RocketCake Change Log
A list of changes of every RocketCake version
RocketCake 6.1 released!
This is a free update with new features and small improvements everywhere. You can download it here.
Changes:
- Fullscreen mobile menu
By default, the mobile menu is now fullscreen and animated and looks like this:
This is the default for new websites, if you want to enable this for your existing website, use the option "FullscreenMobileMenu" in the advanced settings of the menu in the property window
- Accordion component
There is now a downloadable accordion component. It can show text and animate it and has many ways to customize it. It can contain rich text and images, is animated and can be stacked together with others.
Get it here
- The navigation menu has now the option to close itself when the mouse cursor has left the area of the menu.
This is an option under the advanced settings of the menu.
- The web statistics component now can sort the recent visitors table by column and includes some other minor improvements
- Added Czech translation (thanks to Vladimír Špaček!)
- Removed Slovak translation because of bad quality of the translation - sorry for that
- Fixed a problem causing the command "Help -> open Help" on macOS not to do anything on some systems
- Selection markers for menus are now looking much clearer when there are many elements
- Search engine component with some bug fixes

- You can now view the version numbers of the used downloadeable components by clicking "View -> Log Window"
- Scripted Components can now use the function onLayoutElement to run code when the element gets layouted in the editor, so that more complex components are possible to be created
- Default minimal screen width for mobile menus is now 600px
RocketCake 6.0 released!
This update of the free responsive website designer includes a lot of new features. You can download it here.
Note that if you are using the professional edition, you need to upgrade your license, but there is a discount for existing users.
New in this release:
- Shape Divider component
RocketCake now includes a shape divider component: It works like a container (you can place text, images etc into it) but includes a generated SVG element to make a visually appealing section divider.
They are used to divide the sections on a website, and can be used to create a nice looking transition between pieces of content. Shape Dividers in RocketCake have a set of built-in shapes (waves, curves, triangles, inclinations and more).

- Built-in Visitor Analytics
There is now a web statistics component for visitor analytics available, which can also be used as visitor counter.
Add this onto a webpage in your project, and this will automatically count visitors and list interesting statistics like referrers, operting system, language etc.
It runs entirely on your own server, doesn't need cookies and doesn't track ip adresses or your users.
You can get it here
- Accessibility features
Lots of features to improve your website's accessibility - which gets important with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA):
- <label> support
Added support for the <label> element: this is text associated with a form element.
Select the "for" element in the property window to link them, or drag the form element into the label. The label is useful for making your form accessible using a screen reader.
- TAB navigatable Navigation menu
The navigation menu items can now be iterated using the TAB key and focused items can be activated by pressing ENTER.
Additional new settings under "advanced settings" enable aria-label generation and tabIndex reordering.
- Aria-Label support
Hyperlinks now support the aria-label attribute natively and navigation menus now automatically generate aria-labels for menu items (you can disable this in the advanced settings of the menu)

- Alt text everywhere
All elements including slideshows and carousels now support alt texts
<nav> support
There is now a downloadable component available which creates a <nav> element. It's the Navigation Section element, into which you can add any other element into it, like a navigation bar.
- Labels in forms by default
The downloadable contact form components now use label elements instead of text for better accessibility
- New and improved templates
There are a few new free templates available, and the existing ones have been updated with new fonts, shape dividers and in general have been updated a bit to be more modern.
- Better tab control
You can now right-click any tab in the editor and a new context menu opens, where you can decide to close all tabs, or all except this tab quickly.
Additionally, tabs in the editor now all have the close button visible by default, making it easier to close tabs quickly.

