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Sigil 2.8.1
Bug Fixes
- fix multiple bugs in AddExisting that could sometimes add duplicate image entries and skip some xhtml imports
- fix bug that caused altimage urls on math tags to not be preoperly updated when moved or renamed
- prevent crash in python function replace when re can not handle an expression that PCRE2 recognizes
- fix bug when using OpenWith to re-open BBEdit.app on MacOS if BBEdit was already open
- make launching PageEdit on MacOS via the Preferred XEditor always spawn a new copy of the PageApp
- fix bugs when newlines were sometimes added to css files that threw off sync to Style.
- fix bug that prevented Mend and Prettify from working in CV after a resource name change
- fix bug in TOCHTMLWriter that dropped a needed newline causing Preview to be misaligned.
Thank you BeckyEbook!
- add workarounds to macOS Tahoe bugs that prevent modal native dialogs from working
- fix bug in Create an HTML TOC that did not drop the busy cursor during requests for import
New Features
- add ability to use python regex in place of python re for embedded python controlled via an
environment variable (SIGIL_EMBED_PY_USES_REGEX).
Sigil-2.8.0
Bug Fies
- make sure assigned clip number is not editable in ClipEditor
- greatly speed up All Files report generation in epub3s with manifest properties
- greatly speed up Delete Used Media by caching current cover image
- greatly speed up adding bulk resources to the OPF to speed up Add Existing ...
- fix bug in Open With on MacOS not properly parsing arguments
- fix bug in refreshing plugin toolbars (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fix bug in GetInfo not using the proper times symbol (Thanks BeckyEbook)
- fix stripping out of css selectors with non properites (empty)
- use resizeColumnsToContents to set DeleteUnunsedMedia and DeleteUnusedStyles column width
- prevent user created custom metadata elements from breaking the lxml parser badly (Thanks BeckyEbook)
- fix bug that stripped out custom etadata from epub before a save
- use more standard shortcuts for for Previous and Next tab
- stop Sigil tools from implicitly adding back nav to spine if not present
New Features
- create a separate Change Reading Order dialog for those who can not use drag and drop
- create a Drop Zone for users who want to use drag and drop to add files to their epub
- rewrite ImageTab to allow for basic image adjustments: rotate right, rotate left, crop, resize
- allow users more control over Prettify using prettyprint.xml created in Sigil prefs.
- update all CI github actions to the latest versions
- add cability to de-nest the newly native nested CSS so that it will work with e-readers
- in ImageViewer move image description to the top (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- make ImageView open images fitted to its window automatically (Thanks BeckyEbook)
- recognize more core mediatypes for image/jxl and imaage/avif from epub 3.4 spec
- recognize json as a mediatype in Sigil in prep for epub 3.4 spec (Thanks drmhessler)
- support json syntax highlighting in CodeView to support epub 3.4 spec (Thanks drmhessler)
- add new epb3 tool menu items to safely add and remove the nav from the OPF spine
Sigil-2.7.6
Bug Fixes
- fix many translations from Transifex that somehow were improperly updated
- Fix bug in Clips Window (dock widgei) that messed up its layout
New Features
- add ability to unset environment variables using the env-vars.txt file
Sigil-2.7.5
Bug Fixes
- WebProfileMgr will now detect multiple instances of Sigil and choose the right profile cache type
- removed leftover debug output from WebProfileMgr to prevent confusion
- handle multiple dots in a row when developing a file name from a string (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- corrected Image Report usage counts by including use in CSS and html style tags
- fixed possible label truncation in RERenamer dialog
- fixed for having to repeat Find when search starts in html but is searching css, js, etc
- fixed Class Used Report to look inside xhtml file style tags too
- fixed AddMetadata dialog by providng a clarifying title string
- updated Building_on_Linux to include Alpine Linux supprt (#839)
- fix typo and duplication in plugin support routine hrefutils.py
- fix bug in media-type assignment for smil files in PluginRunner
- adapt python3lib/repomanagercode.py to recent changes in dulwich that broke backwards compatibility
- fix Preview sync to location bug when actively editing svg, css, js
New Features
- updated to the very latest Qt 6.10.2 (minimum MacOS supported version is MacOS 13)
- updated to the very latest Python 3.14.2
- added Save Selected Data to CSV in SpellcheckEditor dialog via pop-up menu
- added possible shortcut id number to the ClipEditor to make assigning clip shortcuts easier
- made Classes Used Report doubleclick open the class defintion in CodeView if found
- set initial focus in the Regex Rename dialog to the regex field on launch
- added min and max buttons to titlebar in Reports and Spellcheck Editor to ease use with small screens
- extended Python Function Replace to allow easier creation of a SigilMatch object
- added Unicode Codepoint name to the status bar for the character after the cursor to CodeView
- extended the Codepoint name to include the codepoint itself (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- converted ClipboardHistorySelector dialog to be non-modal, auto updating, with min button
- converted MDViewer (GetInfo) to be non-modal and work with multiple BookBrowser selections
- add status message when updating Validation result
- redesign how web cache profiles are used and cleared to improve stability and speed
Sigil- 2.7.0
Bug Fixes
- make validation of css via W3C network validator work more consistently (http: -> https:)
- make sure repomanager.py works with pre- and post-0.23 dulwich
- fixes for potential crashes from using unitialized member pointers
- fix issues with ClipsWindow and m_LastPasteTarget
- remove QtPositioning from being needed in QtWebEngine builds on MacOS
- fix bug with double-click to select "word" in CV not working the some for intl langauges
- fix issues by alerting user to file path duplication during initial load of epub
New Features
- update to Qt 6.9.3 with some additional patches
- update to PCRE2 version 10.46
