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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a new core plugin called "Note Composer" that can help you merge and split notes quickly.
New command and menu option are available for merging current note into another one.
Select text and right click for the option to extract it into a separate note.
You can choose to apply a template for extracted notes. The extracted text will be filled into the {{content}} variable in the template. Other variables like {{fromTitle}}, {{newTitle}}, {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} are also available.
Improvements
Core plugins now has their commands prefixed with their plugin name, which makes them easier to find in Command Palette.
The right click menu in edit mode is now unified into a single consistent menu, which contains the cut/copy/paste/select all options, spellcheck suggestions, as well as link options if available.
No longer broken
Syntax highlighting will now properly recognize any character for task lists.
Pasting images from Chrome now properly works to import it on MacOS.
Quick switcher now no longer ranks subfolder matches significantly lower than poor file name matches.
Text overflowing modals now properly scroll rather than clip at the edge of the screen.
Plugins causing an error in checkCallback no longer breaks the command palette.
Fixed backlink in document not showing up in an empty file.
Fixed drag-and-drop panes not working when right sidebar has no panes and is completely hidden.
Developers
Fixed data-path not updated when folders are renamed.
There is now a editor-menu event on Workspace, which can be used to add more options to the context menu inside the editor.
The template core plugin now has commands to insert the current time or the current date.
There's now a new dedicated command to focus on the editor.
Improvements
Pasting images copied from Chrome's "Copy image" menu action will now properly import the image to the vault, instead of creating a link to the image's original URL.
On MacOS, in some rare setups, the file system API may stop working, which should now be caught by Obsidian if any action takes over 60 seconds.
Upgraded MathJax and Mermaid to latest versions.
No longer broken
The strikethrough command now works properly instead of erroneously adding highlight markers.
Block math now no longer adds an extra empty line after it when immediately followed by a line of text.
Quick switcher no longer errors out when opening a non-existent file when the new file location is set to current note.
During link auto-completion, typing # or ^ when selecting an alias should now put the cursor in the correct place.
Opening the app no longer opens to an empty editor with a file called "No file" if the file was deleted. Instead it will correctly open the "No file is open" page.
Fixed performance issue with very long lines of text.
In the editor, using two : in text no longer causes text to be grayed out in between.
Fixed some Mermaid diagrams not rendering properly (journey missing text, gantt unreadable active task, class diagrams have very faint text).
Fixed autocomplete fuzzy sorting algorithm that previously prioritized punctuation over space characters.
Developers
There is now a function available for converting HTML to Markdown called htmlToMarkdown, which is using a pre-configured Turndown Service.