The One with the Thoughts of Frans

The default of 2 GB turned out to be a bit limiting.
There was a nice guide over at here.

sudo swapoff /swapfile
sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

swapon --show
free -h

In short, ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1 /home/frans/.itch/itch.

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

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The user guide received a big update, full changelog here.

Dictionaries with images now automatically take the res folder as their point of departure (#12877). This means you’ll have to adjust your dictionary content scripts. If you’re lucky you can simply delete them.

Various changes in plugins:

• exporter plugin drops support for memos and flomo. You can install them from https://github.com/koreader/contrib if they work for you as is but they won’t receive support here.
• autofrontlight plugin was removed.
• backgroundrunner plugin was removed. Third party plugins that rely on it to work need to be updated!

New support for KindleHF. Any Kindle running firmware ≥ 5.16.3 will need the kindlehf package.

This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

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

• bump base for many updated libraries and assorted fixes (#12759, #12761, #12773, #12780, #12796, #12956, #12822) @benoit-pierre
• pocketbook: support “extended” key events (#12707) @benoit-pierre
• Screenshoter: fix screenshot folder (#12750) @hius07
• factorize reflow code (#12729) @benoit-pierre
• add faster option to export text selections via qr codes (#12746) @Commodore64user
• Notebook file (#12699) @hius07
• Highlight: line height (#12721) @hius07
• ci/macos: fix possible issue during brew install (#12767) @benoit-pierre
• doc: minor tweak to building requirements (#12762) @benoit-pierre
• No frontlight devices – disable irrelevant plugins (#12766) @mergen3107
• android: bump luajit-launcher (#12779) @benoit-pierre
• Highlights: page boxes cache (#12768) @hius07
• tests: speedup readhistory reduce test (#12785) @benoit-pierre
• tests: speedup persist huge tables test (#12786) @benoit-pierre
• Decode wpa_supplicant SSID when already connected (#12782) @wfdewith
• [Kindle NT] fix terminal and timesync (#12765) @mergen3107
• [screensaver menu] remove gesture based option from NT devices (#12747) @Commodore64user
• make: factorize code for generating release updates (#12655) @benoit-pierre
• ci/macos: enable tests (#12784) @benoit-pierre
• webdav: show folders with same name as current folder (#12788) @BrendanL79
• screensaver: Add dynamic battery symbol to sleep screen message (#12548) @LostishCode
• switch to new meson based testsuite runner (#12789) @benoit-pierre
• Update epubdownloadbackend.lua (New logic to handle multiple selectors) (#12804) @kulasegaram
• ci/circle: fix ccache cache (#12802) @benoit-pierre
• Schedule next standby on AutoStandby plugin init (#12815) @sebastien-maillard
• Translator: Add romanizations setting in Translation settings (#12829) @eric-p-hutchins
• [AutoSuspend] Make day selector less restrictive (#12835) @zwim
• [KOPlugin] Hotkeys, add custom keyboard shortcuts (#12484) @Commodore64user
• Collections: search (#12776) @hius07
• Bump luajit-launcher (#12850) @hugleo
• [plugin] Patch management: fix disabling plugin (#12849) @Frenzie
• Allow overriding font-based normal line-height (#12483) @moben
• CreDocument: tweak when the default font is set (#12846) @poire-z
• Highlights: anchored dialogs (#12810) @hius07
• FileManager, History, Collections: expose file dialog buttons (#12845) @hius07
• FileManagerBookInfo: fix logic in getCoverImage() (#12852) @hius07
• remove autofrontlight + backgroundrunner (#12809) @pazos
• Exporter: drop unsupported (memos & flomo). (#12808) @pazos
• FileManager: Plus dialog button from CoverBrowser (#12857) @hius07
• kodev: tweak test command (#12864) @benoit-pierre
• Patch management: plugin -> core (#12862) @hius07
• Remove onSetFullScreen() (#12871) @hius07
• [Profiles] search and update profile actions assigned to hotkeys (#12642) @Commodore64user
• doc: update macOS build instructions (#12886) @benoit-pierre
• Screenshoter: add filename and page number (#12887) @Frenzie
• bump base (#12894) @Frenzie
• Profiles: auto-exec “on book opening” – new books (#12884) @hius07
• Dictionary: fix missing images (#12877) @TnS-hun
• Update macOS PATH shenanigans (#12873) @NiLuJe
• QR code plugin bug fix (#12833) @Commodore64user
