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v3.1.1

2 weeks ago

Hotfix for crashes on Linux

Sometimes, waiting to update something is a smart idea. This time, we were not that smart and bumped the underlying Electron framework to version 30, which unfortunately made running Zettlr 3.1.0 on most Linux systems impossible. With this patch, we rolled back Electron to a working version. Apologies to all Linux users, we still love you!

Changelog

GUI and Functionality

Fixed a segmentation fault crash on startup across various Linux setups (#5135)

Under the Hood

Downgrade Electron to version 29.3.2 (cf. Electron issue #41839)

v3.1.0

2 weeks ago

Wikilink-Titles | Project Overhaul | LT Improvements | And much more

Today's the day! After more than half a year since the last bigger update we are absolutely stoked to announce the next major update to Zettlr! This update brings loads of improvements and a decent amount of new features with it. A lot of it is about improving many workflows around the app and making your life much, much easier. Also, this release contains the début of our UX/UI artist, Artem Barinov, who has spent almost the entirety of 2023 fully re-designing the preferences dialog from the ground up — a feature that was fully designed before the launch of 3.0.0 but narrowly didn't make it in that release. We are excited to hear what you have to say about it!

Zettlr is Free and Open Source (FOSS) software and is done entirely by volunteers. But, developing the app incurs a significant cost factor. Please consider becoming a regular sponsor via Patreon or send a one-time donation via PayPal. Every dollar counts!

But now, let's get into what changed in 3.1.0. There are three categories of changes: new features, improvements to existing workflows, and significant changes to existing workflows. Please make sure to read the entirety of the Changelog below to know what has changed so that none of the changes take you by surprise! Here's the overview at a glance:

You can now specify titles for wikilinks
Plain links are now no longer auto-detected
The old link-title-syntax ([Title]([[Link]])) has been partially restored
Project settings overhaul
Full Preferences overhaul
LanguageTool Language detection improved
"Other files" in the sidebar are now relative to the current file, not the open directory
Removed the option for choosing the file time sorting; this setting is now tied to the file display time
Removed the option for automatic file creation; since this is now inferred from whether you have a Zettelkasten directory specified

Changelog

Changes to the link detection

For a long time now, Zettlr would (sometimes aggressively so) detect plain links and display them in a rendered state. In some cases, this was nice as it would relieve you from having to surround such links with pointy or angled brackets.

However, especially in the latest evolution of this parser plugin, the link detection was a bit too aggressive and interfered, e.g., with emphasis highlighting. In this version, we have entirely removed our custom link detection and rely upon the more straight-forward way of detecting links.

Regarding your exporting experience, this should not have any impact, since the auto-link-detection feature wasn't enabled by default by Pandoc anyhow, but depending on how you have been writing, you may notice less detected links in your documents.

To add "plain" links (without using the full []()-syntax) from now on, simply surround them with angled brackets: <https://www.google.com> or <[email protected]>. Note that the protocol (https://) is required, so <www.google.com> will not work.

This changes brings Zettlr's link functionality much more into alignment with other editors as well, since this is the way that many other applications handle links as well.

Introducing Wikilink Titles

This update brings a long-awaited change to Zettlr's handling of internal links (sometimes called Wikilinks). Specifically, with this version, Zettlr finally supports optional titles in such links. Your old links in the format [[link]] still work fine, but now you can add a title that is different from the link, separated by a pipe, or vertical bar character (|).

If such a title is given, Zettlr will use it in various ways to make your files more readable. For example, if you have the link renderer activated in the settings, it will take care of hiding the link target of Wikilinks as well as those of regular Markdown links.

Since there is no way of knowing which of the two parts is the link, and which is the title, Zettlr follows Pandoc's solution in allowing you to specify how internal links are structured for you. The default and recommended setting is to put links first, and titles second ([[link|title]]). This ensures compatibility with VimWiki, MediaWiki, Obsidian, and others. However, should you need to target GitHub wiki pages or another application that expects a title to come first, you can select the alternative option ([[title|link]]).

In order to make Pandoc aware of your choice, you can add one of the following reader extensions to your export profiles: wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe.

Lastly, due to this improvement, we have changed the default setting for "link with filename" from "always" to "never", since it will be more ergonomic to use a custom link title directly instead of having the filename pop up after the link. This default setting applies only to new installations automatically; so if you already installed Zettlr, you can manually switch it.

Re-enabling old Link-Title-Syntax

After the release of Zettlr v3.0.0, some users have complained that their internal links have stopped working. It turns out that quite a lot were using Logseq's syntax for adding titles to internal links ([Title]([[Link]])), which we broke during a refactor of the Markdown parser. This update partially restores this link functionality, allowing you to Cmd/Ctrl-Click them to follow these links again.

