Changelog

Improvements

• Pressing Esc with a sidebar view focused will refocus your last note.
• Checkboxes within settings can now receive keyboard focus.
• Clicking on a view's options menu will now toggle it opened/closed.

No longer broken

• Left and right arrow keys now work within the search input again.
• Opening a view in its own window will now give the view focus.
• Inline images are now properly rendered inline with text.
• Fixed switching panes doesn't update the window title.
• Fixed issue with file explorer causing high CPU usage when your vault has many unfolded files showing.

Developers

• Added mod-active class to the tab headers when the view is active.
• Updated Mermaid to v9.1.2.

Shiny new things

• The Tag pane can now be navigated with the keyboard.

Improvements

• macOS-only: the title bar is now 2px taller.

No longer broken

• Plugin views will no longer get replaced when clicking on a link (such as Calendar).
• Fixed files not being opened inside the currently active split.
• Graph view interactions now works within a popout window.
• The tag pane will show nested tags again.
• Native scrollbars have been temporarily reverted on macOS due to the white background issue on dark theme.
• "About" window on macOS will now show the Obsidian version correctly.
• Ctrl/Cmd-clicking on the active file in the File Explorer will open it in a split instead of focusing the explorer.
• Popout windows are removed when switching workspaces.
• Vim mode: The ghost character (like #) that appears in an unfocused editor is now hidden.
• Navigating forward/backward in history will skip over some views such as File Explorer or backlinks.

Developer

• To account for sidebar views being able to receive focus, we have deprecated several Workspace functions whose behavior conflicted with user expectations.
• Added .is-focused class to the window body of the currently focused window.

Shiny new things

• New "Open in New Window" command for opening views in a separate window.
• The app menu on macOS has been revamped to be more consistent with the OS.
• Added keyboard navigation to the File Explorer and Search views Arrow keys to move through items, Enter / Shift+Enter to select.

Improvements

• Sidebar panes can now receive focus. This change allows hotkeys to work in editors moved into the sidebar.
• The native scrollbar styling for macOS is now used throughout the app. This can still be overridden by themes.
• Will now use your system font by default on Windows and macOS. You can customize this in settings.
• Window title will now include the active file name.
• New users will now automatically start with Live Preview. Users currently using the legacy editor will be prompted about the legacy editor going away in a future release.
• Pressing enter inside a list item will now detect if the rest of the line is also a list item, and avoid generating duplicate bullet characters.
• Merged "Account" and "About" tabs in the settings
• Added "check for updates" button to theme.
• "Safe mode" has been renamed to "Restricted mode".
• "Open in default app" is no longer a Core plugin and the functionality has been moved into core.
• Pressing Escape when there's a highlight in the editor (from search or navigation) causes the highlight to be removed, instead of requiring a mouse click.
• On macOS, Ctrl+N/P can now be used to navigate suggestion results similar to Up/Down arrow keys.

No longer broken

• Plugin panes will now automatically unload and reload when plugins are disabled or enabled.
• Sidebar collapse/expand animation no longer causes editor panes to resize suddenly at the end.

Developer

• CodeMirror 6 has been updated from v0.19 to v6.0. If your plugin uses cm6 extensions, please upgrade to v6.0 soon, and make sure you set your minAppVersion to 0.15.0.
• Upgraded MathJax to v3.2.1.

Core update

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v0.14.15.
• Fixed rename vault functionality gets stuck.
• You can now setup Obsidian Sync right from the starting screen.

Android

• Fixed stat on directories gives NaN.
• Fixed pressing enter in global search causes focus to shift to the editor that's hidden behind.

iOS

• Fixed black bar at the bottom on iPad when using external keyboard.

No longer broken

• Fixed typing with IME causes fold indicators to move around the note.

