Lantern v2.0.6

Improvements

• AI reading requests now route to the relevant original-text scope. Current-chapter vocabulary scans process the chapter text in batches and validate each listed term and quote against the source.
• Follow-up questions no longer inherit unrelated chapter, selection, summary, or stale-source context.
• Reader pagination keeps configured margins and avoids clipped text while changing column layouts or resizing the side panel.

Bug Fixes

• When a reading range cannot be resolved safely, Lantern now reports that limitation instead of generating a chapter-specific answer from summaries or earlier replies.

macOS Installation

This build is ad-hoc signed. If macOS says the downloaded app is damaged, run:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/Lantern_2.0.6_aarch64.dmg

Then open the DMG and move Lantern to Applications. If the app was already copied, run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Lantern.app

Download

• Apple Silicon: Lantern_2.0.6_aarch64.dmg
• Intel Mac: no Intel DMG is provided in this release.
• Windows x64: Lantern_2.0.6_x64-setup.exe

Lantern v2.0.5

What's New

• Scanned PDF OCR (on-device). Turn scanned PDFs into searchable books entirely on your Mac. The reader fetches a one-time OCR runtime (fast Chinese + English recognition), writes a searchable copy alongside the original (your original file is never modified), and then text selection, word lookup, highlighting, copy, and Ask AI all work on the scanned pages. Apple Silicon macOS; enable it in Settings → OCR.
• macOS 12 (Monterey) support. The reader now runs on macOS 12's Safari 15 WebView — EPUB and PDF both render, and the "Preparing book…" hang on first open is fixed.
• Skip front matter on first open. A new setting jumps past covers and front matter to the first chapter the first time you open a book.

Improvements

• Smoother reflow while dragging the side-panel divider, with better line breaking and timing.
• Clearer explanation when a damaged PDF fails to open.
• Sync now advertises its peer event-schema capability.
• Refined sidebar app-icon treatment.

Bug Fixes

• Trackpad paging now turns exactly one page per swipe — no more skipping several pages at once — while quick successive flicks still turn a page each.
• Double-click quick lookup reliably targets the word under the cursor, and the prior selection is recovered regardless of input device.

Download

• macOS Apple Silicon: Lantern_2.0.5_aarch64.dmg
• macOS app archive (Apple Silicon): Lantern_aarch64.app.tar.gz
• Windows x64: Lantern_2.0.5_x64-setup.exe

macOS install note

These builds are ad-hoc signed. If macOS reports the app is "damaged and can't be opened," clear the quarantine flag after downloading:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/Lantern_2.0.5_aarch64.dmg

Then, after dragging Lantern into Applications:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Lantern.app

Lantern OCR runtime 1.0.0

Optional fast chi_sim+eng OCR runtime for Lantern. Packages are integrity-protected by the attached HTTPS manifests and SHA-256 checksum files.

Lantern v2.0.0

Improvements

• Replaced the Lantern application icon across macOS, Windows, the web favicon, the sidebar, and the About page.
• Regenerated all platform-specific icon assets from one canonical source image.

Download

• macOS Apple Silicon: Lantern_2.0.0_aarch64.dmg
• macOS app archive (Apple Silicon): Lantern_aarch64.app.tar.gz
• Windows x64: Lantern_2.0.0_x64-setup.exe

Quill Personal v1.6.0

What's New

MCP Surface Refresh

Quill's local MCP server now exposes the full modern app surface to AI clients like Claude Code and Codex:

• Batch library & collection tools — import or delete many books in one call, and add or remove multiple books from collections, each returning per-item results (ok / noop / not_found / unsupported / error).
• Full-text book search with citations — search a book's local index and get citation-ready passages back.
• More readable surfaces — book summaries, notes, lookup history, word marks, per-book and full-library vocabulary (with FSRS state), and the reader's CEFR language profile are all now available over MCP.
• On-demand local indexing — a write-gated tool builds a book's full-text index; read tools never build one implicitly.
• Full-text search and summaries honor the same global and per-book spoiler-guard settings as in-app chat, and MCP never triggers embeddings or any other billable model call.

Improvements

• Learning tools customization, round two — reworked card-preview scrolling and module animations, moved module enable toggles out for clearer control, and switched custom modules and menu actions to draft-based saving with unsaved-change guards.
• Clearer wording for the AI retrieval settings.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the AI service connection test failing instantly as "unavailable · 1 ms" — a dead cancellation channel was aborting the test before any network request was even sent.
• Custom module and action drafts no longer linger when switching between the word / phrase / passage sub-tabs.

Download

• macOS (Apple Silicon): Quill.Personal_1.6.0_aarch64.dmg
• Windows (x64): Quill.Personal_1.6.0_x64-setup.exe

Quill Personal v1.5.2

What's New

• Added a configurable learning-card system with v2 card configuration, reorderable modules, custom modules, custom prompts, and custom menu actions.
• Added word-form management, AI-assisted word-form generation, and word-form-aware reader marking.
• Added reader bindings, double-click lookup, no-selection shortcut feedback, preview auto-scroll, and custom reader themes.

Improvements

• Added sortable AI profiles, credentials, card modules, and selection-menu actions.
• Added prompt optimization and streaming custom AI actions.
• Preserved book metadata context in lookup and explanation flows, with backward-compatible learning-card configuration migration.
• Added Chinese and English translations for the new settings and learning tools.

Bug Fixes

• Integrated the settings and learning-tools upgrade with the v1.5.1 reader, AI indexing, embedding, chat, and spoiler-guard changes.
• Preserved the v1.5.1 migration chain and assigned word forms to migration 027.

Download

• Apple Silicon macOS: Quill.Personal_1.5.2_aarch64.dmg
• Intel macOS DMG: not generated by this release workflow (only aarch64-apple-darwin is configured).
• Windows: Quill.Personal_1.5.2_x64-setup.exe
• macOS update bundle: Quill.Personal_aarch64.app.tar.gz

Quill Personal v1.5.1

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Quill Personal v1.4.2

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Quill Personal v1.4.0

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Quill Personal v1.3.2

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