Note that we have not implemented other parts yet, and we recommend the more common [[wikilinks]] or [regular markdown links](./file.md).

Preferences Window Overhaul

This release marks the debut of our UX/UI artist Artem Barinov who spent the better half of 2023 redesigning the entire preferences window from scratch. While this change narrowly didn't make it into 3.0.0, we are more than excited to introduce this new and sleek overhaul in this version.

The new window now follows a much more consistent design philosophy. While we have kept the broad tabbed outline, the settings have now been moved into smaller blocks that contain sets of related settings. Furthermore, instead of having to remember where a setting is located, you can now directly search for it using the new search bar.

We also took the opportunity to change, rename, relabel, and remove settings so that a bit of older remnants are now gone. Overall, the experience of changing the settings should now be much smoother, and we hope you like the change. In the coming updates, you can improve many more improvements on the UX side of things!

Project Overhaul: Full Control Over Your Files

Projects are at the heart of Zettlr. As a writing toolbox primarily targeted at academics, journalists, and writers, it must cater not just to simple note- taking workflows, but also to serious writing. Because of this, Zettlr ships with a project feature since the very beginning (since version 0.18.0, released on Jul 20, 2018, to be precise).

However, for a long time the feature attempted to piggyback on the way your files were displayed. This meant that (a) the order in which your files were weaved together into the project file depended on the sorting of the directory, and (b) there was no clear way to exclude files that naturally amass during the lifetime of a project, such as notes, backup files, and miscellaneous.

Zettlr 3.1.0 fixes this issue by introducing a rather small, but powerful change to the way projects work. We have removed the difficult to understand glob- patterns that were introduced in a less-than-ideal attempt to fix some of the complexity-issues that were introduced later (such as displaying file titles instead of filenames, and others). Instead, you can now explicitly select which files will be included in your bound export files – and in which order.

The new file list, which you can find in the project properties dialog, aims to be dead-simple to understand, yet give you back the certainty which files will end up where in your export – without a doubt.

This also means a change to your projects: After this update, the glob patterns will be removed from your .ztr-directory files and replaced with an (initially empty) array of files to be included in your project. That means that you will have to select the files you want to include in a project once after the update.

Managing this list in the project properties is simple: The "Files" tab includes a list of all files available within the project's folder structure. To select a file for export, click the "+"-button to move it up and include it in the export. Next, you can use the "Up"- and "Down"-buttons to change the order of the files within your export. The "-"-button removes a file again and moves it back down to the list of ignored files. Changes are immediately applied and persisted to your disk.

When you now export the project, Zettlr will use only the files you have selected, and put them in the appropriate order.

Should you have deleted a file that you originally included in the list of files, Zettlr will show you a warning message as soon as you export it so that you can have a second look to not send off a file that's missing a crucial part of your work. Such missing files are shown atop of the available files and feature a "-"-button which allows you to remove them from the list. We opted for this approach of you manually having to remove missing links, since it makes it transparent which files are missing so you can take the appropriate action (especially if it was an accidental deletion).

LanguageTool Improvements

The first update to Zettlr's LanguageTool integration concerns the language detection. This update ships with two improvements:

Zettlr implements LanguageTool's "Preferred Variants" setting
LanguageTool respects the lang frontmatter property

Those who prefer writing in British English (instead of, e.g., US English) had to resort to manually switching the automatically detected language from en-US to en-GB every time they opened a file. This has to do with fact that LanguageTool's auto-detector cannot reliably distinguish between variants of some languages (English, German, Portuguese, and Catalan). That is why LT implements a "Preferred Variants" setting that allows you to specify which variant you prefer when writing in any of these languages. Zettlr now implements this setting so that when LT auto-detects the language, it will choose that variant if it detects that, e.g., English is the language. You can adapt this in the settings.

Second, LanguageTool now respects the lang property in YAML frontmatters. This will come in especially handy for people writing bilingual and where LanguageTool has troubles auto-detecting the primary language. By setting the property lang to the language of the document (e.g., en-CA), LanguageTool will default to that one instead of choosing the auto-detection. As an added benefit, Pandoc also supports this property to localize some things here and there (read more at https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#language-variables).

Note that both improvements only apply to the initial loading of a document. You can always override the language on a per-document basis using the status bar.