- Paste Images support
It is now possible to paste images directly into the editor.
Useful for example if you are for example generating AI images on a website and want them to be included on your website without saving them first to disk.
- Lots of new features for slideshows and carousels
- It is now possible to change the active page of the carousel and the slideshow by simply clicking the page indicator in the editor
- It is now possible to select the start image of an slide show with the property "ActivePage" or using a click on the page indicators
- The arrows on the navigation buttons had a slight different font size in the editor than in the browser, this is fixed now
- You can now select Alt text for each image in a slideshow or background image in a carousel

- Downloadable component improvements
- The search engine component now also works nicely with unicode pages and finds results for example in cyrillic, chinese and japanese documents.
- The sidebar component now has the option to just overlay the website without making the website smaller when opening. It also generates tabIndices and ariaLabels for a better lighthouse accessibility score.
- Contact form and Anti-Spam-Contact form components now use label tags

- Submenu indicator for menus now looks better in the published HTML when special fonts like Segoe UI is used
- Editor improvements
- The editor now scrolls automatically to the cursor position if changed by keyboard
- Dragging items around on the page is now much more precise and faster
- The element browser now shows more specific names for the elements in the browser
- When selecting an internal page from your project for a new hyperlink, you can now simply double-click the page and the dialog will close automatically, instead of needing to confirm this with a second click onto OK.
- The element browser now shows the component type name of an element directly in the tree
- Added support for the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus
- New scripting features
- The scripting function "rcAddFileWithTextContent" can now also write files into sub folders
- Added a new scripting function 'rcGetHTMLURLForLinkedFile' for getting the URL for a root relative linked file from a page
- Other, smaller changes:
- When closing the editor, RocketCake now asks if the user wants to save the changes or not, saving a few clicks
- The default size when images are suggested to be reduced in the editor has been increased a bit
- The built-in FTP uploader now shows which file it is currently uploading
- Folders can no longer contain spaces in their names.
- Removed support for quicktime, java and flash components.
- Pressing ENTER in the hyperlink creation dialog now closes the dialog
- Performance improvements when rendering large images in the editor
- And a lot more
RocketCake 5.6 released!
This is a free update of RocketCake with performance improvements for the Windows version. You can download it here. Changes:
This update works around a problem in Windows 11 which might cause performance problems on some systems:
When designing websites with larger images using the 64 bit version of RocketCake on a recently updated Windows 11 system - the performance of the editor could become very slow.
The Windows update KB5041585 or KB5043076 might have caused this problem (but it's not entirely clear yet).
This RocketCake update improves this situation.
This update is only for the Windows version of RocketCake - the macOS version is not affected.
RocketCake 5.5 released!
This is a free update with new features and small improvements everywhere. You can download it here.
Changes:

- Carousel Component
There is now a new component named "Carousel" available in the editor.
Also known as sliders, carousels let you display text, graphics, images, by animated automatic or manual horizontal scrolling. It has built-in and configurable navigation buttons and page indicators.
You can even use the carousel as advanced slide show by placing an image onto it and adjusting its size just as you like.
- Enhanced slideshows
Slideshows now also have the option to show integrated navigation buttons and page indicators. Also, they now horizontally center the images automatically when the mode is set to "Fit to height". And the size of fixed aspect ratio slideshows can now be dragged easier by dragging the edge point.
- New and improved templates
There is now a new free website template included in the editor: "Wealthy company", and some of the existing built-in templates have been improved
- Automatic browser cache invalidation
RocketCake now forces Chrome to automatically reload external css files when they have been changed.
Previously, when you made changes to the design, chrome would sometimes agressively cache the css file and show the styles of a previous design, causing your website to show up wrongly sometimes for you during development.
RocketCake now links external css files using an hash field so that chrome is forced to reload the file in that case.

