KOReader 2024.07 "Outside"

[KOReader]

Bookmarks have been renamed to annotations to reflect that notes and bookmarks are two sides of the same coin.

A big thanks to @ezdiy and @benoit-pierre for taking on the major effort of updating MuPDF (#11940). Unfortunately or hopefully you won't notice a thing, but some edge cases in PDF rendering have been fixed.

Likewise our gratitude to @Commodore64user for the many non-touch/keyboard focused improvements.

If you used the built-in update to try out a development version in the last week of June you might need to overwrite the install manually, see #12115.

This month's logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

• SortWidget: sort alphabetically (#11705) @hius07
• bump base, docker images, and luajit-launcher: mainly compilation speedups (#11736) @benoit-pierre
• ci: fix macOS build (#11660) @benoit-pierre
• Multiple collections (#11693) @hius07
• Annotations (#11563, #11761, #11788) @hius07
• Various minor tweaks and fixes (ToC, Search, HttpInspector) (#11746) @poire-z
• [Gestures.plugin] Rotation gesture renamed (#11753) @Commodore64user
• [CoverImage] Honor rotation after opening of a book (#11752) @zwim
• Add Czech keyboard layout (#11769) @sdasda7777
• tests: fix EPUB test, again (#11776) @benoit-pierre
• Initial support for new Kobo (Clara B/W + Colour, Libra Colour) (#11737) @c0eos
• chore: remove repetitive words (#11785) @peicuiping
• fix frontend tests (#11784) @benoit-pierre
• Kindle: Fix missing Amazon UI screensaver after exiting KOreader (#11794) @shamanNS
• Gesture: Add toggle for orientation lock (#11795) @thialfi17
• [ReaderHighlight] Remove duplicated setting on NT devices (#11750) @Commodore64user
• relocatable build / install dir (#11798) @benoit-pierre
• NT: add Hot swapping dictionaries button and edit button into FocusManager's layout (#11803) @comphilip
• Register Calibre start/stop connection actions (#11806) @noxhirsch
• Check if /usr/bin symlink is present to fix instance reuse issue on older Pocketbooks (#11764) @sdasda7777
• generic linux package (#9351) @pazos
• Kindle Scribe: Fix KindleUI L and R orientations when restarting KOReader book in landscape (#11780) @mergen3107
• appimage: keep metadata in sync with flathub (#11819) @pazos
• Support auto-detection of input devices via fbink_input (#11807) @NiLuJe
• fix #11810: only set FocusManager layout if hasDPod (#11811) @comphilip
• Kindle: Don't forget about fiveways on legacy devices & fix a couple input-scan misdetections (#11827) @NiLuJe
• FileManager: safe initial path (#11774) @hius07
• Replace tweak_buttons_func with an event instead (#11777) @nairyosangha
• Page overlap: add dashed line marker (#11804) @hius07
• Annotations: Bookmark list improvement (#11825) @hius07
• MultiInputDialog: fix keyboard height changed (#11832) @hius07
• better flatpak support (#11833, #11849) @pazos
• PocketBook: Open links in the on-device web browser (#11787) @liskin
• Shorten home folder path for info messages (#11853) @noxhirsch
• debian: update metadata (#11854) @pazos
• appstream: update metadata, add branding colors... (#11851) @pazos
• Input: Some more followups to the input device auto-detection stuff (#11855) @NiLuJe
• NetworkListener: Fix FM integration & properly gate behind hasWifiToggle (#11858) @yparitcher
• Non-touch DPad improvements, largely kindle. (#11749) @Commodore64user
• Screenshots on Non-Touch (#11802) @Commodore64user
• bump crengine: minor fixes (ruby, a crash, non-linear flows) (#11863) @poire-z
