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XIPHOS RELEASE NOTES
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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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