Releases: Sigil-Ebook/Sigil
Sigil-0.9.991 (1.0 Pre-release)
dougmassay
Doug Massay
Announcing Sigil-0.9.991 (pre Sigil-1.0) Alpha Release
Before Sigil 1.0 can be released, we felt it was very important to remove the restriction that all epubs must be in Sigil standard form which included one OEBPS folder, specific names for the OPF, and NCX, only one folder for each type of resource (Text, Images, etc.).
Therefore, over the last two months, we have had to tear out much of the internals of Sigil to teach it to not standardize epubs on initial load, not to rename the OPF, NCX, not to move files to our specific folders, etc. Then we had to teach Sigil how to properly work with files in any structure or locations, how to build the correct links between them. This included extending the Sigil plugin interface appropriately.
To accomplish this over 4000 lines of code were added and over 2000 were deleted, touching almost every file in Sigil. All of this work has been very disruptive with the potential for lots of breakage and new bugs being introduced.
Special thanks must be given to both BeckyEbook and Doitsu for regularly building and testing the changes as they were being made and reporting back any breakage or issues they found and providing feedback on ideas. Without their hard volunteer effort, Sigil would be in a much much worse condition.
The work on Sigil-1.0 has now stabilized, and it is now ready for additional volunteers and testers to try and break it so that any final nits or issues can be tracked down and fixed before the upcoming Sigil 1.0 release.
The main changes include the following:
- Upon initial load, the epub structure that exists will be loaded and kept in its "as-is" state, moving and renaming nothing
- The BookBrowser will still show the Text, Images, Styles, Fonts, Audio, Video, and Misc "folders" but these are now "virtual folders" that simply organize the existing resources by type but do not restrict their actual location within the epub.
- A new Preferences setting has been added to the Appearance Preferences that will determine if the book folder relative path will be shown in the BookBrowser or its shorter unique name (filename) will be used instead. In either case, the BookBrowser tooltips will always show the file's true book folder relative path. Duplicate file names (in different subfolders) will always show the longer path to be able to differentiate between them regardless of the new Appearance Preference.
- A Tools menu item has been added to standardize any epub already loaded to Sigil's old structure
- A Tools menu item has been added to allow a user to design a custom "empty" epub layout
- A "Move" context menu item has been added to BookBrowser to enable moving of resources to where you want them to be.
- A "Rename" context menu item has been added to BookBrowser to enable renaming of the NCX and OPF resources.
- The python plugin interface has been extended to support all of this as documented in the new Sigil_Plugin_Framework_rev12.epub and online at MobileRead in our Plugin Development thread.
Additional bug fixes include:
- handle javascript location.href style in Preview
- use CaseInsensitive sort in Plugins menu (Thank you BeckDTP)
- use Locale aware sort routines for AddMetadata, and MetaData Names (Thankyou Doitsu)
- recognize x-font-otf style media types
- recognize vnd.adobe.page-template+xml media type
- recognize webp images media type
- improve updating of smil xml files when moved
- preserve whitespace inside the code element when prettifying
- try again to prevent timer events during MainWindow close that causes random crashes on exit on macOS
- fix svg cover images to use 100vh and 100vx in Preview
Please note, the design goal of this project was to make minimal changes for users and ebook developers that still want to use Sigil as they did. The new Preference setting defaults to showing only the filename as before, and the default empty epub for creating new epubs is the same as before. The interface and functionality should stay almost exactly the same. Loading any epub previously saved by Sigil will still work exactly as before. Only editing new epubs that are in non-standard form will necessitate a use of the new Tool menu (see # 4 above) to standardize it.
Call For Feedback, Testing, Plugin Developers, etc...
So we really need your help to test Sigil to make sure we have not broken anything and to provide feedback on the new features.
This release will also serve to allow Plugin Developers to test their plugins and make any changes needed to make sure their plugins will still work as expected.
