Release Notes
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XIPHOS RELEASE NOTES
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Release 4.2.1
02 May 2020
After a long dry spell, Xiphos is back with a new release. This is a
release of many bug fixes and much re-structuring, especially for how the
build system operates, an important factor for those in development. The
older waf build system is gone, having been re-engineered from the ground
up with cmake.
User-visible changes regard crash-avoidance bugfixes and cosmetic matters:
Corrected use of visuals in parallel window, corrected verse displays,
status bar repair, corrected alternating fg/bg in parallel,
improved/corrected spacing of Strong's and morphology with respect to
mainline text, additions to the languages recognized in module displays,
increased limits on book name length for exotic UTF-8 languages (encodings
too long), and some new and updated interface translations.
Nearly 50 old reports are closed.
Closed items:
- #795 Android app
- #895 Small capitals for divine name not displayed in parallel view
- #899 Windows 10 install fails: 4.1.0 32-bit installer
- #903 Drop down menu does not fully display in Fedora 28
- #910 Faulty interaction between previewer pane view settings
- #914 doesn't compile on ubuntu 18.04
- #915 segfault
- #917 fails to run in Debian testing due to incorrect version of libsword
- #919 Disabled status bar reappears when the program is launched
- #924 Windows build cannot find glib-genmarshal
- #926 Parallel Bible Tabs in Xiphos 4.0.7
- #931 Xiphos on Fedora 29 Gnome Wayland
- #932 Crosswire PPA is Gone
- #933 download manager doesn't load any bibles
- #934 Date in devotional windows is not translated
- #937 ftp.xiphos.org unresponsive
- #939 Features request: When clicking right on a word opens a windows
with all the word with the same Strong's number
- #947 drop-down menu for books partly off screen
- #949 Burmese locale not displayed
- #951 Installing new versions of modules that already is installed,
instead of upgrade old, call some errors
- #952 Preferences Menu Comes Up When Starting Xiphos
- #953 Windows version crashes after opening
- #955 Studypad does not open
- #956 drop down menus for Bible books and chapter not working correctly
- #957 Personal commentary not working
- #958 STRDUP error Habakkuk 3:14 YLT
- #970 arrows by book name confusing
- #974 Background Color, Page and Window Aren't Working Properly
- #977 zh-CN Book hebrew wrong
- #978 User reports crash on first run
- #980 New release expected for debian
- #981 Xiphos is almost unusable on smaller screen devices, phones.
- #985 Arb, cmn and ktu are translated in English in the list of modules
- #990 Misleading proximity of Strong's tags to the next line
- #991 Suggestion: Change the Unknown language branch to ! Unknown
- #993 Bulgarian sword locale is not seen by xiphos
- #995 Dropdown Menu only Shows OT books on Complete Bible, NT Bibles left out.
- #996 tab content limit too short, causes crash
- #998 Localized language names not displayed (Unknown language branch in MM)
- #999 Trailing zeroes in a module version number?
- #1000 language names are not language descriptors
- #1001 Create release and post build artifacts on git tags
- #1006 detached parallel widget ptr not NULLed on close, causes crash
- #1008 Compilation/Package build failed on Ubuntu 18.04
- #1011 copyright update
- #1013 zip help dependency
- #1017 Please provide italics rendering for catchWord & rdg elements in OSIS footnotes
- #1018 update RELEASE-NOTES for 4.2.0
- #1019 apparent adv.search hang is really just grossly inefficient previous results disposal
- #1021 Convince Github project is not written in Scheme
New recent items:
- #1005 Fix the name of the module in the top of the parallel view
- #1009 In Advance search, adding new module in the module list impossible
- #1010 Add a new tab in the dictionary pane for daily devotional
- #1014 Configurable packages in Linux
- #1017 Please provide italics rendering for catchWord & rdg elements in OSIS footnotes
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Release 4.1.0
19 Apr 2018
There has been much bugfixing and a number of features and enhancements.
Internal compatibility updates were made for the new Sword 1.8 release,
notably providing some new av11n schemes. Several flaws in Advanced
Search were corrected. Ongoing changes to stay current with our display
toolkit were made. Export output has gained headers showing what search
was executed on what module, and an export verse counting error was fixed.
Pre-book and -chapter material is visually offset from main text. (For
examples, see module ESV2011 at every chapter 1.) Due to the availability
of the new Android/iOS Sword app Bishop, which supports BibleSync, Xiphos'
use of BibleSync has been given some attention for this release: fixed one
bug; tightened up how a warning is used; added optional on-demand-only
keyboard-driven nav sync xmit as an enhancement, so that Xiphos need not
xmit every time the user navigates.
On Linux, when run under Wayland instead of Xorg, some mild rendering flaws
are seen. Wayland is new, and working under it has provided some surprises.
Please help us work toward correcting these by submitting bug reports when
appropriate.
Issues addressed:
- #753 Unexpected Search Results
- #783 Add support for ancillary configuration files to unlock modules from STEP Bible
- #809 Using meson to build xiphos
- #823 Flatpak available on Flathub
- #826 Module Manager problems in Xiphos 4.0.7 (win32) during attempts to install Update module
- #828 #873 find dialog has an unknown button.
- #829 UI problem in Windows edition of Xiphos 4.0.6a (doubled arrows)
- #830 Add header lines to adv.search export
- #831 Module Manager problems in 4.0.7 (Ubuntu Linux)
- #834 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 which is deprecated
- #836 Replace lucene with soundex
- #837 settings.xml is in *nix EOL format on windows
- #838 Modules - About - Copy
- #843 Xiphos hates superscripts
- #845 show pre-chapter/-book material with italics
- #846 can't handle OT quote display variant
- #847 Compilation failed on Ubuntu 16.04
- #848 Xiphos doesn't use non-break space
- #850 Lack of space in the "about" module window
- #851 corrected use of verse number in chapter export
- #853 unexpected file list at the previewer pane
- #854 UI cut off on left side
- #855 Xiphos crashes at first start (with workaround)
- #857 Show the text of all the verses of a xref
- #858 Detached sidebar empty
- #859 windows 10
- #861 Need help compiling 4.0.7
- #862 Please update your translation tools
- #864 Cannot compile through AUR
- #865 Windows: Splash screen stuck, program unresponsive
- #869 Advanced search crashes if using custom list for second/third/etc. time
- #870 Advanced search, exact phrase fails due to notes
- #871 Update dependencies
- #872 Bible showing weird characters
- #874 use gtkbox to replace gtk{v,h}box for xi-splash.ui
- #875 use gtkgrid to replace gtktable in edit_link_dialog.xml
- #876 #860 fixed gtk_font_button_get(set)_font_name deprecated
- #877 remove repeated arrow display
- #878 Xiphos website needs updating
- #881 #882 Wayland use under Gnome 3.26 or above leads to crash on Navbar click
- #887 Add keyboard-only BibleSync navigation
- #888 update biblesync glue for biblesync 1.2.0
- biblesync: avoid versekey data corruption by using a copy -- orig. is destroyed.
- biblesync: tell user exactly once that others are xmitting unknown bible modnames.
- translation updates
- compatibility update for sword 1.8
- added gtk version checks and fixed numerous gtk deprecations.
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Release 4.0.7
24 Sep 2017
This represents general bug-fixing and feature implementation from the
issues list, with a few other matters handled as well. More than half of
the open issues list (29 of 54) have been closed since 4.0.6, including
all but 2 outstanding bug reports. Some closures were unreproducible
bugs, or unworkable feature requests that had to be turned down. Other
closures are the result of some improvement in the code for this release,
some as described exactly, some as close efforts given the constraints of
how Xiphos operates internally.
- changed module option Glosses to default on.
- added config support, MinimumVersion: ignore modules newer than Sword itself.
- updated French and traditional Chinese translations.
- fixed dbus linkage failure due to insanity in latest release (rawhide).
- #524 fix use of fonts whose names end in digits.
- #725 add book/chapter journal template.
- #739 click verse text before/after chapter to navigate across chapters.
- #788 use saved status of detached sidebar.
- #791 add maximized detached window of current bible on F11.
- #821 update installation instructions (ubuntu).
- #822 prefs option not to use alternating fg/bg in parallel displays.
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Release 4.0.6a
20 Aug 2017
Windows only.
- internal: fixed compiler error causing 1st-time user crash in mod.mgr.
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Release 4.0.6
10 Aug 2017
- fixed longstanding display problem with webkit2 (now req'd for fedora).
- added Italian translation.
- updated French translation.
- added alt-L toggle lemma.
- added View Xiphos Releases to Help menu.
- internal: removed all ancient ImageMagick references.
- internal: removed HAVE_GTK_xxx in favor of GTK_VERSION_CHECK.
- internal: fixed wk2 search result.
- internal: fixed biblesync passphrase preservation.
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Release 4.0.5
23 Apr 2017
- ReadAloud: Speak verse# only if we are showing verse#s in text as well.
- Fix crash caused by lack of collator during mod.mgr in first run.
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Release 4.0.4
30 Aug 2015
- Implemented dynamic allocation enhancement to replace survivability fix.
- Updated language abbreviations to eliminate unknowns.
- Fixed module installation messages so they are not lost.
- Fixed abbrev support, to show abbrevs in all non-essential contexts.
- Fixed maximization restoral (mostly gtk3; partial for gtk2).
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Release 4.0.3
06 Aug 2015
Another bugfix release, induced by the discovery that a hard limit on the
number of language groups that can be supported is too small with respect
to newer repositories supporting far larger groups of modules. The code
involved will be re-factored for a better near-term future release but
this is an immediate survivability fix.
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Release 4.0.2
15 Apr 2015
This is an urgent bugfix-only release. A serious memory management error
has been uncovered in the editor, making it virtually useless in many
cases. This release corrects this error.
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Release 4.0.1
30 Mar 2015
- Completed webkit editor, due to replace gtkhtml editor.
- Added Abbreviation module configuration support.
- Added Glosses (Ruby) and Morpheme Segmentation display support.
- Added obsolete module audit, during install and on maintenance page.
- Added more informative "About" for modules.
- Added status bar en/disable.
