• Reworked all the buttons to be opaque so they are more legible under MacOS 26. • The "Title" tab now sports a descriptive text note at the bottom with a full list of possible puzzle macros you can use in the title string. • Separated the vague app menu item "Reset to Defaults" into TWO new different items: "Reset Document Settings to Saved Defaults" and "Reset Document Settings to Factory Defaults", and more clearly described their differences in the user guide. • Clarified wording of Word Clues in the user guide (section 5.13) and in the info text above the word list under "Words:Word List" tab, to remind users how to turn ON the display of word clues in the word list, which is a little obscure. (Thanks Thomas!) • More thoroughly described how to access and disable the "User Tips" in the user guide, under section 3.6. (Thanks JamesR!) • SVG Export now shrinks the puzzle grid as you increase the word list top margin, matching the behavior in the preview. • SVG Export now gives a little more left and bottom margin for the Secret Message text at the bottom of the image. • SVG internal group names and ID names are named more consistently. • BugFix_26020501: SVG supports OPEN OVALS for answer markers, Finally! (Thanks KentM and others) • BugFix_25120201: SVG Export now supports partial opacity in colors, if you add partial opacity to any colors, they will carry through in SVG export now! • BugFix: The Word List "number of columns:" popup menu now correctly starts up displaying your saved setting. • BugFix: SVG Export now more closely matches line length when setting the word list to comma-separated. • BugFix_25012201: SVG Export now handles "open ovals" to more closely match other exports, but does not have rounded ends yet (Thanks NickA and many others!) • BugFix_25012202: SVG Export now exports the secret message prompt below the word list if you set it to do so. (Thanks JamesR and many others!) • BugFix: When you export with "Including title and word list" turned on, the Puzzle and Answer pages now both ALWAYS use the taller file size and layout, and thus match each other. (Thanks KentM!)

* Now you can optionally have your titles displayed above the answer in your exported puzzle and answer files. (Thanks Tori!) * Now you can adjust the spacing between the puzzle and word list underneath. (Thanks Tori!) * The ability to show/hide the word list has been enhanced. Now you can show the word list on the puzzle page, the answer page, both, or neither. The control for this has been centralized, and is no longer under the Printing tab, but at the bottom of the "Layout:Word List" tab, which seemed a more intuitive place to find it. * You can now completely show/hide the Secret Message prompts under the puzzle/answer, if you want them to be very secret (Thanks Thomas!) * I have re-worded the "Words:Secret Message" tab a bit, clarifying the prompt area at the bottom. * I don't like the hollow-button look in MacOS 26/Tahoe, so I have FILLED all the buttons to be white (or black in dark mode) so they look like buttons again.

BugFix: Updated the Title and Subtitle text fields so they are once again legible in Dark Mode (Thanks JamesR!)

* Added a "speed-up" option to turn OFF naughty-word removal (under the Words:Word List tab), which could let certain kinds of word search puzzles to be built without errors (e.g. large puzzles with dozens of identical words.) (Thanks DeanF!) * Updated the list on the "upgrade-to-Pro" screen with more Pro features. * Changed the User Tip window title to correctly say WEEKLY, and also added text at the bottom to say how to get more tips immediately, as well as adding a note in the user guide (Thanks JamesR!) * BugFix: Corrected app icon support for MacOS 26 and older, and updated some text fields to look best on both older and newer MacOS.

* Some minor aesthetic user-interface cleanup to look more readable under MacOS 26/Tahoe (removing button shadows, etc.) * BugFix: Removed the "un-clickable dead space" in the center of the "Build" button. * BugFix: Tapping the "Copy Secret Message as Template" button now also displays the "Copied" flash to let you know it did something.

* Added new puzzle macro for today's full date, region-localized: $$datetoday. * User Interface and App Icons updated for MacOS 26/Tahoe. * BugFix: Fixed a scaling problem when exporting puzzles WITH "[x] Including Title and WordList" turned on and WITH a secret message in the puzzle, where the sides of the exported puzzle would get slightly cropped. (Thanks JamesR!)