- update WebProfileMgr to use the new QWebEngneProfileBuilder to properly set up disk caches
- modify HeadingChange and CaseChange ToolButtons to remember last used action
- add in a custom Windows manifest file so that Windows open-with works
- create a new dynamic Automation menu to replace the older toolbar only version (hideable by the user)
- allow up to 9 most recent files in the Sigil File menu
- use environment var "SIGIL_ONLY_USE_LANGCODES" to restrict long List of Language codes to user's choice
- the Metadata Editor now has a pop up context menu to make navigation easier
- the Metadata Editor will now respond as expected to right and left arrow keys for navigation
- added support for 2 additional Automation tools available for use in Automation Lists
- OnFailedRunSavedSearchReplaceAll
- conditionally run a saved search only if the previous saved search produced 0 replacements
- OnSuccessRunSavedSearchReplaceAll
- conditionally run a saved search if only if the previous saved search produced > 0 replacements
Sigil-2.6.2
Bug Fixes
- work around bad Qt WebEngine bug when created dynamically and used inside a QDialog for Checkpoints
- fix minor bug in MediaTypes due to typo with append
- fix bug in Checkpoints Diff routine when viewing images that used to exist but no longer do
- fix bug in sanitycheck.py when spurious close tag is found before html tag
- fix bug in Aria Clips where the book language was not properly set (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fix bug in Aria Clips where a # fragment was missing (Thank you BeckEbook)
- document that Qt 6.8.X now requires Mac OS 12 as the new minimum
- rename the environment variable: "SIGIL_FUNCTION_REPLACE_LOG_FILE" to now be:
"SIGIL_FUNCTION_REPLACE_LOGFILE" to better match with other Sigil environment variables
(Thank you BeckyEbook)
- rename the environment variable "SKIP_SIGIL_UPDATE_CHECK" to now be:
"SIGIL_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK" to keep all Sigil specific environment variables better in sync.
- fix bug in handling of epub filenames from input plugins
New Features
- enable use of the fetch api in Sigil internal "sigil:" scheme
- create PreviewFileDialog to append thumbnail previews for images and selected text files
when used in non-native dialog mode. Leave native dialog mode untouched.
- added environment variable to turn off use of custom filedialogs to make
"Add Existing ..." work better over networked storage with lots of files:
SIGIL_NO_CUSTOM_DIRECTORY_ICONS=1
- BookBrowser now has a "View Image" pop-up menu item that allows users to see
what any image (SVG included) without having to open a full Tab
- make CV understand the media-types of the file it is editing so that it can better
create pop-up menu items like "View Image" when editing an SVG
- add support for "env-vars.txt" in Sigil Prefs folder, uses VARIABLE=VALUE one per line
- completely revamped the AppImage CI builds to use Docker images
Sigil-2.6.0
Bug Fixes
- prevent crash on Windows when hand typing in an external url in Add Existing files
- fix bug in how nav is handled by Prettify (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fix bug in wait cursor appearing when showing last epub open warnings
- fix crash caused by empty Automate lists (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fix wild card disconnection Qt warnings
- fix class initialization reorder warnings
- remove now unnecessary workaround for sys.argv not being defined in embedded python
- fix bugs in regex search and replace by using PCRE2 NOTEMPTY to match Sigil logic
New Features
- Added in new CodeView Insert menu item: "Role..." (epub3 only)
to make adding Aria role attributes and epub:type attributes where allowed easier
- Added in new CodeView Insert menu item: "Aria Clips..." (epub3 only)
to make adding code clips that improving Accessibility easier.
- Made the Epub3 Tools menu submenu items be shown as disabled on Epub2
Sigil-2.5.2
Bug Fixes
- fix missing python function replace "file_name" in DryRun and Filter Replacements
- fix CV to Preview syncing to self-closing tags that are bare in body
- workaround recent Qt changes by making PV sync to top when code in CV is not well formed
Sigil-2.5.1
Bug Fixes
- fix CodeView to Preview syncing when cursor on empty lines
- fix build warnings related to overloaded-virtual
New Features
- Add AppImage .desktop file with version information
- strip AppImage bins when possible
- update docs to include Sigil_Plugin_Framework version 15
Sigil-2.5.0
Bug Fixes
- allow SVG resources to be selectable alongside Image resources and context menu to work in BookBrowser
- because Linux has multiple light and dark themes (but different)
always send out our internal theme change signal when palette changes
- detect urls in altimg attributes in math tags and properly update them is changed
- disable workaround for FR open interfering in MainWindow restorestate as no longer needed
- fix incorrect custom dc:identifier creation by Metadata Editor.
- fix missing SearchEditor Model Controls tooltips
- fix WebEngineProfile issues on Windows with multiple instances of Sigil running
- fix dark vs light corner cases in Linux
- quiet extraneous warnings about WebEngine spellcheck dictionaries not found
- fix bug when duplicate filenames exist when updating all manifest ids from file names
- fix bug with remote resources not being properly loaded by Preview after a http cache clear
- fix updating tab names after filename changes (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fix bug in Url scheme hander that made using Preview's Inspector fail at times
- fix incorrect custom identifier generated by our Metadata Editor
- properly detect and update altimg urls in mathml tags
New Features
- upgrade MacOS and Windows release and ci builds to use Qt 6.8.2 (note macos 12 minimum required)
- upgrade MacOS and Windows release and ci builds to embed Python 3.13.2
- upgrade 3rdparty pcre2 search engine to pcre2-10.45
- move all platforms to use cmake FindPython3 to simplify our cmake files and remove leftovers
- add ability to easily clear an Open With editor list, without need to edit ini files
- added new Search Menu option that will hide the Find and Replace Window if open
- extend GetInfo to all BookBrowser file types
- add PythonFunctionEditor and support Python Function Replace in Sigil (experimental)
with many tweaks and improvments from BeckyEbook (Thank you).
