Category: Release notes

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

A new version of your favourite offline internet reader has been released, with a number of fixes that you can see below. The important thing to note here is the update to the minimum version of macOS 13 et iOS 16 (but proper video reading will require macOS 15 and iOS 17). Here is the...read more

You can now download a prepackaged image for your Raspberry Hotspot containing the following zim files should your internet connection go offline and you need some backup documentation (call it “insurance”). The selection will obviously be updated as new we zim up new websites over time. Documentation Alpine Linux Bootstrap Gentoo Mediawiki MDN Web Docs...read more

Here is the changelog for this release.

All you need to know.

Coming to a Browser Extension Store near you, Version 4.0 is a major (10 years!) anniversary milestone for Kiwix JS now comes with full high-fidelity support for all known ZIM archives! Updating Kiwix-JS This release has important new features, together with significant under-the-hood refactoring. If you use the Extension in Service Worker mode, it will...read more

Major release that fixes a range of bugs!