v2024.11: KOReader 2024.11 "Slang"

[KOReader]

Some of you on Android may have had dictionary issues. That should be fixed now.

Connecting to Wi-Fi should be more reliable on platforms where we manage it ourselves, most notably Kobo (koreader/lj-wpaclient#11).

Color is now supported when reflowing (#12085).

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:

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  Certain network features will now work in Flatpak (flathub/rocks.koreader.KOReader#52) @kii-chan-reloaded
  
  
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  'Use left and right keys for page turning' option added (#12174) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  Text editor: enhancement (#12176) @hius07
  (1) Speed up adding/deleting chars (by avoiding a call of expensive splitToChars), noticeable on big files.
  (2) Indicate select mode: wider cursor.
  
  
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  Annotations: more fixes (#12181) @hius07
  (1) Allows annotations with equal datetime fields.
  (2) Allows page bookmarks with equal page numbers.
  
  
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  kopt: color support (#12085) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  bump base (updated build system) & fix macOS CI (#12187) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  AltStatusBar/Footer: add the read timer value (#12002) @zwim
  
  
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  bump translations (#12193) @pazos
  
  
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  CRE call cache: don't wrap setViewMode (#12194) @poire-z
  
  
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  bump crengine: various fixes and optimizations (#12200) @poire-z
  
  
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  Add author option for alt status bar (koreader/crengine#575) (#12197) @trash-pandy
  
  
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  Page turns: invert vertical tap zones (#12195) @hius07
  
  
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  Annotations: pageno honors reference pages and hidden flows (#12214) @hius07
  
  
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  ToggleSwitch: fix long-press (#12215) @hius07
  
  
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  SDL: Return true in NetworkMgr:isConnected on !hasWifiToggle platforms (#12217) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Kobo: Refactor various aspects of the Kaleido/MTK support (#12221) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  ReaderAnnotation: fix doesMatch func (#12231) @hius07
  
  
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  bump base (#12241) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  NetworkMgr: Attempt to handle wpa_supplicant rescans better (#12236) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  miscellaneous build system changes (#12242) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  make: handle old build data directory (#12259) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  ReaderFooter: improve (#12243) @hius07
  
  
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  Annotations: fix exporting (#12261) @hius07
  
  
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  make: install missing cr3.css… (#12262) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  [fix] NetworkMgr: apply HTTP proxy setting on startup (#12260) @Frenzie
  
  
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  Kobo: Track frontlight state more accurately on suspend/resume (#12256) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Make W-Fi scan more reliable (#12265, koreader/lj-wpaclient#11) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  ReaderAnnotation: fix doesMatch func 2 (#12270) @hius07
  
  
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  make: fix android update sdcv (#12275) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  [plugin] Reader footer: check if header resp. footer are available (#12264) @zwim
  
  
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  ReadHistory: On remove, trust the index from FileManagerHistory if possible (#12253) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  ReaderUI: add seamless argument to switchDocument (#12290) @ziz57
  
  
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  Fix early unhighlight after Add to vocab builder (#12288) @poire-z
  
  
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  [CoverBrowser.MosaicMenu] Increase the thickness of the mosaic’s focus underline (#12189) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  doc: update building documentation (#12295) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  NetworkMgr: fix debug trace (#12297) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Panel zoom: Properly handle renderPage() not rendering the whole page (#12296) @fbriere
  
  
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  PowerD: Keep track of frontlight state change by interactive callers for suspend/resume purposes (#12283) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  InputDialog and MultiInputDialog: improve enter and edit callback handling, and implement addWidget (#12289) @ziz57
  
  
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  ReaderSearch: "All text" improve (#12287) @hius07
  
  
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  Show/Hide Virtual keyboard and more keyboard shortcuts (#12162) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  bump base; mostly thirdparty bumps (#12311) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Document: Do not cache panel-zoom tiles to disk and fix their caching and rendering (#12303) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Disable the legacy ReaderRotation module (#12309) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  bump luajit (#12317) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  [AutoWarmth] Delay front light actions after resume (#12315) @zwim
  
  
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  Allow numbers in measure text: fixes a crash in table of contents when debugging on (#12310) @zwim
  
  
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  ReaderFooter: Add page-turn item (#12249) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  luajit launcher: out of tree build + don't rebuild luajit (#12285) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  BookInfo: rating, review (#12313) @hius07
  
  
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  fix missing android APK asset (#12333) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  ImageWidget: Don't attempt to pan if we haven't rendered the bb yet (#12331) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  OTM: Unbreak #11999 (#12337) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Kobo: Refactor suspend in order to be able to catch input events sent during the 2s window of ntx madness (#12330) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  [Menu] Remove title bar buttons from layout on hasSymKey or hasScreenKB (#12328) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  [doc] Build: update Android instructions to openjdk-17-jdk (#12345) @Frenzie
  
  
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  Support 'Ctrl' shortcuts on hasKeyboard (#12347) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  Annotations: fix page numbers (#12324) @hius07
  
  
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  Bug Fix: DPad conflict on Kindle Keyboard (#12341) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  Nit: Make some cache keys prettier (#12354) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Dispatcher: minor wording fixes (#12356) @hius07
  
