FocusWriter Changelog

What's new in FocusWriter 1.8.6

Jan 16, 2024
  • FIXED: Always incremented number for imported themes
  • FIXED: Unable to update contents of theme background image
  • FIXED: Modifying themes sometimes removed backgrounds
  • FIXED: Decompression failed in Haiku
  • Added shortcuts for selecting by paragraph
  • Replaced deprecated code
  • Updated Unicode symbols database
  • Updated Windows dictionaries
  • Translation updates: Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish

New in FocusWriter 1.8.5 (Jun 27, 2023)

  • FIXED: Unable to paste HTML into web browser
  • Translation updates: Russian, Turkish, Ukrainia

New in FocusWriter 1.8.4 (Jan 10, 2023)

  • FIXED: Did not ignore user input when force processing events
  • FIXED: Did not compile on macOS
  • FIXED: Did not compile on OS/2
  • Disabled typewriter sounds on OS/2
  • Replaced deprecated code

New in FocusWriter 1.8.3 (Sep 26, 2022)

  • FIXED: Did not play sound effect when pressing enter
  • FIXED: Played sound effect when opening files
  • FIXED: Missing version number
  • Translation updates: Dutch

New in FocusWriter 1.8.2 (Sep 1, 2022)

  • FIXED: Could not change language in portable mode
  • FIXED: Crashed during paste from context menu
  • FIXED: First line indent was lost on empty paragraphs
  • Always write RTF as Latin1
  • Replaced ICU with iconv
  • Improved Linux deployment
  • Translation updates: German, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish

New in FocusWriter 1.8.1 (Jul 2, 2022)

  • Always write plain text as UTF-8
  • Always write RTF as codepage 1252
  • Replaced QTextCodec with ICU
  • Translation updates: Estonian, German

New in FocusWriter 1.8.0 (Jun 20, 2022)

  • FIXED: Lines were randomly duplicated in ODT
  • FIXED: Did not read text from lists in ODT
  • FIXED: Formatting was lost when restoring untitled documents from cache
  • FIXED: Loading headings caused document to shift vertically
  • FIXED: Timers did not show countdown in tooltip
  • FIXED: Sometimes could not remove dictionaries
  • Only restore changed files from cache
  • Refactored code
  • Removed XPM icon
  • Switched to Qt 6
  • Updated Unicode symbols database
  • Updated Windows dictionaries
  • Translation updates: Armenian, Bosnian, Czech, Dutch, French, Georgian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Bokmål (Norway), Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

New in FocusWriter 1.7.6 (Apr 21, 2020)

  • FIXED: Did not load locales with underscores
  • FIXED: Compile failure due to missing header
  • Translation updates: Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish

New in FocusWriter 1.7.5 (Feb 24, 2020)

  • Updated Windows dictionaries
  • Updated Windows deployment
  • Translation updates: Ukrainian

New in FocusWriter 1.7.4 (Jan 16, 2020)

  • FIXED: Broken emergency cache in Windows
  • FIXED: Daily progress did not show star background with some themes
  • Replaced deprecated code
  • Translations: Catalan, Swedish

New in FocusWriter 1.7.3 (Aug 8, 2019)

  • FIXED: Was not loading KDE icon theme
  • FIXED: Headings menu was incorrectly shown in German
  • Replaced deprecated code
  • Translations: Friulian, German, Korean

New in FocusWriter 1.7.2 (Mar 8, 2019)

  • FIXED: Minimum sizes for page counts were too high
  • FIXED: Window icon didn't work in Wayland
  • Require Qt 5.9
  • Improved loading locales
  • Translation updates: Friulian, Korean

New in FocusWriter 1.7.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • FIXED:
  • Did not launch when incorrect lock file was found

New in FocusWriter 1.7.0 (Dec 12, 2018)

  • FIXED: Daily progress percentages were not locale aware
  • FIXED: Scene list text was incorrect with Qt 5.12
  • Show current streak for previous day
  • Improved detection of running instance
  • Updated included hunspell
  • Updated dictionaries
  • Translation updates: Czech, Dutch, Hungarian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.16 (Sep 4, 2018)

  • FIXED: Could not always save to remote drives
  • FIXED: Could not browse shortcuts in Windows file dialogs

New in FocusWriter 1.6.15 (Jul 21, 2018)

