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yWriter Changelog

What's new in yWriter 7.1.5.4 Beta

Mar 26, 2024
  • fixed Ctrl+clicking not toggling selection in lists where multiple items were selected.

New in yWriter 7.1.5.2 (Jan 30, 2024)

  • New drag/drop highlight on lists.

New in yWriter 7.1.5.1 Beta (Jan 28, 2024)

  • All forms in the program should now obey the theme. Custom colours work too, in the colour picker.

New in yWriter 7.1.5.0 (Jan 28, 2024)

  • Colour Themes replace almost everything in the program now. Please use the _updated themes as the basis for your own.

New in yWriter 7.1.4.9 (Jan 28, 2024)

  • Dragging between lists also scrolls them correctly

New in yWriter 7.1.4.7 (Jan 27, 2024)

  • Dragging project notes working again, same with dragging char/loc/items in the secondary list.

New in yWriter 7.1.4.6 (Jan 25, 2024)

  • Trims stray spaces off the beginning and end of scene content.

New in yWriter 7.1.4.5 (Jan 23, 2024)

  • Fixed crash when adding characters/locations/items through the scene editor

New in yWriter 7.1.4.4 (Jan 23, 2024)

  • Search should now highlight words correctly in the scene preview window

New in yWriter 7.1.4.3 (Jan 23, 2024)

  • Added some new customisable items to themes, fixed column widths sometimes starting out much too narrow.

New in yWriter 7.1.4.2 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Fix for drag-dropping inside lists.

New in yWriter 7.1.4.1 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Fix for double-clicking long scenes not opening the editor. Theme fixes.

New in yWriter 7.1.4.0 Beta (Jan 14, 2024)

  • Arrow keys, End and Home work correctly in the custom listviews.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.9 Beta (Sep 11, 2023)

  • New integrated epub creator which no longer uses Calibre. Still work in progress.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.8 Beta (Jun 27, 2023)

  • Export to RTF uses the 'export comments' checkbox, and export to Text has more options now.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.8 Beta (Jun 27, 2023)

  • Export to RTF uses the 'export comments' checkbox, and export to Text has more options now.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.6 Beta (Jun 10, 2023)

  • Export to docx now uses styles for chapter headings and body text.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.5 Beta (Jun 9, 2023)

  • Copy to clipboard now includes several formats, including text, RTF and HTML.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.4 Beta (May 27, 2023)

  • Import and export from docx.
  • New custom listview controls for scene and chapter list.
  • Bug fixes.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.3 Beta (Apr 1, 2023)

  • Pasting from Google Docs should now preserve bold, italics and underline.

New in yWriter 7.1.3.2 Beta (Feb 10, 2023)

  • Uses the new custom listview control

New in yWriter 7.1.3.1 Beta (Feb 10, 2023)

  • you can now use Ctrl+Comma (,) to insert a ? and Ctrl+Period (.) for ?

New in yWriter 7.1.2.3 (Feb 10, 2023)

  • Replaced the custom tabbed dialog boxes in the Editor window with the default style.

New in yWriter 7.1.2.2 (Feb 10, 2023)

  • You can set the RTF scene divider in Project Options (RTF tab, default * * *) and there's now a page break after each chapter.

New in yWriter 7.1.2.1 (Feb 10, 2023)

  • Print Selected Chapters now allows you to include scene titles in the report

New in yWriter 7.1.2.0 (Feb 10, 2023)

  • FIX drag/dropping sometimes ignoring user input.

New in yWriter 6.6.2.6 Beta (Jul 11, 2021)

  • Incorporates fixes from yWriter7.1.2.6 beta

New in yWriter 6.6.2.0 Beta (Feb 25, 2021)

  • BETA new tabbed dialog control.

New in yWriter 6.6.1.9 (Jan 14, 2021)

  • FIX for blank lines at the start of scenes which have been split

New in yWriter 6.6.1.8 Beta (Jan 14, 2021)

  • FIX for 'restore autobackup' feature.

New in yWriter 6.6.1.7 Beta (Jan 12, 2021)

  • Includes fixes from yWriter 7.1.1.7

New in yWriter 6.6.1.1 (Nov 27, 2020)

  • Includes new theme (colour scheme) editor.

