hammer-editor/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[3.7.2] - 2026-7-27

[Improve]

• Translations updated for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), and Ukrainian
• Web: faster page loads and accessibility fixes across hammer.ink
• Web: Redesign home page

[Server operators]

• Official Docker image for self-hosting the sync server

[3.7.1] - 2026-7-23

• Fix Mac app store metadata

[3.7.0] - 2026-7-21

[New]

• Encyclopedia: search by #tag, combined with name search
• Desktop: Ctrl+Q closes the app from the project selection window
• Crash reports now include the full stack trace in the exported logs (Android, Desktop, and iOS)

[Improve]

• Server connections are now HTTPS-only. If you sync with a self-hosted server over plain HTTP, it must be put behind HTTPS before upgrading.
• Web: story reader pages load faster and link previews now show a proper title, description, and image when shared
• Web: sitemap and search engine discovery for public stories
• Web: reader stats no longer count bounces as reads
• Web: optional Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages, with a two-tier footer

[Fix]

• Web: error when saving your bio
• Client: Text editor crash

[Server operators]

• Optional Terms of Service acceptance gate on account creation
• Whitelist invites can be given an expiry date
• Configurable disk cache directory
• Configurable extra navigation links

[3.6.1] - 2026-7-12

• [New] Re-added translations
• [New] iOS can now export logs
• [Fix] Encyclopedia image selection
• [Fix] Focus mode UI padding on Desktop

[3.6.0] - 2026-7-7

[New]

• Ideas: capture ideas for new stories
• Project Tags: tag your projects and filter the project list by tag
• "Move To" dialog for moving a scene to an exact spot [Improve]
• Writing activity reliability improvements
• More reliable sync with automatic self-healing when data gets out of step [Fix]
• Crash when importing an image on iOS
• Crash on some Linux systems
• Notes could revert to an older version during sync

[3.5.3] - 2026-6-30

• [Fix] Several sync protocol bugs
• [Fix] Spellcheck not respecting disable setting

[3.5.2] - 2026-6-29

• [Fix] More hang on start when upgrading older clients
• [Fix] iOS crash on start
• [Fix] Restore hover values in Project home dashboard

[3.5.1] - 2026-6-27

• [Fix] Hang on start when upgrading older clients
• [Fix] Crash when deleting a scene

[3.5.0] - 2026-6-27

• [New] Import existing stories (from Markdown or RTF) from the new-project flow
• [New] New export format: RTF
• [New] Draft compare: Paragraph move highlighting
• [Fix] Editor undo/redo getting broken by formatting
• [Fix] Timeline reordering events snapping back into place
• [Fix] Breaking change: Sync API URLs now only use project IDs
• Security hardening: sync auth tokens encrypted at rest, file write sandboxing, max image size enforced

[3.4.2] - 2026-6-23

• [Fix] Server security hardening

[3.4.1] - 2026-6-23

• [Fix] Server session token hmac fix

[3.4.0] - 2026-6-22

• [New] Shortcuts: Ctrl+W (close project), Ctrl+Q (quit), Ctrl+Alt+S (save all)
• [Fix] Markdown import maps heading levels to scene/group hierarchy
• [Fix] Warn before discarding unsaved timeline edits on close
• [Fix] Backups missing from Manage Backups
• [Fix] Spell-check crash
• [Fix] scene-tree flicker and performance
• [Fix] Allow Windows reserved names in scene/group titles
• [New] Server: Improved cryptography key management
• [Fix] Server: Reworked project URLs to fix 404s

[3.3.1] - 2026-6-16

[New/Client] Added more text editor keyboard shortcuts (bold, italic and strikethrough, and more) [New/Server] Active Users metric on the monitoring dashboard [New/Server] Per-story reader counter and unique active-users metrics [Improve/Server] Monitoring dashboard distinguishes client-fault from server-fault errors [Fix/Server] Error-rate metric now includes exception-driven errors [Fix/Server] Dashboard time buckets now roll over correctly [Fix/Web] Editorial review character escaping [Fix/Web] Mobile nav drawer rendering beneath page content

