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DISCLAIMER: The builds listed on this page are EARLY ACCESS or RELEASE CANDIDATE builds, not the final releases.

Please file all the found issues in the official GoldenDict issue tracking page, or submit a pull request if you have a fix available.

General questions should be asked on the official GoldenDict forum.

1.5.0-RELEASE (unofficial builds)

Date: 17 March 2024

Reasonably recent macOS builds by @yozhic can be found here. They come in two flavors:

  • goldendict-mac-adapted (recommended) — includes additional display styles as well as a number of macOS-specific UI tweaks and enhancements
  • goldendict-master — just the master branch with no alterations whatsoever

1.5.0-RC2-372-gc3ff15f

Date: 27 April 2019

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.3, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.12.1, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.3 or 5.12.1 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Fix one more crash under Qt 5.12
  • XDXF: A little more handling for tag (issue #1135)
  • Support "[!a-x]" like construction while handling wildcards via QRegularExpression
  • Use QRegularExpression instead of QRegExp in dictionary headwords dialog under Qt 5.12 and later
  • Fix some more possibly crashes with Qt 5.12
  • Fix save/restore geometry for some dialogs under Qt 5.12
  • Safety menu sequence in dictionaries order window (by fixes)

1.5.0-RC2-359-g9bae6d2

Date: 16 March 2019

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.3, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.12.1, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.3 or 5.12.1 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Wiki: Fix urls in "srcset" attribute (issue #1096)
  • Don't expand symlinks while load dictionaries
  • Fix behavior while words list font resizing (issue #1109)
  • Fix some crashes (issue #1076)
  • Zim, Aard: Fix language recognition from three-letter codes
  • DictD: Fix dictionary name recognition for dictionaries from freedict.org (issue #1075)
  • DICT servers: Fix authentication (by Nikolay Korotkiy)
  • Request MIME type from DICT server (by Nikolay Korotkiy)
  • Favorites: Fix blocking of illegal move operations for Qt4 (issue #1059)
  • Full-text search: handle tag as words break
  • Full-text search: handle more block tags
  • Full-text search: tag as line break
  • Handle %GDWORD% template while calling external editor
  • Mdx: Fix some extra anchors for Qt5-based build
  • Add option to ignore diacritics while articles search
  • Show #link as a tooltip instead of empty "Definition: " (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Update help system
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation
  • Updated Finnish translations (by Nikolay Korotkiy)
  • Update Italian translation by Daniele Di Pisa
  • Update Simplified Chinese translation (by Boyuan Yang)
  • Update zh_TW.ts (by kyleskimo)

1.5.0-RC2-311-g15062f7

Date: 01 June 2018

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.3, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.9.5, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.3 or 5.9.5 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Hunspell: Fix handling of some dictionaries format (issue #1021)
  • DICT servers: Fix handling of multi-line phonetics (issue #1016)
  • Add a shortcut to focus scan popup's article view (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Programs: Handle BOM's for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding in programs output (issue #1003)
  • Improve X11 autostart behavior (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Fix autostart bug (by fixes)
  • Linux-specific: Add an option to disable scan popup inside Goldendict (by Igor Kushnir)
  • add possibility to use icon from system theme for tray icon (by Mohammadreza Abdollahzadeh)
  • Allow customizing unpinned scan popup window flags on X11 with Qt5 (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Full-text search: Allow ignore diacritics while search
  • Mdx: Fix resource files indexing (issue #971)
  • Add ".webm" extension to known video types
  • Add QMediaPlayer internal player back end (Qt5 only) (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Implement "inactive dictionaries" feature for all groups (issue #984)
  • Save popup window configuration without it destroying
  • Refactor quit/end-of-session handling
  • Save Favorites inside commitData()
  • Run a single external audio player process at a time (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Update help system
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation
  • Update zh_CN translation. (by Boyuan Yang)

1.5.0-RC2-254-gbd95948

Date: 24 March 2018

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.3, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.8.0, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.3 or 5.8.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Hunspell: Strip comments while search base form of word
  • DSL: Warnings about unknown and unfinished tags
  • Increase limit of node elements while build index
  • A little optimization of read data from network
  • Wiki: Fix handling of url's without urls scheme
  • Wiki: Fix parsing of "audio" tags (issue #967)
  • DSL: Expand tildes while full-text search
  • Full-test search: Use dictionary-specific articles sorting while search
  • Zim: Sort articles by cluster number while full-text indexing
  • Zim: Add some caching for multi-elements clusters
  • Update lzma library to version 5.2.3
  • Full-text search: A little code optimization
  • Full-text search: A little optimization for memory allocation
  • Full-text search: More fast interrupt of search
  • Slob: Fix threads synchronization while full-text indexing
  • DSL: Fix full-text indexing for case of unsorted parts in headword
  • Fix comments stripping while CSS isolation
  • Qt5: Use QRegularExpression instead of QRegExp in many cases
  • Use Alt+LClick in the "Found in Dictionaries" pane as LClick in the Dictionaries bar
  • Wiki: Fix work with headwords containing the '+' sign
  • Fix subpage links in MediaWiki (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Fix one warning in log
  • Update help system
  • Update zh_TW.ts (by kyleskimo)