New in yWriter 6.6.1.1 Beta (Sep 21, 2020)

  • Includes new theme (colour scheme) editor.

New in yWriter 6.6.0.9 Beta (Sep 14, 2020)

  • BETA Includes new theme (colour scheme) editor.

New in yWriter 6.6.0.5 Beta (Sep 9, 2020)

  • Release version

New in yWriter 6.6.0.4 Beta (Sep 8, 2020)

  • Incorporates all the changes and fixes from yWriter7. See list below.

New in yWriter 6.6.0.4 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • Incorporates all the changes and fixes from yWriter7.

New in yWriter 6.5.9.2 (Sep 2, 2020)

  • Incorporates all the changes and fixes from yWriter7

New in yWriter 6.5.9.1 (Aug 31, 2020)

  • Incorporates all the changes and fixes from yWriter7. See list below.

New in yWriter 6.5.9.0 Beta (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Incorporates all the changes and fixes from yWriter7.

New in yWriter 6.5.8.2 Beta (Aug 25, 2020)

  • Includes latest fixes from yWriter 7, including realtime spell-checking

New in yWriter 6.5.6.5 Beta (Aug 16, 2020)

  • 6.5.6.5 BETA Includes latest fixes from yWriter 7, including realtime spell-checking

New in yWriter 6.5.5.0 Beta (Aug 5, 2020)

  • BETA includes latest changes and fixes from yWriter 7.0.5.0

New in yWriter 6.5.3.5 Beta (Jul 14, 2020)

  • BETA includes latest changes and fixes from yWriter 7.0.3.6

New in yWriter 6.5.3.2 Beta (Jun 11, 2020)

  • BETA Fixed adding an image to a scene, fixed 'remove formatting across all scenes'

New in yWriter 6.5.3.0 Beta (Jun 4, 2020)

  • New option under the Settings menu in the scene editor - support for right-to-left text in the editor.

New in yWriter 6.5.2.9 Beta (Jun 3, 2020)

  • Added a 'paragraph spacing' option to the editor settings drop-down menu

New in yWriter 6.5.2.7 Beta (Jun 2, 2020)

  • Incorporated the latest fixes from yWriter7.

New in yWriter 6.0.2.7 Beta (Jul 30, 2019)

  • Adding multiple chapters no longer causes an unexpecting re-ordering in the chapter list.

New in yWriter 6.0.2.6 (Sep 18, 2018)

  • Added fields and options for epub and mobi export, plus some other usability fixes.

New in yWriter 6.0.2.4 Beta (Jun 8, 2018)

  • A couple of bug fixes, and improved RTF export

New in yWriter 6.0.2.3 Beta (Jun 5, 2018)

  • You can reset your daily word count (handy when writing after midnight). Potential fix for yw6 italics.

New in yWriter 6.0.2.2 Beta (Jun 5, 2018)

  • In-house test release

New in yWriter 6.0.2.1 Beta (Jun 5, 2018)

  • This release gives you the option to skip unused scenes and chapters when exporting for proofing

New in yWriter 6.0.2.0 Beta (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Re-implemented project locking for yw6 projects

New in yWriter 6.0.1.9 Beta (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Experimental support for generating epub and mobi files from ywriter projects. (Calibre required.)

New in yWriter 6.0.1.4 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Should fix 'Close Project' bug with yw6 files

New in yWriter 6.0.1.2 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • yW6 bug where creating a new yw6 project wouldn't save the current yw6 project.

New in yWriter 6.0.1.0 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue where yw6 projects could save out as yw5

New in yWriter 6.0.0.9 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Adjusted the size of several buttons to allow for longer text in translations

New in yWriter 6.0.0.8 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Missed a 'convert from rtf' command in the last version.

New in yWriter 6.0.0.7 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Internal changes to the project file (no effect on compatibility)

New in yWriter 6.0.0.6 (Jul 7, 2017)

  • Fixed autobackups for yw6 scenes. Disabled 'external editing' for yw6 scenes (for now.)

New in yWriter 6.0.0.5 (Jul 6, 2017)

  • Fix for 6.0.0.4

New in yWriter 6.0.0.4 (Jul 6, 2017)

  • Added the new yw6 file format for compatibility with Android. (Experimental!)