So please take a minute to download Sigil-0.9.991 and test it as you would use earlier versions of Sigil, reporting back on MobileRead or via our GitHub site any bugs you find with instructions on how to recreate them. This is especially true of some of Sigil's more advanced features such as HTML TOC, Index generation, Merging and Splitting of Files, Reports, movement of resources, and any other feature of Sigil you would normally use on a regular basis. Though we're not going to ignore any reported issues, we're asking that you try to limit your reports to broken functionality or incorrect behavior. Cosmetic issues and minor inconveniences (with easy workarounds) can be dealt with later.
Note: Sigil-0.9.991 should not be considered a "production-ready" release. It is being made available to make sure our upcoming Sigil 1.0 release is as bug free and stable as possible.
Sigil-0.9.18
dougmassay
Doug Massay
Sigil-0.9.18 represents a mix of new features and bug fixes.
Bug Fixes:
- fix bug in macOS that caused spurious warnings about missing file in the manifest
- hopefully fix macOS bug about launching files using open-with from Desktop
- make sure JQuery gets loaded before starting to use Preview javascript functions
- fix local links during split that incorrectly used target filename for internal link
- create GetEnvironmentVar to make access to environment variables more cross-platform
- fix macOS bug when hitting close on the title bar of MainWindow causing strange window behaviour
- hopefully fix macOS segfault on close by disabling Preview timer immediately
- fix Windows 7 issues when running batch (.bat) files via OpenExternally (open with)
- all error messages are now properly logged
- fix improperly disabled open-with menu in Image Tabs popup context menu
- removed use of Qt obsolete methods in About and Error Dialogs
New Features
- enable use of SIGIL_DEBUG_LOGFILE environment var to control saving debug output to a file
- properly update the ncx after merging xhtml files
- properly warn users if a multiple rendition epub (multiple OPF files) has been loaded
- make Sigil's external XHtml editor work to pass an OPF file (see PageEdit new features)
- Allow epub3 metadata editor to edit primary meta tags
- Replace buggy cssutils module used in plugins with our own drop-in replacement fork: css-parser
- Updated Mac, Windows, and Linux build documentation
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.18 no longer enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX for the purposes of backward compatibility with epub2 reading systems. There are, however, built-in tools to allow users to add backward compatibility features such as the NCX to their epub3.
Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.
Mac users should still download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition to utilize plugins that use Tk/Tcl GUIs. More here.
Mac users should also check out the wiki entry on the New Release File Format
The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.
Sigil-0.9.17
dougmassay
Doug Massay
Sigil-0.9.17 is primarily a bug fix release for bugs that were uncovered after our port to QtWebEngine.
Bug Fixes:
- fix missing python3 network certifications on macOS
- do not apply named entities in Preserve Entities to epub3 epubs
- fix build docs for macOS
- prevent FlowTab destructor race crash when opening a new book (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- fix suggestions for built-in en_US dictionary by adding "x" to the TRY list
- fix plugins adding and deleting ncx under epub3
- throw exception in plugins when epub2 tries to add or delete the ncx
- fix bad Warning message about missing nav.xhtml file that was not missing
- fix CodeView to Preview sync breakage due to minimize/restore
- fix CodeView to Preview sync breakage due to attempting to load the Preview before it
finished loading the last update - fix sigil_bs4 to work with latest python lxml 4.4.X in a backwards compatible manner
- fix missing Preview to CodeView sync on Qt versions 5.9.X and 5.10.X
- fix segfault on app close related to the PreviewWindow update timer firing at a bad time
- fix CodeView to Preview syncing loss caused by spurious load finished signals
- fix macOS specific bug that allowed multiple MainWindows to become tabs
New Features
- add a python3 plugin module navprocessor.py for plugin devs
- show Preview by default (tabified with TOC) for new installations of Sigil
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.17 no longer enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX for the purposes of backward compatibility with epub2 reading systems. There are, however, built-in tools to allow users to add backward compatibility features such as the NCX to their epub3.
Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.
Mac users should still download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition to utilize plugins that use Tk/Tcl GUIs. More here.
The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.