- add resizeable Alert Boxes to better see Python error messages
- add log capability for debugging Python function replace isses via a new
environment variable: SIGIL_FUNCTION_REPLACE_LOG_FILE (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- for unamed epubs Save-As now suggests a new name based on epub's metadata (Thank you BeckEbook)
- control dark vs light detection method for Linux with a new environment
variable: SIGIL_USE_COLORSCHEME_CHANGED
- add a Use Standard File Extensions tool with menu and automator tool support
- speed up CV by extending TagLister to remove need for QStack and QXmlStreamReader for our web paths
- Pagedit version 2.5.0 will now sync cursor position with CV when opening an external xhtml file
Sigil-2.4.2
Bug Fixes
- ensure CodeView code highlighting colors coincide with dark/light themes on certain Linux DEs
- fix sigil-gumbo gumboc to work with Python 3.13+ - ie. work around backwards incompatible changes in ctypes
- fix Replacement Chooser table to allow for multiple line row heights in Before and After fields (regression)
- prevent too many warnings when no media types provided in OPF by generating the warning collectively
- prevent build warnings by using hunspell's std:string interface (not C char * ones)
- fix files in third party code that used latin-1 encoding to now use utf-8
- fix old use of 'python' in python code header lines to always use 'python3'
- removed user scope installs from winget util they work properly with dependencies
- restore Find&Replace if it was open when the user tries to exit Sigil and then aborts the exit
New Features
- Added new tool: 'Update OPF Manifest Media Types' to set unrecognized media types based on actual file contents
Sigil-2.4.0
New Features
- added a GetInfo dialog and right click menu option for XHTML files that provides a collection
of information specific to that file without having to run Reports (including a word count)
- added support for multiple semantics per xhtml file, while uncommon is technically allowed by the spec
- made debugging with VS IDE easier
- streamlined Sigil logos and installer for Windows
- improve Sigil Well-Formed (sanity check) to better identify errors with missing attribute quotes
- update to Qt 6.7.3 and its PySide6 version for MacOS and Windows release builds
- updates to building on linux documentation
- add support for building with and using virtual python environments on Windows and Linux
- change Replacement Chooser to use Checkboxes to determine if replacements should be made, no deletes
- allow Windows Sigil installer to run on Windows arm64
Bug Fixes
- readability improvments for Load Warnings (thank you BeckyEbook)
- remove xhtml meta charset information after converting to utf-8 on initial load to prevent encoding errors
- forced the Preferences KeyboardShortcuts assign and remove buttons into the tab focus chain
- PR #778 building Sigil with recent Qt versions that no longer accept the QT_IMPLICIT_QCHAR_CONSTRUCTION macro
- fixes for using QTimeZone to prevent build warnings where possible (modified version of PR #779)
- fixes for better whitespace handling in TagLister codebase
Sigil-2.3.1
Bug Fixes
- fix to prevent double epub load warnings
- fix to prevent load warnings without details from causing a crash
- fix to prevent rename templates from using characters forbidden in file names and paths
- fix to better restoreState when MainWindow is Maximized of FullScreen
- fix lost External Editor Preference when browse cancelled (BeckyEbook)
- fix for crashes related to serious epub load exceptions
- better handle epubs with missing NCX files
Sigil-2.3.0
New Features
- removed support for building Sigil with Qt5 as our code had become a rats nest of qt version ifdefs
See our git branch "qt5final" for the very last buildable version of Sigil under Qt5
- our new minium version to build Qt is Qt 6.4.0 or later
- removed the need and usage for Qt6Compat5 as its contents were deprecated and will go away eventually
- added support for using the IUC library to help replace the range of encodings supported by the old QTextCodec
- we are now using NFC unicode normalization form for all content, links, urls, and file paths.
- made Sigil's Well-Formed Check (Sanity Check) more robust to whitespace parsing rules and allowed
it to detect and report missing XML Headers
- we have upgraded to use Qt 6.7.2 and Python 3.11.9 for the base of our Windows and MacOS releases
- added a Bookmark Location toolbar icon right beside the Back button for easier use
- Opening EditTOC, SpeckcheckEditor or MetaDataEditor will now highlight the first line entry
- Add new Tool: Rebase OPF Manifest IDs on Current Filenames
- Update to 3rdparty PCRE2 version 10.44 for bug fixes
- General code cleanup to remove unneeded hacks and workarounds for old Qt bugs now fixed
Bug Fixes
- reverted all Qt Buttons and CheckBoxes to default TabFocus to speed up focus changes and reduce clicks
- fixed SelectFiles (AddCover, Insert Image) to again use the arrows keys to walk the list
- fixed some lost or stolen focus issues
- fix overwriting of existing nav document and cover-image manifest properties
- fix for Reports column sorting that use thousands group separators
- fix for Reports file size column that did not properly use QLocale for decimal points and separators
- fix crashing due to PCRE2 bugs in Qt 6.7.2 with their internal PCRE2
Sigil-2.2.1
Bug Fixes
- fix bug introduced by using ClickFocus policy on QToolButtons with menus instead of NoFocus
- update base.ts for late Preferences tranaslation change missed in the last release
- update Translations from Transifex
- fix incorrect std button icon under Fusion for Sigil Preferences Open Preference Folder
- set default button in the fix doctype/headers dialog on epub load to Yes to match earlier behaviour
Sigil-2.2.0
New Features
- add support for Windows live switching from dark to light and light to dark modes
- add support for Linux kde and gtk3 live switching from dark to light and light to dark modes
- add new environment variable: SIGIL_PREVIEW_TIMEOUT
(in milliseconds) to allow user control of the Preview updating intervals,
valid range 100 - 10000. default value: 1000. Set only once at Sigil startup.
