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From: Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson@kiwix.org>
Date: Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:59 AM
Subject: [Offline-l] [INFO] ZIM standard library 1.3 is out!
To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline <offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, "kiwix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" <kiwix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>, "kiwix-testing@lists.sourceforge.net" <kiwix-testing@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH <wikimediach-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi

After almost two years since the last release, the new libzim is out:
http://www.openzim.org/download/zimlib-1.3.tar.gz

This new release brings a few improvements and bugs fixes:
* FIXED: zimdump crash with long filenames
* FIXED: few portability issues
* NEW: method to get real file offset of article in ZIM
* NEW: smarter article cluster building (+5% compression)
* NEW: one pass writing process (instead of two)

These improvements allow easier:
* new bindings (like node-libzim)
* new features of the ZIM format, like integrating the fulltext search index
* creation of more ZIM files (speed-up ZIM creation)

This improvements have been done by a few developers mostly during our
Kiwix hackathon @Wikimania Esino. This has been made possible with the
support of:
* Fondation Orange
* Wikimedia CH
* Wikimedia Foundation
* Bibliothèque sans frontière

More information about the project openZIM and the ZIM format at:
http://www.openzim.org/

Regards
Emmanuel Engelhart

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