Changelog

Shiny new things

• Live Preview (also known as "WYSIWYG" mode) is now available for insider testing.
  • To enable it, go to Settings > Editor > Experimental Live Preview. Changing this option requires a restart to take effect.
  • The live preview mode is highly experimental and many bugs are expected. Please report bugs in the Discord server under the insider-desktop channel.
  • Once you turn on this option, there is a command to toggle source mode as well as a pane menu option.
  • Current features
    • Hide Markdown formatting syntax.
    • Embedded notes, images, audio, video, PDFs and notes using the wikilink syntax will show a preview in the editor.
    • Embedded images using the Markdown syntax from external sources will show previewed.
    • Block ($$) LaTeX will show a preview. Inline LaTeX will be implemented in a future release.
    • Checklists will be replaced with a checkbox. Clicking on it will toggle the check status.
  • Not implemented yet and coming soon
    • Embeds using Markdown link syntax.
    • Inline LaTeX.
    • HTML blocks.
    • Custom code blocks (including plugin rendered blocks like Admonition and Dataview).
    • Improved list bullets (and hide bullet with checklists).
    • Tables.

Improvements

• Added webp image support.
• Obsidian Sync
  • The remote vault selection dialog has been reworked to prevent accidentally connecting to a different remote vault, causing unintentional vault merges.
  • A warning has also been added to confirm the merging of local and remote vaults when the local vault already contains files.

No longer broken

• Copy code block button now also shows up on code blocks without a language.
• Fixed tabs becoming spaces within code blocks in preview mode.
• Fixed tab size not respected in preview mode.
• Fixed right clicking on search result matches not working.
• Fixed backlink in preview mode not updated when switching to an empty note.
• Fixed embeds in exported PDF documents not showing page title.
• Fixed code blocks in exported PDF documents sometimes contain duplicate characters when copied to clipboard when using Obsidian's dark mode.
• Fixed code blocks in exported PDF not wrapping.
• Fixed app zoom hotkeys stops working after opening a PDF document.
• Changing font size will no longer cause the cursor in the editor to behave erratically.
• Fixed navigating to headings, block IDs, and search results sometimes not scrolling down properly.
• Fixed navigating in local graph sometimes causes the navigation history to skip over a file.

Developers

• There is now an append function for both the Vault and the Adapter APIs.
• There is now a function to sanitize HTML called sanitizeHTMLToDom which returns a DocumentFragment of the sanitized HTML content.
• You can now setInstructions for an EditorSuggest.
• There is now a wordAt function on the Editor interface.

Core update

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v0.12.19

• Improved graph view animations.
• Heading rename.
• New theme store.
• Slash commands.
• New plugin APIs now available for the latest plugins to use.
• Tons of bug fixes.

Editor

• There are now new commands for copying, pasting, and opening the context menu, which can be assigned to the toolbar or the pull down menu for convenience.
• Upgraded CodeMirror 6 which should come with many bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Copy and paste is now handled just like the desktop app.

Obsidian Sync

• Fixed version history page not showing size and device info.
• Restoring files using version history will no longer error out with "This version is already the latest version".

Android

• If you're using Android 11+, you will be prompted for the new file access permission. This is unfortunately required by the latest Play Store policy.
• Android vaults should no longer show duplicates if you've selected a vault in Documents/Obsidian.
• Renaming a vault on Android should no longer cause it to disappear from the list.

iOS

• The iOS app will now wait for iCloud to sync back configuration files before opening the vault to prevent load failures. This fixes the "plugin failed to load" popups that happens sometimes.

Improvements

• Rename heading now has a command in addition to the previous context menu action.
• Improved theme statistic handling.

No longer broken

• Fixed editor suggestions for links and tags sometimes not working due to a race condition.
• Fixed current theme delete button sometimes shows in the next line.

No longer broken

• Fixed link suggestions sometimes disappears with large vault.
• Fixed heading rename doesn't work if there was no link to the heading.
• Fixed empty sidebar does not save collapsed state properly.
• Fixed theme manager sometimes showing no theme installed.

Shiny new things

• The theme store has received a massive upgrade! The interface has been completely revamped, now with download counts, sorting options, and a button to update each theme.
• There is now a new core plugin called "Slash commands". Activating it will allow you to type / while editing to trigger any command.

Improvements

• Updated CodeMirror 5 with several bug fixes.
• Updated Mermaid.js with several bug fixes.

No longer broken

• Removed hardcoded navigation shortcuts Alt+Left/Right.
• Fixed large pages with multiple queries causes some queries to stop working.
• Fixed some search operators when used in combination causes wrong results.
• Fixed rare case of workspace leaving an empty space in the sidebar that can't be closed.
• Fixed sync's setting history modal has the incorrect title of "deleted files".

