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Sigil - Sigil-2.2.0 Latest Release

Published by dougmassay 4 months ago

Sigil version 2.2.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. We strongly recommend updating to the latest release of Sigil as it includes a large number of third party security fixes. Depending on how stable this version turns out to be, this may represent the last version of Sigil to support Qt5.

Changes in this Release

New Features

add support for Windows live switching from dark to light and light to dark modes
add support for Linux kde and gtk3 live switching from dark to light and light to dark modes
add new environment variable: SIGIL_PREVIEW_TIMEOUT (in milliseconds) to allow user control of the Preview updating intervals, valid range 100 - 10000. default value: 1000. Set only once at Sigil startup.
add new Find and Replace targets: Selected SVG files, Selected Javascript Files, and Selected Misc XML
add new Find and Replace Regular Expression menu option: Unicode Property (*UCP)
add ability to rename files when new name is just a case variant on case insensitive filesystems
extended the number of clips that can be assigned to toolbars (total now of 60 clips supported)
Accessibility improvements:
add abiity to highlight the widget with current focus (Thanks BeckyEbook)
add ability to double text insertion point width throughout Sigil
Extend Python Plugin Interface with info on preferred font mangling information
replacement strings in F&R can now use \x{hhhh} hex escape codes to represent unicode characters numerically

Other Changes

There will be no more built-in HighDPI settings in Sigil's prefs. If you have special needs in that regard, you can still set your own Qt highdpi environment variables.

Bug Fixes

reformating css with multiline now adds space after selector comma
add in bulk resource move and use bulk delete to handle epubs with thousands of files
add in bulk resource rename to handle epubs with thousands of files
if Replace has focus and Find done, CodeView should get focus (Thanks BeckyEbook)
fix dark mode Toolbar continuation symbols for Windows (Thank you BeckyEbook)
fixed bug in Save-As context menu action in ImageTabs
fix dark mode live switching on macOS issues qith QTreeView and QStandardItemModels
fix bug in missing CharToEntity in the Create TOC process
fix TabManager tab close symbol on macOS to match that used in dockwidgets
use Unciode NormalizationForm C inside Sigil and for io
fix macOS stuck at Maximized size issue

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-2.1.0

Published by dougmassay 7 months ago

Sigil version 2.1.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. We strongly recommend updating to the latest release of Sigil as it includes a large number of third party security fixes.

Changes in this Release

New Features

assign menu accelerators P - &Plugins, and K - Chec&kpoints (thank you BeckyEbook)
add ability to change keyboard focus using keyboard shortcuts or menus to BookBrowser, Preview, CodeView, ClipsWindow, and TableOfContents Windows
preserve Media Overlay Active Classes when deleting unused classes
Goto Link Or Style (or Ctrl-Clicking on a class will now search selectors with combinators if nothing found in normal css classes
update to a newer Spanish hunspell dictionary
overhaul of Building on Linux documentation
update 3rdparty zlib to version 1.3.1 for security and other bug fixes
update 3rdparty pcre2 to version 10.43 for security and other bug fixes
update to Qt 6.6.2 for security fixes, accessibility improvements
allow cancelling of Save if mend on save set and not well formed
Windows users can now set the SIGIL_USE_FREETYPE_FONTENGINE environment variable to more fully support woff and woff2 fonts

Bug Fixes

multiple bug fixes from Qt 6.6.2 such as the transient child window resize bug on Windows, etc
fix QuickParser bug when parsing attribute names not properly ignoring all legal whitespace
make OPF parsing robust to alternative whitespace usage as well
fix creation of thumbnails of svg images in SelectFiles and Image Report for macOS
fix svg rendering in QtSvg by filtering out desc and title tags inside text tags pre-rendering
fix Python plugin quickparser.py to better handle svg mixed case tag names
better handle cancelling out of plugins prior to their completion
better handle Guide/Landmark title translations (thank you BeckyEbook)
clean up cmake and build warnings
fix crash on Windows when using woff/woff2 fonts

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-2.0.2

Published by dougmassay 12 months ago

Sigil-2.0.2 is a bug fix release. This is a highly recommended upgrade as many serious crashing bugs have been fixed in this release.

