[sword-devel] Xiphos 4.5.0 [ + HTTPS Repos ]

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Great work Karl and team!

Have you tried building against SWORD master head?  I'd love to know if 
I've ironed out the HTTP installation preferences in the engine as we 
move toward a release.

I've updated the masterRepoList registry to include PreferHTTP(S) 
directives with their http(s) locations for the repos I know about, but 
that is: all repos on crosswire.org, ebible.org, and xiphos.org (though 
I couldn't find an HTTPS URL so I had to fallback to 
http://ftp.xiphos.org/pub/xiphos/)

These two still go directly to FTP:

IBT has no packages folder here: 
https://ibt.org.ru/ftpmirror/pub/modsword/raw/

STEP Bible lists this in our wiki, but it doesn't answer for me: 
https://www.stepbible.org/pub/sword/

Any testing of the shiny new Xiphos 4.5.0 compiled against 
https://git.crosswire.org/main/sword would be greatly appreciated.

The screenshots look great.  Great work guys!

Troy


On 8/31/26 10:19 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> Xiphos release 4.5.0 <https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases>
>
> Last release was in June. That was kind of intermediate due to some 
> security bugs. Turns out, there were several more lurking, now handled 
> by generous contributors, mostly dealing with internal URL handling.
>
> A lot has happened since June. Notably, bookmark folder colors have 
> given way to bookmarked verse colorization per folder color, including 
> mouse-hover reveal of which bookmark(s) induced a verse's 
> colorization. Also, display of entire Bible books is available in main 
> display (only; not parallel, not dialogs) at Prefs → Options → Display 
> whole Bible books. Those 2 features induced the jump straight from 4.4 
> → 4.5, in consideration of the volume of display code updates they 
> required. A bunch of display gotchas have been repaired, such as 
> broken checkmark images in Prefs and Mod.Mgr. There is a modules 
> "Favorites" category in sidebar display. Saved parallel sets are 
> available in Prefs. A direct reference to Google Translate is 
> available by mouse-sweeping some Heb/Grk text and using the context 
> menu option. AndBible bookmarks can be imported. Verse list multi-sets 
> can be optionally selected via a popup menu. Multi-column display has 
> been expanded to 8 due to recent experience with large monitors. 
> Margin justification defaults on.
>
> A couple screenshots of bookmark colorization + user annotation 
> highlight can be seen here 
> <http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/pub/xiphos/binaries/images/>.
>
> The Windows build is internal to the release process, already present 
> at the release page. As well, there are initial builds for Fedora 
> 42/43/44, RHEL 9/10, and Ubuntu (via alien(1)) available at this link 
> <http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/pub/xiphos/binaries/> but pumpkin holders 
> by distro should get up to speed in due time.
>
> The issues list is down to a bare dozen, from a high of over 100 this 
> time last year. Half of what remain are wish list items without a 
> clear path forward.
>
> Huge thanx particularly to Cyrille for his many contributions.
>
> --karl
>
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