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I’ve just released the latest version of Wiki2Touch, the offline WikiReader for the Apple iPod Touch or the iPhone. It was a long and sometimes stony way from the last version up to this. Trust me.

So whats new? As I’d said in the past, this version deals with rendering bugs. So it has no new features. Or decide for you’re own if you like to name one or the other change a new feature. Here is a brief summary:

• Template caching works without any change of rights now for firmware 1.1.3/1.1.4, too. If you’ve not modified anything in the past while using 0.60 together with firmware 1.1.3/1.1.4 you will see the articles now displayed much faster once the template is cached.
• Support for #expr/#ifexpr parser functions. Have a look at articles like “2008″ (the year 2008). Mainly all the links in the head area are computed by the use these new functions.
• Preliminary math support: At least the text from the math-tags is extracted and displayed with a gray background for better readability and the math symbol “Pi” is displayed as the Greek symbol. Nothing else.
• More than 30 changes for better rendering support. The changes covering smaller issues like to much spaces or line feeds, correct handling of headlines, reference lists and enumerations, up to the support of sometimes very complex templates (i.e. in the English edition articles like “Al Gore” or “George Washington”. And a bug which crashed the server was also removed.

You find a complete list over at Google Code (see the links on the right side).

Still one of my favorite screen shots from the tests

I’m glad to finally have this version out. I have lots of ideas for new features, starting from enhanced multiple language support, followed by making the server faster, adding a full text search index, support for certain Wikipedia namespaces (categories, portal, …) and so on.

But all this is useless without a stable basis. And, although I know that there are some minor issues still left, I think this version is it.

Installer support for the latest version was set up (thanks Sanford).

While on the subject “installing”: There are no major changes to the indexer or the articles database. You DON’T need to re-index anything or have to re-upload the “articles.bin” or the “images.bin”. No changes here! So as soon as the update shows up in the installer simply hit the button. A restart of the server after the installation is a good idea.

Have fun with the new version,

Tom

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