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  1. v3.14.0iOS
    ## Updated
    - to Swift 6
    - to libkiwix-14.2.0-1 and libzim 9.6.0
    - start up performance and diagnostics
    - settings order
    - Remove bird from dark mode logo
    - Improved side menu, by replacing UIKit Splitview
    - Localisation updates
    ## Fix
    - App performance, crash issues, diagnosctics
    - Search bar in compact mode
  2. v3.13.0iOS
    ## Updated
    - to libkiwix 14.1.1-1 and libzim 9.5.0
    ## Fix
    - Preserve category selection
    - Keyboard input for hotspot port
    - Filter out resources not contained in the ZIM locally
    - Download waiting for WiFi state
    - Filename for shared PDF
    - Search and ZIM file validation crash
  3. v3.12.0iOS
    ## New
        - ZIM file validation feature
    
    ## Updated
        - Updated to libkiwix 14.1.1
        - Improved diagnostics reports, extended downloads support
        - Remember selected category
        - Localisation updates
    ## Fix
        - Download error handling
        - Indicating paused downloads when offline
        - Cap memory usage during searches, prevent crashes
        - Hotspot button and text positioning
  4. v3.11.0iOS
    ## New
    - Diagnostics feature
    
    ## Updated
    - Updated Apple-Pay library
    - Set default Hotspot port to 80
    - Updated local logging for download errors
    - Update to libkiwix 14.1.0
    - Update min version to iOS17.6
    - Localisation updates
    - Reverse tab order
    
    ## Fix
    - Blinking when application becomes active
    - iOS 26 UI issues
    - Search improvements
    - Fix icon loading
    - Background in dark mode
  5. v3.10.1iOS
    ## New:
    - Custom Light/Dark theme settings
    - Kiwix Hotspot
    
    ## Updated:
    - localisation updates
    - Unified naming for catalog / library
    - Support button in settings moved above the fold
    - Tabs header was removed in the sidebar menu
    
    ## Fix:
    - sidebar item selection on app restart
    - webpage loading and sizing issues on start
  6. v3.9.0iOS
    ## New:
    - re-arranged navigation buttons, making the randomizer button more accessible
    
    ## Updated:
    - localisation updates
    - re-arranged donation button on iPad
    - delete/unlink buttons were moved to the bottom of detail pages
    
    ## Fix:
    - performance improvements
    - remember side menu selection after background / foreground
    - memory issues by cleaning up browser instances
    - search results crashes
    - opening external ZIM in race condition with recent tab
    - content outlines
  7. v3.8.0iOS
    ## Updated:
    - Localisations
    
    ## Fix:
    - Inlining the Kiwix side menu title
    - Localisation for donation button
    - Search result persistence when switching apps
    - iPad split mode scroll to make bottom bar appear
    - ZimFile state in download details right after download
    - Scroll performance in Library
    - Side menu performance improvements
  8. vVARYAndroid
    * Added support for Android 15.
    * Currently downloading ZIM files will be shown at the top in "Online" Library screen.
    * Added navigation history restoring feature, which restores the previously visited pages for an opened ZIM file, when reopening the application so that users can continue reading the Book where they left off.
    * Improved the opening of ZIM files from USB stick and external hard drive.
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  9. v3.7.1iOS
    ## New:
    - Support Kiwix with Apple Pay donation
    
    ## Updated:
    - Localisations
    
    ## Fix:
    - Opening deeplinks
    - Opening new tab via http blank link
  10. v3.6.0iOS
    ## New:
    - App launch sequence
    
    ## Update:
    - Kiwix logo icon
    - Optimised Catalog fetching
    - Hide navigation bar for full screen reading
    - Improved book opening and start up time
    - LibKiwix version 14.0.0
    - URL scheme change from kiwix:// to zim://
    
