hammer-editor/CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

## [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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_initial release._