Changelog

No longer broken

• Fixed external URLs with % encodings stopped working.
• Fixed external URLs in embed blocks not working in Live Preview.
• Fixed line numbers misaligned with embed blocks in Live Preview.
• Fixed list bullets misaligned vertically in Live Preview.
• Fixed a case of Live Preview lag when large base64-encoded images are inserted.
• Fixed sometimes a zero width space character is inserted when replacing some text around fold indicators. They showed up as a red dot.
• Fixed sometimes choosing a link suggestion to a block without an ID in the same document causes the cursor to be misplaced.
• Fixed up/down keys misbehaving in Live Preview's word-wrapped lines when the previous/next real line is a hidden block.
• Updating plugins no longer scrolls the plugin list back to the top.

Developers

• Added an option in community plugin pane to help debug slow plugin startup times.
• Fixed editorLivePreviewField not dynamically updated when Live preview is turned on/off.
• Added data-type to tab header elements.

No longer broken

• Fixed legacy editor crashes when using frontmatter.
• Fixed Ctrl/Cmd+G hotkey doesn't work in reading mode.
• Fixed Ctrl/Cmd+G does not override open graph view command.

Developers

• Introduced apiVersion: string and requireApiVersion(version: string): boolean to help with API version requirements. Plugin authors can use this function to limit functionality that depends on new Obsidian APIs to avoid crashing on older versions of Obsidian.

Improvements

• The new editor now supports the cssclass frontmatter property.
• Live Preview will now detect whether the editor is focused to apply syntax hiding.
• Community plugin search filter will now also match by author.
• Added shortcuts for plugin settings and hotkeys in the community plugins list.

No longer broken

• Fixed clicking on checklists and fold indicators causes the cursor/selection to be affected.
• Fixed resizing panes causes buggy selection rendering until selection is changed.
• Fixed fold indicator spacing sometimes misalign due to fonts applied by themes.
• Fixed gutter line numbers not showing for embeds and custom code blocks.
• Fixed memory leak when closing Markdown panes.
• Fixed vim mode undo/redo combines multiple edits.
• Fixed up/down arrow keys don't navigate properly around list bullets.
• Fixed up/down arrow keys don't navigate properly when at the end of a word-wrapped line.
• Fixed unindenting numbered lists sometimes generates "undefined".
• Fixed auto number lists generates individual undo/redo entries for each line.
• Fixed toggle numbered lists always generate 1 as the number.
• Fixed typing inline code causes the rest of the document to become code.
• Fixed underline not applied to external links when in lists, headings, or blockquotes.
• Fixed two identical embed in the same file causes Live Preview to misbehave.
• Fixed linking to a block without a block id from an earlier position in the same note causes the link to be badly formatted.
• Fixed in-editor search removes highlight when only a single match is found.
• Added Ctrl/Cmd+G (and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G) for selecting next/previous search occurrence when using in-editor search.
• Fixed opening some file:/// paths on Linux causes Obsidian to freeze until the new process exits.
• Fixed Markdown importer unable to convert tags with some character sets like CJK characters.
• Fixed undo close pane still opens a new pane even when the current pane is empty.
• Fixed copy external URL menu action doesn't properly encode special characters.
• Fixed linking an unlinked mention loses its original casing.

Developers

• Fixed sometimes empty duplicate <span> elements show up before or after widgets, causing issues when using css padding or :before/:after.
• The debug info command now includes the OS information.
• There is now a new editorLivePreviewField: StateField<boolean> that can be used to check whether Live Preview is enabled in the editor.
• Fixed out-of-bound {line,ch} pairs causes error with new editor.

No longer broken

• Fixed automatic numbering of lists doesn't stop at the end of the list and accidentally changes the numbers of lists further down the document.
• Fixed sometimes undo/redo combines multiple consecutive operations like typing and pasting into a single change.
• Fixed when redoing a change, the cursor would be put in the wrong spot afterwards.
• Fixed sometimes bad HTML causes Live Preview to crash with an error.

Improvements

• Improved fold indicators in new editor. They will now appear closer to the line's text rather than all the way at the left edge.
• New hotkeys for in document search: "Search All" (Alt+Enter) and "Replace All" (Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+Enter).
• In Live Preview, you can now click a code block's language flair (top right) to copy the code block.
• New editor's vim mode now experimentally supports search highlighting and multiple cursors.
• You can now use Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Enter in quick switcher to create a new note and open it in a new pane.

