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

[Phillip Waters]

Please

On 9/9/26 6:33 PM, Ed Backell wrote:
> 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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