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PaperRoute Tracker v0.5.0 — Reviewer Response Workflow

Released September 26, 2026. PaperRoute v0.5.0 is the current Stable release. Release certification covered native Windows scaling, theme, and keyboard behavior, clean installation, installed v0.4-to-v0.5 migration, portable backup/restore, the real Preview updater path through v0.5.0-rc.2, and published installer/update/portable asset verification.

PaperRoute v0.5 turns reviewer and editor feedback into a structured revision workflow within the journal submission that received it. Track each request, draft a response, and export an editable response-to-reviewers document without an AI service or online account.

What's new

  • Reviewer Response Matrix — open Reviewer Responses... in Submission Details to add, edit, remove, filter, and reorder comments and actions.
  • Explicit decision and round links — every item belongs to an existing editorial decision in that submission and an explicitly entered positive revision-round number. Multiple reviewers and rounds retain their own labels and associations.
  • Response drafting — record reviewer/editor labels, comments, actions, manuscript locations, working notes, and draft responses. Track Unresolved, In progress, Addressed, and Not applicable states.
  • Editable Markdown export — review and edit a complete response draft before saving it to a file. The export includes item status, working notes, and decision/round context in stored order.
  • Schema 6 persistence — reviewer responses are preserved through manuscript editing, saving, recovery, and portable backup/restore. Referenced editorial decisions cannot be deleted until their response items are reassigned or removed.

Fixes

  • The manuscript shelves clear stale horizontal scroll space after wide-to-narrow resizing, maximize/restore, and card replacement. Vertical scrolling and manuscript-card actions remain available. This completes #37, merged in PR #51.
  • Literal ampersands display correctly in Save & Close, DOI & Crossref Metadata..., the Data menu, the Version History summary, and related help text instead of disappearing (#67, PR #68).

Saving and exporting

Choose Save Comment in the item editor, Save & Close in the matrix, Close in Submission Details, and Save & Close in Manuscript Details to persist the complete workflow. Canceling Manuscript Details discards all its unsaved changes, including accepted matrix edits.

Exporting creates a separate draft; it does not save the matrix, mark items addressed, or record a submission. The export contains the complete matrix regardless of its status filter and includes working notes. Review the preview before sharing it. Preview edits do not change matrix data, and subsequent matrix changes do not update an existing exported file.

Response statuses describe revision work without changing manuscript lifecycle state. A normal revision remains part of the existing journal submission.

Known limitations

  • The Markdown export escapes punctuation conservatively, so the raw file shows backslashes such as p\. 6 that disappear when the Markdown is rendered.
  • When a submission has more than one editorial decision, Add Comment asks you to choose the decision instead of preselecting one.

Compatibility and backup

  • Storage Schema 6 preserves existing manuscript, version, submission, readiness, and packet histories while adding reviewer responses. Migration from Schema 5 validates the library and retains the original data and previous schema marker without inventing feedback or rounds.
  • Create and retain a separate v0.4 portable ZIP backup before upgrading.
  • Restore backups made by v0.5 with v0.5 or later. Older restore code may ignore reviewer-response fields, even though older applications refuse to open a Schema 6 library directly. Return to v0.4 only with the pre-upgrade v0.4 backup.
  • The Excel workbook remains a partial interchange format. Use ZIP backup/restore for the complete workflow, and retain externally linked original files separately.

See the user guide for the workflow and upgrade notes for compatibility details.

The scope is tracked in #27 and the v0.5 milestone. Deadline Center, analytics, and optional AI assistance remain later roadmap work.

PaperRoute remains local-first and licensed under GPL-3.0-only.

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