Change log

From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application

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).

v4.0.0.1701 (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.

v3.11.2.1 (2016-11-13)

Wikis

  • Package: Publish 2016-10 French wikis (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews).
Links: Wiki_setup/French_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-10 Polish wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Polish_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-10 Swedish wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Swedish_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-10 Spanish wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Spanish_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-11 English Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis

PC

minor

  • Bookmarks: Fix Bookmarks not loading.
Links: Special:XowaBookmarks
  • Wikibase: Fix "Moduł:Wikidane/format/prolepticGregorianCalendar:43" error on many pl.w software pages.
Message: =Moduł:Wikidane/format/prolepticGregorianCalendar:43 attempt to compare number with string expected, got number
Resolved by: Return timezone as integer, not string.
Links: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL
  • Wikibase: Fix script error "Division by zero" error on 90 en.w pages.
Message: =Module:Decimals:10 Unable to convert "<strong class="error">Division by zero.</strong>" to a number
Resolved by: Parse numbers with fractions correctly; do not convert to zero.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen,_Agusan_del_Norte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinao,_Aklan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalibo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo,_Albay
  • Wikibase: Fix script error "Formatting error: invalid input when rounding%" error on 90 en.w pages.
Message: Formatting error: invalid input when rounding%
Resolved by: Do not output quantity.unit if it is not a wikidata url.
Example: unit:1 -> "" x> " 1".
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen,_Agusan_del_Norte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinao,_Aklan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalibo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo,_Albay
  • Wikibase: Show {{#property}} geo-coordinates in degrees, not raw numbers.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen,_Agusan_del_Norte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinao,_Aklan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalibo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo,_Albay
  • Wikibase: Fix wrong Inception for Earth as well as wrong dates for Julian Calendar entries.
Resolved by: Do not automatically convert dates to julian.
Links: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266309
  • Luaj: Fix "Module:Xlat:86" on a few dozen pl.w pages.
Message: =Module:xlat:86 bad argument: number expected, got nil
Resolved by: Handle nil arguments for table.unpack.
Example: table.unpack(nil, nil).
Links: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janina_(miasto) https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exo https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-ve_Dolls
  • ParserFunctions: Fix wrong number of total pages shown on Main_Page. {detected by anonymous}
Resolved by: Change {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} to read from site_stats.ss_total_pages and {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to read from site_stats.ss_good_articles.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • Lang.Variants: Fix variants not working in Chinese and other wikis. {detected by anonymous}
Resolved by: Add initialization assertion to variant rule parser.
Links: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/地球
  • Html_dump: Fix wide images on some en.v pages.
Resolved by: If {{#pagebanner}} and __TOC__ are on same page, do not have __TOC__ overwrite {{#pagebanner}}.
Links: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List
  • Html_dump: Fix images not showing when going back / forward on wikinews. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Always reload page when going back / forward on wikinews (do not use cached html).
Links: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki
  • Image: Show mockup of commons.wikimedia.org page when clicking on image. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
  • Import.offline: Fix incorrect detection of offline category dump files (.sql.gz2).
  • Import.offline: Clarify 'category' rebuild options.
Links: Dashboard/Import/Offline
  • Import.offline: Do not re-download category dump files when importing wiki. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
  • Import.offline: Use any available category dump, not just those marked "latest". {detected by anonymous}
  • DownloadCentral: Hide outdated wikis in "Imported" table.
  • Embeddable: Add ability to parse wikitext by api. {requested by Rüdiger Gleim}
Links: Dev/Parser/Embeddable
  • Page_history: Add option to log all page visits to a separate file. {requested by anonymous}
Links: Options/Dev

trivial

  • Wikibase: Add olo.wikipedia.org to list of known wikis.
  • Wikibase: Do not escape and repeat calendar data.
Example: "<sup>jul</sup>" x> "&lt;sup>jul&lt;/sup>&lt;sup>jul&lt;/sup>".
Links: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2
  • DownloadCentral: Move list of languages from UI to DB.
  • DownloadCentral.Package: Generate 2016-10 date when wiki is 2016-09-30.
Resolved by: Add option to manually specify wiki date for new packages.
  • Table_of_contents: Handle unknown tags: dl.
Links: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojska_Lądowe
  • Hzip: Reduce hzip diff log entries for image links in non-English wikis.
Resolved by: Use canonical name, not local name, for images linking to namespaces in other wikis.
Links: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terytoria_Północno-Zachodnie

doc

  • Doc: Update list of image databases. {detected by anonymous}
Links: Dashboard/Image_databases

v3.10.4.1 (2016-10-24)

Wikis

  • Package: Publish 2016-10 English Wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-10 German Wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/German_wikis