• [HotKeys] adds ‘type to search’ setting to hasKeyboard devices (#12860) @Commodore64user
• [Dispatcher] remove gesture mentions from NT (#12889) @Commodore64user
• CoverBrowser: minor fix and remove unused (#12895) @hius07
• Collections: add books from a folder (#12892) @hius07
• VocabBuilder.koplugin: support option to overwrite word with new context (#12885) @weijiuqiao
• VocabBuilder.koplugin: support PDF context extraction for multi-word phrase (#12917) @weijiuqiao
• add provider module (#12641) @pazos
• Reader: inspect zip file content to choose provider (#12902) @hius07
• vocabbuilder.koplugin: fix selecting context bug (#12938) @weijiuqiao
• bump base (#12939) @benoit-pierre
• speedup testsuite (#12906) @benoit-pierre
• CoverBrowser BookInfoManager: lite getDocProps() (#12936) @hius07
• ReaderSearch results: search string always in bold (#12940) @hius07
• PathChooser: title bar fm_style (#12942) @hius07
• Add support of KindlePaperwhite5 Signature Edition light sensor (#12946) @hius07
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: support single-entry feeds (#12958) @Frenzie
• Wikipedia EPUBs: fix missing symbols at start of headings (#12961) @poire-z
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: fix Atom download_full_article=false not working (#12959) @Frenzie
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: switch default to download_full_article=false (#12965) @Frenzie
• End of document menu: minor fix (#12962) @hius07
• Annotations: add datetime_updated property (#12963) @hius07
• [lang] Exporter → Nextcloud: use proper arrow (#12970) @Frenzie
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: download images without extension (#12969) @Frenzie
• [plugin, i18n] CoverBrowser: add missing plural (#12968) @Frenzie
• Vocabbuiler.koplugin: Fix pdf context extraction with hyphenation (#12975) @weijiuqiao
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: fail gracefully when date can’t be parsed (#12978) @Frenzie
• socketutil: remove URL from user agent, add device info (#12977) @Frenzie
• fix base commit (#12982) @benoit-pierre
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: reduce HTML idiosyncracies (#12976) @Frenzie
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: add primitive support for relative URLs (#12980) @Frenzie
• socketutil: use Device.model directly (#12992) @Frenzie
• Bump base for KindleHF: Downgrade mtune to A9 (#12996) @Frenzie
• [device] Add the new kindle line-up (#12990) @notmarek
• InputDialog: Make sure keyboard_visible is never nil’ed (#12994) @NiLuJe
• [MultiInputDialog] vertically centre multi input dialogue (#12951) @Commodore64user
• [plugin] ReadTimer: interpret the past as a time tomorrow (#12985) @Frenzie
• File list: new display options (#12954) @hius07
• Export plugin: support multiple authors in Nextcloud export (#13005) @kotnik
• Collections: filter by metadata (#12981) @hius07
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: use first feed description if it’s a table in RSS (#13032) @Frenzie
• processImg: skip data URI (#13034) @Frenzie
• Annotations: fix matchFunc (#13037) @hius07
• [device] add Kindle Scribe 2 support (#13051) @notmarek
• Reduce sleep screen message’s font size to fit one line (#13026) @Commodore64user
• Dictionary, footnotes: highlight the selected text (#12948) @TnS-hun
• wallabag: Add option to archive locally, instead of deleting + rewording of menu options (#12949) @harmtemolder
• EPUB: mimetype file should not be compressed (#13057) @Frenzie
• [plugin] Gestures, Hotkeys: attempt to work around corrupted gestures file (#13054) @Frenzie
• [minor] normalize a few requires (#13055) @Frenzie
• [i18n, plugins] Wallabag: use ngettext for plural (#13062) @Frenzie
• feat(readerdictionary): add ability to use kiwix standalone (#13060) @dtomvan
• EPUB: unify include_images logic (#13063) @Frenzie
• [minor, plugin] NewsDownloader: fix a string that’s concatenated without space or newline (#13071) @Frenzie
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: make <title> match less greedy (#13070) @Frenzie
• kosync: Make sure there are no leading or trailing whitespaces. (#13077) @beedaddy
• [minor] Normalize more requires (#13074) @Frenzie
• [screensaver] Ignore sleep screen cover conditionally (#13068) @Commodore64user
• EPUB: limit image download display updates to once per second (#13073) @Frenzie
• CoverBrowser info_cache: move to core (#13018) @hius07
• [minor] Remove accidental self from util.calcFreeMem() (#13096) @Frenzie
