KOReader 2021.08 "Fall Weather"

We now have a user guide thanks to @offset-torque's hard work. This should make it easier for new users to find their way across the program's features.

Starting with 2021.08, the Kobo Elipsa is supported (#7986, #8004, #8057).

The zsync plugin has been unmaintained for a long time, so it's now been deprecated (#7957).

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• Quick start guide: revamp text and look (#7985, #8072) @poire-z @offset-torque
• Kobo Elipsa support (#7986, #8004, #8057) @NiLuJe
• Remove zsync plugin (#7957) @Galunid
• Reset everyone's duration time to classic (#8008) @IcedEagle
• History: add confirmation before cleaning (#8016) @hius07
• Fix ability to open exported highlights in KOReader: add doctype to template (#8040) @pazos
• ReaderDeviceStatus: add high battery level alert (#8037) @hius07
• Checkbutton: ensure max width, multiline if needed (#8066) @hius07
• Menu/GoTo: tweak go to page/letter dialog layout (#8056) @hius07
• Button: reduce font size to avoid truncation (#8078) @poire-z
• Autostart Profiles (#8049) @zwim
• CoverImage plugin: allow writing grayscale BMPs (#8054) @zwim
• Various fixes: footnotes, HTML dictionary, Button (#8092) @poire-z
• Footer: add "Include current page in pages left" setting (#8093) @poire-z
• [UX] File search: add hold in search results (#8100) @hius07
• Fix warmth settings on some android devices (#8104) @Galunid
• ReadTimer: Small QoL fixes (#8106) @NiLuJe

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KOReader 2021.07 "Box Jumper"

There have been many bug fixes this month, but nothing too visible besides the ability to hide the onscreen keyboard by tapping outside of an input area. In landscape mode, you could otherwise get stuck in some dialogs.

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• OPDS catalog, Cloud storage: hold return arrow to go to top (#7845) @hius07
• InputDialog, InputText: a bunch of updates (#7896, #7908) @hius07
  You can now hide the onscreen keyboard by tapping outside of the input area.
• Device status alarm: battery and memory (#7857) @hius07
• Adds time left for chapter and document to the screensaver message options (#7897) @IcedEagle
• Greek keyboard: add more diacritics (polytonic) (#7906) @poire-z @ichnilatis-gr
• [plugin] Remove GoodReads plugin (#7943) @Frenzie
  Deprecated half a year ago in #7101.
  Any potential remaining users whose API key hasn't yet automatically expired through inactivity can copy it over from an older release if desired.
• CRe: support for case sensitive and regex search (#7883, #7947) @zwim
• FileManager: allow case sensitive file search (#7956) @zwim
• ReaderZooming tweaks (#7968) @NiLuJe
• Flag send2ebook as deprecated (#7967) @pazos

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KOReader 2021.06 "Catkin"

June brings an implementation of inertial scroll on non-eInk devices (#7646), and another big round of all-around improvements.

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• InputDialog: add search (#7701) @hius07
• CRe: draw progress bar under alt status bar (#7667) @zwim
• Inputtext: don't allow the cursor to move within a hint (#7687) @hius07
• ReaderPaging: Unbreak flipping mode's double taps (#7702) @NiLuJe
• USBMS: Close all widgets before quitting (#7702) @NiLuJe
• ZSync: Flag this plugin as deprecated (#7702) @NiLuJe
• Fix changeFontSize after added granularity (#7689) @zwim
• Fix scrolling, add inertial scroll on non-eInk devices (#7646) @poire-z
• crengine: various XML, text and FB2 fixes (#7712) @poire-z
• Double tap: Update default tap zones (#7711) @NiLuJe
• ReaderHighlight: clearer symbols on selection start/end buttons (#7725) @poire-z
• InputText: show clipboard dialog on long-press (#7719) @hius07
• VirtualKeyboard: hold left/right arrows moves to start/end of line (#7730) @hius07
• VirtualKeyboard: Allow hiding the keyboard with a hold on the down arrow key (#7751) @hius07
• SSH server: redesign menu; add to dispatcher (#7765) @hius07
• TouchMenu: open to items page when going up a level (#7827) @yparitcher
• fix storage permissions on android 11+ (#7846) @pazos
• Kobo: Kill new stuff from FW 4.28 on startup (#7843) @NiLuJe
• Translator: copy translation input to the clipboard (#7855) @hius07
• Status bar: hide battery if level higher than threshold (#7876) @hius07

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KOReader 2021.05 "Yellow Daffodil"

It was a nice spring month with a great quantity of smaller bug fixes, but nothing huge. In other news, there's a new contrib repository that can more freely accept most user plugin submissions regardless whether we think it fits in with the rest of the program. Please see the README over there for more information.

