Release Notes
This is a release candidate for the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent backups.
Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to the final release.
Detailed Changelog
Features
- Added switches to hide scene and section breaks on the Build Novel Project tool. This means the section format can now be used like the scene format in that it is possible to leave them blank to insert an empty paragraph into the manuscript. Issue #972. PR #974.
- The project index is now automatically rebuilt if any of the project files are missing in it when the project is opened. This also solves the issue of an empty index being silently ignored. Issue #957. PR #975.
User Interface
- Remove the descriptive labels for all menu entries that were displayed on the status bar. They generally just restated what the menu item label already said, so they weren't very helpful. Removing them, as well as removing or joining a number of other labels and tooltips, reduced the amount of words needing translating for i18n by about 25%. PR #969.
Installation
- A Windows setup installer build option has been added again to the main setup script. It builds a setup.exe file with Python and dependencies embedded, based on the minimal zip file of the source for Windows. PRs #981 and #983.
Bugfixes
- Fix an issue on Windows where a crash would occur if project and backup paths were on separate drives. Issue #954. PR #955.
- Fix a JSON error in the Chinese project file translations. PR #963.
- Make sure the document save call doesn't crash when renaming the temp file to the permanent file name. This caused a crash on a mapped Google Drive. Google Drive on Linux is not supported, but trying to use it still shouldn't cause a crash. Issue #960. PRs #961 and #976.
Internationalisation
- Move the whole i18n effort onto Crowdin. This required a few changes to the way i18n files are generated and named. PRs #964, #965, #968, and #970.
Documentation
- Remove outdated reference to
pylupdate5as a dependency for i18n. The needed code is now included with the i18n framework in the source. PR #963. - Add a note in the documentation that if the Launchpad PPA is used on Debian, the end point for Ubuntu 20.04 must be used. This is due to a change in the compression algorithm used in later releases. Issue #956. PR #976.
- Add a new theme for the documentation, and restructure it with better introduction and overview sections. PR #978.
- Add information on how to customise novelWriter to the documentation. Issue #892. PR #984.