Changelog 2026-08

Fixes

• Plain Wiktionary redirections are now properly taken into account.
  ↳ commit efeeb49
• Fixed, and improved, Kobo support by using the prefix_exceptions special file (used to help the device lookup function to find a variant having a different prefix that its root (like in English with go being a variant of went, or in French with être being a variant of suis, or in Japanese for any variants). It also means that our dictionaries now require the firmware version 4.24.15676 (out on 2020-09-25) or newer.
  ↳ monolingual#2748
• Fixed words lookup on PocketBook/Vivlio devices (e.g. when the Spanish word buque would display definitions from the word buquet). We moved away from our custom code to the PocketBook Dictionary Toolkit for this, since keeping a private repository that did almost the same job (slightly less good) was not a prolific idea (side note, we finished our custom code 2 days before pbdt went publicly live, this was a huge work on our side, but we are in fond of focusing on one open-source tool instead of splitting resources).
• Fixed PocketBook/Vivlio crashes with languages unsupported by the device
  ↳ pbdt#1
• Single-line translation extracted from monolingual flavors might be split by character.

• Universal:
  • Fixed words merge logic, and merge pronunciations, variants, and reverse variants.

• Chinese:
  • Handle words with unformatted code.
    ↳ report-a-word#24

• Japanese:
  • Fix hiragana lookup on Kobo devices.
    ↳ monolingual#2750, thanks to @kylefeng28

New Features

• New languages:
  • Czech
    ↳ monolingual#2757
  • Korean
    ↳ monolingual#2745
  • Lojban
    ↳ monolingual#2741
  • Thai
    ↳ monolingual#2761
  • Ukranian
    ↳ monolingual#2798

• Use translations found in monolingual dictionaries to improve words/sentences coverage in bilingual flavors.

Improvements

• PocketBook/Vilvio dictionaries now have correctly defined metadata, making it more convenient and appealing to select dictionaries on the device.
  ↳ pyglossary#745

• Chinese:
  • Words coverage improved by a lot: now using simplified forms of traditional ones as variants.
  • More variants.

• English:
  • Stick to Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA) pronunciation systems (more details on the discussion).
    ↳ commit 2e321d6
  • Take into account the Adnominal part of speech (e.g. あの).
  • More variants.
  • Latin-English: Specify pronunciation systems
    • before: [ɪnˈwɪk.tʊs], [iɱˈvik.tus]
    • now: Class.: [ɪnˈwɪk.tʊs] · Eccl.: [iɱˈvik.tus]
    Where Class. is for classical Latin, and Ecc. is for modern Italianate Ecclesiastical.
  • Portuguese-English: Specify pronunciation systems
    • before: /fe.tiˈse.ɾɐ/, /fej.tiˈsej.ɾɐ/, /fej.t͡ʃiˈse(j).ɾɐ/, /fɐj.tiˈsɐj.ɾɐ/
    • now: PT: /fɐj.tiˈsɐj.ɾɐ/ · BR: /fej.t͡ʃiˈse(j).ɾɐ/
  • Spanish-English: Specify pronunciation systems
    • before: [ˈgɾasjas], [ˈgɾaθjas]
    • now: Spain: /ˈɡɾaθjas/ · LAm: /ˈɡɾasjas/
    Where Spain is for Spain & Castilian, and LAm is for Latin America.

• English-Russian:
  • Stick to Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA) pronunciation systems (амер.: [ˈswiːtˌhɑɹt] · брит.: [ˈswiːtˌhɑːt]).

• French:
  • Stick to the official reference pronuncation.
    ↳ monolingual#2764
  • English-French: Stick to Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA) pronunciation systems
    • before: \ˈfɑ.loʊ\, \ˈfɒl.əʊ\
    • now: UK : \ˈfɒl.əʊ\ · US : \ˈfɑ.loʊ\
  • Italian-French: More variants.
  • Portuguese-French: Specify pronunciation systems
    • before: \fe.ti.sˈej.ɽə\ · \fej.ti.sˈej.ɾɐ\ · \fej.tʃi.sˈej.ɾɐ\ · \fej.tʃi.sˈej.ɾə\ · \fɐj.ti.sˈɐj.ɾɐ\ · \fɐj.ti.sˈɐj.ɾə\ · \fɛj.ti.sˈɛj.ɾɐ\ · \fɛj.θi.sˈɛj.ɾɐ\
    • now: PT : \fɐj.ti.sˈɐj.ɾɐ\ · BR : \fej.tʃi.sˈej.ɾə\
  • Spanish-French: Specify pronunciation systems
    • before: \ˈɡɾa.s(ja)s\ · \ˈɡɾa.sjah\ · \ˈɡɾa.sjas\ · \ˈɡɾa.θjah\ · \ˈɡɾa.θjas\
    • now: Esp. : \ˈɡɾa.θjas\ · Am. : \ˈɡɾa.sjas\
    Where Esp. is for Spain & Castilian, and Am. is for Latin America.

• Norwegian:
  • Way more words thanks to the support for reverse variants.
    ↳ monolingual#2561
  • More synonyms.

• Portuguese:
  • Stick to Portuguese and Brazil pronunciation systems.
    ↳ monolingual#2765
  • More pronunciations.

• Spanish:
  • Stick to Spanish/Castilian and Latin American pronunciation systems
    • before: [bisiˈklet̪a], [biθiˈklet̪a]
    • now: Esp.: [biθiˈklet̪a] · Am.: [bisiˈklet̪a]
    ↳ monolingual#2763
  • More pronunciations.
  • English-Spanish: Stick to Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA) pronunciation systems (UK: /ˈlʌv.ə/ · US: /ˈlʌv.ɚ/).
  • French-Spanish: Stick to the official reference pronuncation.
  • Portuguese-Spanish: Stick to Portuguese and Brazil pronunciation systems (PT : /sɨ.pɐ.ɾɐˈtiʃ.mu/ · BR : /se.pa.ɾaˈt͡ʃis.mu/).