Version History
Here you can find the changelog of BookFusion since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-24.
The latest version is 1.33.0 and it was updated on soft112.com on 19 April, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 1.33.0
posted on 2024-03-05
Mar 5, 2024
Version 1.33.0
**New**
- Support media overlays of opus audio type. This will allow for all media overlay EPUB 3 books to work seamlessly on your devices.
- Increase automatic scroll speed from 100 to 200
** Fixes & Improvements**
- Allow non-standard format for viewport size in fixed epub
- Fix opening TOC links with trailing #
- Fix opening epub books with not lowercase file extension (e.g. ePub)
- Fix apple spread metadata
- Don't mix tts and media overlays in same chapter
- Allow to play media overlay that started not on current page
- Better error message during exporting highlights of local books
version 1.32.2
posted on 2024-02-08
Feb 8, 2024
Version 1.32.2
Improvements
- Use slider for audio speed with smaller step
- Scale comic images to full width in scroll mode
- Comic metadata improvements: rtl support, table of contents, series and alternate series
- Select entire image by default when using image/area highlights in EPUBs
- Optimize scroll performance in long chapters
- Better error message for unsupported media overlay audio
- Optimized the delete and remove from device flow to prevent accidental deletes
Fixes
- Disable live text highlights in PDF
- Don’t truncate scrollable menu in settings
- Consistent book cover sizes
version 1.32.1
posted on 2024-01-26
Jan 26, 2024
Version 1.32.1
** EPUB Area/Image Highlights **
We are delighted to announce that Area/Image-Based Highlights support for EPUBs (EPUB 2 & EPUB 3) is now in our iOS app. This brings the iOS app to feature parity with the Web app.
To start making area/image highlights when reading EPUBs:
1. Long press on any image that you would like to highlight
2. Click the area/image highlight icon from the toolbar that pops up
3. Select the entire image or a section of the image you would like to highlight. That's it!
All area/image based highlights can now easily be created and synced between iOS and Web as well as being available for export
** Auto Dark/Light Theme in Reader **
Introducing the auto dark/light theme in the reader for your enhanced reading comfort. This new theme will configure the reader to follow your system settings just like the app. Never be surprised by the bright white screen or having to manually change between dark and light themes again!
To do this, open the reader and select the new Auto/ Dark/Light theme to have it applied.
** Improvements & Fixes **
- Fix Palatino font
- Fix table of contents performance in old iOS versions
- Fix device rotation issue during auto-scroll
- Fix when part of next page visible in page mode
- Fix JS unsupported error type
- Media overlay fixes
- Fix text color in epub for non default theme
version 1.32.0
posted on 2024-01-24
Jan 24, 2024
Version 1.32.0
** EPUB Area/Image Highlights **
We are delighted to announce that Area/Image-Based Highlights support for EPUBs (EPUB 2 & EPUB 3) is now in our iOS app. This brings the iOS app to feature parity with the Web app.
To start making area/image highlights when reading EPUBs:
1. Long press on any image that you would like to highlight
2. Click the area/image highlight icon from the toolbar that pops up
3. Select the entire image or a section of the image you would like to highlight. That's it!
All area/image based highlights can now easily be created and synced between iOS and Web as well as being available for export
** Auto Dark/Light Theme in Reader **
Introducing the auto dark/light theme in the reader for your enhanced reading comfort. This new theme will configure the reader to follow your system settings just like the app. Never be surprised by the bright white screen or having to manually change between dark and light themes again!
To do this, open the reader and select the new Auto/ Dark/Light theme to have it applied.
** Improvements & Fixes **
- Fix Palatino font
- Fix table of contents performance in old iOS versions
- Fix device rotation issue during auto-scroll
- Fix when part of next page visible in page mode
- Fix JS unsupported error type
version 1.31.4
posted on 2024-01-09
Jan 9, 2024
Version 1.31.4
** Improvements & Fixes **
- Ability to disable brightness gesture (Device Settings -> BookFusion -> Brightness gesture)
- Save reading position when using TTS in background
- Fixed infinite loading in long chapters
- Fixed location of bookmark during auto-scroll
- Fixed crash when merging highlights with tags
version 1.31.3
posted on 2023-12-27
Dec 27, 2023
Version 1.31.3
** Auto-scroll **
Auto-scroll is now here! The auto-scroll feature is designed to enhance the reading experience for EPUBs, PDFs, and Comics. It intelligently scrolls the page according to the reading pace you set, ensuring a seamless and hands-free experience.