1.5.0-RC2-209-gfe9312e

Date: 10 December 2017

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.3, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.8.0, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.3 or 5.8.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Update libao library to version 1.2.2
  • Remove item from Favorites if one already exist while click on star button in main window
  • Fix "Add to Favorites" icon changing
  • Append "Add to favorites" action to tabs context menu
  • DSL: Write information about orphan strings to log file while indexing
  • Add config file parameter to limit headwords number to expand multi-word headwords while indexing (issie #914)
  • Change "Add to Favorites" icon if headword is already presented in Favorites
  • Stardict(html): Add partial support for "audio" tag
  • GLS: Add partial support for "audio" tag
  • Speeding-up CSS parsing for big one-line ones
  • Update .css parsing for rules isolation
  • Update help system
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation
  • Update Italian translation by Daniele Di Pisa

1.5.0-RC2-188-g801ab72

Date: 06 October 2017

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.3, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.8.0, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.3 or 5.8.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • DSL: Trim whitespaces while replace tilde
  • Update data for OpenCC library
  • A little refactor for show/hide completion list in the translate box
  • Forvo: order pronunciations by rate, high rated first (by Nikolay Korotkiy)
  • Fix headwords search for case of wildcard in the first position
  • Stardict: format output of Powerword dicts (by zarelaky)
  • Fix full-text search for case of partially matched sequence
  • Update zh_TW.ts (by kyleskimo)
  • Complete zh_CN translation (by Boyuan Yang)

1.5.0-RC2-170-g4c1dd16

Date: 29 Jule 2017

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.2, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.8.0, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.2 or 5.8.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Fix possible overlap in built-in article-style.css (issue #832)
  • DSL: Handle round brackets while full-text search
  • Add option to ignore words order while full-text search
  • Increase number of visible items in groups combobox (issue #758)
  • ScanPopup: Change font size for translate line and word list synchronously with main window
  • ScanPopup: Add button to stay over all other windows (issue #659)
  • Slob: Fix handling of some TeX equations via mimetex.cgi (issue #657)
  • Dsl: Add support for "#SOUND_DICTIONARY" directive
  • Update iconv library to version 1.15
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation
  • Update help system

1.5.0-RC2-152-gecdec2b

Date: 08 Jule 2017

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.2, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.8.0, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.2 or 5.8.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Bgl: Fix conversion for Eastern European encoding
  • Update hunspell library to version 1.6.1
  • Update libtiff to version 4.0.8
  • Dsl: Allow dsl tags before subcard '@' sign
  • Dsl: Handle unescaped '@' symbols
  • Fix some log messages
  • Fix wildcards search for very short dictionaries
  • Fix displaying of some interface styles

1.5.0-RC2-135-g58e41fe

Date: 17 June 2017

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.2, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.8.0, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.2 or 5.8.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Fix stray main menu activation when Alt+D is pressed while translate line already have focus
  • Full-text search: Fix search of headwords with quotes
  • Stardict: Fix handling of some HTML attributes in the upper case (issue #846)
  • Add tooltips to word list in search pane
  • Fix some "incorrect sRGB profile" warnings in log
  • Preserve dictionaries order while add several dictionaries to group
  • Add option for turn on/off confirmation for favorites items deletion
  • Add "Add to Favorites" button to scan popup window
  • Add "Favorites" feature
  • Xdxf: Fix empty tags conversion
  • A little optimization for resources search
  • Refactor resource downloading
  • Add "gdvideo://" scheme to saved resources
  • Don't show "failed to download" error message while saving resources like "gdau://search/..."
  • Fix handling of .zips files
  • For full-text search in article disable "Next" button if only one match found
  • Add support for split zip files
  • Don't show some context menu items for selection with spaces only
  • Update help system
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation
  • Update lt_LT.ts (by embar-)
  • locale: complete zh_CN translation. (by Boyuan Yang)

GoldenDict 1.5.0-RC2-85-g473cb2b

Date: 31 March 2017

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.6.2, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

