Hi,
after more than 6 months work on this new Kiwix version, I'm proud to
announce the first alpha of the 0.9 branch.
The most important improvement is that this version re-introduces the
MS Windows support which was avoided for in the 0.8 branch.
You have here the full changelog:
* ZIM library management outside the profile
* Windows support & installer
* First version of the search suggest feature (ID: 2799913)
* New icon (with white background) (ID: 2981323)
* New ZIM HTTP server called "kiwix-serve" (GNU/Linux only)
* New Command line indexation tool called "kiwix-index" (GNU/Linux only)
* Allow drag&drop over the UI to open a ZIM file
* Auto detection of the UI locale at the first start (GNU/Linux only)
* New "Recently open" menu
* New internal library of ZIM (to be able to manage many ZIM files)
* New Hebrew, Portuguese, Chinese and Persian localization
* New Bookmarks and Notes system (coming from Moulinwiki)
* New script to compact search engine indexes in the profile called
"kiwix-compact.sh" (ID: 2834599)
* Translate ISO code in the language sub-menu (ID: 2834600)
* New "Save Page" (in files) feature (ID: 175508)
* New "Print as PDF" feature
* kiwix.sh check for current path (ID: 2850487)
* First result is now only loaded with a pretty good score (ID: 2845850)
* "Report a bug" and "request a feature" links in the UI
* Fixing issue affecting ZIM file loading with accented paths (ID: 2905488)
* New feature to clean the profile at the end of the session (optional)
* Redesign of the "About" dialog box
This version uses the last SVN trunk version of openZIM with all their
improvements. All of them except the meta-datas are used, but next release
will also use the meta-data and introduce stemming and stopwords. Combining
with the upcoming new Xapian backend called chert, Kiwix should really
have smaller search engine indexes.
The links:
* Windows portable binary + installer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.9-alpha1-win.zip/downlo…
* Sources for GNU/Linux and Windows:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.9-alpha1-src.bz2/downlo…
* Windows portable binary + installer + WP1EN 0.7 + index:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/tmp/kiwix-0.9-alpha1-win+wp1en0.7.zip
Cheers
Emmanuel