2016-06 German Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews

These wikis are available at Download Central.

(PC) Support Gallery

On the PC, the HTML databaes showed Galleries vertically and with incorrect styles (no gray border box).

This build fixes some galleries for the existing 2016-06 wikis. Unfortunately, the other galleries can only be fixed in the next HTML dump: 2016-07 and beyond.

(PC & Android) More minor fixes for Download Central including connection disruption and WAKE_LOCK fixes

There are basically two types of fixes:

• Show error when downloading: A user reported intermittent problems with download central: https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/63 . A little later in the week, I discovered archive.org can sometimes drop a connection after a few hours. In these cases, XOWA would just stop without any indication. This version prints status messages to the screen, and also allows the user to resume
• Android would sometimes time out: Android sometimes stops XOWA while downloading. This version allows XOWA to keep Android awake (WAKE_LOCK) until downloads finish.

(Android) Multiple fixes for severe crashes

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).

These are fixed in this version. For more info, see the Change log

Next release: v3.7.2

• Table of contents: I did more work on the TOC, but wasn't able to integrate it for this release. It should be part of the next one.
• Redlinks for HTTP Server: This also didn't make it into this release.
• Wikis: I'm working on French next and adding them to Download Central.