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

[Ed Backell]

Please let me know if this works for you:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14TMSwn8-Ujk1inJ8YSkd98Vyc4FRl7Fv/view?usp=drive_link
KFJ - Pastor Ed


On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM Phillip Waters <muddy at muddys.org> wrote:

> 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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