Sigil-0.9.16
dougmassay
Doug Massay
The first Official Release of Sigil ported to QtWebEngine to replace QtWebKit. And yes ... Book View is still really gone. But the companion external editing application PageEdit is available for those who still need/want a similar functionality.
New Features
- added epub3 tool: Generate NCX/Guide for epub2 e-readers
- added epub3 tool: Remove NCX and Guide
- added right click on link in Preview copies url to clipboard
- added check mark indicator for current semantic set in AddSemantics dialog
- opf guide is no longer used/updated in epub3, unless new epub3 tool menu is used
- harden Sigil against maliciously crafted epub zip archives (aka zip-slip attacks)
- added bk.getnavid() to the plugin framework and navprocessor.py for plugin devs
- updated build documents to the latest Qt 5.12.3 and Python 3.7.2)
Bug Fixes
- add missing title tag to nav head to make epubcheck happy
- add dcterms:modified to empty epub 3 opf to keep epubcheck happy
- fix lost Preview-CodeView sync when internal links are followed in Preview
- fix macOS specific bug with newer versions of PIL (Pillow) used by plugins
- no longer link against unused Qt frameworks when building (thank you eli-schwartz!)
- prevent MS VC++ automatic reboots during Windows installs
- prevent user from changing semantics of the nav file itself (it must be set to "toc")
- fix bug that dropped nav from spine when HTML TOC created
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.16 no longer enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX for the purposes of backward compatibility with epub2 reading systems. There are, however, built-in tools to allow users to add backward compatibility features such as the NCX to their epub3.
Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.
Mac users should still download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition to utilize plugins that use Tk/Tcl GUIs. More here.
The latest Sigil user guide can always be downloaded from its own repository.
Sigil-0.9.15
dougmassay
Doug Massay
A Beta Release of Sigil ported to QtWebEngine to replace QtWebKit
New Features
- ported to use QtWebEngine (based on Chromium) to replace QtWebkit
- QtWebEngine plugs many major memory leaks. Memory footprint should stay low to moderate.
- QtWebEngine has ongoing security and support patches from Qt/Google/Chromium
- removes the broken/deprecated BookView Editor that relied on QtWebKit
- created PageEdit app (that uses QtWebEngine) that replaces much BookView functionality
(see https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/PageEdit) - allows the user to control use of javascript and remote access by epubs when editing
to improve overall security - adds action to launch one preferred external xhtml editor via shortcut or icon
(can be used to fast launch PageEdit app or any other xhtml open-with editor) - adds 5 more plugin quicklaunch buttons to main menu for a total of 10
(with all new icons! Thanks so much Becky!)
It also includes all of the fixes and updates from Sigil-0.9.14.
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.15 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.
Sigil-0.9.14
dougmassay
Doug Massay
This Sigil release is primarily to address performance issues and memory leaks, but there are a still some new features and other bug fixes as described below.
Bug Fixes
- flush all changes to disk before creating a Report so that files sizes are correct
- stop writing python bytecode to Program Files on Windows
- remember cover semantics if cover image replaced by Add Existing...
- fix issues with the Plugin Framework documentation epub
- more memory leaks plugged
- minor code cleanups
New Features
- updated to Qt 5.12.3 with Annulen Webkit 5.212 with extra QtCursor memory leak fixes
- updated to Python 3.7.2
- updated build docs for macOS, Linux and Windows
- build system now uses GNUInstallDirs to determine the best installation libdir on Linux
- updated desktop integration for Linux
- reduce PCRE cache size to help lower memory footprint
- improve mapping of hunspell dictionary names to actual language names (thanks BeckyDTP)
- add warning during import if unmanifested files exist in the epub zip archive
- no longer requires use of non-breaking space entities (or any entities at all!)
- special spaces are now visisble via syntax highlighting in CodeView
- dropping epubs on Sigil.app no longer opens an extra empty epub on macOS
- reload Preview only when needed to help prevent screen flicker and lower memory use
- enabled Windows automated builds using Apppveyor
- Windows releases now compiled with Visual Studio 2017
- characters in HTML files report now uses gumbo for speed
- allow user's custom plugin icons to survive a plugin update
Sigil 0.9.14 will mark the last version that uses QtWebKit, and will be the last version to support editing in BookView. More here.
