The One with the Thoughts of Frans

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer for E Ink devices, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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The previous beta unfortunately broke OTA updates. This was quickly fixed (#4150), but you might need to update manually.

This release introduces support for the Sony PRSTUX, ported by @v01d (#4198).

There is now also a basic text editor (#4135).

(Pumpkin credit: https://openclipart.org/detail/94513/helloween-pumpkin)

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights include:

• [fix] Show hidden dirs and files in Choose screensaver image (#4121) @robert00s
• bump base/crengine: fix two highlight issues (#4120) @poire-z
• bump crengine: fix collapsing spaces and newlines (#4130) @poire-z
• FileChooser, PathChooser: show current path in header (#4125) @robert00s
• Text input related fixes & enhancements (#4124) @poire-z
• Text editor plugin, InputDialog enhancements (#4135, #4145) @poire-z
• Hyphenation: speed up book loading by setting hyph algo earlier (#4142) @poire-z
• Various changes to sorting (#4067)
• Fix OTAManager tar invocations (#4150)
• Sorting: adds Sort by name – mixed files and folders (#4140) @robert00s
• Greek keyboard update (#4152) @embryo10 @Frenzie
• Adds ReaderDeviceStatus: low battery alarm (#4144) @robert00s
• [UX] SkimTo/GoTo: add origin page to location stack (#4162) @poire-z
• Plugin manager (#4159) @robert00s
• cre: configurable kerning method (off/freetype/harfbuzz) (#4167) @poire-z
• Hall-of-fame to recognize contributors on README (#4168) @sergey48k
• Adds Folder shortcuts to Plus menu (#4165) @robert00s
• Enhanced visual feedback around tar & zsync! (#4194) @NiLuJe
• Sony PRSTUX support (#4198) @v01d
• [build] Stick to AppImageTool 10 (#4209) @Frenzie
• New startup option: Folder shortcuts (#4220) @robert00s
• [UX] Move ‘Links’ submenu to settings (#4204) @Frenzie
• Allow closing full screen dialogs with swipe down (#4237) @poire-z
• add spanish keyboard with Ñ character (#4244) @pazos
• [Statistics] Add estimated reading finished date (#4241) @robert00s
• Gesture manager (initial) (#4240) @robert00s
• Add OPDS authentication (#4248) @robert00s
• Add support for tiff and gif format in screensaver (#4250) @robert00s
• Add support for Pocketbook Color Lux (#4212) @thomasrebele
• [UX] Show OTA updates only on supported devices (#4256) @pazos

Full changelog

The biggest issue with breadcrumbs in Nautilus and Nemo is that suddenly you can only reach the full path by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + L or with too precise clicking somewhere far from where you need to be. Thunar has always shared this problem, but it looks like it was silently fixed in the 1.8.x release. (That is, I couldn’t find anything about it in the NEWS file.)

Note how everything to the right of the breadcrumbs is a giant button to activate location entry. Very elegant. Next, let’s have some “Open terminal here” on the breadcrumbs!