• [Status bar] Major UI makeover (#11678) @Commodore64user
• Quickstart guide: set dir="rtl" when we're in an RTL language (#11867) @Frenzie
• Global long press on K4, 'ScreenKB' + 'Press' (#11872) @Commodore64user
• FocusManager: enable more keyboard shortcuts by default (#11871) @Frenzie
• Footer and header tweaks and fixes (#11873) @poire-z
• Kobo: Boost saturation for CFA refreshes (and add a dev setting to disable it) (#11883) @NiLuJe
• Global long press on K4, 'ScreenKB' + 'Press' (this time for real) (#11884) @Commodore64user
• VirtualKeyboard: delete word on backspace swipe west (#11843) @hius07
• Enable Alt+Shift+G for screenshots on all devices with a keyboard (#11888) @Frenzie
• Add ReaderLink::registerScheme for plugins handling non-http(s) links (#11889) @ziz57
• Collections: add collection mark to books (#11868) @hius07
• FileManager copy/move: do not paste to itself (#11878) @hius07
• remove very long press from NT settings (#11898) @Commodore64user
• Introduce Device:useDPadAsActionKeys() (#11890, #11900) @Commodore64user @Frenzie
• Status bar: fix book progress (#11885) @hius07
• ReaderLink: change (hasScreenKB or hasSymKey) add to notification stack shortcut to Press instead of Down (#11905) @Frenzie
• CoverBrowser: update MosaicMenu FocusManager grid view to 2D (#11906) @Commodore64user
• [ReaderBookmark] "bookmark current page" removed from NT kindles (#11907) @Commodore64user
• Don't send empty string as note in readwise export (#11912) @ptrm
• BUGFIX: restore erroneously removed onShowVocabBuilder function (#11915) @nairyosangha
• bump base + new build system tweaks (#11923) @benoit-pierre
• macos: fix bundle (#11924) @benoit-pierre
• Menu button support for some widgets (#11933) @Commodore64user
• ReaderLink: make AddCurrentLocationToStack show notification (#11925) @Commodore64user
• FontList: skip Kindle blacklisted fonts (#11932) @hius07
• Keyboard menu, swipe setting removed from NT (#11944) @Commodore64user
• [plugin AutoWarmth] Add more gesture for activation of autowarmth (#11946) @zwim
• Annotation list: flexible item heights (#11918) @hius07
• Dispatcher: add File browser actions 'Set display mode', 'Sort By' (#11921) @hius07
• update leptonica, tesseract, and libk2pdfopt (#11930) @benoit-pierre
• Fix scheme detection for external links (#11942) @ziz57
• mupdf: update to 1.24.2 (#11940) @benoit-pierre
• [SortWidget, DictQuickLookup] Renaming functions (#11949) @Commodore64user
• Kobo: Check for RGBA vs BGRA the proper way (#11953) @NiLuJe
• MuPDF: add txt, cfb, docx, xslx, pptx filetypes (#11955) @Frenzie
• Chinese keyboard: accept kanji stroke order too (#11620) @weijiuqiao
• [minor] Remove whitespace from last line in zh_stroke_data (#11956) @Frenzie
• OPDS: Fix browsing a Calibre content server (#11972) @NiLuJe
• AltStatusBar: fix page info when not all 3 items enabled (#11965) @poire-z
• Gesture manager: make long-pressing on top left corner non adjustable in FM (#11971) @hius07
• CoverBrowser: fix collection mark position in mosaic mode (#11969) @hius07
• add menu-key-event to 'Menu widget' (#11966) @Commodore64user
• Individually Invert page turners on kindle (#11963) @Commodore64user
• fixing button mapping shenanigans (#11982) @Commodore64user
• [plugin] AutoDim: reset counter on page turn (#11984) @Frenzie
• BookMap on devices with useDPadAsActionKeys() (#11916) @Commodore64user
• calibre sax json parser (#11922) @pazos
• File searcher: group operations (#11980) @hius07
• [ReaderThumbnail] Change base class to support key events (#11987) @Commodore64user
