Download

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

Windows

• Windows (64-bit)
• Windows (32-bit)

Linux

• Linux (64-bit)
• Linux (32-bit)

Mac OS X

• Mac OS X (64-bit)
• Mac OS X (32-bit)

Source code

• Source code

Change log

v2.8.3.1 (2015-08-17)

package

• Package: Release images for 2015-08 English Wikipedia. See: https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/Xowa_enwiki_2015-08-05_file_v2b.7z

change

• Gui: Add splash.gif when XOWA starts. See: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/file/gui/splash/xowa.gif
• Gui: Show "options saved" notification after saving options.
• Setup: Show better error message if fatal error during launch.
• Setup: Build xowa.exe with launch4j.
• Wiki: Convert home wiki to sqlite wiki and move to /xowa/bin/any/xowa/wiki/home*.
• Setup: Enable bundled JRE for Windows .exe. See: /xowa/bin/windows/java/jre
• Setup: Add site_meta.sqlite3. See: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/cfg/wiki/site_meta.sqlite3

significant

• File: Fix wrong images due to incorrect conversion from v1 (affects 4744 incorrect images on en.w) {detected by anonymous4}. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(Season_5)
• File: Try to download from commons if file doesn't exist in local wiki (affects a few hundred missing images on en.w) {detected by gnosygnu.build.process}. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13

minor

• Scribunto: Use "nil" as default value for utf8_explode__previous_string, not "" (affects a few en.w pages with script error). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_Me_(UK_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno_episodes_(1992–99) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_and_Lexington_Avenues_Line https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riseberga /xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/LuaCommon/lualib/ustring/ustring.lua
• Search: Do not throw error if empty string is entered for Search {detected by anonymous}. See: https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&fulltext=y

trivial

• Setup: Move "xowa_build" scripts from /xowa to /xowa/bin/os_name/xowa/script.
• Setup: Move "setup" scripts from /xowa to /xowa/bin/os_name/xowa/script.
• Setup: Move xowa.gfs to /xowa/bin/any/xowa/cfg/app/xowa.gfs. See: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/cfg/app/xowa.gfs
• Setup: Move license.txt to /xowa/bin/any/xowa/license.txt. See: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/license.txt
• Setup: Move failover css to /xowa/bin/any/xowa/html/css/failover. See: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/html/css/failover
• Setup: Move maintenance html to /xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/xowa/maintenance. See: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/xowa/maintenance
• Setup: Remove /xowa/bin/any/sql.

doc

• Doc: Reformat readme.txt to use MediaWiki syntax.