Changelog

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.14.

No longer broken

• iPadOS 26: Fixed screen shrinking after switching apps.
• iPadOS 26: Fixed toolbar getting incorrectly positioned.
• Android: Fixed toolbar and navigation bar being incorrectly positioned on Android 10 and below.

Developers

• Fixed default layout of Modal on phone sizes.
• Fixed close button not working on Modal instances.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.10.0.
• Added new "Shake to debug" menu on iOS and Android. Shows a menu of quick actions to reset your vault. Useful for debugging plugins or themes that would otherwise leave your workspace unusable.

No longer broken

• Improved performance when opening quick switcher and command palette when using the latest Obsidian 1.9 installer (Electron v35+).
• Fixed Global Search reporting inaccurate result count.
• Bases: Word count is now hidden in the status bar when a base file is focused.
• Bases: Fixed lag when resizing table columns.
• Bases: file.hasTag('#tag') is no longer case-sensitive. file.hasTag('test') and file.hasTag('TEST') now return the same results.
• Bases: The contains function now correctly handles nested tags. For example,tags.contains("A") will now return results containing #A as well as #A/B.
• Bases: Formulas using this now work if a Base file is embedded inside Canvas.
• Bases: Formulas using this now resolve to null if the Base is not in the sidebar and not embedded.
• Desktop: Fixed an issue where pop-out windows would not reopen after quitting the app.

Developers

The installer has been updated to use Electron v37.6.0 (requires downloading the latest installer). For users on macOS Tahoe, this may improve app performance.

Breaking changes

• The "Use light mode" and "Use dark mode" commands have been removed. A new "Toggle light/dark mode" command has been added. Be sure to update your hotkeys accordingly.

Bases

This release introduces tons of new features and improvements to Bases. This release also includes the initial version of the Bases API.

New

• Added "Group by" to group your data by the given property. Available in the "Sort menu."
• Added table summaries. To use use them, right-click a table column and choose "Summarize...". Choose from the list of built-in summary functions, or write your own.
• New List view lets you display files as bulleted lists and numbered lists. Supports multi-line content.
• Initial Bases API.
• New Maps plugin lets you visualize your base entries on a map. Install it from the Community plugins directory. This is an official open source plugin that also provides an example of how developers can implement new view types for Bases.
• New table selection.
• Full keyboard navigation. Full list of hotkeys below.
• Copy/paste support.
• Basic edit history (undo and redo) via Cmd/Ctrl-Z and Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-Z.

Improvements

• Added reduce() function for lists.
• Added new html() function for rendering custom HTML.
• Added new random() function. Useful if you want to create a custom formula for randomizing your sort order.
• Added support for timezone offset in ISO 8601 datetime parsing.
• View will periodically refresh the results of file.backlinks and other formulas that result in stale data.
• Clicking the ribbon item with modifier keys opens the file in a new tab (Ctrl/Cmd), a new split (Ctrl/Cmd-Alt), or a new window (Ctrl/Cmd-Alt-Shift).
• Indeterminate checkboxes (where the value is null) are now sorted with false values.
• Improved behavior of "New item" file creation. Improved property value inference.
• "Change view" command has been renamed to "Switch view..."

Table Hotkeys

• Ctrl/Cmd-C, Ctrl/Cmd-V to copy and paste the selected cells.
• Ctrl/Cmd-z, Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-Z to undo and redo changes made while editing properties.
• Ctrl/Cmd-A to select all cells in the current group
• Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-Arrowkey to select all cells in a given direction.
• ctrl-Space to select the column.
• Shift-Space to select the row.
• Enter to focus the current cell. For checkboxes, this toggles the checkbox. For formulas, this opens the formula editor.
• Home go to the first column.
• End go to the last column.
• Pageup/Pagedown go to navigate by visual page height.
• Esc to clear the current cell selection.
• Backspace to clear the current cells.
• Tab go to the next cell.
• Shift-tab to to the previous cell.

Other Table Shortcuts

• Shift-click to create a cell selection
• Right-click on the cell selection to get a context menu for the files.

