2.0.0

▲ Auto-hiding headerbar and navbar

▲ The new selection popover

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Interface:

• A redesigned interface that works better for smaller screens (#176)
• Improved fullscreen mode with an overlaid headerbar (#4)
• The headerbar and the progress bar now auto-hide, for a distraction-free reading experience
• Various location information, as well as a clock, can now be displayed in the footer (#175, #233)
• A new location popover (Ctrl + L) that shows reading time estimates and allows skipping to locations (#155)
• E-reader style navigation: go to the previous or next page by tapping on the left or right part of the view; tap on the middle to toggle header bar and progress bar
• Annotations, bookmarks, and find results now show chapter titles (#162)
• When looking up words in dictionaries, the query can now be edited (#156)
• New shortcut for viewing metadata (Ctrl + I) and preferences (Ctrl + ,)
• A new traditional menubar, which may be displayed depending on the desktop environment
• Option to use a traditional titlebar and menubar instead of a headerbar (experimental)

Reading:

• Continuous scrolling layout
• Option to show decorative shadows that mimic the appearance of a real book
• Ability to zoom in and zoom out (#117)
• Improved image viewer with "save as" option
• Open copies of a book in new windows (Ctrl + N)
• Reload book (Ctrl + R)
• New built-in themes: Gray, Solarized, Gruvbox, Nord

Text selection:

• Ability to select text across pages
• Find selected text in book
• Speak selected text or from the selected location (#141)

Annotations:

• Spellcheck notes (requires new optional dependency gspell)
• Export annotations to Markdown (#180)
• Options to use custom colors for highlights

For publishers and developers:

• Support for Apple Books theme attribute, which allows books to detect themes without JavaScript (#178)
• WebKit's developer tools can be enabled

Breaking changes:

• The settings schemas has been reorganized
• The format for custom themes has changed
• Locations are now 1024 characters in size

Bug fixes:

• Fixed not restoring exact last location
• Fixed navigation not working with scrolled layout
• Fixed font size not changing when the book uses absolute-size keywords (#173)
• Fixed text cut off at margin edge (#177)
• Fixed unable to open books with "#" or "?" in the file name

1.5.3

• Fixed Flatpak version not being able to open .mobi, .azw, and .azw3 files
• Improved Wiktionary lookup, now with links and example sentences
• Improved popover footnote extraction and formatting
• Added option to export annotations to BibTeX (#130)

Technical changes:

• Foliate no longer bundles cheerio.

1.5.2

• Fixed table of contents navigation not working with some books
• Fixed not being able to zoom images with Kindle books
• Fixed not being able to open books with .epub3 filename extension
• Fixed temporary directory not being cleaned after closing

1.5.1

• Fixed F9 shortcut not working (#142)
• Updated translations

1.5.0

• JavaScript and external resources are now blocked by default (#78)
• Basic text-to-speech support (#85) (pictured)
  Requires new optional dependency, espeak, or espeak-ng, or festival, or any other speech synthesis program as long as it (1) speaks text from stdin, (2) returns when finished speaking, and (3) stops speaking when receiving SIGINT
• Export annotations to HTML, plain text, or JSON (#93)
• Support for viewing .mobi, .azw, and .azw3 files (#128)
  Requires new optional dependency python2 >= 2.7 or python3 >= 3.4

1.4.0

• New alternative sidebar UI (pictured)
• Lookup words in Wikipedia and offline dictionaries (#5)
• Translate passages with Google Translate
• Configure default action when words are selected (#98)
• Experimental popup footnote support
• Ability to find within only the current chapter
• Fixed CPU spikes when left open (#76)
• Fixed highlights not rendering at the correct positions (#96)

Technical changes:

• Foliate no longer depends on libsoup.
• New optional dependency: dictd (for offline dictionary support)
• The minimum GJS version has been lowered to 1.52, which means that Foliate can now run on systems based on Ubuntu 18.04 or later.
• The permission --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak is now required for Flatpak. It's only used for spawning the dict process. This can be overridden, if dictd support is not needed.
• A .deb package is provided with this release.

1.3.1

• Fixed crashing when opening files (#88)
• Updated translations

1.3.0

• Customize page margins (#53) and brightness
• Tweak the theme colors, or add your own custom themes (#53)
• Ability to zoom and copy images (#21)
• Option to auto-hide cursor (#71)
• See reading time left by hovering over the reading progress slider

1.2.1

• Fixed some books not rendering sometimes
• Fixed images being too wide in some cases

1.2.0

New features:

• Auto-hyphenation
• Option to switch between left and full justification
• New layout option: single-column paginated view (#46)

Fixed:

• Generated locations are now stored in the cache directory rather than localStorage (#43)