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WordSearchZ Changelog

Everything new, improved, and fixed across releases. The latest version is 2.2.

v2.2 Latest August 17th, 2026
New
  • Multilingual support (9 languages). English, German, Russian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, and Urdu. The whole interface translates, puzzles can be built in each language's native alphabet (Latin, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Arabic) with full right-to-left layout for Arabic and Urdu, bundled Noto fonts render every script out of the box, and the app auto-detects your system language on first run.
  • Print Area & true point size. Pick a book-size preset (8.5×11, 6×9, 7×10, 8×10, 5.5×8.5, 5×8, A4, or Custom) and see a live read-out of the true printed letter size in points as you change the layout. PNG, PDF, and SVG export at that exact physical size, so puzzles drop into your book at 100%.
  • Coordinate Export. Save the exact placement of every answer as JSON or CSV (grid dimensions, the full letter matrix, and each word's start/end cell, direction, and occupied cells), with 0- or 1-based indexing.
  • Box solution style. A rectangle answer-key marking, alongside the existing Line and Rounded styles, in both single and batch export.
  • Word List Canvas scrolling & sort. Long word banks now scroll vertically on screen, and a new Word Order control sorts the list Ascending, Descending, or Random.
  • Check for Updates. A Settings → Updates panel checks securely over HTTPS for a newer version; it runs in the background and is opt-in on startup.
v2.1 July 29, 2026
New
  • Choose what to export in a single action: Puzzle, Answer key, and/or Word List.
  • Selectable export DPI for PNG output.
  • Live shape preview that updates as you adjust the puzzle.
  • Added an independent color control for the word-list title.
Improved
  • Scroll-wheel guard: scrolling over a field no longer changes its value by accident.
  • Refreshed navigation/arrow icons and general interface polish.
v2.0
New
  • Shape Puzzles. Constrain the whole grid to a custom boundary. Seven built-in shapes (None, Circle, Diamond, Triangle, Star, Heart, Cross) plus any uploaded silhouette image (PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF, WEBP), with Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical.
  • Dedicated Word List Canvas. The word bank renders on its own page with full styling: a custom title, 1 to 15 columns, alignment, column dividers, and independent typography.
Improved
  • New Rounded solution style with Fill Capsule and Fill Opacity (%) controls for a true highlighter-pen look.
v1.0
  • Initial release of WordSearchZ: a core word search generator with horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and reversed word placement; PNG, SVG, and PDF export with crop-to-content; and batch export.