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KevinH · 10-16-2026, 10:12 AM

Hi All,

I think I am done farting around with the future Sigil 2.8.5 unless something is broken.

Except for forthcoming updated translations, I have hopefully pushed the last change.

The upcoming 2.8.5 release actually includes a huge number of changes, bug fixes, and new features including a complete overhaul of the css parser used inside Sigil which should help keep Sigil up to date when it comes to CSS selectors for at least a little bit.

It also completely changes the internals of all our singleton classes to be safer. New image formats were added (avif, jxl), updated image editing, new custom special characters, etc, etc., etc.

In hindsight this probably should have been named Sigil 2.9.5 or even Sigil 3.0.0 but ... we can save 3.0 for when we next update to the latest Qt, latest Python, latest lexbor, latest pcre2, etc.

In all my testing, it has been really stable, but of course there still could be issues that I have just not triggered given how I use Sigil.

So please build from master and start using it on a normal basis and let me know if you run into any difficulties.

Updated, hopefully final, translations should be coming in just over a week or two (to give translators time to make any changes they want).

Thank you.

Once we get final translations, if needed we can create a public release candidate (RC) for more people to try.

10-16-2026, 10:12 AM	#54
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 10,141 Karma: 7640000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi All, I think I am done farting around with the future Sigil 2.8.5 unless something is broken. Except for forthcoming updated translations, I have hopefully pushed the last change. The upcoming 2.8.5 release actually includes a huge number of changes, bug fixes, and new features including a complete overhaul of the css parser used inside Sigil which should help keep Sigil up to date when it comes to CSS selectors for at least a little bit. It also completely changes the internals of all our singleton classes to be safer. New image formats were added (avif, jxl), updated image editing, new custom special characters, etc, etc., etc. In hindsight this probably should have been named Sigil 2.9.5 or even Sigil 3.0.0 but ... we can save 3.0 for when we next update to the latest Qt, latest Python, latest lexbor, latest pcre2, etc. In all my testing, it has been really stable, but of course there still could be issues that I have just not triggered given how I use Sigil. So please build from master and start using it on a normal basis and let me know if you run into any difficulties. Updated, hopefully final, translations should be coming in just over a week or two (to give translators time to make any changes they want). Thank you. Once we get final translations, if needed we can create a public release candidate (RC) for more people to try. Last edited by KevinH; 10-16-2026 at 10:32 AM.