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Windows
4 patches available
TeXworks is free and open-source application software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is a Qt-based graphical user interface to the TeX typesetting system and its LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX extensions. TeXworks is targeted at direct generation of PDF output.
TeXworks Version 0.6.10.0
Release Date
2/14/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

TeXworks 0.6.10$$$$$$New features and improvements:$$$Add first support for PDF 2.0 /Info metadata$$$Include ConTeXt style scripts$$$Add a macOS arm build$$$$$$Changes:$$$Prevent file corruption when saving is interrupted$$$Enhance configuration for ConTeXt$$$Use --synctex=repeat for ConTeXt (Luatex) synctex$$$Dont set the line height if its not necessary to work around a Qt 6 bug$$$Refactor and modernize parts of the code$$$Update the libraries for the pre-built binaries$$$$$$Fixes:$$$Display all spellchecking languages in the preferences dialog$$$Fix selection of a language alias in the spellcheck menu$$$Fix focus when switching to a PDF from the Windows menu$$$Ensure the input field in the find/replace dialog is initially focused$$$Fix overescaping of $$$ in Copy to Find$$$Fix Wayland appId
TeXworks Version 0.6.9.0
Release Date
2/12/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

New features and improvements:$$$$$$Add support for PDF layers$$$Add support for --insert-text and --insert-cite command line options$$$Enable customization of which columns are shown in the Insert Citations... dialog$$$Enable customization of the default citation command used by the Insert Citations... dialog$$$Add dtx tag patterns$$$Improve command line parsing$$$Changes:$$$$$$Improve the message to the mailing list template text$$$Update translations$$$Refactor and modernize parts of the code$$$Update the libraries for the pre-built binaries$$$Fixes:$$$$$$Fix the limited range of possible guideline positions$$$Fix handling of existing \cite commands when using the Insert Citations... dialog$$$Fix searching in the PDF preview$$$Fix selecting text in the PDF preview$$$Fix potentially garbled unicode output in the console window$$$Libraries for pre-built binaries:$$$$$$Windows = 10: Qt 6.6.1; Hunspell 1.7.2; Poppler 24.01.0; poppler-data 0.4.12; SyncTeX 1.21; Lua 5.4.4$$$macOS = 11: Qt 6.5.3; Hunspell 1.7.2; Poppler 24.01.0; poppler-data 0.4.12; SyncTeX 1.21; Lua 5.4.6$$$AppImage (glibc = 2.28): Qt 6.5.3; Hunspell 1.7.2; Poppler 24.01.0; poppler-data 0.4.9; SyncTeX 1.21; Lua 5.3.3$$$Legacy Windows = 7: Qt 5.15.12; Hunspell 1.7.2; Poppler 24.01.0; poppler-data 0.4.12; SyncTeX 1.21; Lua 5.4.4$$$Legacy macOS = 10.13: Qt 5.15.2; Hunspell 1.7.2; Poppler 21.12.0; poppler-data 0.4.12; SyncTeX 1.21; Lua 5.4.6$$$
TeXworks Version 0.6.8.0
Release Date
2/18/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

New features and improvements:$$$$$$Make the maximum RAM usage of the PDF previewer configurable (and reduce the default to 256 MiB)$$$Enable typesetting from preview if no source is open$$$Make the PDF paper color configurable$$$Add AppImage support$$$Changes:$$$$$$Speed up populating the recently opened files menu (particularly when containing files on slow network drives)$$$Disable the typesetting button in the preview if no source is available$$$Update translations$$$Refactor and modernize parts of the code$$$Update the libraries for the pre-built binaries$$$Fixes:$$$$$$Fix crash when closing a source opened after the preview$$$Fix crash when killing a typesetting process by closing the source window$$$Fix several memory leaks$$$Fix the PDF preview of files that are in the process of being changed (e.g.; during typesetting)$$$Fix focusing of the console when typesetting from the preview$$$Fix (potential) non-sequential ordering of PDF search results$$$Fix repeated PDF searches with the same search string but different search flags$$$Fix blocking UI while performing long PDF searches$$$Fix PDF search result highlighting disappearing too quickly$$$Fix the display of PDF search results in single page view$$$Fix typesetting with symlinked root files$$$Fix quotation of paths in the TEXEDIT & MIKTEX_EDITOR environment variables$$$Pre-select the ruler unit in the Edit guideline dialog$$$Fix saving with arbitrary extensions on Windows$$$Fix displaying embedded jpg images on macOS$$$Fix the look and feel on macOS with Qt6
TeXworks Version 0.6.7.0
Release Date
2/26/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

New features and improvements:$$$$$$Add a ruler with draggable guidelines to the PDF previewer$$$Improve preservation of Unicode characters during loading/saving$$$Prevent concurrent typesetting in multi-file sources$$$Disable Remove Aux Files during typesetting$$$Add full paths as tool tips in the Open Recent menu$$$Use native separators (/ or \) in the recent files menu$$$Add Fit to Content Width to the PDF preview zoom context menu and to the scaling preferences$$$Improve support for dark themes (changing the syntax highlighting color palette; fixing the color of the current line when changing OS color schemes; fixing the background color of the screen calibration widget for dark themes)$$$Improve interoperability with docstrip by adding support for%^^A ! TeX... magic comments$$$Bug fixes:$$$$$$Fix crash when using the PDF preview zoom context menu$$$Fix search results for unsaved .tex documents$$$Fix line spacing when (re-)loading a document$$$Fix hang when recent files are on (inaccessible) network drives$$$Fix bugs when populating the recent files menu$$$Fix focus when switching windows from the Windows menu$$$Fix filtering in the citation select dialog$$$Fix parsing BiBTeX @STRING entries$$$Fix toggling of items in the Remove Aux Files dialog$$$Fix quotes smartening after \$$$Fix display of ScreenCalibrationWidget on macOS$$$Misc:$$$$$$Update translations$$$Update libraries for pre-built binaries$$$Modernize and restructure the code to improve quality; stability; maintainability; and the possibilities for future enhancements$$$Improve automatic building; testing; and packaging$$$Automatically build pre-compiled binaries for macOS = 10.12 and = 10.15$$$Improve the look and feel of the pre-compiled macOS binaries$$$Improve texworks.appdata.xml$$$Add Keywords to texworks.desktop
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