Sigil-2.1.0

Sigil version 2.1.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. We strongly recommend updating to the latest release of Sigil as it includes a large number of third party security fixes.

Changes in this Release

New Features

• assign menu accelerators P - &Plugins, and K - Chec&kpoints (thank you BeckyEbook)
• add ability to change keyboard focus using keyboard shortcuts or menus to BookBrowser, Preview, CodeView, ClipsWindow, and TableOfContents Windows
• preserve Media Overlay Active Classes when deleting unused classes
• Goto Link Or Style (or Ctrl-Clicking on a class will now search selectors with combinators if nothing found in normal css classes
• update to a newer Spanish hunspell dictionary
• overhaul of Building on Linux documentation
• update 3rdparty zlib to version 1.3.1 for security and other bug fixes
• update 3rdparty pcre2 to version 10.43 for security and other bug fixes
• update to Qt 6.6.2 for security fixes, accessibility improvements
• allow cancelling of Save if mend on save set and not well formed
• Windows users can now set the SIGIL_USE_FREETYPE_FONTENGINE environment variable to more fully support woff and woff2 fonts

Bug Fixes

• multiple bug fixes from Qt 6.6.2 such as the transient child window resize bug on Windows, etc
• fix QuickParser bug when parsing attribute names not properly ignoring all legal whitespace
• make OPF parsing robust to alternative whitespace usage as well
• fix creation of thumbnails of svg images in SelectFiles and Image Report for macOS
• fix svg rendering in QtSvg by filtering out desc and title tags inside text tags pre-rendering
• fix Python plugin quickparser.py to better handle svg mixed case tag names
• better handle cancelling out of plugins prior to their completion
• better handle Guide/Landmark title translations (thank you BeckyEbook)
• clean up cmake and build warnings
• fix crash on Windows when using woff/woff2 fonts

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

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Sigil-2.0.2

Sigil-2.0.2 is a bug fix release. This is a highly recommended upgrade as many serious crashing bugs have been fixed in this release.

Changes in this Release

• fix incorrect clip tool button insertion point due to null activeWindow value
• fix Windows multiple screen issues when not properly identified (Qt6.5.2 patch fix)
• fix Mac Accessibility related crashes when using non-native QFileDialog (Qt 6.5.2 patch fix)
• workaround MacOS QMessageBox loss of focus Qt 6.5.X bug without hurting other platforms
• fix pretty print mend not formatting mathml
• fix Accessibility related crashes in QFontComboBox (Qt 6.5.2 patch fix)
• prevent crashing if user mistakenly tries to delete entire ncx in CodeView
• harden delete unused styles to trailing whitespace in class names
• fix unrecognized media-types application/xml and text/xml
• fix cursor just before end tag bug in align justify, centre, right
• fix crash when all metadata removed by user in MetaEditor
• fix macOS min in Info.plist to be the actual 11.0
• update Windows and macOS installers to use Qt6.5.3

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

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Sigil-2.0.1

Sigil 2.0.1 represents a bug-fix only release.

Bug Fixes

• fix crash when right click on Misc folder in BookBrowser
• Allow user to revert CodeView drag_and_drop change via environment variable: SIGIL_ALLOW_CODEVIEW_DROP=1 Note: Using DragnDrop in CodeView is still NOT officially supported.
• add inadvertantly missed updated Serbian translation (ts) file

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

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Sigil-2.0.0

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. Key points are the upgrade to Qt6.5.2 and Python 3.11.3 and the change to PySide6 instead of PyQt5/6 availability for plugins (see here for more details). We will also no longer be providing an official Windows 32-bit binary installer (legacy or otherwise). The update to Qt6.5.2 makes Windows 10 (1809) the minimum supported OS for the official version of Sigil starting with Sigil 2.0.0. Similarly, it makes the minimum supported MacOS version as 11.0 (Big Sur).

Bug Fixes

• fix incorrect assert in sigil-gumbo
• recognize application/pdf mediatype on epub import
• remove compiler build warnings to clean up the build output
• recognize source tag attribute srcset for xhtml source updates
• fix Preview disconnect bug after split at cursor
• fixed sigil-gumbo interface for plugins
• added workaround for ADE epub3 bug with scaled cover images
• fix encoding for named entities in opf metadata
• fix drag/drop crash by disabling drop inside CodeViewEditor
• fix CodeView to Preview syncing on text after an inline xhtml comment

New Features

• updated to Qt 6.5.2 which is now used for official releases
• updated to Python 3.11.3 and uses the latest EmbededPython interface
• updated to the latest jquery version 3.6.4
• supports use of embedded pdfs ala ADE
• added dark window titlebars for Windows platforms
• add support for a user's cover-template2.xhtml and cover-template3.xhtml
• add user preference to control printing dpi and add busy indicator icon

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil-1.9.30

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features:

Bug Fixes

• fix Checkpointing to work with dulwich version 0.20.46+
• fix css value parsing when !important is used
• EmbeddedPython fixes to work with Python 3.11 and later (thank you sharkcz)
• leave cursor position unchanged if nothing found when search groups of files
• make all Numeric items in Reports align right
• add support for thousands separator to Reports
• allow blank dc:language values to prevent crashing (as Sigil-1.9.10 did)
• allow unknown language codes to pass through MetaEditor
• MetaEditor under epub2, allow custom opf scheme values
• prevent duplicate spaces when reformatting CSS in import, charset and namespace
• better prevent random OPF attribute order changes to simplify Checkpoint diffs
• fixed file menu Print Preview for xhtml and image tabs
• prevent plugins from crashing Sigil by deleting last xhtml file in epub
• fix issue where images/css could not be properly added in an epub3 with no css files

New Features

• allow user to edit Checkpoint descriptions for clarity via Checkpoint menu
• add ability to show the Checkpoint Change Log via Checkpoint menu
• update to Hunspell 1.7.2 (released in December 2022) for spellchecking
• update to latest zlib-1.2.13 for latest security fixes
• move completely away from ever using OS system tmp folder for storing Sigil wip files. Instead create a new "workspace" folder inside Sigil Preferences folder
• added ability to Print Preview and Print contents of Sigil's Preview window

Attention Linux Packagers: Starting with Sigil v1.9.20, MathJax 3.2.2+ is required to render MathML in Sigil's Preview Window. If you do nothing different with your Sigil builds, our custom bundled version of MathJax 3.x will be included and things will work. If you wish to use your system version of MathJax v3, make sure 1) Your version of MathJax is at least 3.2.2, and b) use the new CMake define -DMATHJAX3_DIR= to supply the path to your MathJax 3.2.2+ location. If you were using -DMATHJAX_DIR= to build/package Sigil in the past, it will do nothing with Sigil 1.9.20+. We did this on purpose so that no breakage of Sigil's MathML rendering would occur. Check Sigil's build documentation for details.

For additional information about the new tools added to Sigil's Find and Replace see this thread in our Forum on Mobileread.com:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346639

Notes:

The only installer that's appropriate for Windows 7 is the installer with "Legacy" in the name.

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

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Sigil-1.9.20

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features:

Bug Fixes

• double width of new Find Replace icons to make them easier to access
• improve new Find Replace icon tooltips to be include short name on top
• fix bug that caused file rename changes to fail when updating smil
• Metadata Editor will now strip out unneeded xmlns:dc attributes on dc tags
• Metadata Editor is now more robust to language codes that have incorrect case in the metadata
• clarify Create HTML ToC menu entry works from existing ToC
• prevent indavertent "" chars be treated like escapes when updating metadata
• fix MetaEditor nit of not auto adding "aut" role to Author metadata for epub2
• make Spellcheck Editor count align column numerically (right)

New Features

• add ability for a user-template*.xhtml and user-template*.css be read from Sigil Prefs to create new empty xhtml and css files
• updated to very latest MathJax version 3.2.2 for mathml support in Preview
• add ability to cycle through 2 different custom stylesheets (and none at all) for use with Preview

Attention Linux Packagers: Starting with Sigil v1.9.20, MathJax 3.2.2+ is required to render MathML in Sigil's Preview Window. If you do nothing different with your Sigil builds, our custom bundled version of MathJax 3.x will be included and things will work. If you wish to use your system version of MathJax v3, make sure 1) Your version of MathJax is at least 3.2.2, and b) use the new CMake define -DMATHJAX3_DIR= to supply the path to your MathJax 3.2.2+ location. If you were using -DMATHJAX_DIR= to build/package Sigil in the past, it will do nothing with Sigil 1.9.20+. We did this on purpose so that no breakage of Sigil's MathML rendering would occur. Check Sigil's build documentation for details.

For additional information about the new user interface and new tools added to Sigil's Find and Replace see this thread in our Forum on Mobileread.com:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346639

Notes:

The only installer that's appropriate for Windows 7 is the installer with "Legacy" in the name.

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil-1.9.10

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features:

Bug Fixes

• Fix insertion of id and links when cursor immediately before a closing tag
• Make sure bundled PySide6 can find QtWebEngine resources on Windows (Qt6)
• Properly recreate or remove encryption.xml depending on font obfuscating or not
• Make Qt6 versions of Sigil use their own ini files to prevent corruption
• treat figcaption as an "other text holder" when prettifying

New Features

• Redesign the FindReplace dialog user interface to minimize size while adding features
• Add a FindReplace "Text" only checkbox and support to exclude tags from search
• Add a Toggle Line Wrap Mode and its support added to CodeView via pop-up menu
• Add a Dry Run Replace dialog to act as "Replace All" what if. (Shift + Count All)
• Add a Replacement filter dialog to allow users to delete unwanted replacements before applying Replace All (Shift + Replace All)
• Add a Counts Report to Saved Searches to show Saved Search Group counts by search

For additional information about the new user interface and new tools added to Sigil's Find and Replace see this thread in our Forum on Mobileread.com:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346639

Notes:

The only installer that's appropriate for Windows 7 is the installer with "Legacy" in the name.

