Manuskript 0.16.1 is out.
Reason for this rather quick release after 0.16.0 is to fix some issues on Windows systems which caused existing projects to be incompatible, potentially even crashing the application on launch when loading the recent project automatically on startup.
Other operating systems shouldn’t have issues with 0.16.0 theoretically but it’s better to use the latest release in case you encounter issues and need to report them. So this here is a bugfix release.
What’s new?
Fixes
In 0.16.0 we introduced a change to improve interoperability of projects between different operating systems. This has caused some issues which should now be fixed. Files of the projects will try to use UNIX typical line endings in their text files but old files from Windows will still work (be readable).
Another issue which caused crashes got fixed for Windows systems because some paths of files on Manuskript used the forward slash `/` (which is typically for UNIX based systems like Linux or macOS). However Windows usually prefers paths with the backward slash `\` for that matter. If the application mixed both options, files were not accessible and the application crashed. Yes, such minor differences and details still matter unfortunately.
That’s pretty much all which have changed since 0.16.0. So if you are looking for what’s new since 0.15.0 I would recommend checking out the previous post.
Download Manuskript
Download, install and learn how to use Manuskript to write a fiction novel today!
Manuskript is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Extra import and export formats such as ePub, OpenDocument (LibreOffice), and DocX (MS Word) are available in Manuskript if you also install Pandoc.
More information can be found on the Manuskript Wiki.
Improvements in this release can be found in the ChangeLog.
So~ the .exe and .zip are at 9/72 & 7/52 flags respectively on VirusTotal now. 😡
Avira Free Security (desktop) didn’t raise any flags when it scanned the zip and extracted folder, but why’d it increase from 1/58 flags on v0.15.0? o_o
zip: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4da7e32de5c68a89e9313031c8d90aedb3a73f6ae1f917e722148a2f6f247df3
exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7b789067fc92947c089c7bd54324742156f04d7a2d670de4e5170c87abf72f3d
v0.15.0 zip: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ed107929d25b2a6aebb257f671a4fb0c8836d1e0f282bbf5cba2797d90749a15
This is a known issue. Antivirus software flags Manuskript on Windows as virus because we use PyInstaller which generates an executable from the Python source code. It is likely that some malware based on Python does this as well which is the reason all software built with PyInstaller gets flagged as false-positive. I assume the difference between 0.15.0 and 0.16.1 is that we changed the way how to build the binary for Windows using Github actions rather than a custom script using Wine on Linux.
The builds we publish are auto-generated. So there’s no change done between source code and binary. However if you do not trust that generation step for any reason, you can build it on your own following our guide in the wiki or you can run the application from source code avoiding any conflict caused by PyInstaller.
If you still think there might be a problem with the application that triggers such malware scans, feel free to dig into the source code.
honestly, i tried following both[?] guides a year or so ago and gave up >.>
no experience with that kinda stuff, though 🤷🏿♂️
so~ i can’t install past v0.14 😐
The Download page says “Download manuskript-0.16.1-windows.zip, unzip it, and run manuskript/manuskript.exe,” but nothing I’ve tried works. How exactly are we supposed to install the latest version when we already have a pre-existing one?
Windows 10 64bit
Hi, I’m commenting because Manuskript was working perfectly last night and I got a lot of writing in, but this morning it was no longer running and it crashes when I try to open it. I didn’t get to back up the work I did last night, is there anything I can do to get my work back or do I have to lose it and reinstall it? TIA
-Lysette
If you encounter crashes or other issues, I recommend you to open an issue report on Github. So the underlying problem can be fixed for the future usage of you and others.
I’m not sure whether it’s possible to get some of your work back. But for the most part we recommend making backups on regular basis because it’s likely to loose writing in such cases until those crashes can be fully fixed.