Image credit: Daffodil, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia, 1900

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• [plugin] Add a caching mechanism for CoverImage (#7510) @zwim
• Gestures: Allow disabling tap and/or swipes for page turns (#7572) @gbyl
• PocketBook: Workaround platform shenanigans when aplying an OTA (#7585) @NiLuJe
• CloudStorage (FTP): Do not buffer entire download in memory (#7597) @null-dev
• Dispatcher: add "Toggle status bar" action (#7606) @hius07
• bump crengine: more granular font weights (#7616) @poire-z @virxkane
• Kindle: Enable AutoSuspend plugin (#7612) @NiLuJe
• FM/RD lifecycle cleanup; Cache revamp; unbreak AutoSuspend (#7624) @NiLuJe
• DropboxAPI: Handle pagination (#7621) @reuning
• android: Prompt for install updates when they're downloaded (#7632, #7649, #7657) @pazos
• [chore] Move SDL check to the end of Device's probe function (#7682) @pazos
• InputDialog: add 'Go to line' button (#7673) @hius07

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KOReader 2021.04 "Gouty Gauss"

In a big step forward, this month @poire-z decided to add MathML support! In short, that means we can now read ourselves about Gaussian math in KOReader the way it was meant to be (#7465).

We now do multitouch on the H2O, exciting times. I must admit I couldn't quite figure it out back in 2014 myself.

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• Standardize directory/folder to folder (#7410) @hius07
• PdfDocument: Unbreak highlights (#7457) @NiLuJe
• Rotation icons: make 'em dynamic. (#7440) @NiLuJe
• The great Input/GestureDetector/TimeVal spring cleanup (a.k.a., a saner main loop) (#7415) @NiLuJe
• Kindle: Fix gyro events on Zelda (#7459) @NiLuJe
• crengine: add support for MathML (#7465) @poire-z
• ReaderZooming: Fix defaults handling (#7463) @NiLuJe
• Add DBNL footnotes styletweak (#7467) @Frenzie
• Text editor: option to show/hide keyboard on start (#7460) @hius07
• Fulltext search: show notification when nothing found (#7436) @hius07
• Standardize search/find to search (#7398) @hius07
• Search dialogs: don't close when nothing entered (#7501) @hius07
• Input: Process input events in batches (#7483) @NiLuJe
• Inputtext: don't allow the cursor to move within a hint (#7507) @hius07
• remarkable FW 2.6: use explicit busybox for 'sync' (#7509) @gbyl
• FileManager: Hold the "+" button to refresh content (#7559) @hius07
• FileManager: Also refresh content when tapping the "Home" button (#7564) @gbyl
• Style tweaks: add links italic style (#7567) @hius07
• ReaderToc: Unbreak ToC depth detection (#7569) @NiLuJe

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KOReader 2021.03 "Magnificent Mullet"

There have been many behind the scenes code cleanups and speed improvements, but the one thing that stood out most to me personally was the new show QR code plugin (#7310) contributed by @AntonLee. It's perfect to quickly check out an external link on your phone.

Image credit: "The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States", by George Brown Goode (1887). Via.

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• Switch ConfigDialog's rotation toggle to custom icons (#7306) @NiLuJe
• Revamp flash_ui handling, once more, with feeling ;) (#7262) @NiLuJe
• History: avoid opening non-existent files (#7280) @poire-z
• TOC settings: add bind chapter navigation/titles to ticks (#7280) @poire-z
• SkimToWidget: remove title bar, add bookmark button (#7280) @poire-z
• Goto dialog: use "Go to Page" also with CreDocuments (#7280) @poire-z
• Bookmarks dogear: fix position with CRe top status bar (#7312) @poire-z
• When displaying a date (as opposed to a time), pad the hour with blanks if necessary in order to get a consistent alignment (#7322) @NiLuJe
• CoverBrowser: list mode: limit font size of components (#7324) @poire-z
• flash_ui: Workaround potential EPDC races (#7332) @NiLuJe
• Legacy Kindle: Actually handle (system) power events (#7336) @NiLuJe
• TOC: expand to show all chapters on current page (#7339) @poire-z
• Kindle: Unbreak Zelda/Rex (#7341) @NiLuJe
• crengine: CSS line-break/word-break, various fixes (#7342) @poire-z
• External link: adds "Show QR code" (#7310) @AntonLee
• Add Bulgarian keyboard layout (#7367) @josdion
• OPDS: Parse Open Search Definition for feeds that support it (#7380) @ajvpot
• reMarkable 2 clean wakeup from sleep (#7345) @snelg
• SkimToWidget: swap '1' and '10' buttons (#7408) @hius07
• Unbreak HTTP authentication in WebDAV (#7425) @johnbeard
• Update PDF annotations when changing bookmark text (#7411) @Toromtomtom
• TOC settings: fix ticks disappearing (#7443) @poire-z
• Initial KOA3 support (#7446) @NiLuJe