- Removed BibleSync from Xiphos' source, now referenced as a proper library.
- Fixed studypad directory choice.
- Fixed mis-handling of unreal "multiple verse" reference in URL handling.
- Fixed editor's mis-handling of the link editor subdialog.
- Updated Win32 URL clickability; updated "About Sword" URL properly.
- Huge GTK3 compatibility cleanliness hackery.
- WebKit2 compatibility hackery.
- Fix compiler flag choices.
- Numerous code internals updates due to cppcheck(1) diagnostics.
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Release 4.0.0
24 Dec 2014
- Bug#508 + feat.req#133: Added alternate versification support (av11n):
Xiphos understands book/chapter/verse (BCV) schemes other than KJV.
See especially module KJVA's deuterocanon between Malachi and Matthew.
Related:
- The navbar is blanked and the pane states "This module has no
content at this point" if a tab is selected with no content at the
current verse indication, e.g. when reading in one tab with an
Apocrypha Bible and then selecting a different non-Apocrypha tab,
particularly when using Linked Tabs (see View menu).
- Added module-specific CSS support. This uses configuration directive
"PreferredCSSXHTML=style.css", naming a file in the DataPath
directory. If present, the file's content is included when rendering
the pane.
- Added default CSS support. Use ~/.xiphos/default-style.css but be
aware that this has effects on all displayed modules.
- Added direct load of history from verse list contents (right-click),
plus direct load of verse list from history contents (history menu).
- Added Feature=NoParagraphs support, default for verse-per-line.
- Added OSISXlit and OSISEnum global filter configuration support.
- Added preservation of CipherKey value for re-use when updating a module.
- Added xiphos.appdata.xml (/usr/share/appdata) for...well, advertising.
- Added --chatty configure flag to distinguish tracing from debug build.
- Changed options to default on for Hebrew vowel points, Hebrew
cantillation, and Greek accents.
- NOTE: There are some problems with the editor component under Windows,
problems which have apparently gone unnoticed for quite a while.
Translations of the interface are weirdly inconsistent, and it is not
useful at this time on journals. These will be researched and a
Windows-specific update will be issued soon. It was decided that av11n
and other matters had been waiting too long to delay this release.
- Updated navbar behavior: All books potentially available within the
module's versification are included. Formerly, books lacking content
at 1:1 were excluded.
- Updated manual text for a couple feature requests.
- Fixed personal commentary dump, which stopped working in recent Sword.
- Fixed 1st-time mod.mgr to include Crosswire repo name.
- Fixed main window internal geometry save on quit.
- Fixed mod.mgr "button bobble" preventing expand/collapse of mod.tree.
- Fixed bug#513, stop crash on repeated tab deletion.
- Fixed crash caused by having a (lexdict|genbook) without (dict|book) key.
- Fixed incompatibility with GTK3.14's unstable interface, preventing
Preferences window from opening. Fixed many related incompatibilities.
- Fixed several inconsistencies between main & parallel views.
- Fixed inadvertent realignment-induced re-navigation.
- Cleaned up internal settings structures.
- Updated BibleSync interface in accordance with 1.1's updated params.
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Release 3.2.2
24 Aug 2014
This is a cosmetic/clean-up release. No new capability is present.
- Building against GTK3 (i.e. waf configure --gtk=3) should once again
be reasonable. Generally, GTK3 will require --enable-webkit-editor,
because the older editor seems not fully de-lintable for GTK3.
- Internal use of generic warnings has been updated to re-introduce
"modal" warnings, i.e. user acknowledgement before Xiphos proceeds.
This is necessary for e.g. startup catastrophes, where the warning
dialog must appear and remain for user ACK before the program exits.
- Added statusbar acknowledgement of alt-[SRM] display modifiers, as well
as BibleSync keyboard navigation.
- The Preferences page for BibleSync has been de-cluttered somewhat.
- The unnecessary doubling of win32 login name is gone in BibleSync.
- A build complaint from very new compilers has been fixed.
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Release 3.2.1
06 Jun 2014
This release has drastic forward movement in BibleSync plus a number of
bug fixes.
- BibleSync is no longer integral to Xiphos alone; it has been separated
into its own library, to make it available for other Bible programs.
There is some activity toward integrating it into others already.
- BibleSync has gained a number of features, both in the library itself
and in how Xiphos uses it. It now uses its own Preferences page, due to
additional features and complexity. Notably, BibleSync operates using
speaker beacons, limiting the trouble that can be caused by either
inadvertent or malicious navigation by others.
- BibleSync in Xiphos 3.2.1 will not interoperate with 3.2.0. The
addition of speaker beacons means that 3.2.0 will not recognize or
generate them, and 3.2.1 will not recognize a speaker without them.
(As applied to BibleSync 1.0.0 -vs- 1.0.1 differences.)
- Fixed a very old error regarding inconsistent internal use of the
scripture cross-reference option.
- Consequent to that xref bug fix, exported content correctly no longer
contains either footnotes or xrefs.
- Persistent difficulties with module archive have been resolved.
- Generic warning dialogs, used all over the place, have been replaced
with a non-modal method that is not troublesome in the face of timing
constraints.
- Compatibility issues with Solaris and BSD are resolved.
- Added populating the verse list directly from a dialog (context menu).
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Release 3.2.0
05 May 2014
This release is to accommodate one late-arriving Sword engine change and
to support generalized companion modules. It also provides the first
implementation of BibleSync, a shared navigation protocol specification
for Bible programs, details of which we are sharing with other programs'
authors and hope to see being made available soon. GTK2 is still the
display toolkit we expect to be used. Also, several urgent bugfixes have
been made.
- New BibleSync subsystem: Multicast group navigation with glue on
navigation reception and transmission when navigating locally.
- Preferences added to support BibleSync options: mode enable, navigation
style choice, and activity tracing and privacy toggle options.
- Updated companion modules (conf directive Companion=Abc,Def,Xyz) for
Bibles and commentaries so as to allow arbitrary sets where the 1st
opens in the main window and the rest open in detached windows. This is
important for organizations such as Wycliffe who produce grouped
modules, useful in such a manner.
- Added kbd toggles alt-S (Strong's), alt-M (morphology), alt-R (red words).
- Heading generation changed in line with Sword 1.7.3's new internals.
- Fixed crash on unparseable xref module content.
- Fixed crash on copy/export.
- Fixed crash on bogus middle-click on multi-ref bookmark.
- Fixed crash on handling xref within heading
- Fixed win32 pango module filesystem placement.
- Fixed module manager column width setting.
- Fixed module manager archive function.
- Fixed NASB-specific lexica references for forthcoming NASB release.
- Removed gconf query.
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Release 3.1.6
12 Jan 2014
This release is for compatibility with the recent Sword release, a number
of small features, and many bug fixes.
This release was very delayed both due to our need for the long-awaited
Sword 1.7 release, upon which any release of Xiphos has been dependent for
more than a year, and because of time demands on Xiphos developers.
Due to many problems with GTK3 support, 3.1.6 is being released with the
expectation of being built against GTK2. The GTK3 problems will be
resolved for a future release and we will move Xiphos forward for that then.
Incidental improvements and bug fixes:
- The existence and placement of Preferences, Module Manager, and Advanced
Search windows is saved.
- Major compatibility changes for the underlying Sword interface,
especially renderText() and its minions.
- Live chat nick selection identifies user's platform and Xiphos version.
- Manual updates to reflect recent additions (eg. Alt-A [annotate]).
- Journals can be opened in regular display detached window (not editor).
- "Friendly" (abbreviation) month names for devotional use in the
dictionary pane.
- Export off-by-one error when crossing chapter boundary is fixed. Export
also made somewhat more general and featureful. 3.1.5's missing export
submenu is back.
- Addition of repository support for HTTP, HTTPS, and SFTP.
- Version differences in dbus IPC (xiphos-nav) have been homogenized.
- Build inconsistencies across Linux distributions are fixed.
- Removed last vestiges of unneeded, defunct KJV pilcrow (¶) handling.
- A number of updates to native language support for module tree lists.
- Sword's OSISVariants now works (had never been added since Sword's OSIS
support came into existence).
- Xiphos internals have moved forward to Sword's XHTML interface, leaving
behind the old HTMLHREF interface. Many consequent internal changes.
- Unicode punctuation is no longer mis-spoken in ReadAloud.
- The last of the historic gtkhtml3 support has been removed, other than
the editor component in GTK2: Xiphos depends exclusively on webkit. This
is Xiphos' 5th display engine. We do not intend to change it ever again.
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Release 3.1.5
19 Feb 2012
This is primarily a toolkit compatibility release, providing 2 features,
plus numerous ongoing routine bug fixes and enhancements.
- The WebKit display driver, which finally brings display feature parity
to Windows with what has been available on other platforms for some time.
WebKit is now our normal display driver for all platforms. Windows users
should see §3.9 of the manual for differences from the older gtkhtml3
driver. Mozembed (xulrunner) is no longer in use, replaced by WebKit.
Note that certain problems were encountered regarding RtoL languages,
especially Arabic and Hebrew (Farsi seems fine) very late in the effort to
finalize Win32 WebKit support. Farsi both fully translates and provides
RtoL-inverted display; Hebrew translates fully (modulo missing strings)
but does not RtoL-invert; most perversely, Arabic translates half
strings and does not RtoL-invert. We do not yet understand these
flaws but will continue to try to resolve them, perhaps in a 3.1.6 for
Windows only, as these problems do not haunt non-Windows builds at all.
- GTK3 compatibility, for the sake of newly-updated environments such as
Fedora 15/16 and Ubuntu 11.10.
Other incidental improvements:
- Module-internal footnote & xref numbering/lettering is respected.
- Display of headings, footnotes, xrefs, and red words all default On.
- Image content is resized in parallel windows and the previewer.
- Module lists include modules' 1-line descriptions as well as short names.
- Verse numbers will no longer be "widowed" (left alone at the end of a
line) by being forced to combine against the first word of their verse.
- Verse number display is configurable: bold, brackets, superscripts.
- RtoL consistency improvements.
- Studypad save respects its default directory specification.
- Base font is respected in all parallel views.
