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Changes for v0.9.13 - v0.9.14

Bug Fixes
flush all changes to disk before creating a Report so that files sizes are correct
stop writing python bytecode to Program Files on Windows
remember cover semantics if cover image replaced by Add Existing...
fix issues with the Plugin Framework documentation epub
more memory leaks plugged
minor code cleanups
New Features
updated to Qt 5.12.3 with Annulen Webkit 5.212 with extra QtCursor memory leak fixes
updated to Python 3.7.2
updated build docs for macOS, Linux and Windows
build system now uses GNUInstallDirs to determine the best installation libdir on Linux
updated desktop integration for Linux
reduce PCRE cache size to help lower memory footprint
improve mapping of hunspell dictionary names to actual language names (thanks BeckyDTP)
add warning during import if unmanifested files exist in the epub zip archive
no longer requires use of non-breaking space entities (or any entities at all!)
special spaces are now visisble via syntax highlighting in CodeView
dropping epubs on Sigil.app no longer opens an extra empty epub on macOS
reload Preview only when needed to help prevent screen flicker and lower memory use
enabled Windows automated builds using Apppveyor
Windows releases now compiled with Visual Studio 2017
characters in HTML files report now uses gumbo for speed
allow user's custom plugin icons to survive a plugin update

Changes for v0.9.12 - v0.9.13

Bug Fixes
Revert change of INI encoding to utf-8 as QSettings very broken under utf-8 (commit 5484463)
Ensure all url attributes in shape-outside properties in CSS stylesheets get updated (commit de7b09f)
Workaround for lost cursor in qlineedit Qt bug (issue #398) (commit a8acab7)
Workaround missing File New, Open, Quit menus in Mac menubar if windows closed (commit 660a8aa)
Remove Icon from Tab for macOS only to workaround Qt bug (commit 5c91924)
Plug some memory leaks (commits: 85f78d7, cb9b833, 614d601, bf2f2f4, ebfb613, 4qa8f33)
Backport Qt 5.12alpha fix to prevent heap corruption due to qwidget next focus pointers (commit f5c7284)
Plug macOS memory leaks when closing a main window (commit fbf9015)
Put back quote in tag name bug fix lost in recent changes (commit ebd8c7c)
Disable Netscape Plugins being used in BookView and Preview Window (commit 79314ea)
Use custom version of qtwebkit with Qt 5.5 memory leak fix added back and no load plugins if disabled
(see commits 94a28d7, 9f7ebba, and 4b968a9)
New Features
Add filename to tab tooltip (commit 27f8db7)
Clear memory caches when Preview changes to keep memory footprint smaller (commit 87b9247)
Update to MathJax 2.75, adds support for mathml mlongdiv, mstack, mcarries (commit 568aba5)
Reduce memory footprint by letting worker threads expire (commit c1ee7ea)
Reduce memory footprint by properly setting web page caches (commit 9f07cbe)
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.13 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.

Changes for v0.9.11 - v0.9.12

Bug Fixes
fix typo in cssreformatter that caused errors with @ fontface (issue #394)
workaround for qt bug affecting tab close buttons on Mac (commit f3b9399)
fix Mac Qt5 plugin dylibs that macdeployqt broke in Sigil-0.9.11
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.12 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.