[3.3.0] - 2026-6-13

• [New/Web] New Feature: Request editor review
• [New/Client] Added .docx export format
• [New/Sync] Faster syncing with many projects
• [Fix] Improved PDF export
• [Fix] Many many iOS bugs
• [Fix] Timeline drag-to-reorder
• [New/Client] Removed Timeline sorting
• [Fix] Rich text editor bugs

[3.2.1] - 2026-6-10

• [Fix] several iOS crashes
• [Fix] Sync error where scenes always conflicted with them selves
• [Fix] Sync server now allows a client to reclaim it's token
• [Improve] Desktop/iOS can now select their spell check language

[3.2.0] - 2026-6-8

• Added PDF export option
• Re-enabled public-storage of projects on F-Droid builds
• Improved text input: Dead Key keyboards now supported on desktop
• Server admin panel now includes a monitoring dashboard
• Fixed notifications/toasts not appearing on Android
• Fixed a crash when opening projects with older saved data
• Refactored Domain layer to improve testability
• Performance improvements for the Scene Tree

[3.1.3] - 2026-6-4

• EPUB export! Now with a Table of Contents and custom file naming
• Visualdiffs when comparing drafts and merging sync conflicts
• Distraction-free editing: phones hide everything but the editor while typing
• New desktop splash screen
• Timeline Z-A sort option
• More reliable sync error handling
• Faster Linux AppImage delta updates
• Fix: Spellcheck disabling
• Fix: Sync re-ID error
• Updated translations
• Server: Migrate DB to Postgres
• Server: Optional analytics

[3.1.2] - 2026-6-3

• EPUB export! Now with a Table of Contents and custom file naming
• Visualdiffs when comparing drafts and merging sync conflicts
• Distraction-free editing: phones hide everything but the editor while typing
• New desktop splash screen
• Timeline Z-A sort option
• More reliable sync error handling
• Faster Linux AppImage delta updates
• Fix: Spellcheck disabling
• Fix: Sync re-ID error
• Updated translations
• Server: Migrate DB to Postgres
• Server: Optional analytics

[3.1.1] - 2026-6-2

• EPUB export! Now with a Table of Contents and custom file naming
• Visualdiffs when comparing drafts and merging sync conflicts
• Distraction-free editing: phones hide everything but the editor while typing
• New desktop splash screen
• Timeline Z-A sort option
• More reliable sync error handling
• Faster Linux AppImage delta updates
• Fix: Spellcheck disabling
• Crash fixes
• Updated translations
• Server: Migrate DB to Postgres
• Server: Optional analytics

[3.1.0] - 2026-6-1

• EPUB export! Now with a Table of Contents and custom file naming
• Visualdiffs when comparing drafts and merging sync conflicts
• Distraction-free editing: phones hide everything but the editor while typing
• New desktop splash screen
• Timeline Z-A sort option
• More reliable sync error handling
• Faster Linux AppImage delta updates
• Fix: Spellcheck disabling
• Crash fixes
• Updated translations
• Server: Migrate DB to Postgres
• Server: Optional analytics

[3.0.3] - 2026-5-17

• Complete UI redesign!
• Global Search: Ctrl + Shift + F
• Tags on everything! Help organize your notes, scenes, and more
• Connections: Scenes now understand what Encylopedia entries are related to them
• Writing Activity Tracker: Keep motivate to keep writing!
• New Android widgets
• Rich Text support in Notes, Encylopedia, and Timeline
• Rewritten android text input
• Made stats interactive
• Fixed short cuts
• Microsoft store fixes
• Crash fixes

[3.0.2] - 2026-5-15

• Complete UI redesign!
• Global Search: Ctrl + Shift + F
• Tags on everything! Help organize your notes, scenes, and more
• Connections: Scenes now understand what Encylopedia entries are related to them
• Writing Activity Tracker: Keep motivate to keep writing!
• New Android widgets
• Rich Text support in Notes, Encylopedia, and Timeline
• Rewritten android text input
• Made stats interactive
• Fixed short cuts
• Microsoft store fixes

[3.0.1] - 2026-5-14

• Complete UI redesign!
• Global Search: Ctrl + Shift + F
• Tags on everything! Help organize your notes, scenes, and more
• Connections: Scenes now understand what Encylopedia entries are related to them
• Writing Activity Tracker: Keep motivate to keep writing!
• New Android widgets
• Rich Text support in Notes, Encylopedia, and Timeline
• Rewritten android text input
• Made stats interactive
• Fixed short cuts