What's New in 5.3.1: Fixed typos in AppStore description, and minor bug fixed. What's New in 5.3.0: * Added new language support... Icelandic! Halló Björk! * Added the Secret Message prompts to the bottom of the exported files, if you choose to display them. * Pro: You can now export to a new "ESP File" (JSON) that captures all the puzzle/answer information in a computer-readable way. You can use this to create book-publishing workflows, or to pour puzzles into your own interactive web or native computer games. You can find it when exporting your files as the "and ESP File" checkbox. There is an "ESP File Guide" document found in the HELP menu. * Added the author/copyright text field info into your exported SVG files... they will be stamped into the header comment of your files. * Renamed the IPUZ-specific Application-Settings tab "IPUZ EXPORT" to a more all-encompassing "AUTHOR INFO", because the author/copyright fields you enter here are now being used in multiple export file formats (IPUZ, ESP, SVG, text). * You can now turn off/on tooltips on the main window and menu bar, with a new button under the App Settings window's "Appearance" tab. * Added command-keys to cover all the Edit:Copy-As commands, for better disabilities-support. * Added the option to add little indicator arrows with each word in your printed word list as an extra hint of where to look, see the Layout:Word List:What to Display... area. (Thanks Thomas!) * Added a way to copy an image of the word-directions used as a graphic arrow-image for pasting into your word processor. Also see the explanation in the user guide on page 95, "Word Direction Arrows as Image" (Thanks Thomas!) * Finished rolling the optional woodgrain background into the export and bulk-builder windows. * Big User Guide clarification/updates to the Bulk Builder section 4.30, and to the Title section 5.3, to better explain how to add an automatic puzzle counter to the title of the exported or bulk-built puzzles (Thanks JamesR!) * BugFix: The broken SEARCH capability in the User Guide and Bulk Builder Guide windows (under the Help menu) is now fixed!

* Added new language support... Icelandic! Halló Björk! * Added the Secret Message prompts to the bottom of the exported files, if you choose to display them. * Pro: You can now export to a new "ESP File" (JSON) that captures all the puzzle/answer information in a computer-readable way. You can use this to create book-publishing workflows, or to pour puzzles into your own interactive web or native computer games. You can find it when exporting your files as the "and ESP File" checkbox. There is an "ESP File Guide" document found in the HELP menu. * Added the author/copyright text field info into your exported SVG files... they will be stamped into the header comment of your files. * Renamed the IPUZ-specific Application-Settings tab "IPUZ EXPORT" to a more all-encompassing "AUTHOR INFO", because the author/copyright fields you enter here are now being used in multiple export file formats (IPUZ, ESP, SVG, text). * You can now turn off/on tooltips on the main window and menu bar, with a new button under the App Settings window's "Appearance" tab. * Added command-keys to cover all the Edit:Copy-As commands, for better disabilities-support. * Added the option to add little indicator arrows with each word in your printed word list as an extra hint of where to look, see the Layout:Word List:What to Display... area. (Thanks Thomas!) * Added a way to copy an image of the word-directions used as a graphic arrow-image for pasting into your word processor. Also see the explanation in the user guide on page 95, "Word Direction Arrows as Image" (Thanks Thomas!) * Finished rolling the optional woodgrain background into the export and bulk-builder windows. * Big User Guide clarification/updates to the Bulk Builder section 4.30, and to the Title section 5.3, to better explain how to add an automatic puzzle counter to the title of the exported or bulk-built puzzles (Thanks JamesR!) * BugFix: The broken SEARCH capability in the User Guide and Bulk Builder Guide windows (under the Help menu) is now fixed!

BugFix_25062401: Whirlwind no longer avoids placing words along top and bottom few rows... now words are more evenly distributed again and can stab into secret messages at the top or bottom of the puzzle. (Thanks KevinI & JenO).

