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<font face="FreeSerif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases/tag/4.2.1">https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases/tag/4.2.1</a><br>
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After a long dry spell, Xiphos is back with a new release. This is
a release of many bug fixes and much re-structuring, especially
for how the build system operates, an important factor for those
in development. The older waf build system is gone, having been
re-engineered from the ground up with cmake.<br>
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User-visible changes regard crash-avoidance bugfixes and cosmetic
matters: Corrected use of visuals in parallel window, corrected
verse displays, status bar repair, corrected alternating fg/bg in
parallel, improved/corrected spacing of Strong's and morphology
with respect to mainline text, additions to the languages
recognized in module displays, increased limits on book name
length for exotic UTF-8 languages (encodings too long), and some
new and updated interface translations.<br>
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I want most to thank the folks who have really stepped up in the
last few months and especially the last couple weeks, making sure
that the automatic build and release procedures are so robust.
Greg Hellings and Dom Corbex are the most obvious folks -- Dom
gave us the re-engineered cmake-driven build system and Greg has
done the bulk of the github-driven auto-build-and-release
machinery. There are many other contributors, and about 4 dozen
issues have been closed.<br>
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There are Windows installers and source tarballs for download.
Linux distributions should begin to gain updates soon. There are
Ubuntu PPA efforts underway due to Ubuntu no longer supporting our
editor package (and the editor is under discussion for
replacement, for many reasons). See RELEASE-NOTES in
/usr/share/doc/xiphos (for Windows, similarly under usual paths)
for a list of issues addressed.<br>
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--karl<br>
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