BookGen 2025.01.19

• New: Based on .NET 9
• New: Html2png command (Windows only)
• New: SVG pass through support for print targets
• Change: Logging is based on Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
• Change: Updated dependencies
• Change: Removed the GUI and added a web based one
• Change: Formula editor removed, integrated into web gui
• Change: Preview server is based on ASP.NET Kestrel
• Fix: Various bugs fixed

BookGen 2024.08.05

• New: Latex formula editor, that can export to SVG (Windows only)
• New: Added new command to create new files
• New: C# scripting support in markdown files via the '''script ''' tag
• New: Added autocomplete in bookgen shell for basic git commands
• New: ISO build now includes powershell core
• New: Added table of contents support via the [toc] tag in markdown
• New: JSON array support for subcommand configuration.
• New: NodeJs is included in the ISO build and BookGen shell integrates it
• Change: Only ISO build is available for Windows
• Change: New icon and branding
• Change: Updated dependencies
• Change: Cplipboard implementation replaced with TextCopy, now works multiplatform
• Change: Linux distribution now uses a deb package for distribution
• Change: SVG Passthrough implemented in md2html command
• Change: md2thml is extended with templating and new options
• Change: Various BookGen related settings now use a single .ZIP file for configuration
• Change: Reworked templating engine
• Change: Reworked CDG command
• Fix: Various linux compatibility fixes
• Fix: Various fixes in the Table of Contents generation
• Fix: Template processor fixes
• Fix: Various fixes

BookGen 2024.06.04

• New: Added autocomplete in bookgen shell for basic git commands
• New: ISO build now includes powershell core
• New: Added table of contents support via the [toc] tag in markdown
• New: JSON array support for subcommand configuration.
• Change: Updated dependencies
• Change: Cplipboard implementation replaced with TextCopy, now works multiplatform
• Change: Linux distribution now uses a deb package for distribution
• Change: SVG Passthrough implemented in md2html command
• Change: md2thml is extended with templating and new options
• Change: Various BookGen related settings now use a single .ZIP file for configuration
• Change: Reworked templating engine
• Fix: Various linux compatibility fixes
• Fix: Various fixes in the Table of Contents generation
• Fix: Template processor fixes
• Fix: Various fixes

BookGen 2024.01.09

• New: Based on .NET 8
• New: Linux install script
• New: Windows builds with bootstappers
• New: Laucnher includes a markdown cheat sheet
• New: Launcher includes a news channel
• New: Launcher has built-in task list
• New: HTML2PDF command (Windows only)
• New: Program in Directly runnable form, packed as ISO image
• New: Terminal output renderer, when building markdown
• New: CDG program can handle a path argument, to specify where to start from
• New: WWW program that can perform web searches easily
• New: toc command, to find files that are not included in the toc file
• New: shortcodes command, to list available shortcodes
• Change: API cleanup & removed C# scripting support
• Change: StockSearch command functionality has been integrated to the WWW command
• Change: Removed auto updater (hard to maintain)
• Change: Removed ZIP format release
• Change: Folder locking is now process based
• Change: Improved stat command
• Change: HTTP server has favicons & last acces time is sent in header
• Change: Replaces File based folder locking wiht a process based one
• Change: Auto updater removed, because of multiple platform issues
• Change: Launcher file browser usability improvements
• Change: Updated component dependencies
• Fix: Image convert command correctly handles SVG files
• Fix: ImgSearch correctly handles spaces in query
• Fix: Shell now sets UTF-8 encoding for output
• Fix: Various HTTP server bugfixes
• Fix: HTML Tidy speed greatly improved and encoding issues are fixed
• Fix: Initializer adapted to new folder structure
• Fix: Fixed a possible crash in init, when using Windows Terminal
• Fix: HTMTidy runtime speed improved & made more robust

