v26.2.2

saga-soft/novelWriterv26.2.2Oct 11, 2026by vkbo

Upgrading?

Key Highlights

  • Fixed control characters (like null) that were breaking DOCX and ODT exports.
  • Fixed a bug where the paragraph following a horizontal ruler was incorrectly indented.
  • Downgraded bundled Remix Icons to version 4.8, the last version under the Apache 2.0 license.
  • Updated French translation.

Full Release Notes

### Release Notes

This is a patch release that fixes control characters in the text breaking manuscript exports, and paragraphs following a horizontal ruler in the manuscript being indented. The bundled Remix Icons have also been downgraded to the last version available under the Apache 2.0 licence. The French translation has been updated.

See the website for complete [Release Notes](https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_26_2.html).

### Detailed Changelog

**Bugfixes**

* Fixed a bug where control characters, like null characters, could enter the text and break the DOCX and ODT manuscript formats. Such characters are now stripped when documents are loaded, pasted, dropped or imported into the editor, and when text is extracted from it. By @vkbo. Issue #3038. PR #3039.
* Fixed a bug where the paragraph following a horizontal ruler in the manuscript was indented. It now behaves like it does for other separators. By @vkbo. Issue #3074. PR #3076.

**Improvements**

* Titles with line breaks in The Manuscript tool's outline tab no longer shows as multiple lines, but shows a line break symbol instead. PR #3078.

**Other Changes**

* Downgraded the bundled Remix Icons to version 4.8, the last version released under the Apache 2.0 licence. By @vkbo. Issue #3052. PR #3054.

**Internationalisation**

* French translation updated by aaribaud. PR #3077.

### Downloads

Debian and Wheel packages are no longer added to the GitHub release. They can be downloaded from:

* Debian/Ubuntu/Mint: https://broadcasts.cloudsmith.com/saga-soft/stable
* Wheel: https://pypi.org/project/novelWriter

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