- Font selection order has been fixed: Any user specification (per module
or per language) supercedes module configuration file specification.
- In export, avoid more than one dialog, ever, about checking a module's
license, and change copy/export defaults to plaintext and 1 verse.
- Ctrl-0 (zero) forces base font size to 0.
- Ctrl-[1-9] selects the Nth tab.
- Countless internal module, cache, font, and display fixes.
Bug reports addressed since 3.1.4:
3094968 Switching Bibles to one without the current book
3094981 Navigation bug observed for the DRC module
3102898 Xiphos stops responding if search term includes a pilcrow
3103244 Xiphos does show italics for some transChange text
3103905 Preview pane does not display words containing Æ or æ
3125234 3.1.4 binary crashes on MacOS 10.6.5
3125240 References into Apocrypha partially broken
3141563 Xiphos doesn't start
3141617 Localized language name for Salo module
3147636 More localised language names
3148222 Hebrew letters at beginning of a verse
3157517 Xiphos No Longer Works on IBM Laptop
3166318 parallel view selections are not saved on exit
3166491 Opening both study pad and "personal commentary"
3166864 Xiphos don't work correctly with the Synodal versification
3169829 Windows font for two language names
3172700 Support for the Khmer language
3179097 Parallel View in a Tab
3257699 Xiphos crash on Fedora 13
3265450 xiphos-3.1.4 with xulrunner-2.0 fails to start
3289327 Xiphos don't display properly tables
3291274 Xiphos crashes when searching expression (in FreJND)
3301774 Font size of RNKJV Bible
3302253 Suggested reorganization of first paragraph on using Para.
3302627 editing pers.comm. should not use module cache
3306579 Headings missing at the beginning of chapters
3307692 Install failure Fedora 15
3361376 Parallel View: Will only show OT in Book Drop Down
3367552 No option for "Use Verse Per Line"
3384710 Strange search behavior at russian language
3392639 Non-display of verses containing U+FFFD
3392809 No way to choose verse, not existing in KJV versification
3400041 Previewer setting not functioning properly
3403641 xiphos 3.1.4 fails to build due to C template errors
3411260 Build fails to find gconf2 includes
3424836 Won't Run On Ubuntu 11.10
3428934 The word "mute" links to the Strongs entry for "mustard"
3434897 Certain Chapters in KJV Don't Display
3438261 Xiphos doesn't even start - error
3438931 xiphos-svn4312 build fails on fedora 16 64bit
3439031 gtk_widget_get_realized not available for gtk < 2.20
3439513 Xiphos Remote Source Not Working
3440353 Xiphos failure: "can't happen", display_mod: null
3440363 On start, Standard View text is invisible.
3482318 Problems with separators
3482351 Note layout in Xiphos
3442601 Languages hacks?
3485166 Xiphos build 4363 fails to build
3485167 Xiphos only displays Genesis (or first book in a text)
3488597 Build problem webkit branch
Feature requests closed:
3168708 preferences for copy
3163996 Cut off...
3166868 Morphological search function
3210164 Custom verse number formatting
3291278 Add ability to navigate from the keyboard
3291283 Add option to justify texts
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Release 3.1.4
15 Oct 2010
As we continue to straggle toward feature parity in Windows, which we
regret we have still not fully achieved, it became necessary to make a
fresh release of Xiphos due to a new release of the Sword engine itself.
We have done a great deal in Xiphos other than in those feature parity
areas, so this makes for a good release anyhow.
Many smaller issues that have been waiting for a long time have been
implemented. Again, classified as new, enhancements, and fixes.
New features
1. For the first-time user, the first modules to be installed in order
that Xiphos begin operation can be obtained from local media such as a
CDROM or flash drive. Also, the first-time user is put directly into
the Module Manager, with step-by-step instructions displayed there.
2. There is an entirely new implementation of the full-chapter parallel
window (detached or tabbed). It handles an arbitrary number of modules,
no longer limited to 5, and supports commentaries as well as Bible
texts. Parallel modules are selected exclusively via Preferences.
3. User-requested per-language default font choices are available in
Preferences.
4. User annotations are normally marked with "*u" and reverse-highlighted
for high visibility, in the "margin notes plus yellow highlighter"
metaphor. Now in Preferences, the highlight can be turned off.
5. New defaults: The previewer will be placed in the sidebar by default
for new users, and Bible versification display is now paragraph style, not
verse-per-line. Both behaviors are selectable. For previewer placement,
see the View menu. For versification display, see the context
(right-click) menu.
6. Ctrl-F3 raises the search pane of the sidebar, analogous to F3 creating
the Advanced Search window.
7. When invoking Xiphos from the command line, the user may specify a tabs
filename, such as are found in Xiphos' "tabs" directory.
8. When invoking Xiphos via a sword:// link, multi-refs are handled in the
verse list. That is, a single link "sword:///Gen.1.1;Rev.1.1" does what
you expect, identically as for clicking a multi-ref bookmark.
9. The journal/prayerlist creation menu is available on the main File menu.
10. Bookmark file import has been generalized to accept any (correctly
formatted) file, and import of BibleTime bookmarks has been fixed.
11. The Module Manager's introductory explanation is viewable on demand via
a button always present.
12. Similarly, short introductory descriptions have been added to Advanced
Search regarding optimized ("lucene") search syntax and attribute-based
search.
13. Two separate module list categories have been created: Glossaries, to
distinguish glossaries from real dictionaries; and Cult/Unorthodox, to
separate those few very questionable modules from the mainstream lists.
14. Footnote and cross-reference markers (*n, *x) are now numbered, as one
would expect in a print publication.
15. In mozembed/xulrunner builds, highlighted verses -- both regular
current and user-annotated -- are now colored inline, rather than being
blocked apart from surrounding text.
16. In Preferences color selectors, buttons are provided to invert main
text and highlighted text selections.
17. The existence, placement, and size of the detached parallel window are
remembered. If it was present when Xiphos last exited, when Xiphos
restarts, it will be reconstructed in the same place and size.
18. Commentaries in by-chapter mode have verse numbers in a left column.
Enhancements to existing behavior
1. Doublespace has been made module-specific, available on the context menu.
2. Verse-per-line, already module-specific, has been moved to the context
menu, where it really belonged all along.
3. In Preferences, the user may select whether Bibles' cross-reference
lists should be displayed in the previewer (as they always have been) or
via the verse list machinery.
4. The previewer now uses a font that is 1 size smaller than is used in
main display, after the fashion of smaller-font footnotes in print
publications.
5. Bible headings function correctly in all parallel displays.
6. Indexing of journals/prayerlists has been enabled. None of the
developers involved can remember why this was disabled to begin with.
7. On first use of locked (encrypted) modules, Xiphos automatically
requests the unlock code.
8. Many manual improvements, including all new screenshots.
9. For those users whose desktop environments support user-defined URL
handlers (e.g. the GNOME desktop under Linux), opening a sword://
reference anywhere will attempt to use an existing Xiphos, and will
start a new Xiphos only if one does not yet exist. In related news,
Bible Refalizer, a Firefox plugin for auto-detection of Bible
references, knows how to put sword:// URLs to use automaticaly, as of
its 0.1.8 release.
10. There are tooltips on all Module Manager buttons.
11. Internally, Xiphos now uses consistent pseudo-URLs to reference other
parts of the Sword tool universe.
12. The link dialog for journal/prayer list editing can test non-verse
references (i.e. general books and dictionaries).
13. The Preference pages for pane visibility selection and module
selection have been removed; they were redundant with visibility
selection via the View menu and module selection via the sidebar.
Problems resolved
1. Some misbehavior of the newest release of our main display driver has
been worked around (also fixed as a patch in 3.1.3).
2. Previewer window headings are now consistent.
3. Non-U.S. keyboards are correctly interpreted in all cases.
4. Freshly-installed modules can be indexed immediately, without closing
and re-opening the Module Manager.
5. Images display correctly in all contexts. Previously, they would not
display in parallel windows with the older display driver.
6. Commentary-by-chapter has been made available for personal commentaries.
7. Minor differences in the engine regarding Strong's and morphology are
handled correctly.
8. Several bugs related to interrupted searches were fixed.
9. Several uses of misspelled "hight" have been replaced.
10. Much cleanup of old, dead code and unused data bits.
Bug reports addressed since 3.1.3:
2849660 prevent crash by insisting on minimum pane sizes.
2871689 segfault in parallel settings
2889661 CTRL+A : quit the program instead of CTRL+Q
2977026 add html meta utf-8 for exported content.
2997121 xulrunner 1.9.2.3 fails to jump to anchor
2998625 Text color problem
3000552 Xiphos crashes when closing the about window for a module
3022383 crash in xiphos-3.1.3 module manager
3022385 crash in xiphos-3.1.3-1.fc12: BackEnd::set_treekey
3022514 DBD ver. 1.2 not displaying text.
3027370 Xiphos crashes if current directory contains languages dir
3077109 crash on commentary search when no commentary available
3077178 Crash on shutdown when paratab selected
3077179 crash when choosing 'print' for empty module
3077180 empty module crash
3077181 empty dictionary crash
3082210 Jumps to first verse in chapter
3084794 xiphos cannot be built against gtkhtml 3.32
Feature requests closed:
1994953 doublespace becomes per-module option, previewer font size down 1.
2053524 Port to Maemo OS2008 (Internet Tablet)
2582195 Launch a specific session in a terminal: give tabs file as argv[1].
2717893 [item 1] PL/J menu added to main File menu.
2796313 Help: 3.8.Keyboard Shortcuts: order by tasks - re-ordered list.
2832230 local install of 1st modules.
2889661 hotkey to activate sidebar search.
2928849 new prefs-based parallel window.
3011406 "complete" package download
________________________________________________________________
Release 3.1.3
22 Mar 2010
This is an urgent bugfix release, largely due to compatibility needs
with regard to library packages that have been, or are soon to be,
released in environments we support.
Notably: [1] Upcoming xulrunner 1.9.2 in Linux had a conflict with
respect to Nautilus file browser windows during module manager use;
[2] The new version of the ftp access library, curl v7.20, had
conflicts with the underlying Sword library ("the engine").
