Change log

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Categories

High-level categories

Change log items are divided into the following high-level categories:

  • Wiki: New Wikis to be downloaded from archive.org
  • PC: Changes related to the XOWA application on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X personal computers.
  • Android: Changes related to the XOWA Android app on Android OS phones, tablets, and related devices
  • Server: Changes related to the XOWA HTTP Server on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Raspberry PI machines
  • Doc: Documentation changes in home wiki and http://xowa.org
  • Dev: Code-related changes.

Note that PC changes will probably also affect Andriod and Server. All three apps share the same code-base.

Sub-categories

For PC, Android, and Server, change log items are further divided into the following sub-categories:

  • major: Major change, fix or addition. Probably noticeable.
  • minor: Minor change, fix or addition. Possibly noticeable.
  • trivial: Trivial change, fix or addition. Probably unnoticeable.

The most important category to review is major. The other categories may be skipped due to lower importance (if they were more important, they would be bumped up to major).

v4.3.0.1702 (2017-02-21)

Wiki

  • Package: Publish 2017-02 English Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2017-02 Gujarati wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Gujarati_wikis

PC

major

  • Personal_wikis: Add "Delete Page" button to edit mode.
  • Personal_wikis: Add Category insertions, updates.
Links: App/Personal_wikis/Default_Main_Page#Category
  • Personal_wikis: Add import option.
Links: Special:XowaWikiDirectory
  • Gui: Fix extremely short url bar on some machines.
Resolved by: Support High DPI machines.
  • Dev: Change license to GPLv3 / Apache2.

minor

  • Import: Fix page_redirects to English namespaces in non-English wikis .
  • Wiki: Support curid query argument. {requested by anonymous}
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=303
  • Gui: Change keyboard shortcut to focus html browser from escape to Ctrl+M.
  • Gui: Change keyboard shortcut to restore url bar from Ctrl+U to escape.
  • Sql: Add SQL exec page.
Links: Special:XowaSql

trivial

  • Options: Remove Javascript enabled option else user can inadvertently cause many Special screens to stop working. {detected by anonymous}
  • Personal_wikis: Update invalid page_ids (-1, 0) to valid page_ids.
  • Gui: Hide info box control in lower-right hand corner.

v4.2.0.1702 (2017-02-12)

PC

major

  • Personal_wikis: Support creation of personal wikis. {requested by Dax}
Links: Special:XowaWikiItem

minor

  • Wiki: Support renamed folders. {detected by Ope30}
Example: /xowa/wiki/en.wikipedia.org-2016.12.
  • DownloadCentral: Add button to remove items from "Available" list. {requested by markusmaresch}
  • DownloadCentral: When moving items between tables, add item to correct spot in table, not at bottom.

v4.1.0.1702 (2017-02-04)

Wikis

  • Package: Publish 2017-01 Simple Wikipedia. {requested by anonymous}
  • Package: Publish 2017-01 Chinese wikis. {requested by anonymous}

PC

major

  • App_update: Add in-app application updater.
Links: App/Setup/Update/In-app

minor

  • Html_dump: Fix Special:Random not working if "Prefer HTML databases" checked. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Update title to redirected page.
  • Parser: Fix missing text for unknown number of pages.
Resolved by: Escape dangling tags; do not let them gobble up rest of page.
Example: <ref>aEOS -> &lt;ref>aEOS.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
  • Parser: Fix broken tables on a few dozen en.w pages.
Resolved by: Ignore whitespace between dl and tblw.
Example: ": {|".
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland
  • Custom_wiki: Show images in pages within the File namespace. {detected by anonymous}
  • Custom_wiki: Rename files by replacing "spaces" with "underscores". {detected by Jakz, anonymous}
Example: "A b.png" -> "A_b.png".
  • Custom_wiki: Show img.src for files when viewing html. {detected by anonymous}
  • Custom_wiki: Integrate files with app cache.
Links: Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.files.general
  • Custom_wiki: Do not delete xml file after import. {detected by anonymous}
  • Custom_wiki: Use extension of thumbnail, not original. {detected by anonymous}
Example: A.svg -> 400.png x> 400.svg.
  • Custom_wiki: Use relative not absolute path for orig dir.
Example: -> ~{orig_dir}7/70/ x> C:\xowa\wiki\custom_wiki\file\orig\7\70.
  • Html: Show Creative Commons license at bottom of page. {requested by Ope30}
  • Html: Show missing left sidebar on small wikis. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: If MediaWiki:Sidebar does not exist, use language's message 'sidebar', not null.
Links: https://sw.wiktionary.org https://sw.wikibooks.org https://af.wikipedia.org https://af.wiktionary.org https://af.wikibooks.org
  • Wiki: Support renamed folders. {requested by Ope30}
Example: /xowa/wiki/en.wikipedia.org-2016.12.
  • Embeddable: Fix default ns_mgr being used for wikis. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}
  • Embeddable: Fix multiple multi-threaded parsing errors. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}
  • Mass_parse: Fix #ifexist not working after dumping 1st namespace.
Resolved by: Clear ns_loaded cache; Add different cache clearing methods.

