1.0 (25/08/2014)
– The progam (finally) works.


2.0 (11/09/2014)
– The program warns you when you try to quit but some documents have not been saved;
– It is now possible to switch the selected text to upper/lower case;
– When openning multiple files via drag and drop on the executable, GWE now opens all of them (instead of only one);
– The executable now has an icon;
– The notes recieved some corrections.

2.1 (06/11/2014)
– Fixed the bug that prevented using the default font when openning a file;
– In the "tool" menu, the "Tab font" option has been renamed "Selected text font", since it only changes the selected text's font;
– Closing the program no longer proposes "Yes to all" and "No to all" when only one tab was unsaved.


3.0 (29/01/2015)
– Fixed the bug that prevented uniting the selected text's format if the selected format was the same as the one chosen in the font choosing window;
– Fixed the bug that, when quitting the program with only one tab which was unsaved, would open a second confirmation when trying to cancel the closing;
– Fixed the bug that prevented the file to save and the tab name from updating when "saving as" (you had to Save afterwards);
– Fixed a memory leak in the Open function;
– Saving under the *.rtf format was really badly handled, so it was removed;
– The "All files (*.*)" option not making sense when saving a document, it was removed (but still present when openning a document);
– The Help is now useful;
– Added "Bold", "Italic" and "Underlined" buttons;
– Added the possibility to put a closing button on the tabs;
– The toolbar position is now saved with the other parameters;
– Slight starting optimisation;
– Other little optimisations;
– Some minor changelog corrections;
– Now using Qt 5.3.

3.1 (07/07/2015)
– Fixed a crash when openning a file without an empty tab ("New document") or no tab at all;
– Slight closing tab optimisation;
– Now using C++11.

3.2 (13/08/2015)
– Improved the Help;
– Corrected the executable name int the Notes;
– The document name is now displayed int the title bar.


4.0 (04/10/2015)
– Removed the *.xml format, rich text files being saved as HTML4 and not XHTML;
– Added the *.gwe format. It is actually plain normal HTML, but it allows the program to have a specific extension;
– Added autosave;
– Separated Tools and Options;
– Fixed a bug linked to closing tabs via their closing button;
– Slight tab openning optimisation;
– Slight starting optimisation;
– Fixed a bug that sometimes made a raw text file being openned as HTML;
– Put back the "Other file (*.*)" is the saving window, allowing the files to be saved under any extension (as raw text).

4.1 (05/10/2015)
– Fixed a bug that prevented the window title to update when saving a file under a new name.


5.0 (10/01/2016)
– Fixed a bug that prevented the Save As function from working;
– Added in the toolbar a bar to select a font and another to select a font size;
– Added the "Strike" button;
– Added an "horizontal bar" function;
– It is now possible to choose which tools are displayed in the toolbar;
– It is now possible to open multiple files at once with the "Open" function;
– When openning a file that is already openned without any unsaved modification, its tab is openned instead of creating a new one (adjustable in the options);
– The buttons and options relative to document editing (saving, changing the font...) are now disabled when no tab is openned;
– The program now handles full screen in the parameters;
– The Notes has been renamed "Read me" and has been enhanced;
– The program is now officially under GNU LGPL v3 licence;
– Now using Qt 5.5.


6.0 (06/07/2016)
– Set up a new parameters saving system, much more versatile, which will greatly make new parameters implementation easier in the future;
– Added english translation;
– Added recent files handling;
– Added the "Save all" function, which saves all openned tabs;
– The "Selected text font" action has been put back in the "Tools" menu;
– It is now possible to make the autosave save all the tabs at once, or let each tab have its own autosave (by default, each tab autosaves separately);
– It is now possible to move tabs;
– It is now possible to get from one tab to another with Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown (the up and down arrows near the "End" button, on the top-right of the keyboard);
– Letting the mouse on a tab now displays the full path of the associated file;
– The "Help" button is no longer disabled when no tab is openned;
– The Help has been greatly improved;
– Fixed an enormous bug ont file saving when multiple tabs were openned;
– Fixed a bug on the color choice that made closing the window considered as clicking on "Ok";
– Fixed a bug that prevented the tab name from updating after an autosave if it was not the active tab;
– Various bug fixing;
– Various improvements.