To enable this go to Settings -> Auto-Scroll
** Apple Pencil Improvements **
- Use Apple Pencil along the edges of the page in scroll mode to move the page forward and backwards
- Automatically merge highlights when conjoin using Apple Pencil
- Expand highlight to word boundaries when highlight was created with Apple Pencil
- Previously implemented, you can use your Apple Pencil to write notes when you make a highlight
** Fixes **
- Stricter gesture detection for brightness adjustments to prevent conflicts
- Solid backgrounds on the interface and highlights page . This increases readability of text when compared to blur used previously.
- Fix context menu position in vertical writing books. This sometimes could show under overlay controls
- Better handling of epub books with invalid xhtml chapters
- Fixed crash when reading position pointed to removed chapter. This happens when users update books via Calibre plugin
- Fixed reading position in RTL EPUB books
version 1.31.2
posted on 2023-12-21
Dec 21, 2023
Version 1.31.2
** Auto-scroll **
Auto-scroll is now here! The auto-scroll feature is designed to enhance the reading experience for EPUBs, PDFs, and Comics. It intelligently scrolls the page according to the reading pace you set, ensuring a seamless and hands-free experience.
To enable this go to Settings -> Auto-Scroll
** Apple Pencil Improvements **
- Use Apple Pencil along the edges of the page in scroll mode to move the page forward and backwards
- Automatically merge highlights when conjoin using Apple Pencil
- Expand highlight to word boundaries when highlight was created with Apple Pencil
- Previously implemented, you can use your Apple Pencil to write notes when you make a highlight
** Fixes **
- Stricter gesture detection for brightness adjustments to prevent conflicts
- Solid backgrounds on the interface and highlights page . This increases readability of text when compared to blur used previously.
- Fix context menu position in vertical writing books. This sometimes could show under overlay controls
- Better handling of epub books with invalid xhtml chapters
- Fixed crash when reading position pointed to removed chapter. This happens when users update books via Calibre plugin
version 1.31.1
posted on 2023-12-01
Dec 1, 2023
Version 1.31.1
** New **
Custom Tap Zones have arrived! You can now easily customize the size of the tap area using a 3 X 3 grid and set your desired actions for each block inside the reader. Actions that can be selected include:
- Page Left
- Page Right
- Toggle Toolbar
- Play/Pause
- No Action
** Fixes **
- Fixed issue when opening interactive eBooks
--- This release has a few more fixes that addresses brightness gesture conflicts when doing:
--- Area/Image highlights
--- PDF swiping
--- Apple Pencil Selection
version 1.30.7
posted on 2023-11-16
Nov 16, 2023
Version 1.30.7
** New **
- Display supported system fonts based on language of the books
- Gesture controls for adjusting brightness. Vertical pan at the edges for paginated mode and horizontal pan for scroll mode to adjust brightness with gestures
- More granular settings for line height. Now increases and decreases in smaller increments
** Improvements & Fixes **
- Don't show brightness control for interactive books
- Fix "JavaScript error occurred" during opening EPUB books
- Better bookmarks positions between different devices
- TTS performance improvements
version 1.30.5
posted on 2023-11-10
Nov 10, 2023
Version 1.30.5
** New **
Brightness gesture control by panning the left or right edge
** Improvements **
Improve stack reading position for PDF when you navigate with the progress bar
Fix TTS crash when pdf page does not contain any text
Fix scrolling to chapters with no text and scrolling to 100%
Exclude non-linear spine items for reflowable EPUB
version 1.30.4
posted on 2023-11-03
Nov 3, 2023
Version 1.30.4
Improvements
- TTS Voice selection now integrated inside the reader. Easily select your desired voice.
- Stack Reading Position when a user scrolls using the progress bar to another location . Easily jump back to previous positions using back button in the toolbar
- Stack Reading Position support added for comic books
- Improve book cover background blur for prettier book covers.
Fixes
- Retain format and line breaks in book description
- Fixed swipe/curl pages with trackpad for the app when used on desktops (Apple Silicon machines)
- iPad toolbar now uses full length.