Everything else

• The selected theme is reloaded when appearance.json changes.
• When closing a tab, the tab to the right is activated (previously the tab to the left would get activated).
• Fixed "Fold all" and "Unfold all" commands when popover or embedded Markdown file is focused.
• File Explorer: Save layout after changing sort.
• File Explorer: Using Ctrl/Cmd + Arrow keys to change the file now triggers the sidebars to react to the new open file.
• Graph view: Support modifiers when opening graph from command palette.
• Properties: List properties now allow duplicate values.
• Properties: The first suggestion result is not automatically selected if there is no input text.
• Properties: The Global Properties view can now delete a property across all your notes. Right-Click on a property and choose "Delete".
• The "Indent" and "Unindent" commands are now available on desktop.
• Reading mode: If no text is selected, Ctrl/Cmd-C will now copy the full note source to the clipboard.

Developers

• FileManager#generateMarkdownLink no longer prepends "!" on attachment links.
• A new open-link event is now fired on the active element when the user triggers the "Follow link under cursor" command.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.14.

Developers

• Modals are no longer pinned to the bottom of the screen by default.

No longer broken

• Desktop: Fixed an issue where pop-out windows would not reopen after quitting the app.
• Bases: file.hasTag('#tag') is no longer case-sensitive. file.hasTag('test') and file.hasTag('TEST') now return the same results.
• Bases: The contains function now correctly handles nested tags. For example,tags.contains("A") will now return results containing #A as well as #A/B.
• Bases: Formulas using this now work if a Base file is embedded inside Canvas.
• Bases: Formulas using this now resolve to null if the Base is not in the sidebar and not embedded.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.13.

No longer broken

• iPadOS 26: Fixed screen shrinking after switching apps.
• iPadOS 26: Fixed toolbar getting incorrectly positioned.
• Android: Fixed toolbar and navigation bar being incorrectly positioned on Android 10 and below.

Developers

• Fixed default layout of Modal on phone sizes. Modals are now always pinned to the bottom of the screen by default.
• Fixed close button not working on Modal instances.

No longer broken

• Improved performance when opening quick switcher and command palette when using the latest Obsidian 1.9 installer (Electron v35+).
• Fixed Global Search reporting inaccurate result count.
• Bases: Word count is now hidden in the status bar when a base file is focused.
• Bases: Fixed lag when resizing table columns.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.12.

Shiny new things

This update introduces a new migration assistant for Obsidian Sync. This tool will allow you to perform migrations for your remote Sync vaults, such as encryption upgrades, and in the future the ability to switch regions. Learn more

Obsidian occasionally upgrades Sync encryption to maintain the highest security standards. If an encryption upgrade is available you will see an option titled "Upgrade vault encryption" in Obsidian Settings → Sync.

Improvements

• We have added in-app checks for plugins known to cause issues with Obsidian 1.9:
  • Commander v0.5.3 caused the mobile toolbar to take up the entire screen. This is fixed in the latest version of the plugin, so you just need to remember to update.
  • The "Image Toolkit" plugin causes issues with the display of Obsidian's menus. Once there is a new version of this plugin available, it can be re-enabled.
• Drastically improved the performance of the Search view.

No longer broken

• Bases: Fixed view not refreshing after renaming the currently active view.
• Bases: Fixed file.tags.contains() not finding files with parent tags (e.g. a/b should match when looking for "a").
• Properties: Fixed context menu immediately hiding after right-clicking in Local Properties view.

Developers

• The installer has been updated to use Electron v37.3.1 (requires downloading the latest installer).

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.11.

Improvements

• We have deprecated several plugins that are known to cause issues with the current version of Obsidian. If you are using one of these plugin versions, you will be notified and the plugin will be disabled until you update to a compatible version. Please remember to check for plugin updates.
• Drastically improved the performance of the Search view.

Obsidian Sync has received a minor security upgrade. File names have always been end-to-end encrypted, but they're now protected using an even stronger method. All new vaults automatically use this stronger encryption. Existing vaults can be upgraded with the new migration assistant in Obsidian 1.9.11.

The old method of encrypting file paths and hashes derived the initialization vector (IV) from a hash of the string. In rare cases, this could create a pattern that an attacker might try to take advantage of if they were able to get access to your encrypted data. Now, file paths and hashes are encrypted with AES-SIV so those patterns can no longer exist.