7.0 (12/04/2017)
– New icon !
– The "resources" folder has been reorganized;
– Deletion of useless .dll files;
– The names of the "Read me" ans "Changelog" files received underscores for improved visibility;
– Added the "Search & replace" feature, and a corresponding section in the Help;
– Added lists support (see Tools->Insert a list);
– The text editing area is now activated when launching the program;
– Added some formatting to the Help;
– Added the F1 shortcut for the Help;
– Corrected some mistakes and typing errors in the french Help;
– Added the Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcuts, which respectively have the same effects as Ctrl+PageDown and Ctrl+PageUp, that is pass onto the next/previous tab;
– Using these shortcuts now allows looping (for instance, Ctrl+PageDown sends you back to the first tab if you were on the last one);
– Added an error message when the parameters could not be saved;
– Fixed a bug on the recent files date storage;
– Fixed a bug that prevented the file from being saved using Save As is the document was not modified;
– Fixed a bug that prevented the files created with Save As from being saved into the recent files list;
– Various bug fixing;
– Now using Qt 5.8 (except for the 32-bits GNU/Linux version);
– Now using C++14.


8.0 (06/01/2018)
– New install wizard for Windows ! Finally an intuitive installation ! Vous can delete your old installation;
– The icon in the task bar is now sharper on Windows;
– It is now much easier to see the occurences with the "Search & replace" function (which was hard because of the selection color which was close to the white background);
– In the "Search & replace" sub-window, you can now get to the previous and next occurence respectively with the Up and Down keys;
– Added formatless pasting (with Ctrl+Shift+V);
– Added a shortcut to insert a non-breaking space (Ctrl+Shift+Space);
– Added a shortcut to insert a non-breaking hyphen (Ctrl+Shift+-), which unfortunately does not seem to be saved in the files for unknown reasons (bad Unicode handling?);
– Added background color handling;
– For the occasion, the icon for the text color changing has been re-made;
– Also, custom colors are now saved;
– Huge optimization of the rich text files, at the cost of a slightly longer saving time for big documents;
– So now the default saving format is "GWE rich text (*.gwe)";
– Added a "Rename file" function (with the Ctrl+R shortcut);
– The link in the "About GpaWa Editor" window can now be clicked so it is automatically opened in your web browser;
– Added missing translation in that same window;
– Now, when you change the font family with the toolbar's widget, the cursor is automatically put back on the text;
– Corrected a bug where having an error when saving a document while closing the program did not prevent the program from closing, leading to losing unsaved modifications;
– Corrected a bug on the "Replace all" function which lead the program to an infinite loop the the looked-for term was included within the replacing term;
– Corrected a bug in the recent files list;
– Now using Qt 5.10 (except for the 32-bits GNU/Linux version).

8.1 (24/01/2018)
– Fixed a bug on the formatless pasting which caused each pasting to cumulate de previous ones, instead of replacing them.


9.0 (29/09/2018)
– You can now drag & drop files to open them;
– Fixed the ugly interface on Windows;
– Added file lists, which allow you to open several files at once, allowing you to quickly go back to where you were;
– Added an option allowing you to choose to save documents as rich or plain text by default;
– Fixed some translations;
– Fixed the rename function which worked backwards;
– Fixed the 'to uppercase' and 'to lowercase' functions which did not work correctly, or work at all on plain text files;
– Fixed a bug on tab titles when you closed a tab;
– Fixed a bug preventing the 'Save all' function from doing anything;
– Now using Qt 5.11 (except for the 32-bits GNU/Linux version).

9.1 (21/03/2020)
– Tabs can now be closed with a middle click;
– Added a dark theme.

9.2 (09/11/2021)
– The program now know when an undo/redo brings a file back to its saved state, and removes the asterix in the tab name accordingly;
– When closing the last tab, the window no longer has its filename in the title;
– Links are now more legible on dark theme.

9.3 (04/11/2023)
– Files are now put at the beginning of the recent files list every time they are saved;
– Saving manually now always works, even if the file was not changed in the editor;
– Removed support for the old param.set settings file.

9.4 (07/07/2023)
– Added a context menu to tabs;
– Added "show the file in the explorer" feature.

9.5 (02/09/2024)
– Fixed a bug where closing the program or all tab except one ignored the warning settings;
– Clicking the buttons in the toolbar customizer is now easier;
– Now using Qt 6.2.

9.6 (27/03/2025)
– Added the insert list menu to the toolbar;
– Added some context menus;
– Fixed the rename file window;
– All new icons, credit to icons8!

9.7 (25/04/2025)
– New shortcuts function function keys (F2, F3, etc);
– Now supports fullscreen mode (F11);
– New feature: reload file (F5);
– Options have been split between Options and Display.

9.8 (05/06/2025)
– Fixed a missing translation in the background color picker;
– The background color picker no longer asks if you want to remove the background color when there is none.
