Category: Release notes

It’s already been almost five months since the last release: we’re excited to announce the arrival of Kiwix JS Browser Extension v4.3! This release brings a complete reimagining of the dark/light theme system, making it smarter and more adaptive than ever before, together with improvements to archive loading, file-system management and numerous fixes. And to...read more

Great news, after a year-and-a-half hiatus and quite the emotional rollercoster, the offline version of Wikipedia is back! You can download it at browse.library.kiwix.org and we recommend you do so using bittorrent, as this will allow an easier / faster deployment across our many users. For users in English, the full 7 million entries (including...read more

Hot from the press, a new release for the Apple port of the Kiwix app! The full changelog is here if you are interested in the detailed list of fixes and updates, but the Big One today is the Hotspot feature: So, how does it work? First, open Kiwix on your phone or computer; Then...read more

Hot from the press, a new release for your favourite offline browser! 42 tickets closed in this milestone, of which 28 were bugs. New Features: Support for Android 15. Added a new intro screen to inform users how they can select the storage for downloading ZIM files. Currently downloading ZIM files will be shown at...read more

A new release of Kiwix for Desktop (Windows/Linux) is now available for download. More than 200 tickets were closed over the past seven months, so it’s kind of a big deal. General FIX: Fullscreen (auto-)scrolling FIX: Main window title at start FIX: Proper fullscreen shortcut when run on WSL FIX: Settings directories display FIX: More...read more

New update for Android users: version 3.12 is currently rolling out. This new version supports Android 14, and can now go around this annoying playstore issue that prevented people from downloading zim files from outside the app and then transfer them to their phone. Changelog New Features Support for Android 14 Added `file picker` in...read more

Anyone wanted to browse a Youtube channel on Kiwix (there are hundreds available) was until recently faced with two major issues: Having dozens of videos made them huge and quite hard to download; The rendering was not great (to say the least), which did not encourage people to watch the content they’d just downloaded. And...read more

We are happy to announce that the new Hotspot Imager is now available to all. The Imager allows anyone to package zim files onto a $60 Raspberry Pi and use it as a simple hotspot to share your favourite educational websites in places without internet access. What’s new? Images now up to 1 TB (from...read more

It’s pretty much all in the title: all TED zim files have been re-created for your offline consumption and enjoyment. It’s all Tech, Entertainment, and Design from the best and brightest – or at least people who can present an interesting story without needing Powerpoint. Two major updates/fixes: Sound now works on Apple devices; Better...read more

It is now official: zimit 2.0, our (near-)universal content scraper, is out! Zimit is already available at zimit.kiwix.org, and we’ve also re-generated existing recipes that were running on the previous iteration. This  labour of love has been 3 years in the asking and 13 months in the making: kudos to everyone involved. Zimit does what...read more