Hi

Yesterday, in our MWoffliner 1.8.0 release announcement email, I have written about the first libzim official binding of the openZIM project: node-libzim. What I don't have written is that this has been made possible by the previous release of libzim 4.0.5 a few days ago.

We release usually new versions of the libzim time to time. Releases which - most of the time - contain minor changes (at least from the user perspective) and mostly used within our openZIM & Kiwix projects. Therefore, we don't make a lot of publicity about them. But, this maintenance release is a bit different.

For the first time, we have released binaries and headers for GNU/Linux x86 64 bits. You can find them here: https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim/. It is now easy to build a binding without any hard compilation work, that's what we have done for node-libzim.

This is only a first step, we need to go further to offer better opportunities to developers of scrapers. We want in particular to: * Provide libzim binaries for MacOS (and why not for Windows) * Provide a libzim binding in Python (we have a lot of scrapers in Python).

Volunteers are really welcome to help make this possible. This would be extremely helpful to provide more & better scrapers.

Regards Emmanuel