Changes for v0.9.10 - v0.9.11

This Sigil release is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users. Some of the highlights for this release include:
Starting with Sigil-0.9.11, Sigil's ini preference files will be utf-8 encoded to more easily allow users to manually edit them. NOTE: before upgrading to Sigil-0.9.11, please make and save a backup of your preferences files. There is no issue with the conversion moving forward, but if, for whatever reason, you need to roll back to an earlier version of Sigil, utf-8 encoded unicode characters in your ini files will not work with earlier versions of Sigil. So please be safe and make a backup just in case.
The Windows and Mac installers have been updated to use Qt5.11.2 and Python 3.7.
Restore ability to click in the Preview window to reposition to the same point in Code View while keeping the ability to follow links in Preview.
Allow users to maintain up to 5 external programs per file type with the Open With feature.
Sigil 0.9.11+ no longer supports Windows Vista.
Sigil 0.9.11+ no longer supports macOS 10.9 and macOS 10.10. macOS upgrades are available for free directly from Apple.
The specific changes/additions follow...
Bug Fixes
after mend and prettify - put cursor at enclosing tag if possible
allow both links in Preview and clicking in Preview to reposition CV
fix new cursor repositioning under new tab ala Spellcheck
fix prettyprinting of the mark tag in gumbo and sigil_bs4
fix crash when tagname illegally (for xhtml) includes single or double quotes
fix crash in Reports for non-wellformed xhtml that was okay under html5
fix deletion of multiple css files when Book View is open (Windows)
fix bug in reformat CSS with media queries
fix bug in closing some tabs needlessly when linking stylesheets
fix crash bug in gumbo parser under very strange circumstances
remove empty guide elements in epub2 opf as epubcheck now flags these
fix issue with index generation reordering spine entries under certain conditions
New Features
update official builds to use Qt 5.11.2 and Python 3.7
update internal Python modules to use latest versions
update Sigil's gumbo parser to fix all known bugs and greatly speedup parsing
embed new project css_parser (fork of cssutils) as a python library to fix css parsing
Sigil no longer attempts to upgrade the VC++ runtime on Windows. It only installs the
bundled VC++ runtime if there is no compatible version already installed
add support for internal but unmanifested opf metadata link resources under epub3
extend "Open With" context menu to allow up to 5 external editors per resource type
make format of all Sigil ini files to be utf-8 encoded to more easily allow user changes
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.11 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.11 like its predecessors passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video , mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.11 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.

Changes for v0.9.9 - v0.9.10

Bug Fixes
Fix signal handling to prevent double launch of plugins immediately after plugin installed
Fixed incorrect named entity tooltips for many of the Insert-> Special Characters
Fixed lack of recognition of woff2 fonts inside Sigil and for plugins
Fix segfault when .xml is first file in BookBrowser and add new html or split at cursor is invoked
Fix bug that allowed multiple audio/video tabs of the same resource to be opened
Fix plugin related bug when adding/removing last xhtml file
Fix Text Direction setting inside body to use structural dir attribute under epub3
Fix duplicate group-position property in epub3 MetaData Editor
Use absolute path references when first opening Sigil with an ebook so that Open Recent works better
Fix "issue" in handling self-closing script tags in head (similar issue that we had with self-closing title tags)
Fix issue converting Qt Strings to their Python equivalent when outside the BMP
Fix issue with trying to add existing html files when names clash due to case insensitive file systems
Fix crash bug after styling text in BookView and immediately going to CodeView without moving cursor
Fix crash bugs after deleting resources contained in a Report in the BookBrowser
Fix bug that destroys nav if left in unparseable state by user even temporarily
Fix bug that moved cursor to beginning of tag block when save is done in CodeView
New Features
allow plugins to supply their own icon (plugin.png 48x48) for use on the Quick Launch Toolbar icons
extend plugin interface to include the status of the epub inside Sigil (modified or saved)
extend plugin interface to include the path to the saved epub file or the null string if never saved
extend Insert->Special Characters to include both a Greek letter panel and a mathematical symbol panel
add support for calibre:series and calibre:series_index to Metadata Editor for epub2
add support for calibre:title_sort to Metadata Editor for epub2
add support for clicking internal links in Preview to load the proper destination tab
add support for loading Qt's base translation files if present. Allows buttons on native qt dialogs to
be translated (Windows users may need to manually copy newer qtbase_xx.qm files to Sigil's translation
directory if they didn't exist in Qt5.6.2)
allow user to add custom css rules to Preview/Book View by creating a file called "custom_preview_style.css"
in the Sigil preferences folder (not responsible for custom css and ebook css fighting with each other)

