Readers/Status updates/2017-07

This is the monthly update for 2017-07

Discussions

Development of ZIM file and offline compilations support continues.
Continuing to work on improved Reading lists feature, addressing user reports and preparing for syncing functionality.
We're working on an initial set of downloadable compilations to be available in the Android app.
For iOS we'll be releasing version 5.6 next week, and are just wrapping up testing.
Version 5.6 of iOS features sepia and dark reading modes, On this day timelines and public domain Wikipedia themed stickers for iMessage

We found and reported a quite serious bug in the Firefox browser.
We're working on some style improvements to the print styles of desktop pages and PDFs.
Page previews is coming to all wikis excluding German and English!
We're working on allowing Page previews to display html previews
We're considering adding a namespace filter to Special:ShortPages. Would this be useful to people? Please let us know!

We identified must-do 3D tasks in anticipation of a future launch, and have a few outstanding bugs to resolve before being feature complete. An additional Wikilegal discussion on 3D has been initiated; depending on the outcome some interface changes may be required before launch.

The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month.

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