v1.0.0-rc1

New features

• Name is now QutePad
• Now available as AppImage for Linux
• Proper about/info page

Fixes

• Version was not shown when using --version argument

Other

• Built with Qt 6.12.0
• Version string now contains build year and week of the year

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v1.0.0-rc1

v0.8.0 Final features before 1.0 status

New features

• Single instance application
  • Launching another instance now activates the window of previously running instance
  • Files given as arguments open as new tabs, if there was an instance already running
• Command line switches for different ways for launch (compatible with NotePad++)
  • Multi instance mode that opens a new instance every time --multiInst or -multiInst
  • No session mode that opens without any tabs and does not save opened tabs --nosession or -nosession

Fixes

• First file given as cmd argument was ignored
• File load status was not shown when reloading a file

Other

• Editor is now focused when launching the app
• Persisted settings are now versioned and migrated to next application versions
• Some under the hood improvements and refactoring

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

v0.7.0 Closing on 1.0 status

New features

• Font style selection
• Replace functionality for search
• Dark mode now user selectable
• MS fluent icons

Other

• Various GUI adjustments and improvements
• Various minor bug fixes

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0

v0.6.0 More basic features

New features

• Drag and drop to open new tabs
• Reload current file from disk
• Ctrl + mouse wheel zooming
• Statusbar with document stats and cursor position
• Tab tooltip displays full path
• Support different end of line characters in opened and saved files
• Support dark mode (selected by OS setting)

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

v0.5.0 Big files speedup and UI responsiveness upgrade

This release focuses primarily on improving large file support. Opening large files will now keep the UI responsive and the loading of a large file into the application is optimized to be much faster overall. Other features such as searching is also much improved for large files.

This release also includes new binary type "static". It includes all the Qt libraries inside the executable thus making the whole application just a single exe file. It still requires MSVC runtime installed on your system. The "non static" zip contains Qt libraries as the official dlls as built by Qt company.

New features

• Highlight all search results occurrences
• Display count of search results

v0.4.0 Basic features

New features

• Application icon
• Open files via command line arguments
• Display file modified state
• Persist open tabs as a session (not including unsaved changes)
• Persist some settings like font zoom size
• Add file suffix when saving
• Detect encoding and BOM when opening
• Preserve encoding and BOM when saving
• Find next and previous

Known issues

• Slow with large files

v0.3.0 Tabbed interface

New features

• Tabs
• Resize font

v0.2.0 First release

First release with non-tabbed interface and limited features.