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

All files are available at https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/

For more details about the release, please see the Blog or the Change log

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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).

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