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Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator GUI v2.3.19

Highlights
• Uses Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator 2.3.3 and routes package generation through the payload-aware flashing-script path.
• Fixes issue #388 for GUI-generated payload/A/B firmware: packages now contain the architecture-neutral recovery shell updater and work on ARM64-only recoveries.
• Preserves legacy non-payload package behavior.

https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator-gui/releases/tag/v2.3.19

Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator v2.3.3

Highlights
• Fixes #388: payload/A/B firmware packages now use an architecture-neutral recovery shell updater instead of the bundled 32-bit ARM executable, allowing installation on ARM64-only recoveries.
• Validates A/B OTA metadata, target device, active slot, image integrity, partition mappings, capacity, and writable state before the first partition write.
• Flashes the inactive slot first, then the active slot, using durable writes and exact-length SHA-256 readback verification.
• Restores read-only partition state on success or failure and aborts if block-device identity changes.
• Preserves legacy non-payload ROM updater binaries unchanged.
• Detects payload ROMs only when the archive contains an exact payload.bin entry.

https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator/releases/tag/v2.3.3

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Open-source Islamic platform for adhkar, Quran reading, search, and daily progress.

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Managing macOS apps with mise

Mise downloads GitHub release assets, but it does not install DMG applications into /Applications. Add this custom global task to ~/.config/mise/config.toml:

[tasks."macos:install-dmg-app"]
hide = true
run = '''
set -euo pipefail

install_path="${MISE_TOOL_INSTALL_PATH:?MISE_TOOL_INSTALL_PATH is required}"
dmg_pattern="${MACOS_DMG_PATTERN:-*.dmg}"
app_pattern="${MACOS_APP_PATTERN:-*.app}"

dmg="$(find "$install_path" -maxdepth 1 -name "$dmg_pattern" -type f -print -quit)"
app_root="$install_path"

if [ -n "$dmg" ]; then
  mount="$(hdiutil attach "$dmg" -nobrowse -readonly |
    awk '/\/Volumes\// {print substr($0, index($0, "/Volumes/")); exit}')"

  cleanup() {
    hdiutil detach "$mount" -quiet 2>/dev/null || true
  }
  trap cleanup EXIT
  app_root="$mount"
fi

app="$(find "$app_root" -maxdepth 1 -name "$app_pattern" -type d -print -quit)"
[ -n "$app" ] || { echo "No .app found in $app_root"; exit 1; }

app_name="${MACOS_APP_NAME:-$(basename "$app")}"
case "$app_name" in
  *.app) ;;
  *) app_name="$app_name.app" ;;
esac

ditto "$app" "/Applications/$app_name"
'''

Then declare apps using mise’s GitHub backend:

[tools."github:user/repo"]
version = "latest"
asset_pattern = "App-darwin-arm64-{{ version }}.dmg"
postinstall = "mise run --skip-tools --raw macos:install-dmg-app"

For ZIP releases containing an .app:

asset_pattern = "App-*.zip"
strip_components = 0
postinstall = "mise run --skip-tools --raw macos:install-dmg-app"

Install or upgrade:

mise install
mise upgrade

E-Book Converter Bot has been updated

• EPUB: support legacy footnote layouts
• expand office input support with anydoc

Bot currently supports 62 input formats and 31 output formats.

• calibre: v9.12.0
• pandoc: v3.10.1
• kfx_input: 2.33.0
• kfx_output: 2.19.0
• kindle_previewer: 3.106.0 (2026-07-09)

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