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

[Chuck Hast]

I am running Linux Mint 22.4

On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 11:27 AM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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