Changes for v0.9.8 - v0.9.9

This Sigil release is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users. Some of the highlights for this release include:
Fixed the bug on Windows where smart right single quotes used for apostrophes couldn't be added properly added to a user word list. This one has been aroud for a while!
Ability to limit/disable clipboard history saving (a new General Preferences setting). Please note that the clipboard history feature will behave exactly as it always has while Sigil is running. Meaning that anything added to the clipboard while Sigil is running will be available for pasting. The new preference setting merely dictates how many entries (if any) get saved to the Sigil ini file when Sigil closes. Set it to zero to keep Sigil from saving any of the clipboard history to the ini file.
A new Spellcheck Dictionary Preferences setting that allows the user to include words with numbers in them.
Two new Quick Launch Icons for plugins were added to the main menu. There are now a total of five available.
The specific changes/additions follow.
Bug Fixes
Add python_3.5_fixes3.patch to Python build and update build docs on OSX to fix missing symbols
Fix crash caused by Preview holding pointer to user removed resource when front tab is non-html resource
Fix crash in FlowTab destructor due to re-entering flowtab during Syntax Highlighting and signals
Fix issue with file icons disappearing when reordering in Book Browser (commit ecb56b1)
Fix missing epub3 Manifest cover-image property setting/unsetting with BookBrowser
Fix issue where cancelling the SaveAs dialog disconnected an existing epub from its saved path
Fix assertion error in sigil-gumbo when handling extraneous script end tags
Apply multiple fixes for gumbo from upstream
Fix segfault in Split at Cursor when not an html file
Make sure Add Cover tool properly handles existing manifest cover properties in EPUB3s
Correct error dialog to say "Sigil may need to close."
Prevent Images and Misc items from being dragged to the Text folder in Book Browser (commit 30bb96d)
Fix Linux bug that prevents rich text from other programs being pasted into Book View (issue #320)
Fix bug where index entries inside em and dfn tags were ignored during index generation
Fix bug on Windows in spell checking when smart right single quotes are used for apostrophes
Fix bug in simple well-formed check to handle generic xml processing instructions
Fix bug in epub3 MetaEditor with title-type and collection-type properties
Fix plugin code to prevent book href vs manifest id clashes
Fix bug in Plugin Runner to allow it to delete non-manifested files properly
Fix bug in SourceUpdates to handle properly handle css properties with multiple urls
Fix bugs in well-formed check to better handle missing doctypes
New Features
Add SIGIL_DISABLE_CURSOR_BLINK environment variable to disable text cursor to aid Accessibility on OSX
Better use semantic information (guide types and Landmarks) to allow the user finer control of index generation
Attempt to improve Metadata Editor placeholder text to help beginners
Preview Window Title bar will now show height and width of the Preview Window
Allow users to limit/disable clipboard history saving via General Preferences
Convert br tags in header text to linebreaks for toc/ncx/nav generation routines
Support spell checking of words with numbers controlled by Preference settings
Add two additional Quick Lauch Icons for Plugins
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.9 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.9 like its predecessors passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video , mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.9 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.

Changes for v0.9.7 - v0.9.8

Bug Fixes
Make sure when new empty epub3's are created that the toc does not use a doctype (Issue #250)
Make GetUniqueFilenameVersion work even on Case-Insensitive filesystems (Issue #247)
Properly urlencode/decode all hrefs in plugin's ResultXML in launcher/PluginRunner to prevent parse errors
Enable Basic Cut Copy Paste Icons/Actions in OPF, NCX, XML, SVG, and other Misc Text Tabs
Add proper detection for minimum service pack requirements in Windows installer
Include workaround for bug in KDE Qt5 plugin on Linux that keep plugins from launching from menu
Prevent splitting Section0001.xhtml (Split at Cursor) needlessly rewrite the file's manifest id with a uuid
Fix issue where merging files when non-xhtml tabs were open was causing Python errors or crashes
Fix segfault in Image Reports when deleting unused image files
Fix bug in prettyprint_xhtml in sigil_bs4 (put back inadvertently dropped is_void_tag routine)
Fix gumbo serialize to better handle injected newlines
Harden bundled Python isolation on Windows and add subset of PyQt5 to bundled modules
Harden plugin interface code to properly unquote/quote hrefs
Stop Sigil from nagging about unsupported mimetypes when epubs with Adobe xpgt page-templates are opened
Fix Book Browser highlighting issue when editable XML files from the "Misc" folder are opened
Pull upstream bug fixes from google's gumbo parser for Sigil
Force formatting buttons in BookView to generate inline-styled spans instead of "strike", "b", etc
Fix bug from deprecated use of jquery $.browser.msie introduced when jQuery was updated
Fix temp folder specification on Windows systems that delete the system temp folder for every login (Issue #285)
Fix typos in metadata descriptions to allow better translations
New Features
New preference setting (Appearance section) which allows user to adjust the size of the main menu icons
Add manifest properties to Book Browser tooltips and to All Files Reports Widget for epub3
Make Sigil's UI and spellchecker language settings available to plugins
Add support for PyQt5 for plugin gui widgets
Internal builds now use Qt 5.6.2 with Webkit added back
Windows structural changes to eliminate file duplication and to accommodate PyQt5 requirements
Update all build it yourself from source documentation for new requirements
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.8 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.8 like its predecessors passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video , mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.8 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.

