Changelog
What's in each version of SceneWeaver, newest first. The road to version 1 ran for 16 build cycles — every one of them adding capability and tightening trust. Version 1 is where it all comes together.
Version 1.0 released 10 June 2026
The first public release. Version 1 ships the complete SceneWeaver feature set: a structured manuscript tree for chapters, scenes, and sections with automatic word-count roll-up; rich entity records (backstory, description, and usage tracking) for characters, items, locations, and organisations; the full continuity-validation suite; every report (Statistics & Readability, Sentence Breakdown, Repeated Phrases, Entity Usage, Data Quality & Completeness, and the Writing Coach dashboard); eight export formats (DOCX, PDF, EPUB, HTML, Markdown, plain text, Fountain, LaTeX) with Compile Presets; citations and bibliography with live Zotero import; the timeline view; Restore Points and the Snapshot Comparison Viewer for content history; Revision Rounds for editorial-pass status tracking; the Manuscript Health diagnostic; and forward-only data compatibility with forced pre-migration backups.
Inline spell-check ships with UK and US English Hunspell dictionaries bundled in. Optional inline grammar checking is provided by LanguageTool — installed on demand from inside the app with one click, no Java setup required if none is present on your machine.
Free for everyone. No accounts, no activation, no watermarks. Manuscript content never leaves your machine; bug reports and anonymous usage telemetry are opt-in and off by default. Download for Linux or Windows now. A macOS build is demand-led — see the Download page if you'd run it on a Mac. For the full feature breakdown, see Features.
Version 0.16 pre-release integrity hardening
The final layer of trust before version 1. Reference-integrity audits across every node reference; round-trip and export golden-file tests pinning DOCX and Markdown semantics; schema-version stamping with forced backup before any migration; a Project Health diagnostic that surfaces continuity, reference, and backup facts at a glance. The layered app-icon system and the public marketing site landed here too.
Version 0.15 licensing, performance, integrations
LanguageTool grammar decoupled into an optional external integration. Release licence compliance — on-disk licence file + Help → About → View Licences. Per-rule continuity validation with a new dangling-references check. Hierarchical report scope (whole manuscript / chapter / scene / section). Runtime performance profiling with a diagnostics dialog. Status-bar indicators for LanguageTool and Zotero. Bundled sample-manuscript library reworked.
Version 0.14 citations, scoped output, timeline polish
Bibliography and citation management with live Zotero import; four citation styles (Chicago, APA, MLA, Harvard); Insert and Edit Citation dialogs; multiple-source and secondary "cited in" tokens. Timeline drag-and-drop reordering. Version labels and milestones. Publisher target presets. Scoped and review printing.
Version 0.13 reference consistency & round-trip archives
Node reference consistency across every structural mutation. Enhanced beta-reader / DOCX round-trip archive. Markdown round-trip archive. Split-content formatting preservation fix.
Version 0.12 revision workflow & timeline
Full revision workflow. Enhanced continuity validation and entity signatures. DOCX round-trip import. Timeline / chronology view.
Version 0.11 Fountain, continuity, unified dialogs
Fountain (screenwriting) export. Continuity validation. Per-node status labels. Unified export and import dialogs.
Version 0.10 comments, markdown import, consistency
Inline comments and annotations. Markdown import. Style and consistency checks. Platform hardening pass.
Version 0.9 EPUB, corkboard, beta-reader
EPUB 3 export. Corkboard / card view. Smart collections. Beta-reader package export.
Version 0.8 targets, coach, more exports
Additional export formats (HTML, plain text, and related). Writing targets and progress tracking. Writing Coach dashboard. Focus / composition mode.
Version 0.7 PDF, presets, restore points
PDF export with print preview. Compile presets. Restore Point productisation. Snapshot Comparison Viewer. Version and build visibility. Expanded report filters and drill-down.
Version 0.6 data quality & merge tokens
Data Quality and Completeness reporting. Merge-token disambiguation and indexed tokens. Panel and highlight UX hardening. Report export hooks.
Version 0.5 reports & search
Reports menu and access. Statistics & Readability. Entity Usage. Sentence Breakdown. Repeated Phrases. Editor search and search-and-replace.
Version 0.4 entities
Characters. Items. Locations. Organisations and factions. Shared entity store, usage panel, keyword matching, filtering, entity detail view, merge-token support.
Version 0.3 settings, persistence, samples
Window size and geometry persistence. Smart manuscript auto-open on startup. Settings and preferences windows. Dual sample manuscripts and the dedicated Help dialog.
Version 0.2 reordering & DOCX export
Structural reordering. DOCX export delivery. Test execution and regression coverage. Requirements consolidation pass.
Version 0.1 core foundation
Manuscript projects: create and open, persisted in SQLite. Hierarchical writing nodes — chapter, scene, section — with add, edit, split, and remove. Desktop tree plus editor layout. Automatic word-count display.