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# novelWriter Changelog
## Version 1.7 Beta 1 [2022-05-17]
### Release Notes
This is a beta release 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 take frequent backups.
Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to the
final release.
### Detailed Changelog
**Features**
* A simple tool to add Lorem Ipsum placeholder text has been added to the Insert menu. PR #1028.
* Status and Importance flags can now be reorganised in Project Settings. Issue #1035. PR #1040.
* It is now possible to create multiple Root Folders of the same kind. This makes it possible to
add multiple Novel root folders in a project, for instance. Issue #967. PR #1031.
* All documents can now be dragged and dropped anywhere in the project tree. The document layout
may be converted in the process. PR #1031.
* Documents in the project tree can now have other documents as child documents. Issue #1002.
PR #1047.
* Folders in the project tree that are not empty, can now be moved to trash. PR #1048.
* Empty folders are deleted on request, and not moved to trash. Issue #1052. PR #1055.
**User Interface**
* The tabs under the project tree and to the right of the main window have been replaced with a
toolbar on the left hand side. The toolbar has a set of buttons to change view between Project,
Novel and Outline. The three buttons that were available under the project tree have been moved
to the bottom of the new toolbar. Issue #1056. PR #1057.
* When a document changes from a project document to a note, and back again, the Status flag
setting is preserved. Previously, the Importance setting would overwrite it during the
conversion. PR #1030.
* Item labels, Status labels, and other labels on the GUI are now run through a "simplify" function
before being accepted. This functions strips out all whitespaces and consecutive whitespaces and
replace them with single plain whitespaces. This is a safer format to store in XML, and also
makes sure there aren't invisible characters floating around in the labels. PR #1038.
* Due to the changes to how drag and drop works, there are no longer any restrictions on folders
and documents. Only root folders remain restricted in terms of moving. Root folders can only be
reordered with the Move Up and Move Down commands. PR #1047.
* The label for the highlighting of redundant spaces in the Preferences dialog has been updated to
better reflect what it does. Issue #1043. PR #1046.
* The New Project Wizard will now try to check if the path selected for the new project can
actually be used before letting the user proceed to the next page. Issue #1058. PR #1062.
**Internationalisation**
* Dutch translations have been added by Martijn van der Kleijn (@mvdkleijn). PR #1027.
**Functionality**
* Documents that are missing in the project index when a project is opened are automatically
re-indexed. This also handles cases where the cached index is missing. PR #1039.
**Installation and Packaging**
* Python 3.6 is no longer supported. PR #1004.
* Ubuntu 18.04 packages will no longer be released, due to dropping Python 3.6. Issue #1005.
PR #1014.
**Project File Format**
* The item nodes in the content section of the main project XML file have been compacted. It now
consists of a main item node and meta and a name node. All settings have been made attributes of
one of these three nodes, except the item label which is the text value of the name node. The
file format version has been bumped to 1.4. Issue #995. PR #993.
* Both Importance and Status flag values are now saved to the project file. This means if a
document changes layout, the value is no longer lost. PR #1030.
**Code Improvements**
* The linting settings have been updated to select between mutually exclusive options in
pycodestyle. PR #1014.
* The Tokenizer class has been converted to an abstract base class. PR #1026.
* The class handling Status and Importance flags has been completely rewritten. The flags are now
handled using a unique random key as reference rather than relying on the text of the label
itself. This makes it a lot easier to rename them as there is no need to update project items.
PR #1034.
* Many of the decisions regarding where items are allowed to belong has been delegated to the
NWItem class that holds the item. Some is also handled by the NWTree class that holds the project
tree. A new maintenance function in the NWTree class will also ensure that the meta data of an
item is correct and up to date. This is especially important after an item has been moved, but is
also checked when items are initially loaded. PRs #1031 and #1054.
* Item handles are now generated using the standard library random number generator. The new
handles have the same format as the old algorithm, so they are compatible. PR #1044.
