Tag: release

CSO Compression and Decompression Tool

Posted on November 21, 2022

Introduction I have a number of backed up ISO files that were taking up quite a bit of space. I wanted to save some space and I decided to compress them. Instead of putting them into something like a ZIP archive, I decided that compressing into CSO would be... Continue reading

KDocker 5.2 Released

Posted on July 26, 2018

This isn’t a huge release but includes a very nice new feature. Lock to desktop! This will force the application to always open on same desktop (when using multiple desktop workspaces) that it was originally docked on. The default behavior is to still to open on the current desktop. The... Continue reading

KDocker 5.1 Released

Posted on February 18, 2018

After quite some time and a few people asking, I’ve put up a new release of KDocker. The big new feature in this release is the ability to save application settings. This way you can dock an application and you don’t have to go though and configure how KDocker interacts... Continue reading

Sigil 0.8.7 Released

Posted on June 14, 2015

This is a very small maintenance release. It mainly updates links for the change in code location. This release can be found here. The sha256sum of the checksum file is ec03bb7b586a4963fb9ac1ac22ae72c76360915775c0af631ce8e2da341aa0eb. Also, this is the last release that will have the Mac package signed by me. Continue reading

KDocker 5.0 Released

Posted on May 3, 2015

I’m pleased to announce that with the help of Dave Butcher KDocker has been updated to use Qt 5! See what I did there with the version number. This release doesn’t introduce any new features. It’s so KDocker can remain useful and not become one more piece of software that... Continue reading

Sigil 0.8.6 Released

Posted on April 12, 2015

This release is a maintenance release of the 0.8.x series and fixes a few critical bugs that could cause Sigil to crash. You can find binary packages here and the change log, here. Finally, the sha256 checksum for the checksum file is 732773ec4fc73ab2ba29584130833b53d96c6c1296c433d889f2cd4b55d565be. The Mac package is signed... Continue reading

KDocker 4.9 Released

Posted on March 6, 2015

There are two big changes on the KDocker front. First I’ve released version 4.9. It still used Qt 4 and has a few bug fixes. Contributions from Dave Butcher were the main reason for the release. Also, KDocker is no longer hosted on Launchpad. It has moved to GitHub... Continue reading

Sigil 0.8.4 Released

Posted on February 2, 2015

With only one day after the 0.8.3 release 0.8.4 is being released. My deepest apologies because this means there is a bad bug. Admittedly it will only impact a very small amount of users but it was big enough to warrant a new release. Unfortunately during refactoring of “remove all... Continue reading

Sigil 0.8.3 Released

Posted on January 31, 2015

This is a big maintenance release. One of the biggest in long time. I highly recommend upgrading because while functionality wise not much has changed a lot of work went into improving stability Most if not all of the credit goes to Kevin Hendricks (KevinH on MobileRead). He spent a... Continue reading

Sigil 0.8.2 Released

Posted on November 28, 2014

This is a small bug fix release that mainly address the plugin framework. A lot of work has been done to enhance and solidify the Python integration. Finally a new validation plugin type was added so a validation plugin can pass validation results to the built in validation pane. As... Continue reading

Sigil 0.8.1 Released

Posted on October 12, 2014

Sigil 0.8.1 is now available! This is a bug fix release. See the Changelog for a full list of changes. Also, the source package directory structure has changed a bit. A number of files that were top level have been put into a docs subdirectory. Further, the source... Continue reading

Sigil 0.8.0 Released

Posted on September 27, 2014

Introduction I’m pleased to announce the availability of Sigil version 0.8.0! The download location has changed sine the last release. This is because Google Code has stopped providing or allowing new downloads. Existing downloads will eventually be removed from the service completely. It has been nearly a year... Continue reading

Calibre Quick Start Guide Fourth Edition

Posted on February 22, 2014

The quick start guide is something I’ve been neglecting for quite some time. When calibre 1.0 was released I really should have updated the guide at that time but I didn’t. This past week I decided that it had been long enough and the guide had to be updated. I’m... Continue reading

Sigil 0.7.4 Released

Posted on October 27, 2013

This is a small maintenance release of Sigil. Books with an invalid doctype should open as they did in version prior to 0.7.3. Also, this release has a build for OS X using Qt 5.2.0 Beta 1. This release should support Mavericks though it has not been tested on Mavericks.... Continue reading

Sigil 0.7.3 Released

Posted on August 3, 2013

I’m somewhat pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.3. This release is primary a bug fix release. Please see the changelog for a full listing. Currently there is no OS X package for 0.7.3 available. Even though this release fixes numerous bugs on OS X a... Continue reading

Sigil 0.7.2 Released

Posted on April 14, 2013

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.2. This release is primary a bug fix release but does come with a few new features. Please see the changelog for a full listing. Find & Replace now has a Marked Text option. Basically, you can select a... Continue reading

Sigil 0.7.1 Released

Posted on March 3, 2013

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.1. This release streamlines some of the new features introduced in 0.7.0. It also, as always, includes a handful of bug fixes. Please see the changelog for a full listing. One really useful new feature is the ability to... Continue reading