[3.0.0] - 2026-5-14

• Complete UI redesign!
• Global Search: Ctrl + Shift + F
• Tags on everything! Help organize your notes, scenes, and more
• Connections: Scenes now understand what Encylopedia entries are related to them
• Writing Activity Tracker: Keep motivate to keep writing!
• New Android widgets
• Rich Text support in Notes, Encylopedia, and Timeline
• Rewritten android text input

[2.2.0] - 2026-4-26

• Global Search across your entire story, with filters by entity type
• Text Editor improvements
• Import Story from file
• Export Options dialog with configurable export settings
• Focus Mode is now a fullscreen overlay, giving more writing space
• More project statistics
• Android: logs are now saved to disk and shareable as a zip
• Fixed encyclopedia entries not showing tags
• Fixed long project names hiding the menu
• Smoother dialog animations

[2.1.4] - 2026-2-7

• Fix more Android input issues

[2.1.3] - 2026-1-24

• Working on Flathub release

[2.1.2] - 2026-1-17

• Working on Flathub release

[2.1.1] - 2026-1-15

• Flathub release

[2.1.0] - 2026-1-13

• Implemented Scene Archiving, never delete a scene again if you don't want!
• Improved mobile touch text selection
• Fixed several crashes
• Improved Client side error messages from networking
• Improved Server Setup error handling
• Sever Admin UI improvements
• Added confirmation dialog when discarding scene buffer
• Syncing protocol improvments: Self Healing on scheme changes

[2.0.1] - 2026-1-11

Hammer is out of beta!

• Server improvements:
  • Added Community features
  • Added About Page
  • Added Password reset system
  • Security hardening
  • Improved SSL cert handling
• Client: Added sync server info dialog
• Build improvements

[2.0.0] - 2026-1-10

Hammer is out of beta!

• Server improvements:
  • Added Community features
  • Added About Page
  • Added Password reset system
  • Security hardening
  • Improved SSL cert handling
• Client: Added sync server info dialog
• Build improvements

[1.14.0] - 2026-1-6

New Features

• Find & Replace in text editor
• Search & Sort for Notes
• Export Backups

Improvements

• New icons throughout the app
• Improved create dialogs for Encyclopedia, Notes, and Events
• Better section headers UI
• Improved sync cancellation with confirmation prompt

Fixes

• Desktop menu fixes
• Removed unsupported languages

[1.13.2] - 2026-1-3

• The backup system is now implemented on all Clients, not just Desktop
• Added Backup Managment UI to delete or restore from backups
• Improved the Project page for authors on the web
• Minor Text Editor improvements in the Scene Editor
• UI Polish: bettery dialogs, performance improvements, fix snackbars
• Focus Mode:
  • Better use of screen space on small screens
  • Android clients now enable Do Not Disturb when in focus mode
• Fix race condition in FocusMode
• Android keyboard fixes

[1.13.1] - 2025-12-31

• The backup system is now implemented on all Clients, not just Desktop
• Added Backup Managment UI to delete or restore from backups
• Improved the Project page for authors on the web
• Minor Text Editor improvements in the Scene Editor
• UI Polish: bettery dialogs, performance improvements, fix snackbars
• Focus Mode Improvements:
  • Better use of screen space on small screens
  • Android clients now enable Do Not Disturb when in focus mode
• Fix race condition in FocusMode

[1.13.0] - 2025-12-30

• The backup system is now implemented on all Clients, not just Desktop
• Added Backup Managment UI to delete or restore from backups
• Improved the Project page for authors on the web
• Minor Text Editor improvements in the Scene Editor
• UI Polish: bettery dialogs, performance improvements, fix snackbars
• Focus Mode Improvements:
  • Better use of screen space on small screens
  • Android clients now enable Do Not Disturb when in focus mode

[1.12.4] - 2025-12-27

• Added story sharing on the web: publish stories publicly with author pages or share privately
• Redesigned server web UI with user management admin page
• Improved sync error handling for projects with missing IDs
• Fixed many bugs with the Rich Text Editor
• UI improvements: better dialogs, encyclopedia performance, edge-to-edge Android
• Hotfix for syncing issue
• New distributions!

