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# novelWriter Changelog
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## Version 2.0 RC 1 [2022-10-17]
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### Release Notes
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This is a release candidate of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes.
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Please be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent
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backups.
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Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to the
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final release.
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**Note:** As of the 2.0 release, novelWriter requires Qt 5.10 or higher and Python 3.7 or higher.
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### Detailed Changelog
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**Note:** This will no longer be release 1.7, but 2.0 instead due to the major changes to the User
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Interface. PR #1146.
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**Features**
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* The add new documents feature has been made a little smarter and now tries to choose whether the
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added document should be a sibling or a child to the selected document. Issue #1107. PR #1110.
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* A folder in the Project Tree can now be converted to a Novel Document or Project Note from the
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item's context menu. This makes sense now that documents can have child items. Issue #1071.
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PR #1128.
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* All child elements of an item in the Project Tree can now be collectively expanded or collapsed
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from the context menu. The same action can be triggered on the entire tree from the menu button
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at the top. Issue #1122. PR #1129.
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* If using the auto-insert feature for spaces next to punctuation designed for for instance French,
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any existing spaces are first stripped before the correct space character is added. Some users
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find it hard to unlearn the reflex to type the space. Issue #1061. PR #1131.
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* The Project Tree now has Quick Links for navigating directly between root folders. This is
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convenient for very large projects. Issue #1137. PR #1165.
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* It is now possible to filter out entire root folders on the Build Tool. Issue #1138. PR #1168.
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**Bugfixes**
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* Fix a typo in the Lorem Ipsum tool and set a max width for the views bar. PR #1065.
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* The language set in the Build Tool is now properly exported to Open Document files. Previously,
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it would be set to English regardless of the user's selection. Issue #1073. PR #1077.
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* Since the text editor cursor extends to the right of its position in the window, it would
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disappear under the right-hand margin if it reached the edge. A minimum margin of the width of
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the cursor has been added to the editor, and the same value subtracted from the margin of the
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viewbox. Thus, the cursor no longer disappears. Issue #1112. PR #1113.
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* The `Shift+Enter` key combination no longer inserts a Unicode line separator in the text editor.
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Issue #1150. PR #1151.
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* Fixed an issue where idle time would not be properly reset when a new project was created.
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Issue #1149. PR #1153.
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* Removed the context menu that would appear on the Views Bar, from which the bar could be hidden.
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This is some feature imposed by the Qt library, and it is not wanted. Issue #1147. PR #1153.
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**Known Issues**
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* An attempt has been made to fix the missing mime icon for novelWriter projects on Linux. The
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newer versions of Nautilus don't seem to display the correct icon due to some changes in the way
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icons are extracted from the theme. The icon displays fine in other places. PR #1068.
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**Internationalisation**
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* Norwegian and US English translations have been updated. PR #1170.
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**User Interface**
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* The New Project Wizard has been updated based on user feedback. The "Working Title" setting is
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now called "Project Name". The number of root folders one can create on the options page has been
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reduced to the standard ones. An option to add sample notes has been added, and the option to
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generate chapter folders has been removed. The "Minimal Project" option also no longer creates
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folders. An Archive root folder is automatically added to all new projects, and a Trash folder is
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added to custom projects. PR #1067.
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* The border around a lot of Widgets on the main GUI have been removed. PR #1069.
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* The Views Bar has been updated since the beta re;ease with better icons, tooltips, and an
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expanding menu on the Settings button. The Build Tool can now also be accessed from the Views
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Bar. PR #1069.
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* The editor theme setting in Preferences has been moved back to the General tab where users seem
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to expect to find it. PR #1069.
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* A toolbar has been added to the Outline View where the user can select which Novel folder to
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view. A refresh button for a forced reload of the selected Novel folder has been added, and the
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menu to select which columns to show has been added to a new button. This makes it easier to find
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for users instead of having to right-click the table header. Issue #1105. PRs #1063, #1094, and
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#1111.
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* The Rebuild Outline and Auto-Update Outline options have been removed from the Main Menu.
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PR #1063.
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* The Project Tree has been redesigned. The header is now hidden, and the columns resize
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automatically. A toolbar has been added with buttons for moving items up and down in the tree, a
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button for adding new files, folders and root folders, and a menu button for further options
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affecting the whole tree. These features have mostly bee removed from the Main Menu. PR #1079.
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* The context menu of the Project Tree has been rewritten completely. It is now possible to set
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importance and status directly from this menu. Part of issue #973. PRs #1079 and #1105.
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* The Edit Item dialog has been replaced with a simple Edit Label dialog. Most of the features
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handled by the old dialog have been moved to the Project Tree context menu. PR #1082.
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* The Novel View has been redesigned to match the new Outline View and Project Tree. The header is
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now hidden, and the columns auto-size. The third column can be selected from a set of options, or
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be hidden entirely. A button with a menu can be used to select which Novel folder to show.
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Issue #1041. PR #1084.
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* An arrow icon has been added behind each item in the Novel View. Clicking it, will pop up a
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tooltip showing the collected meta data for the heading the item represents. PR #1088.
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* The Project Details dialog now supports multiple novel folders. Issue #1078. PRs #1130 and #1167.
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* The Split and Merge tools have been rewritten to work with the new feature of allowing documents
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to have child documents. The tools have also had more options added to them. The feature is now
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accessible through the Project Tree item's context menu, and is no longer available from the Main
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Menu. Issues #1072 and #1032. PRs #1148 and #1154.
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**Installation and Packaging**
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* AppImage distribution has been added by @Ryex. Issue #1091. PR #1092.
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**Code Improvements**
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* A new test project generator function has been added to replace the dependency on the New Project
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tools in the app itself. This ensures that changing the in-app feature doesn't affect the entire
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test suite. Over time, this generator function should also replace the minimal sample project
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saved in the test suite. PR #1067.
