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)
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