We also addressed a number of other, less critical bugs, and have
formally dropped support for these old environments: Windows 2000 (10+
years old!), Fedora < 10 (F13 is about to be released), Ubuntu < 9.04
(10.04 is about to be released). For other Linux versions, this
generally corresponds to gtkhtml3 older than 2.14.
Small bugfixes and features: Navigation support for footnotes
containing intra-verse anchors (e.g. "Gen1:2#n12"); editor support for
links in prayerlist/journal modules and personal commentaries
providing navigation either directly ("sword://" URLs) or via verse
list machinery; fully-supported word processor copy/paste; improved
Portuguese and Chinese translations; universal synchronization with
detached windows was fixed; smallcaps "LORD" is now pronounced
correctly in read-aloud; lack of settings file won't crash Xiphos; on
genbook bookmark click, ensure its pane comes to the front.
Bug reports addressed since 3.1.2:
2915026 Right to Left Languages - Display
2915912 RToL toolbar number order
2918463 crash detected in Fedora 12 xiphos-3.1.1
2924074 verse selection causes scroll-to-top
2928849 Parallel views (reset) problem
2936311 Add Link action not able to use bible:// for verse links
2941678 Book name up arrow
2941684 Small caps in "LORD"
2943173 freeaddrinfo (win2k compatibility - dropped)
2951941 Turkish Ubuntu blocks display of Old Testament books
2956797 Xiphos crashes when trying to edit
2958644 Nautilus? - Xiphos doesn't show bible text
2936311 Add Link action not able to use bible:// for verse links
2961704 crash detected in xiphos-3.1.2 module manager
2972686 Arabic is not right-aligned
Feature requests closed:
2781509 Export->Copy HTML doesn't work properly
2791414 Parallel View tab should behave like a real tab
2791621 Biblical resource in seperate window: synchronize from/with?
2795762 Reference bar: Choosing a book name
2799867 Increase reducing of window sizes
2893826 Versification in the Psalms
2902403 How to install for other than listed OS
2907492 Interlinear commentary
2925935 One Year Daily reading Schedule
2928388 personal note deletion
2932551 Shortcut Keys
________________________________________________________________
Release 3.1.2
24 Dec 2009
Merry Christmas from the Xiphos development team.
This version of Xiphos is the final intermediate release prior to the
larger features planned for the forthcoming 3.2. This release
contains several interesting new features and enhancements, and (as
always) a number of bugfixes.
New features
1. We have implemented a Xiphos-internal interface language selector,
via Preferences -> General -> Options. This makes unnecessary
most previous uses of difficult-to-understand environment
variables to control the desired language choice. Choosing a new
language requires a restart of Xiphos.
2. Bookmarks are exportable. Select XML, HTML, or plaintext. For
the latter two, select whether to include the text referenced.
3. The StudyPad and personal commentary editor has gained a Link
dialog, by which to arrange for verse reference linkage.
4. Xiphos' main window navigation can be sampled and driven via
external programs such as Bibledit, notably in support of Bible
translators' work. (For developers, this uses the dbus feature.
A test program to exercise this feature can be found in
src/examples/ipc_client.py.)
5. The Module Manager has a first-time-user introductory dialog,
to offer brief explanation of its several parts. All users, even
long-time users, will get it exactly once.
6. CrossWire's module repository is forced as "current" after use of
the Load Standard button, which updates Xiphos' sense of which
repositories are officially recognized by CrossWire.
7. Universal synchronization has been implemented between the main
window and all detached windows, including embedded parallel tab.
Navigating in any synchronized window makes all synchronized
windows follow.
8. The verse number color selector has been resurrected, erroneously
removed in the early days of GnomeSword 2.2(!). (Why did we do
that? Nobody remembers.)
9. New interface translations: Russian, Romanian, Spanish, Chinese.
(The last of these has been mechanically generated and is very,
very rough at this time -- it will need human attention to gain
acceptable quality.)
10. New icons for module lists; RtoL icons for use in Hebrew and Farsi.
Enhancements to existing behavior
1. The Help->Chat interface has been improved by offering a default
IRC nickname based on the user's login name.
2. Huge improvements have been made to startup, search, and module
manager setup times, due to internal refactoring of the usage of
the Sword library.
3. Icons have been added to all dialogs which lacked them.
4. Hebrew searches have been improved.
5. The verse annotation feature localizes verse references.
6. The main window title follows currently-open modules better.
7. Sidebar search has had improvements and fixes.
8. Internal improvements for poorly-marked-up module content,
including crash avoidance. Some module content is really
dangerously bad.
9. Improved passage export and printing.
10. Much work has been done for Windows with regard to our better
display engine, but it is still not complete, and not present in
today's Windows build for public distribution. To be done in 3.2.
11. Devotionals have been removed from Lookup Selection lists on the
right-click context menu.
12. All locale-selection logic has been completely reworked.
13. Cosmetic improvements have been made to Module Manager's and main
window's menus.
14. The Enter key is recognized for completion in bookmarks and user
annotations.
15. Module archival in Module Manager no longer requires external
program support.
16. Many dependencies on GNOME libraries have been removed. We are
intending to completely de-GNOME Xiphos, in favor of reliance on
GTK support alone.
Problems resolved
1. An error in use of FTP repository registration was fixed.
2. When doing searches, both sidebar and advanced, the "purplify"
word-match facility has been rewritten from the ground up, and
correctly identifies your search keywords.
3. Tab names do not show the commentary when the general book is
displayed instead.
4. A focus-and-select bug was fixed, when deleting one interface tab.
5. Corrections were made to text justification handling for RtoL
(right-to-left) languages (Hebrew, Farsi).
6. Minor adjustments to display have been made due to subtle
differences in text markup variety (ThML -vs- OSIS).
7. A crash induced by dictionary usage with none installed was fixed.
Improvements and helps for developers
- Function prototypes are enforced.
- The debug build of Xiphos includes substantial null pointer
detection in the use of certain common string functions.
- The ImageMagick dependency is gone, replaced with GTK functions.
- --enable-silent-rules leads to far less chatty output during
build. Get noisy output temporarily with "V=1 make".
- File, URL, and Help invocations are now very general and use
uniform underlying library support.
- XPCOM_GLUE dependency errors have been fixed.
- Timers have been implemented to show SWMgr creation delays.
- Many, many updates to the build system and the Windows installer.
Bug reports addressed since 3.1.1:
2908987 crash detected in xiphos-3.1.1-1.fc12
2896427 Isa 49:6 in HunKar text
2893828 Malachi 4:6 in Aleppo text
2878951 KJV Stongs lexicon stops at 5624 (ophelimos)
2873367 Advanced Search results: Hotkey(s) to display Preview
2873362 Hotkey for activating simple searches not working
2872186 missing verses
2862814 Crash when compiled against xulrunner 1.9.1.3
2858494 Bible Window Does Not Automatically Display Selected Verse
2852779 delete source button enlarge sources list in twice
2849730 Lucene Text Fields search not working
2849693 Parallel view tab does not honour link tabs setting
2848320 Preview: Symboles for Footnotes
2844863 Lucene Search: Not finding all results
2841441 per verse annotation - localized reference
New feature requests pending:
2907492 Interlinear commentary
2902403 How to install for other than listed OS
2901374 Need for Serbian translation
2893826 Versification in the Psalms
2890364 Don't need to see strongs numbers, morphology
2873364 Highlight also upper case words
2873363 Shortcut/hotkey for simple/sidebar searches
2836740 Additional versification systems
Feature requests closed:
2871373 Increase number of texts in parallel view
2840134 Hide Verse Numbers in Copy/Export
2824127 Sidebar search: Regular expression?
________________________________________________________________
Release 3.1.1
09 Aug 2009
Today's release is for intermediate bugfixes and small features. We
are still working toward several major features' completion for 3.2,
but slow summer schedules have left us needing to present these
smaller issues to the public.
1. The Help->Chat interface had to change, because policy equilibrium
broke down between Freenode, where our #xiphos channel exists, and
the folks who run mibbit, the previous browser chat interface.
Now we use Freenode's own.
2. Per-verse user annotations ("inline marking"). Along with the
personal commentary plus journals and prayer lists, we now offer a
smaller, more immediate form of personalized markup. In dead-tree
Bibles, many people use a yellow highlighter to mark verses,
writing marginal notes to themselves. Xiphos now offers this as
"Annotate Verse" on the right-click context menu. Ask to
annotate, and a dialog for the current verse opens, offering a
text box in which to type a note to oneself. Finish by clicking
"Mark." Remove an annotation by selecting "Unmark" instead. When
an annotation is visible in the current chapter, it is displayed
in reverse emphasis colorization (default, navy blue on yellow)
and the beginning of the verse gains a marker *u, after the
fashion of footnote *n and cross-reference *x. Mouse-hover on
this new marker and the previewer shows your personal annotation.
When marking, delete the module name in the dialog to make the
annotation apply to any Bible module.
3. There is a new geography interface through BibleMap.org:
Mouse-select any place name, right-click, select Lookup Selection
-> Browse in BibleMap.org. Your browser will open a new window to
obtain a Google Maps-driven display of that place.
4. Module manager now can do automatic repository discovery from the
"known repositories" list maintained at CrossWire. At the moment,
the 4 entries there duplicate the 4 hard-coded names previously
known to Xiphos, though the official names change somewhat. In
the module manager, on the Sources page, there is now a button
labeled Load Standard, which updates your list of sources from the
official content. It does not remove any, but it will replace any
that have exactly the same name with their updated information.
It will be necessary to remove any old-name versions manually,
because Xiphos cannot detect that they are duplicates.
5. An ancient module manager bug was fixed, where closing the mod.mgr
via the title bar "X" decoration would leave the mod.mgr unable to
re-open until after a restart.
6. An equally ancient difficulty with the general book window (that
alternates with commentary) not being filled when first viewed was
finally fixed.
7. A workaround is in place regarding a failure of the logic for
removing a module list from Advanced Search. Also, other logic
for creation of module lists and range lists has been updated.
