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* Bump version to 1.5 and update changelog and release notes
* Update changelog and release notes
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__author__ = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
__maintainer__ = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
__email__ = "code@vkbo.net"
__version__ = "1.5-rc1"
__hexversion__ = "0x010500c1"
__date__ = "2021-09-10"
__version__ = "1.5"
__hexversion__ = "0x010500f0"
__date__ = "2021-09-19"
__status__ = "Stable"
__domain__ = "novelwriter.io"
__url__ = "https://novelwriter.io"
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.5 RC 1</h2>
<p><i>Released on 10 September 2021</i></p>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.5</h2>
<p><i>Released on 19 September 2021</i></p>
<p>This is a release candidate of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes.
Please be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you make frequent
backups.</p>
<p>From this release on, Debian packages will be provided for Ubuntu and Debian users. A new
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~vkbo/+archive/ubuntu/novelwriter">PPA</a> has also been created.
Adding this will allow users to install and update novelWriter automatically on Ubuntu and Debian.
</p>
<p>Release 1.5 introduces a new project file format, which has been given a file format version
1.3. The project file and index is updated automatically when you open the project, which means you
can no longer open it in an older version of novelWriter.</p>
<p>This release reduces the number of document layouts from eight to two. The full list of changes
is described in the "Novel Document Layouts" section below.</p>
<p>Due to this change, the main project file for your projects will need to be updated when you
first open them in novelWriter 1.5. This is done automatically. The index is updated as well. When
this conversion is done, you can no longer open the project in an older version of novelWriter.</p>
<p>You may also have to make a handful of changes in your novel documents as novelWriter will not
make any automated changes to your actual text. However, the changes are minimal and in any case
only affects the way your manuscript looks like when exported via the Build Novel Project tool. The
details are described below.</p>
only affects the way your manuscript looks like when exported via the Build Novel Project tool.
These details are also described below.</p>
<p>From this release on, Debian packages will be provided for Mint, Ubuntu and Debian users. A new
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~vkbo/+archive/ubuntu/novelwriter">PPA</a> has also been created.
This allows users to install and update novelWriter automatically on these Linux distros.</p>
<h4>Novel Document Layouts</h4>
<p>The main change in this release is the significant simplification of document layouts.
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layout called simply "Novel Document". The other layout, "Project Note", remains unchanged. The
functionality provided by the various novel layouts have been implemented in other ways, and a few
new formatting codes have been added to accommodate the formatting functionality lost with the
removal of the layouts. They are all available in the Format and Insert menu.</p>
removal of the layouts. They are all available in the Format and Insert menus.</p>
<p>The changes you need to make to your project should be limited to altering a handful of titles
and maybe insert a page break code here and there. The only title formats you need to update are
those for the main novel title and for your unnumbered chapters, if you have any.</p>
<p>Novel titles need to be altered from "# Novel Title" to "#! Novel Title" and unnumbered chapters
from "## Chapter Name" or "## *Chapter Name" to "##! Chapter Name". That is all. For inserting page
breaks, you can add a single line with the command "[NEW PAGE]"" where you want the break to be
breaks, you can add a single line with the command "[NEW PAGE]" where you want the break to be
inserted. As before, page breaks are automatically inserted in front of all partition and chapter
titles.</p>
<p>You will find these changes described in more detail in the documentation in the