PC

major

  • Import: Fix import error for dewikiquote.
Resolved by: Do not assume same database schema for all Wikimedia wikis.
  • Wikibase: Fix script error "not implemented" on many en.v pages.
Resolved by: Implement entity for renderSnak.
Links: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Montenegro https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mongolia
  • Kartographer: Hide random text in many en.v pages.
Resolved by: Hide markup from mapframe / maplink tags.
Links: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/London https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris
  • Luaj: Fix script error "bad argument: string expected, got nil" in pronunciation section on many en.d Chinese pages.
Resolved by: Remove nil element from table when nil is 1st member.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/仚 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/仛Diagnostics/Scribunto/Luaj
  • DownloadCentral: Add filter by language, type.
  • DownloadCentral: Do not show outdated wikis.

minor

  • Html_dump: Fix 'Refresh' not working for html dumps. {detected by Ope30}
  • Wikibase: Show electricity units in quickbar for many en.v pages.
Resolved by: Reuse quantity.unit code for renderSnake.
Links: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mongolia
  • Assessment: Hide [[:Template:#assessment:country]] at bottom of many en.v pages.
Resolved by: Ignore assessment function tag.
Links: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mongolia
  • DynamicPageList: Skip invalid category titles; do not treat them as empty category titles.
Example: category={{{2}}}.
Links: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egypt
  • DynamicPageList: Cache category link pages.
Links: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egypt
  • Gallery: If multiple caption arguments, take last, not all of them.
Example: "File:A.png|a|b" -> "b" x> "a|b".
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgique https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/63aeabeff1e098e872cc46f3698c61457e44ba15
  • Import.offline: Do not fail if category files are not available.
  • Import.offline: Do not fail at category for non-WMF wikis (Wikia).
  • Import.offline: Fix import failing if offline dump files are not in '/xowa/wiki/wiki_name'.
Resolved by: Use the directory of offline dump files for category files.
  • Image: Fix hzip diff message for redirected images from one extension (.gif) to another (.png).
Resolved by: Switch img_src and img_trg when loading from imglnk_reg.
Example: Armenica_Ani_map.gif/250px.png.
Links: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ani
  • Mass_parse: Fix mass_parse failing on some machines. {detected by Matthias Polag}
Resolved by: Do not return null if MACHINENAME / HOSTNAME is not available.

trivial

  • DownloadCentral: Add option to include patch files.
  • DynamicPageList: Show page title in log message when category is missing.
Links: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithms
  • DynamicPageList: Do not show null ref error in log when invalid category is used.
Links: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egypt https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Topic_cat/latest
  • Dansguardian: Fix fatal error deleting entries from text table when importing any wiki besides Wikipedia.
Resolved by: Do not consider core database as having 'text' table when running 'text.delete_page'.
  • Dansguardian: Delete search_links from search_link database, not search_core database.
  • Html_dump: Fix thread-safe issues when converting gfs messages.
  • Html_dump: Fix thread-safe issues with Hash_of_ints.
  • Mass_parse: Add option to make_cmd to not delete all html databases.
  • PageBanner: Do not write page banner img.src else hzip_diff will complain for every page.
  • Category: Change 'category not found' errors to log, not warn.
  • Table_of_contents: Handle unknown tags: ruby, rb, rp, rt.

Dev

  • Wikibase: Centralize rendering of claim values ({{#property}} and JSON vs renderSnak and Keyval).

Android

  • DownloadCentral: Add filter by language, type.
  • DownloadCentral: Do not show outdated wikis.

v3.10.3.2 (2016-10-17)

PC

  • DownloadCentral: Show 2016-10 entries for English / German Wikipedia in Download Central. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Include latest download central database.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis Wiki_setup/German_wikis

v3.10.3.1 (2016-10-16)

Wiki

  • Package: Publish 2016-10 English Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2016-10 German Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/German_wikis

PC

major

  • Category: Improve performance for Category pages on non-SSD drives. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Denormalize sortkey from cat_sort table to cat_link table and add explicit index for it.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_albums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unprintworthy_redirects
  • Category: Add UCA support for category sorting. {detected by Ope30}
  • Category: Support "uca-default", "uca-*", "uppercase" collations in different wikis.
Example: bin/any/xowa/cfg/wiki.
  • Category: Load catpage wikitext from precompiled HTML and merge with catpage link data.
Links: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people
  • Scribunto: Fix script error "index is out of bounds" on many en.w geography pages.
Message: Script error: @C:/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: gplx.Err: index is out of bounds: idx=0 len=0
Resolved by: Handle parser functions with 0 arguments, like {{#coordinates}}.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
  • Scribunto: Show flags as correct small size not extremely large size.
Resolved by: Evaluate optional args of missing templates.
Example: "size={{{size|}}}" -> "size=" x> "size={{{size|}}}".
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Country_data_Guernsey
  • Scripting: Add scripting support through standalone js / lua files. {requested by anonymous}
Links: App/Xtn/Scripting