GUI and Functionality

Feature: Zettlr now supports titles in internal (wiki) links; the default setting instructs the parser to expect first the link, and then the title ([[link|title]]), which ensures compatibility to, e.g., VimWiki, MediaWiki, or Obsidian, whereas the alternative setting ([[title|link]]) is compatible to GitHub wiki syntax. Remember that you need to enable the corresponding option on the Pandoc Markdown reader (wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe, respectively) if you wish to export files with this option
Feature: Project Overhaul. Now you can properly manage which files will be exported in projects, and in which order
Feature: Zettlr can now suggest you emojis during autocompletion. Emojis use the same trigger character as the snippets autocomplete, a colon (:); and Emojis will always be sorted below your snippets -- you can turn this off in the editor settings
Feature: We've completely redesigned the preferences dialog; now it is more aligned with the system preferences on macOS and Windows, allows searching and follows a more stringent structure (special thanks to our UX/UI artist Artem for spending almost an entire year redesigning it from the ground up!)
Feature: The assets manager now provides buttons to open the defaults and snippets directories directly from within the app
Feature: The table insertion popover now displays how many rows and columns will be inserted
Feature: A new setting allows to highlight whitespace across the app (#1123)
Feature: Implemented the LanguageTool Preferred Variants setting; now you can select variants of certain languages (English, German, Portuguese, and Catalan) for cases in which the automatic detection may pick the wrong one
Feature: LanguageTool now respects the lang YAML frontmatter property (if present and conforming to simple BCP-47 tags, e.g., de or de-DE), instead of defaulting to "auto"; this allows you to specify the languages of your documents instead of relying on LanguageTool to figure it out; may not work with more exotic tag variants (such as de-DE-x-simple-language)
Change: The attachment sidebar no longer considers the "open folder" for fetching its "other files" -- instead it will use the last focused file's folder
Change: The shortcut for deleting a directory has been removed from the menu as it provided an opaque way of deleting a seemingly random folder; now deleting a folder requires right-clicking the corresponding directory which makes the process more transparent
Change: Removed the option for choosing to sort by either file creation or last modification time, since that can also be inferred from whichever time you choose to display
Change: Removed the option for activating or disabling automatic file creation upon following internal links; now this will happen automatically as long as the "custom folder" option points to an existing folder; to disable this functionality simply remove the folder path
Fixed a bug where recent documents would not turn up in the menu
Fixed the sidebar shortcut: It is now Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+0 (to align with the file manager shortcut, which is Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+1)
Custom protocols should now be opened without problems by Zettlr (#3853)
Added Tamil (India) translation (#4848)
Removed the custom plain link parser out of two reasons: (1) It was a tad too aggressive, detecting links even where none were wanted; (2) Pandoc doesn't support auto-links in such a way as we have implemented it, leading to inconsistencies in exports
The YAML frontmatter is now ignored for the purposes of previewing files, showing a more meaningful preview of its contents (#4598)
Improve pasting behavior: Now text from Microsoft Word or Excel will be pasted as text, instead of offering to insert an image of the selection
Fix pasting behavior: Now Zettlr should properly paste most formatted text without too much noise (in the form of comments, styles, and other additions)
Fix restart-dialog showing multiple times for the same options (#4768)
Fix the active typewriter line background color in dark mode
Fixed an issue where gutter markers were not equally offset when typewriter mode was active (#4918)
Fixed non-working file deletion menu item (#3894)
Fixed a bug that would not ask users to save their changes when closing the last main window on Windows or Linux (#4898)
Fixed a bug that would not properly restore the open directory on application boot (#3797)
Fixed an issue that would break drag & drop behavior of editor panes when the path name contained a colon on non-Windows systems (#4822)
Fixed an issue where the re-ordering of list item numbers would not ensure that lists start at 1
Fixed an issue that has removed the custom background color from the Bielefeld and Bordeaux themes (#4913)
Fixed broken context menu options for images (#4893)
Implemented superscript and subscript HTML rendering in the internal Markdown- to-HTML converter (#4943)
Improved the TableEditor to more reliably parse tables; also, when a table could not be rendered out of any reason, the editor will simply remain dormant and not render the table instead of messing up the entire document
Improvements to how the Markdown AST handles table parsing, which will improve Markdown-to-HTML conversion both within the TableEditor as well as when copying as HTML
Fixed an issue that would make a context menu on macOS appear offset from the actual mouse position if the window's GUI was scaled absolutely (as per the preferences); now the context menu should always appear exactly where it should be
Updated the CodeMirror dependencies to resolve an issue where users of keyboards with Alt-G being assigned to some character were unable to type that (specifically, Swiss-Mac keyboard users could not type an @)
Fixed a bug that would not properly highlight PHP syntax in code blocks
The link renderer will now also hide internal link/Wikilink links and only show the titles, if enabled
Internal link tooltips will now show regardless of where inside the link your mouse cursor is
Added a visible error message to two places in which saving documents may go wrong so that users have visible feedback if their changes are actually persisted to disk (#4229)
Re-enable following internal Links in the format [Title]([[Link]]) by clicking them with Cmd/Ctrl pressed
Fixed a bug that would not properly check for autocorrect values during a spell check
The cursor on the editor scrollbars should now be a regular pointer instead of a text cursor (#4441)
The global search now differentiates between the total amount of matches and the number of matched files
The search button in the global search will now be disabled during a search
Due to the new ability to add link titles, the default setting for "Link with filename" is now set to "never" for new installations; you may consider changing this as well
The updater now contains a message indicating when Zettlr last checked for updates (#4963)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes make the "New file" command hang (#4785)
Fixed a bug on Windows and Linux that would not make the context menu on the status bar's MagicQuotes handler appear
Fixed a bug in the print window (#4902)
Fixed a bug in the image pasting modal handler (#5007)
Fixed a bug caused by a workaround from a few years ago, making dialogs modal again (see #4952)
Fixed an issue that would prevent the status bar in Code editors to switch between light and dark
Fixed an issue that would not show the color picker's color in the tag manager on Windows
Fixed list item indentation in Markdown and Code files
Fixed a bug that would make Zettlr always save files with regular newlines (LF), even if the file originally uses carriage returns (CR) or a mixture (CRLF or LFCR), leading, among other things, to save issues (#4959)
Fixed a bug that would make opening and closing folders in the file manager very hard
The importer will ask for a target directory first now, and no longer use the openDirectory configuration value as a metric (due to a limitation in the dialog engine, this is a bit opaque and will be improved; for more info see issue #5084)
Fixed an issue with the AST parser that has made it impossible to successfully parse Markdown tables with empty cells (#5025)
Fixed an issue with inserting Markdown tables via the popover (#5028)
Add a somewhat more informative message to the directory selection in the file importing workflow
Improved how focusing the various open editors works (#4889)
Fixed an issue where some borders in between split views wouldn't be drawn in more complex layouts
Fixed an issue that would not add a newly created file outside the loaded workspaces to the list of standalone files, leading to various minor annoyances around other parts of the app
It should now be more difficult to add faulty autocorrect entries (#4961)