* Added the ability to show a word in the word list but NOT put in the puzzle, for a "Find the Missing Word" style game (IanM) * Completely re-designed the "Tip of the Day" window to be much prettier, and with helpful graphics! Take a look by pressing (command)(option)-T.. * User Tips window now has a checkbox at the bottom to let you directly turn ON or OFF the auto-show-tips (which you can also do in the Application Settings window, but that is harder for people to find. (Thanks JamesR.) * Added a slider (Under Printing:Answer tabs) to fine-adjust the width of the answer oval (thanks IanM and JenO) * Renamed the Application Settings:Extras feature to Puzzle Aspect Ratio. * Added more clarification in the Intro Screen window top text to describe where to find the user guide. (Thanks JamesR) * Relative Font size for letters can now grow to 2x (instead of 1.5x), allowing smaller fonts to take up a larger area. (Thanks IanM) * BugFix: When re-opening your saved documents, the colors you chose now are remembered exactly and don't "slowly drift" toward other colors. This change unfortunately will RESET your prior saved document colors to defaults this one upgrade-time, and you will need to re-choose any custom colors and save the updated document. After that it will forever remember the proper color. (Thanks IanM) * BugFix: Building a puzzle with shorter words would sometimes create a random duplicate of that word that it would not find and eliminate (Thanks DeanF) * BugFix: Made the preview window more squishable, so that the Full-screen view mode works properly and does not hide the bottom buttons off the screen. * BugFix: Fixed the top-bottom-avoidance-detection logic so small puzzles (less than 8 high) don't avoid top/bottom * BugFix: After export# is set to some # and saved as default, future launches of Whirlwind will correctly pre-set the export counter to that number.

• Clues were hard to find! So I changed the Word List formatting popup menu ("Print the word list as:") into a more understandable set of radio buttons instead. (Thanks Thomas!) • Pro: When using the Bulk Builder's "Word List Group" feature, added the option to either shuffle the order of the groups for the puzzles, or leave the group order as-is. There is a new checkbox in the Bulk Builder window just under the Bulk Word Lists text area called "Shuffle the build order of your word list groups". See the "Bulk Builder Guide" on page 3, under "2. Multiple Word Groups", and the regular user guide, page 46 for new text. (Thanks Dean!) • Even more accessibility fixes for groups of controls. • BugFix: When creating word lists with clues, if you forget to add a clue to a word, it once again gives you a helpful error alert telling you that you missed one. (Thanks Thomas!) • BugFix: Fixed a long-standing formatting bug in ipuz exports for the "origin" tag.

• Made the progress window slightly transparent so we can see the preview underneath. • Application Settings now always refers to items in the frontmost document window, in case you have opened multiple windows (e.g. the SVG font example text display.) • Updated Bulk-Builder Guide with more accurate notes on puzzle-macros. • BugFix: Updated SVG export and the "Application Settings:SVG" pane with a new "Add Fall-back fonts" checkbox, to allow finer handling of SVG exports when you are then importing into InDesign or Affinity and are going to immediately convert them to PDF. See User Guide Pg. 91 for more information. • BugFix: The "Layout:WordList:Left Indent Adjustment" slider is now working correctly again. • BugFix: Pro: The Shape Editor window is now size-adjustable, to fit on smaller laptop screens (740 height), and you can drag its edges to make it fit bigger screens (Thanks DaveR!)