Developers

• Command palette now renders the plugin name and command name in separate elements to facilitate CSS styling.
• Plugins that crash after onLayoutReady will now show a message to help debug.
• New EditorSuggest is now accessible to the API to provide in-line suggestions, like auto-complete. This is what powers the link auto-complete, tag auto-complete, and slash commands.
• Keymap has now been exposed with isModEvent to help check if the user is holding Ctrl/Cmd or pressing the middle mouse button. This is used as a convention to "open in new pane".
• There are now 3 new workspace events:
  • editor-change fired when an editor has received changes. This event happens fairly frequently so please be mindful of performance when using it.
  • editor-paste fired before the editor handles a paste event. If you handle the paste event, you should call evt.preventDefault() to let the next handler know that it's been handled.
  • editor-drop fired before the editor receives a drop event. Works the same was as the paste event.

Shiny new things

• Added a command to undo closed panes. Default hotkey is Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T.
• Added copy code block button in preview mode.
• There is now a tooltip when hovering links that has a different display text (or alias).

Improvements

• Empty panes will be removed on startup if the plugin that created it has been uninstalled or disabled.
• {{date}} and {{time}} will now work in daily notes and zettelkasten prefixer. Previously you needed to add the format {{date:format}}
• Creating new files from in note composer will now show an error if it contains illegal characters.
• You can now use Ctrl/Cmd+click or middle-click the icon or the command palette item to open daily note/new zettelkasten in a new pane.

No longer broken

• Fixed clicking on external links in hover previews not working.
• Fixed creating new files/renaming files not registered in recent files.

Developers

• There is now access to the following bundled libraries: PDF.js, Mermaid, Prism, MathJax. Each library does things a bit differently but we now expose functions to load them if they weren't loaded already: loadPdfJs, loadMermaid, loadPrism, loadMathJax.
• request can now set HTTP headers.

Shiny new things

• You can now select text and right click to search for it globally.

No longer broken

• Fixed rename heading not working when using links from the same document.

Shiny new things

• Added rename heading utility in editor context menu, which will rename the heading and update links.

Improvements

• Note composer's "extract heading" function now has a command and can be assigned to a hotkey.

No longer broken

• Removed timelapse button from local graph.
• Fixed Enter key for CJK input methods in several places when confirming a selection.
• Note composer will no longer accidentally create files with leading or trailing empty spaces.
• Fixed Obsidian Publish upload interface unable to check and uncheck folders when collapsed.
• Fixed can't check for updates when auto-update is turned off.
• Fixed undo pasting also undoes the previous characters typed.

Improvements

• Graph view timelapse animation improvements:
  • The animation now animates according to the note's creation date to generate a true "time" lapse.
  • The graph will now start empty and fill in gradually, without the need to hide orphan notes.
  • The timelapse feature is now more accessible. You can find the new button in the "Display" section, or click the magic wand when the settings panel is closed.

No longer broken

• Fixed deleting a file that is currently open sometimes causes the file to come back.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes of Obsidian Desktop v0.12.9.
• Added a way to pin sidebars for tablet mode.
• You can now click on an image in preview mode to see it full screen, and zoom in.
• The "Open in default app" menu option has been reworded to "Share" to avoid confusion.
• Sidebar settings, such as which panes are open and which one is active, are now properly saved.
• Plugins that are marked "desktop only" will no longer attempt to run on mobile.
• Fixed padding above frontmatter section.
• Vault stats and note stats should now stay up-to-date.
• Obsidian Sync now has improved handling of illegal characters on Android.
• Fixed Shift+Option+Up/Down duplicating line instead of selecting up/down.
• Alt+B/F/D now properly inputs text on iOS.

Shiny new things

• You can now use the keyboard to navigate and select context menus.
• There is now a search bar to find core plugins better.
• Graph view will now highlight the current focused file in a different color. This can be configured through the css class .graph-view.color-fill-focused, or disabled if you set the color to transparent.
• There is now a YAML frontmatter flag for publish:. This flag affects the UI when uploading files to your publish site:
  • When publishing, the default behavior without this flag is to auto-select changed files, but not new files.
  • If you set publish: true, then new files are auto-selected to publish.
  • If you set publish: false, then we will pretend this file does not exist when publishing. This file will not show up in new/changed files. If this file was previously published, you will see an option to delete it instead.

Breaking changes

• The legacy obsidian.css has been deprecated and is no longer supported. If you were using it, you can migrate by moving it to .obsidian/themes/ and rename it to your theme's name. Then, choose that theme in the Appearance > Theme setting.

Improvements

• For security reasons, there is now a confirmation box when clicking on links to non-standard URLs (any protocol that is not http:// or https://). You can ask the app to not ask again on a per-protocol basis.