Changes in this Release

fix incorrect clip tool button insertion point due to null activeWindow value
fix Windows multiple screen issues when not properly identified (Qt6.5.2 patch fix)
fix Mac Accessibility related crashes when using non-native QFileDialog (Qt 6.5.2 patch fix)
workaround MacOS QMessageBox loss of focus Qt 6.5.X bug without hurting other platforms
fix pretty print mend not formatting mathml
fix Accessibility related crashes in QFontComboBox (Qt 6.5.2 patch fix)
prevent crashing if user mistakenly tries to delete entire ncx in CodeView
harden delete unused styles to trailing whitespace in class names
fix unrecognized media-types application/xml and text/xml
fix cursor just before end tag bug in align justify, centre, right
fix crash when all metadata removed by user in MetaEditor
fix macOS min in Info.plist to be the actual 11.0
update Windows and macOS installers to use Qt6.5.3

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-2.0.1

Published by dougmassay about 1 year ago

Sigil 2.0.1 represents a bug-fix only release.

Bug Fixes

fix crash when right click on Misc folder in BookBrowser
Allow user to revert CodeView drag_and_drop change via environment variable: SIGIL_ALLOW_CODEVIEW_DROP=1 Note: Using DragnDrop in CodeView is still NOT officially supported.
add inadvertantly missed updated Serbian translation (ts) file

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-2.0.0

Published by dougmassay about 1 year ago

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. Key points are the upgrade to Qt6.5.2 and Python 3.11.3 and the change to PySide6 instead of PyQt5/6 availability for plugins (see here for more details). We will also no longer be providing an official Windows 32-bit binary installer (legacy or otherwise). The update to Qt6.5.2 makes Windows 10 (1809) the minimum supported OS for the official version of Sigil starting with Sigil 2.0.0. Similarly, it makes the minimum supported MacOS version as 11.0 (Big Sur).

Bug Fixes

fix incorrect assert in sigil-gumbo
recognize application/pdf mediatype on epub import
remove compiler build warnings to clean up the build output
recognize source tag attribute srcset for xhtml source updates
fix Preview disconnect bug after split at cursor
fixed sigil-gumbo interface for plugins
added workaround for ADE epub3 bug with scaled cover images
fix encoding for named entities in opf metadata
fix drag/drop crash by disabling drop inside CodeViewEditor
fix CodeView to Preview syncing on text after an inline xhtml comment

New Features

updated to Qt 6.5.2 which is now used for official releases
updated to Python 3.11.3 and uses the latest EmbededPython interface
updated to the latest jquery version 3.6.4
supports use of embedded pdfs ala ADE
added dark window titlebars for Windows platforms
add support for a user's cover-template2.xhtml and cover-template3.xhtml
add user preference to control printing dpi and add busy indicator icon

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The MacOS builds are signed but they are NOT notarized. See this PageEdit/Sigil issue for more information.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-1.9.30

Published by dougmassay over 1 year ago

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features:

Bug Fixes

fix Checkpointing to work with dulwich version 0.20.46+
fix css value parsing when !important is used
EmbeddedPython fixes to work with Python 3.11 and later (thank you sharkcz)
leave cursor position unchanged if nothing found when search groups of files
make all Numeric items in Reports align right
add support for thousands separator to Reports
allow blank dc:language values to prevent crashing (as Sigil-1.9.10 did)
allow unknown language codes to pass through MetaEditor
MetaEditor under epub2, allow custom opf scheme values
prevent duplicate spaces when reformatting CSS in import, charset and namespace
better prevent random OPF attribute order changes to simplify Checkpoint diffs
fixed file menu Print Preview for xhtml and image tabs
prevent plugins from crashing Sigil by deleting last xhtml file in epub
fix issue where images/css could not be properly added in an epub3 with no css files

New Features

allow user to edit Checkpoint descriptions for clarity via Checkpoint menu
add ability to show the Checkpoint Change Log via Checkpoint menu
update to Hunspell 1.7.2 (released in December 2022) for spellchecking
update to latest zlib-1.2.13 for latest security fixes
move completely away from ever using OS system tmp folder for storing Sigil wip files. Instead create a new "workspace" folder inside Sigil Preferences folder
added ability to Print Preview and Print contents of Sigil's Preview window

Attention Linux Packagers: Starting with Sigil v1.9.20, MathJax 3.2.2+ is required to render MathML in Sigil's Preview Window. If you do nothing different with your Sigil builds, our custom bundled version of MathJax 3.x will be included and things will work. If you wish to use your system version of MathJax v3, make sure 1) Your version of MathJax is at least 3.2.2, and b) use the new CMake define -DMATHJAX3_DIR= to supply the path to your MathJax 3.2.2+ location. If you were using -DMATHJAX_DIR= to build/package Sigil in the past, it will do nothing with Sigil 1.9.20+. We did this on purpose so that no breakage of Sigil's MathML rendering would occur. Check Sigil's build documentation for details.

