Release Notes
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XIPHOS RELEASE NOTES
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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?
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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:
<none>
Feature requests closed:
1869036 need farsi numerals
1860685 mod.mgr should support InstallSize in *.conf
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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:
<none>
Feature requests closed:
<none>
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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 <table>
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
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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:
<none>
Feature requests closed:
1633407 personal commentary needs
1631815 open single-image window on click
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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
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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 <tokens> 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.
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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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