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# novelWriter Changelog
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## Version 2.2 RC 1 [2023-11-26]
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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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### Detailed Changelog
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**Bugfixes**
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* Revert the change of keyboard shortcut to delete a project tree item made in 2.2 Beta 1 as it
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blocks certain features in the editor. This is a regression. PR 1616.
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**Features**
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* The old References panel under the Document Viewer has been replaced with a completely new widget
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with a lot more features. The Back-references panel is still there, but is now a scrollable list
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with a lot more information. In addition, tabs for each category of tags are available when there
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are tags defined for them. These panels list all available tags, with a good deal of information
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about them that may be useful to the writer, as well as buttons to open them in the viewer or
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editor. Issues #925 and #998. PR #1606.
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* Multi-select is now possible in the project tree, with some limitations. Drag and drop is only
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permitted if the selected items have the same parent item. Any other drag and drop selection will
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be cancelled and the user notified. A new context menu has been added for the case when multiple
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items are selected, with a reduced set of options that can be collectively applied to them.
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Issues #1549 and #1592. PR #1612.
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* The "Scroll Past End" setting in Preferences has been added back in. It is slightly different
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than the old one, as this one uses the Qt Plain Text Editor implementation, which has some side
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effects some users may want to avoid. Issue #1602. PR #1605.
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* For Windows users, there is now an "Add Dictionaries" tool in the Tools menu where new spell
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check dictionaries can be added. Links are provided to sources for these dictionaries, and a file
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selector tool to import the files into novelWriter. Issue #982. PR #1610.
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* You can now update the name of a document by right-clicking on any heading inside the document
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and select "Set as Document Name". This will open the Rename dialog with the text of the heading
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pre-filled. Issue #1503. PR #1614.
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* A new special comment, called "Short" can be added to Project Notes. They are identical to
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Synopsis comments, and are in fact just an alias for them. The "Short Description" will be
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displayed alongside the tags in the new panel under the Document Viewer. Issues #1617 and #1621.
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PRs #1617, #1619 and #1622.
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**Usability**
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* The feature to auto select word under cursor no longer uses the default Qt implementation, and
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has instead been implemented by iterating backward and forward in the text to find the nearest
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word boundaries. It will stop on characters that aren't Unicode alphanumeric as per Python's
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definition. Toggling markup will also move the cursor to after the markup if it was already at
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the end of the word. Otherwise it remains within the word at the same position. The word is not
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selected after formatting if it wasn't selected before. If no selection was made, and no word is
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auto selected, the formatting tags are inserted in-place with the cursor in the middle.
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Issues #1333 and #1598. PR #1600.
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* The auto complete context menu is now only triggered on actual user input consisting of adding or
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removing a single character. PR #1601.
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* Various improvements to the visibility of the cursor when the dimensions of the editor changes
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have been added. Like for instance keeping the cursor visible when opening or closing the Viewer
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panel, or toggling Focus Mode. Issues #1302 and #1478. PR #1608.
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* The Manuscript Build dialog now has a button to open the output folder. Issue #1554. PR #1613.
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**Code Improvements**
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* Improve test coverage. PR #1607.
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## Version 2.2 Beta 1 [2023-11-11]
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### Release Notes

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<h2>Release Notes for 2.2 Beta 1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 11 November 2023</i></p>
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<h2>Release Notes for 2.2 RC 1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 26 November 2023</i></p>
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<p>This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please
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be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to
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the final release.</p>

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<novelWriterXML appVersion="2.2-rc1" hexVersion="0x020200c1" fileVersion="1.5" fileRevision="1" timeStamp="2023-11-23 20:44:38">
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<project id="e2be99af-f9bf-4403-857a-c3d1ac25abea" saveCount="1612" autoCount="255" editTime="81197">
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<novelWriterXML appVersion="2.2-rc1" hexVersion="0x020200c1" fileVersion="1.5" fileRevision="1" timeStamp="2023-11-26 14:25:29">
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<project id="e2be99af-f9bf-4403-857a-c3d1ac25abea" saveCount="1615" autoCount="255" editTime="81229">
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<name>Sample Project</name>
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<title>Sample Project</title>
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<author>Jane Smith</author>
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<name status="sf24ce6" import="ia857f0" active="yes">Chapter One</name>
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<item handle="636b6aa9b697b" parent="6a2d6d5f4f401" root="7031beac91f75" order="0" type="FILE" class="NOVEL" layout="DOCUMENT">
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<name status="s90e6c9" import="ia857f0" active="yes">Making a Scene</name>
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