  
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  kodev rework (#12338) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  czmq & libzmq: update to 4.2.1 & 4.3.5 respectively (#12350) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  [TextViewer] Add hamburger menu to FocusManager and Menu key (#12365) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  ci: fix test / coverage (#12367) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  A couple of tiny fixes (#12359) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  android: tweak update rule (#12370) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  doc: update Android build instructions (#12368) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Display menu preview of italic-only fonts (#12351) @charrarr
  
  
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  ReaderStatus, Book status widget: cleanup (#12343) @hius07
  
  
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  ci/macos: fix homebrew packages install (#12382) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Fix terminal broken cursor and backspace (#12375) @zwim
  
  
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  Screensaver: add option to rotate to fit screen (#12366) @charrarr
  
  
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  Minor keyboard corrections (#12372) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  Touch menu: always go up to correct parent page (#12378) @hius07
  
  
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  Collections: fix context menu (#12383) @hius07
  
  
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  PDF: no "Contrast set to" notification on opening (#12391) @hius07
  
  
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  Closing Bookmark details dialog with X should also refresh list entry (#12390) @fbriere
  
  
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  Add numerical key_codes to event_map on kindle 3 (#12358) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  FocusManager: Fix focus_flags check in moveFocusTo, and deal with the fallout (#12361) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Various notification, text editor and footnote popup minor fixes (#12406) @poire-z
  
  
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  Bug: Account for local reading order direction adjustments. (#12388) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  android: add custom adb logcat formatter (#12385) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  kodev: improve kodev prompt (#12408) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  kodev: fix ./kodev run android… (#12407) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Readerfont: Current font on top in menu; New fonts from current session on top in font test doc (#12410) @jonnyl2
  
  
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  Fix a couple of potentially spurious footer refreshes (#12422) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  FileManager: Handle the FlushSettings event (#12425) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  PageBrowser: fix drawing of thicker thumbnail frame on tap (#12432) @poire-z
  
  
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  FileManagerSetDefaults: Handle strings that we default to nil (#12433) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Input: Ignore ABS_X, ABS_Y & ABS_PRESSURE for snow_protocol (#12427) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Add color highlight menu (#11044) @smasher816
  
  
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  Exporter: choose highlight styles to be exported (#12431) @hius07
  
  
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  ReaderView: Don't crash on pre-#11044 highlights without a color field (#12438) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Terminal fixes (#12369) @ziz57
  
  
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  Dispatcher/DeviceListener: Temporarily turn on Accelerometer/GSensor for 5 sec (#12419) @jonnyl2
  
  
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  fix bug preventing export to joplin; (#12446) @bitterlox
  
  
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  bump base: blitbuffer, android build, crengine (#12451) @poire-z
  
  
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  InputText: Unbreak onTapTextBox on an already in-focus field (#12449) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Update el_popup.lua (#12463) @ichnilatis-gr
  
  
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  [Dispatcher] add [missing] conditions to dispatcher items (#12453) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  ReaderView: Fix a couple of edge-cases in onReaderFooterVisibilityChange (#12466) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  misc: Move cleanupSelectedText to util (#12477) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  ReaderHighlight: Fix an old typo in the OCR help string (#12479) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Highlights popup dialog: add "Color" and "Details" buttons (#12461) @hius07
  
  
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  ButtonDialogTitle: remove (#12394) @hius07
  
  
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  [Dispatcher] new events for selecting links (#12474) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  Doc: Update quickstartguide on kindle non touch (#12426) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  [NT] Call GotoViewRel for page up/down on useDPadAsActionKeys devices (#12495) @cccslater
  
  
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  bump base (#12503) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Defaults: Deprecate DKOPTREADER_CONFIG_DOC_LANGS_TEXT (#12504) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  ReaderAnnotation: skip old highlights with invalid xpointers (#12494) @hius07
  
  
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  Cloud Sync: handles potentially incompatible backup and incoming dbs (#12470) @weijiuqiao
  
  
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  VocabBuilder.koplugin: Better handling word context (#12469) @weijiuqiao
  
  
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  Write highlights into PDF: revisited (#12509) @hius07
  
  
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  SyncService: Only require online connectivity when using Dropbox (#12520) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Chore: Don't cache static data tables (ui/elements, ui/data, kb layouts & co) (#12519) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Fix page gap inconsistencies between doc open & config change (#12507) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Kindle: Restore hall effect sensor state on startup (#12521) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  VocabBuilder.koplugin: save dict headword as entry (#12530) @weijiuqiao
  
  
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  Add PocketBook Verse Pro Color (PB634K3) (#12476) @ElimGarak1
  
  
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  Onyx Boox Go 10.3 support (#12533) @hugleo
  
  
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  Statistics: fix null terminated strings, add toggle stats (#12547) @hius07
  
  
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  input: drop use of ffi/input (#12486) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  ci/circle: fix tests parallelism (#12551) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  input: fix kobo init (#12553) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  [ReaderFooter] update status bar in real time when inverting page turning (#12424) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  input: fix pocketbook init (#12555) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  use new ffi.loadlib helper (#12545) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  input: fix loading of fbink_input library (#12560) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Fix typos in quickstart (#12566) @cheywood
  