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* The index class has been rewritten. The index data is now stored in a hierarchy of objects rather
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than a set of nested dictionaries. The `itemIndex` holds all the data collected from the project,
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and the `tagsIndex` is a reverse lookup index for linking tags back to where they are used. The
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reading/writing of the index to disk between sessions is now handled by pack/unpack functions in
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each object. The index will be regenerated when the user first opens a project as it has been
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completely restructured. PR #1074.
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* The index instance is now an instance of the project class, not the main GUI. PR #1074.
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* The Outline View has been restructured into a single parent widget in the same manner as the
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Novel View was in the previous pre-release. Related to #1041. PR #1063.
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* A lot of main GUI objects have been given new names in the code to better represent what they do.
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PR #1081.
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* The converter for the old 1.0 project structure has been simplified. Mostly to reduce the amount
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of code and number of translation labels needed for it. It now produces a single error if
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something went wrong. PR #1083.
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* A number of unused icons have been removed from the code base. PR #1164.
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* All checks for Qt versions below 5.10 have been removed. PR #1174.
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**Not Implemented**
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* An idea to make the indexer run in the global thread pool was not implemented. Issue #1076.
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* Feature #997 is now obsolete due to the changes made to the Edit Item dialog in #1082.
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* Feature #1106 is not implemented. It proposes to hide the option to select Novel folder if there
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is only one. We will see if this is really needed based on user feedback.
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----
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## Version 1.7 Beta 1 [2022-05-17]
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**Note:** The 1.7 release cycle was renamed 2.0 on 2022-10-06. See #1144.
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### Release Notes
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This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please be
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careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent backups.
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Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to the
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final release.
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### Detailed Changelog
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**Features**
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* A simple tool to add Lorem Ipsum placeholder text has been added to the Insert menu. PR #1028.
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* Status and Importance flags can now be reorganised in Project Settings. Issue #1035. PR #1040.
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* It is now possible to create multiple Root Folders of the same kind. This makes it possible to
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add multiple Novel root folders in a project, for instance. Issue #967. PR #1031.
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* All documents can now be dragged and dropped anywhere in the project tree. The document layout
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may be converted in the process. PR #1031.
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* Documents in the project tree can now have other documents as child documents. Issue #1002.
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PR #1047.
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* Folders in the project tree that are not empty, can now be moved to trash. PR #1048.
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* Empty folders are deleted on request, and not moved to trash. Issue #1052. PR #1055.
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**User Interface**
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* The tabs under the project tree and to the right of the main window have been replaced with a
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toolbar on the left hand side. The toolbar has a set of buttons to change view between Project,
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Novel and Outline. The three buttons that were available under the project tree have been moved
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to the bottom of the new toolbar. Issue #1056. PR #1057.
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* When a document changes from a project document to a note, and back again, the Status flag
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setting is preserved. Previously, the Importance setting would overwrite it during the
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conversion. PR #1030.
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* Item labels, Status labels, and other labels on the GUI are now run through a "simplify" function
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before being accepted. This functions strips out all whitespaces and consecutive whitespaces and
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replace them with single plain whitespaces. This is a safer format to store in XML, and also
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makes sure there aren't invisible characters floating around in the labels. PR #1038.
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* Due to the changes to how drag and drop works, there are no longer any restrictions on folders
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and documents. Only root folders remain restricted in terms of moving. Root folders can only be
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reordered with the Move Up and Move Down commands. PR #1047.
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* The label for the highlighting of redundant spaces in the Preferences dialog has been updated to
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better reflect what it does. Issue #1043. PR #1046.
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* The New Project Wizard will now try to check if the path selected for the new project can
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actually be used before letting the user proceed to the next page. Issue #1058. PR #1062.
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**Internationalisation**
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* Dutch translations have been added by Martijn van der Kleijn (@mvdkleijn). PR #1027.
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**Functionality**
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* Documents that are missing in the project index when a project is opened are automatically
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re-indexed. This also handles cases where the cached index is missing. PR #1039.
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**Installation and Packaging**
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* Python 3.6 is no longer supported. PR #1004.
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* Ubuntu 18.04 packages will no longer be released, due to dropping Python 3.6. Issue #1005.
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PR #1014.
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**Project File Format**
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* The item nodes in the content section of the main project XML file have been compacted. It now
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consists of a main item node and meta and a name node. All settings have been made attributes of
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one of these three nodes, except the item label which is the text value of the name node. The
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file format version has been bumped to 1.4. Issue #995. PR #993.
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* Both Importance and Status flag values are now saved to the project file. This means if a
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document changes layout, the value is no longer lost. PR #1030.
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**Code Improvements**
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* The linting settings have been updated to select between mutually exclusive options in
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pycodestyle. PR #1014.
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* The Tokenizer class has been converted to an abstract base class. PR #1026.
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* The class handling Status and Importance flags has been completely rewritten. The flags are now
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handled using a unique random key as reference rather than relying on the text of the label
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itself. This makes it a lot easier to rename them as there is no need to update project items.
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PR #1034.
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* Many of the decisions regarding where items are allowed to belong has been delegated to the
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NWItem class that holds the item. Some is also handled by the NWTree class that holds the project
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tree. A new maintenance function in the NWTree class will also ensure that the meta data of an
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item is correct and up to date. This is especially important after an item has been moved, but is
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also checked when items are initially loaded. PRs #1031 and #1054.
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* Item handles are now generated using the standard library random number generator. The new
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handles have the same format as the old algorithm, so they are compatible. PR #1044.
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## Version 1.6.6 [2022-10-25]
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### Release Notes
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