TeXworks is a project with the effort to build a simple TeX front-end program (working environment) that will be available for all today's major desktop operating systems.
What’s new in version 0.6.8
Updated on Feb 20 2023
New features and improvements:
Make the maximum RAM usage of the PDF previewer configurable (and reduce the default to 256 MiB)
Enable typesetting from preview if no source is open
Make the PDF paper color configurable
Add AppImage support
Changes:
Speed up populating the recently opened files menu (particularly when containing files on slow network drives)
Disable the typesetting button in the preview if no source is available
Update translations
Refactor and modernize parts of the code
Update the libraries for the pre-built binaries
Fixes:
Fix crash when closing a source opened after the preview
Fix crash when killing a typesetting process by closing the source window
Fix several memory leaks
Fix the PDF preview of files that are in the process of being changed (e.g., during typesetting)
Fix focusing of the console when typesetting from the preview
Fix (potential) non-sequential ordering of PDF search results
Fix repeated PDF searches with the same search string but different search flags
Fix blocking UI while performing long PDF searches
Fix PDF search result highlighting disappearing too quickly
Fix the display of PDF search results in single page view
Fix typesetting with symlinked root files
Fix quotation of paths in the TEXEDIT & MIKTEX_EDITOR environment variables
Pre-select the ruler unit in the "Edit guideline" dialog