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KOReader 2021.02 "Cold Spell"

Most improvements this month were under the hood. Please look at the full changelog for the nitty gritty details.

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• CRe TOC, Bookmarks: show marker when jumping (#7204) @poire-z
• TOC: show en-dash on empty titles (#7204) @poire-z
• crengine: support min/max-width/height, 2-pages tweaks (#7204) @poire-z
• Dual pages: shown as 2 columns on a single page (#7204) @poire-z
• CoverImage: Alternative image fit (#7221) @zwim
• Georgian keyboard (#7225) @arabuli
• Notifications: stack them instead of overdrawing them (#7226) @poire-z
• Remarkable1 wifi (#7216) @pazos
• [UX] Add Persian keyboard (#7222) @Monirzadeh
• Menu: Properly unhighlight menu items with a callback that doesn't do anything (#7254) @NiLuJe
• Add OPDS server from knihi.com (belarusian) (#7263) @avsej
• File browser settings: reorganize into Settings submenu (#7259) @poire-z
• crengine: various fixes, support CSS "visibility" (#7265) @poire-z
• Page Overlap: Fix rectangle computation and arrow mode (#7269) @NiLuJe
• Improved ramp-down of warm-light after max hour (#7272) @rexkerr

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KOReader 2021.01 "Magnetic Flux"

It's a new year, so we got ourselves a new haircut (#6937). A big thanks to @johnbeard for the effort! Here are a couple of screenshots of the new icons to whet your appetite.

The dictionary will now be significantly faster on dictionaries with synonyms (#7068).

The quite active reMarkable community has added initial support for the reMarkable 2 (#6992, #7066, #7065, #7122). Please keep in mind that it's still in an early state and installation instructions on the KOReader wiki may not yet be fully updated either (see here).

Finally, book thumbnails will now load faster (after initial caching) thanks to ZSTD, although I never thought they were particularly slow in the first place (#6976).

