diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e7956bc3..2a2a3e11 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,28 @@
# novelWriter Changelog
+## Version 1.5.2 [2021-12-12]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+This is a bugfix release that fixes two issues. The first is an issue with an error in the HTML
+output if a paragraph has alignment or indentation tags while at the same time containing
+emphasised text. The second is an issue where the application cannot load a project with spell
+checking enabled if there is something wrong with the spell check package.
+
+### Detailed Changelog
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+* When the HTML converter replaced grater than or smaller than symbols with the corresponding HTML
+ entities. the poisition of the formatting tags following in the text would be shifted, but the
+ positions were not updated. This is now solved by updating these positions when such a symbol is
+ encountered. This issue has been backported from 1.6 development. Issue #929.
+* If the pyenchant package is installed, but the underlying enchant library is broken in one way or
+ another, the pyenchant package will error, causing novelWriter to crash. All calls to the
+ pyenchant package has now been wrapped in try/except blocks to prevent this. Issue #933.
+
+----
+
## Version 1.5.1 [2021-10-23]
### Release Notes
diff --git a/novelwriter/assets/text/release_notes.htm b/novelwriter/assets/text/release_notes.htm
index 186cf844..1fde313b 100644
--- a/novelwriter/assets/text/release_notes.htm
+++ b/novelwriter/assets/text/release_notes.htm
@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@
+Release Notes for 1.5.2
+Released on 12 December 2021
+
+This is a bugfix release that fixes two issues. The first is an issue with an error in the HTML
+output if a paragraph has alignment or indentation tags while at the same time containing
+emphasised text. The second is an issue where the application cannot load a project with spell
+checking enabled if there is something wrong with the spell check package.
+
+See also the Releases page.
+
+
+
Release Notes for 1.5.1
Released on 23 October 2021
@@ -10,8 +22,6 @@ missing its translated labels for non-English languages, and a fix concerning sw
the project tree when the Novel tab is visible. If the Novel tab is selected, the focus shift now
correctly gives focus to the Novel tree.
-See also the Releases page.
-
Release Notes for 1.5
diff --git a/novelwriter/core/spellcheck.py b/novelwriter/core/spellcheck.py
index 3679c964..53cdf11c 100644
--- a/novelwriter/core/spellcheck.py
+++ b/novelwriter/core/spellcheck.py
@@ -89,17 +89,26 @@ class NWSpellEnchant():
def checkWord(self, theWord):
"""Wrapper function for pyenchant.
"""
- return self._theDict.check(theWord)
+ try:
+ return self._theDict.check(theWord)
+ except Exception:
+ return True
def suggestWords(self, theWord):
"""Wrapper function for pyenchant.
"""
- return self._theDict.suggest(theWord)
+ try:
+ return self._theDict.suggest(theWord)
+ except Exception:
+ return []
def addWord(self, newWord):
"""Add a word to the project dictionary.
"""
- self._theDict.add_to_session(newWord)
+ try:
+ self._theDict.add_to_session(newWord)
+ except Exception:
+ return False
if self._projectDict is not None and newWord not in self._projDict:
newWord = newWord.strip()
diff --git a/tests/test_core/test_core_spell.py b/tests/test_core/test_core_spellcheck.py
similarity index 92%
rename from tests/test_core/test_core_spell.py
rename to tests/test_core/test_core_spellcheck.py
index 7d0df7cc..720d3e28 100644
--- a/tests/test_core/test_core_spell.py
+++ b/tests/test_core/test_core_spellcheck.py
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ def testCoreSpell_Enchant(monkeypatch, tmpDir):
assert spChk.listDictionaries() == []
assert spChk.describeDict() == ("", "")
+ # Break the enchant package, and check error handling
+ spChk = NWSpellEnchant()
+ spChk.theDict = None
+ assert spChk.checkWord("word") is True
+ assert spChk.suggestWords("word") == []
+ assert spChk.addWord("word") is False
+
# Load the proper enchant package (twice)
spChk = NWSpellEnchant()
spChk.setLanguage("en", wList)