New in yWriter 6.0.0.2 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • Fix for yWriter 6 user registration problems

New in yWriter 6.0.0.1 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • Fixed a bug where you couldn't create a character under certain circumstances

New in yWriter 6.0.0.0 (Feb 3, 2016)

  • First release. yWriter6 is currently identical to yWriter5, but is more suitable for Windows 8 or later.

New in yWriter 5.2.1.1 (Jul 4, 2014)

  • Prevented right-click from activating drag-drop events

New in yWriter 5.2.1.0 (Jun 25, 2014)

  • Editor also capitalises 'i' - can be turned off in the editor menu.

New in yWriter 5.2.0.9 (May 8, 2014)

  • Editor now capitalizes first letter of new sentence automatically.

New in yWriter 5.2.0.5 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • New stable release incorporating beta fixes since

New in yWriter 5.2.0.1 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • Another wine fix for the margins in the text editor

New in yWriter 5.2.0.5 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • This version fixes text in the editor window being wider than the margins.

New in yWriter 5.1.9.8 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • You can sort locations and items now (right-click for menu). Adding new items/characters/locations also keeps popping the window up until you're done.

New in yWriter 5.1.9.7 (May 11, 2012)

  • Added a new 'Export to ebook (chapters)' routine, which creates one ebook file per chapter using the chapter title for the filename. Ideal for putting multiple short stories and novellas into one yWriter project and exporting them all individually.

New in yWriter 5.1.9.6 (May 11, 2012)

  • Improved exporting to html and RTF

New in yWriter 5.1.9.5 (May 11, 2012)

  • Export to HTML should handle empty (blank) scenes better.

New in yWriter 5.1.9.1 (Dec 12, 2011)

  • Fixed issues on the Character, Item and Location editing forms when Windows was set to oversized fonts.

New in yWriter 5.1.8.9 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • You can drag-drop TXT and RTF files onto scene titles (main screen) to append the contents

New in yWriter 5.1.8.8 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Chapter list is wider on first run - now shows the Description field too.

New in yWriter 5.1.8.7 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • You can now register your copy of yWriter (Optional)

New in yWriter 5.1.8.6 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Conditional exporting, export chapters to individual RTF files, other fixes and improvements

New in yWriter 5.1.8.5 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Added a new 'force wordcount' feature under the Tools menu. Recounts all words in project, updates chapter display.

New in yWriter 5.1.8.4 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Added a typing speed indicator (WPM).

New in yWriter 5.1.8.3 (Nov 1, 2011)

  • Minor fix for location/item sorting (problem introduced in 5.1.8.0)

New in yWriter 5.1.8.2 (Oct 28, 2011)

  • Added a new option under the project menu: Apply Outline. Instructions included.

New in yWriter 5.1.8.1 (Oct 28, 2011)

  • Added more options to the LaTeX tab under Project Settings

New in yWriter 5.1.8.0 (Oct 28, 2011)

  • You can now sort the character list (major characters will always be listed before minor ones.)

New in yWriter 5.1.7.9 (Aug 13, 2011)

  • New option under the scene menu: Copy first line of content to scene title (All Scenes, Selected Scenes, Selected Chapters)

New in yWriter 5.1.7.8 (Aug 13, 2011)

  • Added copy/paste of chapters and scenes between different projects

New in yWriter 5.1.7.7 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • Exporting of extended characters to LaTeX now works

New in yWriter 5.1.7.6 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • You can now add and edit locations and items within the scene editor.

New in yWriter 5.1.7.5 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • Fixed export of dialog text with single quotes

New in yWriter 5.1.7.4 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • New LaTeX exporter. Use "" to mark inline sections which will be exported as-is

New in yWriter 5.1.7.3 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • Use at the start of a scene to export as-is

New in yWriter 5.1.7.2 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • More LaTeX improvements

New in yWriter 5.1.7.1 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • Big improvements to LaTeX export.

New in yWriter 5.1.7.0 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • Added preliminary LaTeX export.