Lots of other improvements:
- Added support for the Samsung Galaxy S24 and Google Pixel 8
- Added two new built-in modern font family stacks which work nicely on all browsers on all devices:
- "Neo-Grotesque" (Inter, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Arial Nova, Nimbus Sans, Arial, sans-serif)
- "Antique" (Superclarendon, Bookman Old Style, URW Bookman, URW Bookman L, Georgia Pro, Georgia, serif)
- The contact form and the contact form with anti spam components now send their content using UTF-8
- The font size of webform elements date picker, text field, combo box and button now can now also be changed using break points.
- Fixed a problem when using HDPI displays causing cursor positions of some characters not to be exact
- Breakpoints now also work nicely for all extension components when using external css files
- The marked text color now adjusts itself a bit more to be more visible for gray text
- Fixed aspect ratio elements now use the css style "aspect-ratio" since it is now supported by all current browers. The fallback for old browsers without support for this is nicely looking as well.
- Fixed a crash when editing imported WebsitePainter documents
- Lots of small improvements everywhere
RocketCake 5.4 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- XML Sitemaps
There is now support for XML sitemaps: Get the XML Sitemap component and put it onto any of your pages - then a sitemap for your whole website will be automatically generated.
Note that this only works on the Pro edition of RocketCake since this is a component - and these only work in RocketCake Pro.

- Slideshow improvements
- You can now set a vertical center alignment for images drawn in covered mode. This is 'center' by default now.
- Slideshows with fixed aspect ratio can now also be easily adjusted in size in the editor
- There is now a new action which can be added to hpyerlinks and buttons for pausing/restarting the slideshow
- Project color selection
The color selection dialog now automatically also shows the 14 most popular colors in the project.

- Advanced word break support
New features for controlling word breaks more easily:
- Non breaking space characters are now displayed (as underline _ character) when selecting the "show invisible characters" option
- Added support for soft hypens (­) so you can manually insert hyphens where you want them to appear. You can right-click any text, select "insert text symbol -> soft hyphen" to insert them. They appear in the editor as normal hyphens but are marked when the "show invisible characters" option is turned on.
- Added support for word break opportunity characters (<wbr>) so you can manually insert word breaks in long words, so that the browser break the word at that place. You can right-click any text, select "insert text symbol -> word break opportunity" to insert them. They appear in the editor as invisible but are marked when the "show invisible characters" option is turned on.

- Rotation of JPGs via EXIF information is now supported
If you import an image directly taken with your camera or phone, and the orientation of the image was stored using EXIF information, the image will now correctly rotated show up in the editor as well.
- When selecting tables (click on the border of the table) it is now possible to change the fonts and colors of all cells at the same time
- Larger Icons for high resolution screens

- Search engine component now uses the user selected font settings for the search result pages
- In dark mode on macOS, icons are now better readable
- A new scripting function named "rcAddFileWithTextContent" can now be used to write out additional files when publishing your website. See the scripting documentation for more info about this.
- When inserting text between two elements, the text now gets the same text alignment as the two elements.
- Various smaller improvements here and there.
RocketCake 5.3.1 released
This is a free update of RocketCake with mostly smaller improvements. You can download it here. Changes:
- Improved Animated GIF support - animated gifs encoded with some special optimizers can now be loaded as well
- The password protection feature now recognizes web servers with poorly configured PHP session memory paths and warns the user
- Added turkish translation - Thanks to Tayfur Yaldız!
RocketCake 5.3 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- New supported device types:
- Apple iPhone 15
- Apple iPhone 15 Plus
- Google Pixel 6
- Samsung Galaxy A12
- New downloadable components:
- Sidebar Menu
Shows an animated sidebar menu when the user clicks onto a button with a smooth transition effect.
Menu entries can be added and deleted when selecting the outer "Sidebar control" container in RocketCake. Entering the text "-" creates an empty entry in order to be able to group entries nicely.

- Search Engine
There is now a search engine component available for download from the component download page:
Simply put the component on a page and it will let your visitors search your whole website. This doesn't use any index, so it is only fast for small websites.
Note: This search engine will return results from all pages in your project, no matter if they are password protected or not.
You can exclude pages from the search by entering them in the list of excluded pages.
You can adjust the font and design of the result page by formatting the text "The search result will be displayed in here." - this text won't show up on your website.

- Simple Age Verification
A simple age verification component to ask wether the user has a certain age. If clicked yes, the popup is removed for the whole website. If no, the user can be redirected to a special page. If you click click "Yes", the popup won't appear again. For testing, to make it appear again, remove the local storage key "ageConfirmationOverlay" under Application -> LocalStorage in the developer tools of your browser, or just delete and clear all browser settings.

