v8.2.8

saga-soft/novelWriterv8.2.8Jun 30, 2026by willmcgugan

AI Summary

A patch release focusing on stability fixes for keyboard input processing and UI interactions, including new keyboard shortcuts for text editing.

Key Highlights

Fixed parsing of Kitty extended keys with multiple codepoints
Fixed crash bug that occurred when clicking in the Screen's padding area
Added super+backspace as an alias for ctrl+u in Input and TextArea
Added alt+backspace (option+backspace on Mac) functionality for ctrl+backspace

New Features

super+backspace alias for ctrl+u
alt+backspace behavior matching ctrl+backspace

Full Release Notes

Fixes for extended key processing, and a crash bug for clicking the screen padding area.

## [8.2.8] - 2026-06-30

### Fixed

- Fixed parsing Kitty extended keys with multiple codepoints https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6592
- Fixed crash when clicking in the Screen's padding https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6598

### Changed

- super+backspace is now an alias for ctrl+u in Input and TextArea https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6594
- alt+backspace (option+backspace on Mac) has the same effect as ctrl+backspace in Input and TextArea https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6593