* NEW: Support for non-http URLs in img and link tags (e.g.Kiwix, an offline reader for Wikipedia can help you save the entire Wikipedia (till Dec-2010) to your hard drive. * NEW: Provided methods for resetting the app and bypassing the appCache from the UI * NEW: App now defaults to Service Worker mode if accessed directly as a PWA (does not apply to browser extensions) * FEATURE: Provided a workaround to enable Service Worker mode in Firefox extensions (via a PWA) * BUGFIX: Correct race condition preventing initialization of decompressors in some contexts (e.g. * BUGFIX: Correct the handling of version numbers in GitHub publishing workflow * FIX: Provide a platform-compliant hook name for the Ubuntu Touch app (note that settings may be lost when upgrading to this version) * FIX: Improve packaging for the Ubuntu Touch app * NOTICE: This is a bugfix release to fix critical errors with the Ubuntu Touch app. * UPDATE: Routine updates to dependencies: Karma, node-fetch, follow-redirects, minimist * FIX: Provide an alert if user selects random button when no ZIM is loaded * FIX: Partially remove dependency of backend on the User Interface * FEATURE: Use bootstrap modal for alert and confirm dialogue boxes instead of native browser dialogues * FEATURE: Provide automatic dark mode switching (based on the underlying OS theme) in browsers supporting theme detection * UPDATE: Update logo on Firefox and Windows stores * FIX: Directory Entries were wrongly assumed to be no larger than 2048 bytes (this could lead to some infinite loop, with some very specific ZIM files * FIX: In ServiceWorker mode, open external links in new tabs (instead of inside the iframe, which could fail), and warn the user * 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. Kiwix : offline Wikipedia reader Kiwix is an offline Wikipedia (an many other offlined Web sites) viewer.
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