v1.5.0

This release brings support for Linux systems which means that October is available for all major platforms.

To celebrate this milestone, I've given the docs site a bit of a content refresh although there are still more changes I intend to make.

There were also a few other small changes:

• Fixed pesky sizing issue that means you could scroll down slightly on most screens. The Windows settings screen specifically may still have this issue depending on your screen resolution
• Updated artifact file format naming to follow a consistent standard
• Slightly increased the default window width for October to give it a little more breathing room

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

v1.5.0-beta2

• Slightly increases default window size
• Fixes overscroll on most screens

v1.5.0-beta1

This release introduces a Linux version, although only a .deb file is provided at the time of release.

It will be formally released once the documentation has been revamped.

v1.4.0

Note: This release was originally accidentally published as v.1.4.0 instead of v1.4.0. The contents has not changed but the release was recreated as v.1.4.0 is not a valid Windows version identifier.

This release adds back the ability to sync store-purchased titles, although it needs to be explicitly enabled in Settings just to ensure users aren't accidentally double syncing if they are also using the official Readwise integration.

In order to bring awareness, the first initial sync will also show this popup if highlights are detected that are not from sideloaded titles. This popup will only show one time. Either clicking "Understood" or enabling store-purchased highlight syncing via Settings will cause it to disappear.

Lastly, the upload button now lists how many side loaded and official highlights are detected

This release also fixes some buginess:

• v1.3.2 added logic to only upload sideloaded books but in doing so, some queries for discovering Kobo content were incorrect. These should be fixed now so the correct number of sideloaded titles are uploaded.

v1.3.4

This release adds detection support for Kobo Clara 2E and Kobo Elipsa 2E.

As always, unreleased devices should work just fine with October. This change just adds their device strings so that October can display their names instead of "Unknown Kobo".

I don't own these devices so I don't know for sure that this will work but I pulled the device IDs from the latest Kobo firmware so I assume they should work just fine.

If they don't and you own one of these devices, please feel free to file an issue.

v1.3.3

This release doesn't add any new features but brings a bunch of maintenance chores that were overdue.

• Refreshes the dark mode colour scheme which had been partly implemented. It should now be much less jarring but it can probably do with more tweaks in future
• Fixes #85 where starting October on Windows 11 with newer versions of the WebView2 runtime would briefly cause an "Unexpected Error" screen to appear

There are some other changes that won't be visible to users but for those interested:

• Removes unneeded dependency on github.com/go-resty/resty in favour of plain net/http. This has no visible change for users. It may or may not reduce the size of October very slightly but I haven't checked. It probably doesn't.
• Updated most dependencies to their latest versions which brings October up to date and provides a fresh base to start developing again.
• Begin signing releases with a new developer certificate as the current version expires on May 30th. This has no impact to end users. It just means that I can continue signing new installers (so they pass Windows Smartscreen) as my current certificate is about to expire. The new signature lasts until 2025 when it will need to be renewed again.
• Updated year references from 2022 to 2023 that were missed. It doesn't mean anything in a legal sense but it's always nice when software appears fresh, such as referring to the current year.

Toggle to see screenshots of the new dark mode scheme

v1.3.3-beta1

This release doesn't add any new features but brings a bunch of maintenance chores that were overdue.

• Refreshes the dark mode colour scheme which had been partly implemented. It should now be much less jarring but it can probably do with more tweaks in future
• Fixes #85 where starting October on Windows 11 with newer versions of the WebView2 runtime would briefly cause an "Unexpected Error" screen to appear

There are some other changes that won't be visible to users but for those interested:

• Removes unneeded dependency on github.com/go-resty/resty in favour of plain net/http. This has no visible change for users. It may or may not reduce the size of October very slightly but I haven't checked. It probably doesn't.
• Updated most dependencies to their latest versions which brings October up to date and provides a fresh base to start developing again.
• Begin signing releases with a new developer certificate as the current version expires on May 30th. This has no impact to end users. It just means that I can continue signing new installers (so they pass Windows Smartscreen) as my current certificate is about to expire. The new signature lasts until 2025 when it will need to be renewed again.
• Updated year references from 2022 to 2023 that were missed. It doesn't mean anything in a legal sense but it's always nice when software appears fresh, such as referring to the current year.

v1.3.2

This release updates the various bookmark/book queries so that store-purchased Kobo titles are ignored.

For most users, they'll want to use the officially supported Readwise integration to make use of remote syncing and what not.

October is intended to just cover the sideloading part of the equation but until now, there was never any special handling of store-purchased titles so they happened to be picked up if they existed.

For any users who have synced store-purchased titles previously, and have duplicate highlights, they'll need to manually remove them from their Readwise accounts but this is a one time thing.

v1.3.1

This release batches highlights to Readwise into multiple requests if you are trying to send more than 2000 requests at a time.

If you're trying to upload a large batch of highlights in one go, this should now be possible without the risk of the Readwise API rejecting the request due to it being too large.

v1.3.1-beta1

This release batches highlights to Readwise into multiple requests if you are trying to send more than 2000 requests at a time. It should hopefully ease pressure on the API when trying to send large quantities of highlights.

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.1-beta1