2.6.0

See the 2.6.0 project for details.

🪦 This is likely to be the last app version of Twine for 32-bit Linux. Electron 18, which this release is based on, appears to be the last version of Electron to support 32-bit Linux, and it reached end-of-support in September 2022. Support for 64-bit Linux should not change.

New Features and Improvements

• When a second passage edit dialog is opened after one is already open, the new dialog appears on top of the existing one, forming a stack. A passage edit dialog can be brought to the front by clicking its title bar. There is a maximum of 5 passage edit dialogs in the background; opening more will cause the lowest to be closed.
• Twine can now import and export Twee files. Twee is a plain-text format used by many other tools in the Twine community, and has a tech spec. Twine exports to Twee 3 format and can import either Twee 3 or older versions.
• Added a Go To button to the story map toolbar, which allows moving to a passage by name.
• If there are no conflicts when importing a file, then Twine now automatically completes the import without asking for further confirmation.
• If a dialog is already open when it would have normally been opened (like choosing to open Preferences twice), the existing dialog will animate to draw attention to itself, instead of nothing happening.
• Added a Ukrainian localization, and updated the Chinese, German, and Turkish localizations.
• The Mac app is now signed, thanks to the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. This means that running Twine on Macs no longer should require right-clicking it and choosing Open the first time it's downloaded.
  • The relationship between Twine and IFTF has not changed. Although IFTF provides support for the Twine community, Twine itself is an entity independent of the IFTF.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a problem where dragging the story map and moving the cursor outside the Twine window would cause inappropriate scrolling.
• Fixed a broken link explaining what a story format is.
• Fixed a bug with importing stories that were missing some attributes.
• Fixed the appearance of passage edit dialogs that had been maximized, but also collapsed.

Story Format Updates

• Harlowe has been updated to version 3.3.4.

2.5.1

Story Format Updates

Harlowe has been updated to 3.3.3.

2.5.0

See the 2.5.0 project for details.

New Features and Improvements

• Passages considered "empty" now show with a translucent background. To be considered empty, a passage must satisfy all of the criteria below:
  • Has no text, not even just whitespace
  • Has no tags
  • Is the default size (small)
  • Is not the start passage of the story
• If the last link to an empty passage is removed, an empty passage will be deleted.
  • This behavior is somewhat provisional, and constructive feedback is appreciated. The goal of this change is to address issues where typing links could create many extraneous passages, and to generally help keep stories from being cluttered with unused passages.
• Dialogs may now be maximized.
• The width of dialogs can now be customized in the Preferences dialog.
• If playing, testing, or publishing a story to file fails, an error message is now shown. Previously, it failed silently.
• The Delete Passages button now disables if the start passage in the story is selected.
• Portuguese and French translations have been improved (thanks @albuquezi and @Kln95130).

Features Removed

• Middle-clicking the story map no longer creates a passage. It falls back to the default behavior instead, usually allowing the user to scroll around the story map.

Bugs Fixed

• Entering an invalid regular expression in the Find and Replace text no longer crashes Twine. It now reports no matches.
• Replacing a story during an import now correctly links passages to their parent story. This bug manifested as an inability to select passages, edit them in some cases, and other similar problems.
• Padding on the story map has been adjusted so that dialogs no longer overlap passages on the right.
• If the list of story tags or stories to import is too long to fit the window height, the list scrolls properly.
• Portuguese and Chinese localizations now load correctly.
• If an incorrect story format URL is entered when adding a new story format, an error is shown correctly. Previously, it showed placeholder text.
• The Mac app is now ad hoc signed, so users on Apple Silicon should not see repeated permissions prompts when the app launches--only one, the first time it runs.
• The app icon on Windows has been enlarged.

Story Format Updates

• Harlowe has been updated to 3.3.2.

2.4.1

New Features and Improvements

• The German localization has been improved (thanks @JimB16).
• Updated the version of Electron used for app Twine to the latest v17 release.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a bug related to updating stories' story formats. This showed up in 2.4.0 as a crash message the first time a story was edited.
• Browser Twine now uses the Storage Manager API to determine how much space is left for Twine to use. You may see a change in the value reported from previous versions, which estimated it by trying to save increasingly large amounts of data until it failed. This should fix error messages seen in 2.4.0 like Failed to execute 'setItem' on 'Storage': Setting the value of 'twine-passages-abcdef-ghijklmn' exceeded the quota.)
• Backups work properly in app Twine.

Documentation

• A section on how to switch to an older version of Twine has been added.
• Small proofreading corrections (thanks @ChapelR).

Story Formats

• Harlowe is updated to 3.3.1. (changelog)

Known Issues

• Editing passage links, especially if you type [[ and ]] and then write a passage name, can create extraneous passages as you type, depending on how fast you type. An improvement on this behavior should come in the next feature release (there may be further bugfix releases before then).

See the 2.4.1 project for more details.

2.4.0

See release notes here.

2.4.0-beta3

⚠️ This is a beta. Although this beta is more stable than the previous one, there may be bugs here that might trash your work and may cause you problems if you try this, then go back to a 2.3.x version. Save a backup copy of your story library before testing this version.

🐛 If you notice a bug in this beta, please open an issue with as much detail as possible.

💡If you have a concrete suggestion about something to add or change about this beta, please also open an issue.

2.4.0-beta2

⚠️ This is a beta. Although this beta is more stable than the previosu one, there may be bugs here that might trash your work and may cause you problems if you try this, then go back to a 2.3.x version. Save a backup copy of your story library before testing this version.

🐛 If you notice a bug in this beta, please open an issue with as much detail as possible.

💡If you have a concrete suggestion about something to add or change about this beta, please also open an issue.

💬 General feelings/opinions/questions about the beta? Please use the intfiction.org thread.

2.3.16

This is a maintenance release for Twine 2.3.

Features added:

• Updated SugarCube to 2.36.1.

2.3.15

This is a maintenance release for Twine 2.3.

Features added

• Updated Harlowe to 3.2.3.

2.4.0-beta1

⚠️ This is a very early beta. There are bugs here that might trash your work and may cause you problems if you try this, then go back to a 2.3.x version.

This version marks Twine 2.4.0 being feature-complete and is intended to give translators and story format developers a chance to begin working on Twine 2.4-related updates.

• If you are a translator, CONTRIBUTING.md contains instructions on how to add or update a translation (there are many new strings in 2.4).
• If you are a story format developer, EXTENDING.md contains instructions on how story formats can add toolbars, syntax modes, and reference lines to the editor.