Under the Hood

Version updates:
- Pandoc: 3.1.13
- Electron: 30.0.2
Switched from the vue-recommended to the vue3-recommended ESLint ruleset
Removed the config option sortingTime since that can be inferred from the option fileMetaTime
Removed the config option zkn.autoCreateLinkedFiles, since that can be inferred from the option zkn.customDir
Simplified tab bar tab retention logic across reloads
Add the ability to programmatically open the assets window with specified tab
Failure to fetch a link preview will now simply log a verbose message instead of an error
Reimplement configuration guard options as Maps to allow for volatile state
Fully remove the renderers's dependency on Node.js's path module to prepare for fully sandboxing the window code; instead polyfill the required functions, testing them against the module's behavior
Completely sandbox renderers
Switched the popover logic away from deprecated plugin syntax to child components with Teleport (#4663)
No more JavaScript: With this update, the entire code base (sans build scripts) is written in TypeScript.
Migrated from Electron's deprecated clipboard API to the native Browser API
Migrated the entire main window store state from Vuex to Pinia
Fixed an issue with the FSALCache provider where we accidentally stored the descriptors as strings, increasing the complexity of loading the cache values (see #4269)
The internal Markdown-to-HTML converter now respects (potentially significant) whitespace in the Markdown source to construct the HTML
The TableEditor now parses any table directly from the underlying parser to ensure that the representation is (almost) identical to the parse state and reduce complexity when parsing the table; several edge cases remain
Removed a check for whether certain commands exist; instead we now attempt to run them, and if they do not succeed, we catch that error instead; removed commandExists as it appears to have a few minor issues on Windows installs
The config provider now allows specifying options that will cause an event to be emitted instructing every open MainEditor to reload itself; this can be used to change options that affect non-reloadable components such as the parser without having to manually close and re-open affected editors, or forcing a reload of the entire main window
MainEditors can now be programmatically instructed by the main process to reload themselves with the broadcast event reload-editors
Added the commands shortcut:install and shortcut:uninstall to add develop shortcuts on Linux systems, allowing the simple launching of a binary compiled from source (rather than the provided binaries)
Fixed an issue with showing the appropriate platformVersion in the about debug info tab
Move preventNavigation utility function into the lifecycle handlers to reduce boilerplate code and make the app more secure
Switched to the new YAML parser (@codemirror/lang-yaml)
Improved linting to include plain JavaScript files, but exclude type checking
Add build number (= git commit hash) to the debug info of the about dialog
Simplify exporter types
Retire the test-gui command; instead now the start command does the same; similarly, start won't touch any existing Zettlr configuration anymore
Simplify CodeMirror theming, retire the themeManager and replace it with a simpler, more general darkTheme extension
Disallow fuzzy matching during updates of translation files; previously this has led to inaccurate results (see, e.g., #5042)
All renderer processes (= all windows) now have access to Pinia
Markdown AST parser is now its own module
Removed openDirectory functionality completely from the documents manager; instead it is now again managed entirely by using the config provider, removing tons of superfluous code
Properly unmount CodeMirror instances when the MainEditor is unmounted
Reinstated ability to style tags individually again; by targeting classes with the format .cm-zkn-tag-<tagName> (#4589)
Fixed a bug that would prevent rendering of citations in certain edge cases (#5069)
The citation parser is now more strict when it comes to @Author [p. 123] citations: Now only spaces are allowed between the citation key and the suffix
Improved the i18n runs over the software, improving translatability (#5122)

