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Old 03-24-2019, 08:27 AM   #16
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Someone should have posted what these release notes were. Now we cannot see them. Well done. NOT!
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Old 03-24-2019, 09:09 AM   #17
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Yes, that's a good point about the new language. On a side note, have you any idea about what the extra writing said?
The extra note looked like someone had forgotten to delete some instructions from a template.
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Also, do you have any idea as to why kobo requires three copies of the (usually) same text? I'm assuming that they use different sizes for different models, or perhaps to support large print mode.
That is what it looks like to me. Each screen resolution gets a different copy.
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I think that release notes are stored in advance on the server because the beta group (beta.kobo.com) tests them a week or two in advance. I believe this is used with the with the AcceptPreviewUpgrades option in the config file.
Unless Kobo are about to change something, That isn't how they do the beta group. But, I'm pretty sure these release notes were just someone posting them to early. How accurate they were, I can't comment on.
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Old 03-24-2019, 05:12 PM   #18
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Someone should have posted what these release notes were. Now we cannot see them. Well done. NOT!
Basically, the changes were:
- Traditional Chinese language support
- Various WiFi fixes
- Tells you if Kobo is not accessible on the current network
- Fixes for downloading Internet Archive books

I did do a scan for the usual naming patterns of the firmwares (both with and without the upgrade headers), but couldn't find any firmware files. Note that this could have been due to rate limiting, as it kept hanging for a bit every few tens of versions.
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- Fixes for downloading Internet Archive books

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I haven't noticed any reference to the Internet Archive in the latest firmware? What Internet Archive functionality is there?
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I haven't noticed any reference to the Internet Archive in the latest firmware? What Internet Archive functionality is there?
I think it was referring to downloading from there using the browser. There have been problems downloading from different sites due to the way the site is constructed and how the browser works. They may have fixed a problem specific to the Internet Archive. I went looking for a book on it yesterday, but, when I tried to download the epub using my desktop, the site gave an error about not being able to generate the epub. That's a server problem and made it hard to test on the device.
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I think it was referring to downloading from there using the browser. There have been problems downloading from different sites due to the way the site is constructed and how the browser works. They may have fixed a problem specific to the Internet Archive. I went looking for a book on it yesterday, but, when I tried to download the epub using my desktop, the site gave an error about not being able to generate the epub. That's a server problem and made it hard to test on the device.
The Kobo firmware has some internet archive specific sync code. There's also a column for it in the Content table in the database.
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The Kobo firmware has some internet archive specific sync code. There's also a column for it in the Content table in the database.
I hadn't looked at that. I have two books with that column set to true. When I downloaded one of them from the store, the name of the server it is coming from suggests it is an Internet Archive server. So the fix is probably solving some issue getting books directly from there rather than the browser.

I don't know why I have this book, but, it is Italian, so I suspect it was a test-case for something a while ago. I can't immediately see anything about it in the store that would tell me it came from the Internet Archive.

The other is a Dickens that I had deleted. Again, there is nothing about it that tells me where it comes from, but, neither have publishing details.
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