• [doc] Update Trapper:info() documentation (#13095) @Frenzie
• [screenshoter] Fix bug in ‘set as wallpaper’ setting. (#13108) @Commodore64user
• [screensaver] Add option to cycle through folder images (#13094) @Commodore64user
• Bump luajit-launcher (#13112) @hugleo
• Persist: add support for zstd serialization/deserialization in memory (#13122) @Frenzie
• Collections: filter by book status (#13099) @hius07
• BookShortcuts: open file with associated provider (#13106) @hius07
• bump base (#13140) @benoit-pierre
• ci/macos: tweak ccache handling (#13141) @benoit-pierre
• Gesture manager and Profiles: improve Dispatcher actions menu (#13078) @hius07
• ReaderStatus: fix End of Document action (#13144) @hius07
• [ReaderHighlight] rewrite some UI strings (#13145) @Commodore64user
• bump base (#13150) @benoit-pierre
• ImageWidget: fix stretch limit not being obeyed (#13105) @Commodore64user
• ReaderHighlight: add overlooked “crosshairs” (#13152) @Frenzie
• always compile with debug information (#13151) @benoit-pierre
• [ReaderHighlight] NT: Improve selection of hyphenated words (#13129) @Commodore64user
• BookList: fix book status (#13157) @hius07
• “Invert page turn taps and swipes” fix (#13155) @hius07
• NewsDownloader: deal with 404 and other error statuses better (#13165) @Frenzie
• Add CacheSQLite (#13131) @Frenzie
• [SortWidget] NT: add new keyEvents to widget (#13154) @Commodore64user
• Bump luajit-launcher (#13166) @hugleo
• Bump luajit-launcher (#13170) @hugleo
• ReaderView: fix resetting screen boxes cache (#13169) @hius07
• [screenshoter] remove ‘set as wallpaper’ from devices with special offers (#13110) @Commodore64user
• NewsDownloader: add a cache to reduce wasted bandwidth (#13171) @Frenzie
• [chore] NewsDownloader: remove dead code (#13178) @Frenzie
• [chore] NewsDownloader: remove custom redirect handling (#13179) @Frenzie
• GestureDetector: Translate start & end gesture positions when rotated (#13101) @NiLuJe
• NewsDownloader: a couple of cache improvements (#13181) @Frenzie
• NewsDownloader: some random cleanup (#13182) @Frenzie
• Couple of minor fixes (#13185) @hius07
• [ReaderFooter] keep menu open after arranging items in status bar (#13168) @Commodore64user
• [SortWidget] add cancelOrClose method (#13189) @Commodore64user
• NewsDownloader: process HTML with cre.getBalancedHTML() to ensure self-closing tags like <hr> are closed like <hr/> (#13188) @Frenzie
• Kindle: demote Warn to Info (#13196) @yparitcher
• Highlights: fix page boxes cache (#13200) @hius07
• [Hotkeys] refactor hotkey list and update callbacks (#13219) @Commodore64user
• [Common settings] remove screenshot setting from unsupported devices (#13221) @Commodore64user
• Dispatcher: action list fixes (#13167) @hius07
• Collections: search in book content (#13139) @hius07
• Dispatcher: fix remove actions (#13227) @hius07
• fix: Added OSS-Dict support (#13224) @farfromrefug
• OPDS: raw server filenames for download (#13230) @hius07
• Exporter: migrate to rapidjson (#13204) @pazos
• Fix typo in PocketBook init (#13238) @Frenzie
• Highlights: quicker Style and Note marker dialogs (#13223) @hius07
• calibre.koplugin: show message when attempting to connect via dispatcher (#13237) @pazos
• ReaderUI: fix BookList cache (#13245) @hius07
• [Hotkeys] override self.ui.fonts key_events (#13257) @Commodore64user
• Style tweaks: add ‘Set on/off’ action to Dispatcher (#13242) @hius07
• [plugin] NewsDownloader: don’t try to strip <script> tags (#13260) @Frenzie
• HtmlBoxWidget: fix incorrect selection (#13276) @TnS-hun
• [plugin] Terminal: improve LDoc module definition for terminputtext.lua (#13273) @Frenzie
• [DictQuickLookup] NT: add text selection to the dictionary widget (#13232) @Commodore64user
• CoverBrowser BookInfoManager: handle zip (#13290) @hius07
• Collections: sort (#13264) @hius07
• bump base (#13301) @benoit-pierre
• doc: fix / update build instructions for Alpine Linux (#13319) @benoit-pierre
• [minor] Fix “Screen timeout” capitalization (#13332) @Frenzie
• FileSearcher: consistent results window (#13298) @hius07
• [DoubleSpinWidget, SpinWidget] change values with page-turn buttons (#13208) @Commodore64user
• [DateTimeWidget] add key_events and fix setting dates (#13214) @Commodore64user
• PL keyboard layout: move “ó” and “Ó” to east on keypopup (#13347) @K4rBie
• Collections: connect folders (#13336) @hius07
• OPDS: group downloading (#13338) @hius07
• KoptOptions: fix rtl (#13350) @hius07
