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Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes control characters in the text breaking manuscript exports, and paragraphs following a horizontal ruler in the manuscript being indented. The bundled Remix Icons have also been downgraded to the last version available under the Apache 2.0 licence. The French translation has been updated.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where control characters, like null characters, could enter the text and break the DOCX and ODT manuscript formats. Such characters are now stripped when documents are loaded, pasted, dropped or imported into the editor, and when text is extracted from it. By @vkbo. Issue #3038. PR #3039.
- Fixed a bug where the paragraph following a horizontal ruler in the manuscript was indented. It now behaves like it does for other separators. By @vkbo. Issue #3074. PR #3076.
Improvements
- Titles with line breaks in The Manuscript tool's outline tab no longer shows as multiple lines, but shows a line break symbol instead. PR #3078.
Other Changes
- Downgraded the bundled Remix Icons to version 4.8, the last version released under the Apache 2.0 licence. By @vkbo. Issue #3052. PR #3054.
Internationalisation
- French translation updated by aaribaud. PR #3077.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes the tag hover card icons in the editor and viewer not updating when the app theme changed. It also adds build metadata used in crash reports and to warn users who installed via the now deprecated Launchpad PPA. French and Russian translations have been updated.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed the tag hover card icons in the editor and viewer not updating when the app theme changed. By @vkbo. Issue #3024. PR #3030.
Packaging
- Added build metadata to packages, included in crash reports to aid debugging, and used to warn users who installed via the now deprecated Launchpad PPA. By @vkbo. PR #3009.
Code Maintenance
- Improved the pkgutils CLI tool with i18n file validation and coloured terminal output. By @vkbo. PR #3031.
Internationalisation
- French translation updated by Amethystium69 and aaribaud. PR #3032.
- Russian translation updated by Kuro Ryuu and konstruktiv. PR #3032.
Downloads
Debian and Wheel packages are no longer added to the GitHub release. They can be downloaded from:
- Debian/Ubuntu/Mint: https://broadcasts.cloudsmith.com/saga-soft/stable
- Wheel: https://pypi.org/project/novelWriter

Release Notes
The 2026.2 release is based on the features added in 2026.2 Beta 1, Beta 2, RC 1.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug on macOS where using the system's native font selection dialog did not apply the selected font, since Qt's native panel does not confirm the choice with an OK button. By @kkostov. PR #2970.
- Fixed a bug from the Beta 1 release where tab widgets could show a border despite having flat tabs enabled. By @vkbo. PR #2971.
- Fixed a bug from the Beta 1 release where pasting rich text could repeat formatting unnecessarily when the source contained overlapping hidden formats. Restored the ability to paste as plain text, now bound to Ctrl+Shift+V, which was lost when rich text paste was introduced. By @vkbo. Issues #2978 and #2979. PR #2980.
- Fixed missing theme colours in the Dark Arts and Ruby Night themes added in the Beta 2 release. By @HeyMyian. PR #3003.
User Interface
- Changed the default line height from 1.0 to 1.15, the default font on Windows to Segoe UI, and reduced the default application font size from 10pt to 9pt. By @HeyMyian. Discussed in #2955. PR #2998.
Other Changes
- Bumped the project file format version to 1.6 to block the project from being opened by older versions of novelWriter that cannot read it correctly anyway. By @vkbo. PR #2984.
Packaging
- Rewrote the Debian package build to publish through a package registry, with build versions now selectable and Linux Mint added as a supported target. By @vkbo. PRs #2986 and #2990.
Internationalisation
- The Norwegian, US English, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese translations are now complete, and the Catalan translation has been updated. Translations are contributed via Crowdin. PR #2968.
Downloads
Debian and Wheel packages are no longer added to the GitHub release. They can be downloaded from:
- Debian/Ubuntu/Mint: https://broadcasts.cloudsmith.com/saga-soft/stable
- Wheel: https://pypi.org/project/novelWriter

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes a race condition when searching across multiple documents, restores the application's taskbar icon on Windows, and fixes a font setting that failed to load on older versions of Qt. Japanese and Russian translations have also been updated.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed a race condition when searching through multiple documents that could cause a crash if the next match button was pressed too quickly. Issue #2809. PR #2811.
