TeXstudio Changelog

What's new in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Beta 2

Apr 28, 2024

Small updates

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Beta 1 (Apr 22, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Alpha 7 (Apr 18, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Alpha 6 (Apr 17, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Alpha 5 (Apr 16, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Alpha 4 (Apr 15, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Alpha 3 (Apr 2, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Alpha 2 (Mar 29, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.8.0 Alpha 1 (Mar 29, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.3 Beta 1 (Feb 12, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.2 (Feb 6, 2024)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.1 (Dec 18, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.1 RC 1 (Dec 4, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.0 (Dec 4, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.0 RC 3 (Nov 27, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.0 RC 2 (Nov 20, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.0 Beta 2 (Nov 12, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.0 Beta 1 (Nov 12, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.0 Alpha 5 (Nov 7, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.7.0 Alpha 4 (Oct 26, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.6.3 (Sep 26, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.6.3 Beta 1 (Jul 31, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.6.2 (Jul 30, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.6.1 (Jul 30, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.6.0 (Jul 30, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.5.2 (May 16, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.5.2 RC 2 (Apr 10, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.5.1 (Apr 2, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.5.1 Beta 6 (Jan 23, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.5.1 Beta 5 (Jan 20, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.5.1 Beta 4 (Jan 19, 2023)

New in TeXstudio 4.4.1 (Nov 28, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.4.0 (Nov 28, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.4.0 Beta 5 (Nov 7, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.4.0 Beta 4 (Nov 4, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.4.0 Beta 3 (Nov 1, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.4.0 Beta 2 (Oct 30, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.3.1 (Aug 29, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.3.0 Alpha 1 (May 29, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.2.3 (May 29, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.2.3 RC 1 (Apr 15, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.2.2 (Apr 15, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.2.2 Beta 1 (Feb 15, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.2.1 (Feb 15, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.2.0 (Jan 9, 2022)

New in TeXstudio 4.1.2 (Dec 8, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 4.1.1 (Nov 21, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 4.1.0 (Nov 21, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 4.0.4 (Nov 7, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 4.0.3 (Oct 31, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 4.0.2 (Oct 24, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 4.0.1 (Oct 12, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 4.0.0 (Oct 12, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 3.1.2 (Jun 17, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 3.1.1 (Feb 23, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 3.1.0 (Feb 18, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 3.0.4 (Jan 4, 2021)

New in TeXstudio 3.0.3 (Dec 29, 2020)

New in TeXstudio 3.0.2 (Dec 28, 2020)

New in TeXstudio 3.0.1 (Sep 2, 2020)

New in TeXstudio 3.0.0 (Sep 2, 2020)

New in TeXstudio 2.12.22 (Apr 27, 2020)

New in TeXstudio 2.12.14 (Dec 12, 2018)

New in TeXstudio 2.12.12 (Dec 12, 2018)

New in TeXstudio 2.12.10 (Jul 7, 2018)

New in TeXstudio 2.12.6 (Jul 26, 2017)

use Breeze window theme on KDE Plasma 5 (thanks to Alexander Wilms)
support single-finger panning gesture on most config dialog components
support single-finger panning touch gesture on log viewer
pdf viewer scroll tool: support single-finger panning gesture
center width-constrained documents in the editor (optional)
add document tab context menu entries "Close" and "Close All Other Documents"
improved layout of config build page
add system check for language tool
change search defaults to case-insensitive (feature-requests#1254)
tags for beamer
change preview default to embedded pdf
handle preview failures more gracefully, i.e. no warning pop-ups
repect preview settings (panel,etc) also for hover preview
show hover preview as tooltip in case of inline-mode
warn if compiler commands are actually a command list
several improvements to the latex parser
notify that a restart is required when switching between modern and classic style
improved LanguageTool communication: better error handling
add reset to default button for some LT settings
add 200ms delay before showing auto-hidden viewer toolbar to prevent flicker
eye candy for pdf circular magnifier (adapted code from texworks)
show pdf highlight in magnifier
capslock does not close completer any more
alternative approach for determine directories from complete texts
use cache for previews
auto open completer when starting to type in references, packages etc.
scripting: editor.cutBuffer
subframetitle in structure view
enable inputMethod (e.g. ^) in completer
change default for complete non-text chacters to off, as it tends to cause unexpected behaviour
fix word separation with punctuation
fix: remove incorrect warning "Unknown magic comment" for "% !TeX TS-program = "
fix: avoid compile fail if magic comment program is spelled wrongly
fix: duplicate lines in autogenerated cwl files
fix multi line argument interpretation
fix pdfviewer in enlarged mode
fix editing of basic shortcuts
fix number in length keyVals
fix flickering in structure view
fix crash with qimage cache
fix crash when restoring centralVSplitterState (bug 2175)
fix highlighting of current entry in structure
fix Open Terminal not working on windows QTBUG-57687 (bug 2178)
fix column detection for tabu/longtabu

