v0.1.5

What's Changed

0.1.5 (November 15, 2026)

Vitaena on Linux

• Install it on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch and others from a .deb, .rpm or Arch
  package, or run the AppImage on any distribution from 2024 or later.
• The AppImage updates itself. With a package, Vitaena tells you a new version is out and
  links to it.

Six new templates

• Professional: a bold name, contact icons and a round photo, with skills and projects
  in a side column.
• Academic: dates in the margin and publications as a numbered list, for a full research
  and teaching record.
• Executive, Bold, Timeline and Sidebar: centred and formal, a band of colour across the
  top, jobs along a timeline, and a full-height coloured column.
• Each template says whether it suits a resume, an academic CV or either.
• Modern's side column has more room around its edges.

Photos and levels

• Add a photo. Templates that suit one show it, and Show on the CV hides it without
  removing it.
• Show a level beside languages or skills: turn on Show levels in a group and click the
  dots, in half steps if you like. The word beside it, such as Native, fills in for you.
• Draw levels as dots, a bar or squares from Style, or leave it to the template.

A roomier editor

• Content and Check sit on the left, the page in the middle, and Design on the right, with
  its own Templates and Style tabs.
• Every template shows your own CV, or an example while yours is still empty.
• Template pictures appear quickly, with a placeholder while they're drawn, and the page
  you're editing always comes first.

A new Home

• Your recent CVs come first, then ways to start, including any template, then every CV
  with a search.
• See all, beside Recent, opens the page of every CV.

Screening systems

• Two-column templates have a Two columns or One column (ATS) switch above the page.
• Check's warning about columns turns on ATS mode in one click, and Check tells you when a
  level has no word a screening system can read.
• Export offers a one-column PDF for online forms beside the usual one, without changing
  your design.

Export

• One Export button opens a menu of every format, with a line on what each is for.
• Export a Vitaena file, to move a CV to another computer or keep a copy.

0.1.0 (November 15, 2026)

Vitaena is now a desktop app

• Your CV is laid out as real pages while you type, and the PDF you export is exactly what
  the preview shows, however many pages it runs to.
• Everything stays on your computer. No account, no cloud and no tracking.

Write it your way

• Drag sections, jobs, bullets and skills into the order you want, or move them with
  Alt+Up and Alt+Down.
• Pick months from a calendar, type skills as chips, and press Enter for the next bullet.
• Make words bold or italic with Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I, and add links.
• Keep a detail but leave it off the page with Show on the CV.

Make it look right

• Four templates: Classic, Modern, Minimal and Compact, each shown with your own CV.
• Five fonts, any colour, and your choice of text size, margins, spacing and paper.

Send it with confidence

• Check shows what a screening system reads from your PDF, with plain advice on what
  might trip it up.
• Export a PDF in one click, or a Word file or plain text for forms that ask for them.
• Open a CV you exported from the old web version of Vitaena and carry on.

New Contributors

• @AHS12 made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AHS12/vitaena/commits/v0.1.5