[xiphos-users] [sword-devel] Xiphos 4.5.0

[Greg Hellings]

Xiphos 4.5.0 packages are in flight on Fedora Rawhide[0] and also in
nixpkgs[1] for Nix or NixOS users. Oddly, I had to add sqlite to the
packaging for Nixpkgs. Configure failed in finding necessary packages
without it. No such issues on Fedora.

--Greg

[0] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=150071755
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/561712

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 3:20 PM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> 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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