What's New in version 10.0:

• Added the 'Speak' tool to the Edit menu.
• Added the ability to print the filename on each page.
• Added the 'Discard Paragraphs Containing' tool to the Edit menu.
• Added to the case conversion tools support for extended ASCII characters, but only if the character set is 'European, Western'. For example 'à' (code 224) would be capitalized to 'À' (code 192).
• Added a high resolution shell icon for Vista/2008/7.
• Added the 'Balloon help disabled' option to the toolbar's context menu.
• When the system launches DocPad to edit the same file more than once, instead of opening a second instance of DocPad, the first instance will be brought to the foreground.
• When converting to sentence case, the exclamation point and question mark are now regarded to end a sentence just like the period.
• Changed the text drag & drop behavior to more closely emulate how Windows behaves.
• When launching the Calculator, Calendar, or Character Map from the Interface menu, these tools can now store their data back to the document. Previously this was only possible when launching the tool from the Edit menu.
• The Calculator tool will now initially copy the numeric value in the document near the caret position.
• The Calendar tool will now insert the date in the format that obeys the computer's regional settings.
• When saving a file, the Read-Only and Hidden attributes are now removed first in order to prevent an 'Access Denied' error.
• When a document is reopened after it has been detected that the file was modified by another program, the state of the undo buffer is now maintained.
• The 'Normalize Spaces' and 'Trim Trailing Spaces' tools now report the number of changes made.
• When it is necessary to start a new instance of DocPad with admin rights in order to complete a file type association, the user will no longer be prompted twice to confirm that the existing association should be changed. Also, the user will now be informed if the association was successful.
• Improved rendering speed.
• Improved the appearance of the help file. The inter-character spacing is now calculated better.
• The /popup switch now displays the text in a larger font.
• Fixed: the 'Another program has changed the document' window was having problems when a menu is open.
• Fixed: there was a 1-pixel high blank line below the status bar.
• Fixed: print preview was not always drawing the text in black.
• Fixed: when being resized, the window was failing to rearrange the editor if 'Status Bar Visible' was unchecked.

What's New in version 9.0:

• Added the 'Document Font' tool to the Options menu. This allows the user to change the font used to display the document without changing the interface font.
• Added the 'Delete Current Line' editbox tool (Ctrl+Q).
• Added the 'Favorites' tab to the help file.
• Added the 'Customize Toolbar' option to the Options menu.
• Added the /d and /rvse command line switches.
• DocPad is now 'Large Address Aware'. This allows it to open larger files, provided that the operating system is configured for large processes. Please google '3gb' for more information.
• Numerous skin improvements. The Default skin now conforms with the appearance of Windows 7. The original default skin has been renamed 'Experience'.
• If the 'Associate', 'Disassociate', 'Register as View Source editor', or 'Open with DocPad' tools are blocked due to a lack of security rights, they will now offer to launch a second instance of DocPad with administrator rights, which will then run the tool.
• The open/save file dialog will now use the operating system style enhancements.
• Numerous improvements to the 'Check For Update' tool.
• The Send Feedback and Report Exception features now use HTTP to deliver the information to Gammadyne. The old SMTP method is only used as a fallback if HTTP fails. This is necessary because some ISP's only allow SMTP to their own mail servers.
• Moved the 'Font Size' submenu to the Options menu.
• Minor improvements to the Print Preview window.
• Improved the installer's appearance.
• Some menu options did not display a description on the status bar.
• Fixed: fixed-pitch fonts were being rendered with too much space between characters.
• Fixed a possible irregularity with tab distances when using a fixed-pitch font.
• Fixed: the Character Set setting was not always being obeyed.
• Fixed some minor incompatibility issues with Vista/2008/7.

What's New in version 8.2:

• Fixed: the spell checker was sometimes reporting an incorrect number of words.
• Fixed: very rarely, a bug could cause an editbox to only accept certain characters (e.g. letters or digits) (since 8.1).

What's New in version 8.1:

• The Search/Replace dialog will now remember the past 25 search and replace strings in a drop-down list.
• Ctrl+Delete will now delete the word to the right. Ctrl+Backspace will now delete the word to the left.
• Fixed problems with the 'undo' feature, including a rare crash.