[1.12.3] - 2025-12-26

• Added story sharing on the web: publish stories publicly with author pages or share privately
• Redesigned server web UI with user management admin page
• Improved sync error handling for projects with missing IDs
• Fixed many bugs with the Rich Text Editor
• UI improvements: better dialogs, encyclopedia performance, edge-to-edge Android
• Hotfix for syncing issue
• New distributions!

[1.12.2] - 2025-12-26

• Added story sharing on the web: publish stories publicly with author pages or share privately
• Redesigned server web UI with user management admin page
• Improved sync error handling for projects with missing IDs
• Fixed many bugs with the Rich Text Editor
• UI improvements: better dialogs, encyclopedia performance, edge-to-edge Android
• Hotfix for syncing issue
• New distributions!

[1.12.1] - 2025-12-25

• Added story sharing on the web: publish stories publicly with author pages or share privately
• Redesigned server web UI with user management admin page
• Improved sync error handling for projects with missing IDs
• Fixed many bugs with the Rich Text Editor
• UI improvements: better dialogs, encyclopedia performance, edge-to-edge Android
• Hotfix for syncing issue
• Hotfix client crash

[1.12.0] - 2025-12-24

• Added story sharing on the web: publish stories publicly with author pages or share privately
• Redesigned server web UI with user management admin page
• Improved sync error handling for projects with missing IDs
• Fixed many bugs with the Rich Text Editor
• UI improvements: better dialogs, encyclopedia performance, edge-to-edge Android

[1.11.1] - 2025-12-21

Client:

• Huge ammount of infrastructure updates
• UI overhaul! Lots of animations and polish on all parts of the UI
• Predictive back and Edge to Edge support on Android
• Drafts: Set the name of the draft when you create it
• TextEditor bug fixes!
• Spell Checker replaced with the system spell checker

Server:

• Complete web-frontend rewrite
  • Regular User's can now log in and view their stories
• Security improvements
• Encryption performance improvements
• Hotfix

[1.11.0] - 2025-12-20

Client:

• Huge ammount of infrastructure updates
• UI overhaul! Lots of animations and polish on all parts of the UI
• Predictive back and Edge to Edge support on Android
• Drafts: Set the name of the draft when you create it
• TextEditor bug fixes!
• Spell Checker replaced with the system spell checker Server:
• Complete web-frontend rewrite
  • Regular User's can now log in and view their stories
• Security improvements
• Encryption performance improvements

[1.10.2] - 2025-6-5

• Updated TextEditor to fix a few bugs

[1.10.0] - 2025-4-2

• Text Editor 2.0!!

  This is the begining, it has Experimental Spell Checking. Many more features to come enabled by this.

• Context menu in Scene List can now rename Scenes and Groups
• Added Project Settings menu

[1.9.2] - 2024-11-2

• Fixed Android minify crashes, the binary is now 60% smaller!

[1.9.1] - 2024-11-2

• Disable Android obfuscation

[1.9.0] - 2024-11-1

• Major refactor of the client syncing code Dozens of bugs squashed and thousands of lines of test code written
• Major UI library update should improve performance

[1.8.1] - 2024-10-8

• Removed ability to store files in public storage for Android

[1.8.0] - 2024-10-7

• Major server refactor: All clients must re-authenticate
• Server: User project data is now encrypted at rest
• Feature: Projects can now be renamed
• Android: Project data can be moved to public storage

[1.7.2] - 2024-8-14

• Fixed Scene syncing for scenes with metadata (outlines and notes)

[1.7.1] - 2024-6-18

• Tons of under the hood library upgrades
• Should see some what better performance
• Fixed critcal syncing bug on the server side

[1.7.0] - 2024-1-31

• New Feature: Focus Mode, edit a scene with less UI clutter
• Improved Encyclopedia hashtag search, allow partial tag searching
• Fix dropdown menu not showing selected item
• Fixed Scene editor not closing when scene was deleted
• Fix scene count in Project Home
• Minor UI polish
• DevOps: Greatly improved release process

[1.6.0] - 2024-01-19

• Added Scene Metadata
• Added Story Outline overview: View your story in outline mode
• Added Font size control in Scene editor
• Encyclopedia Search UI updates
• Android folding device support
• UI polish and tweaks
• Loads of bug and crash fixes

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