8. The verse navbar now has normal relief on book/chapter/verse.
9. A failure to redisplay properly after loading a tab set is fixed.
10. Freakish European keyboard Ctrl +/- should now work.
11. Some fixes were applied to journal/prayerlist editing.
12. If the sidebar is detached, it now gets a title bar name.
13. Bugfixes to the logic which preserves tab names as they are added
or deleted.
14. New Slovak translation.
15. Strong's markup is now handled in pre-verse headers.
16. Ctrl-F4 will delete a tab.
17. Some general resource management fixes have been made: Window size
causing trouble with 2-verse context; lack of any genbooks making
Xiphos unable to remember on what Bible verse it should start;
redisplay faults in several circumstances.
Bug reports addressed since 3.1:
2831484 Lacks support for deuterocanon
2828434 Xiphos Forget Where it Was
2827567 Selected verse does not show in window
2826433 Advanced Attribute/Footnote search: Preview?
2825256 Different Logo
2819999 Advanced Searches: Creat new custom range: not working
2818966 Search: using ?: no or wrong results
2818957 Search: using +: no results or crash
2817351 Module Manager problems
2816143 Show/Hide Sidebar <-> width of Commentary pane
2815612 Cross reference in seperate window change module of main one
2815605 Cross references in seperate Bible text: Back to what?
2813865 Deleting middle tab makes problem for first one
2801620 Xiphos shows too many linebreaks
2801566 Preview stops working if exiting with minimal window height
2801550 Tabs document not parsed successfully?
2801515 Adding a child to the root of journal causes problems
2800991 Reference choice by Sidebar/Module not working
2800932 Open session: not showing text in biblical texts
2799900 Show Previewer in Sidebar: Footnotes not shown
2797795 View Daily Devotion not working
2797792 Manual: Menubar: History
2797741 Manual/Sidebar/shortcuts
2797731 Classification of resources
2797262 Change of base font size
2796406 unexpected shutdowns
2796241 Install on Ubuntu 8.04
2795781 Studypad/Intended paragraph: Justification not working
2795743 Tab name mixed up
2795741 segfaults under Arch Linux
New feature requests pending:
2832230 No option for local install on fresh install
2824127 Sidebar search: Regular expression?
2817333 Module: Install/Update: Hotkeys
2815637 Cross referencs in seperate windows: book,commentaries?
2814482 Keep seperate windows at restart
2813891 Switching off Commentary: name kept for Tab
2813476 Interface localization
2813475 Selectable number of columns in parallel view layout
2805266 Parallel View: Allow to display less Biblical texts
2800947 Sessions: more settings to be remembered
2799867 Increase reducing of window sizes
2798728 How to localized the interface of XI?
2798255 Manual: View Daily Devotion
2797805 View: Hide (attached) sidebar
2797801 Manual: Explain Link Tabs
2797789 Open pane for activated resource
2797780 Manual: Synchronize resources in seperate windows
2797739 Manual/Sidebar/Modules:Rightclick description
2796313 Help: 3.8.Keyboard Shortcuts: order by tasks
2795762 Reference bar: Choosing a book name
2792003 Saved sets of parallelism
2792001 Sessions Menu
Feature requests closed:
2818965 Search: using ?: no or wrong results
2817369 Parallel View: Display more than one verse
2817366 Parallel View: vertical tiled Biblical texts
2801630 Showing the Sourceforge/Xiphos webpage at restart
2805809 Cross references link to modules in panes/seperate window
2800180 in-line marking capability
2797304 Hotkey for right click
2797292 Range of font sizes
2795770 hotkey to close tab
2795768 Hotkeys for the choice of a bible reference
2795758 Detached sidebar: Name
________________________________________________________________
Release 3.1
17 May 2009
This is a release to introduce two important features in Windows
(improved feature parity with Linux) plus numerous small features and
bugfixes for all platforms.
1. The Windows build now supports ReadAloud (text-to-speech) and
transliteration of non-Latin character sets. It is also now
packaged with the latest SWORD release, 1.6.0, and includes the
utilities for creating and working with modules.
2. The module manager is no longer modal, that is, the module manager
does not monopolize the application's attention: You can begin
downloading or indexing modules, and then go back to work in the
main window.
3. New interface translations: Norwegian and Welsh. We should have
an Afrikaans translation in time for 3.2.
4. New prayerlists/journals offer sensible default names, and their
editor support is much improved, including offering to save on
close/quit.
5. RtoL languages' (right-to-left, such as Farsi and Hebrew)
scrollbars go on the correct side.
6. Bookmark support:
Search results may be saved as bookmarks or sets of bookmarks.
Bookmarks containing multiple verses work.
Single-verse bookmarks auto-navigate directly when clicked.
Multi-verse bookmarks engage the verse list, where individual
selections can be made.
7. Automatic lemma lookup in inverted Greek dictionary for ancient
texts. This has marginal utility pending improvements to Sword's
dictionary support due to inconsistent key sort.
8. 'j' and 'k' have been added for keyboard-driven verse selection.
9. Module options are consistent between main and separate windows.
10. Images' display has been fixed so as to use correct size when
first displayed.
11. The module manager provides tooltips that show the "about" content
on mouse-hover during module list selection.
12. The passage copier/exporter is much improved, and similar to other
applications' function.
13. In gtkhtml3 build, Advanced Search has gained a previewer scrollbar.
14. A great many fixes and minor improvements to many subsystems:
- module archiving.
- locale handling.
- font size management.
- spacing and highlight alignment.
- mouse hover alignment selection on Strong's and morphology.
- parallel Bible selection preservation.
- splash icons, direction and highlight timing.
- numerous code refactoring, cleanup, and efficiency improvements.
- history management corrections.
- "shift to lock previewer" fixes.
- initial support for linked verses in Bibles.
- fixed initial font issue in gtkhtml previewer
- made the tab close buttons display correctly
- added module labels that remain visible in parallel tab/dialog
Plans for the release after this revolve around final feature parity
between Linux and Windows (especially the better display engine,
providing many features such as blocked Strong's and morphology
display) and full integration of Sword's new alternate versification
capability with how Xiphos manages book/chapter/verse information.
Bug reports addressed since 3.0.1:
2792569 Restaring Ubuntu with Xiphos open gives error messages
2790711 first run - tabs not parsed successfully
2790487 Closing Xiphos looses unsaved changes in editor
2789990 Tabs: Chosen and showns bible references not the same
2789986 ISV MAT 1:19 crossref at 'secretly' not linked
2789959 navbar chapter up changes book (-2) in addition to chapter
2789879 "View Context" changes parallel view
2789217 crash - indexing modules in /usr/share/sword
2788398 Dropdown chapter number fails above 128
2786599 win32 - book names not localized
2785952 right-click->about on empty pane causes crash
2784883 archiving issues
2784533 Performance seems slow in XP
2783271 Parallel View tab moves to bottom of window
2781508 Commentary file->open module doesn't work properly
2781318 gtkhtml build-advanced search results does not have scrollba
2779126 Personal Commentary module crash
2764410 Segfault in commentary view window
2762625 module manager - maintenance
2737136 Headings problem in detached bible window
2707964 Chinese Version
2704666 gtkhtml build "Hold shift to lock previewer" does not work
2704659 Parallel view always shows variants
2704655 History glitches
2704651 genbook tab, show Bible doesn't show navbar
2599921 Copy fails in detached windows
New feature requests pending:
2791621 Biblical resource in seperate window: synchronize from/with?
2791414 Parallel View tab should behave like a real tab
2790489 Add Bible References to Study Pad
2789881 Default CSS file
2781509 Export->Copy HTML doesn't work properly
2717893 Prayerlist/Daily Journal Enhancements
Feature requests closed:
2793036 e-Sword bibles support [not being done at this time]
2792002 Better keyboard support
2789998 Choice of module options in tabs/seperate windows
2789973 Resizing seperate windows
2744739 When closing Xiphos could remember last place
2705145 Allow moving to previous/next verse by 'j' and 'k' keys
________________________________________________________________
Release 3.0.1
19 Feb 2009
A necessary bugfix release.
Immediately upon release of 3.0.0, a serious incompatibility with
Windows (NTFS) filesystem was found: Users whose names include
characters beyond the lower 128 characters of ASCII caused trouble
in pathnames due to not having accommodated a particular encoding
required by the filesystem. This encoding is now handled.
Beyond this, a number of other matters were addressed:
1. Added transliteration support from non-Latin character sets.
This is not enabled in the Windows build due to incomplete ICU
support.
2. Fixed a crash-inducing bug in detached ("free-floating") Bible
and commentary windows, from context menu synchronization. This
was redundant with the sync button in upper left, so the menu
item was removed, and a glitch in the sync button's use was fixed.
3. Sidebar module list entries can be expanded by clicking anywhere
on the row.
4. Only when not using tabbed browsing, a crash on history usage was
stopped, though a full fix for tab-less history access is pending.
5. Minor changes to accommodate forthcoming Fedora 11.
6. A PDF version of the manual is included.
7. Windows installer will set new fonts correctly; bold & italic
fonts are included; uninstaller runs much faster.
8. Fixed a disappearing-button problem in the module manager, as well
as several instances of faulty mutex usage.
Bug reports addressed since 3.0.0:
2593915 Crash on menuitem in detached bible window
2545562 Not all Strong occurences found
New feature requests pending:
2582195 Launch a specific session in a terminal
Feature requests closed:
________________________________________________________________
Release 3.0
08 Feb 2009
Xiphos begins life, as the former GnomeSword.
We have changed our name to Xiphos because GnomeSword was deemed too
obscure, especially considering our anticipated new user base. Xiphos
("ξίφος") is one of several Greek words for "sword". Pronunciation of
the name Xiphos can be learned from a sample audio file you will find
in share/doc/xiphos; approximately, "ksee-fos."
This release represents a huge new chapter in our program's life.
Per-platform notes for this release.
1. Linux:
a. In the most recent Fedora and Ubuntu releases, the invocation of
the editor (personal commentary, prayer list/journal) will induce
several harmless warning messages to occur.