Changes for v0.9.6 - v0.9.7

Bug Fixes
Allow tags in the svg and mathml namespace to automtically self-close if empty to help work around a bug in Kindlegen that will not seem to accept a closing svg image tag even though image is non-void
Prevent TextTab from constantly recentering page when focus is lost
Fix bugs in plugin basename_to_id when used with xpgt files or any unrecognized extensions
Fix typos in pls mimetype in plugins
Fix code synchronization issues among 3 places where file extensions are mapped to mimetypes
Fix plugin readotherfile interface to rebuild the opf on the fly only if it has been modified
Fix plugin validation issues with integer vs string representations of line number and character offsets
Fix duplicate filename in multiple directories bug when updating CSS urls
Fix bug in page-map.xml mimetype when "Add Existing ..." is used
Fix undefined behaviour shifting signed negative values in 3rdparty libs and fix many warnings
Fix text vs binary file type recognition in the plugin interface (CSS and js files are text not binary)
Fix too small toolbar icons on high dpi displays
Fix bug that caused text highlighting to get lost on some systems when doing a CSS Find & Replace.
Fix bug in plugin interface basename_to_id to recognize .htm extensions
Fix bug in epub3 semantic popups to always refect the local name of epub:type setting
Fix bug where creation on an HTML TOC could overwrite an existing Nav under epub3
Fix manifest id not starting with alpha character bug
New Features
Extend validation plugin interface with add_extended_result() method to allow better cursor positioning
Extend TextTab and Tabs derived by it to position cursor based on offset
Allow editing of page-map.xml files, xpgt files and other misc xml based files inside Sigil
Update Windows builds use Python 3.5.2, VS2015
Update Mac OS X builds and build instructions to use Python-3.5.2
Remove support for python2.7 only plugins and simply Manage Plugins settings
Update to Qt 5.6.1-1 with QtWebKit added back for release builds for Windows (VS2015) and Mac OSX
Update Mac OS X and Linux build instruction documentation for recent changes
Allow Linux Dictionaries to look up default paths for dictionaries passed in by build cmake settings
Make the columns in the Manage Plugins table be sortable by the user
Better detect undefined and non-existing url fragments to prevent issues when splitting or merging files
Make tooltips for Run Plugin Icons show the name of the selected plugin on hover
Upgrade from jquery 1.6.2 to version 2.2.4
Upgrade from jquery.scrollTo 1.4.2 to version 2.1.2
Upgrade to double sized 48x48 pixel icons for High DPI displays, Special Thanks to PatNY for creating our icons
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.7 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.7 like its predecessors passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video , mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.7 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.

Changes for v0.9.5 - v0.9.6

Bug Fixes
- Make StdWarningDialog resizeable when "Show Details" is used
- Fix CleanSource svg prefix removal bug that sometimes broke valid svg code
- Remove svg image and html5 menuitem from the list of void elements in the Sigil and plugin code
- Properly xml escape "&" in metadata attribute values
- Properly perform source updates on epub on load even when they do not follow recommended spec
- Make handling of comments in both xhtml and xml more robust
- Properly url escape css file names to handle css files with spaces in them
- Try to make direct editing of content.opf more safe by auto-fixing errors when possible
- Properly handle WellFormed checks for pure XML in XMLResource.cpp by using embedded python3 lxml
- Make opf_newparser.py and xmlprocessor.py more robust to broken user input in content.opf
- Make ProcessXML (repairXML in xmlprocessor.py) - leave untouched anything well-formed
- Fix thinko in plugin bookcontainer.py and outputcontainer.py contributed by wrCisco
- Fix for improper encoding in plugins on Mac OS X due to missing inherited plugin environment
- Fix for typos in epub xmlns when splitting epub3 ebooks in BookView
- Update testplugin_v012.zip to testplugin_v013.zip to handle sgc-nav.css new feature
- Fix bugs in DeleteUnusedStyles when selector exists more than once in the same stylesheet
- Fix bugs in DeleteUnusedStyles when group selectors span more than one line
- Fix bugs in Reports: CSS Styles missing cases when selector exists more than once
- Fix bug in Reports: All Files to use Landmark Semantics under epub3 not guide semantics
- Fix bug, slow in loading ini when too large clipboard history, user can now delete them via dialog
- Stop cosmetic double-spaces being introduced into OPF manifest, spine and guide entries
- Prevent bug when user selects too much in BookView and then tries to change case
- Fix bug in Delete Unused Media when css urls do not use quotes
- Try to set all ways of updating the ncx to use 2 character indentation of head element
- Fix Building Relocatable Python on Mac build instructions to remove BeautifulSoup4 requirement
- Fix for generating empty guide for epub3 when in plugins
New Features
- created sgc-nav.css stylesheet for nav and allow templates in Prefs Dir for user to control it
- Added General Setting to allow user to set own temporary directory location
- Added Qt Stylesheet support - Recognize and load "qt_styles.qss" file if stored in Sigil Preferences folder
- Extended the plugin interface to add support for epub3 bindings elements
- Add option + forward delete shortcut to active Metadata Editor remove

