[sword-devel] Xiphos 4.5.0

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Xiphos release 4.5.0 <https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases>

Last release was in June. That was kind of intermediate due to some 
security bugs. Turns out, there were several more lurking, now handled 
by generous contributors, mostly dealing with internal URL handling.

A lot has happened since June. Notably, bookmark folder colors have 
given way to bookmarked verse colorization per folder color, including 
mouse-hover reveal of which bookmark(s) induced a verse's colorization. 
Also, display of entire Bible books is available in main display (only; 
not parallel, not dialogs) at Prefs → Options → Display whole Bible 
books. Those 2 features induced the jump straight from 4.4 → 4.5, in 
consideration of the volume of display code updates they required. A 
bunch of display gotchas have been repaired, such as broken checkmark 
images in Prefs and Mod.Mgr. There is a modules "Favorites" category in 
sidebar display. Saved parallel sets are available in Prefs. A direct 
reference to Google Translate is available by mouse-sweeping some 
Heb/Grk text and using the context menu option. AndBible bookmarks can 
be imported. Verse list multi-sets can be optionally selected via a 
popup menu. Multi-column display has been expanded to 8 due to recent 
experience with large monitors. Margin justification defaults on.

A couple screenshots of bookmark colorization + user annotation 
highlight can be seen here 
<http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/pub/xiphos/binaries/images/>.

The Windows build is internal to the release process, already present at 
the release page. As well, there are initial builds for Fedora 42/43/44, 
RHEL 9/10, and Ubuntu (via alien(1)) available at this link 
<http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/pub/xiphos/binaries/> but pumpkin holders 
by distro should get up to speed in due time.

The issues list is down to a bare dozen, from a high of over 100 this 
time last year. Half of what remain are wish list items without a clear 
path forward.

Huge thanx particularly to Cyrille for his many contributions.

--karl
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