Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. Zathura makes it possible to completely view and navigate through documents without using a mouse.
Zathura can be extended to support multiple document formats using plugins. Other features include:
- SyncTeX forward and backward synchronization support.
- Quickmarks and bookmarks.
- Automatic document reloading.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↑ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 2026.07.18 | 11 Oct 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
2026.07.1818 Jul 2026
Fix crash on error (#992)
Fix page number at top/bottom (#988)
Remove use of G_GNUC_CONST for *_get_type (985)
Various fixes and improvements
2026.07.088 Jul 2026
Add page-mode setting
Fix reloading of files (#969)
Fix CSS handling (#970)
Replace test feature with test-x11 and test-wayland features
Various fixes and improvements
2026.07.022 Jul 2026
Port to Gtk 4 (#871). Note that due to changes between Gtk 3 and 4, window embedding is no longer supported (#216, #432). Also, the setting 'window-icon-document' has been removed.
Fix issues with forking on macOS (#907)
Fix first-page-column handling regression (#948)
Support SIGSTOP in sandbox (#945)
Add setting to open documents in single-page mode
Bind toggle-single-page to w (#966)
Make link confirmation optional
Replace use of SHA256 with XXH3-128 for faster file hashing
2026.05.2020 May 2026
Fix sandbox on X11 (#928)
Fix crashes on document reload (#164, #462, #729, #993)
Add option to keep selection highlights (#693)
Add user feedback to copy_filepath