New Contributors

@TamilNeram made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4848
@LaPingvino made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4910
@Kinack987 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4406
@Altonss made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4948
@Mela made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4964
@alerque made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4942
@freesrz93 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/5101
@hungvvu made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/5088

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/compare/v3.0.5...v3.1.0

v3.1.0-beta.3

3 weeks ago

This is likely the last beta release before we will be releasing 3.1.0 stable. It includes a few fixes relating to opening the proper files from the file manager, and many issues relating to the translation. So if you're a translator for Zettlr, there are about ~50 new translation strings to translate now. Again, for all changes, see the changelog below.

Changelog

Changes to the link detection

Regarding your exporting experience, this should not have any impact, since the auto-link-detection feature wasn't supported by Pandoc anyhow, but depending on how you have been writing, you may notice less detected links in your documents.

This changes brings Zettlr's link functionality much more into alignment with other editors as well, since this is the way that many other applications handle links as well.

Introducing Wikilink Titles

In order to make Pandoc aware of your choice, you can add one of the following reader extensions to your export profiles: wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe.

Lastly, due to this improvement, we have changed the default setting for "link with filename" from "always" to "never", since it will be more ergonomic to use a custom link title directly instead of having the filename pop up after the link. This default setting applies to new installations; so you may consider to change this setting manually yourself as well.

Re-enabling old Link-Title-Syntax

Note that we have not yet implemented the functionality of auto-renaming files or showing tooltips on these links.

Project Overhaul: Full Control Over Your Files

When you now export the project, Zettlr will use only the files you have selected, and put them in the appropriate order.

Should you have deleted a file that you originally included in the list of files, Zettlr will show you a warning message as soon as you export it so that you can have a second look to not send off a file that's missing a crucial part of your work. Such missing files are shown atop of the available files and feature a "-"-button which allows you to remove them from the list. We opted for this approach, since it makes it transparent which files are missing so you can take the appropriate action (especially if it was an accidental deletion).

LanguageTool Improvements

The first update to Zettlr's LanguageTool integration concerns the language detection. This update ships with two improvements:

Zettlr implements LanguageTool's "Preferred Variants" setting
LanguageTool respects the lang frontmatter property

Second, LanguageTool now respects the lang property in YAML frontmatters. This will come in especially handy for people writing bilingual and where LanguageTool has troubles auto-detecting the proper language. By setting the property lang to the language of the document (e.g., en-CA), LanguageTool will default to that one instead of choosing the auto-detection. As an added benefit, Pandoc also supports this property to localize some things here and there (read more at https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#language-variables).

Note that both improvements only apply to the initial loading of a document. You can always override the language on a per-document basis using the status bar.

