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2011

• 2011-01-30 : The Wikimedia Foundation supports now actively the Kiwix and openZIM projects.
• 2011-01-11 : Kiwix provides, again after two years, an up to date version of Kiwix for MacOSX (intel).

2010

• 2010-07-23 : Kiwix has now its own PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Ubuntu : https://launchpad.net/~kiwixteam/+archive/ppa
• 2010-04-22 : Have released Kiwix 0.9 alpha1. This version benefits of a lot of improvements comparing to the 0.8. It especially runs (again) on MS Windows. Here is the full CHANGELOG. You may downloaded here the Windows version with the WP1 EN 0.7 30.000 Wikipedia articles.
• 2010-03-28 : Kiwix compiles again under Windows... but this time the process is really simple and documented.
• 2010-02-15 : I have released the final 0.8 version. I wasn't been working on it since months and no bugs were reported in the last Release Candidate. See you soon with the first 0.9 alpha.
• 2010-01-23 : First version in the SVN of kiwix-serve, an HTTP server able to serve a ZIM file and using the Kiwix search engine - demo.

2009

• 2009-11-30 : RC3 of Kiwix v0.8 mainly fixing a critical issue with (at least) Fedora: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.8-rc3%2Bxulrunner.tar.bz2/download
• 2009-11-01 : Probably last test release for the WP1 version 0.7 selection.
• 2009-08-26 : I (Kelson) will be on the third openZIM dev. meeting at Basel the 20-22 November.
• 2009-08-12 : RC2 of Kiwix 0.8 (see CHANGELOG)
• 2009-08-10 : New micro blogging feed on Identi.ca to be kept informed about all last updates on the dev. side. The feed is also visible on the Website's welcome page.
• 2009-08-06 : Code is officially frozen for version 0.8 and only a few bugs will be fixed until the final release. We are permanently working on version 0.9 : first entry in the CHANGELOG is the introduction of the Hebrew localization.
• 2009-07-21 : Beta1 of the ZIM in Italian, that means 120.000 articles with thumbs.
• 2009-07-20 : First release candidat of v0.8... main improvements: introduction of the user interface in arabic, a faster indexing process and a smaller index disk usage. (see the CHANGELOG).
• 2009-07-19 : alpha1 of a ZIM with all articles (almost 100.000) in the Wikipedia in Arabic
• 2009-07-16 : alpha1 of a ZIM with all articles in the Wikipedia in Burmese
• 2009-07-13 : I have prepared a ZIM version of the Wikipedia for schools selection. This selection was prepared by SOS Children’s Villages UK and has almost 5.000 articles in English including pictures (average resolution). The file is ~30% than the original one. At this occasion I have modified Kiwix to avoid indexing HTML pages with the NOINDEX meta tag.
• 2009-07-02 : A the end, again a Beta5 of Kiwix v0.8 with again a few bug fixes and improvements, especially the introduction of help and a new page caching. (see the CHANGELOG).
• 2009-06-18 : Beta4 of Kiwix v0.8 with again a few bug fixes (see the CHANGELOG). This will be probably the last beta version.
• 2009-06-17 : Third (and probably) last alpha of the Spanish selection with more than 120.000 articles.
• 2009-06-11 : Alpha2 of the italian selection with almost 30.000 articles.
• 2009-06-10 : Beta3 of Kiwix v0.8 with a few improvements and bug fixes (see CHANGELOG) .
• 2009-06-07 : Second beta of Kiwix v0.8 patching a critical bug impacting using of large ZIM files on 32 bits architectures (see CHANGELOG) .
• 2009-06-05 : Now people speaking English, Spanish or French will automatically see the Web site in their language.
• 2009-06-04 : I have add a Map where you can localized people involved in the project or simply using Kiwix.
• 2009-06-03 : Second alpha version of the Spanish selection with more than 80.000 articles. Next version will have 120.000 articles and will certainly be the last alpha revision.
• 2009-05-26 : Second alpha version of the French selection with more than 30.000 articles.
• 2009-05-25 : I (Kelson) will be in Berlin with the whole Openzim team at the LinuxTag, visit us!
• 2009-05-24 : First beta of Kiwix v0.8. No feature will be added anymore and since last alpha, a few bugs have been patched, especially concerning the search/indexing process.
• 2009-05-22 : First public ZIM alpha of a 30.000 articles big selection (with thumbnails) of Wikipedia Spanish articles.
• 2009-05-17 : First public ZIM alpha of the WP1 0.7 selection here: the ~30.000 best articles with thumbnails!
• 2009-05-03 : I'm now able to get for any Wikipedia, all articles sorted by importance. This is essential to build selections. If you are interested, take a look to this code or contact me.
• 2009-04-19 : I have published a short screencast of Kiwix 0.8 alpha3.
• 2009-04-18 : The zimlib was rewritten. New and "old" ZIM files are incompatible. I have published a new alpha3 version of Kiwix 0.8 (only for Linux) here and with Xulrunner included here. I have also prepared a few ZIM files: wikipedia_en_wp1_0.5_2000+_03_2006_rc1.zim, wikipedia_es_fa+ga_2000+_04_2008_alpha1.zim, wikipedia_it_fa_1000+_-4_2008_alpha1.zim.
• 2009-03-25 : The alpha2 of Kiwix is published 0.8 (only for Linux) here and with Xulrunner included here. Feedbacks are like always welcome. A ZIM test file may be downloaded here.
• 2009-02-25 : From now Kiwix uses the new ZIM format.
• 2009-02-25 : First openZIM meetup was a success, please see the press release, next one will be at the LinuxTag 2009 in June, in Berlin.
• 2009-02-17 : Kiwix will certainly use Xapian as search engine the its next releases, I have started to commit code in this way.
• 2009-01-27 : I have make a small doc (in French) about the tools I'm using.
• 2009-01-21 : The 21/21 February, the Openzim first meeting will take place in Basel.
• 2009-01-12 : I have launched a BitTorrent tracker to reduce our bandwith usage. I hope it will be used. Metalink files were updated.

2008

• 2008-12-17 : Linterweb has stopped his collaboration with Kiwix. As Linterweb did not publish the 0.7 source code, this version will not be recognized as a standard Kiwix release and will neither be supported. If you want more information concerning 0.7 and the live corpus, please contact Linterweb.
• 2008-12-10 : Linterweb has open OpenWebContent.org to help identify free web contents for Kiwix.
• 2008-11-30 : New permissions of the wiki : everybody with an account can write on it!
• 2008-11-30 : A first beta release of our next 0.7 release was released here. Please test it and make a report.
• 2008-09-15 : The English WP1 project has finished its 0.7 selection of almost 30.000 articles. Kiwix will before the end of the year published them using its tools and software.
• 2008-08-23 : New perl script to optimize contents size (html, jpeg, png and gif ) in a directory.
• 2008-06-18 : A web gateway to our IRC channel has been installed. Visit us!
• 2008-06-01 : The French Ubuntu community has released for the second time an offline version of their documentation using kiwix.
• 2008-05-01 : First release of mirrorMediawikiPages.pl, a perl script allowing to easily mirror whole pages (with text&media dependences) between 2 Mediawikis.

2007

• 2007-01-11 : Kiwix and the project Moulinwiki will collaborate.
• 2007-03-01 : v0.5 was released with a collection of 2000 articles of the English Wikipedia. Get it !