Zeal 0.6.1

Zeal is an offline documentation browser. It's similar to Dash on OS X, but available cross-platform. It comes with ready-to-download manuals for many scripting and programming languages, frameworks and document standards. Zeal greatly simplifies searching across documentation.

Tags c++ qt documentation browser developers
License GNU GPLv3
State stable

Recent Releases

0.6.129 Sep 2018 03:25 minor feature: New in-page search toolbar. Added default font preferences. New welcome page had direct links for docset manager and application preferences. Added option for choosing external link behavior. Added option for enabling smooth scrolling. Added Ctrl+, shortcut to open Preferences. Context menu now correctly states Open in new tab instead of window. broken Open in new tab. problem with ExtJS docset. Added check for read-only docset storage. Removed qmake support.
0.6.018 Feb 2018 15:05 minor feature: Added default font preferences. New welcome page had direct links for docset manager and application preferences. Added option for choosing external link behavior. Added option for enabling smooth scrolling. Context menu now correctly states Open in new tab instead of window. broken Open in new tab. problem with ExtJS docset. Added check for read-only docset storage.
0.5.011 Dec 2017 09:05 minor feature: Added optional fuzzy search. Added support for user-defined styles via custom CSS file. Added support for a basic dark theme (webview only). Added support for high resolution displays. Switched to the CMake build system, support for qmake will be dropped shortly. The minimally required Qt version bumped to 5.5.1. As the result of above, libappindicator support is relies on the built-in Qt implementation. Dropped support for Qt WebEngine. Removed dependency on Qt Sql by using SQLite directly. Windows binaries now bundle the new Qt WebKit, which a lot of rendering and stability isses. (#359, #723). Windows binaries are now 64-bit, and built with MSVC 2015. New tabs now have the search box automatically focused. Added a Retry button to the error box appearing on docset list download failure. Updated welcome page style (includes a Carbon ad banner, which can be disabled in the settings). search for one-character terms. Multiple in the search algorithm. (#603, #650, #677). navigation in some docsets. portable version not saving docset storage path. (609). Many rendering and stability by switching to the new Qt WebKit. (#359, #723). MSI installer not removing custom protocol handlers. Web pages using Fira Sans (e.g., PHP docset) font are rendered in italic. This is an upstream with Qt WebKit.
0.4.004 Sep 2017 08:05 minor feature: Added optional fuzzy search. Added support for user-defined styles via custom CSS file. Added support for a basic dark theme (webview only). Added support for high resolution displays. Switched to the CMake build system, support for qmake will be dropped shortly. The minimally required Qt version bumped to 5.5.1. As the result of above, libappindicator support is relies on the built-in Qt implementation. Dropped support for Qt WebEngine. Windows binaries now bundle the new Qt WebKit, which a lot of rendering and stability isses. (#359, #723). Windows binaries are now 64-bit, and built with MSVC 2015. New tabs now have the search box automatically focused. Added a Retry button to the error box appearing on docset list download failure. Updated welcome page style (includes a Carbon ad banner, which can be disabled in the settings). search for one-character terms. Multiple in the search algorithm. (#603, #650, #677). navigation in some docsets. portable version not saving docset storage path. (609). Many rendering and stability by switching to the new Qt WebKit. (#359, #723). Web pages using Fira Sans (e.g., PHP docset) font are rendered in italic. This is an upstream with Qt WebKit.
0.3.111 Oct 2016 08:05 minor feature: Random crashing on application start and exit. Web view hanging caused by URLs with no schema. Docset removal on Windows. Race condition (and warning) in docset removal logic. Docset selection with Select All shortcut (usually Ctrl+A).
0.3.024 Sep 2016 03:15 minor feature: Proxy settings lost after restart. Configuration file version not updated. Missing user agent header. Broken autocompletion for docset search keywords.
0.2.123 Nov 2015 10:05 minor feature: Proxy settings lost after restart. Configuration file version not updated. Missing user agent header. Broken autocompletion for docset search keywords.
0.2.009 Nov 2015 10:45 minor feature: Display a message box about in case old docset storage is found. Enabled JavaScript. problem with missing or broken docsets if meta.json lacked name property.
0.1.121 Apr 2015 03:15 minor feature: Display a message box about in case old docset storage is found. Enabled JavaScript. Fixed problem with missing or broken docsets if meta.json lacked name property.
2014112328 Jan 2015 10:55 minor feature: Initial tab support was added, keybinding fixes, docset and icon updates.