- Fix highlight selection for PDF when cropRect and mediaRect are not the same
- Don’t override background and text colors for default theme
- TTS fixes for iOS 17.1 and other improvement
version 1.30.3
posted on 2023-10-25
Oct 25, 2023
Version 1.30.3
Fixes:
- Incorrect location/reading progress when you open some books
- Paragraph spacing with custom themes
- Page curl animation for fixed layout epub and comic books
- Status bar color in PDF and comic book reader
version 1.30.2
posted on 2023-10-11
Oct 11, 2023
Version 1.30.2
This release is focused on improvements and fixes:
- Added Dark mode support for page curl animation
- Fix text selection bug introduced in iOS 16.7 and iOS 17 in reflowable EPUBS
- Fix paragraph spacing for vertical writing mode
- Recover reader after javascript error in background for some EPUBs
- Fix custom themes synchronization issue with web
version 1.30.1
posted on 2023-09-29
Sep 29, 2023
Version 1.30.1
** New **
- Page animation for reflowable epub support added: none, slide & curl (other book formats will come soon) [Beta]
** Improvements & Fixes **
- Fixed reading position bug introduced in previous release
- Fixed saving and restoring link color
- Fixed Comic books that sometimes display white spaces
- Fixed Comic book metadata tags
version 1.30.0
posted on 2023-09-20
Sep 20, 2023
Version 1.30.0
- Further improvements for reading position syncing
- Support DRM watermarks for business and publisher accounts
- Optionally override publisher styles for paragraph spacing
version 1.29.0
posted on 2023-09-02
Sep 2, 2023
Version 1.29.0
** NEW **
- Text to Speech now supported for PDFs
- Text Selection Context Menu now scrollable to include: Search, Translation, Web Lookup, Share, Speak & Start TTS
- Display titles in bookshelf across two lines
- Allow margins to go to 0 for EPUBs
** FIXES **
- Display actual height of images for area/image highlights
- Annotations with watermarked PDF
- TTS fixes
- Image/Area selection fixes
version 1.28.2
posted on 2023-08-21
Aug 21, 2023
Version 1.28.2
This is an improvement and bug fixe focused release.
** New **
- Highlights & Annotation for Comics - Now for the first time you can easily make highlights and annotations to share the favorite scenes of your comics
- Display book size information on book details screen
- New Upload API - faster and more efficient uploads
** Fixes & Improvements **
- Support displaying books for libraries with no curated lists
- Improve updating currently reading section. No more deleted books cache
- Fixed page flipping bug in two column mode
- Fixed orientation lock on iPad
- Add name of author to the index for offline search
- Show local books in series and bookshelves
- Fixes for vertical mode
version 1.28.1
posted on 2023-07-26
Jul 26, 2023
Version 1.28.1
** New Comic Reader**
You can now open CBZ &CBR natively from your iOS device with our new comic reader
- Easily import comics from your device
- Seamlessly go from page to page
- Double tap to quickly zoom in and out to each location
- Portrait & Landscape support
- Support for scroll mode with comics
** Other improvements **
- Increase margin options (horizontally)
- Improved pdf highlighting, the bar no longer covers the text
- Fixed bug to attach images when you try to contact support
- Other improvements
version 1.28.0
posted on 2023-07-04
Jul 4, 2023
Version 1.28.0
** New Comic Reader**
You can now open CBZ &CBR natively from your iOS device with our new comic reader
- Easily import comics from your device
- Seamlessly go from page to page
- Portrait & Landscape support
Several other improvements are coming in the next release for comics. Let us know what you would like to see at support@bookfusion.com
version 1.27.2
posted on 2023-06-06
Jun 6, 2023
Version 1.27.2
# Hyphenation support
# Now supports selecting multiple files to upload
# PDF Image/Area Based Highlights & Annotations
You can now easily make image or area based highlights when reading PDFs on your iOS device. Easily annotate/highlight images, tables, graphs or even text. Any element at all in your PDF can now be highlighted and annotated.
-- Sync your image/area highlights & annotations between Web & iOS
-- Easily make image/area based highlights by long pressing on images then pinch or drag each corner to change the sizeof the area you want to highlight
-- For PDFs with text layer select the text then click the the area/image highlight icon, then select your desired location to make the highlight
-- Easily copy your image/area based highlights to your favorite note taking app or export them to PDF, Markdown, CSV & HTML
version 1.27.1
posted on 2023-05-17
May 17, 2023
Version 1.27.1
** New **
- Spotlight Search
- Vertical Writing Support - Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese eBooks now supported
- Support IDPF Font Obfuscation
** Other **
- TTS Improvements
version 1.27.0
posted on 2023-04-26
Apr 26, 2023
Version 1.27.0
New
--Custom reader settings/themes can now be created and saved on your device
--Synchronize custom reader settings/themes across all iOS devices
Other
-- Fixed a bug with floating keyboard.
version 1.26.2
posted on 2023-03-22
Mar 22, 2023
Version 1.26.2
Localization
-- Added Ukrainian Language. Support for more languages coming soon.