- Fixed the application icon not showing on the Windows taskbar. Issue #2728. PR #2824.
- Fixed loading of a font setting saved with Qt 6.11 when running on older versions of Qt. PR #2849.
Internationalisation
- Japanese translation updated by @hebekeg. PR #2897.
- Russian translation updated by Kuro Ryuu (kuroryuu) and Konstantin Tan (@k1kimosha). PR #2897.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that adds Catalan language to the app, and updates translation files for other languages. Some user interface labels for the Manuscript tool have been improved, and the documentation updated. A small fix resolves an error message printed to the log when launching the app on Linux.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed a DBus error message from Qt on Linux. PR #2790.
Improvements
- Clarified some of the GUI labels on the Manuscript tool. Issue #2762. PR #2768.
Internationalisation
- Catalan translations added by @jaumeplanas. PR #2793.
- Norwegian and US English translations updated by @vkbo. PR #2793.
- Japanese translation updated bu @hebekeg. PR #2793.
- German translation updated by @HeyMyian. PR #2793.
- Polish translation updated by @Nauthizz. PR #2793.
- Dutch translation updated by @risingphoenix73. PR #2793.
- Italian translation updated by Lou Cyper. PR #2793.
- Chinese translation updated by wcxu21 and @longqzh. PR #2793.
Documentation
- Fixed some typos in the documentation. PR #2773.
- Improved the documentation for the Manuscript tool. Issue #2763. PR #2768.
- Switched the documentation back to using uv for examples. PR #2766.

Release Notes
The 26.1 release is based on the features added in 26.1 Beta 1, Beta 2, RC 1.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Improvements
- When exporting manuscripts to DocX (Word), the document will no longer expand hard line breaks by when default when justified margins are enabled. Issue #2690. PR #2732.
- The "Add titles for notes" label in Manuscript Build settings has been updated and should now be clearer. Issue #2727. PR #2729.
Internationalisation
- A missing translation string for projects was added. Issue #2730. PR #2731.
- Norwegian and US English translations updated by @vkbo. PR #2738.
- Japanese translation updated bu @hebekeg. PR #2738.
- Dutch translation updated by @risingphoenix73. PR #2738.
- German translation updated by @HeyMyian. PR #2738.
- Polish translation updated by @Nauthizz. PR #2738.
- Latin American Spanish translation updated by @tmarplatt. PR #2738.
- Czech translation updated by Tomáš Zmek. PR #2738.
- Italian translation updated by Lou Cyper. PR #2738.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes an issue with launching novelWriter via a project file on Windows, adds an alert when the spell check dictionary cannot be loaded, handles headings in HTML manuscripts the same way as for documents, and updates the documentation on how heading levels are handled in the manuscript build process.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue with the exe launcher on Windows where it didn't support spaces in the path when the user tried to open novelWriter from a project file. Issue #2643. PR #2645.
- Fixed an issue with the PDF manuscript format which stopped after about 600-700 pages when generating A4 pages. The limit is now in the 11000 pages range. Issue #2637. PRs #2638 and #2639.
Improvements
- Added an alert box when the spell check language selected for a project could not be loaded. Issue #2631. PR #2654.
- The HTML manuscript format now exports novel title and partition titles as paragraphs with a larger font size instead of HTML headings. This is more consistent with the other formatted document formats. Issue #2641. PR #2653.
Documentation
- Added information to the documentation about heading level promotion when building the manuscript. Issue #2641. PR #2653.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes an issue where the application could crash due to a change in PyQt/Qt 6.10. The issue is related to certain input methods, and is at least triggered when using Spotlight on MacOS.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fix an issue where the inputMethodQuery call to the Qt library returns an object that PyQt6 cannot convert to a Python object. The fix just disables the conversion since the return value is passed back to the Qt library anyway. The problem affects Qt/PyQt 6.10 and is triggered in MacOS at least, but it is not known if it affects other platforms. Issue #2622. PR #2623.