The way file contents are encrypted hasn't changed, they've always been secured with AES-GCM.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.11.

Improvements

This update introduces a new migration assistant for Obsidian Sync. This tool will allow you to perform migrations for your remote Sync vaults, such as encryption upgrades, and in the future the ability to switch regions.

Obsidian occasionally upgrades Sync encryption to maintain the highest security standards. If an encryption upgrade is available you will see an option titled "Upgrade vault encryption" in Obsidian Settings → Sync.

No longer broken

• Bases: Fixed view not refreshing after renaming the currently active view.
• Bases: Fixed file.tags.contains() not finding files with parent tags (e.g. a/b should match when looking for "a").
• Properties: Fixed context menu immediately hiding after right-clicking in Local Properties view.

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.10.

Improvements

• The app now smoothly resizes when the on-screen keyboard appears and disappears.
• Two-finger swipe to navigate forward and backwards in tab history will now be more responsive. On iOS, this gesture is disabled when the keyboard is active to avoid interfering with iOS's two-finger cursor movement gesture.
• The app now better adapts to landscape mode.
• It is now possible to reset your Obsidian account password from the initial onboarding flow.
• You can now open the file context menu by pressing and holding on the file name in the Search view.
• Search inputs are automatically focused when an external keyboard is attached.
• Several improvements to the "Follow link" tooltip that appears in source mode. The tooltip now more reliably opens the link, it also shows and hides more consistently.
• Swipe down on notices to dismiss them.
• Canvas: Added 'Duplicate' option to the node context menu.
• The default toolbar now shows undo and redo at the start of the row.

No longer broken

• Ensure the sidebar collapses after opening a file from the file explorer.
• Minor fixes to the layout when sidebars are pinned on tablet.
• Navigation bar now uses "+" to open a new tab, and a search icon for opening the quick switcher.
• Graph view: Dragging force sliders will no longer cause sidebars to slide open.
• "Split down" and "Split right" no longer appear in the context menu for the sidebar tabs.
• Fixed appearance of sidebar if you close all tabs.
• Fixed "File recovery" dialog not navigable on tablet devices.

iOS

• App icon now adapts to home screen appearance.
• Pressing and holding on links in Live Preview now shows the context menu.
• Popovers can no longer overlap with OS elements such as the Dynamic Island and navigation bar.
• Added Ctrl-Tab and Shift-Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs on iPad.
• Fixed toolbar placement on iPad when using Stage Manager or the floating keyboard.

Android

• Pressing the 'back' button to exit the app now minimizes instead of quitting.
• Fix app crash on font selection for Android 9 or earlier.
• The app is now edge-to-edge, meaning the status bar and navigation bar will always fit in with the rest of the app.
• Improved how the app layout adapts to the on-screen keyboard.
• App now resizes correctly in split-screen mode.
• Added missing 500 font weight for Inter.
• Fixed opening links in Live Preview when the editor is not focused.
• Fixed tapping checkboxes causing scroll position to be lost.
• Fixed scrollbars missing in editor.

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more.

Bases lets you create custom views to visualize and interact with data in your vault. You can filter your notes by properties and create formulas to derive your own dynamic properties.

All the data in a base is backed by your local Markdown files and properties stored in YAML. To support Bases, we're introducing the .base file format and syntax.

Shiny new things

• New Footnotes view core plugin adds a new sidebar tab that helps you manage footnotes for the current file without losing your place in the note.

Breaking changes

• We have officially removed support for the properties tag, alias, cssclass in favor of tags, aliases and cssclasses. In addition, the values of these properties must be a list. If the current value is a text property, it will no longer be recognized by Obsidian. In the "Format converter" core plugin, there is a new option to fix any incorrectly formatted aliases, tags, and cssclasses in your vault. It will also migrate your old alias, tag, and cssclass properties to the new format.