New in TeXstudio 2.12.4 (Mar 28, 2017)

New in TeXstudio 2.12.2 (Jan 25, 2017)

New in TeXstudio 2.12.0 (Jan 8, 2017)

improved user interface: optimized layout, some new icons, some changes of color
warn if file-saving fails
cwl-based highlighting of todo-like commands
partly support todo commands spanning multiple lines (starting line is considered for highlighting and structure entry)
partly support highlighting of multi-line titles: first line is highlighted
move cursor to context in line when clicking on log entry
add "Move all to other view" to editor tabs context menu
add shortcut Ctrl+Alt+X to open the current pdf in the external viewer
open the annotation dialog by double-clicking on an annotation in the list
indicate LanguageTool server in tooltip
indicate cursor RTL state in status bar
build commands can be edited in non-advanced mode
auto user commands on single argument math commands e.g. overbrace{abc}
support input of PGF/TikZ files in graphics wizard
support fix �GIN_FOLD in .rnw files
improved highlighting for pweave and sweave
improved tooltips on structure entries
improved text completion: support compound words, apostrophe, subscript in braces, words with underscores
Parenthesis -> Select Inner/Outer work also when the cursor is not next to a parenthesis but inside
don't clear highlights of search in pdf after timeout
revert to pre 2.11.0 save method on windows because the new QSaveFile has problems with Dropbox folders
option to disable safe writing of files (using QSaveFile) non-Windows only
option to disable showing logfile/error list in case of compile errors
option to deactivate all reactions to external file changes
option to control the triple click behavior
additional shortcuts with Tab, Backspace, Del in shortcut options
portable version does now store all settings in a subfolder "config"
improved automatic handling of hg version information (relevant when building from source tar)
improved handling of cwl dublets
use Ctrl+Space for completion on OS X (was Cmd+Space which conflicts with Spotlight search)
deprecate command line option --ini-file FILE in favor of --config DIR
deprecate command line option --master in favor of --root
remove View -> Align Windows (obsolete because of the embedded viewer)
remove old toolbox style of side panel
fix crash (newenv without any arguments)
fix freeze when parsing incorrect texorpdfstring with incorrect arguments (bug 1948)
fix label detection in glossaries.cwl (bug 1963)
fix: automatically run bibliography if there is no bbl file
fix: "Close last open environment" works now also for environments opened on the same line (bug 1957)
fix: hg version comparision assumed 'larger' if the version could not be determined
fix: do not lose focus to editor for "Find in PDF"
fix grammar check on words in text arguments
fix addchap/addpart entries not recognized as structure elements
fix incorrect double-click and drag behavior (bug 1936)
fix issues with not-updated bookmarks (bug 1950)
fix math hover preview in subfile
fix "Tab or Indent Selection"
fix detection of MikTeX 64bit
fix build with phonon
improved some cwl files

New in TeXstudio 2.11.2 (Sep 26, 2016)