- add new Find and Replace targets: Selected SVG files, Selected Javascript Files, and Selected Misc XML
- add new Find and Replace Regular Expression menu option: Unicode Property (*UCP)
- add ability to rename files when new name is just a case variant on case insensitive filesystems
- extended the number of clips that can be assigned to toolbars (total now of 60 clips supported)
- Accessibility improvements:
- add abiity to highlight the widget with current focus (Thanks BeckyEbook)
- add ability to double text insertion point width throughout Sigil
- Extend Python Plugin Interface with info on preferred font mangling information
- There will be no more built-in HighDPI diddling in Sigil's prefs. If you have special needs in that regard, set your own Qt environment variables.
- replacement strings in F&R can now use \x{hhhh} hex escape codes to represent unicode characters numerically
Bug Fixes
- reformating css with multiline now adds space after selector comma
- add in bulk resource move and use bulk delete to handle epubs with thousands of files
- add in bulk resource rename to handle epubs with thousands of files
- if Replace has focus and Find done, CodeView should get focus (Thanks BeckyEbook)
- fix dark mode Toolbar continuation symbols for Windows (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fixed bug in Save-As context menu action in ImageTabs
- fix dark mode live switching on macOS issues qith QTreeView and QStandardItemModels
- fix bug in missing CharToEntity in the Create TOC process
- fix TabManager tab close symbol on macOS to match that used in dockwidgets
- use Unciode NormalizationForm C inside Sigil and for io
- fix macOS stuck at Maximized size issue
Sigil-2.1.0
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
Sigil-2.0.2
Bug Fixes
- 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 justiry, 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 build docs to Qt 6.5.3
Sigil-2.0.1
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
Sigil-2.0.0
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
Sigil-1.9.30
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
Sigil-1.9.20
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
Sigil-1.9.10
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
Sigil-1.9.2
Bug Fixes
- 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
Sigil-1.9.1
Bug Fixes
- 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)
Sigil-1.9.0
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 existant 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 easier
- 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 exteral 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 is dictionary aff supports it
- Faster CSS stylesheet reformmating that can handle minor errors and still function
Sigil-1.8.0
Bug Fixes:
- Reports now generate properly quoted csv when saved
- Workaround Bug in QtWebengine when using custom scheme handler and specific audio/video codecs
- Fix CV -> Preview sync after intial load when Preview Zoom is not equal to 100%
- Fix link tags with rel set to stylesheets via Mend and Mend and Prettify that are missing type
- Fix GoToLinkOrStyle to work on css link tags in head
- Fix logic in GoToLinkOrStyle to better identify the actual target with styles
- Fix insert media file when cursor at very start of tag
- Fix Windows and macOS bugs when generating Keyboard Shortcuts
- Fix insert closing tag when cursor at very start of tag
- Fix double copy to Clipboard from OPF and NCX Tabs
- Fix GoToLinkOrStyle when class attribute present but cursor not in the class attribute
- Fix TabManager scroll to position to properly handle position of 0
- Fix crash using Split At Markers when body tag is completely empty (no whitespace or anything)
New Features:
- BookBrowser can now link javascripts similarly to how it links stylesheets
- Epub3 javascripts can now open windows if javascript is enabled
- Add Find and Replace context menu to clear its curent values and history
- Add support for 3 Automation lists that support editing and automatically running a list of
commands that can include all Sigil plugins and a limited set of Tools
- Add support for BookBrowser to insert a blank javascript file
- Do not require replacement prompt if current book is unmodified and input plugin is run
Sigil-1.7.0
Bug Fixes
- Workaround to ensure the Saved Searches Controls editor widget is movable on all platforms
- Make the External Xhtml Editor Button/Feature work with both PageEdit and non-PageEdit editors again
- Fix Preview sync when CV transitions from xhtml to css and back to xhtml
- Fix Preview sync when Find and Replace opens new tab with search target
- Fix Preview sync when Validation error clicked on
- Fix Preview sync when mathml is being used (compensate for mathjax changes)
- Fix mathml use when external MathJax directory is specified in builds on Linux
- Prevent Sigil from loading any manifested mimtype file from bad epubs, give load warning
- Make Spellcheck dialog use double-click to control search in CV, to speed paging word list.