Image credit: Magnetic field produced by current flow

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• kodev: Use getopt instead of a hand-rolled hack (#6980) @NiLuJe
• remarkable2 support (#6992) @ddvk
• BookInfoManager: Convert thumbnail compression to ZSTD (and many more behind the screens improvements) (#6976) @NiLuJe
• Radius corners of more boxes (#6997) @johnbeard
• Add MaterialDesignLight SVG icons (#6937) @johnbeard
• Update UI layout code to use new SVG icons (#6977, #7019) @poire-z
• Implement proper alpha-blending of SVG icons (#7011) @NiLuJe
• Fix y origin of the configmenu extended tapzone (#7015) @NiLuJe
• NetworkManager: Slightly more accurate wifi strength icons (#7020) @NiLuJe
• Revert ManyBooks and Flibusta to HTTP (#7031) @Frenzie
  The OPDS servers for ManyBooks and Flibusta don't actually have proper HTTPS support.
• OPDSBrowser: Update the title during navigation (#7034) @NiLuJe
• rM: Switch to plain dumb sleep during the crash screen (#7038) @NiLuJe
• rM: Unbreak PowerEvents (#7043) @NiLuJe
• Add fall back to text selection option to panel zoom (#6960) @Galunid
• OPDS: Inform and warn about downgrade attack (#7032) @Frenzie
• htmlToPlainText(): Format paragraphs with indentation (#7027, #7095) @Frenzie @poire-z
• Quickstart: add long press sets default (#7048) @yparitcher
• UI: Make button radius match default window radius (#7054) @johnbeard
• bump sdcv for fast synonym search (#7068) @pazos
• Time-adjust on all reMarkable events, not just EV_ABS (#7066) @snelg
• Fix double-pressing reMarkable 2 power button twice to wake up (#7065) @snelg
• UI: Clicking menu icon returns to top of menu (#7074) @johnbeard
• Keyboard input in InputText (#7037) @johnbeard
  On desktop builds, you'll now be able to use your regular keyboard in input fields.
• Footer: add "Pages left in book" as footer item (#7047) @JasonInOttawa
• LuaJIT on Android fixes (#7094) @NiLuJe
  KOReader depends on just-in-time compilation (JIT) provided by LuaJIT to be fast. A small minority of Android devices isn't too fond of that, so on Android JIT has always been disabled in various parts of the program. With any luck you'll notice the difference.
• Dict/Wiki lookup: less text cleanup on manual input (#7099) @poire-z
• DictQuickLookup: hold prev/next buttons go to first/last result (#7099) @poire-z
• CRE: allow both Top/Bottom margins fine tuning (#7104) @poire-z
• Legacy Kindle: Unbreak screensavers (#7112) @NiLuJe
• add noop callback to cache size to prevent artifacts (#7106) @yparitcher
• reader.lua: rework file/directory argument handling. (#7053) @yparitcher
• Add menu to configure the top/alt status bar in crengine (#7107) @zwim
• Add deprecation messages to plugins (#7101) @pazos
• Dispatcher: update document.configurable (#7116) @yparitcher
• Save rotation across restarts (#7096) @yparitcher
• show AltStatusBar when changing the font size (#7119) @zwim
• Revamp "flash_ui" handling (#7118) @NiLuJe
• [UX] Footer: add prefix option "Compact items" (#7127) @JasonInOttawa
• add table persistence module (#7120) @pazos
• bump crengine: parsing, lists, 2-pages mode fixes & tweaks (#7138) @poire-z
• Mark calibrecompanion plugin as obsolete (#7147) @pazos
• Address assorted Weblate comments (#7154) @Frenzie
• [reMarkable] Don't need to keep attempting WiFi connection after success (#7121) @snelg
• [feat] Support mimetypes in DocumentRegistry:hasProvider() (#7155) @Frenzie
• [feat] Add skimming support for Non-Touch devices (#7163) @rezaarifandee

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KOReader 2021.01.1

Small bug fix release for newer Linux desktop platforms and some Android devices like the Boox Carta+.

• Bump base for nnsvg libm stuff (#7191)
• calibre plugin: handle huge metadata files (#7159)
• Bump the things for 2021.01.1 (#7202)

KOReader 2020.12 "Focused Treatment"

The biggest novelty this month is the reworked zoom functionality for paged documents, contributed by @jperon (#6885). Not only is it now easier to activate trusted companions like zoom to fit content, but easily customizable row and column modes were added as well. The directional arrows easily allow for switching between different routes to traverse the page. Happy holidays!

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• Reference page numbers list: highlight current page (#6888) @poire-z
• Footer: ensure minimum height for the in-fill in progress bar (#6878) @Jellby
• android: fix dict overrides (#6887) @pazos
• Hide non-linear fragments (#6847) @Jellby
• CoverImage plugin: add "Size and background" options (#6884) @zwim
  • CoverImage plugin: allow saving covers as BMP (#6904)
  • CoverImage plugin: enable on Remarkable and PocketBook (#6906)
  • CoverImage plugin: allow saving covers as JPG (#6924)
• ReaderCropping: prettier bottom buttons (#6900) @poire-z
• Kobo, Mk.5: Tweak CPU frequency scaling (#6905) @NiLuJe
• add Latin hyphenation (#6910) @jperon
• Paged documents: rework zoom options (#6885) @jperon
• Kobo: Warn on restart if the startup script is outdated (#6916) @NiLuJe
• switch between internal and external sdcard (#6919) @pazos
• Use Unicode minus in ButtonProgressWidget (#6939) @johnbeard
• Fix bad authentication handling in opds browser (#6942) @Galunid
• Make default UI tapzones more generous (#6918) @NiLuJe
• [Android] Switch compression to lzma2 (#6881) @pazos
• Fix the frontlight gesture range scaling (#6946) @NiLuJe
• JPG/PNG: MuPDF as default provider (#6931) @jperon
• RenderImage: add renderSVGImageFile() (#6952, #6950) @poire-z
• TextEditor: fix some settings not sticking (#6979) @poire-z
• ReaderFooter: Don't duplicate a 12h clock time format option (#6973) @NiLuJe
• bump luajit-launcher: fix for some dict downloads (#6990) @pazos
• Calibre plugin fixes for android (#6996) @pazos

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