Version 3.0.3.91 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This is an incremental release that includes the following bug fixes:

  • Continued improvements to handling of user session timeouts.
  • Enable Greek lookups in Google Docs.
  • Wordlist "limit by this session" feature now includes words already on the list looked up again in the current session.
  • Fixed broken links and some matching algorithms in the Greek verb paradigm inflection tables.

Version 3.0.1.82/83 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This is the first release of Alpheios 3.0 that includes support for Safari. All 3.0 features are now available in the Safari Browser Extension as well as Chrome and Firefox. (See below for full details of the Alpheios 3.0 new features and enhancements.)

This is an incremental release for Chrome and Firefox and includes the following bug fixes:

  • Improved handling of user session timeouts.
  • Eliminated sticky word selection after deactivation and reactivation of the extension.
  • Eliminated lexicon loading message when no lexicons were selected.
  • Fixed inconsistent language selection behavior when changing languages using the toolbar lookup.
  • Fixed locative ending errors in the Latin Noun Inflection Table.
  • Back-To-TOC button in the Smyth Grammar is now functional.

Version 3.0 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This is a major release. The user interface has been completely refreshed with a new design for compliance with web accessiblity standards.

New Features

  • Alpheios Toolbar: the new floating toolbar provides quick access to word lookup and all Alpheios resources.
  • Usage Examples (Latin only): search for usage examples of a word in the canonical Latin corpus from the Packard Humanities Institute.
  • User Word Lists: all words you look up get added to your wordlist. Create and login to an Alpheios user account to save your wordlist.
  • Persistent Options Configuration: Create and login to an Alpheios user account to save your application preferences.

Enhancements

  • After dragging the popup to a new location on the page, the location is retained between lookups (and sessions/workstations if you login to a user account)
  • User configuration options can be reset to default values.
  • A custom alpheios-word-node data attribute can be used on a page to identify words which contain HTML markup (such as in texts which use the Leiden markup conventions). See the FAQ for more information on how to take advantage of this feature.
  • We have reduced output to the browser console, except when log level is set to verbose.

November 25, 2019 (Alpheios Mobile Reader)

The mobile reader has been updated with the following fixes:

  • Continued improvements to handling of user session timeouts.
  • Enable Greek lookups in Google Docs.
  • Wordlist "limit by this session" feature now includes words already on the list looked up again in the current session.
  • Fixed broken links and some matching algorithms in the Greek verb paradigm inflection tables.

October 21, 2019 (Alpheios Mobile Reader)

The mobile reader has been updated with the following fixes

  • Improved handling of user session timeouts.
  • Eliminated sticky word selection after deactivation and reactivation of the extension.
  • Eliminated lexicon loading message when no lexicons were selected.
  • Fixed inconsistent language selection behavior when changing languages using the toolbar lookup.
  • Fixed locative ending errors in the Latin Noun Inflection Table.
  • Back-To-TOC button in the Smyth Grammar is now functional.

September 19, 2019 (Alpheios Mobile Reader)

This is the first release of the Alpheios Reader. It provides access to all 3.0 Alpheios functionality on mobile devices for a core set of Latin and Greek texts. It can also be used on desktop/laptop computers.

Version 3.1.4.45 (Alpheios Embedded Library with Alpheios Components 1.4.7)

Incremental update with fixes for the following issues:

  • Continued improvements to handling of user session timeouts.
  • Enable Greek lookups in Google Docs.
  • Wordlist "limit by this session" feature now includes words already on the list looked up again in the current session.
  • Fixed broken links and some matching algorithms in the Greek verb paradigm inflection tables.

Version 3.1.2.43 (Alpheios Embedded Library with Alpheios Components 1.4.1)

Incremental update with fixes for the following issues:

  • Improved handling of user session timeouts.
  • Eliminated sticky word selection after deactivation and reactivation of the extension.
  • Eliminated lexicon loading message when no lexicons were selected.
  • Fixed inconsistent language selection behavior when changing languages using the toolbar lookup.
  • Fixed locative ending errors in the Latin Noun Inflection Table.
  • Back-To-TOC button in the Smyth Grammar is now functional.

Version 3.0 (Alpheios Embedded Library)

The 3.0 release of the Alpheios Embedded library includes support for mobile devices as well all other Alpheios 3.0 functionality, with the exception of those which require user authentication (currently wordlists and persistent user options).

New Features

  • Mobile support
  • All of the new features in the 3.0 browser extensions, with the exception of user accounts, persistent wordlists and options.
  • Ability to set a default page language for user-entered word lookups.
  • Ability to use a custom help page.
  • Optional 'Simple' mode (beta feature).
  • Support for skinning and custom positioning of the Alpheios User Interface elements (beta feature).

Version 2.1.0.20/2.1.1.20, February 2019 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This is a minor release. The Alpheios extensions now issue events (Alpheios_Active and Alpheios_Inactive) that a site or page can use to detect when the user has enabled or disabled it. We have also added inflection tables for a few more Latin irregular verbs.

Version 2.1.0.19, December 2018 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This is the first release of the Alpheios Reading Tools for Safari. The Chrome and Firefox extensions have been updated as well.

In addition to the support for Safari, the following features are included in this release:

  • The Inflection Table Browser has been moved to its own tab, separate from inflection tables for query results.
  • Issues with the Alpheios popup and panel styles being affected by the underlying page styles have been fixed.
  • Improved handling of panel state upon page navigation.
  • Additiional Latin irregular verb inflection tables.

Version 2.0.3.5 Beta Patch Release, November 2018 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This patch to the 2.0.3 Beta release includes a variety of fixes and improvements to the Greek Inflection Tables.

Version 2.0.3 Beta Release, October 2018 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This is the first Beta release of the Alpheios Reading Tools for Chrome and Firefox.

In addition to greater overall stability across a wide variety of sites, the biggest focus of this release is the completion of the Latin and Greek Inflection tables. This release now has near parity with the functionality provided in Alpheios Version 1 and we have improved upon that with greater accuracy, both in the content and when matching into the tables on the forms identified by the morphologic analyses.

Various new features and bug fixes are included in the release, the most important being the following:

  • Lookup of user-supplied words
  • Inflection table browser
  • Greek inflection tables
  • Latin inflection table additions and corrections
  • Enhanced inflection table matching
  • UI Design improvements
  • Improvements to Latin morphological information
  • Improvements to Arabic morphological information
  • Ability to adjust display font-size
  • Support for Google Drive documents
  • Works with the Scaife Viewer version of the Perseus Digital Library

Version 2.0.2 Alpha 2 Release, March 2018 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This release adds the ability to use the escape key to close the Alpheios popup and panel as well as some architectural code improvements.

Version 2.0.1 Alpha Release, February 2018 (Alpheios Browser Extensions)

This release of the Alpheios Reading Tools for Chrome and Firefox is an alpha version, released with these goals in mind:

  • To provide a replacement for the original Firefox extensions.
  • To request user feedback on the design and functionality of the new version while we are still in early stages of development.