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil-1.9.2

Sigil-1.9.2 is a follow-on bug-fix-only release meant to replace the recently released Sigil-1.9.0/1.9.1. There are no new features. The additional fixes since Sigil-1.9.1 are:

• fix loss of highlight on match when searching
• fix incorrect search counts
• fix incomplete replace all
• fix useability issues in Saved Searches
• fix handling or subcapture replacements when no search capture groups are provided
• fix crash on Windows from too fast/repeated Find Net and Find Previous launched via keyboard shortcuts

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.9.2 Github Release page.

Sigil-1.9.1 (Do Not Use - Superseded by Sigil-1.9.2)

Note: This release is missing critical bug fixes that can be found in Sigil-1.9.2. We strongly urge you to upgrade to that release instead.

The released binaries for Sigil-1.9.1 have been deleted.

Sigil-1.9.1 is a follow-on bug-fix-only release meant to replace the recently released Sigil-1.9.0. There are no new features. The additional fixes since Sigil-1.9.0 are:

• Allow creation of a Windows 7 Legacy Installer to return Sigil to Windows 7 (for now)
• Completely revamped Find and Replace (yet again) to return most of its earlier behaviour for finding next
• Prevent Find and Replace Count from changing current location
• Extend spellcheck suggestions to properly handle end of sentence vs abbreviations
• Center Image Report File Sizes vertically within their row.
• Go To Link Or Style will now properly skip leading comments on selectors in CSS stylesheets
• ecmascript is considered a core media type for javascript files
• make URLInterceptor robust when the Book pointer is NULL (has been cleared)

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.9.1 Github Release page.

Sigil-1.9.0 (Do Not Use - Superseded by Sigil-1.9.2)

Note: This release is missing critical bug fixes that can be found in Sigil-1.9.2. We strongly urge you to upgrade to that release instead.

The released binaries for Sigil-1.9.0 have been deleted.

WARNING: this release is not working on Windows 7. This was not a conscious decision and options are being considered. In the meantime, Windows 7 users should stick with version 1.8.0 of Sigil

In addition to several performance enhancements, Sigil-1.9.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. Though this official release is still Qt5 for the Windows and MacOS packages, we've made it possible to build Sigil with Qt6 and will be officially moving to Qt6 in a near-future release. Note that PySide6 will be the new Qt-for-Python of choice for plugins when official Qt6 versions of Sigil are released. We have a plan to make sure the transition of plugins currently using PyQt5 to support both PyQt5 and PySide6 as painless as possible. Stay tuned.

Bug Fixes:

• Update gumbo to follow WhatWG changes for closing br and p tags in foreign content
• Fix Saved Search Controls code typo for Tabbed Html Files
• Plug long existent memory leaks related to Saved Searches that stop after a match is found
• More file position of 0 fixes and handle toInt() result failures from N/A in ValidationResults
• Fix incorrect copied permissions with AddContentFileToFolder after QFile::copy
• Fix broken page up / down by key sequence in Repo Log and Automate Log.
• Fix broken PluginRunner error signal

New Features:

• Make Validation Results sortable by clicking on column header
• Add Export All to Validation Results for text or csv output
• Completely redesign Find Replace and Saved Searches to not overload wrap when searching multiple targets and add "Restart Search" button to make skipping replacements in Saved Searches possible
• Update to use the PCRE2 library for regular expression searching
• Add a new Sigil Preferences settings to disable GPU acceleration for QtWebEngine/Preview to make it easier for Sigil to keep working even with older graphics drivers
• Add indicator to MainWindow titlebar that indicates if epub in old Sigil Standard form
• Support building from source on macOS M1 (arm64) machines
• Update Windows and Mac embedded python to Python 3.9.9
• Allow building Sigil with Qt6.2.2+ or Qt5.10+ from the same codebase
• Speed up "Add Blank HTML" in epubs with huge numbers of files
• Store and set Epub Zip modification dates where possible
• Support PySide6 to replace PyQt5 in plugins when building Sigil under Qt6
• Handle deprecated embedded Python PyEvalInitThreads properly during build
• Support QUiTool in PySide6 under Qt6 for plugins using .ui files
• MacOS Python 3.9.9 now now includes TclTK 8.6.12 (no external TclTk package needed anymore)
• Added Select All Checkbox in Delete Unused Media and CSS (PRs from @luisparravicini)
• Add ability to rename classes when editing stylesheet in CV, will rename in all html as needed
• SpellcheckEditor now uses LocaleAware sorting vs Case-Insensitive which did not handle diacritics well
• Speed up loading of epubs with large numbers of xhtml files by using concurrency
• New Hunspell spelling dictionaries based on scowl size 70 for en_GB and en_US
• Support ending "." in spellchecker wordbreaks for better abbreviations if dictionary aff supports it
• Faster CSS stylesheet reformating that can handle minor errors and still function

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Three new e-Reader plugins for Sigil have been built to help users see what their ebook might look like in real e-readers while still inside Sigil. See this post for descriptions and links.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.9.0 Github Release page.