Change log/2016

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v3.7.4.1 (2016-07-25)

Wiki

  • Wiki: Publish 2016-07 English Wikipedia

PC

minor

  • Command-line: Fix automatic deletion of pagelinks file. {detected by anonymous}

trivial

  • Gui: Do not show blank page when restoring page with anchor at application startup.
Example: /home/wiki/Main_Page#Links.
  • Options: Immediately update Enabled flag in Options/Scribunto (instead of forcing reboot).
Resolved by: Invalidate all Scribunto engines across all wikis when disabled.
Links: Options/Scribunto
  • Log: Do not fail with OutOfMemoryError when loading Special:XowaSystemData.
Resolved by: Only show last 1 MB of log file in browser.

Android

  • DownloadCentral: Add screen to change wiki location for XOWA app.
  • DownloadCentral: If unzip fails, restart from verify, not unzip.

Dev

  • Source: Fix thread-safe issues with wikibase and html generation.

v3.7.3.1 (2017-07-17)

Wiki

  • Wiki: Publish 2016-07 French Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews.

PC

major

  • HtmlView: Support redirects.
Links: https://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Portrait https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/ https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_%C3%89luard
  • HtmlView: Fix Table of contents not working for entries with <br/>.
Resolved by: Rewrite TOC generator.
Example: ==a<br/>b==.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermokarst https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conseil_régional_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_ski_2007-2008
  • HtmlView: Fix Table of contents not working for entries with duplicate entries.
Resolved by: Rewrite TOC generator.
Example: ==a== ==a==.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/10000 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_microprocesseurs_Intel https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_and_Entertainment_Software
  • HtmlView: Fix Table of contents not working for entries with references.
Resolved by: Rewrite TOC generator.
Example: ==a<ref name="b">c==.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal
  • HtmlView: Support PageBanner.
Links: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris

minor

  • Gui: Add "cancel" button to Edit pages. {detected by WeaverStever}
  • Css: Fix "indicators" showing in top-left corner.
Resolved by: Update failover.css to use recent versions.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
  • PageHistory: Fix application close failing when page history has dupe.
Resolved by: Ignore duplicate item in page history.

Dev

  • Source: Make html generation code thread safe.

v3.7.2.1 (2017-07-10)

Wiki

  • Wiki: Publish Haitian wikis. {requested by NickRance}

PC

major

  • Import: Fix 2016-07 English Wikipedia import failing.
Resolved by: Search for "PRIMARY KEY" if "UNIQUE KEY" is missing.
  • HtmlView: Support Table Of Contents.
  • Import: Include mwad (MediaWiki API dump) for creating XML dumps for Wikia and other wikis. {contributed by Mattze96}
Links: App/Import/mwad
  • Install: Require Java 1.7, not Java 1.8. [broken since: v3.3.4.1]

minor

  • Wikibase: Fix script error for "Module:Wikidata:500 unknown datavalue type." on many ht.w pages.
Resolved by: Change "wikibase-entityid" to "wikibase-item".
Example: Erreur de script: =Module:Wikidata:500 unknown datavalue type..
Links: https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srilanka
  • Wikibase: Show specieswiki links in "In Other Languages". [broken since: v3.6.4.1]
Resolved by: Change "specieswiki" abbreviation from ".species" to "species".
  • Special: Enable delete on Special:XowaWikiInfo.
Links: Special:XowaWikiInfo?wiki=simple.wikipedia.org

trivial

  • Wikibase: Add "jamwiki" to list of known wikis.
  • Lang: Add new languages: aeb-arab; aeb-latn; dty; gor; lki; olo.

Server

major

  • HTTP Server: Fix images not showing when using "text" databases. [broken since: v3.6.3.4] {detected by ve3lst}

Android

minor

  • HtmlView: Ignore Table of Content markers.

Dev

  • Php_parser: Parse "[" and "]" as array.
Example: ['a', 'b'] == array('a', 'b').
  • Source: Make parser code thread safe.
  • Source: Change Scrib_core from static to instance.
  • Source: Refactor Xoa_ttl.
  • Source: Consolidate Redirect methods on Page.

v3.7.1.2 (2017-07-03)

  • Search: Do not fail when searching for multiple words. [broken since: v3.6.3.1] {detected by William; Ope30}
Resolved by: Cast double to int to handle HTML dumps from 2016-05 and earlier.

v3.7.1.1 (2017-07-03)

Wiki

  • Wiki: Publish 2016-06 German Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews.