Improvements

• Property editor is now available inside page preview and Canvas.
• Sync: Added new "Conflict resolution" setting. Choose how Obsidian handles file conflicts when syncing: Merge (default) or create conflict file.
• Added button to open current page preview in a tab.
• In the "Export to PDF" flow, the export button now receives initial keyboard focus.
• Settings that show file or folder suggestions now use fuzzy search for better matching.
• Whitespace is now correctly shown in Sync history and file recovery diffs.
• Text selection contrast has been increased in dark mode.
• Sync history view now includes a button to open affected files in File Recovery.
• The Sync history view now shows the file name before and after it was renamed.
• File Recovery now displays file extensions in titles and suggestions for non-Markdown files.
• If the current tab is pinned, the "Close current tab" command will unpin the tab instead of closing it. Repeat the command to close the tab.
• The "Move file to..." option remains available even when the Files plugin is disabled.
• The "Save file" command now only appears in the Command Palette when a file is active.
• Improvements to the display of an "unknown" tab. Added option to close all unknown tabs.
• The Unique Note Prefix plugin now includes an "Add unique internal link" command for linking selected text.
• When there is not enough room to display the whole path in the titlebar, the folders will be truncated before the file name.
• Improved how the Markdown parser handles large tables and large callouts. These notes will take slightly longer to load, but then the tables and callouts will be rendered instantly.
• Global search stops scanning your vault after it finds 100,000 results.
• File Explorer: When the view is active, holding Command/Ctrl while navigating through files using the arrow keys will now open the file under the cursor.
• File Explorer: Right-clicking in the empty space within file explorer will now include options to create a new base or a new canvas.
• Added "Copy path" and "Copy relative path" to the link context menu.
• Added "Toggle readable line length" command.
• macOS: Apple Writing Tools now appear in the editor context menu. This requires installing the latest installer and enabling "Native menus" in settings.

No longer broken

• Page preview no longer hides or switches to edit mode when the fold icon is clicked.
• Fixed display of titles in page preview for RTL languages.
• Improved how results in the command palette are sorted. By default, results are now sorted alphabetically. And more recently used commands will rank higher in the search results.
• Editing a file no longer resets folded sections in the Outline view.
• Pressing Shift-Enter inside a text property no longer creates an empty input.
• Cursor placement is now accurate when navigating table cells after searching.
• When using the "Obsidian frame" window frame style, the Window title will now properly update to show the currently open file in pop-out windows.
• List numbering remains consistent when editing inside callouts.
• PDF view no longer steals focus when opened in the background.
• The "Export to PDF..." command no longer causes the screen to flash white while in dark mode. It also works on Linux when the app is set to adapt to system theme.
• Strict line breaks now render properly in the first paragraph of a callout.
• Outline view now highlights the correct line when the note includes footnotes.
• Graph view: If you have saved filters, you'll no longer see an initial flash of nodes when you open the graph view. The filters will be applied immediately.
• Markdown tables containing partially complete HTML now render correctly.
• Tab history buttons, Web viewer history entries, bookmarked URLs, and ribbon items that open notes now respect modifier keys and honor the "Focus new tab" preference.
• The Tags view now updates correctly when clearing the search filter.
• Autocompleting a codeblock now properly accounts for indentation and if the cursor is inside a list item.
• Improved the rendering of codeblocks inside quoteblocks.
• Clicking a property search result now focuses the whole row and not the property name.
• Canvas cards now support callouts without generating internal errors.
• Canvas: Fixed bug where Canvas nodes would hide when trying to move 2 groups that are the same size and at the same exact position in the viewport.
• Canvas now consistently copies selected notes when pressing Ctrl-C.
• Canvas: Fixed "New group" not selecting the label text by default.

Developers

• The installer has been updated to Electron 37.3.0.
• idb has been updated to version 8.0.2.
• yaml has been updated to version 2.7.0.
• CSS properties added to document.body are now mirrored across all pop-out windows.
• ButtonComponent now automatically shows a loading spinner if the onClick event is async.
• You can now bypass the Web viewer and specify that a URL is opened in the user's default browser using window.open(url, '_external').
• YAML aliasing has been disabled to prevent unintended references when assigning the same object to multiple keys.
• Assigning the same object to multiple keys via processFrontmatter will no longer create a YAML alias.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.10.
• Fixed "File recovery" dialog not navigable on tablet devices.

No longer broken

• Bases: Fixed "Duplicate view" creating two new views, instead of one.
• Fixed interactive editor tooltips broken for some plugins.
• Removed "Property" type from possible property types.

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.9.