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

[Ed Backell]

I have compiled 4.5.0.2 on my Linux Mint system.

Does anyone need the .deb? I can post a link.

KFJ - Pastor Ed Backell
Spokane Valley, WA


On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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