• New Feature: The PRO-only feature of optionally adding Title text to exported files is now available in the regular FULL product too. • New Feature: Added helpful "user tips" to the software, which will automatically pop up once a week. You can turn off the user tips from the Settings dialog, and/or step through them manually under the "Next User Tip" menu item under the Help menu. • Whirlwind now features many magic "$$Puzzle Macros" that can be used in the Title or Subtitle or Secret Message text fields. See the new User Guide section "Use Auto-Updating Puzzle Macros". • You can now optionally draw a colored outline or "stroke" around the puzzle letters, which lets you design "hollow letters", so you can now create those popular "color in the letters" word search puzzles. See the user guide, new section 4.25, and look under the Layout/Letters tabs for the new checkbox "Draw letter outlines in color"! • Allow a #-of-words-max value option when allowing all-words-optional, so it uses no more than that number of optional words in puzzle (Thanks GeorgeP) • Puzzles will now try really hard to AVOID laying horizontal words along the very top or bottom row(s) of a puzzle. After the 70% mark, this rule is relaxed and words are allowed to wind up on the very top or bottom row of the puzzle. (Thanks GeorgeP) • Improved behavior of Max-Optionals - Enhanced behavior of Max-Optionals: Now, if you enable All-Words-Optional and specify a Max-Optional-Words value, Whirlwind will randomly select that many words from your entire word list whenever you construct a puzzle, instead of consistently choosing the top N words from the list. Additionally, if it’s unable to fit even that many words, it will now begin removing words and rebuilding until it succeeds, rather than simply failing. I’ve attempted to explain this nuanced behavior in the user guide on page 70. • Added an EXTRAS tab in the Settings dialog to allow fine-tuning of the puzzle grid's width, in case you want it not quite 1:1 square. (thanks StephenK) • Added a SEARCH field at the top of the user guide window for simple searching of words or phrases (Thanks JamesR.) • Added a "View" menu to allow for full-screen toggling of the window. • Pro: If the Bulk-Builder gets an error when you try to load your words, it now adds a little text to remind you to read the Bulk-Builder Guide for formatting help (Thanks JenO) • Pro: Bulk Exported files will now add the Bulk Design/Variation after the export counter in the file name. • User Guide: Improved the section "Export" to better explain copy/paste of text into spreadsheets or into Canva. • SVG export now correctly matches the outline thickness no matter what image pixel size you export to. • Added a new (short) User Guide section 4.16, describing how to use Apple Intelligence to auto-add word lists for you. • BugFix_25030301 - You can once again create rectangular puzzles under 10 characters in width. Just choose one of the Rectangle shapes first, then you can reduce the puzzle size below 10. (StephenK) • BugFix: Copying text from Photoshop and pasting it into your word list now works without giving an error about bad (invisible) characters in your word list. Why does Photoshop sprinkle ETX characters into the text? (Thanks SandraR!) • BugFix_25012601: Now correctly fixed: setting the Advanced-difficulty overlap to "OVERLAP ALL" will now show an error if it could not overlap all (GeorgeP & ThomasS) • BugFix_25012701: If you have a large number of words, all marked optional, Whirlwind will now work harder to keep as many optional words as possible to fill the puzzle, instead of just removing most of the optional words. (Thanks GeorgeP.) • BugFix: Word lists can now also be pasted in as tab-delimited lists, and words will be separated correctly. (Thanks MarkO) (and many more features added and bugs fixed, see built-in WHATS NEW menu item for full list)

• Added ability to specify how many columns to use in the word list under the puzzle (or allow the original auto-calculate way.) (Thank you Thomas and April!) • LITE&Full: Added option to Center the word list words. This works for both word columns or comma separated words. • Added option to add a left-edge indent to the word list. This works for both word columns or comma separated words. • Pro: The exported Info and Word List text files now add info lines that list the word clues if there. • BugFix: Some SVG export fixes related to better formatting/sizing of the word list text under the puzzle. • BugFix: Rectangle shapes can now be any even or odd width (i.e., the rectangle "Short Side Size" slider now works properly.) [Bugfix_2410081] (Thanks Zolymar) • BugFix: When choosing to display word list as "Word Clues", the Answer page once again displays clues WITH their words in the word list [Bugfix_2410112]

• BugFix: When turning OFF gridlines, they are now completely suppressed when exporting as SVG (they were still being drawn as zero-width lines) (Thanks SimonD!) • BugFix: Puzzles that are rectangle shaped now upgrade to 5.0 rectangles properly instead of reverting to square shapes (Thanks OrsonT!) • BugFix: "Rectangle Size" slider has been properly renamed "Short Side Size" to match the user guide reference.

