goldendict-ng

goldendict-ng 26.11.0

The Next Generation GoldenDict. A feature-rich open-source dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats and online dictionaries.

  • By Humanity
  • Open Source
  • Updated Oct 23, 2026
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About goldendict-ng

GoldenDict-ng is an advanced dictionary lookup program.
Features
- Supports many dictionary formats, such as MDX, DSL, StarDict, Zim...
- Presents lookup results of multiple dictionaries in the same page
- Supports special types of "dictionaries", such as external program, website, audio files...
- Lots of auxiliary features
- Popup window
- Full text search
- Anki integration
- Transliteration for some languages
- Word stemming and spelling correction via Hunspell's morphology analysis
- Unicode case, diacritics, punctuation and whitespace folding (e.g. typing 'Grussen' would yield 'grüßen' in German dictionaries).
- ...

What's new in 26.11.0

Install instructions for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Filename pattern: GoldenDict-ng-[version]-[Qt version]-[system name]...
For Linux, the released version is on Flathub β†’ io.github.xiaoyifang.goldendict_ng.
2026-10-23
🚜 Refactor
- Fix clangd warnings (nullptr, d_ptr shadowing, const_cast) (#3119) - (8a9fd96)
πŸ†™ Improvements
- Make schedule-for-reindex effective for all dictionary formats (#3118) - (c5084d5)
2026-10-22
πŸ› Bug Fixes
- (fts) Prevent infinite loop on unpaired quotes in highlight keywords (#3117) - (a418b02)
πŸ“š Documentation
- Missing tomlplusplus (#3116) - (6786f41)
2026-10-20
πŸ› Bug Fixes
- (dict) Clear null-deref warnings in dict server handlers (#3105) - (1467940)
- (ui) Persist interface style selection on macOS and Linux (#3113) - (24c72e2)
- Handle Zip64 markers in resource zip archives (#3101) - (ff16403)
- Improve embedded website iframe scrolling and open-in-new-tab notice (#3107) - (9dfe7c9)
- Avoid reusing recognizer pointer in registerRecognizers (#3108) - (929b2e5)
βš™οΈ Miscellaneous Tasks
- Remove unused iframe resizer scripts (#3106) - (0bd4192)
2026-10-09
πŸ› Bug Fixes
- Never let async audio fetch silently swallow Anki note export (#3099) - (6868c43)
- Index over-long headwords with word-boundary truncation (#3102) - (b7e7cd0)
βš™οΈ Miscellaneous Tasks
- Bump thirdparty/eb submodule to 33fcda7 (#3093) - (6a665d4)
2026-09-29
πŸ“š Documentation
- Fix opencc howto list and image rendering (#3091) - (b16a94a)
🎨 Styling
- Optimize gddicticon css padding (#3090) - (2b7c45e)
2026-09-28
πŸ› Bug Fixes
- (dictionarybar) Fix jagged and dark rendering of dimmed icons (#3088) - (bac636e)
- Enforce app color scheme in embedded web view (#3077) (#3081) - (73f0d79)
πŸ“š Documentation
- Describe transliteration options and opencc config files (#3087) - (f72fb4d)
2026-09-24
πŸš€ Features
- Add Japanese Shinjitai conversion to Chinese conversion (#3084) - (23d8d9f)
πŸ› Bug Fixes
- Keep plain Chinese conversion results when Japanese normalization is enabled (#3085) - (3abd2d1)
2026-09-24
πŸ› Bug Fixes
- Macos action eb build failed (#3083) - (12b6932)
πŸ’Ό Other
- Use gh release to detect the previous tagname (#3082) - (de12cb0)
2026-08-24
πŸš€ Features
- (popup) Add tab context menu with external browser and tab management (#3043) - (9054c34)
- Macos hide from dock (#3051) - (b811dfe)
πŸ› Bug Fixes
- (macOS) Remove -no-codesign from macdeployqt options for Qt 6.10+ compatibility (#3057) - (605ed14)
- (macOS) Fix .dmg packaging in release pipeline (#3058) - (f03aba9)
πŸ’Ό Other …

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Technical details

PublisherHumanity
Version26.11.0
Release date2026-10-23
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Installer typenullsoft
Architecturex64
Package IDxiaoyifang.GoldenDict-ng

Links & install command

Install goldendict-ng from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=xiaoyifang.GoldenDict-ng -e

dictdictionarygoldendictmdicttranslatetranslation

Older versions

  • 26.8.0
  • 26.6.2
  • 26.6.1
  • 26.6.0
  • 26.5.7
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  • 26.5.5
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  • 26.5.3