Bug Fixes and Resolved Issues

• Allow Creating/Deleting Keywords with double Enter [4626]
• Keyword color chips missing [4625]
• Inorrect capitalization for $R and $r placeholder tags in TOC [4619]
• Icons missing from items in Templates folder [4618]
• Searching for all keywords with "*" returns all documents without keywords. [4617]
• Project search does not find keywords after reload [4616]
• New popover style for inspector comments and footnotes [1435]
• Front & Back Matter act as though locked [3963]
• "Treat compile group as complete manuscript" setting does not appear functional [3921]
• Drag document icons from Quick Search results [2651]
• Some toolbar controls are disabled inside the Compile > Section Layout editor [4614]
• Find should return results within comments and footnotes [1619]
• Copy/Paste does not preserve paragraph formatting [4615]
• RegEx backreference replaces all captured text with first instance [4485]
• Text editing shortcuts disabled or inconsistent in comments [4607]
• Project will not be auto-saved if indexes are dropped from another projects [4606]
• Files imported as shortcuts should copy as shortcuts [4563]
• Allow limited navigation in webpages must be continually reset [4604]
• Add Data-Detection Options to Options > Corrections [3549]
• Snapshot refinements [1815]
• Loading Web Pages in Scrivener [2326]
• Clicking on links in web view should send clicks to browser [3772]
• Option to open non-group items in other editor is missing [3655]
• Cannot Replace All smart quotes searching with straight [782]
• Search operators failing with straight quote [4291]
• New from Template in Binder is broken for folders [4603]
• Missing vcruntime140_1.dll inside the Qt 5.15.0 x64 installation [4602]
• Multi-line Scrivenings titles scroll invisibly [3116]
• Broken ToolBar Background colors when using Themes [4599]
• Comment popups not appearing in Composition Mode [4600]
• Bookmarks Preview area loads PDF and other files as plain text [4601]
• Installer fuzzy with display scaling enabled [2485]
• Sample document imports with black highlighting [2176]
• Use of shortcut to open in other editor flips split orientation [4166]
• Alt+Right-Click to access custom icon menu also opens split [4470]
• KindleGen log file option does not produce log file [3943]
• Linking Without Linking [4597]
• Table submenu disabled in context menu when multiple cells selected [4518]
• Option to open comments in inspector if possible does not fully work [4595]
• Comments do not load in composition mode after switching docs [4594]
• Default comment text not preselected in all creation methods [4593]
• Composition mode flickers and returns to main window [4592]
• Insert menu button disables after switching documents [4591]
• Options - left-pane can't be resized [4587]
• Info Messages have jagged rounded corners [4585]
• Confusing keyboard navigation in Document Target panel [4583]
• Deleting all contents of word count fields should set to zero [4582]
• UI: Project Targets letter clipped [4580]
• Default Type by Structure highlighting offsets levels by 1 [4577]
• Document target footer icon inconsistent for groups [4574]
• Rapid toggling of composition mode crashes Scrivener [4572]
• UI: Footer divider missing for unsupported file types [4571]
• Cannot open second project via File Explorer or Task Bar [4570]
• Attempt to launch second instance gives project error message [4569]
• HiDPI: Webpages only load in top half of editor [4568]
• HiDPI: vertical padding around format bar [4567]
• Download web images on paste (including https) [4566]
• Drag and drop in custom metadata lists can lose items [4511]
• CRASH - Importing / pasting websites with svg [4492]
• Fountain import does not strip out unnecessary empty lines [4397]
• images inserted into the editor as linked to disk have wrong size [4343]
• Select inline annotation or footnote is offset [4316]
• Modification of section layout checkboxes reverts tab data [4186]
• Remove All Revisions inserts a sequence of commands into undo stack [3673]
• Annotation bubble disappears when "Do not color" option ticked [3177]
• Add per-section numbering to stacked corkboard [3173]
• View Page Source on webpages no longer works [3016]
• Annotation and inline footnote include following empty lines [2779]
• Drag and drop to Quick Reference and Bookmark toolbar icons [2652]
• Long bookmark titles overlap [2550]
• Comments lost when inspector locked to other editor [2500]
• Add View\Corkboard Options\Layout menu [2428]
• Special folders should not open in Quick Reference [2381]
• Comments in Quick Reference windows [2350]
• SUGGESTION: Allow .fountain external bookmarks to preview as .txt [2325]
• Back/Forward in Other Editor History shouldn't change active editor [1334]
• Convert web page to text nonfunctional [796]
• Snapshot Manager missing Compare options [3551]
• Implement multiple selection of snapshots within the Snapshot Mgr & Inspector [1908]
• Implement Regex Carriage return & Newline (\r & \n) find capability thoroughout
• Fix TOC and end of page footnotes in PDF printing
• Disabled menu text is blurry in Themes
• Binder show/hide children icon not visible when selected in Themes

We are aware of one bug (listed below) that can hang Scrivener, and zero bugs that cause data loss, so if you are aware of any other bugs that can hang Scrivener, or cause data loss, please let us know. The hanging bug we know about is:

• Merging cells in table can crash under certain conditions and

If you would like to try a HiDPI version of RC8 you can download it here

The HiDPI version is the same Scrivener code, but compiled with the latest Qt 5.15 C++ framework that is supposed to better address Microsoft Windows scaling.

We'd especially appreciate feedback on how this works for those of you who have found certain dialogs (such as compile and options) too large with your screen's display scaling. The high-DPI updates have made significant improvements in our testing, and we're hoping you see the same!

Release Candidate 8 expires 15th Aug 2020.

These release notes are also available on our website at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=57