sTori v0.1.5

Highlights

• Reliable reader bookmarks across Windows and Safari Reading Room sessions
• Bookmark navigation and deletion directly inside the reader
• More resilient Project Gutenberg search with retry and progressive loading
• Stronger EPUB validation and safer rendering

Bookmarks

• Added stable EPUB CFI and PDF page bookmark locations
• Bookmarks persist across app restarts
• Added a compact in-reader bookmark panel
• Added duplicate prevention and legacy API compatibility
• Improved synchronization between desktop and Safari-based Reading Room clients

Project Gutenberg

• Added bounded retries and clearer provider errors
• Added progressive pagination through Load more
• Preserves earlier results when later pages fail
• Suppresses duplicate editions
• Validates downloaded EPUBs before they enter the managed library

EPUB Safety

• Rejects malformed, unsafe, encrypted, or structurally invalid EPUB archives
• Blocks traversal paths, archive ambiguity, and excessive decompression
• Adds explicit archive and parser resource limits
• Disables scripted EPUB content
• Removes scripts, frames, event handlers, javascript: links, and remote resources at render time
• Cleans temporary files after failed imports

Interface and Reliability

• Improved bookmark panel layout and accessibility
• Restyled Gutenberg loading controls
• Improved service-worker update behavior
• Improved backend error logging without exposing sensitive details
• Resolved npm dependency advisories; npm audit reports zero known vulnerabilities

Compatibility

• Windows remains the supported desktop platform
• Existing libraries are preserved and are not destructively revalidated
• Valid EPUB2 and EPUB3 books remain supported
• Safari-based iPhone Reading Room access works for bookmark synchronization

Known Issue

• Bookmarking from an installed iPhone PWA is not currently reliable.
• Opening the Reading Room directly in Safari is the supported iPhone workaround for v0.1.5.