No longer broken

• Fixed typing with IME sometimes causes the text to not get styled properly until another change is performed.
• Fixed rename block ID not renaming the ID itself when updating links.
• Fixed unnecessary underlines within single square brackets.
• Fixed Live Preview scrolling with scrollbar not re-rendering properly.
• Fixed File explorer not highlighting items properly when right clicking.
• Daily notes with templates are now created in a single step, instead of being created empty first and filled in after.

Shiny new things

• You can now rename block IDs when right clicking on the block ID, which will update all the references to that block ID.

Improvements

• Errors and console logs from plugins will now indicate the plugin's name instead of showing eval at anonymous.

No longer broken

• Fixed note composer's merge note functionality not updating links after merging.
• Move line up/down/delete paragraph commands can now be repeated again by holding the hotkey.
• Fixed drag and drop not working on some plugins.
• Fixed strikethrough not working on links.
• Fixed identical custom code blocks in Live Preview not re-rendered when switching documents.
• Fixed open context menu command not opening in the correct location in legacy editor.
• Fixed note composer "merge note" not properly updating links after merging.
• Fixed IME broken when typing on a line before a heading that starts with a space character.
• Fixed identical custom code blocks in Live Preview goes stale when switching documents.

No longer broken

• Fixed holding down keys in the editor not working.
• Fixed vim mode cursor not updating position when focus leaves the editor.
• Fixed height computation disrupted by some themes resetting the contain property.

Improvements

• You can now move or delete multiple selected items via the right-click context menu in the File Explorer.
• The backslash escape character will now be hidden when your cursor is not on the same line in Live Preview.
• When exiting in-document search, the last searched result will be selected automatically.

No longer broken

• Hotkeys will no longer trigger multiple times when you hold down the hotkey.
• Links created by LaTeX or Mermaid will no longer accidentally navigate the app to an empty white page.
• Fixed vim mode has a blinking thin caret alongside the vim caret.

Shiny new things

• You can now share your Obsidian Sync vaults with others.
  • Collaborators must have an Obsidian Sync subscription.
  • Joining a Sync vault will not count towards the 5 vault limit for collaborators.
  • To invite other users, go to Settings > Sync > Remote Vault > Manage > Manage sharing.

No longer broken

• Fixed Tab related navigation broken in modals.
• Fixed vault switcher sometimes only loads partially when offline.
• Fixed text selection highlight not working in code blocks with vim mode enabled.
• Fixed some multi-character glyphs not rendering correctly due to an older version of the "Inter" font.
• Fixed Obsidian Publish menu option for "Open in live site" not opening the correct URL.
• Fixed jsp code blocks causes the editor parsing to crash.

No longer broken

• Fixed Obsidian Publish frontmatter publish flag not working.

Shiny new things for Obsidian Publish

• You can now collaborate on your site using their Obsidian account, so that multiple users can publish to the same site.

  • This can be done in "Site options" > "Site collaboration"
  • All site members can publish pages to the site.
  • Only the owner can change the configurations and manage members.
  • Only the owner needs to pay for the site, collaborators can join for free.
  • Note that collaborators should ensure they have synced the latest edition of the site before making changes.

• You can now configure a list of included and a list of excluded folders when publishing changes.

  • If a page is matched to the inclusion list, then it will be automatically selected for publishing.
  • If a page is matched to the exclusion list, it will be completely removed from the list of pages to publish.
  • The frontmatter publish: flag will override this setting for individual notes.
  • Exclusions take priority over inclusions.

• In the "Publish changes" dialog, you can now right click on each note for a list of options, such as...

  • Open the page on the live site.
  • Open the note locally.
  • Compare your local version with the live version.
  • Discard local changes and download the live version.

Improvements

• Sync diffs now render as unified diffs to conserve space.
• File recovery will now show diffs as well.
• opus audio files are now recognized as a supported file type.
• Unlinked mentions for outgoing links now respects the exclusion filter.

