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Date: 2 September 2013
This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.7.4 libs and was built with no internal audio player support. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the portable Linux version.
Detailed lists of changes is here.
Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):
- Update belarusian translation
- Update Qt Italian translation
- Add Qt Lithuanian translation
- Update Ukrainian translation by Korostil Daniel.
- Add Qt Spanish translation
- Update of Slovak translation
- Update Czech translation by Vít Pelcák.
- Updated Korean localization by panho10
- Update Italian translation by Daniele Di Pisa.
- Update Serbian translation by ozzii
- Update Lithuanian translation
- Update Albanian translation by Besmir Godole
- Customize info.plist to add key to use font auto-scaling in OS X (issue #264)
- Update credit Dutch translation
- Update credit Serbian translation
- Fixed #387: Paste word into new tab looks up ALL dics instead of currently selected group
- Some more tweaking to the Sound icon after feedback
- Fine-tune the sound icon a bit, make it less black
- Use proper read-only URL for winlibs submodule to avoid clone problems
- DSL: Tweaked the Sound icon's alignment
- Fixed #182: Provide a better Sound icon
- Added Greek Wiki and Wiktionary online dictionaries
- Update Argentinian Spanish translation. Fix typo.
- Use patched libao in order to support OSX without copying plugins (#295)
- Update Argentinian Spanish translation
- Fixed a compilation problem on windows
- DSL: Add "http://" to link in [url] tag if it scheme not found
- Adjust fonts for some styles: Modern, Lingoes, Lingoes-Blue
- Update simplified chinese translation
- MDict: Fixed truncation for ASCII characters(0x20~0x30) in image urls.
- Updated French translation - fixed typos
- Linux: Better detection of installation prefix
- Use $PREFIX/share/goldendict for locale files per Linux conventions
- Fix localization files' installation on Linux/MacOS
- Fix compilation under MacOS
- Fixed #183: Provide a higher resolution main GoldenDict icon
- State the minimal required Qt version: 4.5
- Enhanced support for RTL languages in articles
- DSL: Strip comments "{{...}}" when reading file
- Refactor show dictionary info in "Groups" tab
- Properly handle non-normalized unicode headwords
- Aard: Better isolate the cards from each other; protect against broken HTML
- DSL: properly handle [m] tag
- Jump to article when double-clicking on dictinary in "Found in Dictionaries"
- Consider .ogm files as video
- Consider *.mp4 files to be video not audio
- Stop the internal audio player when the page is closed or changed
- DSL: Support video resources
- Dictd: Properly style the phonetic data and references/links
- Dictd: Support extended Dictd format (--index-keep-orig) with 4 entries in the index
- Linux: Better detection of installation prefix
- Linux: Use $PREFIX/share/goldendict for locale files per Linux conventions
- Linux: Fixed #359: Crash on Xubuntu 13.04 x64 due to XGrabKey
- Linux: Automatically add installed opendict dictionaries (/usr/share/opendict)
- Linux: Preconfigure goldendict-wordnet path (patch by Dmitry E. Oboukhov)
- Linux: Do not install anything in $PREFIX/share/app-install (patch by Dmitry E. Oboukhov)
- Linux: Remove 'Applications' category from desktop file (patch by Dmitry E. Oboukhov)
- Enhanced XDXF support (by soshial)
- Programs: Don't write word to standard input if %GDWORD% is presented in arguments (issue #351)
- Fixed a long-broken "Edit dictionary" action in the dictionary bar's context menu
- New interface preference: Context menu dictionaries limit
- Add "Edit dictionary" and "Open folder" buttons to the Dictionary Info dialog
- Win-specific: Select in Explorer the main dictionary file when opening the dictionary folder
- Reload the open tabs when groups and dictionary order is changed
- XDXF: Fix some tags handling (issue #349)
- Win-specific: Pass-through first part of compound hotkey
- Fixed #347: Provide Dictionary Info for the online dictionaries
- "Open dictionary folder" action in context menu (issue #344)
- Update Russian translation (by Abs62)
- Updated French translation (by VirtualTam)
- Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tomkowicz)
- Update Simplified Chinese translation (by Timon Wong)
- Updated Dutch localization (by Cris)
- Tajik Translation Updated (by Victor Ibragimov)
- Update pt_BR.ts (by Alexandro Casanova)
- Eliminate the tab scroll buttons in Preferences and Dictionaries dialogs
- Properly update the results pane when closing tabs
- Initialize ssl libraries at program start (may affect on issue #303)
- DSL: Expand headwords in subcards
- Switching to 1.5.0 version
- Win-Specific: Embed appropriate manifest.