GUI and Functionality

Feature: Zettlr now supports titles in internal (wiki) links; the default setting instructs the parser to expect first the link, and then the title ([[link|title]]), which ensures compatibility to, e.g., VimWiki, MediaWiki, or Obsidian, whereas the alternative setting ([[title|link]]) is compatible to GitHub wiki syntax. Remember that you need to enable the corresponding option on the Pandoc Markdown reader (wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe, respectively) if you wish to export files with this option
Feature: Project Overhaul. Now you can properly manage which files will be exported in projects, and in which order
Feature: Zettlr can now suggest you emojis during autocompletion. Emojis use the same trigger character as the snippets autocomplete, a colon (:); and Emojis will always be sorted below your snippets -- you can turn this off in the editor settings
Feature: We've completely redesigned the preferences dialog; now it is more aligned with the system preferences on macOS and Windows, allows searching and follows a more stringent structure
Feature: The assets manager now provides buttons to open the defaults and snippets directories directly from within the app
Feature: The table insertion popover now displays how many rows and columns will be inserted
Feature: A new setting allows to highlight whitespace across the app (#1123)
Feature: Implemented the LanguageTool Preferred Variants setting; now you can select variants of certain languages (English, German, Portuguese, and Catalan) for cases in which the automatic detection may pick the wrong one
Change: The attachment sidebar no longer considers the "open folder" for fetching its "other files" -- instead it will use the last focused file's folder
Change: The shortcut for deleting a directory has been removed from the menu as it provided an opaque way of deleting a seemingly random folder; now deleting a folder requires right-clicking the corresponding directory which makes the process more transparent
Change: Removed the option for choosing to sort by either file creation or last modification time, since that can also be inferred from whichever time you choose to display
Change: Removed the option for activating or disabling automatic file creation upon following internal links; now this will happen automatically as long as the "custom folder" option points to an existing folder; to disable this functionality simply remove the folder path
LanguageTool now respects the lang YAML frontmatter property (if present and conforming to simple BCP-47 tags, e.g., de or de-DE), instead of defaulting to "auto"; this allows you to specify the languages of your documents instead of relying on LanguageTool to figure it out; may not work with more exotic tag variants (such as de-DE-x-simple-language)
Fixed a bug where recent documents would not turn up in the menu
Fixed the sidebar shortcut: It is now Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+0 (to align with the file manager shortcut, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+1)
Custom protocols should now be opened without problems by Zettlr (#3853)
Added Tamil (India) translation (#4848)
Removed the custom plain link parser out of two reasons: (1) It was a tad too aggressive, detecting links even where none were wanted; (2) Pandoc doesn't support auto-links in such a way as we have implemented it, leading to inconsistencies in exports
The YAML frontmatter is now ignored for the purposes of previewing files, showing a more meaningful preview of its contents (#4598)
Improve pasting behavior: Now text from Microsoft Word or Excel will be pasted as text, instead of offering to insert an image of the selection
Fix pasting behavior: Now Zettlr should properly paste most formatted text without too much noise (in the form of comments, styles, and other additions)
Fix restart-dialog showing multiple times for the same options (#4768)
Fix the active typewriter line background color in dark mode
Fixed an issue where gutter markers were not equally offset when typewriter mode was active (#4918)
Fixed non-working file deletion menu item (#3894)
Fixed a bug that would not ask users to save their changes when closing the last main window on Windows or Linux (#4898)
Fixed a bug that would not properly restore the open directory on application boot (#3797)
Fixed an issue that would break drag & drop behavior of editor panes when the path name contained a colon on non-Windows systems (#4822)
Fixed an issue where the re-ordering of list item numbers would not ensure that lists start at 1
Fixed an issue that has removed the custom background color from the Bielefeld and Bordeaux themes (#4913)
Fixed broken context menu options for images (#4893)
Implemented superscript and subscript HTML rendering in the internal Markdown- to-HTML converter (#4943)
Improved the TableEditor to more reliably parse tables; also, when a table could not be rendered out of any reason, the editor will simply remain dormant and not render the table instead of messing up the entire document
Improvements to how the Markdown AST handles table parsing, which will improve Markdown-to-HTML conversion both within the TableEditor as well as when copying as HTML
Fixed an issue that would make a context menu on macOS appear offset from the actual mouse position if the window's GUI was scaled absolutely (as per the preferences); now the context menu should always appear exactly where it should be
Updated the CodeMirror dependencies to resolve an issue where users of keyboards with Alt-G being assigned to some character were unable to type that (specifically, Swiss-Mac keyboard users could not type an @)
Fixed a bug that would not properly highlight PHP syntax in code blocks
The link renderer will now also hide internal link/Wikilink links and only show the headers, if enabled
Internal link tooltips will now show regardless of where inside the link your mouse cursor is
Added a visible error message to two places in which saving documents may go wrong so that users have visible feedback if their changes are actually persisted to disk (#4229)
Re-enable following internal Links in the format [Title]([[Link]]) by clicking them with Cmd/Ctrl pressed
Fixed a bug that would not properly check for autocorrect values during a spell check
The cursor on the editor scrollbars should now be a regular pointer instead of a text cursor (#4441)
The global search now differentiates between the total amount of matches and the number of matched files
The search button in the global search will now be disabled during a search
Due to the new ability to add link titles, the default setting for "Link with filename" is now set to "never" for new installations; you may consider changing this as well
The updater now contains a message indicating when Zettlr last checked for updates (#4963)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes make the "New file" command hang (#4785)
Fixed a bug on Windows and Linux that would not make the context menu on the status bar's MagicQuotes handler appear
Fixed a bug in the print window (#4902)
Fixed a bug in the image pasting modal handler (#5007)
Fixed a bug caused by a workaround from a few years ago, making dialogs modal again (see #4952)
Fixed an issue that would prevent the status bar in Code editors to switch between light and dark
Fixed an issue that would not show the color picker's color in the tag manager on Windows
Fixed list item indentation in Markdown and Code files
Fixed a bug that would make Zettlr always save files with regular newlines (LF), even if the file originally uses carriage returns (CR) or a mixture (CRLF or LFCR), leading, among other things, to save issues (#4959)
Fixed a bug that would make opening and closing folders in the file manager very hard
The importer will ask for a target directory first now, and no longer use the openDirectory configuration value as a metric
Fixed an issue with the AST parser that would be unable to successfully parse Markdown tables with empty cells (#5025)
Fixed an issue with inserting Markdown tables via the popover (#5028)
Add a somewhat more informative message to the directory selection in the file importing workflow
Improved how focusing the various open editors works (#4889)
Fixed an issue where some borders in between split views wouldn't be drawn in more complex layouts
Fixed an issue that would not add a newly created file outside the loaded workspaces to the list of standalone files, leading to various minor annoyances around other parts of the app
It should now be more difficult to add faulty autocorrect entries (#4961)