Sigil 0.7.0 Released

Posted on February 17, 2013

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.0. The underlying theme for this release is finishing features. If you look back though previous releases you will see features such as spell check and preview that were added and in subsequent releases further enhanced. The goal all along... Continue reading

Sigil 0.6.2 Released

Posted on December 6, 2012

Sigil 0.6.2 is now out. This is a small maintenance release to fix issues found in the 0.6.1 release. There is still a known issue with the cursor jumping in CV when saving but it isn’t jumping randomly anymore. Continue reading

Sigil 0.6.1 Released

Posted on December 3, 2012

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.6.1. This release is mainly bug fixes but it does have a few new features. For a full list of changes please see the Changelog. A few notable features are: Audio and Video tags will no longer be... Continue reading

Sigil 0.6.0 Released

Posted on October 27, 2012

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.6.0. This release is the calumniation of thousands of hours of work. It comprises approximately 165 major changes and many more minor ones. Please see the changelog for a full listing. Stability has been greatly enhanced and crashes should... Continue reading

KDocker 4.8 Released

Posted on August 4, 2012

Version 4.6 is now available for direct download. This release adds a few new features which I hope will be very helpful. The biggest new feature is really an enhancement to an existing feature. Matching by name now supports using regular expressions (regex). The -e option was added... Continue reading

KDocker 4.7 released

Posted on June 5, 2012

Small maintenance release. No new features. Just a fix for building with GCC 4.7 and fix the icon for the .desktop file. Get it here. Continue reading

Sigil 0.5.3 Released

Posted on February 25, 2012

Sigil 0.5.3 is now available for download. This is a maintenance release and does not include any new features. Just bug fixes. Continue reading

Sigil 0.5.2 Released

Posted on February 9, 2012

0.5.2 is now available for download! This is only a bug fix release but it fixes the “add existing file” feature that broke with 0.5.1. There is no Linux x64 build at this time because my build machine died while building this package. I’ll be looking into options to... Continue reading

Sigil 0.5.1 Released

Posted on February 5, 2012

This is primarily a maintenance release with a large number of fixes. Find and replace (F&R), GUI tweaks and spell check were the major focus. Highlights include: F&R now supports wrapping and the ability to search within selected files. The GUI now (hopefully) remembers cursor position when switching views. en_GB... Continue reading

Sigil 0.5.0 Released

Posted on January 21, 2012

I’m happy to announce the release of Sigil version 0.5.0. 0.5.0 comes with a number of bug fixes and some major new features: Inline spell check in code view Support for PCRE in search and replace Translations into 15 languages Please see the changelog for a... Continue reading

Sigil 0.4.2 Released

Posted on September 2, 2011

Sigil 0.4.1 is complete and available. This is mainly a maintenance release and fixes a number of bugs. Specifically a few bugs related to data loss. There was one major user visible change. The well-formed error dialog can be toggled not to show. This will cause errors to be... Continue reading

Sigil 0.4.1 Released

Posted on August 26, 2011

Sigil 0.4.1 is complete and available. This is mainly a maintenance release and fixes a number of bugs. There are a few new features mostly around the code view. As always see the changelog for a complete list of changes. Continue reading

Sigil 0.4.0 and FlightCrew 0.7.2 Released

Posted on August 15, 2011

The long awaited Sigil 0.4.0 release is now out. Along with Sigil is a new release of FlightCrew. FlightCrew version 0.7.2 is the latest version bundled with Sigil. If you’re an OS X user then one thing need to be aware of is these two releases bump the... Continue reading

All Sigil 0.4 Blocker Bugs Squashed!

Posted on July 27, 2011

Tonight I was able to fix bug 813 (see 837 for details). This is the last blocker bug for the 0.4 release. I merged a few patches there were sitting around. I’ve also fixed and issue with changes to metadata not being relayed to the GUI as the file... Continue reading

KDocker 4.6 Released

Posted on May 29, 2011

Version 4.6 is now available for direct download. This release focus on fixing two bugs when using KDocker with the KWin window manager. It fixes and issue with windows not restoring when the “iconify when minimized” option is set. There is also a small change in how windows are... Continue reading

KDocker 4.5 Released

Posted on November 7, 2010

Version 4.5 of KDocker is now available for direct download and from the Ubuntu ppa. Matching by name handling has been simplified in this release. The -y option to force matching by name has been removed. The -n NAME option now works the same as the -n -y... Continue reading

KDocker 4.4 Released

Posted on July 17, 2010

I’ve released KDocker 4.4 today. It is mostly bug fixes and clean up. However, there is one major change. The feature to dock when the window decorator close button (the x in the upper corner) is clicked has been removed. This feature was introduced in 4.3 and I really like... Continue reading

KDocker 4.3 Released

Posted on November 10, 2009

Large parts of the application have been restructured. For instance QtSingleApplication is now being used. The major new feature is the window manager decoration close button (X at the top right) can now optionally iconify the window when clicked. The -c command line option has also changed. It no longer... Continue reading

KDocker 4.2 released

Posted on September 27, 2009

This release includes bug fixes as usual. Some new features: bash completion, iconify on focus lost option and Italian translation thanks to Alessio Cassibba. There is also a small change to the behavior when activating the tray icon. If the window is not visible it will become active and if... Continue reading

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