# koreader v2024.07 — KOReader 2024.07 "Outside"

- Product: koreader (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/koreader)
- Vendor: koreader
- Date: 2024-07-15
- Version: v2024.07
- Original notes: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/tag/v2024.07
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/koreader/releases/v2024.07

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- **added** — SortWidget: sort alphabetically
- **added** — Multiple collections
- **added** — Annotations support
- **added** — Add Czech keyboard layout
- **added** — Initial support for new Kobo Clara B/W, Clara Colour, and Libra Colour
- **added** — Gesture: Add toggle for orientation lock
- **added** — NT: add Hot swapping dictionaries button and edit button into FocusManager's layout
- **added** — Register Calibre start/stop connection actions
- **added** — Generic linux package
- **added** — Support auto-detection of input devices via fbink_input
- **added** — Page overlap: add dashed line marker
- **added** — Screenshots on Non-Touch
- **added** — Status bar: Major UI makeover
- **added** — FocusManager: enable more keyboard shortcuts by default
- **changed** — Gestures.plugin: Rotation gesture renamed
- **changed** — CoverImage: Honor rotation after opening of a book
- **changed** — Bump base, docker images, and luajit-launcher for compilation speedups
- **changed** — Bump crengine: minor fixes for ruby, crash, and non-linear flows
- **fixed** — PDF rendering edge cases fixed via MuPDF update
- **fixed** — Kindle: Fix missing Amazon UI screensaver after exiting KOreader
- **fixed** — Kindle Scribe: Fix KindleUI L and R orientations when restarting KOReader book in landscape

![koreader-sonnenfee-2024-07-outside](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5c322eb2-3330-4c83-9398-6495acc60dc0)

A big thanks to @ezdiy and @benoit-pierre for taking on the major effort of updating MuPDF (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11940). Unfortunately or hopefully you won't notice a thing, but some edge cases in PDF rendering have been fixed.

Likewise our gratitude to @Commodore64user for the many non-touch/keyboard focused improvements.

If you used the built-in update to try out a development version in the last week of June you might need to overwrite the install manually, see https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/12115.

This month's logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We'd like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

* SortWidget: sort alphabetically (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11705) @hius07
* bump base, docker images, and luajit-launcher: mainly compilation speedups (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11736) @benoit-pierre
* ci: fix macOS build (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11660) @benoit-pierre
* Multiple collections (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11693) @hius07
* Annotations (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11563, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11761, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11788) @hius07
* Various minor tweaks and fixes (ToC, Search, HttpInspector) (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11746) @poire-z
* [Gestures.plugin] Rotation gesture renamed (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11753) @Commodore64user
* [CoverImage] Honor rotation after opening of a book (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11752) @zwim
* Add Czech keyboard layout (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11769) @sdasda7777
* tests: fix EPUB test, again (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11776) @benoit-pierre
* Initial support for new Kobo (Clara B/W + Colour, Libra Colour) (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11737) @c0eos
* chore: remove repetitive words (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11785) @peicuiping
* fix frontend tests (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11784) @benoit-pierre
* Kindle: Fix missing Amazon UI screensaver after exiting KOreader (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11794) @shamanNS
* Gesture: Add toggle for orientation lock (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11795) @thialfi17
* [ReaderHighlight] Remove duplicated setting on NT devices (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11750) @Commodore64user
* relocatable build / install dir (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11798) @benoit-pierre
* NT: add Hot swapping dictionaries button and edit button into FocusManager's layout (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11803) @comphilip
* Register Calibre start/stop connection actions (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11806) @noxhirsch
* Check if /usr/bin symlink is present to fix instance reuse issue on older Pocketbooks (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11764) @sdasda7777
* generic linux package (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/9351) @pazos
* Kindle Scribe: Fix KindleUI L and R orientations when restarting KOReader book in landscape (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11780) @mergen3107
* appimage: keep metadata in sync with flathub (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11819) @pazos
* Support auto-detection of input devices via fbink_input (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11807) @NiLuJe
* fix #11810: only set FocusManager layout if hasDPod (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11811) @comphilip
* Kindle: Don't forget about fiveways on legacy devices & fix a couple input-scan misdetections (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11827) @NiLuJe
* FileManager: safe initial path (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/11774) @hius07
* Replace tweak_buttons_func with an event instead (http

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