Download 64-bit Intel version (Qt 5.8.0, no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.12 Sierra or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.2 or 5.8.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Add support for GLS (Babylon source) format
  • Websites: Fix custom icons
  • Websites(Qt 5.2+): Ignore X-Frame-Options header like in Qt 4.x
  • Slob: Fix handling of links to external resources
  • Send image to external viewer by double click
  • Add command line parameters "--group-name" and "--popup-group-name"
  • Add option to enable/disable search via synonyms
  • Qt5: Fix retrieving words with '%' char
  • DSL: Handle "id" and "name" attributes in "lang" tag
  • MDict: Fix handling of links with '/' symbol (issue #771)
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation
  • Updated Tajik Translation (by Victor Ibragimov)
  • Update lt_LT.ts (by embar-)
  • Add Esperanto translation (by Nikolay Korotkiy)
  • Add Finnish translation (by Nikolay Korotkiy)
  • Update Italian translation (by Daniele Di Pisa)

GoldenDict 1.5.0-RC2-36-gc689487

Date: 28 October 2016

Download 64-bit Intel version (no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.2 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • MDict: Fix handling of external links to images (issue #761)
  • Slob: Handle some more TeX commands which don't supported by mimetex.cgi
  • Slob: Fix TeX equations handling via mimetex.cgi for latest Wiki's
  • Fix display of abbreviations contained '-' character
  • Websites: Fix some encoding recognition errors when compiled with Qt 4.x
  • DSL: Handle relative links to local file in [url] tag
  • Epwing: Handle one more exception while open dictionary
  • Ignore SSL error while loading resources
  • Update zh_TW.ts (by kyleskimo)
  • Update lt_LT.ts (by embar-)

GoldenDict 1.5.0-RC2-21-gdb6f369

Date: 24 June 2016

Download 64-bit Intel version (no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.1 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Slob: Fix decompressing of data in bzip2 format
  • Websites: Add alternative loading method
  • Wiki: Fix some image urls
  • XDXF: Fix reading for non-Latin charactera while compiled with Qt 5.x
  • Fix crash while wildcard search in empty dictionaries
  • Epwing: Fix some images handling while compiled with Qt 4.x (issue #707)
  • Stardict: Fix dictionary description handling
  • Fix case of unclosed tags in articles
  • Fix links with anchor while save article to file
  • MDict: Fix handling of anchors like "
  • Update help files
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation

