5.3.1

• Add ability to disable autosave
• Add a settings file that allows settings to persist
• Fix the correct bash not being used in ./configure and ./autogen.sh scripts used during build (does not affect binary users)

5.3.0(2)

• macOS recompile that fixes codesigning
• Go to 5.3.0 to download other binaries

5.3.0

Features

• Integrated spell checking
  • Added full spell-checking support using dynamic language-based dictionaries.
  • Misspelled words can now be corrected directly from the editor.
  • Added a confirmation dialog to prevent potentially unsafe or unwanted text from being inserted; user can review before insertion.
• Markdown syntax highlighting
  • Added highlighting support for Markdown files.
• Improved menu organization
  • Introduced a new Search menu to reduce clutter in the Edit menu.
  • Moved spelling tools into the Tools menu where they belong.
  • Added an Options header above settings in the Tools menu.
• UI and usability improvements
  • Automatic cursor color adjustment to maintain visibility against different highlights.
  • Organize menu functions & use labeled separators for larger menus
  • Status bar indicator now appears when the sidebar is hidden.
  • Line number indicator now automatically hides when text size becomes excessively large (>15 pts) and moves indicator to top bar.

Bugfixes and Optimizations

• Fixed keyboard shortcuts not working correctly on macOS sometimes.
• Fix macOS not showing program as an option to open files with in Finder
• Fixed handling when attempting to open a file that does not exist.
• Prevented invalid font sizes (zero or negative values), which may cause undefined behaviour.
• Ensured preferences and logs are always written in UTF-8, which fixes inconsistencies in OS default encodings.
• Ensures that Find dialog clears highlights when closed via its WM close button, not just the Close button
• Updated build tooling dependencies such as Python and Nuitka.
• Organize codebase and split code into multiple files for performance (loading a single flat file slows down the interpreter when that file grows too large)

5.3.0 Release Candidate 4

• Finalizes UI design
• This Release Candidate does not provide binaries.

5.3.0 Release Candidate 3

• Organizes the menu bar functions into a less cluttered layout
• This Release Candidate does not provide binaries

5.3.0 Release Candidate 2

• Some small optimizations and changes that do not affect user
• Add a Options header over the settings in the Tools menu
• This Release Candidate is going to have some random binaries, but please note that not all release platforms are guaranteed to be put here, and some other non-release platforms will not get binaries in the final release even if they get binaries here

5.3.0 Release Candidate 1

Fixes

• Use platform.system() rather than os.uname() because os.uname() is not universal (in font selector)
• Fix copyright

This release is a candidate for stable release, and so will not provide binaries unless it becomes the next stable release.

5.3.0 Beta 6

Fixes

• Fix long-running bug where font size can go to negative, making the whole editor act unexpectedly
• Move the size indicator to the top bar and hide the sidebar when the text editor grows too big

New

• Bump Nuitka to 2.8.10 for macOS builds
• Add markdown syntax highlighting
• Force all preferences & logs to also use UTF-8, forcing them all to be consistent and not in random formats that cause errors when loading program
• Add an approval dialog to spellcheck so that checked text can be edited so no nonsense is edited out before being inserted into the editor

This release is a beta release and therefore does not provide binaries of any kind.

5.3.0 Beta 5

New

• Add spell checking functions

Fixes

• Fix all known random stale variable references

This release is a beta release and therefore does not provide binaries of any kind.

5.3.0 Beta 4

New

• Use a custom Info.plist on macOS to allow users to open any plain text files

Fixes

• Call executable properly and finally stop relying on current working directory that app is launched from
• Use Popen to stop app from freezing at all (even if for a second or so) when launching new editors
• Handle all exceptions where nonexistent files are opened

Notes

• The 3rd beta was skipped because I forgot to tag it (sorry).
• This release is a beta release and therefore does not provide binaries of any kind.