For additional information about the new tools added to Sigil's Find and Replace see this thread in our Forum on Mobileread.com:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346639

Notes:

The only installer that's appropriate for Windows 7 is the installer with "Legacy" in the name.

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-1.9.20

Published by dougmassay about 2 years ago

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features:

Bug Fixes

double width of new Find Replace icons to make them easier to access
improve new Find Replace icon tooltips to be include short name on top
fix bug that caused file rename changes to fail when updating smil
Metadata Editor will now strip out unneeded xmlns:dc attributes on dc tags
Metadata Editor is now more robust to language codes that have incorrect case in the metadata
clarify Create HTML ToC menu entry works from existing ToC
prevent indavertent "" chars be treated like escapes when updating metadata
fix MetaEditor nit of not auto adding "aut" role to Author metadata for epub2
make Spellcheck Editor count align column numerically (right)

New Features

add ability for a user-template*.xhtml and user-template*.css be read from Sigil Prefs to create new empty xhtml and css files
updated to very latest MathJax version 3.2.2 for mathml support in Preview
add ability to cycle through 2 different custom stylesheets (and none at all) for use with Preview

For additional information about the new user interface and new tools added to Sigil's Find and Replace see this thread in our Forum on Mobileread.com:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346639

Notes:

The only installer that's appropriate for Windows 7 is the installer with "Legacy" in the name.

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-1.9.10

Published by dougmassay over 2 years ago

This release represents a mix of bug fixes and new features:

Bug Fixes

Fix insertion of id and links when cursor immediately before a closing tag
Make sure bundled PySide6 can find QtWebEngine resources on Windows (Qt6)
Properly recreate or remove encryption.xml depending on font obfuscating or not
Make Qt6 versions of Sigil use their own ini files to prevent corruption
treat figcaption as an "other text holder" when prettifying

New Features

Redesign the FindReplace dialog user interface to minimize size while adding features
Add a FindReplace "Text" only checkbox and support to exclude tags from search
Add a Toggle Line Wrap Mode and its support added to CodeView via pop-up menu
Add a Dry Run Replace dialog to act as "Replace All" what if. (Shift + Count All)
Add a Replacement filter dialog to allow users to delete unwanted replacements before applying Replace All (Shift + Replace All)
Add a Counts Report to Saved Searches to show Saved Search Group counts by search

For additional information about the new user interface and new tools added to Sigil's Find and Replace see this thread in our Forum on Mobileread.com:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346639

Notes:

The only installer that's appropriate for Windows 7 is the installer with "Legacy" in the name.

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

Sigil - Sigil-1.9.2

Published by dougmassay over 2 years ago

Sigil-1.9.2 is a follow-on bug-fix-only release meant to replace the recently released Sigil-1.9.0/1.9.1. There are no new features. The additional fixes since Sigil-1.9.1 are:

fix loss of highlight on match when searching
fix incorrect search counts
fix incomplete replace all
fix useability issues in Saved Searches
fix handling or subcapture replacements when no search capture groups are provided
fix crash on Windows from too fast/repeated Find Net and Find Previous launched via keyboard shortcuts

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.9.2 Github Release page.

Sigil - Sigil-1.9.1 (Do Not Use - Superseded by Sigil-1.9.2)

Published by dougmassay over 2 years ago

Note: This release is missing critical bug fixes that can be found in Sigil-1.9.2. We strongly urge you to upgrade to that release instead.

The released binaries for Sigil-1.9.1 have been deleted.