GoldenDict 1.5.0-RC-547/635

Date: 24 April 2016

Download 64-bit Intel version (no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later recommended)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 5.6.0 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Add support for Epwing dictionaries
  • Add SLOB dictionaries support
  • Add ZIM format support (issue #267)
  • DICT protocol support
  • Implement full-text search
  • Allow wildcards in the input line (issue #24)
  • Show all headwords for selected dictionary
  • Possibility to log GD console messages into file "gd_log.txt" in GD config directory. Activated by "--log-to-file" key in command line.
  • Fix crash at quit while some network queries still active
  • Stardict: Handle urls in .css like in .mdx
  • DictD: Fix handling of some links
  • Dict servers: Fix handling of some links
  • MDict: Handle local url's in loaded .css
  • Fix LangCoder for three characters language codes
  • Stardict: Handle links with anchors for "sametypesequence=h" format
  • MDict: Fix some scripts handling
  • Use locale- and platform-dependent comparison when sorting dictionaries
  • Increase upper limit of the history size (issue #667)
  • Fix bug in full-text search in "RegExp" mode
  • Slob: Fix some parsing errors (issue #648)
  • Slob: Handle some TeX commands which don't supported by mimetex.cgi (issue #649)
  • Prevent lost focus on main tab widget when close tab
  • Aard: Handle inter-article anchors
  • Show now indexing for full-text search dictionary name in status line (issue #640)
  • Wiki: Handle inter-article anchors
  • MDict: Fix links handling
  • Slob: Handle inter-article anchors
  • MDict: Handle inter-article anchors
  • Support conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese characters (by Zhe Wang)
  • Limit headword length in article context menu
  • MDict: Fix parsing of MDict format version < 2.0 (by Zhe Wang)
  • MDict: Support encrypted keyword index (by Zhe Wang)
  • Allow search of audio files in sound dictionaries for Xdxf and Stardict-xdxf dictionaries
  • XDXF: Fix handling of "revision" attribute and "iref" tag
  • Convert internal links while saving article to html
  • more accurate hebrew character translation (by gnudles)
  • MediaWiki engine: Fix resource urls for SSL connection (issue #609)
  • Zim: Fix links with char '/'
  • Block "Preferences" dialog shortcuts inside hotkey input lines (fix issue #589)
  • DSL: Fix escaped symbols handling in <<...>> tag
  • Fix crash if configuration saving failed
  • Show headwords from dictionaries setup dialog in modal mode
  • Zim: Ignore "background-color" style attribute in "body" tag
  • Update Vietnamese translation for GoldenDict 1.5 (by Tran Dinh Anh Tuan)
  • DictServers: Show server database list in the dictionary info window
  • Refactor of expressions search via morphology suggestion
  • Wiki's: Ignore SSL connection errors
  • Stardict: Add support for Pango Markup Language (sametypesequence=g)
  • Slob: Fix indexing for full-text search
  • Slob: Support handling of TeX format formulas via mimetex.cgi
  • Epwing: Fix movies handling (issue #547)
  • Jump to dictionary when show word from dictionary headwords dialog
  • ZIPS: Fix count of file names with non-ASCII characters
  • ZIP, ZIPS: Use also system locale codec to decode file names
  • ZIPS: Change handling of UTF-8 encoded file names
  • Handle "audio" tag in Wiki-dictionaries to play sounds via GD player
  • Fix play ADPCM wav files via internal player
  • Epwing: Handle different encodings while search via libeb engine
  • Epwing: Use libeb search engine in addition to GD index search (issue #504)
  • Fix word search in case of escaped wildcard at first position
  • Dictionaries dialog: Show dictionaries number
  • Add help system
  • Mac-specific: Fix for retina display
  • Zim: Fix new format links handling
  • Mac-specific: Fix popup window calling without modifiers pressed
  • Fixed activating link with ; fixed FullTextSearchDialog tab order; fixed switching between UI elements via shortcuts. (by Igor Kushnir)
  • Scan popup: Fix filling of suggestion list when muted dictionaries are presented
  • DSL: Fix headwords normalizing
  • DSL: Fix case of several headwords per one insided card
  • Don't create new empty tab on double click outside the tab bar
  • Full-text search: Highlight of the search results
  • Fix some crashes
  • Dsl: A little improve of unmatched tags diagnostic
  • Full-text search: Fix case of inside cards in DSL
  • Add full-text search tuning tab to preferences dialog
  • Fix history saving while system shutdown
  • Add proxy authentication dialog
  • Add system proxy choose in preferences
  • Fix case of non-ASCII symbols in path for sound directories
  • Fix set of symbols [...] handling in the input line
  • Add Ctrl+D shortcut to switch to dictionary headwords dialog
  • DSL: Strip unsorted parts in links to insided cards
  • Show native identifiers for key modifiers
  • Dsl: Fix some pictures resizing
  • Fix scroll gesture handling
  • Don't jump to dictionary when new page opens in background
  • Sound directories: Show file names with extension if short name corresponds more than one file
  • Handle some touch screen gestures in scan popup window
  • Handle some touch screen gestures in article view window
  • Add config file option for track clipboard changes
  • Warning in log for duplicated dictionaries ID
  • Fix exception handling at article save
  • Fix unhandled exceptions at resources loading
  • Update suggestion list after group content editing (issue #406)
  • Zim: Split files support
  • Handle some unhandled exceptions in index search
  • Customize info.plist to add key to use font auto-scaling in OS X. This should at least fix the blurry texts in Macs with retina display support (issue #264) (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
  • Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tomkowicz)
  • Update Qt Italian translation (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
  • Add Qt Lithuanian translation (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
  • Update Ukrainian translation by Korostil Daniel. (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
  • Update German translation by Daniel Kaneider
  • Serbian translation by ozzii (issue #388) (by Tvangeste)
  • Created sv.ts (by Mikael Hiort af Ornäs)
  • Add Swedish translation by Lakrits (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
  • Add Turkmen translation by Berdy (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
  • Arabic translation of GoldenDict (by Mosaab Alzoubi)
  • Update Greek translation by jennie (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
  • Update sk_SK.ts (by zdenop)
  • Add Persian translation by Noori
  • Add Macedonian Translation by Vladimir Gerovski
  • Tajik Translation updated (by Victor Ibragimov)
  • Update zh_TW.ts (by 黃文龍)
  • Update lt_LT.ts (by embar-)
  • Update Korean translation (by Panho Ku)
  • Update Polish translation (by Grzegorz Karpowicz)
  • Update Vietnamese translation for GoldenDict 1.5 (by Tran Dinh Anh Tuan)
  • Update French translation (by VirtualTam)
  • Lupdate all translations, update Russian translation