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.14 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.
Sigil-0.9.13
dougmassay
Doug Massay
NOTICE: If after installing Sigil v0.9.13 (or higher), Sigil is crashing, won't run correctly, or won't start at all, check out this wiki notice before filing a report or asking for assistance.
This Sigil release is primarily to address bugs introduced by the upgrade to Qt5.11.2 and Python 3.7 in the previous releases and to revert the conversion of Sigil ini files to the utf-8 character encoding.
Bug Fixes
- Revert change of INI encoding to utf-8 as QSettings very broken under utf-8 (commit 5484463)
- Ensure all url attributes in shape-outside properties in CSS stylesheets get updated (commit de7b09f)
- Workaround for lost cursor in qlineedit Qt bug (issue #398) (commit a8acab7)
- Workaround missing File New, Open, Quit menus in Mac menubar if windows closed (commit 660a8aa)
- Remove Icon from Tab for macOS only to workaround Qt bug (commit 5c91924)
- Plug some memory leaks (commits: 85f78d7, cb9b833, 614d601, bf2f2f4, ebfb613, 4qa8f33)
- Backport Qt 5.12alpha fix to prevent heap corruption due to qwidget next focus pointers (commit f5c7284)
- Plug macOS memory leaks when closing a main window (commit fbf9015)
- Put back quote in tag name bug fix lost in recent changes (commit ebd8c7c)
- Disable Netscape Plugins being used in BookView and Preview Window (commit 79314ea)
- Use custom version of qtwebkit with Qt 5.5 memory leak fix added back and no load plugins if disabled
(see commits 94a28d7, 9f7ebba, and 4b968a9)
New Features
- Add filename to tab tooltip (commit 27f8db7)
- Clear memory caches when Preview changes to keep memory footprint smaller (commit 87b9247)
- Update to MathJax 2.75, adds support for mathml mlongdiv, mstack, mcarries (commit 568aba5)
- Reduce memory footprint by letting worker threads expire (commit c1ee7ea)
- Reduce memory footprint by properly setting web page caches (commit 9f07cbe)
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.13 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.
Sigil-0.9.12
dougmassay
Doug Massay
This is a buggy version of Sigil. Don't use it. If you have good backups of your Sigil 0.9.10 (or earlier) preferences, roll back to Sigil 0.9.10 and restore your backed up preferences. If you don't have backups of your Sigil 0.9.10 (or earlier) preferences, roll back to Sigil 0.9.10 anyway and recreate your preferences as best you can from within Sigil's UI. Those preferences will be usable with the release of Sigil that follows 0.9.12.
This Sigil release is primarily to address bugs introduced by the upgrade to Qt5.11.2 and Python 3.7 in the previous release.
Bug Fixes
- fix typo in cssreformatter that caused errors with @ fontface (issue #394)
- workaround for qt bug affecting tab close buttons on Mac (commit f3b9399)
- fix Mac Qt5 plugin dylibs that macdeployqt broke in Sigil-0.9.11
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.12 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Starting with Sigil-0.9.11, Sigil's ini preference files will be utf-8 encoded to more easily allow users to manually edit them. NOTE: before upgrading to Sigil-0.9.11, please make and save a backup of your preferences files. There is no issue with the conversion moving forward, but if, for whatever reason, you need to roll back to an earlier version of Sigil, utf-8 encoded unicode characters in your ini files will not work with earlier versions of Sigil. So please be safe and make a backup just in case.
The decision to move to utf-8 encoded preference files was reverted and will be back to normal starting with Sigil v0.9.13
Please check the Sigil Wiki for important Sigil support links, additional resource downloads, and platform-specific trouble-shooting tips/requirements.