- Simpler Property values editing
The property window doesn't need pressing ENTER after changes anymore. Clicking into another window now will commit your changes by default.
- Advanced <a> attributes
Links can now be created using some advanced attributes. The following are now supported:
- rel: For adding attributes like rel="nofollow"
- title: For adding tooltips for the link when hovering it
- id: For adding ids to all links
- download: For marking a link to let the browser download the target instea of opening it
Use the "advanced" tab in the link creation dialog to create these.

- Extensions to the scripting API
so you can now create even more advanced downloadable components:
- the function rcWriteCode now has an additional optional parameter to make it possible to disable HTML Encoding when writing out code.
- Properties can now have arrays, for example to set a list of URLs, like this:
<propertyarray maxEntries="*">
<item type="string" name="file" />
<item type="string" name="link" />
<item type="bool" name="open" />
</propertyarray>
- Lots of smaller improvements
- The password protection mechanism now supports special symbols and unicode characters.
- RocketCake extension components now also supports unicode characters everywhere.
- When the 'X' on the tooltip ballon about the responsive slider on the bottom of the editor is clicked, it is now stored as well globally that this tooltip won't be shown again.
- On macOS, buttons and elements with rounded corners look nicer in the editor now (there have been some aliasing artifacts on some systems)
- On some systems on macOS, the color picker dialog didn't work correctly when positioned to overlap special windows, that is fixed now
- Fixed a bug which might cause a potential crash when using downloadable components with localized French text
- Hovering the mouse over a link directly embedded into the page now also shows the link target in a tooltip
- Some template updates:
- TechCompany template now uses the right aligned menu and works nicely with the new sidebar menu as well
- Fixed a problem in the "Food" template (which is now renamed to "Flowerfield")
RocketCake 5.2.1 released!
This is a free update for the macOS version of RocketCake with mostly improvements for the just released macOS Sonoma. You can download it here. Changes:
Support for case sensitive file systems like "APFS case-sensitive"
- GUI updates: Some key shortcuts like the DELETE key stopped working sometime on Sonoma
- Added instructions in case you get a "Safari can't open the page" error message
RocketCake 5.2 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
Extension components
RocketCake now supports scriptable extension components which add more functionality. You can download these from the website or even create them on your own (see the documentation).
To download them, click the "Download more" button on the component list in RocketCake.

- There are already a few components available:
- Simple contact form
a simple component with a configurable contact form which doesn't require any programming
- Cookie overlay
Shows a cookie overlay on the website, displaying a user selected text.
- Summary and Details
Shows a summary / details text on the website, that the user can view or hide by a click
- Upload and send file
A form for selecting and uploading a file to the website which then gets sent to an email address
- Print button
Button which prints the page when clicked, and doesn't appear itself on the printed page
- Marquee
Shows a old school marquee element which scolls area of text.
- Better Multi-Display support
RocketCake is now aware when you are using multiple monitors / displays:
The modal and non-modal color dialog for example is now placed automatically so that it's on the display you are working on and automatically trying not to overlap the element you are modifying while still not trying to overlap the display border.
- New free website template
Gardening service:

- Lots of other smaller useful improvements
- The "Add a copy of an existing page" feature now lists existing pages with the folder path which is usefue when editing large websites
- The 'next' and 'previous' buttons in the image gallery now have css classes 'galleryprevbutton' and 'gallerynextbutton' so you can style them easily yourself.
- Text edit field now also supports "file" as input mode so you can build file input forms
- Checkboxes in property window on Windows in highdpi mode now look nicer
- Large images now look a lot sharper in the editor when using HDPI displays
- Fixed a problem causing the navigation menu to jump sometimes in the editor while typing
- RocketCake is now 64bit by default (it was a 32 bit app by default for a long time). You can still use the 32 bit app by downloading that one from the download page.
- Dragging images into buttons now automatically sets the correct alignment for the image
- Default JavaScript code editing window size is now nicer on HDPI systems
- Updated webP for a security fix
- And a lot more
RocketCake 5.1 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
SVG support
You can now include SVG files in your websites just like other images. The difference to normal images is that SVG files are vector graphics and scale automatically, so they look nice at any resolution. In the editor SVG animations, svg texts and some other special svg features might not show up, but they will on the previewed and final websites.