Changes for v0.9.3 - v0.9.5

* Fix regression when ImportHTML in gathering HTML based DC. metadata
* Fix regression - remove incorrect use of opf:scheme from dc:creator and dc:contributor under epub2
* Fix regression - the guide reference tag is always a void tag
* Fix issues with hunspell spell checking under Windows when non-ascii paths to dictionaries
* Fix issues with overridding the prefs directory on Windows with non-ascii paths
* Fix broken manual "Check" button on W3C stylesheet validation's generated html form.
* Fix media-type recognition for .m4a and .m4v file extenstions in main Sigil and plugin code
* Treat ruby and rt as inline tags when pretty-printing in Sigils and for plugins
* Allow user to choose what level of CSS gets used in the "Validate Stylesheets
With W3C" tool via user preference (General).

Changes for v0.9.2 - v0.9.3

a major new release that greatly improves Sigil's ability to work with and generate epub3 ebooks without losing any of its epub2 capabilities. This release also includes a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
The main bug fixes are:
- Add a python based updatechecker for Sigil updates to prevent Windows OpenSSL build issues
- Stop 'Generate TOC' from introducing unnecessary spaces in front of class attibute values
- Use localeAwareCompare to attempt to add Index Entries to build them sorted
- Fix segfault caused by use of possibly stale htmlresource pointer in FlowTab destructor
- Workaround a Qt bug that causes slow selection/highlighting of xhtml in CodeView on Linux
- Fix multiple typos in sigil_gumbo_bs4_adapter code and other plugin interface fixes

Changes for v0.9.1 - v0.9.2

Bug Fixes:
- Update BuildingOnLinux docs
- Update Building on Mac OS X docs
- Fix example clips/searches loading on Linux
- Simplify UseBundledInterpreter Logic
- Fix bug when adding existing html links to stylesheets not being updated
- Fix bug in Well-Formed error messages due to bug inside gumbo's error.c
- Add xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" attribute to html tag if missing
- Fix lost DOCTYPE info when splitting or merging
- Completely rework pretty printing via gumbo to be much more robust
- Make identification and storage of page-map.xml more robust
- Restore Sigil's update checker that's been broken for a while
- Update sigil_bs4 prettyprint_xhtml and serialize_xhtml routines to use logic of code in GumboInterface
- Update sigil_bs4 to use numeric entities when faced with nbsp so they do not get lost later in Sigil
- Fix bugs in sigil_bs4/prettyprint_xhtml and serialize_xhtml routines that failed to handle some void tags properly
- Fix out of date error message referencing Tidy
- Coerce missing or bad doctypes to meet either epub2 or epub3 standard
- Inject empty title tag if missing from head
- Html escape Index entry text used to create index.html
Improvements:
- Include Pull Request 161 by pinotree "Switch TempFolder to QTemporaryDir" to improve safety
- Preliminary Linux binary installer support added
- Add ability to change Sigil's user preferences directory by specifying a new path
via the SIGIL_PREFS_DIR environment variable (path must be user-writable).
User Interface Changes:
- Add keyboard accelerators to the Spell Check dialogue see Sigil Issue# 164
- Completely revamp Cleaning to use "Mend Code" and remove PrettyPrintGumbo as on option
- Rename PrettyPrintGumbo to "Mend and Prettify" and move to CodeView Right-click menu and Tools Menu
- Rename "Sanity Check" to "Well-Formed Check EPUB" and remove check icon people confused with FlightCrew
- Change ToValidXHTML by using serialize not prettyprint