BookGen 2023.05.06

• New: GUI has been reworked. Instead of Terminal.GUI Spectre.Console is used
• New: Pack subcommand to pack the book source into a zip file
• New: Download command, to quickly download files from the internet to your project
• New: Tasks command, which allows running additional tasks & customizing workflow
• New: Web server now has a dedicated page to make it easier to connect to it, from other devices
• New: Linux build (experimental)
• Change: The Shell's cdg command is now implemented as terminal UI program with more features
• Change: Various fixes to support building and running on Linux distributions
• Change: Default console log uses Spectre.Console for output. This produces more colourful output
• Change: Reworked subcommand architecture
• Change: Removed & cleaned up NuGet package dependencies
• Change: Test server port is now 8090
• Change: Removed WP-Load program
• Change: Removed Chapters command
• Change: Removed InstallPS Autocomplete command
• Change: Removed support for VS tasks
• Fix: Various Web sever stability fixes & improvements
• Fix: E-pub build time has been reduced
• Fix: Fixes a bug, which caused the progress bar messages while building not always readable
• Fix: BookGen shell colour scheme adjusted in windows terminal for better readability

BookGen 2023.01.12

• New: Rewrote launcher, looks a bit better & has built in preview function
• New: Math2SVG module (Requires internet connection to work)
• New: Output type for post processing (experimental)
• New: QR code generator module (Requires internet connection to work)
• New: Print output produces an XHTML file too, with embedded CSS rules for better compatibility with word processing
• New: JSON schema for config and tags available
• New: Tags module can now auto extract tags with RAKE if needed
• Change: Reworked preview module, now has a basic markdown editor
• Change: BookGen now ships with .NET, no need to install it sepperately
• Change: Updater now is a seperate program.
• Change: Removed markdown editor from launcher
• Change: Json output from now on doesn't encode non ASCII chars specially.
• Change: Better XHTML output for e-Pub generation with the use of HTMLTidy
• Change: Updated dependencies
• Change: configuration files are moved into .bookgen folder for projects

BookGen 2022-07-11

• New: ExternalLinks command
• New: Tags command
• New: Wordpress output generates tags based on output of tags command
• New: Shell on init prints version
• New: Shell extended with graphical cd command called cdg
• New: Shell prints not commited file count
• New: Math2Svg command
• New: Installer offers to install Windows Terminal & Powershell core, if not installed
• New: Installer can now run without admin rights
• Change: Markdown Title finder now warns, if title is not 1st level
• Change: PageGen module removed
• Change: Progress reporting improved
• Change: Md2HTML default template handles print better
• Change: Windows terminal profile has now a distinct theme
• Change: Windows terminal profile now uses powershell core, if installed
• Change: Laucnher has now a built in command documentation
• Fix: Console Gui memory leaks
• Fix: Updated wiki documentation

BookGen 2022-05-23

• New: Better, simplistic icon
• New: Wpload implements download feature
• New: Installs as windows termninal fragment, if Windows terminal is installed
• New: cdg command in shell, to graphically change workdir.
• Fix: printable html generation
• Fix: exiting gui properly deletes the folderlock
• Updated dependencies

BookGen 2022-03-02

• New: Quick editor in launcher
• New: WpLoad tool to interact with wordpress backend sites
• Fix: Stat module not working with GUI
• Fix: Stat module better calculation for page size
• Fix: Printable HTML generation, when using footnotes and file doesn't have new line as end.
• Updated prism.js
• Updated dependencies
• System test project reworked
• Pipeline build system

BookGen 2021-11-18

• New: Wiki command - Opens the BookGen wiki page
• New: Stocksearch command - Search for free stock images online
• New: Launcher has more modern Message boxes
• New: Added more options to the console Gui
• New: Log output to JSON with the global -js argument.
• New: Assembly documenting to a single markdown file (usefull for wiki pages)
• New: Installer based on Inno setup
• Change: Build process now indicates with a console progressbar
• Change: Updated bootstrap to 5.1
• Change: BookGen shell now displays git info in prompt, if folder is git repo.
• Change: Autocomplete handles global arguments.
• Change: Launcher folder list is now independent from version
• Change: Now requires .NET 6 runtime
• Change: Configuration can be in yml format
• Change: Init subcommand now allows to select yml as config format
• Fix: Launcher JumpList was not starting the shell in the folder
• Fix: Auto updater now works