Documentation
- Removed references to the old colour theme system in the documentation. Issue #2619. PR #2625.

Release Notes
The 2.8 release is based on the features added in 2.8 beta 1 and 2.8 RC 1.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fix an issue where the app could crash when the user pasted from an empty clipboard. This appears to be a Qt or PyQt bug, and is not present on the later releases, but a fix has been added that ensures the bug is not triggered. Issue #2598. PR #2602.
Documentation
- Fixed a broken link in the updated 2.8 docs. PR #2595.
Internationalisation
- Updated Czech, German, US English, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian and Chinese translation files from the Crowdin project page. PR #2608.
Packaging
- Added qt6-svg-plugins as a direct dependency of novelWriter on Debian. This package was not always installed on some distros. Issue #2604. PR #2607.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes an issue related to crashes when using the completer menu under certain conditions, and improves positioning of the input box for CJK languages.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixes an issue where the app would crash of deleting the @ character with the completer menu visible and the text margins of the editor set to "justified". This is likely crashing due to some unhandled corner case in the Qt library, but the implementation of the completer menu in novelWriter uses a small hack to bypass some intended behaviour of the menu. Extra steps have been added to the implementation that seems to avoid the crash. Issue #2510. PR #2511.
- Fixes an issue where the input box that shows up when typing CJK languages were covering the text due to an incorrect offset of the box location. The incorrect offset is caused by the text margins not being taken into account. Fix by @Euophrys based on solution by @Jack-name. Issues #2267 and #2517. PR #2518.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that updates the Czech and French translations, and makes some changes to the available Material Symbols icon themes. Additional icon themes are no longer automatically included in all release packages due to license constraints.
Detailed Changelog
Internationalisation
- The Czech and French translations are now complete. PR #2469.
Packaging
- Only the Material Symbols icons are included by default in packages. Other icon themes are included depending on licensing restrictions for free and non-free requirements. The Material Symbols Bold themes have been dropped, and a Sharp theme added. Issue #2462. PR #2467.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes a bug in, and makes a few improvement to, Preferences.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixes an issue where novelWriter would crash if a % was added to any of the free text settings fields in Preferences. Issue #2455. PR #2456.
Improvements
- The "Dialogue line symbols" setting in Preferences now has an "Add" button with a dropdown menu for all the symbols allowed in this field. Since virtually none of them are available on a regular keyboard, this makes it easier to add them and more transparent which symbols are allowed in the box. Issue #2453. PR #2457.
- The switch for the "Allow open-ended dialogue" setting in Preferences has been moved up one line so it is clearer that it only applies to quoted dialogue, and not to the alternative dialogue settings. Issue #2454. PR #2457.
Packaging
- Package license information has been updated to also list the licenses for the new icon themes. Issue #2434. PRs #2435 and #2458.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes several issues related to DocX and PDF manuscript documents, improves how line breaks, alignment and indentation is processed, and fixes some issues with displaying tags for novel documents on the user interface.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where escaped markup characters were not replaced properly in DocX and PDF documents, and in previews. Issue #2410. PR #2411.
- Fixed an issue where titles with line breaks in them would have page breaks applied to both lines for preview and PDF documents. Issue #2415. PR #2416.
- Fixed an issue where the justified text setting would not be properly applied to a paragraph in a manuscript document if there was a line break in the paragraph, but single line breaks were set to be ignored. Issue #2426. PR #2427.
- Fixed an issue where the "Tag" field of the Outline View details panel remained blank even if a tag was set for the novel document. Issue #2428. PR #2429.
Improvements
- When comments are enabled in the viewer, story comments should also be visible. A separate filter button will be added for this in 2.8. PR #2420.
