Beta Testers for Sigil-2.3.0 Needed

[KevinH]

Hi All,

For our next release of Sigil we have made some major changes to the codebase so we are looking for Beta testers to heavily test things to make sure all works as expected:

These changes include:

1. Move to Qt 6.7.2

2. Move to Python 3.11.9

3. Wholesale changes to Sigil source code to drop support for older Qt5

4. Reverted a large number of late changes that impacted all buttons and checkBoxes that made users require more clicks to get work done. This should bring us back towards Sigil 2.1.0 in that regard but hopefully not hurt tab to focus keyboard users.

5. All bug fixes we have accumulated since the 2.2.1 release

6. Redesigned changes to use Unicode NFC normalization form so that all epubs built with Sigil can be searched equally well in all languages and all good e-readers as well as with Sigil itself. This is to address concerns of many epub developers who make heavy use of accented languages and those that work with RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew.

Both DiapDelaer and myself are using these builds on a daily basis and all appears to work for us just fine but because people have different work patterns getting feedback from a larger group of testers is important.

So I have posted CI builds (Beta) for Sigil 2.3.0 in my personal repo on github here:

https://github.com/kevinhendricks/Bu...nMac/releases/

The 3 files available are:

Sigil.app-230Beta-Mac-x86_64.tar.xz
Sigil.app-230Beta-Mac-arm64.tar.xz

and for Windows:

Sigil-installer-2.30Beta-Windows.zip

Note: Windows users will need to unzip the download to get to the normal setup installer.

So please if you have any free time and interest in helping Sigil, please grab and use any of these Beta versions and report back any results, good or bad with your normal epub workflows in this thread, so we can track issues down and get them fixed.

Thank you!

Your Sigil Developer Team