* FIX: Video seeking in ServiceWorker mode was not always working in some browser extensions * FEATURE: The Enter key is now handled in Bootstrap dialogue boxes, triggering the default action * FIX: Kiwix icon now has an outline so that it is visible against dark OS backgrounds * UPDATE: Nightly packages on the download server now include the date in their filenames * UPDATE: Detection of active content updated for compatibility with more no-namespace ZIM archives * COMPATIBILITY: Minimum Firefox version has been raised to >=52, due to lack of full Extension APIs in earlier versions * NEW: A warning (with suggestions) is provided if user opens an incompatible Zimit (warc2zim) archive type * FEATURE: On first run after update, the user is informed of the ServiceWorker Mode upgrade status (upgraded or incompatible) * FEATURE: ServiceWorker Mode is now the default, and compatible clients upgrade automatically to this mode * FIX: Tweaks to Wikimedia dark theme for greater compatibility with LaTeX images * CLEANUP: Many deprecated JQuery statements have been converted to native DOM equivalents, speeding up code * UPDATE: Release packages that do not need to be signed are now automatically uploaded to the release server * UPDATE: Provide a Workflow dispatch option to set the build version number * UPDATE: Changed some hard-coded values in build script to dynamic * UPDATE: Renamed the GitHub Repository 'master' branch to 'main' * UPDATE: Documentation updated to reflect the full-text searching capability * NEW: Added code to initialize the new javascript-libzim W/ASM if needed * NEW: A new ZIM metadata property added in backend to show whether the loaded archive has an ft index * NEW: The API panel in Configuration now informs you if full-text searching is available for your ZIM and platform * FEATURE: Full-text search is now available in modern Firefox and Chromium if your ZIM archive has an ft index If your Internet access is expensive/rare/slow/unreliable/watched/censored, you still can browse this amazing amount of knowledge and culture. It can also work with other works packed in the ZIM file format (see for more details), but has been only tested on the Wikipedia ones. All the content of Wikipedia is inside your device (including the images). You can search among the article titles, and read any of them without any Internet access. You need to download an archive (ZIM file) from, store it in on your device, and manually select it after starting the extension. * UPDATE: Q Promise library updated to v1.5.Kiwix : offline Wikipedia reader Kiwix is an offline Wikipedia (an many other offlined Web sites) viewer. * NEW: Native asset caching in Service Worker mode - considerably speeds up article load times in some contexts * NEW: Optional transition between app pages * NEW: Selectable dark mode for app UI and for articles (does not work on IE11) * BUGFIX: Major blocking bug causing high memory usage and slow load times when reading MIME type table of recent ZIM archives * UPDATE: Use SameSite=Strict for any residual cookie usage to conform to new security standards * UPDATE: Use const to declare constants, enabling better app memory management * UPDATE: Better handling of case in title search, returning more accurate search results * NEW: User can change depth of title search from Configuration * NEW: Display title search results progressively instead of waiting for search to complete before displaying them * NEW: Intelligently select the best Storage API for storing settings between sessions (cookie or localStorage) * UPDATE: Make Privacy Policy publicly accessible * NEW: Add support for reading ZIM archives compressed with the zstandard compression algorithm * BUGFIX: Active content warning was erroneously showing on some ZSTD WikiMedia landing pages in jQuery mode * BUGFIX: Running binary searches are now cancelled completely if user enters new search term or navigates away * UPDATE: Images are now extracted sequentially in jQuery mode from the top of the DOM * NEW: Archives with WebP-encoded images are now decoded in legacy browsers via a polyfill * NEW: Low-level block cache significantly improves binary search speed, and can speed up resource loading in most browsers It might also works with other content in the OpenZIM format:, but has been only tested on the wikipedia ones. You can search among the article titles, and read any of them without any Internet access.Īll the content of wikipedia is inside your device (including the images). Kiwix : offline Wikipedia readerKiwix is an offline wikipedia viewer.
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