The One with the Thoughts of Frans

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

The standard QWERTY keyboard now supports swiping and holding for diacritics. The basic grid of 9 surrounding keys is equivalent to swipe direction.

It recently came to light that the Ubuntu Touch build has been broken for a while. Some minor fixes were applied (e.g., #4946, #4947, #4963) but without a developer who can test on an actual device this is unlikely to be fixed properly. The Ubuntu Touch builds will still be available on the nightly build server, but not as part of the official release.

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

• [UX] Gesture manager: corner gestures (#4878) @Frenzie
• Slightly less crappy Nightmode (#4871) @NiLuJe
• [UX] Add keyboard swipes (#4884) @Frenzie
• [UX] Keyboard character selection popup (#4886, #4887, #4891 & many more) @Frenzie
• Go back to “UI” refreshes in the FM (#4903) @NiLuJe
• Update FR and ES keyboards (#4906) @poire-z
• [fix] Update AutoWarmth state on resume (#4901, #4921, #4924) @NiLuJe
• [chore] Show FileManager in case of showReaderCoroutine failure (#4931) @Frenzie
• [Android] do not log verbose blitbuffer messages on release builds (#4933) @pazos
• Allow toggling CRe’s new dithering & scaling (#4922) @NiLuJe
• [fix] plugins/send2ebook: crash on setting download dir (#4944) @Frenzie
• NewsDownloader: epub with images (#4982) @Thra11
• Give more control over CRe margins (#4945) @NiLuJe
• Info message typo fix (#5003) @vaughns

Full changelog