Sigil-1.9.1 is a follow-on bug-fix-only release meant to replace the recently released Sigil-1.9.0. There are no new features. The additional fixes since Sigil-1.9.0 are:

Allow creation of a Windows 7 Legacy Installer to return Sigil to Windows 7 (for now)
Completely revamped Find and Replace (yet again) to return most of its earlier behaviour for finding next
Prevent Find and Replace Count from changing current location
Extend spellcheck suggestions to properly handle end of sentence vs abbreviations
Center Image Report File Sizes vertically within their row.
Go To Link Or Style will now properly skip leading comments on selectors in CSS stylesheets
ecmascript is considered a core media type for javascript files
make URLInterceptor robust when the Book pointer is NULL (has been cleared)

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.9.1 Github Release page.

Sigil - Sigil-1.9.0 (Do Not Use - Superseded by Sigil-1.9.2)

Published by dougmassay over 2 years ago

Note: This release is missing critical bug fixes that can be found in Sigil-1.9.2. We strongly urge you to upgrade to that release instead.

The released binaries for Sigil-1.9.0 have been deleted.

WARNING: this release is not working on Windows 7. This was not a conscious decision and options are being considered. In the meantime, Windows 7 users should stick with version 1.8.0 of Sigil

In addition to several performance enhancements, Sigil-1.9.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. Though this official release is still Qt5 for the Windows and MacOS packages, we've made it possible to build Sigil with Qt6 and will be officially moving to Qt6 in a near-future release. Note that PySide6 will be the new Qt-for-Python of choice for plugins when official Qt6 versions of Sigil are released. We have a plan to make sure the transition of plugins currently using PyQt5 to support both PyQt5 and PySide6 as painless as possible. Stay tuned.

Bug Fixes:

Update gumbo to follow WhatWG changes for closing br and p tags in foreign content
Fix Saved Search Controls code typo for Tabbed Html Files
Plug long existent memory leaks related to Saved Searches that stop after a match is found
More file position of 0 fixes and handle toInt() result failures from N/A in ValidationResults
Fix incorrect copied permissions with AddContentFileToFolder after QFile::copy
Fix broken page up / down by key sequence in Repo Log and Automate Log.
Fix broken PluginRunner error signal

New Features:

Make Validation Results sortable by clicking on column header
Add Export All to Validation Results for text or csv output
Completely redesign Find Replace and Saved Searches to not overload wrap when searching multiple targets and add "Restart Search" button to make skipping replacements in Saved Searches possible
Update to use the PCRE2 library for regular expression searching
Add a new Sigil Preferences settings to disable GPU acceleration for QtWebEngine/Preview to make it easier for Sigil to keep working even with older graphics drivers
Add indicator to MainWindow titlebar that indicates if epub in old Sigil Standard form
Support building from source on macOS M1 (arm64) machines
Update Windows and Mac embedded python to Python 3.9.9
Allow building Sigil with Qt6.2.2+ or Qt5.10+ from the same codebase
Speed up "Add Blank HTML" in epubs with huge numbers of files
Store and set Epub Zip modification dates where possible
Support PySide6 to replace PyQt5 in plugins when building Sigil under Qt6
Handle deprecated embedded Python PyEvalInitThreads properly during build
Support QUiTool in PySide6 under Qt6 for plugins using .ui files
MacOS Python 3.9.9 now now includes TclTK 8.6.12 (no external TclTk package needed anymore)
Added Select All Checkbox in Delete Unused Media and CSS (PRs from @luisparravicini)
Add ability to rename classes when editing stylesheet in CV, will rename in all html as needed
SpellcheckEditor now uses LocaleAware sorting vs Case-Insensitive which did not handle diacritics well
Speed up loading of epubs with large numbers of xhtml files by using concurrency
New Hunspell spelling dictionaries based on scowl size 70 for en_GB and en_US
Support ending "." in spellchecker wordbreaks for better abbreviations if dictionary aff supports it
Faster CSS stylesheet reformating that can handle minor errors and still function

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Three new e-Reader plugins for Sigil have been built to help users see what their ebook might look like in real e-readers while still inside Sigil. See this post for descriptions and links.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.9.0 Github Release page.

Sigil - Sigil-1.8.0

Published by dougmassay almost 3 years ago

Sigil-1.8.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3.

