ReText 8.0.2

• Improvements and bugs fixed:
  • Fixed synchronized scrolling for zoom factors other than 1 (contributed by @Griffon26).
  • Stopped passing .desktop suffix to setDesktopFileName() (contributed by @cjmayo in #633).
  • Issue #98 — Made mdx_posmap not break indented code blocks which use pymdownx.superfences extension.
  • Issue #637 — Fixed crash when clicking on line information area.
• Translations updated:
  • Basque (contributed by Aitor Salaberria).
  • German (contributed by cosmic_snow).
  • Korean (contributed by Minpa Lee).
  • Ukrainian (contributed by Oleksandr Tsvirkun).

Full Changelog: 8.0.1...8.0.2

ReText 8.0.1

• Bugs fixed:
  • Issue #594 — Fix opening files in existing window by relative path.
  • Issue #597 — Fix unreachable text at the bottom of the file.
  • Issue #599 — Fix truncating file when new text cannot be encoded with
    the selected encoding.
  • Issue #604 — Allow WebEngine renderer to load iframes such as YouTube
    embeds.
  • Issue #609 — Fix incorrect font size with WebEngine renderer.
  • Issue #620 — LICENSE_GPL file now has text of GPL v2.
• Translations updated:
  • Dutch (contributed by Heimen Stoffels).
  • French (contributed by uGwA0XP3cm2w).
  • Italian (contributed by Alessandro Melillo).
  • Norwegian (Bokmål) (new, contributed by Sverre Våbenø).
  • Persian (contributed by Hadi F and Arya Younesi).
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (contributed by Rodrigo Zimmermann).
  • Spanish (contributed by Antonio Villamarin).
  • Turkish (contributed by Serkan ÖNDER).

ReText 8.0.0

• Dependency changes:
  • ReText is now using Qt 6 and PyQt6.
  • PyQt6-WebEngine is required for JavaScript support.
  • WebKit is no longer supported.
• Improvements and bugs fixed:
  • PR #543 — Added Apply button to Preferences dialog (contributed by Amos Kong).
  • Issue #384 — Save button is now enabled in auto-save mode.
  • Issue #536 — Support spell checking for multiple languages.
  • Issue #555 — Support setting bold font for editor.
  • Issue #581 — Added backtick key to surround keys.
  • Run-time resources are now installed into package directory.
  • setup.py now allows building wheels.
• Translations updated:
  • Polish (contributed by Maciej Haudek).
  • Spanish (contributed by Pedro Torcatt).
  • Turkish (contributed by Serkan ÖNDER in #556).

ReText 7.2.3

• Fixed TypeError crash with Python 3.10 and Qt WebKit (#573, #574).
• Translations updated:
  • Chinese (China) (contributed by liulitchi).
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (contributed by Igor Garcia and Christiano Morais).
  • Slovak (contributed by Jose Riha).

ReText 7.2.2

• Fixed bad Spanish translation causing a crash (#552).
• Fixed TypeError: index 0 has type 'float' but 'int' is expected with Python 3.10.
• Fixed RuntimeError: ffi_prep_cif_var failed in XSettings code (Debian #996168).

ReText 7.2.1

• Improved support for dark Qt themes (#255, #492).
• Fixed preview jumping to top during MathJax rendering (#222 (comment)).
• Fixed QTextBrowser-based preview jumping (#544).
• Fixed opening files with spaces from QTextBrowser-based preview (#548).
• Use defaultCodec setting by default when saving files (#549).
• Correctly detect encoding for UTF-8 files with BOM (#549).

Please also upgrade to pymarkups 3.1.1 to get dark theme and synchronized scrolling support for reStructuredText.

ReText 7.2.0

• Dependency changes:
  • Python ≥ 3.6 is now required.
  • Qt and PyQt ≥ 5.11 are now required.
• General improvements:
  • Added ability to show a side panel with directory tree (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #531).
  • Added support for searching in the preview mode.
  • When some text is selected and a quote, bracket or emphasis key is pressed, the text is surrounded rather than replaced (contributed by Daniel Venturini in #520).
  • Added an option to fully highlight wrapped lines (contributed by nihillum in #523).
  • Improved current line highlighting for right-to-left text layout.
  • Ordered list behavior can now be configured to repeat or increment the list item number (contributed by Binokkio in #527).
  • Added mnemonics to open the menus from keyboard (contributed by David Hebbeker in #528).
  • Added Apply button to the Preferences dialog (contributed by Amos Kong in #543).
  • Removed use of deprecated Python, Python-Markdown, Qt and PyQt API.
• Bugs fixed:
  • Issue #507 — Improved the error message when trying to build ReText as a wheel package.
  • Issue #529 — Markup that intersects with code blocks is no longer highlighted.
  • PR #530 — Preview is no longer updated when it is not shown (contributed by rhn in #530).
  • Issue #533 — Fixed showing local images with Qt WebEngine 5.15.
• Translations updated:
  • Arabic (contributed by ZamanOof).
  • Chinese (China) (contributed by liulitchi).
  • Dutch (contributed by Heimen Stoffels).
  • Japanese (contributed by YAMADA Shinichirou).
  • Persian (contributed by Hadi F).
  • Polish (contributed by Maciej Haudek).
  • Russian.
  • Spanish (contributed by Félix Fischer).
  • Swedish (contributed by Philip Andersen).

