Sigil v0.1.9

[Valloric]

The changelog for Sigil version 0.1.9 follows:

- fixed a regression that caused Sigil to demand that all XHTML streams in an epub file
be valid XML (issue #248)
- the "container.xml" reading subsystem now handles XML files with namespaces (issue #235)
- HTML encoding detection is now performed even on XHTML files in epub archives (per spec,
they have to be UTF-8 or UTF-16, but Sigil will now handle those that aren't)
- fixed an issue with content file filenames using "%20" for spaces not being loaded (issue #232)
- the temp directory used on Windows is now <Profile>/Sigil instead of <Profile>/My Documents/Sigil
(issue #222)

I didn't plan to make another release in the 0.1.x branch, but that changed today. I discovered a rather unpleasant regression bug that crept in 0.1.7/0.1.8: Sigil would demand that all XHTML flows in an epub be valid XML.

While the epub standard does demand this, it's often not the case with hand-coded epub files. Previously, Sigil had systems in place to correct such errors, but they were inadvertently turned off during some code reshuffling. So if you opened such a file in Sigil and got a blank Book View as if you had loaded nothing (or had some text truncated), this was causing it.

The other major bug fixed was a problem with loading some Gutenberg epub files. They use namespaces in the content.xml file which QDom doesn't handle by default, and this was preventing Sigil from loading such files. I rewrote that code and now it's working.

I also took this opportunity to release the first x64 version of Sigil for Windows. As I blogged about it yesterday, these users should see about a 10% performance improvement from that alone.

In other news, work on 0.2.0 is progressing quite nicely.

[afv011]

Thanks! Just installed the 32-bit Linux version, no probs, excellent work as usual!

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by afv011

Thanks! Just installed the 32-bit Linux version, no probs, excellent work as usual!

Yes, but I forgot to add one tiny little thing to the Windows x64 build so I pulled it. New installer for that platform will be up soon.

EDIT: Done. New build is up.

[Dave Berk]

Thanks for all your hard work!

Originally Posted by Valloric

In other news, work on 0.2.0 is progressing quite nicely.

That bit of news is the one I'm most happy to hear .

[Diana495]

I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8. And when I try to open Sigil s0.1.9, it just crashes. Here's the message from Console.app:

2/10/10 12:31:22 AM [0x0-0xb35b35].com.valloric.Sigil.app[13346] dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
2/10/10 12:31:22 AM ReportCrash[13347] Formulating crash report for process Sigil[13346]
2/10/10 12:31:23 AM ReportCrash[13347] Saved crashreport to /Users/Diana/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Sigil_2010-02-10-003122_mac1-2.crash using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20
2/10/10 12:31:22 AM com.apple.launchd[124] ([0x0-0xb35b35].com.valloric.Sigil.app[13346]) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap
2/10/10 12:31:58 AM hdiejectd[13357] running

2/10/10 12:32:18 AM com.apple.launchd[124] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds
2/10/10 12:32:18 AM com.apple.launchd[124] (0x411d70.Locum[13368]) Exited: Terminated

And here's the Crash Report:

Process: Sigil [13346]
Path: /Applications/Sigil.app/Contents/MacOS/Sigil
Identifier: com.valloric.Sigil.app
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [124]

Date/Time: 2010-02-10 00:31:22.404 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: B669A33B-A57D-4EFF-84FE-40B2B1EF2D73

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Dyld Error Message:
unknown required load command 0x80000022

I reinstalled v0.1.8, and that version works. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by Diana495

I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8. And when I try to open Sigil s0.1.9, it just crashes.

OK... open question to other Mac users: does Sigil 0.1.9 work for you? If it does/doesn't, what version of Mac OS X are you running?

[Valloric]

OK I think I know what's wrong... I switched from a OS X 10.5 build system to a 10.6 one, and Apple changed something in both the new Xcode and dylibs. This error seems to be coming up often on the net.

I'll put up a new version as soon as I manage to convince the build system to do the Right Thing™ and not expect that people will only ever run the app on 10.6

Diana, I'd appreciate it if you could download the new version when I upload it and confirm that it's fixed.

[Valloric]

The new 0.1.9b version of Sigil for Mac can now be downloaded. The only difference is that this version should run on OS X 10.5 and quite possibly 10.4. I'd like some confirmation for both claims.

[Diana495]

0.1.9b works! Thank you so much for the quick fix!

[zerospinboson]

I think there's a small bug in the windows x64 installer, as it has the c:\program files(x86)\sigil dir as the default (should be c:\program files\sigil)
Otherwise: thanks for creating an x64 build )

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by zerospinboson

I think there's a small bug in the windows x64 installer, as it has the c:\program files(x86)\sigil dir as the default (should be c:\program files\sigil)
Otherwise: thanks for creating an x64 build )

That's a bug in InstallJammer, and I'm aware of it. But still, thanks for reporting it.