  
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  File search: improve (#12549) @hius07
  
  
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  [DictQuickLookup] shortcuts for editing searches (#12539) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  Profiles: auto-execute on events (#12564) @hius07
  
  
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  Exporter: export to book folder, register to Dispatcher (#12569) @hius07
  
  
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  sdl: use our compiled version for the AppImage (#12575) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Add kobov4 & kobov5 targets (#12568) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  android: switch to monolibtic mode (#12576) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  android: fix apkanalyzer location (#12563) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Disabled rotation map for Android devices where "hw media keys follow gravity" (#12557) @jkl16
  
  
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  Quickstart guide kindle illustrations (#12577) @Commodore64user
  
  
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  [plugin] Exporter: fix typo (#12592) @Frenzie
  
  
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  Dispatcher: values' range consistent with bottom menu (#12580) @hius07
  
  
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  metadata translations for fdroid/flathub (#12581) @pazos
  
  
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  ProgressWidget: fix misalignment (#12526) @wbstx
  
  
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  Add wifi support to Cervantes Touch Light devices (#12148) @jsanpe
  
  
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  ReaderTypeset: fix margins info (#12609) @hius07
  
  
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  DocSettingsTweak: apply to books with status (#12606) @hius07
  
  
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  Menu widget: rotation handler (#12573) @hius07
  
  
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  Profiles: add "on rotation" auto-execute event (#12612) @hius07
  
  
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  ReaderHighlight: adjustable "Edit highlight" dialog position (#12599) @hius07
  
  
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  KOSync/Kobo: Explicitly kill Wi-Fi on suspend (#12616) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Kobo: Minor simplification after #12616 (#12629) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  bump luajit-launcher (#12630) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Terminal: Minor cleanups (#12631) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Menu widget: draw focus on focused item (#12583) @hius07
  
  
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  Cloud storage: fix sorting non-English filenames (#12644) @hius07
  
  
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  Text editor: show current line number (#12632) @hius07
  
  
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  InputText: fix Terminal plugin input (#12652) @hius07
  
  
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  ReaderFont test: Error correction -- new fonts were not rendering in own font (#12646) @jonnyl2
  
  
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  ReaderHighlight: fix color for extended highlight in pdf (#12654) @hius07
  
  
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  Kindle Scribe: fix elseif for orientation code (#12663) @mergen3107
  
  
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  Menu: Fix fallout from #12583 on hasDPad devices (#12657) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Misc: Some more FocusManager fallout (#12667) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  plugin messages (#12636) @pazos
  
  
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  And deprecation to autofrontlight (#12619) @pazos
  
  
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  Add deprecation for unmaintained targets (#12620) @pazos
  
  
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  Profiles: more auto-exec triggers (#12651) @hius07
  
  
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  PatchManagement: prettify menu (#12668) @hius07
  
  
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  Fix KOReader spelling in the code (#12670) @mergen3107
  
  
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  Update Building.md - meson install from backports (#12680) @mergen3107
  
  
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  OTA: Make the final ConfirmBox undismissable (#12676) @NiLuJe
  
  
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  Text editor: rotate (#12658) @hius07
  
  
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  Profiles: more auto-exec triggers 2 (#12691) @hius07
  
  
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  Add authentication request and cookies management for news (#12496) @bateast
  
  
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  calibre: always use custom fast parser (#12714, #12715) @pazos
  
  
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  Add Nextcloud Notes to exporter plugin (#12301) @kotnik
  
  
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  [plugin] Wallabag: remove empty file when download fails (#12723) @fenuks
  
  
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  [plugin] Wallabag: separate option to delete ‘on hold’ articles (#12722) @fenuks
  
  
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  kopt: fix OCR segmentation mode (#12726) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  bump base (#12727) @benoit-pierre
  Most notably dropbear: update to 2024.85 (koreader/koreader-base#1964)
  
  
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  bump android-luajit-launcher (#12734) @pazos
  
  
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  ci/circle: manually cap build jobs (#12751) @benoit-pierre
  
  
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  Adjust Minimum Font Size in Terminal Emulator (#12752) @pphszx
  
  
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  ReaderHighlight: Highlight menu, change 'Delete' to Trash can icon (#12758) @jonnyl2
  
  
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  @trash-pandy made their first contribution in #12197
  
  
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  @fbriere made their first contribution in #12296
  
  
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  @charrarr made their first contribution in #12351
  
  
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  @smasher816 made their first contribution in #11044
  
  
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  @bitterlox made their first contribution in #12446
  
  
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  @cccslater made their first contribution in #12495
  
  
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  @cheywood made their first contribution in #12566
  
  
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  @jkl16 made their first contribution in #12557
  
  
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  @wbstx made their first contribution in #12526
  
  
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  @jsanpe made their first contribution in #12148
  
  
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  @fenuks made their first contribution in #12723
  
  
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  @pphszx made their first contribution in #12752
  

Full Changelog: v2024.07...v2024.11 — closed milestone issues

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