KOReader beta 20181007 “don’t read alone tonight”
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.
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