Bug Fixes:

Reports now generate properly quoted csv when saved
Workaround Bug in QtWebengine when using custom scheme handler and specific audio/video codecs
Fix CV -> Preview sync after intial load when Preview Zoom is not equal to 100%
Fix link tags with rel set to stylesheets via Mend and Mend and Prettify that are missing type
Fix GoToLinkOrStyle to work on css link tags in head
Fix logic in GoToLinkOrStyle to better identify the actual target with styles
Fix insert media file when cursor at very start of tag
Fix Windows and macOS bugs when generating Keyboard Shortcuts
Fix insert closing tag when cursor at very start of tag
Fix double copy to Clipboard from OPF and NCX Tabs
Fix GoToLinkOrStyle when class attribute present but cursor not in the class attribute
Fix TabManager scroll to position to properly handle position of 0
Fix crash using Split At Markers when body tag is completely empty (no whitespace or anything)

New Features:

BookBrowser can now link javascripts similarly to how it links stylesheets
Epub3 javascripts can now open windows if javascript is enabled
Add Find and Replace context menu to clear its curent values and history
Add support for 3 Automation lists that support editing and automatically running a list of commands that can include all Sigil plugins and a limited set of Tools
Add support for BookBrowser to insert a blank javascript file
Do not require replacement prompt if current book is unmodified and input plugin is run

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Three new e-Reader plugins for Sigil have been built to help users see what their ebook might look like in real e-readers while still inside Sigil. See this post for descriptions and links.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users without a recent TclTk 8.6.X framework should still download and install TclTk_8.6.12.dmg (see below) to utilize plugins that use Tk/Tcl GUIs.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.8.0 Github Release page.

Sigil - Sigil-1.7.0

Published by dougmassay about 3 years ago

Sigil-1.7.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3.

Bug Fixes

Workaround to ensure the Saved Searches Controls editor widget is movable on all platforms
Make the External Xhtml Editor Button/Feature work with both PageEdit and non-PageEdit editors again
Fix Preview sync when CV transitions from xhtml to css and back to xhtml
Fix Preview sync when Find and Replace opens new tab with search target
Fix Preview sync when Validation error clicked on
Fix Preview sync when mathml is being used (compensate for mathjax changes)
Fix mathml use when external MathJax directory is specified in builds on Linux
Prevent Sigil from loading any manifested mimetype file from bad epubs, give load warning
Make Spellcheck dialog use double-click to control search in CV, to speed paging word list.
Prevent duplicate translated semantic names
Fix heading tool issues after self-closed BLOCK tags
Prevent stack overflow crashes in pcre lib due to recursion with some valid regex
Fix second window opening on macOS when first launching app with file
Remove [other.] semantic indicators for epub2
Fix crash in CSS Selectors Report when using Filters

New Features:

added Find Replace Regular Expression validator
added SIGIL_DISABLE_VERSION_META environment variable to control writing of Sigil Version
enable JIT compiler for pcre library to improve regex look-up performance
update the pcre library to version 8.45 (Final EOL)

Notes:

The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can always be downloaded from the Sigil website, or from its own GitHub repository.

Three new e-Reader plugins for Sigil have been built to help users see what their ebook might look like in real e-readers while still inside Sigil. See this post for descriptions and links.

Please check the Sigil website for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should still download and install ActiveState’s ActiveTcl Community Edition to utilize plugins that use Tk/Tcl GUIs. More here.

Mac users should also check out the website entry on the New Release File Format.

PGP Fingerprint (for signed tags and source archives): B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63

All binary (and source) downloads can also be found as assets at the bottom of The Sigil-1.7.0 Github Release page.

Sigil - Sigil-1.6.0

Published by dougmassay over 3 years ago

Sigil-1.6.0

Sigil-1.6.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3.

New Features:

Find and Replace search targets expanded to include tabbed files, CSS files, OPF and NCX files
Saved Searches now save full search Controls (mode, direction, options, and targets)
Preview loading is now completely asynchronous with a loading progress bar and loading placeholder
Merge will now automatically prevent duplicate ids
Merge will automatically add ids are former file boundaries to prevent TOC, Guide, and href losses
A new Xhtml Highlighter speeds up huge single file loading considerably
Redesigned CodeView Spellchecking to bring it back to Sigil-1.3.0 speeds
The External XHTML editor will now always pass along the OPF path and spine position
to simplify interface with PageEdit (use "Open With" if you want the old behaviour)
Added PyQtWebEngine as a newly required python module for Plugins.
ie. Plugins now have access to browser functionality for implementing e-Readers, more complex guis.

