Changelog

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.3.7.

No longer broken

• Removed command that wasn't ready for release just yet.
• Fixed styling issue where extra space was being added between lists and sublists.

New shiny things

• New Appearance setting to apply a custom app icon. Supports .ico and .png files.
• Added support for deep linking in PDFs. Links can be created by right clicking on a PDF's table of contents, an annotation, or any selected text.
• New "Adapt to theme" menu option for PDFs. Enabling this will override the PDF appearance so its rendered to match the styling of the current theme

Improvements

• Tab close button is now hidden for inactive tabs and will only appear on hover. This creates more space for file names inside the tab.
• Improved how headings are displayed. Headings in Live Preview and Reading mode should now more closely match in appearance. Note this requires installer version 1.1.9 or above.

No longer broken

• Spellcheck setting is now stored app-wide properly, instead of having some vaults overriding others.
• Live Preview: Markdown tables are now allowed to start immediately after headings without a blank line.
• Fixed bug where embedded PDFs and markdown files sometimes lose their scroll position.
• Fixed issue where the initial switch from edit mode to reading mode causes the scroll position to be lost.
• Fixed issue where reading mode scrolls unexpectedly when opening new tabs.
• Canvas: Allow opening external links in webviews.
• Mermaid: Fixed some color issues.

Developers

New CSS variables:

• --p-spacing defines the spacing between paragraphs (defaults to 1rem).
• --heading-spacing defines the spacing above a heading when it follows a paragraph (defaults to 2.5x paragraph spacing).

• New app icon! Learn more on our blog.
• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.3.5.
• Fixed issues with zooming PDFs on iOS devices.

Shiny new things

• New app icon! Learn more on our blog. Requires downloading the new installer.

Improvements

• Pressing Shift Enter while the [[ link suggest is showing will now skip the autocomplete and accept the current input as the full link.

No longer broken

• Pressing esc while renaming a file will now properly cancel the rename instead of accepting the change.
• Fixed PDFs not loading in pop-out windows when the main window is minimized.
• Fixed issue where the [[ link suggest would not always work if ]] was not found on the current line.

Improvements

• Reverted behavior change for links in pinned tabs. Clicking them will now open the link in another visible tab that is not pinned.
• Reverted behavior for "Open to the right" as well as the Ctrl/Cmd + Alt + Click modifier. A new tab group will now always be created for the new tab.
• When deleting a file, if the open tab containing that file has navigation history, the tab will no longer be closed. Instead it will show the most recent file from the history.

No longer broken

• Prevent math from inserting links that execute JavaScript when clicked on.
• Prevent plugins from breaking the PDF viewer.
• Fixed lag issues from warnings generated by plugins misusing renderMarkdown.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.3.3. This includes the new PDF viewer.
• Live Preview: Reduce flickering and flashing when selecting text.
• Adding text to an existing file via Share menu will always append text to the end of the file.
• iOS: Fixed Canvas unable to drop images dragged from other apps.
• iPad: Fixed issue where cursor and scroll position are messed up after dismissing the keyboard via the virtual keyboard's "close keyboard button."
• iPad: Fixed switching apps causes Obsidian to lose text focus.

No longer broken

• Fixed "split right" command not always creating a new tab group.
• Bookmarks: Fixed bookmark group rename not working.
• PDF: Fixed PDF reload when other files are changed.
• Fixed clicking in documents with embeds, images, or raw HTML sometimes causes scroll jump.

Shiny new things

• YouTube and Twitter links can now be embedded within your notes using the Markdown image embed syntax (i.e. ![](https://www.youtube.com/...)).
• Clicking on external links inside <iframe> now properly open them in the default browser.

Improvements

• Improved Live Preview rendering performance when moving the cursor.
• Quick switcher: Bookmarks no longer rank higher in the search results.
• PDF tabs will now automatically reload the PDF file when it is modified outside of Obsidian.
• New hotkeys for interacting with the File explorer:
  • F2 to start renaming the focused file.
  • Space to open the focused file.
  • macOS: Enter to start renaming the focused file (to follow the OS convention).
  • macOS: Cmd + ArrowDown to open the focused file.
• Live Preview: Markdown tables now require a blank line before them in order to render. This makes the behavior consistent with reading mode and offers better interoperability with other Markdown apps.