- MDict: Fix compatibility between 32/64 bit indices (Fix #340).
- Adjusted Babylon style's Expand/Collapse buttons
- Adjust Modern and Lingoes-Blue styles to handle expand/collapse buttons better
- Allow to collapse/expand articles; auto collapse for big articles (issue #331)
- Fixed #333: Do not allow the floating elements to overflow to the other cards
- Fix pronunciation for active article (if not avaialbe, fallback to the first one)
- Show Qt version, GCC version and 32/64 bits in About dialog
- Fix crash when right clicking dicts list if scan pop is disabled
- Reload tabs content and suggestion list after dictionaries rescan (issue #330)
- Add "Inspect" action to context menu
- Fix potential crash on exit with multiple tabs opened
- Fixed #328: Eliminate partially-checked checkboxes in Pereferences
- Add an option to enable saving resource files with articles (#321)
- Fix unexpected result using QString::toStdWString() (fix #107 again, QTBUG-25536)
- Add "Copy Image" option into images context menu
- Dsl: Handle SVG images
- FFmpeg: Fix potential crash on some codecs (speex for example)
- Stardict: Isolate resources stylesheets
- Mdx: Isolate resources stylesheets (issie #290)
- Ui-Tweak: auto-fitting dict name for initializing window
- MDict: User friendly error reporting for article request
- Mac-specific: Fix hotkeys when non-english keyboard layout selected
- XDXF: Fix infinite loop for malformed files. (Issue #319)
- Fixed #314: Mac-specific: Do not enforce the default icon, allow icon customization.
- Disable the Scan Pop-up when a Preferences dialog is open
- Added an option to hide GoldenDict identification in the HTTP User-Agent headers (Issue #259).
- Add "Copy as text" feature (issue #311)
- audio: localizable error string
- Add jpg image format as an option for dictionary icons.
- MDict: Add volumes support for mdd files
- Update Russian translation (by Abs62)
- Updated Tajik Translation (by Victor Ibragimov)
- Update lt_LT.ts (by embar-)
- Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tomkowicz)
- Updated French translation (by VirtualTam)
- Updated the Dutch localization (by Cris).
- Update Simplified Chinese translation (by Timon Wong)
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Alexandro Casanova
- Fixed #305: Stardict: Serious incompatibility with indentation
- Win-specific: Update zLib to last official version 1.2.8 (issue #299)
- Handle errors during configuration file loading
- Fix crashes due to deletion resources owned by QNetworkAccessManager
- Aard: a little optimization during indexing
- Mac-specific: Add headers and libraries for build under Mac OS X
- Mac-specific: Implement text-to-speech feature under Mac OS X
- Fixed #297: Regression in Lingvo style
- Mac OS: adjust the pro file to be able to build with brew
- MDict: Use reluctant matching for anchor processing
- Add internal audio player(ffmpeg/libav + libao).
- Add win libs and build scripts for libao and ffmpeg
- Better protect the visual style against broken dictionaries
- Add extension for speex encoded sounds
- MDict: Support audio links in tag
- Win-specific: Fix Ctrl+C emulation pass-through in hotkey wrapper
- Win-specific: Fix Ctrl+Ins pass-through in hotkey wrapper
- MDict: handle malformed resource link without quotes
- Support large dictionary files; indexing speed improvement
- Clean-up stray tags in some broken MDX dictionaries.