PC

major

  • HtmlView: Support Gallery.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Manet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
  • DownloadCentral: Show error message if error during download; also allow resume.

minor

  • UI: Add Ctrl+P as default keyboard shortcut for Print.
  • UI: Automatically save zoom level when using Ctrl+Wheel_Up, Ctrl+Wheel_Down. {detected by Ope30}
  • UI: Restore font size for tab buttons.

trivial

  • Log: Add logging statements for search.
  • Hzip: Skip manual <h2> if <span> does not have id.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail:Nord-Amérindiens/Image_sélectionnée
  • Hzip: Skip manual <h2> if <h2> has atrs.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:LiveRC/ToDo

Android

major

  • Setup: Detect external storage card for certain devices (BLU-STUDIO C 5+5 LTE).
Resolved by: Try "SECONDARY_STORAGE" environment variable if present.

major

  • DownloadCentral: Fix WAKE_LOCK not being acquired / released.
Resolved by: Always release WAKE_LOCK when task is done; remove WAKE_LOCK from internal hash.
  • DownloadCentral: Fix negative progress when restarting after failed task.
Resolved by: Reset progress at cmd level upon failure.
  • Log: Retain only most recent 8 log files.
  • General: Do not crash when opening new tab and English Wikipedia is not installed.
Resolved by: Use 1st installed wiki if English Wikipedia is not available.
  • General: Do not crash when reloading page but SD card has been removed.
Resolved by: Add try / catch to Page__on_load_end.
  • General: Do not crash when opening wiki but wiki has been deleted.
Resolved by: Add try / catch to OfflinePageStrategy.
  • General: Do not crash when reloading tab but page does not exist.

trivial

  • Redlinks: Fix null ref in logs when opening special pages.
Resolved by: Set "en" as language for home wiki.

Dev

  • Source: Fix compilation issues with Eclipse Neon.
Resolved by: Split classes into separate files.
  • Source: Refactor gallery classes.
  • Source: Make Xop_amp_mgr thread safe.

v3.6.4.2 (2016-06-27)

PC

major

  • DownloadCentral: Fix Images failing b/c Articles already creates image databases.
Resolved by: Release fsdb connections after registering new wiki.
  • DownloadCentral: Add new wiki to left-hand sidebar of wikis.
  • DownloadCentral: Sort work tasks by add-order after reloading page.

minor

  • DownloadCentral: Make minor HTML changes to DownloadInfo, including removing ellipsis and adding URL for wiki.
  • HTML: Remove ellipsis from Wiki Info.


v3.6.4.1 (2016-06-25)

Wiki

  • Wiki: Publish 2016-06 English Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews and Species Wiki.
Links: Special:XowaDownloadCentral

PC

major

  • DownloadCentral: Fix Download Central failing for multiple tasks.
Resolved by: Do not make Http_download_wkr a singleton.
  • DownloadCentral: Add screen to show info for each task.
Links: Special:XowaDownloadCentralInfo?task id=1
  • DownloadCentral: Fix Mac OS X and Builder Central for vertical-align text / missing bullet points.
Resolved by: Specify -webkit-align-items; Specify display:inline-block.
  • HTML Databases: Show redlinks for missing pages.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Duffey
  • HTML Databases: Show Timelines.
Resolved by: Add timeline.js if timeline is present.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System
  • HTML Databases: Show Gallery horizontally instead of vertically.
Resolved by: Include "mediawiki.page.gallery.css" if page has gallery.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/head https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/A

minor

  • Template: Show more flag images.
Resolved by: Return template_name and template_args if template_name is invalid, not just template_name.
Example: pass: {{ {{{0}}} | arg_1 | arg_2 }}; fail: {{{{{0}}}}}.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Greenland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_by_number_of_colors
  • Tag: Show missing content for pages with apostrophes.
Resolved by: Handle apostrophes inside quotes for attributes.
Example: key="a'b" x> key="a".
Links: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_formative_period_in_Colby's_history
  • Template: Show links for next / previous letter in a few dozen en.d pages.
Resolved by: Do not add Template: to transcluded missing pages.
Example: {{:missing}} -> [[:missing]] x> [[Template:Missing]].
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a
  • Interwiki: Change abbreviation for "species.wikimedia.org" to "species" not ".species".
  • Lang: Fix script error on 1 en.d page.
Resolved by: Add "kok" lang.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/नेपाळ

trivial

  • Setup: Show XOWA img on 32-bit xowa.exe.
Resolved by: Use 32px ico instead of 512px.
  • HTTP Server: Do not add "#" to end of url when clicking on img links.
Resolved by: Change href='#' to href='javascript:void(0)'.
  • Hzip: Use correct case for html title if video title is lower-case.
Example: [[File:a.ogv]] -> "a.ogv" x> "A.ogv".
Links: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/fappieren
  • Hzip: Fix hzip diff message for </p> </div>.
Resolved by: Do not add </p> if gallery caption has <hr>.
Links: https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Forfry
  • Hzip: Fix hzip diff message for "User talk".
Resolved by: Use underscore version of href for custom namespace title.
Example: "User_talk:A" x> "User talk:A".
Links: https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Benutzersperrung/_InselFahrer