    ## Fix:
    - Reader support for iFrames with srcdoc attribute
    - Deleting ZIM file should close the opened tab
    - Large downloads do not show completion in UI
    - Duplicate entries in search results
    - Video continues to play briefly when backgrounding / foregrounding
    - Opening external ZIM file
  11. v3.5.2iOS
    Fix directly opening ZIM files
  12. v3.5.1iOS
    FIX:
    - Video issues
    - Search bar inconsistencies
    UPDATE:
    - Translations
  13. v3.5.0iOS
    NEW:
    - Find in page
    - Much smoother video content delivery
    - Download error feedback
    UPDATE:
    - Bookmark and search snippets simplified
    - Improved search, which includes ZIM descriptions as well
    - More efficient fetching of new items from the Catalog
    - Translations
    FIX:
    - many video related issues
    - crashes around library parsing and search
    - PDF export
    - content positioning
    - handling multiple language ZIM files
    - accessibilty issues
  14. v3.4.0iOS
    Fixes:
      - Empty screen after re-opening ZIM home page
      - improved favicons
      - bookmark titles for non html content
      - exporting PDF content
      - several video issues
      - link handling for new tabs and mails
    New:
      - optimised reading of large content
      - full screen reading mode
    Update:
      - Translations
      - to libkiwix 13.1.0-4
      - minimum version to iOS 16
  15. v3.3.0iOS
    - NEW: Introduce localisation with help of Translatewiki
    - FIX: Multiple fixes around download
    - FIX: Default language content filtering
    - FIX: Stop display empty categories
    - FIX: One search crashing scenario
    - UPDATE: Introduce libkiwix 13 support
    - UPDATE: Use latest feed from library.kiwix.org
    - FIX: iOS tab selection after the selected tab is deleted
    - UPDATE: Add background processing and audio capabilities for video playback
    - FIX: Exception handling in corrupted ZIM files
    - NEW: Export and share an article
    - UPDATE: LibKiwix 13.1.0-1
    - FIX: Dismiss iOS modals
    - FIX: UTF-8 encoding for HTTP headers for text/plain type
    - NEW: Remove long press from bookmarks menu item
    - NEW: Re-arrange menu items, remove long press functionality
    - FIX: Tab selection after deleting a tab
  16. v3.2iOS
    - Browse with multiple tabs on iOS and iPadOS
    - On iPadOS, table of contents is now displayed as popover instead of menu
    - Dropped support for iOS 14 & iPadOS 14
    - Reverted a change around HTTP partial content handling that resulted in worse video playback experience for iOS / iPadOS
  17. v3.1iOS
    - Notification for when a download task complete
    - Improved handling and error surfacing for failed download tasks
    - Fixed an issue where tasks are not labeled as failed when app is force quit (iOS & iPadOS)
  18. v3.0.2iOS
    - fixed an issue where app UI cannot be loaded for some devices
  19. v3.0.1iOS
    - fixed an issue where app UI cannot be loaded for some devices
  20. v3.0iOS
    - Kiwix is expanding to Mac, supports macOS 12.0 and later
    - New library UI with opened, categories, download tasks and new zim files section
    - Article preview also have a new look in bookmark and search results
    - Streamlined settings UI (iOS & iPadOS)
    - Add iOS 16 compatibility and remove iOS 13 support
  21. v1.15.6iOS
    - prevent app from crashing when searching zim files with no full text index
  22. v1.15.5iOS
    libkiwix 10 & libzim 7 compatibility
  23. v1.15.4iOS
    Attempt to resolve crashes reported on iOS 14
  24. v1.15.3iOS
    - Revert libkiwix and libzim to the last known stable release (9.4.1 and 6.3.2 respectively)
    - Added version notation of libkiwix and libzim to the about page
  25. v1.15.2iOS
    - Fixed an issue where random button can lead to app crash due to error. In this partial fix, an error will be displayed when such error happens. The full fix will be delivered in a future release.
  26. v1.15.1iOS
    - Fixed an issue where open in places zim files are identified as corrupted.

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