New in yWriter 5.1.6.9 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • More support for Russian (and other) language encodings in HTML exports

New in yWriter 5.1.6.8 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • Improved error-recovery after failure to save a project

New in yWriter 5.1.6.6 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • Support for extended ascii character sets in report titles/description fields/etc

New in yWriter 5.1.6.5 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • Extended ascii characters now work properly in Ebook exports (and hopefully all html reports)

New in yWriter 5.1.6.4 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • Added a 'seach for duplicate words' feature to Custom Search. (E.g. the the)

New in yWriter 5.1.6.3 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • You can now use /EBOOK "Some path\YW5 Project File.yw5" on the command line and yWriter will load the project, generate an ebook file in the Export folder, then shut down

New in yWriter 5.1.6.2 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • Includes a new Ebook export - generates an html file which is ideal for conversion using Calibre.
  • You can put @ in front of chapter titles to suppress them in html output

New in yWriter 5.1.6.1 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • Rewrote the undo/redo code

New in yWriter 5.1.6.0 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • Should fix the issues with scene card printing

New in yWriter 5.1.5.9 (Nov 13, 2010)

  • A few bug fixes and tweaks.

New in yWriter 5.1.5.7 (Oct 19, 2010)

  • Loads project and text files using the default system encoding (e.g. Ascii, Koi8-r, etc)

New in yWriter 5.1.5.5 Beta (Sep 23, 2010)

  • Prevented users putting relative paths (e.g. \New Novel) into the New Project Wizard

New in yWriter 5.1.5.3 Beta (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Should work even if your 'Documents' folder is invalid or missing

New in yWriter 5.1.5.2 Beta (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Translations now work on column headers

New in yWriter 5.1.5.1 Beta (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Small bugfix for 5.1.5.0, which was adding extra spaces when setting the font

New in yWriter 5.1.5.0 Beta (Sep 7, 2010)

  • 'Set font across all scenes' should now work in all cases

New in yWriter 5.1.4.8 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fixed export-to-chapter-rtf with used/unused/append-to-previous-scenes

New in yWriter 5.1.4.7 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added Chapter Export/Import (within the same project only)

New in yWriter 5.1.4.6 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Numerous small bug fixes

New in yWriter 5.1.4.5 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fixed 'Enter' not being recognised in the new RTF description fields

New in yWriter 5.1.4.4 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added Scene title auto-renumbering

New in yWriter 5.1.4.3 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added experimental 'Tiled Window' display for the editor. Open one or more editor windows then select 'Tiled' from the right-click menu

New in yWriter 5.1.4.2 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Will now refuse to load .yw5.bak files. If you've been using a .bak file as your project you'll need to rename the extension

New in yWriter 5.1.4.1 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Revised the scene card printing routine (See the scenes menu on the main screen)

New in yWriter 5.1.4.0 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added a new F5 'replace problem words' feature

New in yWriter 5.1.3.9 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fixes a bug where scene content could attempt to save more than once at the same time

New in yWriter 5.1.3.8 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added optional typewriter sounds to the editor window. (See settings menu.)

New in yWriter 5.1.3.7 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • No longer loses project note titles after drag/dropping them. Can now add locations/items on the main screen lists

New in yWriter 5.1.3.5 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added a progress wordcount viewer, fixed a few bugs, now checks project folder is writeable before trying to save

New in yWriter 5.1.3.2 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added an error recovery routine to avoid a problem when system fonts are missing

New in yWriter 5.1.3.1 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fixed the chapter wordcount not updating after deleting scenes from it
  • New 'Clear formatting from all scenes' menu item (Scenes menu)

New in yWriter 5.1.3.0 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Changed all the version numbers on the dlls to ensure correct versions are in use

New in yWriter 5.1.2.9 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Minor fix for loading older versions of projects

New in yWriter 5.1.2.8 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Prevented yWriter saving the same project again while first save is in progress

New in yWriter 5.1.2.7 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Includes a 'Restore Autobackup' option (Tools - Backups menu)

New in yWriter 5.1.2.6 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Now offers to continue loading a project, even if one or more scene content files are missing

New in yWriter 5.1.2.5 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fix for possible project-load error in 5.1.2.4

New in yWriter 5.1.2.4 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Forces RTF files to be loaded & saved in plain text ascii format

New in yWriter 5.1.2.3 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Forces unicode when loading pre-5.1.2.3 projects. Saves as system default encoding

New in yWriter 5.1.2.2 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fixed date entry bug from 5.1.2.1 and changed the settings file to use the system default encoding

New in yWriter 5.1.2.1 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Edited the print routine so the html file uses the system default encoding (should fix special characters appearing as ?)