- Prevent duplicate translated semantic names
- Fix heading tool issues after self-closed BLOCK tags
- Prevent stack overflow crashes in pcre lib due to recursion with some valid regex
- Fix second window opening on macOS when first launching app with file
- Remove [other.] semantic indicators for epub2
- Fix crash in CSS Selectors Report when using Filters
New Features:
- added Find Replace Regular Expression validator
- added SIGIL_DISABLE_VERSION_META environment variable to control writing of Sigil Version
- enable JIT compiler for pcre library to improve regex look-up performance
- update the pcre library to version 8.45 (Final EOL)
Sigil-1.6.0
Bug Fixes:
- add Qt workaround for restoring Sigil window sizes when FindReplace left open on macOS
- add missing tr() calls to the tooltips in the Special Character selection dialog
- fix bug when all unused selectors are removed as unused in css stylesheet - uses a placeholder
- make empty Nav have a title to help empty epub passing epubcheck
- fix bug where fonts couldn't be previewed when a space was in the path
- redesigned code to make Merging large numbers of files much faster
- fix bug in blank language field in Spellcheck Dialog (Thank you Tex2002ans)
- fix use of different indentation of css via PR from BeckyEbook (Thank you)
- fix typos in plugin framework guide (Thank you Doitsu)
- fix hang on launch when opf manifested files exist inside the META_INF (Thank you un_pogaz)
- fix Metadata Editor bugs related to alternate-script (Thank you Carmina16) (#613)
- fix Metadata Editor bugs related to epub2 event dates (Thank you Octet-nl) (#616)
New Features:
- extended Find and Replace search targets to include tabbed files, CSS files, OPF, and NCX files
- extended Saved Searches to allow a user to set full search controls for each search including:
mode, direction, options, and target file sets
- Preview loading has been made completely asynchronous with a new progress bar and loading placeholder
- merge will now automatically prevent duplicate ids.
- merge will now automatically add ids at previous file boundaries to maintain the guide,
nav, and ncx links
- completely redesigned the XHtmlHighlighter to speedup highlighting especially when Working
with single large xhtml files
- rewrote CV spellchecking code to speed it up (closer to old Sigil 1.3.0 performance levels)
but if working on large single book html files pre-split, turning off CV spellchecking
will result in much improved performance
- added PyQtWebEngine as a required python module for Sigil plugins. This will greatly expand the
capability of PyQt5 plugins for Sigil. Allows us to supply a ReadiumReader plugin for Sigil.
Sigil-1.5.1
Bug Fixes:
- change when highlight open close tag pair is triggered to eliminate noise
- change select tag to use shift-double-click, and select tag and contents to alt-double-click
- add missing ability to edit name fields of custom metadata tags in the MetaEditor
Sigil-1.5.0 (Beta release)
Bug Fixes:
- fix issue with custom ncx names in non-standard empty epub layouts
- fix Import Text to properly add ncx if missing for epub2
- fix issue with "Delete Unused Styles" not properly detecting all used selectors
- fix issues with repeated use of Mend and Prettify on bare text in structural tags
- fix extra line issue with Link to Stylesheet (Thank you BeckyEBook!)
- fix bug in id assignment in epub3 Metadata editor
- fix bug in trailing slash in Move To Folder paths
- fix bug in spelling of Columbia->Colombia in Languages (Thank you Tex2002ans!)
- fix bug in Clip Editor pasting of multiple clips
- fix bug in PerformCSSUpdates related to quoted string in content: values
- fix bug related to iframe handling when loading Preview
- fix typos in XMLEntities descriptions (Thank you BeckEbook!)
- fix numeric table alignment to align right in multiple tables (Thank you BeckyEbook!)
- fix bug in Add Existing not properly using QProgressDialog for long import
- remove long deprecated and now invalid use of "altlang" in epub3 Metadata Editor
New Features:
- added "sigil" url scheme and schemehandler to break 2mb limit on single xhtml file size
- highlight matched open close tag pairs while editing in CodeView
- added capability to delete highlighted open close tag pairs (Remove Tag Pair)
- added default selection of text for basic CodeView formatting including bold, italic, etc
- added default tag double-click (and shift double-click) to select tag contents (including tag)
- extended split on Sigil Split Marker capabilities to work better with nested tags
- added a CSS Parser and Query engine that works with Sigil's version of Gumbo
- the Reports tool for "CSS Selectors" now lists all CSS selectors not just classes
- the "Delete Unused Styles" tool now handles all unused CSS Selectors not just classes
- the Reports for "CSS Selectors" and "Delete Unused Selectors" now handle selectors in XHTML Style tags
- added ability to load text and csv files to Group Saved Searches to automate lists of replacements
- reworked the Metadata Editor to be much more Human Readable with tooltips to show xml tags
- added semantic code to the descriptive field in Add Semantics as a learning aid (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
- Checkpoint ManageRepos now has the ability to sort the repo table by any column (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
Sigil-1.4.3
Bug Fixes:
- fix multiple mismatched wait cursor setting and restoring in MainWindow
- fix crashes if no dictionaries or preferred dictionary does not exist on start-up
- fix link breakage when runing split on a file with bare internal links
- fix bug which caused split to lose fragments from some link targets
- fix double # chars in fragment ids during merge
- fix hang on load with bad encryption.xml font uris
- quiet uneeded debug output
- fix opf cleanup bug when identical xmlns values are used with two different prefixes
- properly update the language code to dictionary mappings when a user changes Primary/Secondary dictionaries
Sigil-1.4.2
Bug Fixes:
- fix bug in "Add Existing" files when file names would require percent encoding
- fix bug in multiple language spellchecking dialog word lookup
when no language attributes used
- update de, nl, sv, ko, ru translations that missed the Sigil 1.4.0 initial release
- fix bug in OPF metadata attributes that use named entities
Sigil-1.4.1
Bug Fixes:
- critical bug fix for *over* xml encoding html used inside metadata in the opf
- return use of ctrl-f to its long standing functionality
Sigil-1.4.0
New Features:
- Two different types of Multiple Language Spellchecking support added:
- A user can now specify a Primary and a Secondary Language dictionary
for real-time spellchecking (red squiggley underline).