Changes for v0.9.0 - v0.9.1

- Fix bug when template sgc_toc.css could be changed to blank on save, since no InitialLoad() was done
- Change order of TextResource m_IsLoaded and m_CacheInUse flags to minimize potentail race exposure.
- Fix PluginRunner bug that introduced errors into xhtml files when both the content.opf and xhtml were modified
- Automatically XML decode and escape Metadata entries created in the Metadata GUI
- Alter pluginhunspell.py so a missing libhunspell doesn't stop ALL plugins from working
- Default to using clean by gumbo vs prettyprint gumbo in new installs
- Fix prettyprint bug with trailing whitespace improperly inserted after inline tags inside div tags
- Fix for bundled interpreter packages PIL and cssutils on Mac OS X that were missing
- Fix for crash when using Find in BV on pages with no text, only images (issue #156)
- Added testplugin_v010.zip to docs to allow Linux packagers to test their plugin implementation
- Fix for prettyprint bug with tables (issue # 158)
- Fix for serialize in gumbo to limit injection of new lines to barest minimum
- Update Plugin Framework documentation to Revision 6 - see docs/Sigil_Plugin_Framework_rev6.epub
- Make build order of Sigil's internal gumbo deterministic in order to help Linux packagers
- Make plugin launcher success and error messages robust to non-utf-8 strings
- Fix for crash bug when comments exist inside manifest of opf
- Fix for Sigil's internal gumbo to only inject end tags when current token does NOT need to be reprocessed

Changes for v0.8.901 - v0.9.0

- Add "Use Bundled Python" option to bring sanity and choice to Python3 Interpreter selection
- Merge EmbeddedPython code across platforms and fix python flags for all platforms
- Properly build translation base.ts to prevent blank message fields being generated by tr()
- Update to the latest translations from transifex
- Allow PrettyPrint_Gumbo to condense whitespace where allowed
- Fix bug in PluginRunner auto-repair modified xml (opf, ncx), do not check xml with xhtml wellformed check
- Fix bug in plugin epub3 interface, conversion of properties with null strings to None
- Restore ability to override hunspell dictionary locations on Linux with SIGIL_DICTIONARIES env var
- Restore ability to build Sigil against system hunspell libraries on Linux
- Adjust pluginhunspell.py to try to find system hunspell if bundled hunspell is not built/installed
- Fix hang/slowness in TOC creation when huge number of headings all exist in the same file
- Performance speedups for NCX writing to help with slow ToC Creation
- Fix bug for better detecting comments in sanitycheck.py
- Fix bug for Adding Blank xhtml files to an epub3
- Fix bug for Issue 140 - TOC gets cut-off under some platforms (lxml needs utf-8 not unicode)
- Add cmake option INSTALL_BUNDLED_DICTS to enable/disable installation of bundled hunspell dictionaries
- Allow SIGIL_DICTIONARIES env var to specify multiple paths (colon delimited)
- Fix bug in sanitycheck.py error message creation
- Identify woff files as fonts when importing epubs
- Fixes for nbsp being potentially "lost" when linking in stylesheets and when splitting and merging chapters
- Fix for lost whitespace inside text containing tags when pretty printing
- Workaround for broken QShortCut in Qt 5.4.X see Issue 149
- cleanup up some compiler warning

Changes for v0.8.900 - v0.8.901

- fix for hang when trying to add a cover
- multiple fixes for segfaults in the TOC creation code
- fixes for blank TOC headings caused by tags nested inside of h1-h6 tags
- workaround for an instability caused by a compiler bug in
Visual Studio 2013 on Windows
- fixes for multiple xml header declarations appearing when using sigil_bs4
prettyprint_xhtml() or serialize_xhtml()
- build fixes to include MSVCR100.DLL for Windows machines that are too
new to have it
- fix pretty printing using gumbo to support some mbp: tags
- fixes to deal with self-closing iframe tags which made gumbo stumble
- fixes to more robustly convert from QByteArray types to their char * pointers
- fixes and improvements to the Building on Linux instructions
- protect gumbo parsing with a mutex to prevent unknown issues with potential
for non-reentrant code in that library
- workaround Qt QHash operator()= bugs that caused static QHash objects to
freed multiple times
- fix for internal opf processing encoding detection being confused by xml header
declarations potentially resulting in missing spine and manifest items.
New Features
- new launcher/wrapper code interface to support plugins that operate on epub3
ebooks
- added cssutils, cssselect, and chardet to the site-packages of the embedded
Python 3.4 interpreter
- validation plugins that report no errors will now have "No problems found" appear
in the Sigil Validation window.
- validation plugins will auto accept/close the plugin runner window no matter
the results
- Windows installer now detects whether MS redistributable runtimes are already
installed