New in yWriter 5.1.2.0 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Edited the load/save routine to use the system unicode/character encoding format

New in yWriter 5.1.1.9 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Will now refuse to load a project if any of the scene content (rtf) files are missing

New in yWriter 5.1.1.8 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • No longer tries to save out your project on Windows hibernation

New in yWriter 5.1.1.7 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added more error-handling code to the project save routine

New in yWriter 5.1.1.6 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Warns if import file is open in another program during 'import work in progress'

New in yWriter 5.1.1.5 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fixed a report width bug in the character list

New in yWriter 5.1.1.4 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug when auto-adding chars, locations, items to scenes

New in yWriter 5.1.1.3 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added some more logging to the startup and project load routines. No other changes

New in yWriter 5.1.1.1 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Fixed the spelling dictionary download & install

New in yWriter 5.1.1.0 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Fixed a problem with editing scenes larger than 64kb

New in yWriter 5.1.0.8 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • A couple of fixes for the Work Schedule report

New in yWriter 5.1.0.7 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Now remembers the position of columns in listboxes, as well as the size.
  • Import work in progress now puts everything in your import file before the first 'Chapter X' heading into a chapter called 'Prologue'

New in yWriter 5.1.0.6 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Now includes Chinese and Hebrew translations for the User Interface.

New in yWriter 5.1.0.5 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Re-enabled highlighting of known items/characters/locations using their AKA strings

New in yWriter 5.1.0.4 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Now prints associated images in the character/item/location list reports

New in yWriter 5.1.0.3 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Changed all html reports to UTF-8 (unicode) format and included encoding for non-ascii

New in yWriter 5.1.0.2 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • You can now print a list of scenes/chars/locations/items by selected tags

New in yWriter 5.1.0.1 (May 13, 2009)

  • When printing the entire project you can now filter the report by scene tag

New in yWriter 5.1.0.0 (May 12, 2009)

  • Change the warning query re losing changed notes/description to system modal

New in yWriter 5.0.9.9 (May 12, 2009)

  • Prevents adding characters to scenes when there aren't any scenes in the scene list

New in yWriter 5.0.9.8 (May 12, 2009)

  • Double-clicking words in the editor only opens the character sheet for exact matches

New in yWriter 5.0.9.7 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Fixed the date/time display in the Scene List report

New in yWriter 5.0.9.6 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Now includes a sample project (first 5 chapters of Hal Spacejock, with notes etc)

New in yWriter 5.0.9.5 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Export to RTF (without summaries) now fixed.

New in yWriter 5.0.9.4 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Fixed the Find box only appearing on first usage in the editor.

New in yWriter 5.0.9.1 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Improved Export Project to RTF (now optionally includes scene notes)
  • New menu item under Project: Export selected chapters to RTF

New in yWriter 5.0.9.0 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Put the UI font/size options back in the menu, sped up project saving

New in yWriter 5.0.8.9 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • You can now highlight items and locations in the scene text, and double-click to edit them.

New in yWriter 5.0.8.8 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Now disables the Project menu during load and save.

New in yWriter 5.0.8.7 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Really warns about losing edits on the main screen when you change scenes.

New in yWriter 5.0.8.6 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Adjusted the editor screen. Desc and title now visible on all tabs.

New in yWriter 5.0.8.5 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Searching next/previous on the main screen has been much improved.

New in yWriter 5.0.8.4 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Now displays icons when there are notes/goals/char/items/etc on the main screen
  • Warns about losing edits on the main screen when you change scenes.

New in yWriter 5.0.8.3 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Fix to prevent user saving the same project more than once at the same time

New in yWriter 5.0.8.1 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • 'View in yBook' now uses an HTML file which preserves bold/italics/etc
  • Autobackups are now incremental by default, and are stored in Zip files.

New in yWriter 5.0.6.1 Beta (Dec 22, 2008)

  • Remembers the main screen window sizes, plus bug fixes

New in yWriter 5.0.4.9 Beta (Dec 15, 2008)

  • Changed the way menus are enabled/disabled to prevent disallowed actions (eg. adding characters to a scene when you haven't created any chapters.)

New in yWriter 2.3.26 (Jul 31, 2006)

  • Recompiled with updates