Server

major

  • HTTP Server: Add "Download Central".
Resolved by: Add support for long-polling.
Links: http://localhost:8080/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral
  • HTTP Server: Show svg and other file types.
Resolved by: Add more mime_types like svg, tif, web, etc.
Links: http://localhost:8080/home/wiki/Special:XowaDownloadCentral

Android

major

  • DownloadCentral: Fix Download Central failing for multiple tasks.
  • DownloadCentral: Add screen to show info for each task.
  • HTML Databases: Show redlinks for missing pages.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Duffey
  • HTML Databases: Show Timelines.
Resolved by: Add timeline.js if timeline is present.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System

Dev

  • Source: Change hash classes from Hashtable to HashMap.

v3.6.3.4 (2016-06-22)

Server

  • HTTP Server: Fix blank pages for wikis downloaded from archive.org (fixed for GUI in 3.6.3.3, but not for HTTP Server). {detected by thombles}


v3.6.3.3 (2016-06-21)

PC

major.fix

  • HtmlView: Fix blank pages for wikis downloaded from archive.org. {detected by thombles}
Resolved by: Fallback to wikitext databases if html databases are not present.
  • DownloadCentral: Fix Download Central icons for Mac OS X.

dev

  • Log: Log Download Central progress to troubleshoot failed completions. {detected by William}


v3.6.3.2 (2016-06-20)

PC

major.fix

  • DownloadCentral: Fix Download Central not resuming after app is restarted.

v3.6.3.1 (2016-06-19)

Wiki

  • Wiki: Publish English Wikipedia (2016-06).
Links: Special:XowaDownloadCentral
  • Wiki: Publish Simple Wikipedia (2016-06).
Links: Special:XowaDownloadCentral

PC

major.add

  • Import: Add Download Central for downloading HTML dumps.
Links: Special:XowaDownloadCentral App/Import/Download_Central
  • HtmlView: Support Android HTML databases.
Links: Options/HTML_databases
  • Search: Change search-ranking algorithm to reduce importance of short pages.
Example: search -> search for I -> Integrated Authority File should not be in top 10 search results.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=earth&full_text=y&simple_search=y

major.fix

  • ImageMap: Show ImageMap in HTML dumps (for 2016-07 English Wikipedia).
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
  • Gallery: Show Gallery with correct image margins (for 2016-07 English Wikipedia).
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art

minor.fix

  • Scribunto: Fix 'Module:CountryData' script error on several dozen en.w pages.
Message: Script error: =Module:CountryData:13 bad argument: string expected, got nil
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Greenland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_by_number_of_colors
  • Scribunto: Fix 'could not parse redirect' script error on a dozen en.w pages.
Message: Script error: =Module:Redirect:66 could not parse redirect on page "SRK"
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Rukh_Khan
  • Search: Fix search not working if word is also in non-main namespace.
Resolved by: Apply min / max only if less than / greater than existing value.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dokuw&fulltext=y&simple_search=y
  • Special: Allow case insensitive titles for Special pages.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:sEARch?search=Earth
  • Special: Allow multiple-word aliases for Special pages.
Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Zufällige_Seite

minor.change

  • Database: Change small wikis to produce core and text databases.
Example: simple.wikipedia.org-text.xowa -> simple.wikipedia.org-core.xowa; simple.wikipedia.org-text.xowa .

trivial.fix

  • Database: Ignore tables / indexes with unparseable sql.

Android

major.add

  • Import: Add Download Central for downloading HTML dumps.
  • Special: Add page to show wiki info and delete.
  • Special: Add page for logging.
  • Special: Redesign Special pages to have unified look.

minor.change

  • Android: Hide "View in browser", "Last updated", and "CC license" for Special pages.
  • Android: Change page title from Android TextView to HTML div.
  • General: Flattened XOWA icon.