- Images in Navigation menus
You can now use images in your navigation menus. Together with the SVG support, you can now for example use nicely styled hamburger menus or other symbols easily.

- Shortcut for moving menu entries: You can now use Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown to move menu entries quickly
- Two open / close modes for navigation menu
You can now select if a navigation menu will close when clicked on it again, or open via mouse hovering on desktop or not. In the property window of the menu, select "Advanced Settings".
There, set the new option "OpenCloseWhenClicked" to whatever mode you prefer. Some people find it more natural with the second mode, so that you can easily close the menu again by clicking on the top menu.
- The font of web form elements can now be only changed using the font selection box, just like with all other elements. The property window doesn't have any entries for fonts anymore now for these elements.
- More invalid macOS magic quotes replacements and filters are now detected and replaced automatically in HTML/Javascript/PHP code
- New website template: Gardening

- In the preview of the buttons when creating a new button on a HDPI display, the captions are now centered correctly.
- Fixed a case where the checkbox "don't show this message again" didn't have an effect on some systems when resizing images or previewing websites
RocketCake 5.0.1 released!
This is a free update with minor new features and a few improvements and bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- When right-clicking onto a menu item, the 'delete' menu entry now works again
- When menu animations are not needed, viewport size of the page is reduced now
- Minor fixes here and there
RocketCake 5.0 released!
This update of the free responsive website designer includes a lot of new features. You can download it here.
Note that if you are using the professional edition, you need to upgrade your license, but there is a discount for existing users.
New in this release:
- Realtime color changes
When clicking on the color buttons to change the color for example of the selected text, the dialog is now non-modal (= you don't need to click on OK or Cancel anymore) and reflects the changes you've made in realtime now - while you select a color or type a HTML color code. Clicking anywhere else will apply the changes, and you can click Undo to undo them again.
This works for most color selection buttons in the editor now, so it is much easier to adjust the design of your website.

- WebP support
Added webP support: Images in the WebP format can also now be used with RocketCake. WebP is an image file format which is getting more popular and is now supported by mostly all browsers.
- New free website templates
Like the 'Agency' and 'Paper Planning' template
- Menu Animation
The navigation menu now has two built-in animations: "Fade" and "animate height". Enable them using the "MenuAnimations" checkbox in the property window for the menu.
- Apple Silicon support
RocketCake now also runs natively on Apple Silicon, wihout the need for Rosetta
- Drag an Drop support from Explorer/Finder
You can now drag files like images, pdf documents and videos directly from the Explorer and Finder into the web editor, making it much faster to create nice web designs.
- Date Picker
Since this is now supported in many browsers, there is now a new element available: the date picker. You can use it in contact forms and similar to let your users pick a date.
- Aligned navigation menus
RocketCake now includes the option to easily create right and center aligned navigation menus.
This was possible previously only using a few hacks - previously menus were all left aligned - but now it is a simple option you only need to select in the menu properties.

