• 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  • PR #530 — Preview is no longer updated when it is not shown (contributed by rhn in #530).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).

• 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).

performance (#360), fixed crash on Windows when pasting images (#385), support for Python-Markdown 3.0, and updated translations.*

fixed tarball contents.*

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

procedure in setup.py, some crash fixes, and updated translations.*

• It is now possible to install ReText on Windows and macOS using a simple pip install ReText command. This will pull PyQt5 wheels from PyPI, and also download and extract the icons pack needed on this platforms. Setup now also generates a wrapper batch script (this was contributed by Hong-She Liang).
• Added experimental Qt WebEngine renderer, in addition to the existing Qt WebKit one.
• The highlighter got support for reStructuredText links, field lists and for Markdown and reStructuredText code spans.
• The replace option was added to the search toolbar.
• The WebKit and WebEngine previewers can now detect links to local HTML files and open the corresponding source files in new tab if those are found.
• The table mode is now able to insert inter-cell line breaks and new rows, when Return and Shift-Return are pressed (respectively).
• ReText can now automatically detect files encoding when chardet module is present (contributed by Hong-She Liang).
• A configuration option for automatically opening last files was added (contributed by Hong-She Liang).
• A configuration option for hiding the tabs bar when there is only one tab was added.

startup on Plasma and adding some new translations.*

making auto-save work again.*

• The live preview now automatically scrolls to match its position with the editor (only for Markdown).
• Markup conversion is now performed in a background process, improving responsiveness of the editor.
• Images can now be copied and pasted into ReText (contributed by Bart Clephas).
• Added a button to quickly close the search bar.
• Added basic CSS styling for tables.
• Replaced the tags box with the new “Formatting” box for Markdown (contributed by Donato Marrazzo).
• Hitting return twice now ends the Markdown list.
• ReText now depends on version 2.0 or higher of pymarkups.
• The QtWebKit dependency is now optional (though still recommended).

• Tabs are now reorderable.
• All colors used in editor and highlighter are now configurable via the configuration file.
• Links referencing other source files are now opened in ReText as new tabs (feature contributed by Jan Korte).
• Code refactoring: some code moved to the new tab.py module, and some old hacks dropped.
• The ReText logo is now installed to the data directory.
• Appstream metadata updated to a newer format.
• The desktop file no longer hardcodes the executable path (fix contributed by Buo-Ren Lin).

• ReText now tries to load the icon theme from system settings if Qt cannot auto-detect it.
• Added a GUI option to change the editor font.
• Added appdata file for appstream.

• Editor now displays cursor position in bottom-right corner.
• Added FakeVim mode (contributed by Lukas Holecek).
• ReText now shows a notification when the file was modified by another application, to prevent data loss.
• WebPages generator removed (as better alternatives exist).
• Plain text mode removed.
• Added ability to configure file extensions for Markdown and reStructuredText.

• Table editing mode.
• New settings: colorSchemeFile and uiLanguage.
• More settings are now configurable from GUI.
• Code base simplification and modernization.
• Dropped support for Qt 4.
• Added testsuite.

• Added configuration dialog.
• Added current line highlighting and line numbers support.
• Added support for PyQt5 and PySide libraries.
• Use new signals/slots syntax.
• Added option to select file encoding.
• Dropped support for Python 2 and support for running without WebKit installed.

• Switch to pymarkups backend.
• Switch to Python 3 by default.
• Split retext.py to smaller files.
• MathJax support.
• Tab now inserts 4 spaces by default.
• Automatic indentation of new lines.
• External links are now opened in a web browser by default.
• Support for per-document CSS stylesheets.

• Spell checker suggestions.
• Markup-specific highlighting.
• Re-written parser and document-type logic.
• Lots of code clean-up.

• Python 3 support.
• Improved highlighter.
• Export extensions.
• Recent files menu.
• Spell checking improvements.
• Shortcuts for formatting.
• WebKit engine improvements.

• Ability to use QtWebKit.
• Splitter between edit and preview boxes.
• Support for opening several files via command-line.
• Support for GData 3 API and replacing existing document in Google Docs.
• Help page.

• Support for reStructuredText, with a GUI option to switch between Markdown and reStructuredText.
• Text search.
• Global CSS file support.
• File auto-save support.
• WpGen 0.4, also with reST support.
• Getting title from ReST title or Markdown metadata.
• Changed the default extension for Markdown to .mkd.
• New “About” dialog.

• Added spell checker based on enchant.
• Added fullscreen mode.

• First stable release.
• Add “Select default font” option.
• Use HTML input when Markdown is not loaded.
• Add Ctrl+Shift+E sequence for Live preview.

• Add “Show folder”, “Markdown syntax examples” actions.
• Start even if Python-Markdown is not installed.
• Do not highlight quotes outside the tags.
• Save plain text documents with *.txt format.

• Tabs support.
• GUI for WpGen.
• Launching preview on Ctrl+E shortcut.

• First public beta release.