ReText Changelog

What's new in ReText 8.0.2

Mar 18, 2024
  • 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).

New in ReText 8.0.1 (May 29, 2023)

  • 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 UPDATES:
  • 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).

New in ReText 8.0.0 (Jul 28, 2022)

  • 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).

New in ReText 7.2.3 (Feb 4, 2022)

  • 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).

New in ReText 7.2.2 (Feb 4, 2022)

  • 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).

New in ReText 7.2.1 (Nov 11, 2021)

  • 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).