Other
-- Added accessibility identifier for highlighting
-- Fix size of audio section in settings on iPad
-- Fixed TOC navigation for some cases
version 1.22.0
posted on 2022-08-09
Aug 9, 2022 Version 1.22.0
A significant refactor of our reader has been completed which will set the stage to build native CBZ/CBR support and implement quality of life improvements such as , time left in chapter, quickly returning to your previous location, save themes, text alignment and other changes.
- Refactor of EPUB reader
- Now saves state for fixed layout interactive eBooks
- Other fixes and improvements
version 1.20.1
posted on 2022-04-27
Apr 27, 2022 Version 1.20.1
- Improved searching with phrases using quotes
- Other bug fixes and improvements
version 1.20.0
posted on 2022-04-14
Apr 14, 2022 Version 1.20.0
** Series Support **
You can now read and organize your Series between iOS devices and Web.
- Display series information on book details screen
- Creating, updating and deleting series
- Bulk add books to series
- Displaying list of series
version 1.19.0
posted on 2022-02-26
Feb 26, 2022 Version 1.19.0
** Dark Mode **
- Dark mode now supported on all new screens!
- Appearance settings for System/Automatic, Light & Dark
** Highlights & Annotations **
- Added support to export highlights to CSV, Markdown, HTML & PDF
- Added support for tags on highlights. Tags can be leveraged to group related highlights made across several different books about the same topic and more
- Added support for custom highlight colors
- Updated UI for displaying highlights in the reader
- Sort highlights by book progress or date made
version 1.18.1
posted on 2022-02-19
Feb 19, 2022 Version 1.18.1
** Highlights & Annotations **
- Added support to export highlights to CSV, Markdown, HTML & PDF
- Added support for tags on highlights. Tags can be leveraged to group related highlights made across several different books about the same topic and more
- Added support for custom highlight colors
- Updated UI for displaying highlights in the reader
- Sort highlights by book progress or date made
** Other ***
- Other improvements and bug fixes
version 1.18.0
posted on 2022-02-03
Feb 3, 2022 Version 1.18.0
** Highlights & Annotations **
- Added support for custom highlight colors
- Updated UI for displaying highlights in the reader
- Sort highlights by book progress or date made
** Other ***
- Improvements made to remembering pending notes
- Other improvements and bug fixes
version 1.17.1
posted on 2021-12-17
Dec 17, 2021 Version 1.17.1
- Added support for In-App Purchases
- Bug fix for bookshelf reload issue.
version 1.16.0
posted on 2021-11-19
Nov 19, 2021 Version 1.16.0
-- Improvements to rendering PDF quality when applying themes
-- New main menu and app icon
-- Notes/Comments are now much more durable. These will be saved and not disappear if you accidentally close the modal dialog
version 1.15.1
posted on 2021-11-06
Nov 6, 2021 Version 1.15.1
- PDF bug fix
- Fixed bug with currently reading section
- Started new UI/UX for settings screen
version 1.15.0
posted on 2021-10-14
Oct 14, 2021 Version 1.15.0
- New Sign in & Sign up UI/UX
- Additional bug fixes and improvements
version 1.14.5
posted on 2021-09-17
Sep 17, 2021 Version 1.14.5
* Now supports Multitasking & Split View
* Updated currently reading section
* Added context menu that can be accessed by long-press
* Fixed a bug with syncing highlights for PDF from Web
* Added support for Favorites, Completed & Plan to Read on the bookshelf
* Other bug fixes and improvements
version 1.14.4
posted on 2021-09-05
Sep 5, 2021 Version 1.14.4
- Add filter by authors
- Other fixes and improvements
version 1.14.3
posted on 2021-08-25
Aug 25, 2021 Version 1.14.3
* Improve book upload process
*Updated the BookFusion extension
version 1.14.2
posted on 2021-08-03
Aug 3, 2021 Version 1.14.2
* Added Sorting Options:
-- Date
-- Last Read
-- Author
-- Tile
-- Progress
* Other bug fixes & stability improvements
version 1.14.1
posted on 2021-07-21
Jul 21, 2021 Version 1.14.1
Bookshelves a.k.a Virtual Bookshelves have now been added to the iOS app:
-- Add support to create bookshelves
-- Add support to edit bookshelves
-- Added offline support for bookshelves
-- Added the ability to add books to bookshelves from the edit screen
-- Other minor updates and improvements
version 1.13.0
posted on 2021-06-09
Jun 9, 2021 Version 1.13.0
* Font size improvement
* Better offline support
* Editing books and metadata while offline
* Improved reading progress, highlights and bookmarks syncing
* Improved upload and import process for eBooks
* Other bookshelf improvements
This release sets the stage for us to add support for virtual bookshelves, series support and other features.
