Windows 8 Wikipedia app now improved

According to the latest update published in the Windows Store, there has been issued a fix for the backspace problem with the search function. This is the tenth updated that it has received. If you are curious, here are all the previous updated that it has received. Most of these were requested by Wikipedia Windows 8 users themselves on the Windows Store and Wikimedia has rushed to issue bug fixes and performance improvements.

Release 9 – new search input for Windows 8.1 Release 8 – fixes for intermittent crashes, HTTP support in Chinese locale Release 7 – localization updates, fix for crash on ‘Read in’ when no languages available, HTML security improvements, find bar fixes, share of selected text now includes HTML Release 6 – fix for locale initialization now defaults to system language, keyboard focus for scrolling, selected text may be shared out, square off tile images on hub, smart aspect ratio detection for featured image Release 5 – search Wikipedia by sharing selected text from other apps like IE, search by typing, added “Find in Article”, fixed activation bugs, high-resolution tile icons, bug fixes Release 4 – added privacy policy link under settings/about, dropped currently unused location permission, fix for crashing bug on launch Release 3 – fix for cut-off text in articles, can switch language on hub, list recently changes articles on hub, history popup list, initial localization support, added GPL license info, fixes for snapped view, network connection errors detected, pinning disabled on hub (used to crash)

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