Bug Fixes:

Add Qt workaround for restoring Sigil window sizes when FindReplace left open on macOS
Add missing tr() calls to the tooltips in the Special Character selection dialog
Fix bug when all unused selectors are removed as in css stylesheet - adds a comment placeholder
Make empty Nav have a title to help empty epub passing epubcheck
Fix bug where fonts couldn't be previewed when a space was in the path
Redesigned code to make Merging large numbers of files much faster (Thank you Tex2002ans)
Fix bug in blank language field in Spellcheck Dialog (Thank you Tex2002ans)
Fix use of different indentation of css via PR from BeckyEbook (Thank you)
Fix typos in plugin framework guide (Thank you Doitsu)
Fix hang on launch when opf manifested files exist inside the META_INF (Thank you un_pogaz)
Fix Metadata Editor bugs related to alternate-script (Thank you Carmina16) (#613)
Fix Metadata Editor bugs related to epub2 event dates (Thank you Octet-nl) (#616)

Notes:

The Sigil user guide has been updated for Sigil-1.6.0+ for the new Saved Search Controls and Find & Replace targets. It can always be
downloaded from its own repository (https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/sigil-user-guide/releases/latest)

Three new e-Reader plugins for Sigil have been built to help users see what their ebook might look like in real e-readers while still inside Sigil. See this post for descriptions and links: (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=339678)

Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements. (https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/wiki)

Mac users should still download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition to utilize plugins that use Tk/Tcl GUIs. See (https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/wiki/Mac-OS-X-Notes)

Mac users should also check out the wiki entry on the New Release File Format:
(https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/wiki/Mac-OS-X-Notes#new-release-file-format-starting-with-sigil-0918)

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Sigil - Sigil-1.5.1

Published by dougmassay over 3 years ago

Sigil-1.5.1

Sigil-1.5.1 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users.

Updated on April 1, 2021

Due to discovering that MathML rendering in Sigil was broken on Windows, new Windows installers were uploaded to this release. If you downloaded Sigil 1.5.1 for Windows before April 1, 2021, you should download the installer again to get the fix (please use the posted--and updated--checksum file to ensure you have the official version). It was literally a two-line change to one file to fix the issue (on Windows only), so a new release was deemed unnecessary. I'm also posting the patch that can be applied to the original Sigil 1.5.1 source for any who may wish to build their own. Again: this only applies to MathML rendering on the Windows platform. If you don't use MathML, or are not on the Windows platform, feel free to continue to use the version of Sigil you have installed. Sorry for any inconvenience

Features:

Can now handle single xhtml file sizes over 2megabytes in size via its own URL Schemehandler
Will now highlight matched open close tag pairs while editing in Code View
Delete open close tag pairs (Remove Tag Pair)
Default selection of text for basic CodeView formatting including bold, italic, etc based on cursor position
Shift double-click (and Alt double-click) on a tag to select tag contents (including tag)
Expanded split on Sigil Split Marker capabilities to work better with nested tags
Added a new C++ CSS Parser and Query engine that works with Sigil's version of Gumbo
The Reports tool for "CSS Selectors" now lists all CSS selectors not just classes
The "Delete Unused Styles" tool now handles all unused CSS Selectors not just classes
The Reports for "CSS Selectors" and "Delete Unused Selectors" now handle selectors in XHTML Style tags
Added ability to load text and csv files to Group Saved Searches to automate lists of replacements
Reworked the Metadata Editor to be much more Human Readable with tooltips to show xml tags
Added semantic code to the descriptive field in Add Semantics as a learning aid (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
Checkpoint ManageRepos now has the ability to sort the repo table by any column (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
The Sigil User Guide has be completely reworked to bring it to Sigil 1.5.0+ levels

Bug Fixes:

Fix issue with custom ncx names in non-standard empty epub layouts
Fix Import Text to properly add ncx if missing for epub2
Fix issue with "Delete Unused Styles" not properly detecting all used selectors
Fix issues with repeated use of Mend and Prettify on bare text in structural tags
Fix extra line issue with Link to Stylesheet (Thank you BeckyEBook!)
Fix bug in id assignment in EPUB3 Metadata editor
Fix bug in trailing slash in Move To Folder paths
Fix bug in spelling of Columbia->Colombia in Languages (Thank you Tex2002ans!)
Fix bug in Clip Editor pasting of multiple clips
Fix bug in PerformCSSUpdates related to quoted string in content: values
Fix bug related to iframe handling when loading Preview
Fix typos in XMLEntities descriptions (Thank you BeckEbook!)
Fix numeric table alignment to align right in multiple tables (Thank you BeckyEbook!)
Fix bug in Add Existing not properly using QProgressDialog for long import
Removed long deprecated and now invalid use of "altlang" in EPUB3 Metadata Editor

Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

Mac users should still download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition to utilize plugins that use Tk/Tcl GUIs. More here.
Mac users should also check out the wiki entry on the New Release File Format

The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.

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Sigil - Sigil-1.5.0 Beta

Published by dougmassay over 3 years ago

Sigil-1.5.0 Beta

Sigil-1.5.0 Beta represents a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users.

Due to large internal changes in the Sigil codebase, this release should be considered Beta (non-production) ready.

This build of Sigil has passed all of our primary tests and appears to be stable but the feature set of Sigil has grown so large that no single person uses it the same way nor exercises all of the code.

So we need your help to track down any remaining issues, especially related to the new features and workings made to Code View, the Metadata Editor, and our new CSS parser being used to identify unused CSS Selectors.

Features:

Can now handle single xhtml file sizes over 2megabytes in size via its own URL Schemehandler
Will now highlight matched open close tag pairs while editing in Code View
Delete open close tag pairs (Remove Tag Pair)
Default selection of text for basic CodeView formatting including bold, italic, etc based on cursor position
Double-click (and shift double-click) on a tag to select tag contents (including tag)
Expanded split on Sigil Split Marker capabilities to work better with nested tags
Added a new C++ CSS Parser and Query engine that works with Sigil's version of Gumbo
The Reports tool for "CSS Selectors" now lists all CSS selectors not just classes
The "Delete Unused Styles" tool now handles all unused CSS Selectors not just classes
The Reports for "CSS Selectors" and "Delete Unused Selectors" now handle selectors in XHTML Style tags
Added ability to load text and csv files to Group Saved Searches to automate lists of replacements
Reworked the Metadata Editor to be much more Human Readable with tooltips to show xml tags
Added semantic code to the descriptive field in Add Semantics as a learning aid (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
Checkpoint ManageRepos now has the ability to sort the repo table by any column (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
The Sigil User Guide has be completely reworked to bring it to Sigil 1.5.0+ levels

Bug Fixes:

Fix issue with custom ncx names in non-standard empty epub layouts
Fix Import Text to properly add ncx if missing for epub2
Fix issue with "Delete Unused Styles" not properly detecting all used selectors
Fix issues with repeated use of Mend and Prettify on bare text in structural tags
Fix extra line issue with Link to Stylesheet (Thank you BeckyEBook!)
Fix bug in id assignment in EPUB3 Metadata editor
Fix bug in trailing slash in Move To Folder paths
Fix bug in spelling of Columbia->Colombia in Languages (Thank you Tex2002ans!)
Fix bug in Clip Editor pasting of multiple clips
Fix bug in PerformCSSUpdates related to quoted string in content: values
Fix bug related to iframe handling when loading Preview
Fix typos in XMLEntities descriptions (Thank you BeckEbook!)
Fix numeric table alignment to align right in multiple tables (Thank you BeckyEbook!)
Fix bug in Add Existing not properly using QProgressDialog for long import
Removed long deprecated and now invalid use of "altlang" in EPUB3 Metadata Editor

Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.