• The User Interface has been heavily re-arranged to be better organized, with fewer things on each tabbed pane, but more and deeper tabs. • Renamed the "Alphabet" tab to "Alphabets/Numbers" to make it easier to find where to set up a NUMBERS word-search puzzle (Thanks Eliza!) • Added Japanese/Chinese numbers to list of "alphabet" styles. • Added the subtitle and word list display to the Preview area. • All Font-chooser popup-menus now display the list of fonts *in* the font itself for WYSIWYG choosing. • The "Create" button has been renamed "Build", and an ACTION menu has been added to hold the main Build/Stop/Bulk-Build/Shape-Designer actions. • Word directions are now more evenly distributed, so if you have 10 words, and 2 allowed directions, it will try very hard to add 5 words in EACH of those 2 directions. You can see the distribution by looking at the Stats table to see how many words were laid down in each direction. (Thanks Jen!) • Re-worked the user interface for Letter Font size adjustment to better explain (and warn) "automatic" versus "fixed" font point size (Thanks Syl!) • Building "tight" puzzles (small puzzles with very few remaining empty spaces) will now succeed more often, where they would always fail before. • Added "Filename Layout" popup menu to the EXPORT window, allowing you to re-arrange the order of the exported filename components. • Font size sliders are now continuous and do not stop on the tick marks (thanks Jen!) • Re-Added IPUZ export format back into export options (Thanks Jesse & Dave!) • Added the "Reset Settings to Defaults" menu function to the software. • Under the "Secret Message" tab, added a "Copy Secret Message as Template" button to copy to clipboard. Bugs Fixed: • The Answer Key works properly: Hidden word letters and Secret Message letters correctly hide, dim, show as you change the Print Answer display settings, and the Answer loops now are drawn on TOP of the grid and non-answer fill-letters. • Fixed a rare occasional crash that would happen when making very large (40x40 or bigger) word search puzzles. • Grid line size and Answer Highlight loop drawing is changed slightly, now adjusts RELATIVE to puzzle size (making it export-resolution-independent.) • FINALLY found and fixed Edit:Undo/Redo menu functions for text fields, so you can properly undo/redo typing in your word lists! • Opening and then Editing your document and then choosing FILE:CLOSE or hitting the window's red "close" dot will now prompt to let you first save your changes, instead of closing and discarding the changes. • Now more often succeeds building smaller tight puzzles with almost no free space, by trying harder (taking longer) if it needs to. • SVG export is now much more accurate and adds more puzzle features, like word list, etc. • Turning ON or OFF the "show the word list" checkboxes on the Printing Puzzle or Answer pages now correctly turns them on/off, also affects the EXPORTED (Fancy Mode) output. • Word List text now uses the Puzzle Letter font color, not the Title Text font color! It has been (incorrect) that way for years! • Turning OFF "Printing:Print Word List on Answer Page" also hides it from Answer Preview window. (Thanks JamesR) • Secret Message template "underscores" are narrower so they don't merge together into one long line for a word, but now better show each letter position. • When a large number of words are optional and omitted from the word list, the # of columns of words under the puzzle is now re-calculated to correctly balance (and re-center) the word list.

-BugFix: PNG exported files are now transparent outside the puzzle again.