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## Version 1.6.2 [2022-03-20]
### Release Notes
novelwriter/__init__.py
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__author__ = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
__maintainer__ = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
__email__ = "code@vkbo.net"
__version__ = "1.7-alpha0"
__hexversion__ = "0x010700a0"
__date__ = "2022-02-20"
__version__ = "1.7-beta1"
__hexversion__ = "0x010700b1"
__date__ = "2022-05-17"
__status__ = "Stable"
__domain__ = "novelwriter.io"
__url__ = "https://novelwriter.io"
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<html>
<body>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.6</h2>
<p><i>Released on 20 February 2022</i></p>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.7 Beta 1</h2>
<p><i>Released on 17 May 2022</i></p>
<p>This release does not introduce any major new features, but is instead a collection of minor
improvements and tweaks based on user requests. There are also a number of changes under the hood
to improve the structure and performance of novelWriter.</p>
<p><u>Some key improvements to the user interface are:</u></p>
<p>&#10003; The max text width setting in Preferences now also applies to the document viewer, and
the setting itself on the Preference dialog has been simplified a bit.</p>
<p>&#10003; When text is selected in the document editor, the number of words selected is displayed
in the editor's footer area.</p>
<p>&#10003; The search tool in the document editor now shows the number of results in the
document.</p>
<p>&#10003; The Enter and Ctrl+O keyboard shortcuts should now work the same way in all tree
views.</p>
<p>&#10003; It is now possible to set a blank section title format on the Build Novel Project tool
and get empty paragraphs in the output. Previously, a blank format would just remove the section
break entirely. This change allows the user to define hard and soft scene breaks using level three
and four headings. The scene and section titles can be hidden completely with two new switches
added to the user interface.</p>
<p><u>Other feature changes include:</u></p>
<p>&#10003; The project index is now automatically rebuilt in the event it is empty or incomplete
when the project is opened.</p>
<p>&#10003; The user can now add their own syntax and GUI theme files in the app folder in their
user area on the host operating system. Where the custom files must be added is described in the
documentation.</p>
<p>&#10003; A Windows installer is yet again provided for novelWriter. If you have novelWriter
installed using another method, make sure you uninstall it properly first as the two methods are
not compatible.</p>
<p>&#10003; Release versions for Ubuntu 21.04 have been dropped, and added for the upcoming Ubuntu
22.04.</p>
<p>&#10003; Most translations have been updated. A Dutch translation is in the works.</p>
<p>This is a beta release 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 take frequent
backups.</p>
<p>Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to
the final release.</p>
<p><i>See also the <a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases">Releases</a> page.</i></p>
<h2>Patch Notes</h2>
<h3>Patch 1.6.1 &ndash; 16 March 2022</h3>
<p>This is a bugfix and patch release that fixes two recursion/loop issues. One would potentially
cause a crash if the window was resized rapidly, and one would cause a hang with certain search
parameters in the editor's search box. The Latin American Spanish translation has also been
updated.</p>
<h3>Patch 1.6.2 &ndash; 20 March 2022</h3>
<p>This is a bugfix release that fixes a couple of minor issues. Projects containing one or more
empty documents would trigger a rebuild of the index each time the project was opened. This has now
been fixed. Another fix resolves an error message being written to the console logging output when
a new document was created. Both errors were harmless.</p>
</body>
</html>
sample/nwProject.nwx
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<novelWriterXML appVersion="1.7-alpha0" hexVersion="0x010700a0" fileVersion="1.4" timeStamp="2022-05-17 17:51:14">
<novelWriterXML appVersion="1.7-beta1" hexVersion="0x010700b1" fileVersion="1.4" timeStamp="2022-05-17 18:36:56">
<project>
<name>Sample Project</name>
<title>Sample Project</title>
<author>Jane Smith</author>
<author>Jay Doh</author>
<saveCount>1328</saveCount>
<saveCount>1329</saveCount>
<autoCount>220</autoCount>
<editTime>67092</editTime>
<editTime>67104</editTime>
</project>
<settings>
<doBackup>False</doBackup>