2. Windows:
a. Xiphos runs under Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7-beta.
b. A few additional fonts are included with the installer (FreeSerif
and LinuxLibertine) and they are correctly installed, but they may
not immediately become available on installation completion. We
do not yet understand why. At worst, a reboot is needed.
c. The module list "treeview" sometimes becomes unnavigable by mouse
clicks. This seems to be a Windows-specific flaw in the port of
the GTK library which drives the treeview. If it occurs, it will
be evident as soon as Xiphos starts; simply restart it.
d. The font used in the previewer should reflect the intended font of
the module whose content is being previewed there. If Xiphos
starts up with the previewer embedded in the sidebar, then such
font choices are not properly respected.
e. Print preview does not work, though printing does.
Major new features, operational improvements, and bugfixes:
1. Windows port. It is very nearly complete; only a couple features
are missing. Most notably, they are the MozEmbed display engine
and the "read aloud" facility using Festival text-to-speech. We
anticipate both of these features becoming available in a later
3.x release but there was simply not enough time to get everything
done for this release.
2. A fabulous new look, with the support of professional graphics
designers having done a facelift of our graphics, both in the
program and on the website.
3. Configure with --enable-paratab to obtain the detached parallel
window as another tab and to put the previewer into the sidebar.
See the View menu.
4. Standard module repository setup for first-time users.
5. Image resize enabled by default.
6. Commentary-by-chapter display, as a commentary module option,
rather than just per-verse commentary.
7. Consistent dialog usages: Y/N questions and file browsers.
8. Module manager: Remembers previous settings. New remote source is
set as current. Tooltips over icons in module manager lists.
Visual improvements by showing repository in use and separating
full module lists from limited update/uninstalled lists. Now
functions correctly with both shared and personal storage areas.
9. Compatibility with forthcoming Sword engine updates for dynamic
versification ("dv11n"). Future modules will support e.g.
deuterocanonical books in Catholic Bibles.
10. More uniform module option support in parallel window.
11. Dictionary links auto-display in the previewer, after the
fashion of Strong's and morphology references.
12. Better Help menu selections: Online chat support, bug reporting,
mailing list pointers.
13. Better search term highlighting in both sidebar and dialog search.
14. Double-click navigation of search results entries.
15. Improved/fixed search abort. Assume "AND" semantic for sidebar
multiple word search.
16. Countless internal cleanups, efficiency improvements, and
bugfixes, the need for many of which was exposed by the Windows
port effort.
17. Additions to the manual, especially for instruction on original
language research and how to get help.
18. Better integration of image support with ImageMagick libraries.
19. Respect for configuration-specified font choices (Font= and
Fontsize= in module configuration files).
20. Improvements to build-time configuration support.
21. Fixed fast search ("lucene") index creation.
NOTE: The implication of this bugfix is that any existing
index is in error. You should re-create all module indexes.
Bug reports addressed since 2.4.1:
2264199 Long custom Module lists make search gui too wide
2264209 Scrolling to next/previous chapter no longer works
2264276 Words with preceding punctuation dict lookup fails
2267026 Attribute search fails if preceding '0' is in search
2309713 Building with gecko fails on Debian
2334366 Building fails with xulrunner-1.9
2384287 Uninstalling current Bible module causes crashes.
2385811 Gnomesword crashes on attempted studypad sync
2390811 Search fails when Gnomesword builds indexes
2412580 Indexing Gnomesword-created modules fails
2413029 Printing User Created Modules ignores markup
2416023 Local Source Reports Incorrect Installation Status
2423941 Printing, then navigating genbook causes crash
2423950 Module Manager doesn't refresh after local installation
2430285 gtkhtml parallel view issues
2471807 gtkhtml previewer font
2471811 Bookmarks do not work for user-created modules
2471830 First Run, First Tab Navigation issue
2474005 Genbooks do not allow navigation from address bar
2486766 Mozembed Parallel View doesn't respect cross-reference
2486769 Parallel view right-click->copy does nothing
2532349 mozembed doesn't respect default dictionary
2539788 [PATCH] Update FSF address
New feature requests pending:
2533238 Copy verse functionality (like e-sword)
Feature requests closed:
2409256 Ability to scroll to the next chapter
2407301 Double Click Search Results to Display Verse
________________________
Release 2.4.1
05 Nov 2008
Ongoing requested feature enhancements in stable 2.4.
1. GnomeSword now takes control of sword:// URLs without asking any
question, iff there was previously no handler for them. (In a
debug build, the question is still asked, but with better phrasing.)
2. Intermediate module paths for prayer lists are properly constructed.
3. GnomeSword can be built under Solaris (--enable-gtkhtml3 only).
4. Ctrl-F "find" capability: Without a Bible pane, it operates in
comm/book pane; without that, it operates in dictionary pane.
5. Advanced Search provides search term highlight in result preview.
Also, the Find button toggles to Stop during a search.
6. New icons, courtesy of Simon Meers.
7. Module configuration default font specifications. If a configuration
contains "Font=Some Font Name" or "Fontsize=+2", GnomeSword will
respect that as a default. The user can change it of course, but any
time the user resorts to default font name or +0 size, module
configuration takes over.
8. Companion modules: If a Bible or commentary has configuration file
element Companion=OtherModule, then GnomeSword will offer to open
that module as well when opening the first module.
9. F1-F4 provide help, preferences, advanced search, and module manager.
Bug reports addressed since 2.4.0:
2163853 Scrolling Issues
2186692 GnomeSword cannot create module's path
New feature requests pending:
2190241 keys should work normally
Feature requests closed:
2121811 DRC and Vulgate are not Correct
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Release 2.4.0 -stable-
20 Sep 2008
Moving past the "development" 2.3 line to "stable" 2.4 with these updates
in the post-2.3.6 shakedown:
1. Journal/prayer list support is enabled by default.
2. Selecting choices for Strong's modules is now complete, and Preferences
comboboxes have gained an instructive "--Select--" first entry.
3. New translations, Swedish and Hebrew.
4. Sort capability in mod.mgr has been disabled (contextually pointless).
5. Module deletions are reflected immediately in list on completion.
6. An error in tab labeling has been fixed.
7. Phrasing in several areas was improved for translation ease and clarity.
8. Ctrl-plus/minus change the base font size.
9. Naming change: "Pinned" tabs => "linked" tabs.
10. '_' is accepted in module naming (journals/prayer lists/pers.comm).
11. Search results are clearable in advanced search.
12. Mouse activity is ignored during long-running mod.mgr actions.
13. An ancient mem.alloc glitch in genbook modnames was fixed.
14. The passage exporter is enabled by default; --enable-exporter is no
longer needed.
15. The Help menu contains a reference to Translation, to solicit others'
help in making GnomeSword more accessible to more language groups.
16. Navbar load glitch when switching between 1- and 2-testament Bibles
has been fixed.
Bug reports addressed since 2.3.6:
2036800 Prayer list/journal name only accepts English
2040344 module manager needs to lock left panel
2040347 adv.search can't clear results
2069455 module deletion not reflected in list
2069476 sorting by module name contains categories
2079930 Strongs Hebrew/Greek numbers don't lookup
2084401 Problem compiling with xul-1.9/firefox 3 on Debian/Gentoo
2105812 main navbar wrongly loaded when switching
New feature requests pending:
2053524 Port to Maemo OS2008 (Internet Tablet)
Feature requests closed:
2056615 Option to hide verse numbers
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Release 2.3.6
02 Aug 2008
1. In the module manager, along with the usual per-module-type
categorization of modules, the mod.mgr also produces a parallel
per-availability categorization, for updated and uninstalled
modules. This makes it easier to find new stuff, rather than having
to crawl through all the per-type listings.
2. The module manager alphabetizes the available language selections.
Also, locale-specific language names are in all module lists.
(Note for Cygwin: The Cygwin pango library is buggy, tripping over
some valid UTF-8...by aborting. *sigh* For this reason, it has been
necessary to cripple Cygwin's use of locale-specific language names.)
3. General books' bookmarks are generated using the key text rather
than an arcane internal numeric module offset.
4. Devotionals open to today's MM.DD key, rather than attempting
(and always failing) to open on the current dictionary key.
5. An Advanced Search bug has been fixed, which caused failure when a
custom list contained a deleted module.
6. Genbook navbar tooltips have been made a bit more understandable.
7. Main verse navigation has keyboard shorcuts on variations of N/P.
8. The personal commentary editor can be invoked with Alt-Z.
9. Locked modules' cipher keys are stored correctly.
10. Image, Map, and Daily Devotional modules no longer appear in more
than one module list.
11. Prayer lists have expanded to include a general journal concept; a
few crash bugs have been fixed, and templates for journals & topical
outlines are available. These user-editable modules seem now to be
suitable for general user-driven module creation in genbook format.
12. The Advanced Search dialog's Find button also stops a search.
13. Almost 8000 language abbrev names are known, for module list purposes.
14. Comboboxes in Preferences now limit dictionary subcategories correctly
(i.e. HebrewDef, GreekDef, Daily Devotionals).
Bug reports addressed since 2.3.5:
1973928 key entry not saved in .conf
1994431 seg fault when incorrect source
2033166 Same selection in more combo boxes
New feature requests pending:
2009652 studypad should be able to save as plain text
Feature requests closed:
1991842 Some suggestions for personal commentary
2009885 Cancel a search
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Release 2.3.5
02 Jul 2008
Mostly an urgent bugfix release.
1. GnomeSword can now link with the gtkhtml-3.23.2 API, so as no
longer to require the Bonobo editor (but still backward-compatible
to those systems needing it).
2. A couple small glitches noticed immediately post-2.3.4 have been fixed.
3. A serious search bug, in which a change in Sword's behavior was not
being correctly handled in GnomeSword, has been fixed.
4. A failure to build in some environments (esp. Ubuntu) has been fixed.
5. Display of n:0 editorial content is stopped when headings are disabled.
6. An infloop bug was fixed, induced by Adv.Search being open when an
xref is clicked.
Bug reports addressed since 2.3.4:
1973933 per-module font size not respected in parallel view tab
1977884 GS_StringMgr crash on attribute search
1991836 Segmentation fault
1995108 Segmentation Fault While Searching
1999299 GodsWord ver 1.2 module appears corrupt
2008263 Searching Segfault
New feature requests pending:
1991842 Some suggestions for personal commentary
1994953 Fine tune display settings
Feature requests closed:
1994956 Previewer settings
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Release 2.3.4
26 May 2008
1. Primary/secondary reading selections, used mostly in Greek Bibles to
identify variant readings found in ancient MSS, is functional for the
first time.
