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

[Phillip Waters]

Works perfect. Thanks.

On 9/10/26 12:49 PM, Ed Backell wrote:
> 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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