This release contains the following features and fixes:
- The time of day optionally displays in full screen mode.
- The recent file history size has been increased to 10.
- The menu bar will optionally auto-hide in full screen mode when the mouse is not hovering over it.
- All new Hemingway mode button will disable backspace and delete keys.
- Two new HUDs display statistical information on the current writing session and document.
- Auto-matched characters can be customized.
- Pandoc PDF export now has better defaults for margins and hyperlinks.
- Shortcut keys using Alt now use Ctrl to avoid conflicts with OS shortcut keys and to better accommodate non-USA keyboards.
- High DPI scaling has been enabled for Qt 5.6 and above.
- Dragging and dropping an image into the editor will now insert the image link at the mouse location.
- Classic Light and Classic Dark themes have new color palettes.
- Various aesthetics have been added to the main window.
- New application translations are available for the following languages:
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Russian
- Sundry other fixes have been added.
Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter
You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:
- Trusty (14.04)
- Vivid (15.04)
- Wily (15.10)
- Xenial (16.04)
- Yakkety (16.10)
Finally, openSUSE packages are available for download here.