ReText 7.1.0

• General improvements:
  • New files are now opened in new tabs by default, not new windows (contributed by Daniele Scasciafratte in #476). This can be disabled using openFilesInExistingWindow configuration option.
  • Preferences dialog improvements: it now uses tabs; added a link to configuration file (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #327); clicking on checkbox label now changes checkbox state.
  • Return key now automatically continues quote blocks and ordered lists (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #298 and #326).
  • It is now possible to close the current tab with Ctrl+W (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #283).
  • Ctrl+wheel on editor now increases/decreases font size (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #328). Ctrl+wheel in preview zooms in/out (#400).
  • Alt+Up/Down arrow now moves the current line up/down (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #337).
  • Added “Jump to Line” feature, with Ctrl+G shortcut (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #382).
  • Table mode improvements (contributed by Maurice van der Pot).
  • “Paste Image” moved to a separate action, with Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut.
  • Added “Insert table” dialog (contributed by Changhee Kim in #431).
  • Clicking a link to nonexistent file now prompts the user to create it (contributed by red-kite in #436 and Xavier Gouchet in #459).
  • Added a menu action to insert images from filesystem (contributed by Daniel Venturini in #500).
• New options added:
  • relativeLineNumbers — count line numbers as relative to the current line (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #270).
  • documentStatsEnabled — show text statistics in the lower left corner of the editor (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #268 and #338).
  • rightMarginWrap — soft-wrap text at user specified margin line (contributed by Oğuzhan Öğreden in #313).
  • paperSize — set the default paper size for print or PDF export (contributed by mray271 in #335).
  • recentDocumentsCount — number of recent files to show in the menu (contributed by red-kite in #407).
  • windowTitleFullPath — show full path in window title (contributed by red-kite in #429).
  • defaultPreviewState — mode for new tabs: editor, normal-preview or live-preview (contributed by red-kite in #435). It replaces the old livePreviewByDefault option.
  • wideCursor — make cursor as wide as characters.
• Bugs fixed:
  • Issue #252 — Limit max-width of images to 100%.
  • Issue #267 — setup.py now installs retext.svg icon.
  • Issues #281, #469 — Autofill current filename for PDF export and Save As dialogs (the Save As part contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #474).
  • Issue #291 — Make sure search result does not overlap with stats/info areas.
  • Issue #301 — Made the Markdown include extension working.
  • PR #315 — Fixed handling multi-line rows in reStructuredText tables in table mode (contributed by R1dO).
  • Issue #346 — Ctrl+F now focuses the search field, not closes the search bar. To close the search bar, now the Escape key can be used.
  • Issue #378 — Ensure that cursor is visible after resizes.
  • Issue #397 — Only check whether .css file exists on initial page load.
  • Issue #399 — Try to load libGL.so.1 before creating QApplication.
  • Issue #408 — Fix printing with dark themes.
  • Issue #409 — Make the WebKit renderer use disk cache.
  • PRs #411, #417, #426, #494 — AppData file improvements (contributed by scx).
  • Issue #441 — Files reloading no longer triggers tab change.
  • Issue #445 — Implemented PDF export for the WebEngine renderer.
  • Issue #451 — Make the synchronized scroll implementation not break the pymdownx.highlight extension.
  • Issues #452, #497, #499 — Prevent pip from building wheels, as that results in broken desktop files.
  • Issues #467, #488 — WebEngine renderer broken with new Qt versions.
  • Issue #468 — Include the stylesheet in exported HTML.
  • Issue #479 — Display * in tab title when document is modified and unsaved (contributed by Xavier Gouchet in #480).
  • Issue #487 — Added a workaround for missing icons in Ubuntu 19.10 Yaru theme.
  • PR #496 — Enable HiDPI icons (contributed by Guo Yunhe).
• Translations updated:
  • Chinese (China) (contributed by liulitchi and the Chinese team).
  • Czech (contributed by David Kolibáč).
  • Danish (contributed by scootergrisen).
  • Dutch (contributed by Heimen Stoffels).
  • Finnish (contributed by elguitar).
  • German (contributed by Oliver A. Gubler in #370, Carsten Beck).
  • Italian (contributed by Alessandro Menti).
  • Korean (contributed by MukKim in #415).
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (contributed by EdemarSantos).
  • Portuguese (European) (contributed by Ricardo Simões in #278).
  • Russian (contributed by Vladislav Glinsky, Виктор Ерухин).
  • Serbian (contributed by Slobodan Simić).
  • Spanish (contributed by Félix Fischer, Fito JB).
  • Swedish (contributed by Philip Andersen).
  • Ukrainian (contributed by Vladislav Glinsky).

ReText 7.0.4

• Improved editor performance (#360).
• Fixed crash on Windows when pasting images (#385).
• Added support for Python-Markdown 3.x.
• Updated translations.

ReText 7.0.2

• Fixed issues with installation (#324, #363, #365).
• Fixed synchronized scrolling breaking code blocks highlighting (#299).
• Improved emoji support (#357, #368).
• Fixed some lines disappearing after opening files (#345).