GoldenDict 1.5.0-RC-114-gbb8f14e

Date: 10 August 2013

Download 64-bit Intel version (no 32-bit Intel support, no PPC support, OS X 10.7 Lion or better required)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT 4.8.1 libs.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Use patched libao in order to support OSX without copying plugins (#295)
  • Update Argentinian Spanish translation
  • Fixed a compilation problem on windows
  • DSL: Add "http://" to link in [url] tag if it scheme not found
  • Adjust fonts for some styles: Modern, Lingoes, Lingoes-Blue
  • Update simplified chinese translation
  • MDict: Fixed truncation for ASCII characters(0x20~0x30) in image urls.
  • Updated French translation - fixed typos
  • Linux: Better detection of installation prefix
  • Use $PREFIX/share/goldendict for locale files per Linux conventions
  • Fix localization files' installation on Linux/MacOS
  • Fix compilation under MacOS
  • Fixed #183: Provide a higher resolution main GoldenDict icon
  • State the minimal required Qt version: 4.5
  • Enhanced support for RTL languages in articles
  • DSL: Strip comments "{{...}}" when reading file
  • Refactor show dictionary info in "Groups" tab
  • Properly handle non-normalized unicode headwords
  • Aard: Better isolate the cards from each other; protect against broken HTML
  • DSL: properly handle [m] tag
  • Jump to article when double-clicking on dictinary in "Found in Dictionaries"
  • Consider .ogm files as video
  • Consider *.mp4 files to be video not audio
  • Stop the internal audio player when the page is closed or changed
  • DSL: Support video resources
  • Dictd: Properly style the phonetic data and references/links
  • Dictd: Support extended Dictd format (--index-keep-orig) with 4 entries in the index
  • Linux: Better detection of installation prefix
  • Linux: Use $PREFIX/share/goldendict for locale files per Linux conventions
  • Linux: Fixed #359: Crash on Xubuntu 13.04 x64 due to XGrabKey
  • Linux: Automatically add installed opendict dictionaries (/usr/share/opendict)
  • Linux: Preconfigure goldendict-wordnet path (patch by Dmitry E. Oboukhov)
  • Linux: Do not install anything in $PREFIX/share/app-install (patch by Dmitry E. Oboukhov)
  • Linux: Remove 'Applications' category from desktop file (patch by Dmitry E. Oboukhov)
  • Enhanced XDXF support (by soshial)
  • Programs: Don't write word to standard input if %GDWORD% is presented in arguments (issue #351)
  • Fixed a long-broken "Edit dictionary" action in the dictionary bar's context menu
  • New interface preference: Context menu dictionaries limit
  • Add "Edit dictionary" and "Open folder" buttons to the Dictionary Info dialog
  • Win-specific: Select in Explorer the main dictionary file when opening the dictionary folder
  • Reload the open tabs when groups and dictionary order is changed
  • XDXF: Fix some tags handling (issue #349)
  • Win-specific: Pass-through first part of compound hotkey
  • Fixed #347: Provide Dictionary Info for the online dictionaries
  • "Open dictionary folder" action in context menu (issue #344)
  • Update Russian translation (by Abs62)
  • Updated French translation (by VirtualTam)
  • Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tomkowicz)
  • Update Simplified Chinese translation (by Timon Wong)
  • Updated Dutch localization (by Cris)
  • Tajik Translation Updated (by Victor Ibragimov)
  • Update pt_BR.ts (by Alexandro Casanova)
  • Eliminate the tab scroll buttons in Preferences and Dictionaries dialogs
  • Properly update the results pane when closing tabs
  • Initialize ssl libraries at program start (may affect on issue #303)
  • DSL: Expand headwords in subcards
  • Switching to 1.5.0 version
  • Win-Specific: Embed appropriate manifest.
  • MDict: Fix compatibility between 32/64 bit indices (Fix #340).
  • Adjusted Babylon style's Expand/Collapse buttons
  • Adjust Modern and Lingoes-Blue styles to handle expand/collapse buttons better
  • Allow to collapse/expand articles; auto collapse for big articles (issue #331)
  • Fixed #333: Do not allow the floating elements to overflow to the other cards
  • Fix pronunciation for active article (if not avaialbe, fallback to the first one)
  • Show Qt version, GCC version and 32/64 bits in About dialog
  • Fix crash when right clicking dicts list if scan pop is disabled
  • Reload tabs content and suggestion list after dictionaries rescan (issue #330)