major performance speedup, in case some default section commands were not defined in any used package
speed up pasting into large documents (factor 100x)
add comment toggle
use flow layout for search/replace panel
improved bracket detection for todo highlighting (bug 1789)
improved parsing of section titles (bug 1817)
added shorter auto-save intervals (1 min, 2 min)
detection of user-local installation of MikTeX
cwl-format: suffix %plain disables possible semantics associated with an argument name
cwl-format: suffix %labeldef for definition of labels
cwl-format: %suffix notation takes precedence over detection by argument name
cwl-format: allow 'key' to be used in label if #l is set
replace babel german by ngerman in presentation wizard
highlight cursorEnums in script
fix crash on qt4 if update check is sucessful
fix: make insertion of tabs work with cursor mirrors (bug 1788)
fix: verbatim setting for verb|abc| (bug 1795)
fix: update of save icon after SaveAll (bug 1808)
fix: dictionaries in extracted .oxt files not recognized (bug 1804)
fix: replace with regexp containing lookahead (bug 1779)
fix: keep indentation when using the graphics wizard (1816)
fix: quote replacement on formerly hidden child documents (1827)
fix: do not interpret double backslash within braces as column end in tabular environment (bug 1831)
fix: show a warning if file could not be saved
fix: correctly handle optional arguments in command definitions
fix: handling of let arguments
fix: spellchecking of words with apostrophe
fix: visibility of option for system theme icons on Linux
fix: scripting: cursor.movePostition(n, Left/Right) across empty lines and beyond end of file
fix: running scripts from the macro window
fix: mixture of zoom and scroll on ctrl+mouse wheel (bug 1847)
fix: scrreprt detection
fix: editor font rendering in case of UI scaling (note: this fix is partial and does currently only apply if Options -> Advanced Editor -> Disable Line Cache is chosen)
fix: argument scanning when option contain key/val pairs
fix: editor hiding when updating a windowed pdf viewer which was enlarged
before changing to windowed mode (Bug #1876)
updated some cwl files

New in TeXstudio 2.11.2 Dev (Aug 25, 2016)

major performance speedup, in case some default section commands were not defined in any used package
speed up pasting into large documents (factor 100x)
add comment toggle
use flow layout for search/replace panel
improved bracket detection for todo highlighting (bug 1789)
improved parsing of section titles (bug 1817)
added shorter auto-save intervals (1 min, 2 min)
detection of user-local installation of MikTeX
cwl-format: suffix %plain disables possible semantics associated with an argument name
cwl-format: suffix %labeldef for definition of labels
cwl-format: %suffix notation takes precedence over detection by argument name
cwl-format: allow 'key' to be used in label if #l is set
replace babel german by ngerman in presentation wizard
highlight cursorEnums in script
fix crash on qt4 if update check is sucessful
fix: make insertion of tabs work with cursor mirrors (bug 1788)
fix: verbatim setting for verb|abc| (bug 1795)
fix: update of save icon after SaveAll (bug 1808)
fix: dictionaries in extracted .oxt files not recognized (bug 1804)
fix: replace with regexp containing lookahead (bug 1779)
fix: keep indentation when using the graphics wizard (1816)
fix: quote replacement on formerly hidden child documents (1827)
fix: do not interpret double backslash within braces as column end in tabular environment (bug 1831)
fix: show a warning if file could not be saved
fix: correctly handle optional arguments in command definitions
fix: handling of let arguments
fix: spellchecking of words with apostrophe
fix: visibility of option for system theme icons on Linux
fix: scripting: cursor.movePostition(n, Left/Right) across empty lines and beyond end of file
fix: running scripts from the macro window
fix: mixture of zoom and scroll on ctrl+mouse wheel (bug 1847)
fix: scrreprt detection
fix: editor font rendering in case of UI scaling (note: this fix is partial and does currently only apply if Options -> Advanced Editor -> Disable Line Cache is chosen)
fix: argument scanning when option contain key/val pairs
fix: editor hiding when updating a windowed pdf viewer which was enlarged
before changing to windowed mode (Bug #1876)
updated some cwl files

New in TeXstudio 2.11.0 (May 30, 2016)