version 1.12.0
posted on 2021-03-31
Mar 31, 2021 Version 1.12.0
* eBooks can now be downloaded in the background
* Added support for Look Up in PDFs for iOS 12 and lower devices
* Other minor fixes
version 1.11.2
posted on 2021-03-20
Mar 20, 2021 Version 1.11.2
Bug fixes and improvements
version 1.11.0
posted on 2021-02-21
Feb 21, 2021 Version 1.11.0
Another major update to our iOS app for both iPhone and iPad that introduces the start of our new Bookshelf.
** Bookshelf **
* Improved UI/UX
* Ability to search and filter by tags and categories
* Book details screen that now shows tags, category and description
** General **
** Reflowable Layout EPUB improvements
** PDF sync fixes
version 1.10.1
posted on 2020-12-19
Dec 19, 2020 Version 1.10.1
Major update to our iOS app for both iPhone and iPad that introduces our brand new and improved PDF reader:
** PDF Features **
* 5 Color themes (Dark mode, Sepia & 2 other themes) - Beta
* Highlights & Comments
* Instant Search
* Bookmarks & Table of Contents
* Scroll mode
* Text Direction (LTR & RTL support)
* Single & Dual Column Mode
** Reflowable Layout EPUB improvements
** Fixed Layout Epub Improvements
version 1.10.0
posted on 2020-12-16
Dec 16, 2020 Version 1.10.0
Major update to our iOS app for both iPhone and iPad that introduces our brand new and improved PDF reader:
** PDF Features **
* 5 Color themes (Dark mode, Sepia & 2 other themes) - Beta
* Highlights & Comments
* Instant Search
* Bookmarks & Table of Contents
* Scroll mode
* Text Direction (LTR & RTL support)
* Single & Dual Column Mode
** Reflowable Layout EPUB improvements
** Fixed Layout Epub Improvements
version 1.9.30
posted on 2020-11-13
Nov 13, 2020 Version 1.9.30
- Minor bug fix for reflowable epub reader.
version 1.9.28
posted on 2020-10-13
Oct 13, 2020 Version 1.9.28
* New Reflowable EPUB Reader
--- Scroll mode now supported
--- Custom Line Spacing
--- LTR & RTL Support
--- Custom Margins
--- Text, Link and Background Colors
--- 5 color modes
* Apple Sign In
*Bug Fixes
version 1.9.26
posted on 2020-06-24
Jun 24, 2020 Version 1.9.26
Support landscape mode for PDFs
Bug fixes
version 1.9.26
posted on 2020-06-24
24 Jun 2020 Version 1.9.26
Support landscape mode for PDFs
Bug fixes
version 1.9.25
posted on 2020-05-31
May 31, 2020 Version 1.9.25
- Fixed for accessing libraries
version 1.9.24
posted on 2020-04-14
Apr 14, 2020 Version 1.9.24
SSO integration
Removed "Redeem" to be compliant
Minor fixes and updates
version 1.9.22
posted on 2020-03-12
Mar 12, 2020 Version 1.9.22
Resolve syncing issues
Fixes
version 1.9.21
posted on 2020-02-28
Feb 28, 2020 Version 1.9.21
* Allow exporting/opening eBooks with other apps
* Added the ability updating book cover
* Improve text selection and highlighting in PDF books
* Fixed line spacing setting being reset
* Other fixes and improvements
*
version 1.9.19
posted on 2020-02-02
Feb 2, 2020 Version 1.9.19
* Fixed for blank white page issue with epubs/mobis
* Highlight fixes
* Other fixes and improvements
version 1.5
posted on 2016-09-06
version 1.9.26
posted on 1970-01-01
2020年6月24日 Version 1.9.26
Support landscape mode for PDFs
Bug fixes