Sigil-0.9.11
dougmassay
Doug Massay
This is a buggy version of Sigil. Don't use it. If you have good backups of your Sigil 0.9.10 (or earlier) preferences, roll back to Sigil 0.9.10 and restore your backed up preferences. If you don't have backups of your Sigil 0.9.10 (or earlier) preferences, roll back to Sigil 0.9.10 anyway and recreate your preferences as best you can from within Sigil's UI. Those preferences will be usable with the release of Sigil that follows 0.9.12.
Sigil-0.9.11
For the impatient, the installer files (and source) can be found as assets at the bottom of this Github Release page.
This Sigil release is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users. Some of the highlights for this release include:
Starting with Sigil-0.9.11, Sigil's ini preference files will be utf-8 encoded to more easily allow users to manually edit them. NOTE: before upgrading to Sigil-0.9.11, please make and save a backup of your preferences files. There is no issue with the conversion moving forward, but if, for whatever reason, you need to roll back to an earlier version of Sigil, utf-8 encoded unicode characters in your ini files will not work with earlier versions of Sigil. So please be safe and make a backup just in case.
The decision to move to utf-8 encoded preference files was reverted and will be back to normal starting with Sigil v0.9.13
The Windows and Mac installers have been updated to use Qt5.11.2 and Python 3.7.
Restore ability to click in the Preview window to reposition to the same point in Code View while keeping the ability to follow links in Preview.
Allow users to maintain up to 5 external programs per file type with the Open With feature.
Sigil 0.9.11+ no longer supports Windows Vista.
Sigil 0.9.11+ no longer supports macOS 10.9 and macOS 10.10. macOS upgrades are available for free directly from Apple.
The specific changes/additions follow...
Bug Fixes
- after mend and prettify - put cursor at enclosing tag if possible
- allow both links in Preview and clicking in Preview to reposition CV
- fix new cursor repositioning under new tab ala Spellcheck
- fix prettyprinting of the mark tag in gumbo and sigil_bs4
- fix crash when tagname illegally (for xhtml) includes single or double quotes
- fix crash in Reports for non-wellformed xhtml that was okay under html5
- fix deletion of multiple css files when Book View is open (Windows)
- fix bug in reformat CSS with media queries
- fix bug in closing some tabs needlessly when linking stylesheets
- fix crash bug in gumbo parser under very strange circumstances
- remove empty guide elements in epub2 opf as epubcheck now flags these
- fix issue with index generation reordering spine entries under certain conditions
New Features
- update official builds to use Qt 5.11.2 and Python 3.7
- update internal Python modules to use latest versions
- update Sigil's gumbo parser to fix all known bugs and greatly speedup parsing
- embed new project css_parser (fork of cssutils) as a python library to fix css parsing
- Sigil no longer attempts to upgrade the VC++ runtime on Windows. It only installs the
bundled VC++ runtime if there is no compatible version already installed - add support for internal but unmanifested opf metadata link resources under epub3
- extend "Open With" context menu to allow up to 5 external editors per resource type
- make format of all Sigil ini files to be utf-8 encoded to more easily allow user changes
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.11 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.11 like its predecessors passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video , mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.11 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.
Download Location
The official location for downloading this Sigil release (and all official releases) is:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.11
The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can be downloaded from: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/sigil-user-guide/releases/latest
Downloading binaries from anyplace else is simply NOT a good idea as they could inject anything into their own downloads. After downloading, please verify the downloaded binary exactly matches what was originally posted by running an SHA 256 checksum on the file before installing it. See the file Sigil-0.9.11-CHECKSUMS.sha256.txt for the correct checksums for each file and instructions for how to calculate a SHA 256 Checksum for your download. The Mac OS X Package has also been code signed with my Apple Developer signature.
Windows Users
If your current version of Sigil is 0.9.6 or earlier, it's recommended (but not required) that you uninstall that version before installing 0.9.11. Some compiled Python files have had their file extentions changed (as well as the change to Python 3.7). As a result, there will be a lot of extraneous files left lying around if you just install the new over the old. It won't cause any functionality problems, but if disk space is at a premium, you may want to clean things up a bit. You can do this by uninstalling Sigil at any time (even after 0.9.11 is installed) and reinstalling. Doing so won't affect your any of your preferences, plugins, keyboard shortcuts, clips, saved searches, etc.
