A finished book is more than its text. At some point every author has to think about the object a reader holds or taps, and until now that meant leaving your manuscript behind for another program.
This release brings the cover into the same place as the writing.
The new Cover Designer handles front, back, and spine. You work with customizable zones for your title, author name, and artwork; set backgrounds; and save arrangements as templates so a series shares a consistent look without repeating the work. It is built for both print and ebook, so the file you need for a paperback and the file you need for an EPUB come from one design.
This is not meant to replace a professional designer on your most important releases, and I would not pretend otherwise. It is meant to make a competent, coherent cover something you can produce yourself, quickly, without breaking your concentration or your budget.
The same release adds something smaller and just as frequently asked for: tables in the editor. You can insert a table, edit its contents, add and remove rows and columns, and delete it again, all without leaving the page you are working on. Novelists use tables more often than the genre would suggest: a timeline of events, a cast list, the shape of a fictional government. Reference authors need them constantly. The controls are deliberately plain, because a table in a manuscript should be a quiet, functional thing rather than a small act of spreadsheet engineering.
One correction ships alongside: scenes are no longer counted toward your manuscript word total, so the numbers you rely on reflect the actual book.
The tools that surround your writing should feel as considered as the writing itself.