No longer broken

• Fixed fonts sometimes not working with some themes and plugins using legacy css variables.
• Disabled sec-ua-hint to reduce issues with iframes.
• Fixed callout titles not working with strict line break turned on.
• Fixed selecting words in headings will invisibly also select to the beginning of the line.
• Fixed global graphs not showing unsupported attachments.
• Fixed "show context menu under cursor" not triggered correctly when app is zoomed.
• Fixed dragging and dropping files into the editor not showing the proper action verb text.
• Fixed callouts in Live Preview not showing unresolved links as faded.
• Fixed embeds within callouts in Live Preview not live updating and unable to click on checklists.

Developer

• Fixed tab not working in modals.
• registerDomEvent can now take an options object (for things like {capture: true}).
• Added goWordLeft and goWordRight editor commands.

Improvements

• Unlinked mentions now also skip over ignored files.
• There is now an improved setup guide for Obsidian Sync from the vault selector window.
• You can see what's changed in each version in Obsidian Sync version history.
• Zoom level is now saved per vault.
• In addition to "Dark" and "Light", you can also set your Obsidian theme to "Adapt to system". Obsidian will auto-update the theme as your system setting changes. Shoutout to kepano for the "System dark mode" plugin!
• You can now enable a dark/light toggle for your Obsidian Publish site.
• You can now set theme to "Adapt to system" for your Obsidian Publish site, so that your site adapts to the reader's system settings.

No longer broken

• Fixed attachments on network drives not loading.
• Fixed link suggestion lag when long links to nonexistent files are present.
• Fixed vim mode num + j combos sometimes not working when screen is scrolled.
• Fix code blocks not rendered at the correct time in Live Preview.

Developer

• Updated Lucide to v0.30.0.

Core update

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v0.14.6.
• Tapping the three dot more options icon now brings up the menu related to this file, rather than the right sidebar. You can get to the right sidebar by long-holding this icon, or swiping from the right.

Android

• Fixed tapping the file name when renaming a file in File Explorer causes the file menu to show up.

iOS

• Long-holding buttons that triggers an action (like the three dot menu) now triggers it after holding for 600ms instead of triggering it when the finger is released.
• Fixed app freezing when resuming from another app when using a large vault.

Shiny new things

• You can now add folders to an ignore filter. Files matched by this filter will be down-ranked when using Quick Switcher and link suggestions, and will be excluded in search results and graph view.

Improvements

• Spellcheck corrections should now work better in text with styling applied such as headings, bold/italics, etc.
• Show context menu under cursor should now also display the spellcheck options.
• Obsidian Publish upload dialog now displays the total count of each section.

No longer broken

• Fixed backlinks linked mentions causes lag on large vaults.
• Exporting to PDF when using dark mode no longer causes unreadable code blocks.
• Dragging items and resizing panes should no longer get stuck when moving across <iframe> and <webview>.
• Dragging and dropping files from outside Obsidian should no longer cause its contents to be inserted before or after the link.
• Fixed soft-wrapping not working if line was folded when the note was opened.

Shiny new things

• Updated installer to Electron 18.0.3 which fixes several bugs that were in Electron 17.
  • Fixed performance issues with resizing the app.
  • Fixed window border issues on Windows.
  • Fixed developer tools performance snapshot issues.

Improvements

• When selecting text and converting into a fenced code block, newline characters are now automatically added.
• The insert callout command will now wrap any selected text into the callout body content instead of replacing it.

No longer broken

• Reduced lag caused by big exclusion filters with Obsidian Sync.
• Fixed headings in lists causing indentation guides to misalign.
• Fixed monospaced font not applied.

Shiny new things

• Font settings can now list all fonts installed in the system (requires installer update to v0.14.4).
• You can now assign multiple fonts to each font option, and the first available font will be used.

Improvements

• Obsidian Sync should now no longer create duplicate files when renaming a file while it is still syncing.
• Obsidian Sync now has a fully customizable sync folder exclusion system. This allows you to add exclusions to folders even if they don't exist locally.
• Auto-completing three backticks for code blocks now adds a newline automatically to avoid suddenly parsing the rest of the note as code.
• Toggle bold/italics will now smartly skip over the closing markers when at the end of the block, instead of adding more marker symbols.