- When a paragraph has line breaks in it, the alignment tag will now override first line indentation even if the alignment tag is not on the first line. This is more consistent with the alignment behaviour for multi-line paragraphs in general. Issue #2425. PR #2427.
- Tags will now be shown in the Novel View tooltip pop-out under the triangle button, together with all the other meta data collected about a document or heading. PR #2429.
Documentation
- The documentation on how alignment and first line indentation works in conjunction with in-paragraph line breaks, the setting to keep or ignore such line breaks, and the forced line break shortcode, has been improved. Issue #2425. PR #2427.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes some issues with tags and references, and issue with the auto-complete menu on Windows, and issues with the AppImage on Linux. The Czech translation for 2.7 has been completed.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fix a bug where tags would be listed in the auto-complete menu for mentions even if the file defining it had been moved to Archive or Trash. Issue #2387. PR #2389.
- Fixed a bug that seems to only have occurred on Windows where the auto-complete menu would hold on to the return and arrow keys even when it was hidden. Issue #2386. PR #2389.
Improvements
- The auto-complete menu in the editor no longer shows any suggestions when defining the tag. This never made sense anyway. PR #2389.
Internationalisation
- Updated the Czech. PR #2393.
Packaging
- Fixed an issue with the AppImage release where on some platforms libxcb-cursor0 was missing. The library is now included in the AppImage. Issue #2374. PR #2392.

Release Notes
The 2.7 release updates the 2.7 RC 1 release and makes an improvement to the build settings tool. It also updates most translations and updates the French version of the documentation.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Improvement
- The Manuscript Build Settings dialog now works on a copy of the settings so that if the dialog box is closed without saving, all changes are discarded. It should also now detect any change made to properly raise a confirmation prompt when closing without saving. Issue #2350. PR #2351.
Documentation
- The user documentation has been restructured, and the Getting Started section has been made less technical. The install instructions have been moved out and into the main website. The technical and in-depth parts of the documentation have been kept, but moved further back so that the documentation can be read from the start and to the point where the user has enough information. The larger sections have also been split up so that it should be easier to find the wanted information directly from the menu. Issue #2345. PR #2355.
Internationalisation
- Updated US English, Japanese, Norwegian. German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese translation files. PR #2353.
- French documentation updated by @Karduin. Issue #2360. PR #2361.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes a translation issue that affected several labels on the user interface where the wrong or no translation was used. The bug affected all languages except for English.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fix retrieval of translation string for stats and shape constants. This particularly affected the details panel below the project tree, some labels on the outline, the statics panel on the Manuscript tool and the status icon shape menu in Project Settings. It also affected the statistics submenu in the Insert menu. Issue #2246. PRs #2247 and #2249.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes a few issues with the project tree: The Empty Trash option in the menu now works again, and it is no longer possible to accidentally drag and drop project items onto the root of the project tree.
In addition, a Czech translation has been added by Tomáš Zmek, and the Italian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese translations have been updated.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where alternative scene formats were ignored when splitting a document. Issue #2233. PR #2234.
- Fixed the Empty Trash menu entry in the Project menu. It was not connected to the project tree and therefore selecting it did nothing. Issue #2239. PR #2242.
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to drag items to the root levels as long as they were dropped between existing root items. This action is now properly blocked. PR #2242.
Improvements
- Added an extra check in the project tree item model that can prevent a crash in certain circumstances when moving multiple project items. It is probably a corner case caused by competing garbage collectors in Python and Qt, but the additional check should handle. PR #2242.
Internationalisation
- Add Czech translation by Tomáš Zmek. PR #2244.
- Updated Italian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese translations. PR #2244.
See the translation activity stream for more details.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes an issue with creating new notes from the editor context menu, adds an option to turn off the confirmation box that pops up when closing novelWriter, and improves the recent project list on the Welcome dialog.
A French version of the user guide is now also available when the localisation is set to French, and the French, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, US English, German and Japanese translations of the application have been updated.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where the "Create Note from Tag" would also show up for @story references. These should not create new novel documents. The same menu entry was also removed for @mention references, as it is not known what category the would belong to. Issue #2212. PR #2215.