  • FIXED: Automatic high DPI support
  • Translation updates: Galician, Spanish

New in FocusWriter 1.6.14 (Jul 6, 2018)

  • FIXED: Regression where emergency cache didn't run
  • Renamed NEWS to ChangeLog
  • Translation updates: Bosnian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.13 (May 29, 2018)

  • Updated dictionaries
  • Updated Unicode symbols database
  • Replaced deprecated code
  • Extra warnings only shown in debug build
  • Improved Linux deployment
  • Improved macOS deployment
  • Improved Windows deployment
  • Translation updates: Dutch, French, Portuguese

New in FocusWriter 1.6.12 (Apr 15, 2018)

  • Ignore empty cache files
  • Remove auto save
  • Translation updates: Slovenian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.11 (Mar 31, 2018)

  • FIXED: File monitoring prevented saving in Windows
  • Translation updates: Danish, Slovenian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.10 (Feb 21, 2018)

  • Default to Flat ODT for cache files
  • Reduce time between cache writes to 5 minutes
  • FIXED: Fade effect broke alerts
  • FIXED: Fade effect hid text on load screen
  • Translation updates: Greek

New in FocusWriter 1.6.9 (Feb 7, 2018)

  • Updated dictionaries
  • FIXED: Could not save to network devices
  • Translation updates: Igbo, Slovenian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.8 (Dec 27, 2017)

  • FIXED: Could not compile with Qt 5.10
  • FIXED: Did not handle ODT line position with two values
  • Translation updates: German, Indonesian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.7 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • Updated dictionaries
  • FIXED: HiDPI blurred text backgrounds were scaled
  • FIXED: Window margin was always the size of the scrollbar
  • FIXED: Always indented first line when printing

New in FocusWriter 1.6.6 (Jul 31, 2017)

  • FIXED: Unnecessary compiler warning about switch fall-through
  • FIXED: Did not show headings when automatic spellchecking was disabled
  • FIXED: Foreground incorrectly placed when load stretched themes
  • Translation updates: Czech, Armenian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.5 (May 30, 2017)

  • FIXED: Data loss when program crashed
  • Updated included hunspell
  • Updated dictionaries
  • Translation updates: Greek, Swedish

New in FocusWriter 1.6.4 (Mar 9, 2017)

  • Updated AppData installation directory
  • FIXED: HiDPI blurred text backgrounds were offset and scaled
  • FIXED: HiDPI backgrounds were not centered properly
  • FIXED: HiDPI centered backgrounds were also scaled
  • Translation updates: Chinese (Taiwan), Finnish, German, Indonesian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.3 (Dec 12, 2016)

  • Updated included hunspell
  • FIXED: Line spacing was ignored when pasting in new documents
  • FIXED: Pasting text always made document rich text
  • FIXED: Possible delay on start when creating non-native printer
  • Translation updates: Chinese (China), Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.2 (Oct 13, 2016)

  • Generate binary translations at build time
  • FIXED: Focused text did not handle first-line indent
  • FIXED: Was not properly loading Qt translations
  • Translation updates: Armenian, Dutch, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.1 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • FIXED: Incorrectly handled non-heading text in OOXML
  • FIXED: Misspelled words did not follow heading style
  • FIXED: Did not always close OOXML paragraph properties correctly
  • FIXED: Did not correctly store RTL in OOXML
  • FIXED: Reported conflicts for empty shortcuts
  • FIXED: Switched to incorrect tab to show conflicting shortcuts
  • Translation updates: German, Romanian

New in FocusWriter 1.6.0 (Aug 29, 2016)

  • Added always showing interface
  • Added headings
  • Added new default themes
  • Added removing user-installed dictionaries
  • Added shortcut for typographical apostrophe
  • Added support for ODT Flat XML files
  • Added support for high DPI displays
  • Switched to QSoundEffect
  • Updated dictionaries
  • FIXED: Daily progress did not reset when run longer than a day
  • FIXED: Printer margins were too big
  • FIXED: Was replacing session files with command-line files
  • FIXED: Did not add new default symbol shortcuts
  • Translation updates: Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Dutch, English (United Kingdom), French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, Vietnamese

New in FocusWriter 1.5.7 (Jul 17, 2016)

  • Switched to cross-compiled builds for Windows
  • FIXED: Did not play sounds for key presses with Alt modifier
  • FIXED: Could not change shortcut to disable focused text

