Kiwix
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more ## New
- Donation form allowing monthly payments
- Sort and filter opened ZIM files
- Enforce a single empty tab on iOS
- Make languages searchable
- Sort category languages, and filter categories by preferred languages
## Fix
- iPad fresh install navigation issues
- Persist state of tabs when app put to background
- Center welcome screen
- Content preloading for quicker tab switching
- Disappearing toolbars on iPad
- Block external resources earlier
- Update tab bar menu for iOS, to avoid crashing overlay sheets
- Apple Pay related crash
## Updated
- Use libkiwix_xcframework-14.2.1-2
- Change photos permission to write only
- Add subtitle to Hotspot service
- Localization updates
3.16.1 29 Jul
Updated:
- To libkiwix 14.2.1
Fix:
- Scroll and inset issues
- Table of Content not loading
- Localisation updates
3.15.1 13 May
## New
- Add geolocation for relevant ZIM files
## Updated
- Use native immersive experience
- Do not display missing ZIM files in search options
- Localisation updates
# Fix
- Remember side bar state on iPad
3.15.0 5 May
## Updated
- to Swift 6
- to libkiwix-14.2.0-1 and libzim 9.6.0
- start up performance and diagnostics
- settings order
- Remove bird from dark mode logo
- Improved side menu, by replacing UIKit Splitview
- Localisation updates
## Fix
- App performance, crash issues, diagnosctics
- Search bar in compact mode
3.14.0 11 Apr
## Updated
- to libkiwix 14.1.1-1 and libzim 9.5.0
## Fix
- Preserve category selection
- Keyboard input for hotspot port
- Filter out resources not contained in the ZIM locally
- Download waiting for WiFi state
- Filename for shared PDF
- Search and ZIM file validation crash
3.13.0 16 Feb
## New
- ZIM file validation feature
## Updated
- Updated to libkiwix 14.1.1
- Improved diagnostics reports, extended downloads support
- Remember selected category
- Localisation updates
## Fix
- Download error handling
- Indicating paused downloads when offline
- Cap memory usage during searches, prevent crashes
- Hotspot button and text positioning
3.12.0 1 Feb
## New
- Diagnostics feature
## Updated
- Updated Apple-Pay library
- Set default Hotspot port to 80
- Updated local logging for download errors
- Update to libkiwix 14.1.0
- Update min version to iOS17.6
- Localisation updates
- Reverse tab order
## Fix
- Blinking when application becomes active
- iOS 26 UI issues
- Search improvements
- Fix icon loading
- Background in dark mode
3.11.0 17/11/2025
## New:
- Custom Light/Dark theme settings
- Kiwix Hotspot
## Updated:
- localisation updates
- Unified naming for catalog / library
- Support button in settings moved above the fold
- Tabs header was removed in the sidebar menu
## Fix:
- sidebar item selection on app restart
- webpage loading and sizing issues on start
3.10.1 27/08/2025
## New:
- re-arranged navigation buttons, making the randomizer button more accessible
## Updated:
- localisation updates
- re-arranged donation button on iPad
- delete/unlink buttons were moved to the bottom of detail pages
## Fix:
- performance improvements
- remember side menu selection after background / foreground
- memory issues by cleaning up browser instances
- search results crashes
- opening external ZIM in race condition with recent tab
- content outlines
3.9.0 19/05/2025
## Updated:
- Localisations
## Fix:
- Inlining the Kiwix side menu title
- Localisation for donation button
- Search result persistence when switching apps
- iPad split mode scroll to make bottom bar appear
- ZimFile state in download details right after download
- Scroll performance in Library
- Side menu performance improvements
3.8.0 04/03/2025
## New:
- Support Kiwix with Apple Pay donation
## Updated:
- Localisations
## Fix:
- Opening deeplinks
- Opening new tab via http blank link
3.7.1 19/01/2025
## New:
- App launch sequence
## Update:
- Kiwix logo icon
- Optimised Catalog fetching
- Hide navigation bar for full screen reading
- Improved book opening and start up time
- LibKiwix version 14.0.0
- URL scheme change from kiwix:// to zim://