Changes for v0.8.7 - v0.8.900

- Removed Tidy and replaced it with a combination of a specially modified Gumbo
parser that supports html5
- Removed Xerces, XercesExtras, Boost, and unused bundles.
- Updated the source code to be compatible with the latest clang compiler by replacing all
"undefined - behaviour" use of "Null" References with proper pointers across entire codebase
- Completely revamped the build process to embed the Python 3.4 Interpreter
inside of Sigil and integrate it in, including as site-packages:
[lxml, bs4, PIL, regex, six, html5lib]. This will allow plugins
that use the internal Python 3.X engine access to all of these
specialized packages by default with no additional action
needed by end users of their plugin.
- Created our own version of BeautifulSoup4-4.4.0 called sigil_bs4 that
fixes lxml namespace bugs, fixes serialization/prettyprinting of
inline xhtml tags, and modifies the bs4 codebase so that a single
source code works equally well on both Python 2.7 and Python 3.X
- Replaced internal opf and ncx xml processing and cleaning with a
combination of embedded Python 3.4, sigil_bs4 / lxml
- We now build Hunspell as a shared library and added a ctypes interface to allow
plugins to spellcheck
- We now build our modified gumbo html5 parser as a shared library
and provide a bs4 ctypes interface to it for easy xhtml processing
in plugins that use either Python 2.7 or Python 3.X
- Allowed plugins to auto-fix "text/html" media-types to "application/xhtml+xml"
- Began the transition to allow for both epub2 and epub3 editing
(Note: epub3 editing is still incomplete)
- Converted Flightcrew to become a Sigil plugin and replace it with
a simple and fast internal sanity checker.
- Updated Hunspell dictionaries to be actual dictionaries and not just word lists for en_US and en_GB
- Updated other dictionaries to their most current version to match what is used in LibreOffice 5
- Fix issue #54 modified date using local numerials when it should be
using Arabic numerals per the spec.
- Set the book to modified when font's are obfuscated.
- Change FORCE_BUNDLED_COPIES build flag to USE_SYSTEM_LIBS. This flips
the meaning of the flag. Now USE_SYSTEM_LIBS will enable using system
libraries. Also, SYSTEM_LIBS_REQUIRED was added which will fail the
cmake configure if any system libraries are not found instead of
falling back to the bundled copy. Finally, this makes the build more
consistent for Windows and OS X users.

Changes for v0.8.6 - v0.8.7

small maintenance release

Changes for v0.8.5 - v0.8.6

- Fix for crash during merging xhtml files.
- Changed fix for "Create TOC crash in Sigil 0.8.5" to reduce the degree of disconnecting to prevent lost signals on html resources.
- Fix for missing audio and video mime types in OPFResource and FolderKeeper.
- Attempt to prevent Tidy from simply deleting all mathml during cleaning.