No longer broken

• Fixed the fold all command sometimes not working.
• Fixed Shift+Up/Down in Live Preview doesn't select hidden blocks properly.
• Fixed backlink and unlinked reference count indicator not properly updated when a link is removed.
• Fixed middle click and Ctrl/Cmd+Click embedded note's "open link" button in Live Preview causes weird behavior.
• Fixed middle click links, file explorer items, and search results stopped working.
• Fixed unable to click external links with formatting styles like bold or italics in editing view.
• Fixed sometimes the bullet dot renders as weird letters.
• Fixed console error when OS language doesn't support spellchecker.
• Word count now properly count contractions as one word.

Developers

• Added .cm-active to gutter elements as well.

Improvements

• Improved list bullet rendering to avoid jumping in Live Preview.
• Improved behavior when pressing Enter in lists and blockquotes.

No longer broken

• Fixed new editor's spellchecker dictionary options not working.
• Fixed two consecutive footnote references causes any text in between to be underlined.
• Fixed unable to type < and > in Hungarian keyboard layout on mac.
• Removed emacsy toggle for mac in new editor.

Developers

• Heads up to theme developers: the .list-bullet CSS has been reworked. It will now keep the original character and superimpose the dot using the :after pseudo-element.

Improvements

• Switching between files will now keep the undo/redo history for the last 20 files, unless the file was changed externally. Not available for the legacy editor.

No longer broken

• Fixed readable line length not properly applied when line wrapping is turned on.
• Search will now properly unfold folded areas when highlighting the match.
• Fixed wikilinks at the beginning of the line causes it to inherit styles from the previous line.
• Fixed a rare case of data loss due to race condition caused by clicking on a link and triggering the loading of the additional syntax highlighting library.
• Fixed gutter alignment for empty lines above headings.
• Fixed mermaid diagrams overflowing.

Improvements

• Edit mode now supports headings in lists.
• Embedded content generated by plugin custom handlers (like image in Admonitions and Dataview) are now rendered in both Live Preview and Reading view. This will be a temporary addition until we can come up with a proper Markdown rendering API that handles nestable rendering contexts better.

No longer broken

• Ctrl/Cmd+C now copies the whole line again if there is no selection.
• Fixed several parsing issues with formatting symbols in wikilinks.
• Fixed an issue where the Tab Size setting could change how indented lists are interpreted in edit view. This will now always recognize a tab character as 4 spaces, as required by Markdown's specifications.
• Fixed a crash when pressing up (or using k in vim mode) on a --- separator that's out of screen.
• Fixed a crash that happens sometimes when pressing page up or page down (or the equivalent commands in vim mode).
• Fixed some plugins could cause line wrapping to fail and grow the width of the editor.
• Code blocks will now line wrap in reading view, to stay consistent with editing view.
• Fixed code block's language flair stopped showing up when indented in Live Preview.
• Fixed math blocks inside blockquotes and lists are rendered outside.
• Improved parsing of footnote references and definitions.

Developers

• getSectionInfo() is now implemented for custom code blocks in Live Preview.

Improvements

• When changing default edit mode between Live Preview and Source mode, the new setting will now be automatically applied to all panes.
• Fixed default edit mode, which will now use Live Preview when not using Legacy editor.

No longer broken

• Fixed Live Preview sometimes unable to drop at the end of the document.
• Fixed reading view clips out the first line of the document when in document search is active.
• Drag and drop external files from the file system now preserves file extension in the display text if creating an external link.
• Fixed some plugins CSS causes Live Preview's selections to break.
• Fixed when using in document search or clicking on a global search result, the search highlight is sometimes hidden due to Live Preview.
• Fixed using in document search and replace does not highlight the next match when replacing.
• Fixed sometimes selecting multi-line text results in a weirdly rendered selection box.

No longer broken

• Fixed line wrapping not working with panes smaller than 700px.
• Fixed unresolved links in Live Preview not taking into account link aliases.

Shiny new things

• There is now a new Core plugin called "Editor status" which adds a status bar item showing you the current editor mode. You can also use it to toggle the editor mode.

Live preview improvements

• Internal links to non-existent files will now look dimmer than regular links.
• Fixed drop cursor is invisible in dark mode, also fixed drop cursor doesn't position correctly when document is scrolled.
• Fixed IME on MacOS sometimes causes duplicate characters to be entered.
• Fixed vim mode g related keys causes vim mode to crash until app is restarted.
• Middle click now opens internal links in new panes.
• Removed very faint background colors on external links.
• Fixed pressing Enter on an indented line does not keep the indent properly.
• Fixed long tables broken again due to an engine upgrade.
• Fixed tables has a weird extra spacing after the last | character.

Improvements

• Word count will now no longer re-calculate on every change, but instead re-compute at most twice every second, to spare some CPU time.