New in FocusWriter 1.5.6 (Jun 23, 2016)

  • Updated included hunspell
  • FIXED: Did not remember some default formats
  • FIXED: Replace all did not update spellchecking
  • FIXED: Themes still did not always forget changes
  • Translation updates: Afrikaans (South Africa), Danish, Esperanto, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Spanish

New in FocusWriter 1.5.5 (Sep 5, 2015)

  • Added support for pasting RTF in Windows
  • Switched back to dynamic builds for Windows
  • Updated dictionaries
  • FIXED: Themes did not always forget changes
  • FIXED: Treated every paragraph as a scene when divider is empty
  • FIXED: Switched tabs during autosave
  • FIXED: Allowed pasting and saving invalid null character
  • Translation updates: Catalan, Esperanto, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil)

New in FocusWriter 1.5.4 (Jun 15, 2015)

  • Relax version check of ZIP to handle broken ZIP files
  • Remove deprecated code for unsupported Mac OS X versions
  • Switch to static builds for Windows
  • FIXED: Broken shortcut for disabling focused text in Windows
  • FIXED: Word count did not handle dashes correctly
  • FIXED: Did not use correct line endings in Windows
  • FIXED: Incorrectly sized icon for daily progress
  • FIXED: Crash when importing themes
  • Translation updates: Esperanto, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian

New in FocusWriter 1.5.3 (Aug 18, 2014)

  • FIXED: Find did not take smart quotes into account
  • FIXED: Style hierarchy was not always loaded in ODT
  • FIXED: Ignored text sections in ODT files
  • FIXED: Was not reading styles for OOXML files
  • Translation updates: Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish

New in FocusWriter 1.5.2 (Jul 21, 2014)

  • FIXED: Regression with RtfWriter encoding characters in Windows
  • FIXED: Windows installer did not install shortcut for all users
  • FIXED: Finnish spellchecking did not work in Windows
  • FIXED: Incorrect handling of mimetypes in copy-paste
  • FIXED: Keywords in .desktop file should be separated by semicolons
  • Translation updates: French, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil)

New in FocusWriter 1.5.1 (Jun 25, 2014)

  • Added keywords to .desktop file
  • FIXED: Spelling underline was broken
  • FIXED: Incorrect MIME type for Office Open XML
  • FIXED: Incorrect version number string
  • FIXED: Compile issues with Qt 4.6
  • FIXED: Regression with sound effects on Windows
  • FIXED: Regression with default cursor width on Windows
  • FIXED: Regression where menubar was not shown in Ubuntu
  • Translation updates: Spanish (Mexico), Korean, Swedish

New in FocusWriter 1.5.0 (Jun 17, 2014)

  • Added daily progress dialog
  • Added default themes
  • Added blurring behind text area
  • Added drop shadow behind text area
  • Added duplicating themes
  • Added keyboard shortcuts to move between paragraphs
  • Added option to disable byte order mark
  • Added basic support for Office Open XML files
  • Added Windows installer
  • Include dictionaries on Windows
  • Improved theme dialog
  • Improved background color when loading theme
  • Stopped clearing document cache across runs
  • Synchronized location for open and save dialogs
  • Switched to hunspell
  • Switched to QtZip
  • Refactored daily progress
  • Refactored document cache
  • Refactored spell checking code

New in FocusWriter 1.4.6 (Apr 11, 2014)

  • FIXED: Smart quotes did not work in Windows
  • FIXED: Formatting was lost when saving pasted text in new document
  • FIXED: Could not change built-in Qt textedit shortcuts
  • FIXED: Session names did not trim whitespace
  • FIXED: Theme names did not trim whitespace
  • FIXED: Did not respect default cursor width
  • FIXED: Session names could not contain periods
  • FIXED: Theme names could not contain periods
  • FIXED: Long session names made session menu unworkable
  • Translation updates: Armenian, Hebrew

New in FocusWriter 1.4.5 (Mar 26, 2014)