trivial

  • Cfg: Change operating-system specific config file from "os.gfs" to "os.os_name.gfs".
Example: /xowa/user/anonymous/app/cfg/os.lnx_64.gfs.

v4.0.0.1701 (2017-01-01)

Wikis

  • Package: Publish 2016-12 Italian wikis.
  • Package: Publish 2016-12 Swahili wikis.

PC

major

  • Cfg: Add new Options system.
Links: Options
  • Setup: Change to semantic versioning.
Example: 4.0.17011.1 vs 4.1.

minor

  • Wikibase: Fix 'Attached KML error' on many dozen en.w pages. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Do not cast 'numeric-id' to 'string'; leave as 'int'.
Example: Route map: Attached KML Error: item specified on Wikidata, or in |wikidata=, is not a KML file (P31→Q26267864 not found).
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame
  • Gui: Allow Ctrl+Insert to be used to copy text. {detected by William}
Resolved by: Do not override Ctrl+Insert with Ctrl+Minus.
  • Gui: Support numpad keys for page find. {detected by William}
  • Gui: Add option to auto-remember last tab opened.
  • Gui: Support Command key on Mac OS X for keyboard shortcuts.
  • Html: Remove horizontal scroll bar on some Mac OS X configurations.
Resolved by: Replace width:20vw with width:20em in /xowa/user/wiki/home/html/xowa_common.css.
  • Edit: Add section-editing. {requested by anonymous}
  • Cfg: Add better support for Shortcuts.
  • Category: Show Hidden Categories in "Hidden" section.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
  • Search.Suggest: Do not add * at end of search phrase; use auto-wildcard option instead.
  • Search: Fix 'url_default' not working.
  • Xtn.Popups: Fix multiple blue lines at bottom of page whenever new popup shows.
Resolved by: Suppress attributes from mw-body class.
  • Redirect: Allow redirects to Special pages.
Example: #REDIRECT [[Special:XowaCfg]].
Links: Options
  • Gui: Allow navigation to urls with arguments.
Example: Special:XowaCfg%3Fgrp%3Dxowa.html.css.
  • Mass_parse: Fix memory leak / slow performance due to over-zealous page caching.
Resolved by: Add two levels of permenance to page cache; add separate ifexists cache.

trivial

  • Cfg: Remove 'Gui - Url bar' Symbols.
  • Cfg: Replace 'Custom wiki commands' with 'Unzip bz2 file'.
  • Cfg: Remove Search Suggest 'AllPages look-ahead', 'AllPages minimum length', and 'Log enabled'.
  • Cfg: Remove config page for Firefox Addon.
  • Wikibase: Add "fiwikivoyage" to list of known wikis.
  • Html: Remove content_editable support.

dev

  • Math: Refactor Math classes.
  • Mass_parse: Refactor make cmd to merge other wkr tables such as log_basic_temp.
  • Gui: Refactor IptKey; in particular, use SWING and SWT constants where possible; also handle modifers.
  • Mass_parse: Improve performance when returning Keyvals from Scribunto function.

v3.12.2.1 (2016-12-11)

Android

minor

  • Html: Hide navigation boxes by default. {requested by anonymous}
  • Html: Add option to show navigation boxes. {requested by anonymous}

v3.12.1.1 (2016-12-04)