Developers

• The changed event on MetadataCache now contains the file contents as well as the parsed metadata object.
• There is now two helper functions for HTMLElement: isShown() which tells you whether this element is shown, and onNodeInserted which can add a callback for when the element is shown. These statuses depend on the element to be attached to the DOM and require not having any parent or ancestor with the css display: none.

Shiny new things

• Added basic RTL (right-to-left) text support. The option can be found in Settings > Editor.

Live preview improvements

• Fixed pasting from websites causes duplicate text to be inserted.
• Fixed sometimes the list bullet, or the checkbox shows up duplicated when selecting text.
• Improved the onboarding modal for selecting whether to use legacy editor or live preview.
• Relaunching after changing the legacy editor option now properly saves the option value, without having to wait for one second.
• When switching out of legacy editor, all edit panes will automatically use the default edit mode, rather than always staying in source mode.
• Fixed some actions like indenting and unindenting sometimes moves the cursor to unintended spots.
• Fixed an issue where selections look really bad if the first line of the document has a list.
• Internal links that start with # for heading sections will now hide the # when not selected to avoid confusion with tags.
• Fixed vim mode scrolling commands like zz, zt and zb.
• Fixed blocks like embeds and custom code blocks aren't properly included in the fold if they're at the end of the fold section.
• Fixed re-focusing on the editor sometimes causes the selection to jump to the beginning of the file.
• Improved inline footnotes parsing.

No longer broken

• Fixed tooltips wrap text in awkward spots.
• Fixed outgoing links unlinked mentions cuts off items that has a dot in the file name.
• Fixed changing image alt text does not update in reading view.

Live preview improvements

• Restored legacy editor to be default for now.
• Fixed gutter elements (line numbers and fold indicators) misalignment.
• Fixed Live Preview sometimes run into situations where it stops being parsed and highlighted halfway down the document.
• Fixed drag and drop text duplicates instead of moves selected text.
• Fixed several operations such as pasting, undo/redo, drag and drop, etc, causes duplicate characters or phrases to linger in the document.
• Fixed Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z stopped working for undo.
• Fixed full line embeds has an extra line after it.
• Improved external images rendering when on its own line.
• Empty headings will now keep the # characters in view to help see that it's an empty heading.
• Inline LaTeX will no longer be accidentally recognized when the ending sign is followed by a digit like $10.
• Fixed several commands that sometimes mis-position the selection after the command executes.
• Spellchecking is now properly applied to wiki links.
• Fixed some themes and plugins accidentally introduces margins, causing editor selections to misbehave.
• Fixed vim mode jumps by two lines sometimes.

Improvements

• Reverted editing/reading icon state. We will try to improve this in a future version.
• Improved Markdown formatting commands like bold and italics detection when selecting the outside layer.
• Markdown formatting commands now ignores whitespace characters at the beginning or ending of the selection when being applied.
• Backlink in document can now be turned on by default in the settings page of the core plugin "Backlinks".

Shiny new things

• Obsidian Sync now has a bulk restore functionality for deleted files.
• "Preview mode" has been renamed to "Reading view" to avoid confusion.

Live preview improvements

• Live Preview is now enabled by default. To switch to the old CodeMirror 5 based editor, toggle the "Legacy Editor" option.
• You can now set the default editing mode to Live Preview or Source Mode.
• Vim mode is now available for both Live Preview and Source mode.
• Completed task lists are now crossed out and greyed out to match reading view.
• Improved handling of up/down arrow keys interacting with blocks like embeds and code blocks.
• Improved selection when clicking on previewed blocks.
• Improved selection when selecting across hidden Markdown formatting syntax.
• Fixed drag and drop does not show caret where the drop will occur, and also sometimes inserts garbage content when dragging within the editor.
• Improved detection of inline HTML blocks.
• Improved blockquote handling.
• Fixed deleting auto-matched brackets like [ with backspace not deleting the closing counterpart ].
• Fixed HTML comments could cause a crash in the editor parser.
• Fixed clicking or selecting the end of the file selects to the beginning when there is a block at the end.

No longer broken

• Fixed code block has an extra indent on the first line in reading view.
• Quick Switcher will now create new files relative to the file of the current active pane when new file option is set to be relative to current file.

Developers

• Breaking change: the data-task css class has been moved to the line element, rather than being on each piece of <span>.
• The API for CodeMirror 6 has now been opened up. To deeply integrate with CodeMirror 6, you will be required to write an Extension to augment the editor. More details and tutorials will be available later.