- Link folders
It is now possible to link folders created within rocketcake via the hyperlink dialog.
This is useful if you want to include special folders and just link to the folder root instead of a document or page within that folder. For this, simply select a folder instead of a page as target in the dialog.
- Hover effect for images
Images can now have hover effects: Changing the brightness. This is useful when using images as links.
- Multi-Select for image galleries and slideshows
You can now add multiple images for slideshows and image galleries with a single dialog:
When selecting images to add to your element, in the file selection dialog, hold down ctrl and select more than one image. All selected images will then be added.
- HTML 5 Video with poster images
You can select an image for HTML 5 Video elements which is shown when the video has not been started or loaded yet.
- New built-in websafe fonts:
Handwriting style - ("Segoe Print, Bradley Hand, Chilanka [...]")
Industrial style - ("Bahnschrift, DIN Alternate, Franklin Gothic Medium [...]")
- Lots of other smaller new changes and features:
- You can now set alternate texts for images in image galleries. This is useful for SEO purposes:
Just check the "AlternateText" checkbox for the gallery and you can enter alt text for every image.
- The button generation dialog now has a few more button styles and is now resizable.
- Link target preview tooltips also now work nicely with sub folders
- Various improvments for using the editor on highDPI screens
- Generated HTML Code for bullet lists has been improved
- Web form buttons now also support hover styles
- The element selection dialog (like in the hyperlink creation dialog) now restores its last set size which is useful for large projects
- It's now possible to directly right-click into text and edit its properties like changing hyperlinks etc without needing to select the text with left before
- Preview images of templates are now bigger by default
- Added support for Samsung Galaxy S22
- Overlong menu entries are now also supported and easily editable in the editor
- All the elements in the toolset on the right now have tooltips with a short description on what the element does exactly
- The HTML and JavaScript code editor now works more nicely with unix style line breaks also on Windows
- Video elements and PDF files now show their file name in the editor
- Generated CSS style class names are now a bit easier to read
- Image Galleries now use code to remove CLS (= cumulative layout shifts)
- When using image galleries with no border but hover styles for hovering the border, the gallery no longer flickers
- Font preview in font selection combobox now shows font as it was selected in the browser if the first few font families are not available in the os but others are
RocketCake 4.8 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
Font rendering and selection of fonts not available on the system has been reworked and works now much more similar to what most browsers are doing
- 16 new built-in templates, all website templates have been modernized:
- higher quality images
- modernized design

When using the new feature to move the entries in slideshows and image galleries up and down easily, optional description texts for these images are now also moved as well.
- Showing invalid fonts (=non-existing) on macos looks now nicer
The default breakpoints for galleries changing the amount of image columns has now been set to a bit larger default values - adjusting to the now average larger phone screen sizes.
- Small fixes for Windows 11 22H2 and macOS Monterey
Text shadow rendering now faster on some systems
- HTML Code editor now has a mode for old, very slow systems, making text drawing very fast there as well
RocketCake 4.7 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
Added support for the iPhone 14
- The editor now shows the 5 most used font families by default in the top of the font selection:
- New free built-in template:
- There is now a command to sort folders and files alphabetically descending or ascending. This makes it easier to organize larger website projects:
- You can now right-click image lists in slideshows and image galleries to move the entries up and down easily:

- It is now possible more easily to rearrange folders by dragging them onto pages or other folders.
- Inline PHP code now also works correctly when there are multiple code sections of inline PHP in one container.
(This is about the inline PHP code feature of the Pro edition: You can type directly PHP tags like "<?PHP" and "?>" anywhere and the code gets emitted like that without encoding)
- The 'x' button for closing images opened from galleries now has an own class name ("galleryclosebutton") so you can manually style it if you want to.
- Several improvements for the HTML code generation
RocketCake 4.6 released!
This is a free update with minor new features and a few improvements and bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- Added a few new default web safe font families like Gill Sans, Century Gothic, Baskerville, and Segoe (although the latter isn't available on macOS, but still has an alternative set)
- Fixed a problem which caused the font family combo box to stop working on some systems when typing into it directly.
Now you can enter your own fonts manually again if you were affected by this.
- The color selection dialog can now also be closed by pressing ENTER
- Fixed a few translation errors
- Fixed a problem on highDPI displays when using multiple monitors
- Small improvements everywhere
RocketCake 4.5 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- CLS support and SEO improvements
RocketCake now supports techniques to reduce CLS (= cumulative layout shifts). A better CLS value of your website might also likely cause better search result performance.
You don't need to do anything with your website for this feature to work, just normally click "publish" and upload your website.
Websites created with RocketCake 4.5 automatically use this feature.