support two editors next to each other
new tabular wizard
support multi-line commands
add scrollbar marks for search and bookmarks
add command option --no-session
add manual to mac OS X app bundle data
improve table manipulation of tabu/longtabu
select words by doubleclick + hold + mousemove
restructure cwl search paths to settings/completion/user :/completion settings/completion/autogenerated
safer way of obtaining the PATH on OS X
add option for image tooltip
do not show explicit hyphens in section titles of the structure view
do not parse for structure in non-LaTeX-like languages
make preview work with \input in preamble (files get rewritten to absolute paths for the temporary compilation)
use QSaveFile for file saving instead of our custom file saving strategy if available (Qt5 only)
eneable left/right shortcuts for embedded viewer
remove multiple default values for latexmk (fixes bug 1694)
support environment variables in additional search paths
support [txs-app-dir] and [txs-settings-dir] in additional search paths for log and pdf
add statusbar icon for LanguageTool
make LanguageTool arguments configurable
add align cursor mirrors options
make pasting into cursor mirrors a single undo block
do not remove cursor mirrors on undo
select text of current item in Packages Help to allow easier overwriting (feature request 1063)
select search/replace texts when switchting there using Tab / Backtab (feature request 1064)
added optional workingDirectory argument to script function system()
added editor->insertSnippet() to scripting environment
added option to choose log encoding
make icons greyscale for viewer sync buttons if they are not activated
added a table template
added some elements to math/latex menus
unix: allow defining a datadir different from PREFIX/share
add the option to use system hunspell and quazip
add images to windows installer
document advanced code snippet properties in the manual
don't show dialog for creating a file if it could not be opened but exists
use Freedesktop Icon Naming Specification for standard icons
add qt5 autodetection to BUILD.sh
fix duplicated line endings for larger files (chunked loading)
fix: windows environment variables may contain brackets: PROGRAMFILES(X86)
fix env closing with $,$$,etc.
fix: go to PDF for temporarily compiled documents
fix finding root document when explicit root doc is set
fix spell check when word ends with point
fix argument detection: optional arguments may appear after mandatory ones
fix: correctly generate environment definition from \newenvironment in case of a default argument
fix crash in keyVal syntax check when the document was deleted in the meantime
fix: clear replace highlights when search term is changed
fix: cancel in marco dialog (bug 1662)
fixed interpretation of % !BIB program = ... (bug 1667)
fix AltGr+F not typing [ on Croatian keyboard
fix cursor jumping to end of file when trying to jump from a non-matched bracket (bug 1668)
fix pasting columns over an existing selection (bug 1726)
fix broken language triggers (bug 1735)
fix quote replacements
fix line breaks for cursor mirrors
fix auto paren completion for cursor mirrors
fix line operations to work with cursor mirrors
fix sychronize text of placeholder mirror when inserting an environment on a selection (Ctrl+E)
fix font in pdf viewer status bar did not scale
fix loading of badword lists
fix LanguageTool startup
fix overlapping in unicodeinsert on osx
fix: pinyin input of punctuation (bug 1770)
fix: retain spaces when sending text to LanguageTool
fix: don't translate Ctrl+Alt+Left as the translation breaks the shortcut
several updates to cwl files
update poppler for windows to 0.39.0
improved generation of label texts

New in TeXstudio 2.10.8 (May 30, 2016)

New in TeXstudio 2.10.6 (Jan 11, 2016)

New in TeXstudio 2.10.4 (Oct 28, 2015)

New in TeXstudio 2.10.2 (Sep 25, 2015)

New in TeXstudio 2.10.0 (Sep 25, 2015)

new and improved LaTeX parser, the last command argument can now span over several lines
change: consolidated default shortcuts of tools
rename "master document" -> "explicit root document" and clean up switching logic
generalized TODO comment detection: any multiple-capital-letter word is recognized as todo-style comment (e.g. "% FIXME", "% ASK")
improved search results window
search and replace for labels
viewer does now support gestures: pinch to zoom, tap to "Go to source"
added: Tools -> Open Terminal
added an option filter to the config dialog
CSV export for text analysis
open password protected pdfs
support Inkscape .pdf_tex files
check for proper LaTeX configuration at startup (currently only pdflatex)
improved cursor mirror selections: allow multiple, disjoint rectangular blocks, single mirrors can be removed
support usage of environment variables in commands
remember visibility of toolbar and annotation panel in PDF viewer
add option Editor -> Replace Tabs in Text by Spaces
added Options -> Restore Default Settings
context menu items to open/close all files of a project
user-visible list of hidden documents
added --foreground and --no-foreground options to pdf viewer
make format for magicComment editable in Options -> Highlighting
added line operation "Delete from start of line", more constent naming of line operations, adaption for OSX default shortcuts
improved support for output redirection of commands
support shell-style literal quotes (\") in commands
new selection actions "Expand Selection to Word", "Expand Selection to Line"
send country code to languagetool
added (?not-highlighted-as:...) scope for macro trigger
new function for scripting: simulateKeyPress()
automatic LRTRTL language/keyboard layout switching
more fine-grained options for checkin after save
more standard behavior for F3 (Find Next instead of Continue Find)
paste image data from clipboard (e.g. screenshot)
automatic keyboard layout switching depending on context
show \frametitle in structure view
mark changed files in structure view
improved UI scaling
improved path detection on OS X
improved highlighting for user scripts
improved insertion of \item
improved double/triple-click-and-drag selection for words/lines
temporary highlight target text of go to definition
update checker respects system proxy configuration
checks and warnings for dictionary import
filter out Ctrl+Alt+... shortcuts definitions for some keyboard locales on windows if the shortcut would overwrite a regular character shortcut
remember changed highlighting for recent files
change: double-clicking on a command now also selects the leading backslash (configurable in the options)
fix: comment definition for sweave format
fix: possible crash in text width calculation
fix: detection of log files for filenames containing dots
fix: comment insertion for Sweave/Rweave
fix: eraseLine() left an empty line if the final line was included in the selection
fix: empty context menu entry for word repetitions
fix: detection of some CJK characters when wrapping
fix: don't show structure commands without arguments in the structure outline
fix: ampersands were not highlighted if followed by a non-space char
fix: bug that commands may become empty after editing
fix: assignment of some standard backspace shortcuts on OS X
fix: allow normal format in highlighted-as trigger
fix: missing auto-completion for $ when the following text already contains \( $
fix: incorrect error message when trying to access miktex texdoc in case MIKTEX_VIEW_* environment variables are set
fix: bug in filename detection of inverse search fix: Fit to Textwidth had a horizontal offset in some cases
fix: some size issues with editor zoom
fix: comment shortcut for asymptote and lua files
update: documentation
update: LaTeX reference manual (May 2015)
update: windows libraries of poppler to 0.32.0
added/updated a number of cwl files
added spanish dictionary