- The Spellcheck Dialog will now support spell checking as determined by
xml:lang and lang attributes in any languages with dictionaries
- Main UI icons now use scalable svg files to better serve higher res displays.
All provided by BeckyEbook (ala BeckyDTP). A huge Thank You! to BeckyEbook
- New brighter Sigil Application Icon is now being used.
- Alternate Sigil main Application Icon now available as a build-time option
- Sigil now provides 3 different Icon Themes for the user: Main, Fluent, and Material
Again all thanks goes to BeckyEbook for creating/collecting all of the icon themes!
- Sigil will now support a custom user-determined Icon theme via a custom .rcc file.
- pre-made icon themes for Legacy and Material themes in different base colors
are now available with more user-contributed theme files to hopefully come.
Again Thank BeckyEbook!
- New main toolbar icons are now available and improved icon groupings have
been made to provide the user with a greater degree of toolbar customization.
Users may need to drag and drop icon grouping and modfy their selections of Toolbars
to see some of these new options.
- Improved support for IRI (international) hrefs. OPF newly added file manifest ids
now converted to plain ascii to prevent issues with older readers
Bug Fixes:
- Fix bugs in Marking for Index
- Perform major URL en/decode refactoring to properly handle '#'
(and other reserved chars) in file names
- Translate "Table of Contents" using book language not ui langauge
- Fix handling of links when using Add Existing on xhtml files with links
to other xhtml files
- Fix split code to better handle duplicate target ids that reside in different files
- Bug fixes for the plugin interface from wrCisco (Thank you!)
- Bug fixes for the plugin interface setguide from BeckyDTP (Thank you!)
- Fix bug in OPF parsing when valid but non-traditional namespace prefixes are used
- Fix rare off by one condition in clip number to clip enditor model conversion
Sigil-1.3.0
New Features:
- Added FontTab to show a specific font by double-clicking in BookBrowser
- Added Index Toolbar
- Windows/macOS release build updated to Qt 5.12.9 with added bug fixes
- Windows/macOS release build updated to Python 3.8.3
- Added increased protection against evil epubs manipulating file: urls
- Changes to support building with Visual Studio 2019 on Windows
- Improved Windows Installer and handling of C++ runtime libraries
- Updated Build instructions for MacOS, Windows, and Linux
Bug Fixes:
- Reorganized the source code to add a Widgets folder to reduce code duplication
- Fixed spelling mistakes in MetaEditor user interface and xmlsanitycheck error messages
- Fixed mistakes handling font files (and other files) whose names start with a "." on macOS/Linux
- Improved embedded python error messages
- Improved some error messages on epub load
- Fix TabConnections to properly handle the new FontTab tabs
- grew Preferences Colour widths to better handle non-English colour names (Thanks BeckyEbook)
- Fixed bug in handling missing local links when using Add Existing ...
- Removed all python2 remanants from the Sigil plugin and pythonlib code
- If "Mend on Open" set, better handle import of huge file of of run-on lines
- Bug fix for css url updating
- Fix bug that prevented css updates from being shown in Preview without reload
- Fix gcc8 build warnings where possible
- Prevent BookBrowser's Rename and RERename from using URI delimiters ("#",etc) in file names
Sigil-1.2.1
Bug Fix:
- Source code only release for Linux using Python versions < 3.8 to define sys.argv
Sigil-1.2.0
New Features:
- Provide a tweak setting to adjust drag distance for Windows & Linux
- Added YesToAll and NoToAll options for replacing images via Add Existing...
- Highdpi and uifont setting information is now available to Sigil's plugins
- Add a Checkpoint feature to Sigil for fast versioned saves to git repositories
- add ability to easily create a Checkpoint (stored via a local git repository)
- add ability to see the changes between the current epub and any earlier Checkpoint
- add ability to revert the entire epub back to an earlier Checkpoint
- added ability to manage and delete Checkpoint repositories.
Bug Fixes:
- Fix cosmetic file name issue when aborts file rename edits in BookBrowser
- Improve default drag-distance for BookBrowser for Windows & Linux
- Reduce required drag distance for macOS
- Fix index generation bug related to non-escaped text used in regular expressions
- Fix bug that caused lost class attributes when marking words for an index
- Guide to Landmark Semantic mappings have been extended to better cover "other.*" guide items
- Changed the removeDir() routine to better deal with Windows delete file issues.
- Updated Building on Windows docs
- Updated Building on MacOS docs
- Modified the codebase to use Ordered hashes/dictionaries throughout
to prevent unneeded reordering in tag attribute order
Sigil-1.1.0
New Features:
- Added Support for Dark Mode for Windows, Linux and macOSX (Thanks BeckyEbook!)
- Added new icons that work well under both Light and Dark modes (Thanks BeckyEbook)
- Added ability to use Dark Mode for Preview (controlled by Preferences)
- Added Zoom Keys Ctrl +/- support to the Inspector (for improved Accessibility)
- Added support for a second Clip bar with up to 20 additional clips
- Select Special Character Dialog now support scrollbars
- Guide and Nav titles are now translated into ebook language (if translations available)
- All Report Names have been shortened to allow larger font sizes for better Accessibility
- Added improved contrast icons (Thank you BeckyEbook!)