2. Prayer list support is enabled in the Preferences dialog. Several
varieties of prayer list are then available by right-clicking the
new element in the modules list.
3. Per-module font face choices are respected in detached parallel view
(mozembed build only; gtkhtml3 can't cope with multiple faces).
4. Module manager remembers last settings.
5. A passage exporter facility is now available on the right-click menu,
if GnomeSword is configured with --enable-exporter.
6. GnomeSword can now be built against the xulrunner display engine,
as a replacement for MozEmbed. However, xulrunner has been shown to
be fundamentally broken at this time, and we do not recommend it.
GnomeSword now requires Sword 1.5.11.
Bug reports addressed since 2.3.3:
1747281 2.3: can't drag-n-drop from adv.search [unresolvable]
1863160 efficiency: full module cache usage
1872525 PATCH: Fix build errors with gcc-4.3
1894262 application crashes since kernel upgrade
1906644 Personal Commentary Quotes
1906647 Showing Commentary Pane
1906651 New Document
1910081 Strong's Greek will not Look-up
1915596 text in preview window clears if mouse enters bible view
1923337 det.parallel needs to respect module font names
1928119 Build failures with gcc 4.3
1928469 Compiling gnomesword with latest xulrunner
New feature requests pending:
1894899 communication between gnomesword and bibledit
1923328 Parsing/definition on word mouseover
1941126 Scrolling between chapters
Feature requests closed:
1194044 prayer list
1923319 Greek/Hebrew fonts in Parallel View
1947593 chapters in parallel view.
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Release 2.3.3
20 Jan 2008
1. Module manager supports display of InstallSize qualifiers from
*.conf, when provided by the repository's modules. This allows users
to make informed decisions about whether to spend link time or disc
space for modules.
2. Improved algorithm for displaying complex lemma content so as not
to display overlapping words.
3. Non-"latinate arabic" numerals are supported for LC_ALL=fa to go with
general Farsi translation. This is inherently incomplete, because
location bars still must display regular digits. However, verse numbers
in text, navbar spinners, and most other contexts are displayed
accordingly.
4. Updated special-case NASB lexicon names (soon, very soon, we hope) and
adjust/fix/neuter weird embedded `!' in their refs.
5. Module manager now supports "local" install, that is, if you have
a directory of modules to install in appropriate format. Commonly
expected for use with e.g. distribution cdroms. This has never
been tested/working before now.
6. Image content can now be disabled on demand from the right-click menu.
This option does not become available until the first time that
GnomeSword notices that there have been images in the content.
Bug reports addressed since 2.3.2:
1870036 mod.mgr cannot do local installs
1864007 NASB's lexicon refs need adjustment
1860365 lemma display hack is very poor
New feature requests pending:
Feature requests closed:
1869036 need farsi numerals
1860685 mod.mgr should support InstallSize in *.conf
________________________
Release 2.3.2
26 Dec 2007
This is an intermediate bugfix release, to correct a small number of
varyingly important or long-standing issues.
1. Drag-n-drop from adv.search almost works again: Keys containing `/'
or whitespace were not being processed correctly, and the gecko
subsystem was simply not accepting the request. However, there is
still a problem in MozEmbed where, once a gecko element (any of the
main subwindows) has had focus, drag-n-drop cannot complete and the
program, and possibly the desktop, are hung -- there is a gtk signal
connection problem yet to be understood fully. (This problem is
MozEmbed-specific and does not occur in gtkhtml at all.)
2. Core dumps in adv.search induced by offset handling in lexdicts
and genbooks were eliminated.
3. Image resizing is not disabled just because one image failed.
Complaints on image resize failure are made just once per page.
4. Fit gconf setup dialog strings into a smaller text box.
Bug reports addressed since 2.3.1:
1857805 Bug report when starting gnomesword2
1855521 Build failure with xulrunner-1.9-beta2
1830932 strcasestr() is nonstandard, more than just cygwin
1830919 test before adding g++ options to flags
1828280 Text not translated
1824138 no lexdict => crash or log complaints
1808047 Czech translation -- grammatical error
1802257 highlighting will be case sensitive even if the search isn't
1781816 2.3 gtkhtml3 integration bugs
1747281 2.3: can't drag-n-drop from adv.search
New feature requests pending:
Feature requests closed:
________________________
Release 2.3.1
14 Oct 2007
This is a test and evaluation release.
Today's 2.3 is a test release of the replacement and re-integration of
the old gtkhtml3 display engine with the new MozEmbed display engine.
Thus, version 2.2 is officially defunct, an evolutionary dead end. As
such, the 2.3 series of releases, which we hope to be mercifully short
until stability can be again declared when released as 2.4, represents
a major functional change from 2.2, mostly internally, but nonetheless
with quite a number of user-visible changes.
See the manual, especially section 3.9, "Version Differences in
GnomeSword's Display," for details on what is different between
gtkhtml3 and MozEmbed. MozEmbed provides a fundamentally prettier and
friendlier interface. Note that not all platforms have adequate, or
any, MozEmbed support, e.g. Fedora Core 5 has some MozEmbed support,
but it is too out of date and buggy for GnomeSword's use; Windows with
Cygwin lacks MozEmbed entirely. On such platforms, configure with
--enable-gtkhtml. (On Cygwin, --enable-cygwin is necessary, and
includes configuration of gtkhtml3.)
GnomeSword requires underlying Sword support at version 1.5.10 or later.
Behavioral matters:
1. The splash screen is enabled by default, especially for benefit of
first-time users.
2. Subwindow visibility state (Bible, commentary/genbook, previewer,
dictionary, all selected from the View menu) is now maintained on a
per-tab basis, rather than simply as global state. Existing tabs
files are auto-updated when they are first used, with current
global state applied to all tabs, and then the tabs file is re-saved.
3. Doublespace text and blocked Strong's+morph (only with MozEmbed).
4. Book and chapter headings in Bibles, stored in modules as
pseudoverses in 0:0 (per book) and n:0 (per chapter), are presented
when headings are enabled.
5. A new navbar has been implemented that looks generally better.
That said, it appears not to look so good on Cygwin, with older GTK
support; consider configuring with --enable-old_navbar there.
6. Indices needed for fast "lucene" searches can now be built from
the module manager. An icon indicates the presence of a
ready-for-use index. Also, the module manager's appearance has been
generally re-arranged to be a bit more functional and intuitive: The
"remove" panel is now a general "maintenance" panel, and the
"configure" and "sources" panels have been swapped.
7. A base font size has been implemented; see Preferences. All
module font size choices are relative to this base.
8. Daily Devotionals now get their own subtree in module lists in the
sidebar and module manager.
9. In line with newly-defined module configuration keywords and
qualifiers, there are now also Maps and Images subtrees.
10. Additional keyboard shortcuts: Alt-B bookmark dialog, Alt-P detach
parallel dialog window.
11. Locale names have been updated to accommodate more recent versions
of existing modules (e.g. Farsi, Haitian Creole, Burmese, others).
12. "About" boxes for modules handle UTF-8 properly.
13. Duplicate install sources are now refused.
14. A module cache bug regarding mis-cached headers has been fixed.
15. A font error in highlighted verses was fixed.
16. "About GnomeSword" is a bit more informative and useful, showing
GnomeSword's web site as well as the display engine with which
GnomeSword was built (gtkhtml3 -vs- MozEmbed).
17. Both old style multi-word search and optimized ("lucene") search
are available in advanced search. Sidebar search is optimized,
with a tooltip to assist on need for +First +Second for multi-word.
18. Many translation updates, plus new translations (e.g. Portuguese).
Known, unresolved flaws in this unstable test release:
1781816 gtkhtml3 integration bugs
(various problems specific to gtkhtml3 builds, involving
failure to follow mouse clicks in certain circumstances)
1747281 can't drag-n-drop from adv.search
(in either gtkhtml3 or MozEmbed, d&d has stopped working)
Bug reports addressed since 2.2.3:
1800106 Crash when searching
1783315 Footnotes in verse 0 not shown
1783300 locale names are out of date
1781886 upcased greek in most cases in cygwin
1769405 Can't open
1767851 A Search with bounds in the Side pane locks GS (sword-svn)
1764758 strongs on -> numbers verbalized
1752812 Not in Menu
1749534 failed footnote access in josephus
1747273 can't search over "current results"
1744444 blocked strongs fails NASB Eph 5:31
1744418 bad display of grk result in adv.search
1744400 edit->find...doesn't
1743789 transient note/xref is not transient
1743785 loss of per-module font in
1743304 keyboard shortcuts are not working
1731993 splash should be enabled by default
1729936 unused configure flags should go away
1724254 Opening Necronomicon module crashes GnomeSword
1723580 opening study pad crashes gnomesword2
1723478 opening studypad causes gs to crash
1723159 Debian/GNU 4.0 - Gnomesword crashes on startup
1709398 Building under FreeBSD
1708829 crash on opening note editor
1706475 no genbooks + genbook navbar => crash
1703697 GnomeSword crashes on startup
1695949 Gnomesword crashes on startup: segfault in backend
New feature requests pending:
1782923 bookmarks
Feature requests closed:
1748022 daily devs should get their own mod.list
1738882 save subpanel view state on per-tab basis
1737648 Allow unlimited modules in the parallel view
1733421 need a base font size for all of GS
1726806 greek and hebrew
1711360 Lucene Indexing
1703135 Display Verse 0, Chapter 0:0 in Bible Texts
1691050 new king james version
1646037 very simple api for scrolling
1633426 update strong's/morph markup readability
1620313 Couple of bugs with module manager operation
1618837 global install of modules
________________________
Release 2.2.3
24 Mar 2007
1. A module cache has been implemented as a significant performance
improvement. As Bible text is visited, everything seen goes into
an in-memory cache, so that subsequent navigation of the same text
does not need to re-visit Sword. If display options change
(footnotes xrefs headings Strong's morph), the cache is invalidated
and Sword is queried again to re-populate the display-ready cache.