- Option to show invisible characters
It is now possible to let the editor show new lines, tabs and whitespace by toggling the view for showing invisible characters.
This makes it now much easier to debug your layouts and find out how your responsive design behavies in different circumstances.

- Improved unicode and emoji support
- Fixed a problem causing comma separators in chinese text not to be correctly encoded sometimes in the HTML
- Fixed a bug causing some special emojis like 'FACE WITH MEDICAL MASK' (U+1F637) not to show up correctly in generated webpages
- When using vertically merged table cells, the cell now automatically grows correctly with the entered content
- Added an overwrite prompt warning when saving over existing files
- Fixed a problem causing errors like "Activation context generation failed" to appear in the windows event log when RocketCake was started.
- Fixed a problem causing RocketCake to hang sometimes when deleting a row in a complex table
- Fixed a problem causing the previous color picker HTML Code to "shine through" sometimes on some Windows 11 systems
- Various other small improvements everywhere
RocketCake 4.4 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- Better compatibility with some modern FTP servers
- The editor is now able to store the positions of its docked/undocked windows. There is now an option so that it will startup again exactly as you arranged the docked windows during your last session. The default for this new option is to behave like before: RocketCake won't remember the position of the windows. You have to check this option to make it active first.

- The editor now uses autoscrolling to current text and/or marker position and is now easier to use that way for larger websites.
- The editor now correctly calculates word breaks also for texts in the languages Chinese, Japanese and Korean
- Fixed a problem with the cursor blinking not clearly sometimes on some highdpi displays
- Syntax highlighting color in the HTML code editor has been adjusted a bit

- The edit hyperlink button is no longer disabled when there is no option to place a hyperlink, instead a message box will appear now instead.
- Tabs on macOS now look much nicer
- The slideshow element doesn't animate the first image shown anymore
- Lots of smaller improvements everywhere
RocketCake 4.3 released!
This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- Overall improved code generation everywhere
- Added support for iPhone 13 Pro
- Added support for 'tel:' and 'sms:' hyperlinks
- Property window now is more compact when using scaled resolutions in windows
- Recent file list now updates priority also when choosen from menu
- Improved HTML code generated for large responsive images layed out directly in the document
- New web links now use "https://" as default instead of the outdated "http://"
- Fixed a bug causing the editor to start up in a too large window on scaled resolutions without highDPI
- About dialog now looks nicer on non-high-DPI screens
- Various smaller improvements and bug fixes
- Fixed a bug causing mobile menus not to appear sometimes when used together with a master page in certain circumstances
RocketCake 4.2.1 released!
This is a service update with some minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:
- Better compatibility with macOS Big Sur: On some systems, RocketCake would crash at start up. This is fixed now.
- Japanese translation improved
- Windows installer now is localized and no longer only english
- Fixed a bug in Windows highDPI causing menus not to be shown at the correct position sometimes in the generated website
RocketCake 4.2 released!
This update of the free responsive website designer includes a lot of new features. You can download it here.
New in this release:
- HighDPI support
When using Windows, RocketCake now supports HighDPI displays. You get a lot sharper rendered controls and the high resolution HTML editor. On macOS, RocketCake already supported Retina displays for some time now.

- Image size quick view
When hovering over an image, the tooltip now shows useful information about it: It's name, dimension and the current size it is shown at.
This makes it very easy to optimize your image sizes for various screen types.
- HTML language support
You can now set the language of a page using the new "Language" setting for each page.
This results in the top html tag being written like for example
<html lang="en">
if you specify "en" as language. This only works in the professional edition of RocketCake.

