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KevinH · 10-04-2015, 04:13 PM

Hi All,

The second (and hopefully final!) in our Sigil pre-release series, Sigil-0.8.901 is now available. This release is primarily a bug-fix release, although a couple of new features have slipped in. This release is much more stable than its predecessor all thanks to your testing and bug reports. If no major showstoppers are found, this pre-release will form the official Sigil 0.9.0 release and we will then start work towards Sigil 1.0 and reasonable epub3 support.

As far as new features go, the tool box for plugins that use the embedded Python 3.4 interpreter, has been expanded. The embedded site-packages now include: six, html5lib, lxml, sigil_bs4 (Sigil's version of Beautiful Soup4), Google's Gumbo parser via a sigil_bs4_to_gumbo_adapter, PIL (Pillow image library), regex, cssutils, cssselect, chardet, and our own ctypes interface to the hunspell spell checker. This along with the new epub3 versioned plugin interfaces (see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=95) should provide a quite powerful toolbox for plugin developers.

Complete details of what is fixed and how to get is is available from our wordpress site:

http://sigil-ebook.com

To download binaries for Mac OS X and Windows, please see our github releases page:

https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil...es/tag/0.8.901

Please note, beginning with the Sigil 0.8.900 release, the process to build from source has changed greatly. Please check new instructions for building on Mac OS X, and Linux available on our github site. See the README.md and docs/ directory for complete instructions.

As always, only download Sigil from its official home github site and remember to run a sha 256 checksum on your downloads and compare them against those posted in the release on github to make sure you have downloaded the exact same binary that we have uploaded.

When the the next full release build is made, I will be signing the Mac OS X builds with my Mac OS X Developer account (assuming I can figure out how to do that!). Leave it up to Apple to charge volunteer developers just to build and release GPL OpenSource projects! They are indeed clueless.

Again, for fastest resolution, please post any bug reports or feedback on this release in this thread in the Sigil forum and we will try our best to address any serious issues in quick follow-up release if needed.

Thank you for using Sigil and helping to make it better!

KevinH and DiapDealer

10-04-2015, 04:13 PM	#1
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,893 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	New Sigil Release: Sigil-0.8.901 Hi All, The second (and hopefully final!) in our Sigil pre-release series, Sigil-0.8.901 is now available. This release is primarily a bug-fix release, although a couple of new features have slipped in. This release is much more stable than its predecessor all thanks to your testing and bug reports. If no major showstoppers are found, this pre-release will form the official Sigil 0.9.0 release and we will then start work towards Sigil 1.0 and reasonable epub3 support. As far as new features go, the tool box for plugins that use the embedded Python 3.4 interpreter, has been expanded. The embedded site-packages now include: six, html5lib, lxml, sigil_bs4 (Sigil's version of Beautiful Soup4), Google's Gumbo parser via a sigil_bs4_to_gumbo_adapter, PIL (Pillow image library), regex, cssutils, cssselect, chardet, and our own ctypes interface to the hunspell spell checker. This along with the new epub3 versioned plugin interfaces (see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=95) should provide a quite powerful toolbox for plugin developers. Complete details of what is fixed and how to get is is available from our wordpress site: http://sigil-ebook.com To download binaries for Mac OS X and Windows, please see our github releases page: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil...es/tag/0.8.901 Please note, beginning with the Sigil 0.8.900 release, the process to build from source has changed greatly. Please check new instructions for building on Mac OS X, and Linux available on our github site. See the README.md and docs/ directory for complete instructions. As always, only download Sigil from its official home github site and remember to run a sha 256 checksum on your downloads and compare them against those posted in the release on github to make sure you have downloaded the exact same binary that we have uploaded. When the the next full release build is made, I will be signing the Mac OS X builds with my Mac OS X Developer account (assuming I can figure out how to do that!). Leave it up to Apple to charge volunteer developers just to build and release GPL OpenSource projects! They are indeed clueless. Again, for fastest resolution, please post any bug reports or feedback on this release in this thread in the Sigil forum and we will try our best to address any serious issues in quick follow-up release if needed. Thank you for using Sigil and helping to make it better! KevinH and DiapDealer