Display performance acid test:
KJV Ps 119 (176 verses), all mod.opts enabled; spin verse selector.
End-to-end (v1 -> v176) navigation time on 1.8GHz computer:
GS 2.2.2, 441sec; GS 2.2.3, 102sec => 78% reduction.
2. Personal commentary archival, renaming, and verse dump are implemented
(feat.req #1633407). Archival is available via the module manager
(any module may be archived); rename + dump are on the pers.comm
popup menu. [For Cygwin, regrets, NTFS prevents rename of files
currently open, so module rename is not available there; but archive
+ dump are fine.]
3. Main window image content can be clicked to invoke an external image
viewer (feat.req #1631815). Support for this feature requires an
enhancement to Sword itself beyond its 1.5.9 release (i.e. built from
SVN at change level >= -r2035), but of course it builds/runs fine
without this feature's availability using today's Sword 1.5.9. Some
day (soon?), Troy will release a new 1.5.something, or perhaps 1.6,
which will contain this.
4. Finnish translation now available.
5. Sidebar verse lists are always savable (bug #1674149).
6. Improving i18n support now supports more non-ASCII searches
(bug #1673598).
7. Mouse-selected Bible/commentary/genbook text can be read aloud using
a popup menu selection, regardless of whether scripture reading is
enabled on View -> Read Aloud.
Bug reports addressed since 2.2.2:
1687602 Module Manager crashes on FC6
1681135 Module manager crashes Gnomesword on startup
1674149 unable to save verse lists
1673598 cannot search personal for non-ascii chars
1667954 Missing modules in advanced-search window
New feature requests pending:
Feature requests closed:
1633407 personal commentary needs
1631815 open single-image window on click
________________________
Release 2.2.2 (maintenance)
23 Feb 2007
Behavioral matters:
1. The module manager now provides both short module name plus long
module description on the right, and there is also a refresh icon
between mismatched old & new version stamps of installed modules
(bug #1666761). GnomeSword now works around a Sword lib install
manager bug when updating installed modules by deleting the old
version before attempting to retrieve the new version (bug #1666748).
2. Several MM glitches related to unfindable or unusable newly-defined
install sources have been fixed (bug #1666763, #1666759).
3. Some of the planned Advanced Search work has been done (feat.req
#1615402). E.g. you can select the Attributes radio button, then
use the Attribute tab to define which attribute is in question.
The Strong's syntax needed is now just H### or G###.
4. Many changes for improving i18n handling have been done. (We need
translators.)
5. The 2x2 set of buttons at the bottom of the sidebar have been moved
to the top, where they sit near the rest of the mouse controls
(bug #1666764).
6. GnomeSword can now build under MS-Windows in the Cygwin environment
(feat.req #1124274), and gives every appearance of being fully
functional there. Doing so requires a bash script and two library tar
files. See ftp://ftp.kleinpaste.org/pub/sword/util/cygwin/
Bug reports addressed since 2.2.1:
1666764 sidebar buttons belong at top
1666763 MM loses track of newly-defined sources
1666761 MM: descriptions + refresh indicator
1666759 rem.source w/o bible text -> can't load
1666758 null genbook key -> crash
1666756 lack of icons in splash -> crash
1666755 strcasestr() is nonstandard
1666754 wrong morph for OT
1666751 GS infloops det.parallel on Rev22
1666748 need workaround for installmgr bug
1651736 Updated german Translation
1651514 Crasher bugs related to directories(?)
1651375 changing tabbed-view preference requires restart
1651077 osis-based commentary's xrefs don't work
1648806 Cannot add local module source directory
1647579 switching from local to remote causes crash
1646579 sidebar search, no bounds => crash
1645989 newly-defined install source unavailable
New feature requests pending:
1646037 very simple api for scrolling
Feature requests closed:
1642837 fullscreen support
1615402 advanced search needs help
1124274 GnomeSword for Windows
________________________
Release 2.2.1 (maintenance)
27 Jan 2007
Behavioral matters:
1. Genbooks now use a navbar in both dialog and Book View pane.
2. High-contrast highlight of current verse is available.
(Edit->Prefs->Fonts->Colors, plus either View->Highlight Current Verse
or Edit->Prefs->General->Misc->Highlight current verse.)
3. Unused verse number color preference was removed, as planned
(feat.req #1620641).
4. Footnote content search works again, but it's a hack, it still uses
an atrocious syntax, and we still need to do the planned rework in
Advanced Search (feat.req #1615402).
5. Disabling both right-side panes completely disables right-side display
(bug #1624753, feat.req #1624757).
6. GnomeSword enables GConf-based URL handling (feat.req #1613239).
7. There is code in place to do double-space text as soon as GTKMOZEMBED
returns (feat.req #1193235). #ifdef DOUBLESPACE keeps the View item
out of visibility for the moment. Improved Strong's/morph markup
(feat.req #1633426) will follow soon. Both depend on CSS.
8. Some new keyboard shortcuts have appeared (feat.req #1633397). Alt-G
focuses on the Genbook navbar, and thereafter arrow keys do what you
expect. Alt-C brings up the commentary. Ctrl-L focuses the main
verse navbar text.
Important usage note:
A genbook key handling bug exists in the Sword libs, in SVN after
their 1.5.9 release. If you build Sword from SVN and you find that
you are unable to navigate to certain portions of some genbooks
(Finney, Heretics, Institutes), a workaround is this, for each module:
cd ~/.sword/modules/genbook/rawgenbook/finney
mod2imp Finney > finney.imp
imp2gbs finney.imp
rm finney.imp
That is, simple re-importation will make the module consistent with
itself in this regard.
Bug reports addressed since 2.2:
1643716 non UTF-8 chars with libsword built without icu
1643623 pers.comm. editor loses on re-edit
1642835 TTS unavailable: Connection refused
1642603 loading a tab set leaves GS confused
1640907 long verse history -> pulldown-select fails
1639131 genbook footnotes are inaccessible
1635205 commentary dict lookup crashes GS
1634794 adv.search hates booknames w/spaces
1633109 gtk warnings from personal commentary
1632443 comm. fails to track beneath genbook
1631814 right-click -> Edit -> Find crashes
1631629 bible dialog uses wrong verse style
1629380 comm.dialog xref selection refers to wrong book
1628714 dialog commentaries select revelation?
1626605 Daily Devotion Does Not Display
1624753 "Show/Hide Sidebar" has a Weird Effect on the Right Sidebar
1623020 gnomesword tts
1622892 dict/lex cannot change xref setting
New feature requests pending:
1633426 update strong's/morph markup readability
1633407 personal commentary needs
1631815 open single-image window on click
Feature requests closed:
1642837 fullscreen support
1633397 shortcut: focus text cursor to verse bar
1624757 Add View Option to Toggle the Right Sidebar
1620641 "Verse numbers" font color is ignored
1613239 improve command line use of "sword://"
1193235 Allow text to be displayed double space
(but inactive, pending return of GTKMOZEMBED)
901894 Drop book list for search limit
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Release 2.2
25 Dec 2006
Known deficiencies:
1. Footnote body search was very recently broken by other needed work
in Advanced Search. Other "attribute" searches (esp. Strong's
refs) work, but not footnote body search. This will be addressed
early in the next development cycle: Advanced Search is due for
another round of revamping, largely to simplify and enhance the
operation of attribute searches. See feature request #1615402.
2. The alternate HTML renderer code under the "mozembed" #ifdef is
not functional at this time, and we do not know if such capability
will return in a future release. This means that the configure
options --with-firefox and --with-seamonkey do not function.
3. The verse number font color preference is ignored; this will go
away entirely soon, as verse numbers are links to themselves, for
re-aligning verse navigation to the verse in question, which in
turn tracks the commentary to the same verse. See feature request
#1620641.
4. The module manager offers installation directory options of
~/.sword as well as the system Sword directory, typically
/usr/share/sword, iff that directory is writable by the user.
Future work will involve efforts at a superuser password query
to obtain temporary access to the system directory, but in the
current release, "chown -R you.yourgroup" is necessary, prior to
running GnomeSword. See feature request #1618837.
Bug reports addressed since 2.1.10:
1620542 Crashes on "View Context"
1618998 Displays frame then hangs
1618829 first use: no global modules found by gnomesword
1618324 "philipper" in german version points to philemon
1617225 gnomesword crashes, when clicking on combobox...
1613439 Sidebar setting does not survive program restart
Feature requests pending:
1620641 "Verse numbers" font color is ignored
1620313 Couple of bugs with module manager operation
1618837 global install of modules
1615402 advanced search needs help
1613239 improve command line use of "sword://"
1194044 prayer list
1193235 Allow text to be displayed double space
1124274 GnomeSword for Windows
901894 Drop book list for search limit
Requests 1613239 and above are post-2.1.10 release. Older requests
represent capabilities for which the needed underlying support does
not exist or which represent an extremely complicated re-working of
GnomeSword from its current state.
________________________
Release 2.1.10
09 Dec 2006
Recent bug reports addressed:
1605640 Change Font does nothing
1605638 Printing does not work
1602532 Uninstallable with Ubuntu Edgy Eft
1602059 Images in Personal Commentary don't show if path has spaces
1601897 search too broad on strongs
1601744 title of module in titlebar not displaying for GetLut1545
1596747 Crash on "search", no content displayed
1594151 previewer-anchored footnotes needed
1582986 Crashed
1576964 GnomeSword fails to build with libsword6-dev
1575275 meta chars in new bookmark folders
1551501 Fix build with -Wl,--as-needed
1536274 clickable links to external sources don't work
1535370 feature request: track verse change across all open tabs
1535122 2.1.7 has typos in commentary_dialog.c
1521926 2.1.7 seems unaware of large portions of commentaries
1507371 2.1.7 forgets which commentary is in use
1505753 2.1.7 mishandles crossrefs in headers
This list is incomplete, as these notes did not exist to track such
reports until recently, but represents the major reports fixed since
the middle of the 2.1 development cycle at a time when many very old
bug reports were finally addressed.
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