New in TeXstudio 2.9.4 (Mar 24, 2015)

New in TeXstudio 2.9.2 (Mar 23, 2015)

New in TeXstudio 2.9.0 (Mar 3, 2015)

link overlays for urls
close editor tab by pressing middle mouse button
more standard shortcuts (in particular for OS X)
support optional filename argument in txs:///view-pdf-internal
add "expand/collapse all documents" to context menu of structure
add tabulary support
open correct log file if output filenames are changed due to "%& job-name=targetfile" (note: changed pdf filename not yet supported)
user-defined icons are now portable: if possible icon paths are stored relative to settings dir or application dir
windowed pdf viewer now supports --no-focus argument
improved detection of label name for "Insert \ref to Next Label"
improved context detection for preview (multi-line math, cursor inside multi-char delimiter)
improved search for texdoc location
improved log parsing including support for LaTeX3 warnings and errors
resize with soft line warp: keep vertical cursor position constant
support .tikz files (treated like .tex files)
new options: Advanced Editor -> Structure Panel ("Show elements in comments", Mark structure elements beyond \end{document}" and "Mark structure elements in appendix")
new option: mouse wheel zoom also controls the log editor (patch by Paulo Silva)
new option: encoding of bib files
new options: some GUI elements are now scalable (for better hi-res display support)
some cleanup in the options dialog
fix: maintain expansion of the Structure View in more situations
fix: caseSensistivity for global search
fix: sync scrolling in enlarged embedded pdf viewer
fix: interpretation of % !BIB program = biber
fix: fit to text width in multi-page grid of pdf viewer
fix: unsaved documents could create false entries when saving a session
- fix: forgotten editor shortcuts
fix: linecache on retina display
fix: on OSX: the dictionary default is path relative to app
fix: compilation on freebsd /patch by Abilio)
fix: display user command icon (patch by Paulo Silva)
fix: svn auto-checkin was not executed after some types of save operations
fix: link-click on bib file also searches in additionalBibPaths
fix: some sections were incorrectly marked as "beyond end of document"
fix: crash when file is removed and silent reload is activated
fix: failed "! TeX encoding" detection due to bug in line end detection
fix: ignore hyph_*.dic files when looking for hunspell dictionaries
fix: trigger ?load-file for files opened with the session at startup
fix: update encoding in status bar when a % !TeX encoding = ... magic comment is typed
fix: issue with opening some template zip files by updating QuaZip to 0.7.1
fix: parsing of synctex file with nested sheets
fix: crash when undoing insertion of magic comments
fix: make symbol grid visible on dark-themed desktops
fix: handle multiple existing assignments when checking the change of a shortcut
fix: broken folding of �GIN_FOLD if the special math-close-comment %$ was sed in the folded area- fix: incorrect wrapping if chinese punctuation characters are on the line
completer is disabled in overwrite mode (because it does not work correctly while overwriting)
removed: case insensitive completion (due to complexity/performance issues)