No longer broken

• Linux: fixed issues with middle-click triggering paste when it shouldn't.
• Renaming a file in the tab title bar now finishes the rename when using the Enter and Tab key.
• Long tables that exceed the view width will now show a scrollbar.
• Fixed missing first column when pasting a Markdown table.
• File Explorer: fixed "Reveal file in navigation" not always scrolling the file into view.
• Fixed Alt + Click in file explorer not setting the focused file properly.
• Fixed alignment of icons inside tree components.
• Search: Clicking filenames in the search results will now respect the "Always focus new tabs" preference.
• Frontmatter will now still be recognized if there are spaces after the ending ---.
• Fixed file saving interrupted when closing or quitting. Now Obsidian will properly wait for the file to be saved before closing.

Improvements

• We've redesigned all the tree components (e.g. File Explorer, Outline view) to make the visual hierarchy more clear. This will likely impact any custom themes that you're using.
• PDF: Improved text selection.
• PDF: Added menu for embedded PDFs.
• New behavior for "Open to the right" as well as the Ctrl/Cmd + Alt + Click modifier. Instead of always creating a new tab group, if there is a tab group to the right of the current tab, it will open the link in that tab group.
• Outline: The outline view now supports keyboard navigation and preserves folded headings.
• Obsidian Sync: Improved how Sync handles changing the casing for folder names (e.g. "some folder" → "Some Folder").

No longer broken

• Collapsing items in the file explorer will now look visually better (previously the fold indicator of child elements would also appear to collapse as well).
• Bookmarks: Fixed bookmark group not being populated in the Edit Bookmark modal.
• Bookmarks: Hover preview no longer immediately hides after opening.
• Bookmarks: Opening a bookmark with "Always focus new tabs" disabled will now still focus the newly created bookmark.
• Spellcheck is now enabled when renaming files from the file explorer or from the tab title bar.
• Backlinks: Fixed mod-clicking on backlinks not respecting the "Always focus new tabs" preference.

Developers

• App will no longer show errors when plugins don't provide a "Component," to renderMarkdown, they will now just show a warning.

Shiny new things

• All new PDF viewer.

Improvements

• Clicking on links in a pinned tab will now open a new tab instead of reusing a random existing tab.
• Bookmarks: Added new "Bookmark this block" menu item when right-clicking on a block ID.
• Bookmarks: Bookmark view will now show an error state if the bookmarks.json file is malformed or corrupted.
• Spellcheck is now enabled by default in new vaults.
• Inline titles now have spellcheck enabled.
• When Auto convert HTML is enabled, HTML tables will now be converted to markdown tables on paste.

No longer broken

• Fixed slower performance of live preview when using popout windows on a secondary monitor.
• Fixed opening files from File Explorer not giving focus to the new tab if "Always focus new tab" is turned off.
• Fixed issue with multiple cursors having the incorrect selection color.

Developers

• Updated PIXI.js to v7.2.4.
• Updated Turndown to 7.1.2.
• Updated Mathjax to v3.2.2.

Breaking changes

• Removed support for app://local URLs. These were reported as a potential vulnerability when using iframes.

No longer broken

• macOS: Text in the "Look up" menu item will now be trimmed to 40 characters.
• Bookmarks: New unnamed groups will now be called "Untitled group" instead of "Untitled folder"
• Bookmarks: Bookmark context menu items will now also refer to "Bookmark groups" instead of "folders" to avoid confusion.
• Bookmarks: Bookmark group must always have a title.

Developers

• Fixed issue with navigator.clipboard API not working in popout windows.
• If you were relying on app://local for functionality within your plugin, you should use vault.getResourcePath(file: TFile) and vault.adapter.getResourcePath(vaultPath: string) as a replacement. These also works on mobile.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.2.6.
• Added Bookmarks core plugin and removed Starred core plugin.
• Android: Fixed bug where Bluetooth keyboard could cause the app to restart.
• Android: Fixed bug preventing files from being dragged in the file explorer due to the context menu appearing.

Improvements

• Added new command "Create new note in current tab."

No longer broken

• Bookmarks: Better handling of bookmarks when syncing across devices. Should fix issues reported of bookmarks disappearing when using Obsidian Sync.
• Canvas: Fixed two-finger pinching when default wheel behavior is set to "zoom."
• The "rename" modal will no longer report the rename as successful if the rename failed.

