# koreader v2025.08 — KOReader 2025.08 "Parasol" - Product: koreader (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/koreader) - Vendor: koreader - Date: 2025-08-16 - Version: v2025.08 - Original notes: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/tag/v2025.08 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/koreader/releases/v2025.08 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Full-text search now has a start page option - **added** — OPDS browser gained syncing and facets to change sort order on supporting feeds - **added** — Dictionary presets for easier configuration - **added** — Cloud storage downloads now show a progress bar - **added** — CBR comics support - **added** — Table of contents search functionality - **added** — Status bar presets - **added** — Open random document action on long-press in file manager - **added** — Collection book selection and filtering of new books - **added** — ReMarkable Paper Pro device support - **added** — Kobo Clara BW device support - **added** — NT Device BookMap and PageBrowser features - **changed** — Footnote style tweaks improvements - **changed** — FocusManager cursor keys corrected for RTL languages - **changed** — DictQuickLookup widget width made user patchable - **changed** — Gesture intervals adjusted for long-press and very-long-press - **changed** — Status bar sort items now dim inactive items - **changed** — Status bar now has dynamic filler - **changed** — Calibre connection setup reworked - **fixed** — HttpInspector crash when starting server ![koreader-202508-parasol-opt](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/337ad26e-d400-4ce2-9a32-dd51a6edc77c) A random sampling from some new features: full-text search now has a start page (); the OPDS browser has gained syncing and "facets" (), which will allow you to change the sort order among other things on supporting feeds. Dictionaries are now more fiddly (the good kind, with presets, ), and cloud storage downloads offer a progress bar (). CBR comics (), and of course more supported devices as always. Also ToC search (), improvements to footnote style tweaks (). For more, please see below. 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: * [plugin] HttpInspector: fix crash when starting server (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13541) @JManch * bump metadata translations (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13551) @pazos * [FocusManager] correct cursor keys in RTL (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13362) @Commodore64user * Statistics: do not read settings for pic documents (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13561) @hius07 * [DictQuickLookup] make the widget's width user patchable (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13497) @Commodore64user * bump base (MuPDF 1.25.6 and others) (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13585, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13764, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13736, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13850, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13817, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13866, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13971) @benoit-pierre * NetworkManager: check if proxy URL can be parsed (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13562) @Frenzie * bump luajit-launcher for onyx boox poke6 https://github.com/koreader/android-luajit-launcher/pull/547 (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13595) @benoit-pierre * android: fix STL (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13594) @benoit-pierre * Screensaver: improve sleep screen message (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13571) @hius07 * Statistics: revert erroneous nextTick in onReaderReady() (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13592) @hius07 * Debian: misc changes (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13596) @pazos * add kindle basic 5 hall file (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13603) @jacksonhack * ReaderStatus: fix "open next file" with sort by metadata (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13621) @hius07 * Text editor: fix notebook file mess (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13624) @hius07 * add hall file for PW6 (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13615) @mergen3107 * Fix Location Stack Issues (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13607) @yparitcher * [i18n] Change Korean language name (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13634) @OctopusET * Issue template: convert to form and add log instructions for deskop (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13633, https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13637) @Frenzie * reMarkable Paper Pro support (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13620) @NoaHimesaka1873 * Collections: select books (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13628) @hius07 * [ReaderLink] add missing footnote settings to NT devices (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13597) @Commodore64user * Add a new Kobo Clara BW device ID and codename (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13648) @Frenzie * [CoverImage] Add rotate image option (https://github.com/koreader/korea _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/tag/v2025.08]_