minor

  • Category: Show categories in User / Talk namespace as MISSING.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_albums?pageuntil=WALK%2BON%2BTHE%2BWIRED%2BSIDE,%2BA#mw-pages
  • Category: Fix Category bookmarks not working if bookmarking something past first page.
Resolved by: Write anchor after query args, not before.
Example: Category:2001_albums&pagefrom=Beautiful+View#mw-pages x> Category:2001_albums#mw-pages?pagefrom=Beautiful%2BView.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_albums?pagefrom=Beautiful%2BView#mw-pages
  • Category: Fix "Next 200" not working on category pages when "Next 200" link refers to page with "#". {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Do not automatically url-decode query arguments.
Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Begriffsklärung
  • Category: Fix rare skipping of one page when pressing "Next 200".
Resolved by: Do not automatically url-decode query arguments.
Example: Category:2001_albums&pagefrom=Nightclubbing+%28Blank+and+Jones+album%29%0ANightclubbing+%28Blank+%26+Jones+album%29#mw-pages.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:2001_albums&pagefrom=Loving%20Every%20Minute%20(album)#mw-pages
  • Category: Sort headings numerically under 0-9.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_albums
  • Category: Hide "hidden categories" group for wikitext databases (already hidden for HTML databases).
  • Search: Fix "Next" / "Previous" not working on full text search.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/earth?fulltext=y&xowa_page_index=0
  • Options: Fix Shortcuts not saving. {detected by Ope30}
Links: Options/Shortcuts
  • Scribunto: Fix hidden script error on a few dozen en.w observatory pages.
Resolved by: If unit is a wikidata url, show label for that wikidata article, not the wikidata url.
Example: "305±2 meter" x> "305±2 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11573".
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory
  • Setup: Add setup instruction pages to list URLs for specific wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Listing
  • File: Add deletion database for 2016-09 English Wikipedia.
Links: Dashboard/Files/Deletion https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/en.wikipedia.org-file-deletion-2016.09.xowa
  • Html_dump: If option is set to use wikitext, but no wikitext is available, and html is available, just use html.


trivial

  • Setup: Add icu4j library.
Example: bin/any/java/icu4j/icu4j-4_8.jar.
  • Setup: Add xz library (not officially supported).
Example: bin/any/java/xz/xz-1.5.jar .
  • Luaj: Cast string, int, long, double and bool args in method reflection.
  • Luaj: Handle varargs in method reflection.
  • Make.Images: Add builder command to create customized deletion_db for dansguardian wikis.


dev

  • Dev: Refactor Io_stream_rdr.
  • Dev: Refactor Gfo_url_parser.


Android

minor

  • Launch: Ignore application directory which are no longer accessible (removed SD card).

v3.9.4.2 (2016-09-26)

PC

  • Category: Fix categories not showing for pages with more than one word in the page title. {detected by Ope30}
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System


v3.9.4.1 (2016-09-25)

Wiki

  • Wiki: Publish 2016-09 French Wikipedia HTML and images.
Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_frwiki_latest
  • Wiki: Publish 2016-09 English Wikipedia HTML and images.
Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_latest
  • Wiki: Publish 2016-09 German Wikipedia HTML and images.
Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest


PC

major

  • Category: Fix category not showing more than 200 items in a category. [broken since: 3.9.2.1]
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native_American_leaders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cities_in_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Poisonous_plants
  • Category: Fix dynamic page list not working for DynamicPageList. [broken since: 3.9.2.1]
Links: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:XML https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Religion
  • Category: Fix category not working for www.wikidata.org. [broken since: 3.9.2.1] {detected by Rüdiger Gleim; Ope30}
Links: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Help