  • FIXED: Infinite loop during replace all with regular expressions
  • FIXED: Regular expression replaces did not ignore whole words option
  • FIXED: Interpreted images in RTF files as text
  • FIXED: Context menu key did not show spelling menu
  • FIXED: Could delete all themes
  • FIXED: Did not recreate default theme until program restart
  • FIXED: Created a new tab for corrupted documents
  • FIXED: Reloading a modified file did not reduce daily goal progress
  • FIXED: Unable to overwrite current document
  • FIXED: Discarding a modified file did not reduce daily goal progress
  • FIXED: Locale dialog always prompted users of System Language to restart
  • FIXED: Symbols dialog had help titlebar icon
  • FIXED: Second instance would not open relative paths
  • FIXED: Closing last empty document increased untitled count
  • FIXED: Regular expression searches did not ignore whole words option
  • FIXED: Paragraphs not always focused properly when merged
  • FIXED: Selected session was incorrect when switching sessions was canceled
  • FIXED: Could open unsupported multimedia files
  • FIXED: Hyphenated lines were not focused properly
  • Translation updates: Arabic, Chinese (China), Czech, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Indonesian, Serbian, Vietnamese

New in FocusWriter 1.4.4 (Jun 1, 2013)

  • Indonesian translation added by Eka Y Saputra
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.4.3 (Apr 9, 2013)

  • Fixed emergency cache for new files

New in FocusWriter 1.4.2 (Mar 28, 2013)

  • Turkish translation updated
  • Bug fixes
  • Added support for Qt 5

New in FocusWriter 1.4.1 (Nov 29, 2012)

  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.4.0 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • Added scene list sidebar
  • Added focusing text
  • Added line spacing in themes
  • Added symbols dialog
  • Added monitoring files for changes
  • Added editable keyboard shorcuts
  • Allow changing formats in save dialogs
  • Switched to enchant for spell checking
  • Check spelling in background
  • Removed included dictionaries
  • Slovak translation added by Jan Gallik
  • Japanese translation added
  • Simplified Chinese translation added
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.90 Beta (Aug 25, 2012)

  • Removed included dictionaries
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.80 Beta (Aug 25, 2012)

  • Added scene list sidebar
  • Added focusing text
  • Added line spacing in themes
  • Added symbols dialog
  • Added monitoring files for changes
  • Added editable keyboard shorcuts
  • Allow changing formats in save dialogs
  • Switched to enchant for spell checking
  • Check spelling in background
  • Slovak translation added by Jan Gallik
  • Japanese translation added

New in FocusWriter 1.3.6 (Jun 16, 2012)

  • Danish transation added by Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
  • Fixed emergency cache

New in FocusWriter 1.3.5.2 (Jan 28, 2012)

  • Hungarian translation added
  • Improved Finnish and Spanish translations
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.5.1 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Dutch translation added
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.5 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Compress exported themes
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.4 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Added basic ODT support
  • Greek translation added by Epameinondas Soufleros
  • Swedish translation added by Daniel Nylander
  • Ukrainian translation added by Sergiy Gavrylov
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.3 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Added emergency file cache
  • Replaced icon and load image
  • Improved Mac integration
  • Switched to SDL_mixer instead of libao
  • Russian translation added by Dmitriy Kodanev and Danila Evstifeyev
  • German translation added by Eduard Bruckner and Dennis Peteranderl
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.2.1 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Fixed crash when typing
  • Mexican Spanish translation added by Israel Buitrón

New in FocusWriter 1.3.2 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Added rounded corners to themes
  • Czech translation added by Pavel Fric
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.1 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Added typewriter sound effects
  • Brazilian Portuguese translation added by Márcio Massula Jr.
  • Polish translation added by Jakub Kowalski
  • Spanish translation added by Luis Osa
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.3.0 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Added text formatting
  • Added smart quotes
  • Added session management
  • Added timers and alarms
  • Added importing and exporting themes
  • Added selected text statistics
  • Added dictionaries for supported languages
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.2.2 (Sep 24, 2010)

  • Added portability support
  • Switched to native file dialogs
  • Updated keyboard shortcuts
  • Updated included libraries

New in FocusWriter 1.2.1 (Sep 24, 2010)

  • French and Portuguese translations added by Jérôme Borme
  • Added changing text area's horizontal position
  • Added disabling antialiasing
  • Bug fixes

New in FocusWriter 1.2.0 (Sep 18, 2009)

  • Added spell checking
  • Added document tabs
  • Added menubar
  • Added toolbar customization
  • Added document statistics
  • Added second wordcount algorithm
  • Added option to use block cursor
  • Improved file saving
  • Bug fixes