  • Add "Inspect" action to context menu
  • Fix potential crash on exit with multiple tabs opened
  • Fixed #328: Eliminate partially-checked checkboxes in Pereferences
  • Add an option to enable saving resource files with articles (#321)
  • Fix unexpected result using QString::toStdWString() (fix #107 again, QTBUG-25536)
  • Add "Copy Image" option into images context menu
  • Dsl: Handle SVG images
  • FFmpeg: Fix potential crash on some codecs (speex for example)
  • Stardict: Isolate resources stylesheets
  • Mdx: Isolate resources stylesheets (issie #290)
  • Ui-Tweak: auto-fitting dict name for initializing window
  • MDict: User friendly error reporting for article request
  • Mac-specific: Fix hotkeys when non-english keyboard layout selected
  • XDXF: Fix infinite loop for malformed files. (Issue #319)
  • Fixed #314: Mac-specific: Do not enforce the default icon, allow icon customization.
  • Disable the Scan Pop-up when a Preferences dialog is open
  • Added an option to hide GoldenDict identification in the HTTP User-Agent headers (Issue #259).
  • Add "Copy as text" feature (issue #311)
  • audio: localizable error string
  • Add jpg image format as an option for dictionary icons.
  • MDict: Add volumes support for mdd files
  • Update Russian translation (by Abs62)
  • Updated Tajik Translation (by Victor Ibragimov)
  • Update lt_LT.ts (by embar-)
  • Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tomkowicz)
  • Updated French translation (by VirtualTam)
  • Updated the Dutch localization (by Cris).
  • Update Simplified Chinese translation (by Timon Wong)
  • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Alexandro Casanova
  • Fixed #305: Stardict: Serious incompatibility with indentation
  • Win-specific: Update zLib to last official version 1.2.8 (issue #299)
  • Handle errors during configuration file loading
  • Fix crashes due to deletion resources owned by QNetworkAccessManager
  • Aard: a little optimization during indexing
  • Mac-specific: Add headers and libraries for build under Mac OS X
  • Mac-specific: Implement text-to-speech feature under Mac OS X
  • Fixed #297: Regression in Lingvo style
  • Mac OS: adjust the pro file to be able to build with brew
  • MDict: Use reluctant matching for anchor processing
  • Add internal audio player(ffmpeg/libav + libao).
  • Add win libs and build scripts for libao and ffmpeg
  • Better protect the visual style against broken dictionaries
  • Add extension for speex encoded sounds
  • MDict: Support audio links in tag
  • Win-specific: Fix Ctrl+C emulation pass-through in hotkey wrapper
  • Win-specific: Fix Ctrl+Ins pass-through in hotkey wrapper
  • MDict: handle malformed resource link without quotes
  • Support large dictionary files; indexing speed improvement
  • Clean-up stray tags in some broken MDX dictionaries.
  • Win-specific: Add volume and rate tuning for TTS, fix some errors
  • MDict: ltrim unprintable characters from filename
  • MDict: append orphan style in the end, related to goldendict/goldendict#271
  • Fixed #271: MDict: A mechanism to clean-up invalid HTML cards
  • Fix some tags handling in Aard dictionaries
  • Win-specific: Add TTS support for Windows
  • MDict: add unique id prefix for anchors
  • Proper text color inside MDict's tag
  • MDict: support file URI scheme in image/css links.
  • MDict: fix malformed tag with name break "Modern", "Lingoes" ... style
  • AARD: Don't try to read and decode too big articles, it is most likely error in dictionary
  • MDict (.mdx/.mdd) format support (by Timon Wong)
  • Try to load QT translation files from GD "locale" folder at first
  • DSL compatibility: Enforce the example color even if the childen tags say otherwise
  • DSL compatibility: a label is always of green color
  • DSL compatibility: a label (text enclosed in [p] tags) is always of normal weight
  • Fixed #265: Wrong dictionary info when filter is active in the Groups tab
  • Update Polish translation (by Grzegorz Karpowicz)
  • Update Dutch translation (by Cris)
  • Update Tajik Translation (by Victor Ibragimov)
  • Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tamkovic)
  • Updated French translation (by VirtualTam)
  • Update simplified chinese translation (by Timon Wong)
  • Update Russian translation (by Abs62)
  • Update Argentinian Spanish translation (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)