minor

  • Category: Disable Previous / Next 200 if at start / end of category range.
Links: https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Mann
  • Page_sync: Show math images after sync.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem
  • Page_sync: Show video images after sync.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera
  • Page_sync: Show pdf images after sync.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
  • DownloadCentral: Do not retry endlessly if wrong size downloaded.
  • Scribunto: Fix NullPointerReference script error in geobox coord on 4 en.w pages.
Message: Script error: @C:/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: java.lang.NullPointerException
Resolved by: Handle gaps in Scribunto argument keys.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalkar_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_Italia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maran,_Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Boisgibault
  • Luaj: Fix script error at head of page for many fr.w pages.
Message: Erreur : le thème « littérature française » du modèle Template:Ébauche n’est pas défini.
Resolved by: Fix regex pattern for matching end of string.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimbaud_le_fils Diagnostics/Scribunto/Luaj
  • UI: Show pages in MediaWiki namespace.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
  • Parser: Fix several dozen MediaWiki pages failing to load.
Resolved by: Handle standalone dollar signs and backslashes.
Example: "$ "; "\ ".
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
  • Html_dump: Generate html dump databases by namespace.
Example: en.wikipedia.org-html.002.xowa -> en.wikipedia.org-html-ns.000-db.002.xowa.
  • Html_dump: Add images to specific-ns database not main-ns database.
Example: Portal:Earth -> en.wikipedia.org-file-ns.100-db.001.xowa x> en.wikipedia.org-file-ns.000-db.065.xowa.
  • Options: Do not save options if file is marked read-only. {suggested by malakov1}
Example: C:\xowa\user\anonymous\app\data\cfg\xowa_user_cfg.gfs.
  • Raspberry Pi: Run XOWA GUI on Raspberry Pi. {requested by nstents}
Resolved by: Switch default SWT browser from Mozilla to WebKit.
Example: bin\arm\xowa\cfg\xowa_cfg_os_default.gfs.
  • Raspberry Pi: Use official sqlite-jdbc jar.

Android

minor

  • DownloadCentral: Do not retry endlessly if wrong size downloaded.

Dev

  • Dev: Refactor Xoctg_catpage_url_parser.

v3.9.2.1 (2016-09-11)

PC

major

  • Category: Fix Category pages showing wrong categories. [broken since: v3.8.5.1]
Resolved by: Reset page_id object.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Earth
  • Html_dump: Show categories for 2016-09 dumps. {requested by Ope30}
Resolved by: Rewrite category system.
  • Html_dump: Add left-hand sidebar for 2016-09 dumps. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Dump MediaWiki namespace (8).
  • Page_sync: Add basic option to synchronize pages. {requested by Mde186}
Links: App/Xtn/Page_sync Options/Page_sync
  • DownloadCentral: Retry for one minute if connection is dropped. {detected by markusmaresch}
  • Scribunto: Show Protection banner boxes for pages.
Resolved by: Fix title.cascadingProtections to return back empty array instead of false.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk

minor

  • DownloadCentral: Fix Download Central "hanging" on Mac OS X. {detected by markusmaresch}
Resolved by: Set timeout explicitly to 5 seconds.
  • Lang: Fix "Portál [[:Šablona:GRAMMAR]]" in sidebar of cs.q.
Resolved by: Use noop grammar for cs lang.
Links: https://cs.wikiquote.org
  • Cite: Fix stack overflow error on 1 cs.w page.
Links: https://cs.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Hejčl,_Jan_-_Pentateuch.pdf/128
  • Parser: Ignore stack overflow when parsing badly formatted pages.
Links: https://cs.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Hejčl,_Jan_-_Pentateuch.pdf/128
  • DownloadCentral: Fix torrent links for non-Wikipedia wikis. {detected by malakov1}
Example: -> Xowa_enwiki_latest_archive.torrent x> Xowa_enwiktionary_latest_archive.torrent.
Links: Special:XowaDownloadCentralInfo?task id=6
  • Database: Fix slow performance when SQLite files are read-only. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Open database connection in "read-only" mode if marked readonly.
Example: properties.setProperty("open_mode", "1").
  • Luaj: Fix random "invalid utf8 byte" errors.
Resolved by: Do not use temporary static variable for decoding UTF-8 strings.
  • Scribunto: Do not show "Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates" for protected-pages.
Resolved by: Change titleLib.GetProtectionLevels to return semi-protected instead of null.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

trivial

  • File_dump: Fix multi-threaded parser issues in orig link.
Resolved by: Extend lock scope over entirety of database lookup.
  • Wikibase: Fix multi-threaded parser issues in Wbase property.
Resolved by: Extend lock scope over entirety of Wbase doc parser.
  • Wikibase: Remove many log entries when opening qid from 2016-08-28 wikidata.
Resolved by: Ignore "id" under entity.value node.
  • Wikibase: Add "tcywiki" to list of known wikis.
  • Parser.Template: Suppress multiple "template is blank" messages in log for de.d.
Resolved by: Ignore templates with blank arguments.
Example: {{K|Politik}} -> {{{{{spr|}}}|nolink=ja}} -> {{|nolink=ja}}.
Links: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/país
  • Category: Remove old category builder commands.
  • Builder: Remove old copy, search commands for text databases.

Doc

  • Doc: Add new dependency for imagelinks dump in command-line build. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}
Links: Dev/Command-line/Dumps
  • Doc: Add new page explaining difference between Wikitext and HTML databases.
Links: App/Databases/Overview

Dev

  • Scribunto: Add traceback for errors.
  • Wikibase: Add Wbase_enum_hash to reuse various enum methods.
  • HTML: Refactor sidebar classes.
  • Category: Refactor Category Pagebox classes.

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