Notices by novelWriter (novelwriter@fosstodon.org)

For internationalisation, German, US English, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian and Polish have been updated in full. Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese have been partially updated.

Other languages are still on 2.5 coverage, but will be updated as soon as our contributors complete these.

novelWriter 2.6 is now available.

This releases focuses on updating the Manuscript Build tool. There are many new features and settings, and two new output formats: Microsoft Word (DocX) and PDF. The latter was previously only possible via Print to PDF. The formatting of all document formats has also been improved.

Other changes are improvements to drag and drop, and better dialogue highlighting for Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish.

For more features, see: https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_6.html

A beta release of 2.6 is out, for those brave enough to try it out!

2.6 introduces PDF and MS Word document output, and exposes a lot of new setting to how the manuscript is formatted. You can now also insert word counts and stats in your manuscript.

New story and mentions keywords have also been added to help cross-referencing your story elements. As well as a few other improvements to the user interface.

See the preliminary release notes for more details.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_6.html

Patch Release 2.5.2 is out.

It fixes a few issues with the new dialogue highlighting feature, and an issue with the tab stop width setting in the improved document viewer.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_5.html#patch-2-5-2

Patch Release 2.4.4 has been published.

This release fixes two bugs and updates the Portuguese translation, thanks to @oli

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_4.html#main-release-2-4-4

novelWriter 2.4 is now available.

Among the updates are: a new project search tool, a new heading format to distinguish between soft and hard scene breaks, a new formatting code to highlight text, and a few new settings for formatting your manuscript.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_4.html

A pre-release for the upcoming 2.4 release of novelWriter is now available for testing.

Among new features is a global search tool, a new text highlight format, and the ability to separate "soft" and "hard" scene breaks.

You can find the preliminary release notes on the website.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_4.html

novelWriter 2.3 has been released!

There are a number of design changes and features included in this release. Most notably, the new and cozy welcome dialog for opening your writing projects, or creating new projects.

The artwork was created by @ldurrant.

Downloads are available from the main page: https://novelwriter.io/

For an overview of changes, see the full Release Notes: https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_3.html

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A beta release of novelWriter 2.3 is out for those who want to test the upcoming features.

There are a lot of design updates, including new artwork, and a number of requested small and larger features.

Check out the pre-release notes and downloads on the releases page: https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_3.html

novelWriter 2.2.1 has been released. It fixes two minor bugs with the user interface, and includes an updated German and Chinese translation.

https://novelwriter.io/

novelWriter 2.2 has just been released. This is the third release of the 2.x revamp. This time the focus has been on text editing, with several improvements to the tags and references system, detailed lists of all your tags, and more options for text formatting like sub- and superscript. For the first time, multi-select in the project tree is also possible for certain tasks.

Please see the release notes for more details.

https://novelwriter.io

A beta release of novelWriter 2.1 is out, for anyone who wishes to test the new features.

2.1 is the 2nd part of the 2.0 major release, which was split due to the amount of work needed to complete the changes.

This is a pre-release, so be careful about using it with your writing projects.

The main feature of this pre-release is the new Manuscript Build Tool with a number of requested features. it will be extended in the coming releases. See the Changelog for details.

https://novelwriter.io/download/index.html#latest-pre-release

Last, but not least, App Bundle and DMG image releases have been added by GitHub user Ryex.

This is the first release that includes them. Hopefully this is a better solution for Mac users than the previously available install methods. Note that the documentation is not up to date on these yet.

Install by pip (PyPi) is still the fallback solution for all platforms, and should always work, also on Mac.

Patch release 2.0.5 is out!

This release mostly contains usability fixes:

- The optional third column in the Novel View can now show multiple values, and the width of the column can be adjusted from the widget menu.

- The Open Document generated by the build tool is now compliant with the ODF 1.3 extended format.

- Italian translation has been added, contributed by Riccardo Mangili.

- Russian is now available for manuscript builds, but not yet for the GUI.

https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases/tag/v2.0.5

A patch release 2.0.3 was released yesterday. This patch fixes a number of minor issues, including fixing the option to convert a folder to a document in the project tree.

https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases/tag/v2.0.3

novelWriter 2.0 has been released!

I've been working on this release for most of this year, and it includes a bunch of requested features. There are more planned, but I've decided to split them over three releases to avoid the long wait between them.

In 2.1 I plan to redesign the Build Manuscript tool, and in 2.2 the text editor will get a bunch of feature updates.

– Veronica

See the release notes for more info: https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases/tag/v2.0