- Completely reworked all Sigil Preference Dialogs to make them more screen/user friendly
- Improve High DPI Preference Settings for Windows users
- Clips from the Clips QDockwidget window can now be used in CSS Tabs as well.
- The plugin interface has been extended to show current colorMode and primary colors
Bug Fixes:
- Replaced deprecated QSignalMapper code with QActionGroups throughout Sigil's code base
- Fixed bug in "open-with" on macOSX that did not allow .app files to be selected
- Soft hyphens characters are now handled properly by Spellchecking [PR from BeckyEbook]
- Fixed bug in 'split at cursor" that created extra empty pages
- Fix bug in Insert Files from Disk
- Fixed same thread re-entrancy issues with tab creation / deletion code due to Qt signal/slot handling
- Fixed source code typos [PR from luzpaz]
- Fixed incorrect number of "times used" in Image Reports
- Fixed plugin font_iter() code to properly handle new Iana.org font media types
- Broken links are no longer changed during ImportHTML (Add Existing...) operations
- Cover svg image "vh" "vw" fixup code now properly handles empty headers on cover page
- GetBookpathByPathEnd() will now work properly and thereby better handle detection of file
name conflicts during imports
- Better handle file name info from Validation plugins
- Inserting Links now creates proper links for top of page of the same file
- Fix ImportHTML when creating a new book to properly add an NCX if needed
- Include official QT backported fixes to Qt 5.12.6 to make it more stable
- The nav will now properly handle internal links to top of page of the nav itself
- harden lxml xml processing with resolve_entities set to false for improved security
Sigil-1.0.0
Bug Fixes:
- All bugs reported in alpha release have been fixed.
Special thanks to Vroni, BeckyEBook, Doitsu, Odamizu,
Un_Pogaz, snarkophilus, and many others who ran tests and reported bugs.
- Fix for crash on macOS opening Preferences following New MainWindow
- Workaround Qt bug in restoreState after maximize with Find and Replace open
- Fix logic to identify and store window geometry when normal (not maximized)
- Fix handling of plugin dialog being closed or aborted / cancelled
- Prevent Preview timer related crashes on closing MainWindow on macOS
- Update and harden media types recognition
- Use non-native QFileDialogs on macOS to workaround Qt bugs
- Fix crash of fast Tab closing on all platforms
- Prevent whitespace inside code tags from being changed when prettifying
- replace case change "text icon" with actual sizable icon (Thank you BeckyEbook)
New Features:
- Add Load/Save capability for the Custom Empty Epub Layout Designer
- Large speedups in Reports using QtConcurrent
- Speedups in Spellcheck Dialog sorting
- Add File Name to Preview Window title
- Add Regular Expression File Renamer to BookBrowser context menu
- Mend on Open or Save only touch/repair non-wellformed files
- Re-enable Drag and Drop of Tabs
- Add menus/icons for "New ePub2" and "New ePub3" to ease creation of empty epubs (icons courtesy of BeckyEbook)
- Extend ePub2 Guide Semantics to include many of the "other.*" codes common to ePub3 as well
Sigil-0.9.991 (pre1.0 Alpha Release)
Bug Fixes:
- handle javascript location.href style in Preview
- use CaseInsensitive sort in Plugins menu (Thank you BeckyDTP)
- use Locale aware sort routines for AddMetadata, and MetaData Names (Thankyou Doitsu)
- recognize x-font-otf style media types
- recognize vnd.adobe.page-template+xml media type
- recognize webp images media type
- improve updating of smil xml files when moved
- preserve whitespace inside the code element when prettifying
- try again to prevent timer events during MainWindow close that causes random crashes on exit on macOS
- fix svg cover images to use 100vh and 100vx in Preview
New Features:
- completely reworked most of Sigil's internals to now load all Epubs in their "as-is" state
and fully allow editing and plugins to work
- added Tools menu item to standardize an epub to Sigil norm.
- added Tools menu item to allow user to design a custom empty epub and make it default
- added font tooltips that describe each font by mousing over in BookBrowser (with improvements by BeckyDTP)
Sigil-0.9.18
Bug Fixes:
- fix bug in macOS that caused spurious warnings about missing file in the manifest
- hopefully fix macOS bug about launching files using open-with from Desktop
- make sure JQuery gets loaded before starting to use Preview javascript functions
- fix local links during split that incorrectly used target filename for internal link
- create GetEnvironmentVar to make access to environment variables more cross-platform
- fix macOS bug when hitting close on the title bar of MainWindow causing strange window behaviour
- hopefully fix macOS segfault on close by disabling Preview timer immediately
- fix Windows 7 issues when running batch (.bat) files via OpenExternally (open with)
- all error messages are now properly logged
- fix improperly disabled open-with menu in Image Tabs popup context menu
- removed use of Qt obsolete methods in About and Error Dialogs
New Features:
- enable use of SIGIL_DEBUG_LOGFILE environment var to control saving debug output to a file
- properly update the ncx after merging xhtml files
- properly warn users if a multiple rendition epub (multiple OPF files) has been loaded
- make Sigil's external XHtml editor work to pass an OPF file (see PageEdit new features)
- Allow epub3 metadata editor to edit primary meta tags
- Replace buggy cssutils module used in plugins with our own drop-in replacement fork: css-parser
- Updated Mac, Windows, and Linux build documentation
Sigil-0.9.17
Bug Fixes:
- fix missing python3 network certifications on macOS
- do not apply named entities in Preserve Entities to epub3 epubs
- fix build docs for macOS
- prevent FlowTab destructor race crash when opening a new book (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- fix suggestions for built-in en_US dictionary by adding "x" to the TRY list
- fix plugins adding and deleting ncx under epub3
- throw exception in plugins when epub2 tries to add or delete the ncx
- fix bad Warning message about missing nav.xhtml file that was not missing
- fix CodeView to Preview sync breakage due to minimize/restore
- fix CodeView to Preview sync breakage due to attempting to load the Preview before it
finished loading the last update
- fix sigil_bs4 to work with latest python lxml 4.4.X in a backwards compatible manner
- fix missing Preview to CodeView sync on Qt versions 5.9.X
- fix segfault on app close related to the PreviewWindow update timer firing at a bad time
- fix syncing loss caused by spurous load finished signals causing ExecuteCaretUpdate to stop working
- fix macOS specific bug that allowed multiple Dockwidget MainWindows to become tabs
New Features
- add a python3 plugin module navprocessor.py for plugin devs
- show Preview by default (tabified with TOC) for new installations of Sigil
Sigil-0.9.16
Bug Fixes:
- add missing title tag to nav head to make epubcheck happy
- add dcterms:modified to empty epub 3 opf to keep epubcheck happy
- fix lost Preview-CodeView sync when internal links are followed in Preview
- fix macOS specific bug with newer versions of PIL (Pillow) used by plugins
- no longer link against unused Qt frameworks when building (thank you eli-schwartz!)
