Zekr Release Notes

Zekr release notes

Ver 0.4.0, 24-10-06

Zekr 0.4.0 has a number of major enhancements over 0.3.0 release. Some of the most important enhancements are liste below:

Managed search: one can specify a scope in which different parts of Quran can be included/excluded.
Search feature also available in translations (match case option also possible).
A navigation bar is added to every view, making it more simple to navigate through search result, or manually enter the sura/aya number.
Application bundle for Mac platform.
Some UI enhancements (for navigation) based on JQuery and Interface.

See changes.txt at [zekr]/doc for more detailed changes.

Zekr is distributed under GNU GPL 2.0 (see [zekr]/license.txt). This release consists of some third party files and libraries:

Name	Licensing Info
Apache commons: `commons collections 3.1`, `commons lang 2.0`, `commons logging 1.0.4`, and `commons IO 2.0` all under: `[lib]/apache-commons.jar`	Apache License, Version 2.0
`log4j-1.2.8.jar`	Apache Software License, Version 1.1
`velocity-1.4.jar, velocity-tools-generic-1.2.jar`	Apache License, Version 2.0
`[zekr]/lib/swt`	Eclipse Public License Version 1.0
`[zekr]/res/image/icon`	GNU LGPL (*)
`[zekr]/res/text/trans/*.`	Free for non commercial use only. makarem.zip and kuliev.zip are authorized translations by the authors.

(*) Most of icons in [zekr]/res/image/icon are under LGPL. For more details on icons license see http://artist.kde.org/new/license.html.

Ver 0.3.0, 25-5-06

Zekr 0.3.0 has a number of major enhancements over 0.2.0 release. Some of the most important enhancements are liste below:

Theme management, which means one can add/remove his own theme to the Zekr.
Quran translations in different languages.
Translation management, which means one can add/remove his own translation to the Zekr.
Options menu for setting general options as well as theme specific key-value settings.
A port on Mac platform.

See changes.txt at [zekr]/doc for more detailed changes.

Zekr is distributed under GNU GPL 2.0 (see [zekr]/license.txt). This release consists of some third party files and libraries:

Name	Licensing Info
Apache commons: `commons collections 3.1`, `commons lang 2.0`, `commons logging 1.0.4`, and `commons IO 2.0` all under: `[lib]/apache-commons.jar`	Apache License, Version 2.0
`log4j-1.2.8.jar`	Apache Software License, Version 1.1
`velocity-1.4.jar`	Apache License, Version 2.0
`[zekr]/lib/swt`	Eclipse Public License Version 1.0
`[zekr]/res/image/icon`	GNU LGPL (*)
`[zekr]/res/text/trans/*.`	Free for non commercial use only. makarem.zip and kuliev.zip are authorized translations by the authors.

(*) Most of icons in [zekr]/res/image/icon are under LGPL. For more details on icons license see http://artist.kde.org/new/license.html.

Ver 0.2.0, 26-1-06

Zekr 0.2.0 has a number of major enhancements over 0.1.0 release. Some of the most important enhancements are liste below:

Search (matching/non-matching diacritics)
Print
HTML export
Advanced (enhanced) navigation
6 Language packs
A port on Linux platform

See changes.txt at [zekr]/doc for more detailed changes.

Zekr is distributed under GNU GPL 2.0 (see [zekr]/license.txt). This release consists of some third party files and libraries:

Name	Licensing Info
`commons-collections.jar`	Apache Software License, Version 1.1
`log4j-1.2.8.jar`	Apache Software License, Version 1.1
`velocity-1.4.jar`	Apache License, Version 2.0
`[zekr]/lib/swt`	Eclipse Public License Version 1.0
`[zekr]/res/image/icon`	GNU LGPL (*)

(*) Most of icons in [zekr]/res/image/icon are under LGPL. For more details on icons license see http://artist.kde.org/new/license.html.

Ver 0.1.0, 13-9-05

Zekr is distributed under GNU GPL 2.0 (see [zekr]/license.txt). This release consists of 5 third party jar file libraries:

commons-collections.jar (Apache Software License, Version 1.1)
log4j-1.2.8.jar (Apache Software License, Version 1.1)
velocity-1.4.jar (Apache License, Version 2.0)
xml-apis.jar (Apache Software License, Version 1.1)
swt-win32.jar version 3.116 (Eclipse Public License Version 1.0)
swt-win32-3138.dll (Eclipse Public License Version 1.0)
Most of icons in [zekr]/res/image/icon are under LGPL. For more details on icons license see http://artist.kde.org/new/license.html.

Zekr root directory (say [zekr]) contains:

lib - third party libraries
dist - source and binary distribution
res - resources (icons, xmls, etc.)
doc - Zekr documentations
run.bat - executable script for Win32
zekr.exe - Win32 executable file for launching applicatiton