Linux Users
There are currently no official binary releases available for Linux on the Sigil Release page. Please check with your favorite distro's software repositories to see if they have Sigil for installation via your OS's package management system. If not, there are build instructions for compiling Sigil yourself in the source archive's docs directory: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/tree/master/docs
Don't forget the FlightCrew plugin
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a plugin for Sigil 0.8.900 and later.
This plugin has been updated for Sigil-0.9.3 (and later). It can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook flightcrew repository if you have not already installed it.
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/latest
Attention Mac OS X Users
Per the recommendation of www.python.org (see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/), due to bugs and the age of Apple's internal Tcl library, you should also download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition. To get the latest bug fixes, Sigil-0.9.11's embedded Python has been linked with version: Tcl 8.6.4.1
We may not redistribute this Package with Sigil due to ActiveState's binary non-redistribution policy.
So please, if you have not already done so download and install this version of ActiveState's Active Tcl Community Edition, until we get a chance to do our own build of Tcl 8.6.X from source for future releases. ActiveState is a primary contributor to www.python.org and a respected and trusted source for python and tcl/tk related binaries on both Windows and Mac OS X.
See: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads
Version: 8.6.4.1 or later 8.6.X release
Signed Source Archives and Git Tags
Starting with Sigil v0.9.9, the Git tags and source archives used for Sigil releases are signed with Doug Massay's PGP Key. His public key can be found and retrieved from any public key server. The fingerprint for his public key is: B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63
Some Additional things
When you fire up Sigil for the very first time:
- navigate to the new General Preferences and select the default
epub version you plan to work with (epub 2 or epub3) so that new
empty ebooks start with the correct code. - if you plan to work with epub3 epubs, you should change your
PreserveEntities setting to use ONLY NUMERIC entities.
For example use for non-breaking spaces and etc. - We strongly recommend enabling Mend On Open in your settings
for best performance with Sigil.
Sigil-0.9.10
dougmassay
Doug Massay
Sigil-0.9.10
This Sigil release is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users. Some of the highlights for this release include:
Allow plugins to supply their own icon (plugin.png 48x48) for use on the Quick Launch Toolbar icons.
Allow users to add custom css rules to Preview/Book View by creating a file called "custom_preview_style.css" in the Sigil preferences folder.
The Sigil User Manual was updated to include the feature set consistent with Sigil v0.9.x. We have Tex2002ans to thank for this!
Many crashing scenarios were also addressed.
The specific changes/additions follow...
Bug Fixes
- Fix signal handling to prevent double launch of plugins immediately after plugin installed
- Fixed incorrect named entity tooltips for many of the Insert-> Special Characters
- Fixed lack of recognition of woff2 fonts inside Sigil and for plugins
- Fix segfault when .xml is first file in BookBrowser and add new html or split at cursor is invoked
- Fix bug that allowed multiple audio/video tabs of the same resource to be opened
- Fix plugin related bug when adding/removing last xhtml file
- Fix Text Direction setting inside body to use structural dir attribute under epub3
- Fix duplicate group-position property in epub3 MetaData Editor
- Use absolute path references when first opening Sigil with an ebook so that Open Recent works better
- Fix "issue" in handling self-closing script tags in head (similar issue that we had with self-closing title tags)
- Fix issue converting Qt Strings to their Python equivalent when outside the BMP
- Fix issue with trying to add existing html files when names clash due to case insensitive file systems
- Fix crash bug after styling text in BookView and immediately going to CodeView without moving cursor
- Fix crash bugs after deleting resources contained in a Report in the BookBrowser
- Fix bug that destroys nav if left in unparseable state by user even temporarily
- Fix bug that moved cursor to beginning of tag block when save is done in CodeView
New Features
- allow plugins to supply their own icon (plugin.png 48x48) for use on the Quick Launch Toolbar icons
- extend plugin interface to include the status of the epub inside Sigil (modified or saved)
- extend plugin interface to include the path to the saved epub file or the null string if never saved
- extend Insert->Special Characters to include both a Greek letter panel and a mathematical symbol panel
- add support for calibre:series and calibre:series_index to Metadata Editor for epub2
- add support for calibre:title_sort to Metadata Editor for epub2
- add support for clicking internal links in Preview to load the proper destination tab
- add support for loading Qt's base translation files if present. Allows buttons on native qt dialogs to
be translated (Windows users may need to manually copy newer qtbase_xx.qm files to Sigil's translation
directory if they didn't exist in Qt5.6.2) - allow user to add custom css rules to Preview/Book View by creating a file called "custom_preview_style.css"
in the Sigil preferences folder (not responsible for custom css and ebook css fighting with each other)
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.10 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.10 like its predecessors passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video , mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.10 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.