-This update will run on any Macintosh (Intel or Apple Silicon) running 10.14 or newer. -Added Rainbow-Up and Rainbow-down shapes (for Elli) -New option to display the word list as comma-delimited, instead of as columns (See Page Details, "Print as list of".) Works better for long words. (Thanks Thomas) -You can now choose to print the Answer key with the non-answer letters as a dim gray color (See PageDetails: Print Puzzle Letters: Dimmed) (Thanks Eliza!) -Export menu items are now condensed into a single export comand, and you can choose puzzle and/or answer once, and it will remember and export both all at once for you, instead of choosing each one separately. -Changed 1" margins to 1/2" margins for printed pages. (Thanks Diana) -Copying the word list via "Edit:Copy Formatted Word List as text" now will mark hidden words with their "*" prefix, if you have "Print Hidden Words in Answer" turned on. It will also format the word list as you have requested in the Page Details tab, as comma delimited, numbered, alphabetized, etc. -iPuz command removed from export menu, never got used. -Changed the wording of the Help menu item "Report a problem" to "Contact Author". -The Start/Stop menu items have moved to a new separate Actions menu. -MOVED all the Export settings from the Preferences/Settings window tab to the Export window itself. The export settings are still persistently remembered there as you change them, but are in a more accessible spot. (Thanks Diana & Thomas.) -The "Preferences" menu item is now permanently renamed to "Settings" to match Apple's changing it in MacOS 13 (Ventura). Updated the user guide and Intro screen shots to refer to this new name. (Thanks Diana!) -SVG Export correctly exports SANS-serif letters, and is now more tidy internally. -Opening an older version document now displays which older version the document was saved as with the more standard "x.y.z" version display. -BugFix: Changing language now correctly marks the puzzle as un-built, so that print/export menus are dimmed until you re-build the puzzle. -BugFix: Whenever you use the Edit:Copy... menu items to copy puzzle, image, text, or word list, you will now always see the little temporary "Copied" image flash on the window to let you know it did something. -BugFix: Settings dialog, the "Extra Hidden Words" and "Excluded Words" tabs now have their own popup menus for choosing the language to use, independent of which language you currently chose in your document.

-Added "Report a Problem" item to the Help menu, to easily send e-mail with software information attached. -BugFix: When opening older saved Whirlwind documents that used the "Numbers (Arabic)" alphaset, they would give an error about the word list being incorrect. This is now fixed. You will need to open the document (which will open to the ENGLISH alphaset, and then re-choose the NUMBERS alphaset, and it can then build a word search without errors.

-New Language supported, Norwegian! (thanks Anna!) -New feature: You can now set "Extra Hidden Words" which will be added to all your puzzles, like a permanent watermark. -New feature: You can now set "Excluded Words" which lets you extend the list of already-known "naughty words", and will remove them if found in the random puzzle letters. -Sorted the list of alphabets in the Word List Alphabet popup menu, so they are easier to find... "English" is always first, and "Numbers" is always last though. -Some clarifying and distilling of the Intro screens, both user interface and the content (thanks Kat!) -Improved wording of Secret Message Prompting in the SECRET MESSAGE pane. -Moved the checkboxes "Print Separator Lines" and "Print SchwanSongs logo" from Answer Page to Puzzle Page area. -The direction arrows that are displayed under the DIFFICULTY tab (both BASIC and ADVANCED) are now more readable in Dark Mode, and the ADVANCED arrow buttons look like buttons! (Thanks Anna!) -When changing the Title "Font Size Adjustment" you now see it change "live" on the Preview area. -BugFix: If you paste title and/or subtitle text that is multiple lines tall (with newlines in them) they no longer squish down the checkboxes at the bottom of the preview window, the text will truncate instead. (Thanks Chris!) -BugFix: Copying the image of the current Answer from the Edit menu now properly reflects your printed solution settings, including whether to highlight the Secret message and hidden words, and also reflects your cell background color choice. (Thank you Clare!)

BugFix: Copy/Pasting a text word list from Adobe InDesign into Whirlwind's word list would run all the words together, now fixed (thanks Brad!) BTW, why is Adobe still using carriage-return line endings on Macs? Apple changed that over a DECADE ago... perhaps it is a difficult bug for Adobe to fix. ;-)

-Modest re-arranging of the main window tabs, breaking the controls for the page titles out into a separate "Titles" tab now. This leaves some room for a BIG feature coming soon. -Updated final screen of Intro Window with new "full product software list" -Newly revised User Guide, increased font size a bit for easier reading. -Your word list is automatically "cleaned up" and updated in-place when you click "Create"... commas are turned into newlines and any empty lines between words are removed. -Added the ability to enter a specific font point size for the grid letters, instead of the auto-font-resizing style. You can still use the vertical centering controls with fixed font size. (thanks Jen!) -INCREASED font size a bit for easier reading of Word List text and of Secret Message text. -Added a "PRIOR" button to the intro screen -When you "lock in" your own SPIN (which forces the puzzle to be built with the same word layout each time you hit CREATE), there is now a warning text that displays just above the tabs that lets you know that you have turned this option on. -BugFix: Pasting a text word list from Microsoft Word was adding extra invisible (CR) characters and causing Whirlwind to issue a "Selected letter not allowed" error, now fixed (thanks Jen!) -BugFix: The "Draw only outline" feature now works correctly with square or rectangle shapes. -BugFix: SVG Export of Answer now correctly hides the "Secret Message" squares if you turn off "Highlight Secret Message on Answer" (Thanks Simon!) -BugFix: SVG Export of Answer now displays Hidden words with a light gray strikethrough, and now always shows hidden words correctly.

