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 thedict
process. This can be overridden, ifdictd
support is not needed. - A .deb package is provided with this release.