Changes for v0.6.2 - v0.7.0

- Implement issue 1983: Set the tooltips of files in Book Browser to the filename.
- Implement issue 1965: Allow opening files that are missing container.xml.
- Implement issue 1975: HTML TOC and Index should use CSS files instead of inline stylesheet.
- Implement issue 1968: Bookmark location in editing window.
- Implement issue 1963: Table Of Contents window should default to expanded when opened or refreshed.
- Implement issue 1953: Allow entering a list of new words into dictionary preferences.
- Implement issue 1952: Add shortcut for Copy HTML file.
- Implement issue 1951: Doubleclick on Image Report file should find next use of image.
- Implement issue 1949: Add support for multiple active user dictionaries.
- Implement issue 1947: Spellcheck dialog to manage all misspelled words at once.
- Implement issue 62: Add document's css styles to menu.
- Implement issue 1945: Allow editing of CSS while displaying page.
- Implement issue 1661: Report list of all different characters in the book.
- Implement issue 1746: Add Report for Links and Footnotes.
- Implement issue 1941: Add Find & Replace option to wrap or not wrap searches.
- Implement issue 1940: Update Insert Image to Insert File to support insert of audio/video.
- Implement issue 1938: Update Delete Image files to Delete Media files to include audio/video.
- Implement issue 1937: Add Report for All Files.
- Implement issue 1936: Add Clip Bar toolbar with buttons for Clips and shortcuts for Clips.
- Implement issue 1931: Change to QRegularExpression for most regexes.
- Implement issue 1185: Edit Table of Contents without needing Generate TOC.
- Implement issue 1929: Add support for playing audio and video files.
- Implement issue 917: Sigil should support audio and video tags.
- Implement issue 1928: Add well-formed check to HTML File Report.
- Implement issue 1864: Allow Metadata Editor dialog to stay open while editing.
- Implement issue 1871: Code View context menu should show clips even if word is misspelled.
- Implement issue 1870: Saved Searches should use mode settings from Find & Replace.
- Implement issue 1927: Add support for basic replacement Clips (e.g. span) in Book View.
- Implement issue 20: Embedded fonts support.
- Implement issue 1926: Upgrade to Qt5.
- Implement issue 1924: Add dockable Clips window to select clips.
- Implement issue 1925: Don't force well formed checks unless absolutely necessary.
- Implement issue 1843: Preview should be real-time display of Code View.
- Fix issue 1989: Problem with nested index entries.
- Fix issue 1964: Correcting a word using spellcheck does not make file go to "not saved" state.
- Fix issue 1961: Generate TOC should not create IDs for headings when it only points to filenames.
- Fix issue 1857: CSS Highlighting inline styles inconsistent.
- Fix issue 1946: Highlight misspelled words checkbox should be available in Preferences.
- Fix issue 1943: Reports can crash if file has non well-formed xml.
- Fix issue 1883: TOC window does not jump to right location for some entries.
- Fix issue 1906: "Delete unused image files" deleting background images.
- Fix issue 1874: Using Delete Unused Stylesheet Classes deletes pseudo-elements.
- Fix issue 1939: CSS parser does not match wildcard selectors consistently.
- Fix issue 1935: Improve speed of Index Editor autofill by removing progress dialog.
- Fix issue 1891: Opening the Saved Searches expands all groups.
- Fix issue 1934: Go To Style does not work with CSS filenames that have spaces in them.
- Fix issue 1933: No message is displayed if Go To Style can't find a style.
- Fix issue 1932: Replace All needs to be run twice in some cases.
- Fix issue 1930: Fix Metadata language dropdown selection incorrect matching.
- Fix issue 1775: Sigil-0.6.0 edit very slow with Thai e-Pub.
- Fix issue 1764: Sigil crashes on KDE after rearranging text sections.
- Fix issue 1720: Book View highlights text apparently randomly.
- Fix issue 1923: CSS validation should use EPUB 2 profile.
- Fix issue 1922: Invalid EPUB warning dialog is not long enough.
- Fix issue 1918: Support import of tab separated entries for Index Editor.
- Fix issue 1917: Keep selection when deleting unused images if an HTML file was selected.
- Fix issue 1916: Allow Go To Style to work for link type text/x-oeb1-css.
- Fix issue 1869: Backspace in Preferences - Shortcuts causes crash.
- Fix issue 1818: Hyperlink of URL with & causes invalid code.
- Fix issue 1824: Cursor position changes when saving the book.

Changes for v0.6.1 - v0.6.2

Fix issue 1834: Pretty Print should be removed due to formatting issues.
Fix issue 1821: Audio files missing.
Fix issue 1816: Height is incorrect in Reports->Image Files.
Fix issue 1809: Fix crash related to cursor syncing.
Fix issue 1808: Editing in book view changes DTD to incorrect value.

Changes for v0.5.3 - v0.6.0

Goto Link or Style
Saved Searches
Clip Manager
Deleting unused images and styles
Edit capability in TOC generation
Inserting special characters
Change text casing
Reformatting CSS files
Various style and file usage reports
Ease of linking stylesheets and images
Inserting links and anchors
Opening files/images with external editors
Customise the GUI fonts/sizes/colors
...and so much more...

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