Under the Hood

Version updates:
- Pandoc: 3.1.13
- Electron: 29.2.0
Switched from the vue-recommended to the vue3-recommended ESLint ruleset
Removed the config option sortingTime since that can be inferred from the option fileMetaTime
Removed the config option zkn.autoCreateLinkedFiles, since that can be inferred from the option zkn.customDir
Simplified tab bar tab retention logic across reloads
Add the ability to programmatically open the assets window with specified tab
Failure to fetch a link preview will now simply log a verbose message instead of an error
Reimplement configuration guard options as Maps to allow for volatile state
Fully remove the renderers's dependency on Node.js's path module to prepare for fully sandboxing the window code; instead polyfill the required functions, testing them against the module's behavior
Completely sandbox renderers
Switched the popover logic away from deprecated plugin syntax to child components with Teleport (#4663)
No more JavaScript: With this update, the entire code base (sans build scripts) is written in TypeScript.
Migrated from Electron's deprecated clipboard API to the native Browser API
Migrated the entire main window store state from Vuex to Pinia
Fixed an issue with the FSALCache provider where we accidentally stored the descriptors as strings, increasing the complexity of loading the cache values (see #4269)
The internal Markdown-to-HTML converter now respects (potentially significant) whitespace in the Markdown source to construct the HTML
The TableEditor now parses any table directly from the underlying parser to ensure that the representation is (almost) identical to the parse state and reduce complexity when parsing the table; several edge cases remain
Removed a check for whether certain commands exist; instead we now attempt to run them, and if they do not succeed, we catch that error instead; removed commandExists as it appears to have a few minor issues on Windows installs
The config provider now allows specifying options that will cause an event to be emitted instructing every open MainEditor to reload itself; this can be used to change options that affect non-reloadable components such as the parser without having to manually close and re-open affected editors, or forcing a reload of the entire main window
MainEditors can now be programmatically instructed by the main process to reload themselves with the broadcast event reload-editors
Added the commands shortcut:install and shortcut:uninstall to add develop shortcuts on Linux systems, allowing the simple launching of a binary compiled from source (rather than the provided binaries)
Fixed an issue with showing the appropriate platformVersion in the about debug info tab
Move preventNavigation utility function into the lifecycle handlers to reduce boilerplate code and make the app more secure
Switched to the new YAML parser (@codemirror/lang-yaml)
Improved linting to include plain JavaScript files, but exclude type checking
Add build number (= git commit hash) to the debug info of the about dialog
Simplify exporter types
Retire the test-gui command; instead now the start command does the same; similarly, start won't touch any existing Zettlr configuration anymore
Simplify CodeMirror theming, retire the themeManager and replace it with a simpler, more general darkTheme extension
Disallow fuzzy matching during updates of translation files; previously this has led to inaccurate results (see, e.g., #5042)
All renderer processes (= all windows) now have access to Pinia
Markdown AST parser is now its own module
Removed openDirectory functionality completely from the documents manager; instead it is now again managed entirely by using the config provider, removing tons of superfluous code
Properly unmount CodeMirror instances when the MainEditor is unmounted
Reinstated ability to style tags individually again; by targeting classes with the format .cm-zkn-tag-<tagName> (#4589)
Fixed a bug that would prevent rendering of citations in certain edge cases (#5069)
The citation parser is now more strict when it comes to @Author [p. 123] citations: Now only spaces are allowed between the citation key and the suffix
Improved the i18n runs over the software, improving translatability (#5122)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/compare/v3.1.0-beta.2...v3.1.0-beta.3

v3.1.0-beta.2

1 month ago

This new beta release adds many smaller and a few bigger improvements. The bigger improvements of note for you are the following:

You can now enable whitespace highlighting for the editors, which will make any spaces visible
The LanguageTool linter now respects the lang property of YAML front matters
Zettlr now incorporates the “preferred variants” setting of LanguageTool
Improved project management, allowing you to properly select files and ordering for project exports

You can read more about those and all the other changes in the Changelog below. Besides that, this beta primarily fixes smaller issues and improves many things under the hood which won't be very visible, except making the experience more smooth.