Live preview improvements

• Spell checker languages can now be changed on Windows and Linux. On MacOS, the system native spell checker is used, which automatically detects the language.
• Spell checker will now skip over things that shouldn't be spell checked, such as code blocks, links, and math blocks.
• Improved code block syntax highlighting colors.
• Fixed fold all command not folding inner folds.
• Fixed heading folds does not load sometimes, causing the fold state to be lost.
• Fixed frontmatter not foldable.
• Fixed image links with titles. Fixed links surrounded by <> not linking properly.
• Improved bottom padding handling when backlink in document is enabled.
• Fixed editor suggestions continue to show up after switching documents.
• Fixed indent soft-wrapping mis-calculating tab sizes.
• Fixed bare links with <> disappears.
• Fixed rendered code blocks could overflow the editor.
• Fixed characters past the line wrapping threshold not selectable using the mouse, happens with long tables, or with line wrapping disabled.
• Internal links rendered by plugins are now handled within rendered code blocks.
• Improved handling of list bullet when the cursor is at the beginning of the line.

Improvements

• Global search panes will no longer continuously run in the background when the pane is not in view.
• Fixed overflowing tooltips.
• Fixed drag and drop internal links on Windows looks weird.

Live preview improvements

• Inline LaTeX is now supported and rendered.
• HTML blocks, including iframes are now rendered.
• Added data-task for all tokens on a list item with checkbox to facilitate css styling.
• Improved gutter alignment for fold icon and line numbers.
• Added code syntax highlighting for source mode and live preview (including legacy editor).
• Improved code block styling when cursor isn't active.
• Implemented Ctrl/Cmd+Click on Markdown links.
• Fixed Markdown links with "title" not working correctly.
• Removed hard-coded Ctrl/Cmd+G search hotkey.

Improvements

• Fixed legacy editor not properly scrolled to the top when switching document.
• Improved handling of custom panes when plugins are no longer installed.
• There is now a "Copy share link" in the community plugin's information page.
• Leftover panes from disabled plugins will no longer be automatically closed. They will now show up as an un-recognized pane, and if the plugin is re-enabled, they will work again.

Shiny new things

• You can now use drag and drop to re-arrange heading sections from the Outline pane.
• You can also drop an outline item into the editor to generate a heading link.

Live preview improvements

• Folding state is now properly saved.
• Fixed embed, image, or code blocks related page reflows making selection and interactions stop working.
• Fixed sometimes the page becomes plaintext with no highlights halfway.
• Fixed switching document does not scroll back to the top.
• Fixed document keeps scrolling up when selecting the last few lines.
• Fixed clicking on search results from global search, backlinks and outline pane not properly highlighting the matching location.
• Removed hardcoded editor folding hotkeys.
• Fixed unable to extract heading on macOS due to context menu also selecting word.

No longer broken

• Fixed clicking on an external link freezes the app for engine versions using Electron 12.

Live preview improvements

• Fixed mouse drag selection jumpiness.
• Improved IME handling.
• Fixed link aliases broken.
• Fixed rendered images still showing link.
• Fixed dynamically resized blocks such as query causes selection to stop working after they resize.
• Fixed indentation width not updating when swapping CSS themes.
• Fixed block quotes always have background and border in source mode.
• Fixed external file:/// images not working.

Improvements

• Plugin and theme download counts now have thousands separators.

Live preview improvements

• Backlink in document is now available for Live preview, which can be toggled in the pane menu.
• Mermaid and query blocks are now rendered.
• Some custom code blocks from plugins are now rendered.
• Implemented auto-pairing of brackets for Markdown formatting symbols such as $, =, ~ and %.
• Improved handling of block quotes.
• Improved image size handling.
• Improved Markdown link styling.
• Fixed image alt text not live updated.
• Fixed empty lines in code blocks.
• Fixed Option+ArrowUp/Down keys on MacOS not performing native cursor functions.

Improvements

• Added show-plugin Obsidian URI action. Example: obsidian://show-plugin?id=admonition
• Added notice for indexing large files taking too long to help debug indexing stuck issues.
• Obsidian now live-reloads the app and appearance options when the configuration files are changed on disk, to avoid issues with sync solutions overwriting each other with older versions.

No longer broken

• Fixed some syntax not highlighting for code blocks in preview mode while in dark mode.
• Preview should now render reference style Markdown links and images correctly.
• Obsidian Sync should no longer sync dot files and dot folders within plugin folders when community plugin sync is turned on.
• Fixed legacy editor's replace all function.
• Fixed adapter rename fail to work for dot files.
• Fixed copy from preview mode sometimes doesn't copy all the text.
• Fixed toggle strikethrough always adds more ~~ instead of removing.
• Pressing Enter when in an empty nested block quote will now only exit one level of block quote.