v0.12.3

Please backup LinguaCafe before updating, otherwise you can lose your data if anything goes wrong. You can read more about backups in the user manual.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed Polish font file name, which did not load previously.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.12.2

Please backup LinguaCafe before updating, otherwise you can lose your data if anything goes wrong. You can read more about backups in the user manual.

Bug fixes:

• Disabled touch scrolling while selecting text.
• Fixed a bug that prevented reading and reviewing in browsers that do not support TTS, like Opera.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.12.1

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Bug fixes:

• Example sentence text overflowed the review card.
• Added missing folder creation for linguacafe/storage/app/temp. Not having it caused ebook file imports, and Japanese language install to fail.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.12

There was in issue with the Windows update process. I updated the readme with an extra step, it should work now. Sadly I have no way of testing it currently, but it worked for an other user.

Please backup LinguaCafe before updating, otherwise you can lose your data if anything goes wrong. You can read more about backups in the user manual.

New features:

• Docker installation and update process has been improved. It does not require git and chmod commands anymore (except once for already existing users).
• Added book length to the library list view.
• Added word inflections table for Japanese.
• Added text to speech option for the text reader.
• Added bottom sheet vocabulary for mobile view.
• Added progressive web app support. Now users can use LinguaCafe as a full screen mobile app.
• Added font type management system.

Bug fixes:

• Added missing kanji images. Now users can see the kanji stroke order and writing animation on the kanji info pages.
• Book word counts now update after importing something.
• Hover vocabulary now disappears when the user moves their mouse pointer to empty space.
• Importing texts now skips too long words instead of throwing an error.
• Importing dictionaries now skips records that contain a word or a definition that is too long instead of throwing an error.
• Fixed highlighted word colors that were displayed incorrectly at several places.
• Interactive text is not selectable anymore on the review page natively like other texts in the browser.
• Previous example sentences are not visible anymore on the review page while the new one is loading.
• Users cannot open a chapter in the text reader anymore that does not belong to their selected language.
• JMDict's source language is not editable anymore.
• Copying a selected word with ctrl+c won't set the word's level to new anymore.
• It is now impossible to create a phrase without any words, which would corrupt the database.
• Fixed light theme's warning color, because it was too yellow and lacking in contrast. For devices that already opened LinguaCafe, users must click on the reset color button to update it.
• Fixed plain text mode copy-paste in Firefox.
• Symbols won't be combined anymore with words in Japanese. This only applies to texts that are imported after this update.
• Fixed a bug that caused text importing to fail in Japanese, if the last word was combined with the previous word during post processing.
• Polish language had a font type that displayed incorrect letters.

Other changes:

• The import dialog won't close by itself anymore after importing has finished.
• Laravel now produces more detailed logs, and logs both to the log file and the docker terminal.
• Disabled Thai import options temporarily, because they did not work. Will fix and re-enable them in v0.13. Users can still use it by manually importing text.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.11.3

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Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused practice review mode to be always turned off.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.11.2

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Bug fixes:

• Fixed annoying multi word text selection bug.
• Fixed furigana.
• Fixed plain text mode.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.11.1

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Bug fixes:

• Fixed broken "Hide all highlighting" and "Hide new word highlighting" settings.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.11

Please backup LinguaCafe before updating, otherwise you can lose your data if anything goes wrong. You can read more about backups in the user manual.

This update will change your selected language to Spanish to avoid having selected languages that are not installed.

New features:

• Language installation. Some languages have been removed from the docker image to reduce its size, and became installable on the admin page.
• Added new languages: Croatian, Danish, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Thai and Turkish.

Other changes:

• The default language has been changed to Spanish.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.10.1

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Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that disabled some hotkeys.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!

v0.10

Please backup LinguaCafe before updating, otherwise you can lose your data if anything goes wrong. You can read more about backups in the user manual.

The interactive text's code has been reworked, it may come with a small performance increase.

There are a few UI elements that do not look good if you change the background or foreground colors, they will be fixed in a future update.

New features:

• Added a new default list layout for the library page.
• Added a logout confirmation dialog.
• Added theme customization.
• Added different background colors for different word levels.
• Added a separate color for ignored words' text color.
• Added a hotkey to set words' level back to new.

Bug fixes:

• There will be no error message anymore due to empty book name when you click on "Create book" button.
• While creating a book, the save button won't be grayed out anymore if you type in a name. Previously it only turned active after you removed the focus from the name input field.
• While creating or editing a book and uploading an image, clicking on the cancel button will now revert the image to the default or previous image, instead of showing an error message.
• Fixed a bug that caused words imported on the vocabulary page to not be added to the review system.
• Pressing the enter key when creating or editing a book or a chapter now will act the same as clicking on the Save button. Pressing the enter key when importing something now will act as the Continue or Import button.
• Fixed a bug that caused hover vocabulary box to appear even when plain text mode was active

Other changes:

• Improved dictionary search UI: made dictionary colors less distracting and vocabulary sidebar more compact and uniform.
• The online user manual has been moved from the GitHub Page to the GitHub Wiki. It also moved from a Vuetify format to Markdown.
• DeepL API key error will not appear on the admin page anymore if it set to the default value.
• Added a warning on how hover vocabulary box works in review settings.
• Lightened default dark mode text color to make it more readable.
• Made navigation sidebar more compact.

Thank you for everyone who contributed for the release!