No longer broken

• Fixed graph view's hotkey/command not working.
• Fixed note composer not leaving empty lines when splitting a heading.
• Removing a local vault from the vault switcher will now properly clears any associated cache, as well as disassociate it from Obsidian Sync.
• Fixed tables that are longer than the pane's width previously couldn't be scrolled all the way to the right side.

Shiny new things

• Note composer now adds a context menu item to headings which lets you extract the heading as well as all of its child content to a different note.

Improvements

• You can now Ctrl/Cmd+Click the graph view ribbon icon to open it in a new pane.
• Upgraded MathJax to v3.2.0.
• Upgraded Prism.js to v1.24.1.

No longer broken

• Fixed deleting to trash sometimes doesn't work.
• Moving files to subfolders will no longer cause Markdown links to add the folder name to the display text.

Developers

• The Editor interface now has a way to set multiple selections.
• There is now an API to perform HTTP requests without any CORS restrictions. The API is called request().

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes of Obsidian Desktop v0.12.12.
• Improved startup speed for large vaults.
• Fixed Android app couldn't select locations in the external SD card.
• Fixed Android app crash or behave unexpectedly when file names contain :, % or # characters.

• Android: Fixed crash when files and folders contains # or % in their names.
• iOS: Obsidian will now properly create the iCloud folder on first boot up.
• iOS: Fixed minimum iOS requirement back down to iOS 12.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes of Obsidian Desktop v0.12.10.
• Fixed rare case sync error when synchronizing deleted community plugins.
• Fixed Android 10 "path cannot be resolved" error when selecting vaults in Documents folder.

• This version is aimed for public release soon!
• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes of Obsidian Desktop v0.12.10.
• Most notably, you might need the configuration sync improvements for hotkeys.
• Graph view is now functional.
  • Pinch zoom has been implemented.
  • Graph nodes can now be easily dragged around, or tapped on.
  • Graph no longer crashes the second time it's opened.
• On Android, you can now choose to open folders as vaults anywhere on your device.
• On Android, you can now share text, links, or attachment files like images and PDFs to Obsidian.
  • You can decide to insert the shared text into the current note, choose a note, or insert into your daily note.
  • Shared attachment files will be imported into your vault's attachment folder, and after that you can choose to insert them as links into a note or your daily note.
• Sharing for iOS will come in a later release.

Migration notice

• Since hotkeys are now stored in a separate file, if you're using Obsidian on multiple devices you might notice that your hotkeys will disappear on non-upgraded Obsidian instances when using Obsidian Sync to sync your app config. To migrate, upgrade Obsidian and turn on the hotkeys sync flag to receive the hotkeys, then restart Obsidian.

Improvements

• Obsidian Sync now allows you to view the version history of settings files through a button from the sync settings page.
• Hotkeys are now saved in its own hotkeys.json file to facilitate independent syncing of hotkeys from the rest of the app settings.
• Obsidian Sync now has an option to sync (or not sync) your hotkeys independently.

No longer broken

• Fixed applying fold multiple times causes the fold toggle to require many clicks to unfold.

Developers

• Obsidian's config files will now be formatted json instead of all on one line.

No longer broken

• Fixed settings don't get saved if they've been ever changed before the new format migration in v0.12.8.
• Fixed hotkeys don't get saved through a restart in some situations.

Shiny new things

• Obsidian Sync can now be used to synchronize your settings, appearance tweaks, custom CSS, and installed plugins.
• Obsidian Sync can now sync any file type using the "Sync all other types" option.
• Quick switcher now has configuration options to show or hide attachments and unsupported file types, in addition to the current option to show links to non-existent files.
• An option to open file in new pane has been added to file explorer's context menu.

Developers

• Obsidian's config file has been split up into 4 different files. Previously, it was just config. Now it's app.json, appearance.json, core-plugins.json and community-plugins.json.
• registerMarkdownPostProcessor and registerMarkdownCodeBlockProcessor will now return the MarkdownPostProcessor callback function to facilitate manual un-registration.

Improvements

• Obsidian Sync will now no longer store the sync configuration in sync.json, and instead store it inside the app's storage using IndexedDB. This should prevent third party sync tools from accidentally corrupting the sync status database.
• Obsidian Sync will now show the paused icon when uninitialized, instead of the green checkmark.
• Note composer's merge functionality will now update links to point to the newly merged file.

No longer broken

• Fixed template core plugin not applying to all dates in the template.
• Fixed note composer not respecting new file location setting.
• Fixed quick switcher not showing links to non-existent files even when enabling the option.
• Fixed search operators line:, section: and block: not showing correct explanation text.
• Fixed Obsidian Sync sometimes causing duplicate files when creating and then immediately renaming files when latency to the sync server is high.
• Fixed unable to use certain characters on non-english keyboards when renaming files because the app thinks the keyboard is entering an illegal character.