Manuskript 0.17.0 got released.
It has been quite a while since last release because there hasn’t been a huge overall addition to the software in terms of features but there still have been quite a bit of fixes for different kinds of crashes.
What has been done?
Fixes
This release is mostly containing fixes for different bugs and crashes to ensure Manuskript is more reliable. We still recommend doing frequent backups of your projects. But overall the new release should be an improvement in many different cases. A detailed list can be found in the changelog.
Thanks to all different contributors helping with all kinds of bugs and issues.
Download Manuskript
Download, install and learn how to use Manuskript to write a fiction novel today!
Manuskript is available for Linux and Windows as binary packages.
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.
Thank you for your continued efforts to maintain and improve this magnificent software.
I’m glad that you still found the time to program and prepare a release.
Much appreciated.
Hi, I’ve tried a couple of times to download the windows version, but my navigator blocked it with an alert of detected virus.
Any advice?
Very likely a false-positive. We use automated builds using Github CI for the Windows binaries.
So, there’s no problem if I still go on with the download?
I would assume so. You can still decide to run the application from source code or build your own binary if preferred.
Are you able to reassure others in the Manuskript subreddit, please? Some windows users were anxious about the Windows Defender false alarm, and probably didn’t think to check here. I checked twitter and github, but didn’t find anything. In any case, thank you kindly for the work that you do.
I think someone already linked the Github issue regarding the problem on Reddit. Also I’m kind of confused why people are now alarmed since we had a false-positive note on all previous releases. It’s pretty much a common issue on any project using PyInstaller to build a binary for Windows out of Python scripts.
People are alarmed probably because Windows Defender just deleted the downloaded executable automatically. I have never seen it act as this alarmed with any app before.
I think I will use version 16.1 now. I have no time to wrestle with Windows Defender atm. I either need to turn off real-time protection or not use it.
This is virustotal’s result. Microsoft flag it as severe trojan. I didn’t even know Microsoft’s AV is on it until today.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cf0ef72007a5be18a38995e12cd5f02f0a89e2a64406a46934efeb94336c1aa4
In case the valuation changes in the future.
https://imgur.com/a/JiLTGqn
Thank you thank you thank you for this wonderful program!!!
Great programme !
I´m using the old version on my Mac.
Where can I find the new version for the MacOS ?
This time I wasn’t able to build any version for MacOS because it requires such system and we don’t have an automated build process for MacOS yet on Github. So unfortunately you either have to build the binary yourself, run the application from source or wait for some Mac user to contribute to an automated solution for releases.
I hope this helps!
I LOVE this project/product! I’ve been using it for about a year instead of Scrivner. I’d like to send you a reoccurring donation to support your work and show appreciation for this awesome project. What’s the best way to do that? Thanks again! — Eric Heflin, Founding CTO, eHealth Exchange
We currently don’t have a centralized way to financially support the distributed development between many contributors. So you would probably need to check on Github which contributors are actively working on current issues or features and which of them list any way to support them directly.
In the footer of this page you will also find a link to donate to Olivier via Paypal which originally started the project and is still hosting this website.
I hope this helps.
I’m sending a small monthly donation to Oliver. Happy to also support others if you come up with a way to donate. Love this project! I’ve recommended it to many others who also love it.
When I use Manuskript it work perfectly as long as my file is small, but when it grow up the tool became very slow, is it a bug?
In current state Manuskript has multiple issues with scaling. There’s ongoing work to improve this drastically but it will take quite some time to complete.
Hello. Very good program. I use Linux Mint. How can I activate dark mode? I’ve never been able to activate it.
In the settings you should be able to find a dropdown for themes. You might need to install a dark theme for selection in case there isn’t one by default. Manuskript is using Qt5 for its GUI in case you are looking up themes by properties and toolkit support.
Manuskript crashes multiple times everytime i would have to work with it. After i updated to 0.17 via Terminal and started it out of the same prozess, it crashed when i wanted to click on a word in a line (text was edited way before). Whilst being in a terminal it stated: Segmentation Fault (Memory Dump written). In German: Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben). Manuskript crashes, when i choose different window-layouts. it doesen’t maintain layouts even. BTW :: here it seems all of a very good intention creating a somewhat clone of ‘scrivener’ and i like how manuskript looks, how it’s meant to be working and i’m very eager see manuskript get to version 1.0 one day. Keep up, Oliver!
It’s most likely that Manuskript is crashing because of a custom theme, you might be using (can’t say for certain of course). It shouldn’t crash with a segfault anymore once you switch back to the default theme.
If that does not help at all (for example in case you are already using the default theme), please open an issue for the crash with as much details as possible, so that we can fix it in a next release.
Hello,
Any chances of an iPad OS version coming soon.
Thanks.
Hi,
It’s unlikely coming soon because it would require a ton of work porting to a different UI toolkit and architecture. There’s already an issue for discussion on Github. So feel free to contribute.
I just installed it, seems great so far, except that it keeps crashing on attempt to import and/or delete some imported chapters. Is that a known issue or am I doing something wrong? Maybe the text is too long? Anyway, thanks.
The software should not crash accidentally by user input, especially when a project is open and changes might not be saved yet. So that sounds like a bug. Please open an issue to report it with as much detail as possible, so we can fix that for upcoming releases.
I just wanted to say thank you. I really like the software and have already completed a project with it.
It is exactly what I was looking for and I’m so happy to see that the project is still alive!
Does anyone know how to increase the font size in the Character, Plot, or World sections?
I can adjust the font in the editor, but it doesn’t seem to affect these sections.
It’s currently not possible to change the font size in these sections from within settings, only for the editor section. The only option you have is to enforce a certain font scaling for the whole application externally. It’s a bit technical though.
It now takes me over 2 minutes to load Manuskript version 0.17.0. This is all because of the languagetool that loads every time Manuskript is launched. Is there any way to fix this? Thank you.
There’s work ongoing to improve performance in such cases. For now I’d recommend disabling languagetool for most writing sessions and enabling it later if needed.
Thank you, I absolutely love this! I recently switched to Linux, and yWriter had to go. Manuskript has some features I was missing! 🙂
Many, many thanks for continuing to maintain this program!