Download Location
The official location for downloading this Sigil release (and all official releases) is:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.10
The latest version of the Sigil User Guide can be downloaded from: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/raw/master/docs/Sigil_User_Guide.epub
Downloading binaries from anyplace else is simply NOT a good idea as they could inject anything into their own downloads. After downloading, please verify the downloaded binary exactly matches what was originally posted by running an SHA 256 checksum on the file before installing it. See the file Sigil-0.9.10-CHECKSUMS.sha256.txt for the correct checksums for each file and instructions for how to calculate a SHA 256 Checksum for your download. The Mac OS X Package has also been code signed with my Apple Developer signature.
Windows Users
If your current version of Sigil is 0.9.6 or earlier, it's recommended (but not required) that you uninstall that version before installing 0.9.10. Some compiled Python files have had their file extentions changed (as well as the change to Python 3.5). As a result, there will be a lot of extraneous files left lying around if you just install the new over the old. It won't cause any functionality problems, but if disk space is at a premium, you may want to clean things up a bit. You can do this by uninstalling Sigil at any time (even after 0.9.10 is installed) and reinstalling. Doing so won't affect your any of your preferences, plugins, keyboard shortcuts, clips, saved searches, etc.
Linux Users
There are currently no official binary releases available for Linux on the Sigil Release page. Please check with your favorite distro's software repositories to see if they have Sigil for installation via your OS's package management system. If not, there are build instructions for compiling Sigil yourself in the source archive's docs directory: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/tree/master/docs
Don't forget the FlightCrew plugin
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a plugin for Sigil 0.8.900 and later.
This plugin has been updated for Sigil-0.9.3 (and later). It can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook flightcrew repository if you have not already installed it.
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/tag/0.9.1
Attention Mac OS X Users
Per the recommendation of www.python.org (see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/), due to bugs and the age of Apple's internal Tcl library, you should also download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition. To get the latest bug fixes, Sigil-0.9.10's embedded Python has been linked with the very latest version: Tcl 8.6.4.1
We may not redistribute this Package with Sigil due to ActiveState's binary non-redistribution policy.
So please, if you have not already done so download and install this version of ActiveState's Active Tcl Community Edition, until we get a chance to do our own build of Tcl 8.6.4.1 from source for future releases. ActiveState is a primary contributor to www.python.org and a respected and trusted source for python and tcl/tk related binaries on both Windows and Mac OS X.
See: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads
Version: 8.6.4.1
Signed Source Archives and Git Tags
Starting with Sigil v0.9.9, the Git tags and source archives used for Sigil releases are signed with Doug Massay's PGP Key. His public key can be found and retrieved from any public key server. The fingerprint for his public key is: B5A5 6206 AB0F BC1A 24EF AB8A A166 D29A 8FCD AC63
Some Additional things
When you fire up Sigil for the very first time:
- navigate to the new General Preferences and select the default
epub version you plan to work with (epub 2 or epub3) so that new
empty ebooks start with the correct code. - if you plan to work with epub3 epubs, you should change your
PreserveEntities setting to use ONLY NUMERIC entities.
For example use & # 1 6 0 ; for non-breaking spaces and etc. - We strongly recommend enabling Mend On Open in your settings
for best performance with Sigil.