Sigil 0.9.13 | 21,03,2019

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Sigil 0.9.13 | 21,03,2019

Sigil 0.9.12  

released on February 19, 2019

 

Sigil is a multi-platform free EPUB ebook editor (like a wordprocessor but specific for EPUB ebooks)

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.

Sigil 0.9.12 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 0.9.8 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.

 

Home: https://sigil-ebook.com/

Releases: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.13

 

Main features

• Free and open source software under GPLv3
• Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux (note Linux only receives limited support)
• Full UTF-16 support
• EPUB 2 spec support with limited EPUB 3 support
• Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
• WYSIWYG editing in Book View
• Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
• Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
• Metadata editor
• User interface translated into many languages
• Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
• Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
• Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
• Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated
• All imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned
• Plugins!

  

Other Features

• Preference setting (Appearance section) which allows user to adjust the size of the main menu icons
• Manifest properties to Book Browser tooltips and to All Files Reports Widget for epub3
• Make Sigil’s UI and spellchecker language settings available to plugins
• Support for PyQt5 for plugin gui widgets
• Internal builds use Qt 5.11.2 and Python 3.7 with Webkit added back
• Windows structural changes to eliminate file duplication and to accommodate PyQt5 requirements
• Sigil's gumbo parser with 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
• support for internal but unmanifested opf metadata link resources under epub3
• extended "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

 

Sigil-0.9.13 | Release Date: 21.03.2019

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.

For the impatient, the installer files (and source) can be found as assets at the bottom of the Github Release page.

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.

 

   Win x64  (61.2 MB)
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/download/0.9.13/Sigil-0.9.13-Windows-x64-Setup.exe

   Win x32 (53 MB)
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/download/0.9.13/Sigil-0.9.13-Windows-Setup.exe


   Mac (74.8 MB)
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/download/0.9.13/Sigil-0.9.13-Mac-Package.dmg