-Compound words can now be entered as-is with spaces instead of the underscore place-holder character! This means that your original word-lists will work as-is and will *not* need to be modified with underscores when adding to Whirlwind (one less step for you!) -Added a new "draw only shape outline" mode that draws the outer shape wall lines, but not inner grid-lines. -Added 4 new shapes: Chevron-Up, Chevron-Down, Chevron-Left, Chevron-Right. -Added some diacriticals to the English allowed letters, so you can now use many loan words, like façade and jalapeño. (Thanks Brad!) -The Secret Message printed hint at the bottom of the puzzle page now can be anything you want. There is a free-form text field to enter your own hint about what to find. -Bumped minimum supported OS to 10.12. -Exported file names can now automatically include the SPIN number that generated the puzzle in them, for easy differentiation. -Preview display now has two new checkboxes, "Show secret message" and "show hidden words", which let you visually show/hide these items on the PREVIEW display, without affecting your settings for the final printed answer key. -Added a "Copy Formatted Word List as Text" option (as a menu item and button under the word list) to export a clean text word list for easy page layout insertion. (Brad & Simon & others) -Many more "dirty words" are detected and removed from the random fill area, in English and several other languages. (Thanks Brad!) -BugFix: Checkboxes under the Word List are now consistent sizes. (Thanks Brad!) -BugFix: When exporting a puzzle or answer to PDF/PNG by using the keyboard shortcut instead of the File menu item via mouse, the highlighted preview extras (bad words/decoy words) no longer get accidentally added to the exported image. (Thanks Brad!) -BugFix: If you add a list of words with NO word clues, and you choose to print "word clues", it now simply prints your list of words (instead of an empty list.)

-When opening an older document that is updated/migrated, the warning dialog that appears now shows the data version of the old document to help the user know which version of Whirlwind saved it. -Removed the distracting tool-tip on the Preview area. -When words in your word list are too short or too long and you get an error message, they will now also be selected in the word list so you can find them more easily. (Thanks Richard!) -After you have entered your words and created a puzzle, the total # of words found is displayed under your word list, so you can insure they all got entered. (Thanks Richard!) -BugFix: Reading older puzzle documents into this newer software now works properly and updates the default font colors more reasonably. (Thanks Jen!)

Builds puzzles much faster and better than before. Title/Subtitle text is now displayed in the Preview Area and auto-updates as you change it. [Thanks Debbie] New menu item to quickly set puzzle to black-and-white color scheme for printing. [Thanks Duncan] New Upright-Oval Shape. [Thanks Jennifer] Optional "Allow Duplicates" checkbox allows you to make a word search puzzle that contains the same word multiple times. [Thanks Matt] Preview can now toggle between PUZZLE view and ANSWER view. Better error message explanations when the puzzle cannot be built. Non-English puzzles made in the "easier" difficulty modes no longer fill the puzzles with letters containing diacriticals. The "Too Many Words" error message now displays about how many extra letters there are, so you know how many to remove. SVG Export now supports the font size/vertical-positioning adjustments. Better Italian support [Thanks Riccardo] New feature to strip all diacriticals from puzzle letters, for supporting non-English language puzzle styles. [Thanks Riccardo] Better arrangement of Secret Message controls. SPIN text field handles non-digit text entry more nicely. The Preview puzzle now floats in the center of the Preview area. The Preview "extras" (Naughty Words, Dupe Words, Decoys) now display their lines on the Preview display slightly offset from each other, so they are easier to see when they overlap.