• AltStatusBarFix: battery percentage not shown (#11976) @zwim
• Calibre Metadata: Some fixes following up #11922 (#11988) @NiLuJe
• Cloud error fix (#12000) @mergen3107
• [AltStatusBar] Fix when showing (almost) empty (#12003) @zwim
• Collections: refresh list of files in FileManager (#11994) @hius07
• Statistics Plugin: Skip adding never opened marked as finished books (#11991) @mergen3107
• Screensaver: fix menu wordings (#11993) @hius07
• Add support for kindles after fw 5.16.3 (#11986) @notmarek
• ci/macos: add arm64 job (#11945) @benoit-pierre
• Translate Tesseract language names (#11977) @Frenzie
• Readerlink: allow registering empty scheme (#12019) @ziz57
• Styletweaks menu: Ignore ._ files (#12022) @jonnyl2
• doc: update building documentation (#11961) @benoit-pierre
• ScreenSaver: Fix a bunch of weird corner-cases (#12028) @NiLuJe
• InputContainer: consistent input type in onInput() (#12012) @hius07
• improve linting (#12023) @benoit-pierre
• [ReaderHighlight] Bug fix (#12033) @Commodore64user
• VocabBuilder: Fix and improve non-touch device experience (#12030) @weijiuqiao
• bump crengine: update Russian and Serbian hyphenation (#12036) @poire-z
• Footer: add book authors item (#11999) @mergen3107
• Annotation list: sort by date (#12020) @hius07
• Update bug_report.md with new location of verbose logging toggle. (#12042) @mergen3107
• [time] Fix typos in documentation (#12044) @zwim
• [ConfirmBox] remove margin around (#12039) @zwim
• Kobo: Overengineer the manual CLOEXEC logic in the Wi-Fi scripts (#12045) @NiLuJe
• ReaderBookmark: fix sort by date (#12053, #12112) @hius07
• WebDav: Simplify path manipulations to fix wonky heuristics (#12038) @mergen3107
• Fix Arabic keyboard layout (ظ key) (#12063) @jonnyl2
• [Menu Widget] shortcuts for easier navigation on NT kindle (#12065) @Commodore64user
• Translator: fix settings menu order (#12051) @hius07
• Screenshot dialog fix (#12067) @jonnyl2
• SkimTo dialog: compact mode (#12046) @hius07
• Version: Fix documentation of version number (#12074) @ziz57
• [Filechooser] 0% > 'on hold' (#12037) @Commodore64user
• Bump android-luajit-launcher: various new devices and other improvements (#12084) @hugleo
• Kindle: Add wifi selector (#12056) @notmarek
• add DevicetaModel() (#12014) @pazos
• Filemanager: fix OpenWith without config (#12095) @hius07
• doc: add Arch Linux building instructions (#12090) @kotnik
• ConfigDialog: fix "toggle with more options" (#12093) @hius07
• ConfigDialog: fix "toggle with more options" 2 (#12104) @hius07
• Export: solved my_clippings OOM (#12107) @Mochitto
• [Highlight Export Plugin] Include book author name in myclippings export format for better book identification (#12106) @arpanghosh8453
• [InputText, DictQuickLookup] Shortcuts for NT kindle (#12078) @Commodore64user
• android: import files if path cannot be guessed (#12121) @pazos
• Fix for OTA updates w/ zsync (#12120) @pazos
• CRE call cache: don't reset on setPageInfoOverride (#12123) @poire-z
• Reader: always exit to book folder (#12129) @hius07
• exporter: fix OOM (#12126) @pazos
• Dispatcher: prettify action list (#12133) @hius07
• ReaderView: speedup highlights drawing (#12134) @hius07
• bump android-luajit-launcher (#12147) @pazos
• Footnote popup: fix XHTML handling (#12158) @poire-z

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Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS

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[BookMan]

Updated KOReader via Wi-Fi on PocketBook InkPad 4. The update went smoothly.