- Win-specific: Add volume and rate tuning for TTS, fix some errors
- MDict: ltrim unprintable characters from filename
- MDict: append orphan style in the end, related to goldendict/goldendict#271
- Fixed #271: MDict: A mechanism to clean-up invalid HTML cards
- Fix some tags handling in Aard dictionaries
- Win-specific: Add TTS support for Windows
- MDict: add unique id prefix for anchors
- Proper text color inside MDict's tag
- MDict: support file URI scheme in image/css links.
- MDict: fix malformed tag with name break "Modern", "Lingoes" ... style
- AARD: Don't try to read and decode too big articles, it is most likely error in dictionary
- MDict (.mdx/.mdd) format support (by Timon Wong)
- Try to load QT translation files from GD "locale" folder at first
- DSL compatibility: Enforce the example color even if the childen tags say otherwise
- DSL compatibility: a label is always of green color
- DSL compatibility: a label (text enclosed in [p] tags) is always of normal weight
- Fixed #265: Wrong dictionary info when filter is active in the Groups tab
- Update Polish translation (by Grzegorz Karpowicz)
- Update Dutch translation (by Cris)
- Update Tajik Translation (by Victor Ibragimov)
- Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tamkovic)
- Updated French translation (by VirtualTam)
- Update simplified chinese translation (by Timon Wong)
- Update Russian translation (by Abs62)
- Update Argentinian Spanish translation (by Julian Depetris Chauvin)
- Fix typos in translation (by chulai)
- Update Argentinian Spanish translation (by chulai)
- Updated French translation - TextToSpeech section (by VirtualTam)
- MDict: localizable article loading error string. (by Timon Wong)
- MDict: handle malformed resource link without quotes (by Timon Wong)
- Support large dictionary files; indexing speed improvement (by Timon Wong)
- Updates for Tajik language (by Victor Ibragimov)
- Clean-up stray "a" tags in some broken MDX dictionaries. (by Tvangeste)
- A little more informative messages about Bass library errors (and couple of other changes) (by Abs62)
- Win-specific: Add volume and rate tuning for TTS, fix some errors (by Abs62)
- MDict: ltrim unprintable characters from filename (by Timon Wong)
- MDict: append orphan style in the end, related to goldendict/goldendict#271 (by Timon Wong)
- Fixed #271: MDict: A mechanism to clean-up invalid HTML cards (by Tvangeste)
- Fix some tags handling in Aard dictionaries (by Abs62)
- Win-specific: Add TTS support for Windows (by Timon Wong) (by Abs62)
- MDict: add unique id prefix for anchors (by Timon Wong)
- Proper text color inside MDict's "a" tag (by Tvangeste)
- MDict: support file URI scheme in image/css links. (by Timon Wong)
- MDict: fix malformed "a" tag with name break "Modern", "Lingoes" ... style (by Timon Wong)
- AARD: Don't try to read and decode too big articles, it is most likely error in dictionary (by Abs62)
- MDict (.mdx/.mdd) format support! (by Timon Wong)
- Try to load QT translation files from GD "locale" folder at first (by Abs62)
- DSL compatibility: Enforce the example color even if the childen tags say otherwise (by Tvangeste)
- DSL compatibility: a label is always of green color (by Tvangeste)
- DSL compatibility: a label (text enclosed in [p] tags) is always of normal weight (by Tvangeste)
- Fixed #265: Wrong dictionary info when filter is active in the Groups tab (by Tvangeste)
- Update Polish translation (by Grzegorz Karpowicz)
- Update Dutch translation (by Cris)
- Translation updates for Tajik Language (by Victor Ibragimov)
- Update belarusian translation (by Maksim Tamkovic)
- Use the native OS dialog to save articles, store the save location in a config
- Mac-specific: Implement scanning under Mac OS X (issue #129)
- Mac-specific: Implement hotkeys under Mac OS X (issue #129)
- Disable clipboard change tracking for Windows and MacOS
- Add language name to "Wiktionary" name for AARD dictionaries (issue #244)