Important: Now that Bookmarks are available on mobile, the starred core plugin has officially been removed.

Improvements

• The ribbon context menu will now show the ribbon icons next to each menu item to make it easier to identify which ribbon items are enabled/disabled.

No longer broken

• Bookmarks: Fixed bookmarks view not saving what bookmark groups are collapsed.
• Bookmarks: Fixed the positioning of the bookmark view's "no bookmarks" message.
• macOS: "Look up" context menu item will now show a max of 40 characters.
• Android: Fixed bug where file explorer could not drag files due to the context menu appearing.
• Canvas: Fixed bug where pressing "edit" didn't always zoom in far enough to edit the file.
• Fixed bug where sometimes it was impossible to drag files into a similarly named folder.

Improvements

• Added sitemap.xml

No longer broken

• Fixed issue with home pages sometimes returning a 404 error

Improvements

• Publish: Added option to customize the navigation items in your Publish sidebar.
• Improved Live Preview rendering performance when scrolling quickly in longer Markdown files.
• Templates: If there is only one template in your templates folder, "Insert template" will no longer automatically insert the text. The behavior will now be consistent and a suggest will be shown.

No longer broken

• File Explorer: Fixed view not properly restoring the collapse state of folders when reopening Obsidian.
• Mermaid: improved colors for state diagram.
• Reading Mode: Pressing Ctrl/Command+F will now always refocus the search input even if it's already showing.
• Fixed "Focus on tab group" commands not working properly in pop-out windows.
• Templates: Fix and not resolving correctly within templates.
• Search: Operators such as tag: and block: will now work even if the operator is not lowercase (i.e. TAG:).
• Ctrl-M will no longer minimize Obsidian on Windows.
• The vim Codemirror extension has been updated to include all the latest upstream fixes and patches.

Improvements

• Improved Lighthouse scores for performance, SEO, accessibility, and best practices — now at 100% or close to 100% when using default theme
• Improved support for Open Graph and Twitter metadata
• Added dynamic social sharing cards
• Added support for custom metadata using YAML fields description, image, and permalink
• Markdown syntax is now trimmed from table of contents
• Switched to system fonts for faster loading

No longer broken

• Removed table of contents on 404 page

Improvements

• Outline view: Markdown formatting is now stripped.
• Bookmarks now appear in the quick switcher.
• Bookmarks: The file context menu will now say "Edit bookmark" if the bookmark already exists.
• Bookmarks: Added new commands to bookmark headings and blocks under the cursor.
• Hotkeys: Clicking on a hotkey with a conflict will now filter the hotkey list to show all the commands matching with that hotkey.
• The command "move current file to another folder" now allows for creating new folders that don't exist.
• macOS: Added context menu item to show the macOS Lookup window for the selected text.
• Bookmarks: The Bookmarks view can now be closed from the tab context menu. Run the command "Show bookmarks" to reopen the view.

No longer broken

• Ctrl-M will no longer minimize Obsidian on Windows.
• Added missing styling to Live Preview for bolded, italic text.
• Escaped characters (characters proceeded by \) will no longer receive special styling.
• Bookmarks: Opening multiple bookmarks will no longer create empty tabs.
• Template: An notice will be shown when running "Insert template" command and no templates file is set.
• Bookmarks: Items can now be dragged out of the bookmark view into tabs to open them.
• Bookmarks: File bookmarks can now be dropped into an editor to insert a link.
• Bookmarks: Links can now be dragged into the Bookmarks view to save them.
• Bookmarks: Headings from the Outline view can be dragged into the Bookmarks view to save them.
• Bookmarks: Added missing "open to the right" menu item in the bookmark context menu.

Developers

• Bookmarks: Added the full bookmark path as a data-path attribute for custom styling.

Improvements

• Bookmarks: Supports middle-click to open bookmarks in a new tab.
• Bookmarks: Hover preview now only shows the current heading for bookmarked headings.

No longer broken

• Fixed bug causing broken links to be created when renaming a file break when renaming files without display text.
• Hotkeys: Fixed bug causing custom hotkeys to not be displayed even when they match the current filter selection.
• Bookmarks: Fixed drag and drop sometimes dropping items in the wrong position.
• Bookmarks: Fixed dragging and dropping multiple items causing the item order to change.
• Bookmarks: Fixed bookmarks inside groups not showing their updated title on edit.