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Sigil - Sigil-1.4.3

Published by dougmassay almost 4 years ago

Sigil-1.4.3 Critical Bug Fix Release

Bug Fixes Since Sigil-1.4.0:

critical bug fix for OPF metadata attributes that use named entities
fix bug in "Add Existing" files when file names would require percent encoding
fix bug in multiple language spellchecking dialog word lookup when no language attributes used
update de, nl, sv, ko, ru translations that missed the Sigil 1.4.0 initial release
critical bug fix for over xml encoding html used inside metadata in the opf
revert ctrl-f to it long standing Find and Replace behaviour
fix mismatched override wait cursor usage
fix crashes when dictionaries are missing on load or during first spellcheck
update the mapping of language codes to dictionaries without the need to restart
fix critical bug which caused split to break links that are bare fragments
fix additional critical bugs which caused split to lose fragments from link targets
fix double # chars in fragment ids during merge
fix hang on load with bad encryption.xml font uris
quiet unneeded debug output when importing an epub
fix opf cleanup bug when identical xmlns values are used with two different prefixes on the same tag

Sigil-1.4.3 represents additional critical bug fixes and is meant to immediately replace Sigil 1.4.0 through Sigil-1.4.2. It has all the features of the original Sigil 1.4.0 including new icon themes and multiple language spell checking.

Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.

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Sigil - Sigil-1.4.2

Published by dougmassay almost 4 years ago

Sigil-1.4.2 Critical Bug Fix Release

This release has been replaced with Sigil-1.4.3 that has some additional critical bug fixes.

Upgrade to Sigil-1.4.3

Bug Fixes Since Sigil-1.4.0:

critical bug fix for incorrectly xml encoding of opf metadata attributes that use entities
fix bug in "Add Existing" files when file names would require percent encoding
fix bug in multiple language spellchecking dialog word lookup when no language attributes used
update de, nl, sv, ko, ru translations that missed the Sigil 1.4.0 initial release
critical bug fix for over xml encoding html used inside metadata in the opf
revert ctrl-f to it long standing Find and Replace behaviour

If you are using either Sigil-1.4.0 or Sigil-1.4.1, we strongly urge you to upgrade to Sigil-1.4.2.

Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.

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Sigil - Sigil-1.4.1

Published by dougmassay almost 4 years ago

Please use Sigil 1.4.2 in place of this release as it contains some critical bug fixes

Sigil-1.4.1

Bug Fixes:

critical bug fix for over xml encoding html used inside metadata in the opf
return use of ctrl-f to its long standing functionality

Please use Sigil 1.4.1 in place of Sigil 1.4.0.

Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.

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Sigil - Sigil-1.4.0 - This Release has been superseded by Sigil 1.4.1

Published by dougmassay almost 4 years ago

Sigil-1.4.0

Sigil-1.4.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users.

Multiple Language Spellcheck support! Icon Themes and other cool stuff! Read all about it.

New Features:

Two different types of Multiple Language Spellchecking support added:
- A user can now specify a Primary and a Secondary Language dictionary for real-time spellchecking (red squiggley underline).
- The Spellcheck Dialog will now support spell checking as determined by xml:lang and lang attributes in any languages with dictionaries
Main UI icons now use scalable svg files to better serve higher res displays. All provided by BeckyEbook (ala BeckyDTP). A huge Thank You! to BeckyEbook
New brighter Sigil Application Icon is now being used.
Alternate Sigil main Application Icon now available as a build-time option
Sigil now provides 3 different Icon Themes for the user: Main, Fluent, and Material. Again all thanks goes to BeckyEbook for creating/collecting all of the icon themes!
Sigil will now support a custom user-determined Icon theme via a custom .rcc file.
- pre-made icon themes for Legacy and Material themes in different base colors are now available with more user-contributed theme files to hopefully come. Again Thank BeckyEbook!
- checkout https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/IconThemes for more information and additional themes
New main toolbar icons are now available and improved icon groupings have been made to provide the user with a greater degree of toolbar customization. Users may need to drag and drop icon grouping and modify their selections of Toolbars to see some of these new options.
Improved support for IRI (international) hrefs. OPF newly added file manifest ids now converted to plain ascii to prevent issues with older readers

Bug Fixes:

Fix bugs in Marking for Index
Perform major URL en/decode refactoring to properly handle '#' (and other reserved chars) in file names
Translate "Table of Contents" using book language not ui langauge
Fix handling of links when using Add Existing on xhtml files with links to other xhtml files
Fix split code to better handle duplicate target ids that reside in different files
Bug fixes for the plugin interface from wrCisco (Thank you!)
Bug fixes for the plugin interface setguide from BeckyDTP (Thank you!)
Fix bug in OPF parsing when valid but non-traditional namespace prefixes are used
Fix rare off by one condition in clip number to clip enditor model conversion

Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.

The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.

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