- prevent ms vc++ automatic reboots during Windows installs
- prevent user from changing semantics of the nav file itself (it must be set to "toc")
- fix bug that dropped nav from spine when HTML TOC created
New Features
- added epub3 tool: Generate NCX/Guide for epub2 e-readers
- added epub3 tool: Remove NCX and Guide
- added right click on link in Preview copies url to clipboard
- added check mark indicator for current semantic set in AddSemantics dialog
- opf guide is no longer used/updated in epub3, unless new epub3 tool menu is used
- harden Sigil against maliciously crafted epub zip archives (aka zip-slip attacks)
- added bk.getnavid() to the plugin framework and navprocessor.py for plugin devs
- updated build documents to the latest Qt 5.12.3 and Python 3.7.2
Sigil-0.9.15 - A Beta Release of Sigil ported to QtWebEngine to replace QtWebKit
New Features
- ported to use QtWebEngine (based on Chromium) to replace QtWebkit
- QtWebEngine plugs many major memory leaks. Memory footprint should stay low to moderate.
- QtWebEngine has ongoing security and support patches from Qt/Google/Chromium
- removes the broken/deprecated BookView Editor that relied on QtWebKit
- created PageEdit app (that uses QtWebEngine) that replaces much BookView functionality
(see https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/PageEdit)
- allows the user to control use of javascript and remote access by epubs when editing
to improve overall security
- adds action to launch one preferred external xhtml editor via shortcut or icon
(can be used to fast launch PageEdit app or any other xhtml open-with editor)
- adds 5 more plugin quicklaunch buttons to main menu for a total of 10
(with all new icons! Thanks so much BeckyEbook!)
It also includes all of the fixes and updates from Sigil-0.9.14.
Sigil-0.9.14
Bug Fixes
- flush all changes to disk before creating a Report so that files sizes are correct
- stop writing python bytecode to Program Files on Windows
- remember cover semantics if cover image replaced by Add Existing...
- fix issues with the Plugin Framework documentation epub
- more memory leaks plugged
- minor code cleanups
New Features
- updated to Qt 5.12.3 with Annulen Webkit 5.212 with extra QtCursor memory leak fixes
- updated to Python 3.7.2
- updated build docs for macOS, Linux and Windows
- build system now uses GNUInstallDirs to determine the best installation libdir on Linux
- updated desktop integration for Linux
- reduce PCRE cache size to help lower memory footprint
- improve mapping of hunspell dictionary names to actual language names (thanks BeckyDTP)
- add warning during import if unmanifested files exist in the epub zip archive
- no longer requires use of non-breaking space entities (or any entities at all!)
- special spaces are now visisble via syntax highlighting in CodeView
- dropping epubs on Sigil.app no longer opens an extra empty epub on macOS
- reload Preview only when needed to help prevent screen flicker and lower memory use
- enabled Windows automated builds using Apppveyor
- characters in HTML files report now uses gumbo for speed
- allow user's custom plugin icons to survive a plugin update
Sigil-0.9.13
Bug Fixes
- Revert change of INI encoding to utf-8 as QSettings very broken under utf-8 (commit 5484463)
- Ensure all url attributes in shape-outside properties in CSS stylesheets get updated (commit de7b09f)
- Workaround for lost cursor in qlineedit Qt bug (issue #398) (commit a8acab7)
- Workaround missing File New, Open, Quit menus in Mac menubar if windows closed (commit 660a8aa)
- Remove Icon from Tab for macOS only to workaround Qt bug (commit 5c91924)
- Plug some memory leaks (commits: 85f78d7, cb9b833, 614d601, bf2f2f4, ebfb613, 4qa8f33)
- Backport Qt 5.12alpha fix to prevent heap corruption due to qwidget next focus pointers (commit f5c7284)
- Plug macOS memory leaks when closing a main window (commit fbf9015)
- Put back quote in tag name bug fix lost in recent changes (commit ebd8c7c)
- Disable Netscape Plugins being used in BookView and Preview Window (commit 79314ea)
- Use custom version of qtwebkit with Qt 5.5 memory leak fix added back and no load plugins if disabled