Version 26.1 RC 1

[vkbo]

Release Notes

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 take frequent backups.

Note: There are no longer any Mac releases produced for novelWriter. See #2618.

Detailed Changelog

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the editor and viewer header no longer changed colour when losing or gaining focus. Issue NPathColorLabel does not register the colour change on change of focus #2716. PR Fix path label focus colour change #2717.
• Fixed the project list tooltip on the Welcome dialog. Issue Welcome dialog project tooltip shows internal data #2714. PR Fix welcome dialog item model #2715.
• Fixed the size of spin boxes on config forms. Issue Spin boxes too small on Windows #2703. PR Add spin box fixed size settings #2711.

Features

• A new setting in Preferences allows for the usage of single asterisks for bold formatting. Enabling this setting does not disable double asterisk bold. Issue Allow single asterisk for bold #2718. PR Add setting for single-asterisk bold #2719.

User Interface

• Adjusted some colours of icons in several themes to bring them visually in line with the rest of the theme. Contributed by @HeyMyian. PR Adjusting the [Icon] colors #2712.

Internationalisation

• Updated translation strings. PRs Update translations #2721 and Update i18n for 26.1 RC 1 #2722.
• Updated Dutch translation by @risingphoenix73. PRs Update translations #2721 and Update i18n for 26.1 RC 1 #2722.
• Updated US English and Norwegian translation by @vkbo. PRs Update translations #2721 and Update i18n for 26.1 RC 1 #2722.

Other Changes

• GUI font emphasis is now handled by the theme class, and bold text on the GUI has been reduced in weight to semibold. Issue Font style after Qt 6.11 upgrade #2709. PR Improve font handling for Qt 6.11 #2710.

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This discussion was created from the release Version 26.1 RC 1.

[risingphoenix73]

when I open the same file the next day, I get a warning saying this file is already open in another instance of novelWriter. Started happening when using the RC1and the Dutch version.

[risingphoenix73]

I did find an old sync file in the novelwriter folder hidden as a dot file. Going to delete it and see if this might have been the issue with the extra checks. Will get back to you.

[vkbo]

There have been issues in the past when sync tools have written files and folders in the project folder and not allowed novelWriter to inspect them. The app scans everything in the project folder when the project is opened, so if it doesn't have access, it sometimes fails. I made changes to this logic in 26.1 so that it handles access issues better, but there is only so much the app can do when this happens.

I do want to change the default project format to a single file format, which will help to avoid these kind of issues. The project being a folder hierarchy has caused a number of issues over the years. It is nice for people who use diff tools and version control though, so I plan to keep the project folder structure as an option.

[risingphoenix73]

Found two zip file backups of novelwriter dating from the end of last year. Removed those. No lock file in the project folder. Novelwriter started without warning.
Made a new Backup to see if the issue returns.

[vkbo]

The backups were inside the project folder?

Regular backup projects in a central project folder are ignored by novelWriter. It doesn't scan them or look them up. A restore from backup would involve extracting such a zip file manually.

[risingphoenix73]

The backups were in a seperate backup folder in my home directory. It might have been the sync file from freefilesync which was in the novelWritet folder.