The changelog for Sigil version 0.1.9 follows:
Quote:
- 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)
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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.