GoldenDict 1.0.1-709-g3df609d

Date: 28 April 2013

Download Universal version (32-bit and 64-bit Intel, no PPC support, no fullscreen support)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.7.3 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the Mac OS X version.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Fix typos in translation (by chulai)
  • Update Argentinian Spanish translation (by chulai)
  • Updated French translation - TextToSpeech section (by VirtualTam)
  • MDict: localizable article loading error string. (by Timon Wong)
  • MDict: handle malformed resource link without quotes (by Timon Wong)
  • Support large dictionary files; indexing speed improvement (by Timon Wong)
  • Updates for Tajik language (by Victor Ibragimov)
  • Clean-up stray "a" tags in some broken MDX dictionaries. (by Tvangeste)
  • A little more informative messages about Bass library errors (and couple of other changes) (by Abs62)
  • Win-specific: Add volume and rate tuning for TTS, fix some errors (by Abs62)
  • MDict: ltrim unprintable characters from filename (by Timon Wong)
  • MDict: append orphan style in the end, related to goldendict/goldendict#271 (by Timon Wong)
  • Fixed #271: MDict: A mechanism to clean-up invalid HTML cards (by Tvangeste)
  • Fix some tags handling in Aard dictionaries (by Abs62)
  • Win-specific: Add TTS support for Windows (by Timon Wong) (by Abs62)
  • MDict: add unique id prefix for anchors (by Timon Wong)
  • Proper text color inside MDict's "a" tag (by Tvangeste)
  • MDict: support file URI scheme in image/css links. (by Timon Wong)
  • MDict: fix malformed "a" tag with name break "Modern", "Lingoes" ... style (by Timon Wong)
  • AARD: Don't try to read and decode too big articles, it is most likely error in dictionary (by Abs62)
  • MDict (.mdx/.mdd) format support! (by Timon Wong)
  • Try to load QT translation files from GD "locale" folder at first (by Abs62)
  • DSL compatibility: Enforce the example color even if the childen tags say otherwise (by Tvangeste)
  • DSL compatibility: a label is always of green color (by Tvangeste)
  • DSL compatibility: a label (text enclosed in [p] tags) is always of normal weight (by Tvangeste)
  • Fixed #265: Wrong dictionary info when filter is active in the Groups tab (by Tvangeste)
  • Update Polish translation (by Grzegorz Karpowicz)
  • Update Dutch translation (by Cris)
  • Translation updates for Tajik Language (by Victor Ibragimov)
  • Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tamkovic)
  • Use the native OS dialog to save articles, store the save location in a config
  • Mac-specific: Implement scanning under Mac OS X (issue #129)
  • Mac-specific: Implement hotkeys under Mac OS X (issue #129)
  • Disable clipboard change tracking for Windows and MacOS
  • Add language name to "Wiktionary" name for AARD dictionaries (issue #244)
  • Add language name to "Wikipedia" name for AARD dictionaries (issue #244)
  • Mac-specific: Interaction with Mac OS application menu (issue #255)
  • Fixed #254: Mac OS X: TranslateBox alignment issues
  • Add some more encodings for online dictionaries (issue #252)
  • Fix link handling in Aard dictionaries (issue #243)
  • Handle Stardict resources in zip archive (issue #99)
  • Lingoes theme/style (by anion23)
  • Another lingoes style. The previous one is renamed to Lingoes-Blue
  • Added a new built-in style 'Modern' (Prefs->Interface->Display Style->Modern)
  • Increase the main icon from 24x24 to 32x32 size (issue #183)
  • Fixed #239: Couldn't play sounds via some external programs on Windows
  • Handle dictzip errors without program termination (Fix issue #207)
  • Set the minimum zoom level from 0.7 to 0.1
  • Fixed #237: Proper dictionary title (DICT format)
  • Add Lojban language code (issue #233)
  • Fixed #232: history pane doesn't retain cleared state after restarting goldendict
  • Handle article decoding errors for Aard dictionaries
  • Fixed #225: Tiny print preview window in Windows 7
  • Synchronize dicionary icons size in popup and main windows (issue #168)
  • Save images and sounds via context menu (issue #223)
  • Clear dictionaries lists before dictionaries rescan
  • Support for external css in Stardict dictionaries with html output format
  • Do not resize vertically the scan pop-up's translate box
  • Fixed #221: The words list is not the top panel (on Linux)
  • Update Russian translation
  • Update Argentinian Spanish translation
  • Updated French translation
  • Update Brazilian Portuguese translation by MCHAL, closes #234
  • Updated Greek translation by jennie
  • Update belarusian translation
  • Korean localization by panho10
  • Updated Korean translation by Panho Ku
  • Tajik Language Updates
  • Update Slovak translation
  • Dutch localization (by Cris)

GoldenDict 1.0.1-581-g757ad64

Date: 14 February 2013

Download Universal version (32-bit and 64-bit Intel, no PPC support)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.8.1 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the Mac OS X version.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Make the popup window more compact by reducing margins and spacing to 3px
  • Fixed #169: Cannot deselect the article when 'select word' by single click is enabled
  • Fixed #176: Menu button is not centered when toolbar is vertically positioned
  • Fixed #188: Switching the UI mode should focus the translate line and update it
  • Properly restore main window maximized state when it activated through tray icon
  • Fixed #191: New UI in the scan popup, replace 3 separate widgets with the translate box
  • Win-specific: Properly scan right-to-left words in GD window
  • Fixed #192: Dynamically adjust the suggestion list in the new UI
  • Win-specific: Properly save/restore main window configuration when it maximized
  • Don't show welcome page header in window title (issue #195)
  • Custom icon support for babylon and dictd dictionaries
  • Custom icon support for Sound dir dictionaries
  • Periodical save of history (issue #209)
  • Windows switching under Ubuntu Unity (issue #204)
  • Mac-specific: BGL dictionaries under Mac OS X (issue #128)
  • Update Russian translation
  • Added French Translation
  • Update Argentinian Spanish translation
  • Update Lithuanian translation
  • Update Belarusian translation
  • Update Ukrainian locale

