The One with the Thoughts of Frans

This month’s release addresses a few long-standing PocketBook platform issues to bring the experience more in line with other platforms. A big thanks to @ezdiy for the effort.

On Kobo it’s now possible to enable USB Mass Storage without (re)starting Nickel (#6552). Since most of the KoboUSBMS tweaks required touching the startup script, a full, proper Exit -> Start cycle is required (or a device reboot). With a simple KOReader restart, the old startup script would still be used, and it doesn’t know how to deal with the new changes, which at best means a crash or a shutdown.

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

• Make sure “Clear history of deleted files” actually persists. (#6557) @NiLuJe


• [Kobo] Support USBMS exports (#6552, #6566, #6590, #6603, #6639) @NiLuJe


• [android]: fix backlight toggle (#6520) @zwim


• crengine: new HTML parser, libRu and FB2 tweaks (#6560) @poire-z


• Dispatcher: incremental gesture fix (#6565) @yparitcher


• android: fix frontlight dialog gesture (#6568) @pazos


• Text/HTML widgets: allow scrolling with the scrollbar (#6576 ) @poire-z


• turn on frontlight switch on Tolino. (#6586) @zwim


• FileChooser: allow traversing unreadable directories (#6593) @poire-z


• Open with: add Text Editor plugin (#6593) @poire-z


• Terminal: support multiple lines and make it re-invokeable (#6599) @smartscripts-nl


• Make UIManager track prevent/allowStandby state. (#6558) @ezdiy


• Poll mode pocketbook frontend. (#6559) @ezdiy


• Dispatcher: adds Texteditor: open last file (#6600) @smartscripts-nl


• Tame BackgroundRunner: stop running when no more job (#6605) @poire-z


• PocketBook: Auto-standby plugin (#6602) @ezdiy


• Added Serbian typography rules (#6596) @strn


• Add API to set OS level file associations (#6615) @ezdiy


• Pocketbook: File handling OS integration (#6617) @ezdiy


• Pocketbook: Launcher OS integration (#6620) @ezdiy


• Allow following links and footnotes with keys (#6619) @poire-z


• Terminal: add shortcuts for re-useable commands (#6609) @smartscripts-nl


• Pocketbook: Add file associations into “Open with” menu (#6624) @ezdiy


• Pocketbook: Add reboot option. (#6625) @ezdiy


• Dispatcher: adds Show terminal (#6626) @smartscripts-nl


• [UX] Add bookmark count as footer item (#6629) @smartscripts-nl


• Update KoboUSBMS for CJK support (#6639) @NiLuJe


• Pocketbook misc fixes (#6633) @pazos


• [Plugin] BatteryStat: consumed → charged for charging (#6646) @Frenzie


• Prevent automatic footer refreshes from drawing the footer on top of stuff that isn’t ReaderUI (#6648, #6650) @NiLuJe


• Pocketbook: use DU waveform for fast updates (#6652) @pazos


• remarkable: fix fbdepth use in startup script (#6658) @tcrs


• Pocketbook: Fix frontlight handling. (#6663) @ezdiy

Full changelog — closed milestone issues

Great news! My suggestion for segmented addressbars from Opera 11 Addressbar Revisited has been picked up by Vivaldi. Presumably independently, but this is the kind of development I like to see.