Releases: GerHobbelt/qiqqa-open-source
v82pre6
What's new vs. v82pre6?
- (functionality bug) fixes jimmejardine#134
- a few more code robustness edits, so that the 'something has happened' dialogs don't show up any longer simply because something goes wrong in a Dispose action somewhere.
All other info is as for the previous prerelease: v82pre4+v82pre5.
What has been fixed / done in Qiqqa already?
click to go to the closed issues list
Open issues
click to go to the open issues list for the v82 final release
v82pre5
What's new vs. v82pre4?
- (UI bug) fixes jimmejardine#132
- (code robustness) fixes jimmejardine#95
- a few other code robustness edits
All other info is as for the previous prerelease: v82pre4
v82pre4
Everything up to v82.0.7213.27662 release.
This release is binary compatible with previous releases v80 and v79: the file storage formats haven't changed since v79.
The most important addition to v82 is much improved code robustness: Qiqqa SHOULD open and peruse user libraries, which have been corrupted somehow previously and which would crash or otherwise cause releases v80, v79 and older releases to fail or become completely inoperable. Bad/invalid/truncated PDF files in a user library or Watch Folder should not fatally wound Qiqqa any more.
v82 DOES NOT 'auto-fix' such libraries; this is reserved for a future release. See also jimmejardine#80
To see what happened up to this release, next to the CHANGELOG, there's the 'closed issues list' for this release at github.
What has changed since v82pre3?
- BibTeX editor modes are now actually usable: the old RAW editing mode and the new BibTeX 'parsed' field/form editor, which was previously only available in the Qiqqa Document View pane. (jimmejardine#82)
- More work has been done on stability and in particular application exit behaviour (jimmejardine#112)
- jimmejardine#122
- jimmejardine#121
- jimmejardine#103
- jimmejardine#66
The CHANGELOG (and CHANGELOG_full) list the work done in this series of commits.
At the time of this writing, the CHANGELOG_FULL is completed and the CHANGELOG (which is a reduction of the latter) is under construction. Once done, it will show up in this pullreq as the pullreq tracks the release branch.
Tip
Run a Qiqqa Expedition session on the entire library to retrigger OCR and text indexing of your library files, which were previously insufficiently parsed/processed (silently) due to a major fault in older QiqqaOCR: see also jimmejardine#74, jimmejardine#73 and https://github.com/GerHobbelt/qiqqa-open-source/issues/1
How to download & install
- download:
- scroll down this page to the ►Assets line and click the triangle to 'unfold' the list of downloads.
- click the
setup82pre4.exeto download the v82 Qiqqa Installer.
- install:
- once you have downloaded
setup82pre4.exe, open it (or doubleclick on it in your local Downloads directory) to run the installer - the installer will detect a possible previous installed Qiqqa version and report this. Continue the installation process to upgrade your Qiqqa to v82pre4.
- once you have downloaded
In case you want to revert to v79
(v79 is the last commercial release of Qiqqa and has some built-in behaviours that are not present in the Open Source version of Qiqqa, such as Web Libraries support)
- download the v79 installer from the qiqqa.com website at http://download.qiqqa.com/Content/Client/setup79.exe
- as above: open it or doubleclick it in your local Downloads directory to run that installer.
- the installer will detect the previously installed v82 Open Source version and report it. Continue the installation process to revert your Qiqqa to v79.
If you are still running the commercial version of Qiqqa, historical versions will be available at Qiqqa.com.
NOTE THAT SUPPORT FOR HISTORICAL VERSIONS OF QIQQA WILL DISAPPEAR SOMETIME DURING 2020!
To rollback to a previous version, we keep the last few versions (about 10 of them) at
http://download.qiqqa.com/Content/Client/setupXX.exe
where XX should be replaced with the version number (e.g. setup79.exe).
v82(pre3) - more robustness, more working libraries
Everything up to v82.0.7227.6146 release.
This release is binary compatible with previous releases v80 and v79: the file storage formats haven't changed since v79.
The most important addition to v82 is much improved code robustness: Qiqqa SHOULD open and peruse user libraries, which have been corrupted somehow previously and which would crash or otherwise cause releases v80, v79 and older releases to fail or become completely inoperable. Bad/invalid/truncated PDF files in a user library or Watch Folder should not fatally wound Qiqqa any more.
v82 DOES NOT 'auto-fix' such libraries; this is reserved for a future release. See also jimmejardine#80
To see what happened up to this release, next to the CHANGELOG, there's the 'closed issues list' for this release at github.
The CHANGELOG (and CHANGELOG_full) list the work done in this series of commits.
At the time of this writing, the CHANGELOG_FULL is completed and the CHANGELOG (which is a reduction of the latter) is under construction. Once done, it will show up in this pullreq as the pullreq tracks the release branch.
Tip
Run a Qiqqa Expedition session on the entire library to retrigger OCR and text indexing of your library files, which were previously insufficiently parsed/processed (silently) due to a major fault in older QiqqaOCR: see also jimmejardine#74, jimmejardine#73 and https://github.com/GerHobbelt/qiqqa-open-source/issues/1
How to download & install
- download:
- scroll down this page to the ►Assets line and click the triangle to 'unfold' the list of downloads.
- click the
setup82pre3.exeto download the v82 Qiqqa Installer.
- install:
- once you have downloaded
setup82pre3.exe, open it (or doubleclick on it in your local Downloads directory) to run the installer - the installer will detect a possible previous installed Qiqqa version and report this. Continue the installation process to upgrade your Qiqqa to v82pre3.
- once you have downloaded
In case you want to revert to v79
(v79 is the last commercial release of Qiqqa and has some built-in behaviours that are not present in the Open Source version of Qiqqa, such as Web Libraries support)
- download the v79 installer from the qiqqa.com website at http://download.qiqqa.com/Content/Client/setup79.exe
- as above: open it or doubleclick it in your local Downloads directory to run that installer.
- the installer will detect the previously installed v82 Open Source version and report it. Continue the installation process to revert your Qiqqa to v79.
If you are still running the commercial version of Qiqqa, historical versions will be available at Qiqqa.com.
NOTE THAT SUPPORT FOR HISTORICAL VERSIONS OF QIQQA WILL DISAPPEAR SOMETIME DURING 2020!
To rollback to a previous version, we keep the last few versions (about 10 of them) at
http://download.qiqqa.com/Content/Client/setupXX.exe
where XX should be replaced with the version number (e.g. setup79.exe).
v79 commercial
The last Commercial Qiqqa release published on http://qiqqa.com/ - this is a mirror of that software installer.
v78 and older releases
The list of older Commercial Qiqqa releases published on http://qiqqa.com/ - this is a mirror of those software installers.
Note
The last Commercial Qiqqa installer is v79, which is available here as well.
alpha test release
The important bits:
- Sniffer UI has been augmented with a few checkboxes for additional filtering of the set to work through.
- PDF handling has been improved with a strong focus on coping well/better with b0rked or otherwise flakey input files & downloads
- my first go at building Qiqqa; despite the remaining issues, I am happy. But you might want to tread carefully as this has not been 'production quality tested'. It has survived the onslaught of a huge Qiqqa library at ~ 20K+ PDF/records though. 😄
Fixes & Additions to Qiqqa
Work In Progress
(issues which haven't yet been tackled completely to my satisfaction)
Known Issues
Sorry. Discovered when testing the setup on a fresh, virginal laptop owned by a tester/victim:
Download
Click on 'Assets' below to see the list of files. setup.exe is the usual Windows installer app.