• [ReaderHighlight] NT: account for status and alt-status bars in text selection (#13348) @Commodore64user
• [InfoMessage] stop force_one_line if font is too small (#13337) @Commodore64user
• [plugin] HTTPInspector: return InputEvent on every call to reset standby/suspend timer (#13339) @Frenzie
• Opds-pse v1.2 [LastRead] (#13357) @showyee
• Highlights: edit boundaries in pdf (#13364) @hius07
• KeyValuePage: landscape and portrait items per page (#13377) @hius07
• Annotations: sync between devices (#13372) @hius07
• Fix wallabag’s “Prefer original non-HTML document” setting (#13333) @harmtemolder
• Bump base (#13396) @Frenzie
• Statistics: actions to enable/disable (#13387) @hius07
• feat(cloudstorage/webdav): Show ‘file size’ property in WebDAV (#13371) @Linus045
• Book shortcuts: scripts support (#13393) @hius07
• Profiles: auto-exec time interval (#13399) @hius07
• [plugin/NEWS-RSS] Handle missing description gracefully in rss feed (#13407) @Blizarre
• Expose txt_preformatted to UI (#13392) @hius07
• fix for Add new entry show the url from the last added entry in NoewDownloader (#13411) @Blizarre
• Do not discard RSS/Atom feed processing errors (#13413) @Blizarre
• [News Downloader UI] Fix missing elements in the Add feeds window (#13415) @Blizarre
• [plugin] HttpInspector: avoid crash when port can’t be bound (#13421) @Frenzie
• Add key_repeat support to kindle NT (#13328) @Commodore64user
• Menu widget: “Go to letter” everywhere (#13405) @hius07
• PDF: single-word search with leading and trailing spaces (#13414) @hius07
• Update en_popup.lua (#13425) @Belarusan
• Open previous file in last book folder (#13424, #13431) @hius07
• bump luajit-launcher (#13432) @pazos
• Old plugins cleanup (#12932) @pazos
• OPDS: fix group download (#13428) @hius07
• CoverBrowser list mode: fix shortcut icon position (#13429) @hius07
• Profiles: add “on exiting sleep screen” auto-exec trigger (#13430) @hius07
• Reflowable documents: fix sync T/B margins (#13439) @hius07
• OPDS: fix calling “file downloaded” dialog (#13443) @hius07
• File browser: sort by metadata (#13437) @hius07
• [UnderlineContainer] “fix” focus underline for RTL UI (#13454) @Commodore64user
• Menu widget: go to letter for folders (#13460) @hius07
• Dispatcher: ignore order for single-action gesture (#13450) @hius07
• Status strings translation context (#13459) @hius07
• File searcher: fix menu appearance (#13465) @hius07
• Menu search fixes (#13493) @hius07
• VocabBuilder: fix SortWidget method name (#13495) @hius07
• One time migration: fix last migration date (#13499) @hius07
• [Plugin] Added support for hexadecimal code points to OPDS parser (#13482) @ReneeIbeji
• Update some links in Porting.md (#13504) @KPCOFGS
• Dispatcher: fix action deleted arg (#13488) @hius07
• File browser: filter by status (#13503) @hius07
• [ReaderLink, Dispatcher] add toggle for tap-to-follow links (#13469) @Commodore64user
• avoid debian fonts (#13512) @pazos
• calibre: add timeout to connection message (#13513) @pazos
• Key press handlers to show upper menu (#13511) @hius07
• Selected files: more actions (#13510) @hius07
• CoverBrowser: fix Settings menu item position (#13516) @hius07
• [plugin] calibre: fix a nil concatenation typo (#13484) @Frenzie
• fix thirdparty exporters (#13531) @pazos
• OPDSBrowser: analyze acquisition mimetype (#13535) @hius07
• Quote directory in util.diskUsage (#13448) @0xr0bert

New Contributors

• @BrendanL79 made their first contribution in #12788
• @LostishCode made their first contribution in #12548
• @kulasegaram made their first contribution in #12804
• @sebastien-maillard made their first contribution in #12815
• @eric-p-hutchins made their first contribution in #12829
• @moben made their first contribution in #12483
• @harmtemolder made their first contribution in #12949
• @dtomvan made their first contribution in #13060
• @beedaddy made their first contribution in #13077
• @farfromrefug made their first contribution in #13224
• @K4rBie made their first contribution in #13347
• @showyee made their first contribution in #13357
• @Linus045 made their first contribution in #13371
• @Blizarre made their first contribution in #13407
• @Belarusan made their first contribution in #13425
• @ReneeIbeji made their first contribution in #13482
• @KPCOFGS made their first contribution in #13504
• @0xr0bert made their first contribution in #13448

Full Changelog: v2024.11...v2025.04 — closed milestone issues

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