Wikis

  • Package: Publish 2016-11 Dutch Wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Dutch_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-11 German Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/German_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-11 Russian wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Russian_wikis

PC

minor

  • Import: Fix category not building on non-SSD drives. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
Resolved by: Add index to cl_from.
  • Import: Fix Russian Wikisource build failure.
Resolved by: Convert null category sortkeys to empty array.
  • Import.offline: Do not re-download category dump files when importing wiki (redux). {detected by khanhhung2512 }
  • Xtn.Math: Do not try to translate math in variant wikis. {detected by anonymous}
Resolved by: Swap out math tags with UNIQ.
Example: <math>x-{1+2}-1</math> -> x-{1+2}-1 x> x1+21.
Links: https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/107
  • Table_of_contents: Fix missing table of contents on some de.w television series pages. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Ignore TOC magic word on transcluded pages.
Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(Fernsehserie)
  • Parser.Lnke: Fix page not loading on a dozen ru.w pages.
Resolved by: Handle xwiki links to history pages.
Example: [http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title&diff=19103464&oldid=18910980 извещен].
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:Заявки_на_снятие_флагов/Архив/Патрулирующие/2009
  • ParserFunctions: Fix missing headers from several dozen ru.s Slavik pages.
Resolved by: Implement {{ROOTPAGENAME}}.
Links: https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/ТСД/Аврора/ДО
  • Scribunto: Fix script error "Module:Navbox:91 attempt to concatenate nil and string" on many ru.w pages.
Message: =Module:Navbox:91 attempt to concatenate nil and string
Resolved by: Use local language's namespace name not canonical.
Example: Russian "Шаблон" not English "Template".
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Королевство_Нидерландов
  • Scribunto: Fix script error 'expandTemplate: template "Россия Москва" does not exist' on many ru.w pages.
Message: expandTemplate: template "Россия Москва" does not exist
Resolved by: Do not convert zero padded numbers to integer.
Example: "01" -> "01" x> 1.
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Красноказарменный_проезд
  • Wikibase: Fix missing infobox images on many ru.w pages.
Resolved by: Infer datatype from cached table not from JSON doc.
Example: datatype="commonsMedia".
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Италия https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-November/010023.html
  • Wikibase: Do not fail if null quantity.lbound or quantity.ubound.
Links: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183
  • Wikibase: Fix script error "Module:WD:455" on a dozen ru.s pages.
Message: Ошибка скрипта: =Module:WD:455 свойство P1343 не найдено
Resolved by: Return 'property' not 'item' if wikidata page is "Property:".
Links: https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Викитека:Проект:Викиданные
  • Wikibase: Fix script error 'java.lang.ArithmeticException: Division by zero' on a few dozen ru.w pages.
Resolved by: Convert globecoordinate's precision of '0' to precision of '1'.
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лысково_(Калужская_область)
  • Image: Open image when clicking on 'full resolution' links.
Message: could not find anchor with href in html {detected by khanhhung2512 }
Resolved by: Handle image paths with spaces and other URL-encoding.
Links: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Volcán_Chimborazo,_"El_Taita_Chimborazo".jpg https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_II_greets_NASA_GSFC_employees,_May_8,_2007_edit.jpg
  • Gui.Url_bar: Show title in actual chars, not url-decoded chars.
Resolved by: Set page url to actual chars, not url-decoded chars.
  • Page_sync: Do not fail with null ref exception when trying to auto-sync a non-existant file. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MimiRogersApr09.jpg
  • Page_sync: Fix page_sync failing when (a) page has math and (b) math has '~{'.
Message: page_load fail: page=Web crawler err=[err 0] idx mode not closed {detected by khanhhung2512 }
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
  • Page_sync: Allow 'always sync' by setting sync interval to '0'. {requested by khanhhung2512 }
Links: Options/Page_sync
  • Page_sync: Implement 'Pages to sync' filter. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
Links: Options/Page_sync
  • Embeddable: Load modules from load_worker. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}
  • Embeddable: Add Free_memory method. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}
  • Embeddable: Change if_exist to call Page_cache. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}

trivial

  • Wikibase: Fix Wikibase json-entities loader not working.

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