GoldenDict 1.0.1-501-g0040469

Date: 19 January 2013

Download Universal version (32-bit and 64-bit Intel, no PPC support)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.8.1 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the Mac OS X version.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Sorting in dictionaries list
  • Refactor auto groups creation
  • Handle decoding errors in some bgl dictionaries
  • Tooltips for groups tabs
  • Updated UI: Browser-like interface vs search in the sidebar
  • "Back" and "Forward" buttons in scan popup window
  • Tweaked content margins for dictsPane
  • Focus GoldenDict window after restoring it from tray by hotkey under Ubuntu (issue #95)
  • Implemented "Always on Top" functionality
  • Added a new "Menu Button" when the main menubar is hidden
  • Added shortcuts for the both sidepanels (Ctrl+S for search, Ctrl+R for results navigation)
  • Quick search/filter for dictionary names in settings (Dictionaries and Groups tabs)
  • Middle-click over tab must close tab
  • Better keyboard support in Dictionaries tab
  • History Pane rewrite
  • Handle big entries in bgl
  • Update Russian translation
  • Add Aymara translation by Amos Batto
  • Update Argentinian Spanish translation
  • Update Lithuanian translation
  • Update Italian translation
  • Update Brazilian Portuguese translation by MCHAL
  • Add belarusian translation
  • Handle "dict" attribute in "ref" tag for dsl dictionaries
  • Show target dictionary name in status line if link points to other dictionary
  • Handle "^~" combination in dsl dictionaries
  • Custom icons for .zips and .lsa
  • Custom icons for websites
  • Avoid duplicates in dictionaries list
  • Images size limit for dsl dictionaries
  • Custom icons for external programs
  • Custom icons for morphology dictionaries
  • Switch user styles on-the-fly

GoldenDict 1.0.1-367-ga33f037

Date: 24 November 2012

Download Universal version (32-bit and 64-bit Intel, no PPC support)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.8.1 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the Mac OS X version.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Fix crash in some cases after new group adding
  • Wiki images fix
  • Some more encoding in bgl (issue #53 again)
  • Show description for bgl dictionaries
  • Fix some bgl indexing error
  • Show more info for babylon, stardict, aard dictionaries (issue #91)
  • Replace html tags in "copyright" field for bgl dictionaries (issue #137)
  • Try to fix rare errors with articles corruption
  • Handle insided cards in dsl dictionaries
  • Win-specific: Play sounds via Bass library
  • update Russian translation
  • Fix sound files search in .zips
  • Whitespaces between xdxf tags
  • Avoid Qt 4.8 tabs bug in "Groups" dialog
  • Win-specific: Update third-party libraries to last official version
  • Tajik Language Updates
  • Dictionary bar icons size when small icons selected
  • Transcriptions in BGL dictionaries (Issue #121)
  • Update history when clicking links on page (issue #120)
  • Lost some settings when "Options" dialog called (issue #135)
  • Some encoding in BGL (goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1222)
  • Some more encoding in BGL (issue #53, goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1535)
  • Prevent some potential crashes on broken bgl

GoldenDict 1.0.1-333-g8e4b384

Date: 07 October 2012

Download Universal version (32-bit and 64-bit Intel, no PPC support)

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.8.1 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the Mac OS X version.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Show information about a dictionary on right mouse click in "Found in" pane
  • Win-specific: Show translation in popup window instead of sending word to GD main window while scanning GD main window
  • Add "Dictionary info" item to dictionary bar context menu
  • Own muted dictionaries list for each group
  • Add option for word selection by single mouse click
  • Dictionary bar solo mode: Ctrl+click turn on all dictionaries, Shift+click restore previous state
  • Fix autoplay of some audiolinks
  • "Sound" button on toolbar always play first obtained sound
  • Support sound packs in zip archive (.zips)
  • Add Alt+PgDown/PgUp shortcuts to select next/previous group
  • Remove redundant spaces while translating clipboard
  • Update Russian translation

GoldenDict 1.0.1-313-g83bdb1d

Date: 24 September 2012

This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.8.1 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the Mac OS X version.

Detailed lists of changes is here.

Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):

  • Add shortcut for show/hide history
  • Import history from file
  • Allow to turn on/off history in preferences
  • Add word to history through context menu
  • Close popup menus when ScanPopup window closes
  • Adjust dictionary indexing
  • Show/hide optional parts of articles (DSL dictionaries only)
  • Support 64-bit index in AARD dictionaries
  • Win-specific: Scan popup now work in GoldenDict article tabs
  • Ctrl(Shift)+Click on "Found in dictionaries" pane do same action as on dictionary toolbar
  • Update Russian translation

Note: Please test and report any found errors/problems in our issue tracker. Before reporting bugs, please check the forum for well-known issues that are particular to this Mac OS X build.