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Kiwix-zim-updater v3.5 Released

Kiwix-zim-updater v3.5 has released. this fixes a bug that could cause kzu to download the wrong zims/use the wrong metadata.

Any users with unattended kzu's should verify their libraries are intact and update promptly.

Thanks to everyone on github for their prompt feedback and to u/Peribanu for the code review.

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u/j0j02357 — 11 days ago
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Developer Question: What is the full list of supported dates that a zim can have?

If i run kiwix-zim-updater and look in kiwix-index for the regex /\d{4}-\d{2}(?!\.zim)/g which is essentially date codes NOT in YYYY-MM.zim format, i get 5 results.

Can I get a complete list of valid date parts? Also is this new or has it just happened to not get reported?

References:

https://github.com/jojo2357/kiwix-zim-updater/issues/59

Offending zims:

  • wikipedia_nah_all_nopic_2026-07a
  • scoutwiki_en_all_maxi_2026-07a
  • wikivet.net_en_all_maxi_2026-07a
  • wiki.leagueoflegends.com_en_all_maxi_2026-05a lmao
  • wikipedia_nah_all_maxi_2026-07a
u/j0j02357 — 14 days ago

A Typo

> Flats, typically worn by women, but you can also hear [wear] them as a man too.

I mean the sentence is still true as written

u/j0j02357 — 1 month ago
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Kiwix-Zim-Updater Version 3.4 released

Hi all, just pushed out v3.4 of kzu, you can get it here. This fixes the recent bugs.

DEPRECATION WARNING

The kiwix-zim.sh file has been removed. Apologies for any inconvenience. You were warned. Use the kiwix-zim-updater.sh script instead. it is a drop in replacement

Thanks to u/Peribanu for playtesting.

u/j0j02357 — 2 months ago
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Kiwix base url referring to new subdomain?

How come https://library.kiwix.org/catalog/v2/entries now gives links back to https://lbo.download.kiwix.org/zim/ instead of https://download.kiwix.org/zim/?

Zims are available thru https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ still but the library wants to refer back to lbo.download.kiwix.org? is this a permanent change?

See https://github.com/jojo2357/kiwix-zim-updater/issues/56

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u/j0j02357 — 2 months ago

I am using debian 13 with gnome 48 and whenever i switch my system's high contrast, the border goes totally white and is not even that high contrast.

Toggling high contrast on or off in Libre does nothing.

Libre Details:

Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 520(Build:2) CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Debian package version: 4:25.2.3-2+deb13u3 Calc: threaded

u/j0j02357 — 3 months ago