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DiapDealer · 03-05-2019, 08:17 PM

It is clear to us, now that the decision to convert Sigil INI preference files to UTF-8 was not a good idea. That combined with other performance-related issues has caused us to make the decision to pull both Sigil v0.9.11 and v0.9.12. Regardless of whether the two issues are related or not, we cannot in good conscience recommend their continued use, and thus have removed the binary downloads from their Github release pages.

In short ... don't use these versions (unless you're willing to work with us to test and further debug the performance issues). If you have good backups of your Sigil v0.9.10 (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.

We apologize for any and all inconveniences. Stay tuned for a new release (or perhaps a beta version to begin with).

NOTE: this goes for the Legacy Windows version of Sigil as well. Even if it doesn't exhibit the performance issues of the official releases, the code to convert the preferences ini files to utf-8 is present and just as flaky/buggy.

03-05-2019, 08:17 PM	#1
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,664 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Attention All Sigil Users It is clear to us, now that the decision to convert Sigil INI preference files to UTF-8 was not a good idea. That combined with other performance-related issues has caused us to make the decision to pull both Sigil v0.9.11 and v0.9.12. Regardless of whether the two issues are related or not, we cannot in good conscience recommend their continued use, and thus have removed the binary downloads from their Github release pages. In short ... don't use these versions (unless you're willing to work with us to test and further debug the performance issues). If you have good backups of your Sigil v0.9.10 (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. We apologize for any and all inconveniences. Stay tuned for a new release (or perhaps a beta version to begin with). NOTE: this goes for the Legacy Windows version of Sigil as well. Even if it doesn't exhibit the performance issues of the official releases, the code to convert the preferences ini files to utf-8 is present and just as flaky/buggy.