* 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. Many many thanks to all the volunteers who worked on this, in particular Maneesh and Manan, two of our GSoC students, but also Levon and Matthieu, our genius C++ developers.Kiwix : offline Wikipedia reader Kiwix is an offline Wikipedia (an many other offlined Web sites) viewer. But should you notice some bug or want to suggest improvements, feel free to open a ticket on our libkiwix repository on Github. These display improvements will also be available to users running their own copies of Kiwix-serve. click on download and you will automatically be offered a choice between a direct download link, a torrent (more stable, we recommend using this for large files), and the hash value so you can make sure the file you got is uncorrupted.click on the tile and you will be taken to an online copy of the zim file (in case you do not know what is in it or the description is missing).Then the tiles themselves are “twice clickable”: You can also search for a specific title. The top selectors allow user to filter zim files by language and topic (Wikipedia, MOOCs, TED talks, etc.). And it’s all at Īn image is worth a thousand words, but it does not hurt to explain what you are looking at: So here what this all means: a new, cleaner way to figure out which zim files are available out there, and in which languages. There has been bunch of releases with strange, complicated names lately: libkiwix 10.0, libzim 7, kiwix-tools 3.0, etc.
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