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Release: POSTPONED (2016-10-23 21:30 Sun)

v3.10.4 is postponed for at least one day. I'm planning to have something up tomorrow night, but it may go to mid week.

Release: v3.10.3.2 (2016-10-17 16:00 Mon)

The PC version is a minor release. It now shows the 2016-10 entries for English and German Wikipedia in Download Central.

Thanks to Ope30 for reporting the bug (https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/90).

Release: v3.10.3.1 (2016-10-16 20:00 Sun)

The PC version is a major release. It adds better category support, fixes a Scribunto "Script error out of bounds", and a new custom scripting system.

The Android version is a minor release. It has a possible fix for some devices failing to load XOWA when permissions are revoked and then regranted.

(Wiki) Release 2016-10 English and German Wikipedia

The 2016-10 versions of both wikis are up. You can get them through:

• Wiki_setup/English_wikis
• Wiki_setup/German_wikis

(PC) Multiple category changes, including performance, international sorting, numeric sorting, and HTML database loading

First, round of thanks to Ope30 who noticed a number of issues with the category system as decribed in https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/87

This particular release has a lot of changes based on the bug reports:

• Improved performance on SATA drives, especially for large categories: The category system in v3.9.4.1 worked okay on SSD drives, but did poorly on SATA drives. Large categories (2,000+) like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_albums would take 20-30 seconds to load. Now they take 4-5 seconds.
• Next 200 / Previous 200 would not work on English Wikipedia for large categories: English Wikipedia recently changed their sorting collation from "uppercase" to "uca-default-u-kn". As a result, a number of entries no longer sorted correctly, and pressing "Next / Previous" would break. As an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_stub_articles now works correctly navigating forward
• HTML dumps now show wikitext HTML: Category pages sometimes have a letter index at the top of the page, or other information. For example, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mann has a large table of contents listing many 2-letter combinations. This information didn't appear in the HTML dumps before. Now they do
• Other minor changes: There are a small number of other changes as well which are covered more in the Change log

(PC) Fix for "Script error: index out of bounds" on 2016-10 enwiki pages

A number of pages in 2016-10 English Wikipedia would should "Script error: index out of bounds" in the Infobox area near the Coordinates. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris This was fixed in this release

(PC) Add custom scripting support through standalone javascript / lua files

This was a feature requested at https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/88

Basically, v3.10.4.2 allows changing XOWA pages through custom Javascript. This is intended for non-Wikimedia wikis (such as Wikia) which use custom extension that are not supported in XOWA. A user can add this missing custom extension by writing an extension in Javascript.

More information is at App/Xtn/Scripting

Next release: v3.10.2

• Wikis: I'm generating 2016-10 French Wikipedia now, and should have it uploaded in the next day. Afterwards, I'm going to go through the English sister wikis (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikivoyage) and then hopefully the German ones.
• Dynamic update of wiki pages: Between categories and scripting, I didn't get a chance to work on this feature

Release: NONE (2016-10-02 21:30 Sun)

There's no release this week. I'm working on a category performance enhancement before starting on 2016-10 wikis.

I did create a deletion database for English Wikipedia. It will reduce the size of the images datases from 101 GB to 90 GB.

The link is here: https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/en.wikipedia.org-file-deletion-2016.09.xowa The instructions are here: Dashboard/Files/Deletion

Thanks.