2.5.1

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• The Readium toolkit now requires iOS 11.0+.

Added

Navigator

• The auto spread setting is now available for fixed-layout EPUBs. It will display two pages in landscape and a single one in portrait.

Streamer

• The EPUB content iterator now returns audio and video elements and fill in the progression and totalProgression locator properties.

Changed

Navigator

• EPUBNavigatorViewController.firstVisibleElementLocator() now returns the first block element that is visible on the screen, even if it starts on previous pages.
  • This is used to make sure the user will not miss any context when restoring a TTS session in the middle of a resource.

Fixed

Navigator

• Fixed the PDF auto spread setting and scaling pages when rotating the screen.
• Fixed navigating to the first chapter of an audiobook with a single resource (contributed by @grighakobian).
• Prevent auto-playing videos in EPUB publications.
• Fixed various memory leaks and data races.
• The WKWebView is now inspectable again with Safari starting from iOS 16.4.
• Fixed crash in the PublicationSpeechSynthesizer when closing the navigator without stopping it first.
• Fixed pausing the PublicationSpeechSynthesizer right before starting the utterance.
• Fixed the audio session kept opened while the app is in the background and paused.
• Fixed the Attribute dir redefined error when the EPUB resource already has a dir attribute.
• #309 Fixed restoring the EPUB location when the application was killed in the background (contributed by @triin-ko).

Streamer

• Fix issue with the TTS starting from the beginning of the chapter instead of the current position.