I think there might be a misunderstanding… I never actually said ‘those add-ons are popular, therefore build them in’! My point was actually much simpler: someone claimed the logo changes are something ‘hardly anybody asked for,’ and I just wanted to push back on that. The popularity of appearance-focused add-ons shows the community has consistently expressed interest in modernizing Anki’s look, whether that’s the UI, the logo, or anything in between. That was all I was getting at.
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Not sure how much more noticeable it will be up there, especially for someone who doesn’t use the forums and checks for updates using the ankiweb page or the app itself, but anything is better than nothing. I guess it will become the new issue instead of the “just press enter” one of the previous launcher.
Do I understand correctly that this is not an intentional feature and is just an unavoidable side-effect of the new installation procedure? I don’t remember this being an issue even before the console installer, multiple Anki versions always used to work fine when installed right next to each other.
I’m working on pushing a 25.09 patch release to put an in-app notice for launcher users.
I was also worried about older files in the same folder causing subtle problems with the new packaging process, as the MSI installer doesn’t try to completely overwrite its installation folder (whether this is standard Windows behavior or just something the packaging tool does I’m not sure).
Cleaning up older installations also matches the standard behavior of MSI upgrades - when we release another version and the user tries to install that on top of 26.05, Windows will recognize they are installing an update and replace their older installation.
Yes, if I recall correctly, the older NSIS installer doesn’t care about cleaning older installations but it’ll still overwrite things such as registry values and file associations. I think a better way to have multiple Anki versions is to extract the MSI package or we can provide portable zips easily if there’s demand: Provider portable Briefcase builds on Windows · Issue #4813 · ankitects/anki · GitHub
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We released 25.09.5 to address this. The launcher defaults to 25.09.5 now and shows a notice about 26.05
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Exactly, and same across Reddit. It was one of the most common troubleshooting request types following the introduction of the launcher.
Very glad we’re back to regular app builds, thanks a lot to everyone involved.
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The new documentation looks great though having only a light/dark theme as opposed to the several in the old one is a bit of a let down. I just wonder, will it be possible to view release specific documentation? Or, will the hosted documentation always be updated and relevant to the release at the time? I can only think of the alternative to hosting a version for every release would be to bundle the documentation as static html pages with the install though I don’t know how much that would bloat file sizes.
Great to see Anki alive and well with a strong update this year, and best of luck to the new team!
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I like the old version of the manual because it has less noise. The sidebar is far from the main text. The text is larger and narrower. Tables are easier to read. And most importantly, it can be downloaded.
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I didn’t notice that the manual was redesigned. I prefer the old one. The new one doesn’t have big titles at the top, for example.
The headings were moved to the pinned side menu for help.
This is how it looks on my phone (old vs new):
Notice the redundancy at the top and the “Introduction” title being the same size as the “Mobile Clients” title.
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Any news on the iOS app? Will the same update be released soon?
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Should be possible to support that in the future. The main goal for now is to have all docs in one place and make it easier for @Danika_Dakika and other people to make edits without using GitHub.
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I’m not sure if I’m missing something but I take it we are unable to choose the logo variation with the present release that this post announces.
The icons are not available in the app yet. Likely in the next release.
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We’re currently planning improvements to AnkiMobile and will hopefully release an update soon. 
Please feel free to start a new topic in AnkiMobile (iPhone/iPad) with features requests, feedback, bug reports, etc that haven’t already been reported.
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Is there a reason why the maximum length of the file name written in Latin and Cyrillic is different?
And why is there such a strict limit on the size of the file name?
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Probably because cyrillic letters need more bytes to represent a single letter, whereas latin letters need only 1 byte. Due to that, the length of cyrillic file names is shorter, since (most likely) a hard coded byte limit for file names exists.
This is a good thing, though. Prevents certain attacks were the file name overflows the buffer.
It would also affect other languages, like greek. E.g. the alpha character needs 2 bytes, see this PR:
Because each OS has their limits at what they allow. Might be file system specific but not sure. And as far as I know, Windows has a very short limit compared to e.g. linux regarding file names.
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