DeckCraft changelog
The editor on this site runs the latest release, DeckCraft 0.7.0 from October 14, 2026. Each guide names the version it was written for; the changes since then are below.
October 17, 2026 — DeckCraft editing Agent
Our community build of DeckCraft 0.7.0 adds an optional Agent that edits text boxes and speaker notes, adds text and creates slides in the open presentation. It uses existing Craft Apps credits and the native undo history. Document identity, revision and exact original-text checks protect edits.
This first version excludes groups, tables, charts, master/layout shapes, locked or hidden text, fields, hyperlinks, media and animation editing. Replacing text can change mixed formatting, and text boxes can resize. Inspect the result and save or export the presentation. There is no autosave; PPTX export keeps the upstream format limitations.
This is a site-maintained patch, not an upstream release. Source patch · Build information.
DeckCraft 0.7.0
October 14, 2026 · 49 changes
- Text: superscript and subscript letters no longer spread apart
- Themes: background pictures are recoloured, and dark layouts stay dark
- Render: two-colour gradients ramp like PowerPoint's
- PPTX: a picture fill with no stretch or tile is tiled, as in PowerPoint
- PPTX: a placeholder without geometry takes its layout's
- Draw only the first character of a multi-character bullet
- Text: a list whose hang passes the box edge keeps its gap after the number
- Text: single-spaced lines are 1.2 times the font size apart, as in PowerPoint
- Render: shapes filled with the slide background show it
- Render: slide backgrounds are laid over white, as in PowerPoint
- Text: wrap URLs, Korean and CJK punctuation where PowerPoint does
- Emoji: drawn in colour, with families, skin tones and flags joined
- Text: gradient fills draw, starting over on every line as in PowerPoint
- Text: shadows and glows are drawn, with PowerPoint's glow spread
- Bullets: circled numbers and symbols the text font lacks come from a fallback font
DeckCraft 0.6.1
October 12, 2026
DeckCraft 0.5.0
October 11, 2026 · 15 changes
- Issue #23: README lists the ALSA headers a Linux build needs
- Morph test: sort the ids before dedup so it really checks uniqueness
- Slide show: transitions show the old slide instead of the new one twice (#33)
- Issue #44: MCP: the export tool lists PDF and its layout options
- Issue #63: Text: hyperlinks are drawn in the theme's hyperlink colour, underlined
- Add OmaStore manifest
- Issue #61: Shapes: flipped shapes keep their text readable
- Morph: a changed geometry morphs its outline (a circle turns into a star)
- Colour menus: clicking the hex field no longer closes the menu (#32)
- Home: the title bar's Home button opens the start screen (#17)
- Animated GIFs play, with pause (media.gifPlay)
- Links: Insert Hyperlink with a bare caret inserts the address; the show follows links (#31)
- Animation Painter: copy and apply animation sequences between shapes
- Issue #62: Fields: date fields show today's date in their own format
- Progress docs: re-measure against PowerPoint 16.113 (craftrules standard)
DeckCraft 0.4.0
October 10, 2026 · 11 changes
- macOS DMG: branded window background and icon layout
- Fix integer overflow on hostile H.264/HEVC parameter sets
- README: install on Gentoo from the ::snakebyte overlay
- Slide show: a click after a long pause plays its step instead of skipping it
- PPTX: recognise packages whose [Content_Types].xml is not in the first 4 KB
- Start screen: theme tiles that wrap to a new row keep the left inset (#17)
- Desktop: write log records to standard error and a rotating log file
- Default Windows startup to DirectX 12
- Morph: shapes move, resize and blend; Words and Characters options morph text
- Tables: rows grow to fit their text, cell text in the PDF text layer (#13)
- UAX #9 BiDi and Arabic complex script typography engine
DeckCraft 0.3.0
October 8, 2026 · 3 changes
DeckCraft 0.1.0
October 8, 2026