- License key management for organizations
If you want to use RocketCake on a PC with the same license key used by many users, this is now possible, too:
Simply start RocketCake once as administrator and register your key using the menu Help -> Register.
Then the key then is stored per machine (as prev iously only per user) and RocketCake can be used by any user using that machine.
- Embedded PDF documents now fit the first page of the PDF document to the height of the device.
Also, the documentation in the manual now shows how you can easily make your PDF document be scrollable on iOS devices as well, although Safari on iOS doesn't support this feature.
- Websites opened in RocketCake now automatically get focussed in the property window, making it easier to change their property values.
- The list of master pages now also works nicely with subfolders: If you have a large website with lots of pages in sub folders, and a few master pages, the just of master pages to select now also shows the folders a page is in, making it much easier to pick the right master page.
- The macOS app is now notarized, and you now no longer get the scary "this app is from an unidentified developer" messages from macOS when starting RocketCake for the first time.
- The RocketCake installer now installs shortcuts for all users on the system by default since a lot of people requested this.
RocketCake 4.1 released!
This is a service update with some minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
RocketCake 4.0 released!
This update of the free responsive website designer includes a lot of new features. You can download it here.
Note that if you are using the professional edition, you need to upgrade your license, but there is a discount for existing users.
New in this release:
- Bulleted lists support
Also known as ordered and unordered lists, RocketCake now natively supports creating these directly in the editor. It generates <ul> and <ol> HTML tags from them, and supports unlimited sublevels of lists.
Although easily edited directly in the text in the editor, generated HTML <ul> and <ol> lists get their own unique ids and style classes which then can be easily customized via CSS manually if wanted.

- Emoji support
Emojis and other characters are now encoded correctly even when the option "no html encoding" isn't selected. This means you can now easier use Emojis, Rockets and other unicode characters on your website.
Note: On some Windows systems, these are still drawn in black/white in the editor, but are correctly shown in the browser preview.
- Round navigation menu panels
It's now possible to create round navigation menu panels. For that, simply set "edges" of your navigation menu to "round", and check the new option "RoundEdgesAlsoForPanes". Then your navigation menus are also round. If you don't want the top menu bar to have round edges as well, simply make its background transparent and place it into a container of which you then apply the background you want to have for your top menu.
- PDF document
you can now embed PDF files directly in your website using the new PDF element. Simply create the element where you want your file to appear, select a PDF from your local disk, and RocketCake will handle the rest, including uploading the .pdf file to your server once you publish your page.
- New Templates
There are 3 new built-in templates for your websites, and the existing ones have been improved a bit.
- Better looking Slideshows
Slideshows now can use a fixed aspect ratio, and new slide shows you create automatically do this. This means they automatically adjust their height based on the screen size and images inside them. Previously, in order to have a slideshow look nicely in all screen sizes, this would have to be done using breakpoints, while now, slideshows automatically adjust their size.
In order to have slide shows from projects created in older RocketCake versions to this, simply check the option "FixedAspectRatio".

- Added new supported device types
- Apple iPhone 12
- Google Pixel 5
- Samsgung S20
- Samsgung S21
- Improved generated HTML
The generated HTML and CSS code has been improved at several places to be both nicer readable and more compact at the same time. And the backwards compatibility with older browsers is still kept.
- Portable version
RocketCake is now available as portable package - a zip file which you can simply download and use everywhere without installation.
For this, go to the download page of RocketCane and download the latest RocketCake-$version$-portable.zip file.
- MSI installer
There is now an MSI installer available on the download page. In case you want to deploy RocketCake on lots of Windows PCs, you can use this. It also supports silent install.
- macOS UI improvements
Options dialog is now also accessible via the top level main menu, and quitting the app via Apple+Q now also
asks for saving the file when there are still unsaved changes in your project.
- Lots of other improvements
- HTML Video elements no longer have 'autoplay' set by default
- The documentation (for example about the navigation menu) has been improved and extended with images, examples and more.
- Automatically reduced large images now are reduced to a bit larger size so they look better on larger screens.
- Updated support for more types of FTP servers
- Toolset palette is now looking a bit more modern
- Improved uploading method: files uploaded when skipped not to be re-uploaded again next time sometimes.
- Improved english translation of the editor at some places
- Images with alpha channel are now also drawn correctly with alpha channel in editor view
- Improved chinese translation
- lots of other smaller improvements everywhere