## Fix:
- Reader support for iFrames with srcdoc attribute
- Deleting ZIM file should close the opened tab
- Large downloads do not show completion in UI
- Duplicate entries in search results
- Video continues to play briefly when backgrounding / foregrounding
- Opening external ZIM file
3.6.0 01/12/2024
Fix directly opening ZIM files
3.5.2 08/09/2024
FIX:
- Video issues
- Search bar inconsistencies
UPDATE:
- Translations
3.5.1 30/08/2024
NEW:
- Find in page
- Much smoother video content delivery
- Download error feedback
UPDATE:
- Bookmark and search snippets simplified
- Improved search, which includes ZIM descriptions as well
- More efficient fetching of new items from the Catalog
- Translations
FIX:
- many video related issues
- crashes around library parsing and search
- PDF export
- content positioning
- handling multiple language ZIM files
- accessibilty issues
3.5.0 21/08/2024
Fixes:
- Empty screen after re-opening ZIM home page
- improved favicons
- bookmark titles for non html content
- exporting PDF content
- several video issues
- link handling for new tabs and mails
New:
- optimised reading of large content
- full screen reading mode
Update:
- Translations
- to libkiwix 13.1.0-4
- minimum version to iOS 16
3.4.0 30/06/2024
- NEW: Introduce localisation with help of Translatewiki
- FIX: Multiple fixes around download
- FIX: Default language content filtering
- FIX: Stop display empty categories
- FIX: One search crashing scenario
- UPDATE: Introduce libkiwix 13 support
- UPDATE: Use latest feed from library.kiwix.org
- FIX: iOS tab selection after the selected tab is deleted
- UPDATE: Add background processing and audio capabilities for video playback
- FIX: Exception handling in corrupted ZIM files
- NEW: Export and share an article
- UPDATE: LibKiwix 13.1.0-1
- FIX: Dismiss iOS modals
- FIX: UTF-8 encoding for HTTP headers for text/plain type
- NEW: Remove long press from bookmarks menu item
- NEW: Re-arrange menu items, remove long press functionality
- FIX: Tab selection after deleting a tab
3.3.0 08/05/2024
- Browse with multiple tabs on iOS and iPadOS
- On iPadOS, table of contents is now displayed as popover instead of menu
- Dropped support for iOS 14 & iPadOS 14
- Reverted a change around HTTP partial content handling that resulted in worse video playback experience for iOS / iPadOS
3.2 19/10/2023
- Notification for when a download task complete
- Improved handling and error surfacing for failed download tasks
- Fixed an issue where tasks are not labeled as failed when app is force quit (iOS & iPadOS)
3.1 29/05/2023
- fixed an issue where app UI cannot be loaded for some devices
3.0.2 21/11/2022
- fixed an issue where app UI cannot be loaded for some devices
3.0.1 19/11/2022
- Kiwix is expanding to Mac, supports macOS 12.0 and later
- New library UI with opened, categories, download tasks and new zim files section
- Article preview also have a new look in bookmark and search results
- Streamlined settings UI (iOS & iPadOS)
- Add iOS 16 compatibility and remove iOS 13 support
3.0 14/11/2022
- prevent app from crashing when searching zim files with no full text index
1.15.6 24/05/2022
libkiwix 10 & libzim 7 compatibility
1.15.5 24/03/2022
Attempt to resolve crashes reported on iOS 14
1.15.4 20/01/2022
## New
- Donation form allowing monthly payments
- Sort and filter opened ZIM files
- Enforce a single empty tab on iOS
- Make languages searchable
- Sort category languages, and filter categories by preferred languages
## Fix
- iPad fresh install navigation issues
- Persist state of tabs when app put to background
- Center welcome screen
- Content preloading for quicker tab switching
- Disappearing toolbars on iPad
- Block external resources earlier
- Update tab bar menu for iOS, to avoid crashing overlay sheets
- Apple Pay related crash
## Updated
- Use libkiwix_xcframework-14.2.1-2
- Change photos permission to write only
- Add subtitle to Hotspot service
- Localization updates
more Version 3.16.1 29 Jul
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