No longer broken

• Fixed on Linux the app doesn't properly watch for changes in the config folder.
• Fixed headings in lists not properly styled in Live Preview.
• Fixed duplicate event handlers for embeds, callouts, and tables blocks in Live Preview.
• Fixed app crashes on startup for platforms that doesn't have a configured documents folder.
• Fixed x-callback-url not properly taking into account existing ? query parameters.
• Fixed move file dialog lags in vaults with lots of folders.
• Fixed <webview> unable to open pages externally in the browser.
• Fixed downloading or updating plugins without css causes one to appear with the contents "Not found".

Developers

• CSS variables related to fonts have been renamed.
  • --default-font is now --font-default (but it will fallback to --default-font)
  • --interface-font is now --font-interface.
  • --editor-font is now --font-text and will cover both editing and reading.
• There is now a --font-interface-theme and --font-text-theme dedicated for themes to set the fonts.
• Each theme and snippet is now put into its own <style> tag to avoid issues with imports not working.
• app is now officially available as a global variable.

Shiny new things

• You can now move, rename or locate your vaults directly from the vault switcher.
• There is now a new in-app help page with links to the online help docs, Discord, forum, as well as the sandbox vault.
• The local help vault has been replaced with a sandbox vault.
• You can now set the font for the interface and the editor directly under appearance settings. Note that some themes may override this font setting.

Improvements

• Improved Live Preview clicking experience for callouts and embeds.
• Improved <iframe> for some websites that disallows being iframed.
• There's now a command to open context menu for the current cursor location.
• Vim mode up/down now goes into rendered code blocks, embeds, callouts, or tables in Live Preview instead of skipping them.
• Pasting and dropping images or media files that are already located in the vault will now link to it directly instead of duplicating the file.

No longer broken

• Fixed Chinese IME on Windows causes selection issues when using punctuation characters.
• Fixed multi-line block math in blockquotes not working in Live Preview.
• Fixed clicking on checkbox in callouts not working in Live Preview.
• Fixed unindent always keeps one extra space when use tabs is turned off.
• Fixed Quick Switcher not respecting relative path for creating new files.
• Fixed unable to select text within embeds in Live Preview.
• Fixed memory leak when closing local graph view.
• Fixed using the editor search or replace commands doesn't auto-fill selected text when search or replace is already open.
• Fixed issue where the currently focused pane would lose focus when trying to focus a pane that can't be focused.
• Fixed Audio Recorder's webm files can't be seeked and doesn't show total time.
• Fixed pasting images on macOS is inconsistent between Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
• Fixed folding not loading properly sometimes when using horizontal rules.

Developers

• Callouts now has its metadata (the part in ![type|metadata]) put into its html as data-callout-metadata.
• <webview> tags are now allowed to be used to embed external content for plugins (Electron/desktop app only).
• Updated DOMPurify, Turndown, Mermaid, PIXI.js, and Prism.js.
• Obsidian URI's new action now has an optional append flag and an optional overwrite flag. If append is set, it will append to an existing file if one is found. If override is set, it will overwrite an existing file if one is found, but only if append isn't set.
• Obsidian URI's new and hook-get-address actions can now optionally accept x-success as part of the x-callback-url specifications, and will return a name, url, and file (file://) as the returned URL parameters.
• Menu constructor no longer requires App to be passed in.

Core update

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v0.13.33.
• Fixed large PDFs not rendering.

iOS

• Fixed keyboard always dark in light mode.
• Fixed sometimes the toolbar icons renders above the toolbar.
• Fixed clicking on links while editing not working, allow tap and hold to edit a link.

Android

• Fixed status bar always dark in light mode.
• Fixed remote resources from http links not working.
• Fixed file created/modified times being negative (shows up as year 1969) when using a 32-bit processor.

Core update

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v0.14.2.

iOS

• You can now share text, links, image, and other attachments directly to the Obsidian app.