- Add language name to "Wikipedia" name for AARD dictionaries (issue #244)
- Mac-specific: Interaction with Mac OS application menu (issue #255)
- Fixed #254: Mac OS X: TranslateBox alignment issues
- Add some more encodings for online dictionaries (issue #252)
- Fix link handling in Aard dictionaries (issue #243)
- Handle Stardict resources in zip archive (issue #99)
- Lingoes theme/style (by anion23)
- Another lingoes style. The previous one is renamed to Lingoes-Blue
- Added a new built-in style 'Modern' (Prefs->Interface->Display Style->Modern)
- Increase the main icon from 24x24 to 32x32 size (issue #183)
- Fixed #239: Couldn't play sounds via some external programs on Windows
- Handle dictzip errors without program termination (Fix issue #207)
- Set the minimum zoom level from 0.7 to 0.1
- Fixed #237: Proper dictionary title (DICT format)
- Add Lojban language code (issue #233)
- Fixed #232: history pane doesn't retain cleared state after restarting goldendict
- Handle article decoding errors for Aard dictionaries
- Fixed #225: Tiny print preview window in Windows 7
- Synchronize dicionary icons size in popup and main windows (issue #168)
- Save images and sounds via context menu (issue #223)
- Clear dictionaries lists before dictionaries rescan
- Support for external css in Stardict dictionaries with html output format
- Do not resize vertically the scan pop-up's translate box
- Fixed #221: The words list is not the top panel (on Linux)
- Update Russian translation
- Update Argentinian Spanish translation
- Updated French translation
- Update Brazilian Portuguese translation by MCHAL, closes #234
- Updated Greek translation by jennie
- Update belarusian translation
- Korean localization by panho10
- Updated Korean translation by Panho Ku
- Tajik Language Updates
- Update Slovak translation
- Dutch localization (by Cris)
Note: Please test and report any found errors/problems in our issue tracker. Before reporting bugs, please check the forum for well-known issues that are particular to this Portable Linux build.
Date: 16 February 2013
This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.7.4 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the portable Linux version.
Detailed lists of changes is here.
Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):
- Make the popup window more compact by reducing margins and spacing to 3px
- Fixed #169: Cannot deselect the article when 'select word' by single click is enabled
- Fixed #176: Menu button is not centered when toolbar is vertically positioned
- Fixed #188: Switching the UI mode should focus the translate line and update it
- Properly restore main window maximized state when it activated through tray icon
- Fixed #191: New UI in the scan popup, replace 3 separate widgets with the translate box
- Win-specific: Properly scan right-to-left words in GD window
- Fixed #192: Dynamically adjust the suggestion list in the new UI
- Win-specific: Properly save/restore main window configuration when it maximized
- Don't show welcome page header in window title (issue #195)
- Custom icon support for babylon and dictd dictionaries
- Custom icon support for Sound dir dictionaries
- Periodical save of history (issue #209)
- Windows switching under Ubuntu Unity (issue #204)
- Mac-specific: BGL dictionaries under Mac OS X (issue #128)
- Update Russian translation
- Added French Translation
- Update Argentinian Spanish translation
- Update Lithuanian translation
- Update Belarusian translation
- Update Ukrainian locale
- Fixed #221: The words list is not the top panel (on Linux)
Note: Please test and report any found errors/problems in our issue tracker. Before reporting bugs, please check the forum for well-known issues that are particular to this Portable Linux build.
Date: 19 January 2013
This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.7.4 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the portable Linux version.
Detailed lists of changes is here.
Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):
- Sorting in dictionaries list
- Refactor auto groups creation
- Handle decoding errors in some bgl dictionaries
- Tooltips for groups tabs
- Updated UI: Browser-like interface vs search in the sidebar
- "Back" and "Forward" buttons in scan popup window
- Tweaked content margins for dictsPane
- Focus GoldenDict window after restoring it from tray by hotkey under Ubuntu (issue #95)
- Implemented "Always on Top" functionality
- Added a new "Menu Button" when the main menubar is hidden
- Added shortcuts for the both sidepanels (Ctrl+S for search, Ctrl+R for results navigation)
- Quick search/filter for dictionary names in settings (Dictionaries and Groups tabs)
- Middle-click over tab must close tab
- Better keyboard support in Dictionaries tab
- History Pane rewrite
- Handle big entries in bgl
- Update Russian translation
- Add Aymara translation by Amos Batto
- Update Argentinian Spanish translation
- Update Lithuanian translation
- Update Italian translation
- Update Brazilian Portuguese translation by MCHAL
- Add belarusian translation
- Handle "dict" attribute in "ref" tag for dsl dictionaries
- Show target dictionary name in status line if link points to other dictionary
- Handle "^~" combination in dsl dictionaries
- Custom icons for .zips and .lsa
- Custom icons for websites
- Avoid duplicates in dictionaries list
- Images size limit for dsl dictionaries
- Custom icons for external programs
- Custom icons for morphology dictionaries
- Switch user styles on-the-fly
Note: Please test and report any found errors/problems in our issue tracker. Before reporting bugs, please check the forum for well-known issues that are particular to this Portable Linux build.
Date: 24 November 2012
This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.7.4 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the portable Linux version.
Detailed lists of changes is here.
Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):
- Fix crash in some cases after new group adding
- Wiki images fix
- Some more encoding in bgl (issue #53 again)
- Show description for bgl dictionaries
- Fix some bgl indexing error
- Show more info for babylon, stardict, aard dictionaries (issue #91)
- Replace html tags in "copyright" field for bgl dictionaries (issue #137)
- Try to fix rare errors with articles corruption
- Handle insided cards in dsl dictionaries
- Win-specific: Play sounds via Bass library
- update Russian translation
- Fix sound files search in .zips
- Whitespaces between xdxf tags
- Avoid Qt 4.8 tabs bug in "Groups" dialog
- Win-specific: Update third-party libraries to last official version
- Tajik Language Updates
- Dictionary bar icons size when small icons selected
- Transcriptions in BGL dictionaries (Issue #121)
- Update history when clicking links on page (issue #120)
- Lost some settings when "Options" dialog called (issue #135)
- Some encoding in BGL (goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1222)
- Some more encoding in BGL (issue #53, goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1535)
- Prevent some potential crashes on broken bgl
Note: Please test and report any found errors/problems in our issue tracker. Before reporting bugs, please check the forum for well-known issues that are particular to this Portable Linux build.
Date: 07 October 2012
This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.7.4 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the portable Linux version.
Detailed lists of changes is here.
Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):
- Show information about a dictionary on right mouse click in "Found in" pane
- Win-specific: Show translation in popup window instead of sending word to GD main window while scanning GD main window
- Add "Dictionary info" item to dictionary bar context menu
- Own muted dictionaries list for each group
- Add option for word selection by single mouse click
- Dictionary bar solo mode: Ctrl+click turn on all dictionaries, Shift+click restore previous state
- Fix autoplay of some audiolinks
- "Sound" button on toolbar always play first obtained sound
- Support sound packs in zip archive (.zips)
- Add Alt+PgDown/PgUp shortcuts to select next/previous group
- Remove redundant spaces while translating clipboard
- Update Russian translation
Note: Please test and report any found errors/problems in our issue tracker. Before reporting bugs, please check the forum for well-known issues that are particular to this Portable Linux build.
Date: 24 September 2012
This is a FULL distribution of Goldendict, with all required files, libraries and localizations. Includes QT Qt 4.7.4 libs. Read the forum for more info about these builds and known issues particular to the portable Linux version.
Detailed lists of changes is here.
Most interesting changes (since the previous EA build):
- Add shortcut for show/hide history
- Import history from file
- Allow to turn on/off history in preferences
- Add word to history through context menu
- Close popup menus when ScanPopup window closes
- Adjust dictionary indexing
- Show/hide optional parts of articles (DSL dictionaries only)
- Support 64-bit index in AARD dictionaries
- Win-specific: Scan popup now work in GoldenDict article tabs
- Ctrl(Shift)+Click on "Found in dictionaries" pane do same action as on dictionary toolbar
- Update Russian translation
Note: Please test and report any found errors/problems in our issue tracker. Before reporting bugs, please check the forum for well-known issues that are particular to this Portable Linux build.