Sigil (64-bit)

Sigil (64-bit) is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format. It is free and open source software under GPLv3, It provide full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16 and full EPUB spec support, WYSIWYG editing, support Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View, include Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each, table Of Contents editor, perform advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode.

Bug Fixes:

• flush all changes to disk before creating a Report so that files sizes are correct
• stop writing python bytecode to Program Files on Windows
• remember cover semantics if cover image replaced by Add Existing...
• fix issues with the Plugin Framework documentation epub
• more memory leaks plugged
• minor code cleanups

New Features:

• updated to Qt 5.12.3 with Annulen Webkit 5.212 with extra QtCursor memory leak fixes
• updated to Python 3.7.2
• updated build docs for macOS, Linux and Windows
• build system now uses GNUInstallDirs to determine the best installation libdir on Linux
• updated desktop integration for Linux
• reduce PCRE cache size to help lower memory footprint
• improve mapping of hunspell dictionary names to actual language names (thanks BeckyDTP)
• add warning during import if unmanifested files exist in the epub zip archive
• no longer requires use of non-breaking space entities (or any entities at all!)
• special spaces are now visisble via syntax highlighting in CodeView
• dropping epubs on Sigil.app no longer opens an extra empty epub on macOS
• reload Preview only when needed to help prevent screen flicker and lower memory use
• enabled Windows automated builds using Apppveyor
• Windows releases now compiled with Visual Studio 2017
• characters in HTML files report now uses gumbo for speed
• allow user's custom plugin icons to survive a plugin update