Improvements
- A setting was added to Preferences to disable the dialog box when exiting novelWriter. It is available under the "Behaviour" section. Issue #2209. PR#2213.
- Recent projects on the Welcome dialog box are now tracked using their unique ID as well as their path. This means that if a project is moved, it should not show up twice in the list, but the path should be updated. Issue #2217. PR #2218.
Documentation
- A French version of the user guide is nov available from the Help menu if the GUi language is set to French. The French translation was contributed by @Karduin. It is currently directly added to the source, but from 2.7 it will be generated automatically in the same way the English user guide is. Discussion #1834. PR #2220.
Internationalisation
- French translations are available up to the 2.6 release. That is, the new exit dialog setting is not translated yet. PR #2214.
- Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, US English, German and Japanese translations are fully updated. PR #2214.
See the translation activity stream for more details.

Release Notes
The 2.6 release fixes a few minor issues from the RC 1 pre-release, and updates most translations.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug in the novel selector dropdown used a few places that would clear the selection if the novel list was refreshed. PR #2179.
- Fixed a bug that would crash the app if the project tree was clicked without any project having been loaded. The selection model does not exist prior to a project load. Issue #2173. PR #2181.
- Replaced a broken link on the dictionary install tool available on Windows. PR #2189.
- Backported a few code fixes from 2.7 related to freeing memory from closed dialogs and one instance of a potentially uninitialised variable. PR #2202.
- Fixed word wrapping in the item details panel for status and importance labels with very long names. PR #2202.
- Fixed the project tree context menu so that it is not opened when right-clicking on an empty area of the tree widget. PR #2202.
Improvements
- Chapter headings are now level 1 headings in all manuscript output formats, not just HTML like before. Most applications that post-processes output will assume chapters are level 1. Correspondingly, scenes are now level 2 and sections are level 3. Notes headings remain unchanged. Issue #2205. PR #2206.
Internationalisation
- German, US English, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian and Polish have been updated in full. Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese have been partially updated. PR #2207.
Documentation
- Documentation has been updated with 2.6 features. PR #2210.

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes a few minor bugs in the user interface, and with the HTML manuscript format. This patch also adds a Russian translation, and updates the German and Portuguese translations.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed the red/green LEDs on the statusbar for the Default Light theme. The colours were swapped. Issue #2057. PR #2059.
- Moved the styles tag into the head tag for HTML manuscript output, which is the correct placement for them. Issue #2080. PR #2085.
- Fixed a bug in the project tree where it was possible to drag content to root level on some Qt versions where the disallow flag is not obeyed. The illegal action is now additionally blocked by code. Issue #2108. PR #2109.
Documentation
- Updated a dead link to the spell check library with the new one. Issue #2042. PR #2059.
Internationalisation
- Russian translation added by Konstantin Tan (@k1kimosha). PR #2126
- Updated German and Portuguese translations. PR #2126

Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes a series of issues mostly affecting dialogue highlighting in the document viewer. The way the text is formatted in the viewer changed a lot in 2.5, and there were a few issues with the new implementation. The tab stop distance setting was also ignored, but has now been fixed as well.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where the tab stop distance setting was being ignored in the document viewer. It must be set again every time a document is loaded. Issue #1996. PR #2014.
- Fixed an issue with overlapping formatting markers when processing text into new formats. This issues was introduced when dialogue highlighting was added to the document viewer and manuscript build. It arises because start and end of dialogue can occur on the same character as other formatting, and then the order these markers are processed matters. This was not properly handled in the code. Issue #2012. PR #2014.
- Dialogue highlighting is now only applied to plain text paragraphs, not comments, headings, and other places where there should be no dialogue. Issue #2013. PR #2014.
- Note documents no longer get dialogue highlighting. Issue #2011. PR #2014.
Documentation
- Added a section about spell checking in the documentation. PR #2015.