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

[Chuck Hast]

I just installed it but when I invoke it, it does not run when I invoke
xyphos from the terminal to see
what is going on it says not found. When I do a find it finds nothing
labeled xyphons


On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 11:50 AM Ed Backell <edbackell at gmail.com> 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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