Server

major.add

  • HtmlView: Support Android HTML databases.
Links: Options/HTML_databases

major.fix

  • Search: Fix broken full-search page. {detected by thombles}
Links: http://localhost:8080/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Earth&fulltext=y&simple_search=y

Doc

  • Doc: Add more information on portable JRE / Pale Moon. {assisted by anonymous}
Links: App/Setup/Installation App/Setup/Flash_card App/Xtn/Browser/XOWA_viewer
  • Doc: Clarify decompress dump file vs read from compressed. {requested by anonymous}
Links: Dashboard/Import/Offline
  • Doc: Add more info to Privacy Policy for "Read External Storage", "Wake Lock", and "Logs".
Links: Help/Privacy/Android

Dev

  • Source: Reorganize gfui package.

v3.5.1.1 (2016-05-01)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

minor.fix

  • Scribunto: Fix categorytree script error on many en.d pages. Message: Script error: @C:/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: gplx.Err: callParserFunction: function was not found: function=#categorytree
Resolved by: Implement basic functionality for {{#categorytree}}.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a-
  • Scribunto: Fix 'parameter "2" is required' script error on several dozen English Wikipedia category pages. Message: Script error: =Module:parameters:175 The parameter "2" is required.
Resolved by: Add entries for null value arguments. Example: [2:'b'] -> [1:null,2:'b'].
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Nouns_by_language
  • Scribunto: Fix cast failed error on several dozen en.d pages. Message: Script error: @/C/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: gplx.Err: cast failed: type=java.lang.String
Resolved by: Always convert replace-arg to string when gsub uses callback function.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seven https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eight
  • Scribunto: Fix format link script error on a few dozen en.d pages. Message: Script error: =Module:template 'Link':367 attempt to call nil
Resolved by: Return correct data structure for interwikiMap.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Public_domain_sources https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Quotations/Templates
  • Scribunto: Fix class cast error on a few dozen en.d pages. Message: Script error: @C:/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.luaj.vm2.LuaNil cannot be cast to org.luaj.vm2.LuaTable
Resolved by: Handle UCS chars at end of array.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/one
  • Scribunto: Fix 'number required' script error. Message: Script error: =Module:Roman:119 attempt to call nil
Resolved by: Allow int to be passed to pf.expr.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/531_BC
  • Url: Fix wrong-casing when navigating from home wiki to English Wiktionary.
Resolved by: Use case-sensitivity of url wiki not current wiki.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/one

doc

  • Doc: Correct broken links to missing /Overview pages. {detected by Miles}
Links: Dashboard/Wiki_maintenance

v3.4.4.1 (2016-04-24)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

package

  • Package: Release German wikis (2016-04).
Links: https://archive.org/details/Xowa_dewiki_latest

minor.fix

  • Luaj: Fix multiple error log messages for Module:Sort in de.w pages. Message: Skriptfehler: =Module:Sort:93 'for' initial value must be a number
Resolved by: Do not assign character classes to bytes > 128. Example: {{#invoke:AdressenSort|convert|1=, ß}} -> , ß x �.
Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kulturdenkmäler_in_Kaiserslautern
  • Hzip: Serialize media_play link.

trivial.fix

  • Scribunto: Fix ClassCast script error on 3 de.w pages. Message: Skriptfehler: @C:/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Integer cannot be cast to java.lang.String
Resolved by: Allow ints to be passed as title. Example: {{#invoke:Pinging|massmessage|#{{PAGEID}}|@=|:=}} .
Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua/Modul/Pinging/Test/recipients https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Checkuser/Berechtigte https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Importwünsche/Importeure
  • Scribunto: Fix ClassCast script error on 1 de.v page. Message: Skriptfehler: @C:/xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/Luaj/MWServer.lua:59 vm error: gplx.Err: val is not in switch/if: val=java.lang.Double – Breite:
Resolved by: Handle double for replace arg in ustring.gsub.
Links: https://de.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Wikidata/Test_Modul:Wikidata2
  • ParserFunctions: Fix IndexOutOfBounds log error on 1 fr.w page.
Resolved by: Allow empty string for Raw argument in PAGESFORCATEGORY. Example: 0.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Venezuela
  • DynamicPageList: Fix IndexOutOfBounds log error on 1 de.n page.
Resolved by: Handle multiple bad keys on one line. Example: \nbad1=a bad2=b\n.
Links: https://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Brandenburg
  • Hzip: Store title attribute for Wikivoyage sleep, eat, drink, etc. on 20+ de.v pages.
Links: https://de.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cairns
  • Hzip: Serialize email node for Wikivoyage email on 10+ de.v pages.
Links: https://de.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bansin

Android

major.fix

  • Android: Do not crash if file-user.xowa is not available.

trivial.fix

  • Android: Use correct css for Special:XowaWikis.
Resolved by: Convert byte[] to string for call to xowa__html__add__head.

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

  • 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

minor

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

v3.1.4.2 (2016-01-28)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

major

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

minor

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


v3.1.3.1 (2016-01-17)

Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

add

significant

minor

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

trivial

Android

fix

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

add

  • Special: Implement random.

change

significant

  • Html: Center gallery images.

minor

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

significant

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

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