Changelog

Changes to the link detection

This changes brings Zettlr's link functionality much more into alignment with other editors as well, since this is the way that many other applications handle links as well.

Introducing Wikilink Titles

Since there is no way of knowing which of the two parts is the link, and which is the title, Zettlr follows Pandoc's solution in allowing you to specify how internal links are structured for you. The default and recommended setting is to put links first, and titles second ([[link|title]]). This ensure compatibility with VimWiki, MediaWiki, Obsidian, and others. However, should you need to target GitHub wiki pages or another application that expects a title to come first, you can select the alternative option ([[title|link]]).

In order to make Pandoc aware of your choice, you can add one of the following reader extensions to your export profiles: wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe.

Lastly, due to this improvement, we have changed the default setting for "link with filename" from "always" to "never", since it will be more ergonomic to use a custom link title directly instead of having the filename pop up after the link. This default setting applies to new installations; so you may consider to change this setting manually yourself as well.

Re-enabling old Link-Title-Syntax

Note that we have not yet implemented the functionality of auto-renaming files or showing tooltips on these links.

Project Overhaul: Full Control Over Your Files

When you now export the project, Zettlr will use only the files you have selected, and put them in the appropriate order.

Should you have deleted a file that you originally included in the list of files, Zettlr will show you a warning message as soon as you export it so that you can have a second look to not send off a file that's missing a crucial part of your work. Such missing files are shown atop of the available files and feature a "-"-button which allows you to remove them from the list. We opted for this approach, since it makes it transparent which files are missing so you can take the appropriate action (especially if it was an accidental deletion).

LanguageTool Improvements

The first update to Zettlr's LanguageTool integration concerns the language detection. This update ships with two improvements:

Zettlr implements LanguageTool's "Preferred Variants" setting
LanguageTool respects the lang frontmatter property

Second, LanguageTool now respects the lang property in YAML frontmatters. This will come in especially handy for people writing bilingual and where LanguageTool has troubles auto-detecting the proper language. By setting the property lang to the language of the document (e.g., en-CA), LanguageTool will default to that one instead of choosing the auto-detection. As an added benefit, Pandoc also supports this property to localize some things here and there (read more at https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#language-variables).

Note that both improvements only apply to the initial loading of a document. You can always override the language on a per-document basis using the status bar.

GUI and Functionality

Feature: Zettlr now supports titles in internal (wiki) links; the default setting instructs the parser to expect first the link, and then the title ([[link|title]]), which ensures compatibility to, e.g., VimWiki, MediaWiki, or Obsidian, whereas the alternative setting ([[title|link]]) is compatible to GitHub wiki syntax. Remember that you need to enable the corresponding option on the Pandoc Markdown reader (wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe, respectively) if you wish to export files with this option
Feature: Project Overhaul. Now you can properly manage which files will be exported in projects, and in which order
Feature: Zettlr can now suggest you emojis during autocompletion. Emojis use the same trigger character as the snippets autocomplete, a colon (:); and Emojis will always be sorted below your snippets -- you can turn this off in the editor settings
Feature: We've completely redesigned the preferences dialog; now it is more aligned with the system preferences on macOS and Windows, allows searching and follows a more stringent structure
Feature: The assets manager now provides buttons to open the defaults and snippets directories directly from within the app
Feature: The table insertion popover now displays how many rows and columns will be inserted
Feature: A new setting allows to highlight whitespace across the app (#1123)
Feature: Implemented the LanguageTool Preferred Variants setting; now you can select variants of certain languages (English, German, Portuguese, and Catalan) for cases in which the automatic detection may pick the wrong one
Change: The attachment sidebar no longer considers the "open folder" for fetching its "other files" -- instead it will use the last focused file's folder
Change: The shortcut for deleting a directory has been removed from the menu as it provided an intransparent way of deleting a seemingly random folder; now deleting a folder requires right-clicking the corresponding directory which makes the process more transparent
Change: Removed the option for choosing to sort by either file creation or last modification time, since that can also be inferred from whichever time you choose to display
Change: Removed the option for activating or disabling automatic file creation upon following internal links; now this will happen automatically as long as the "custom folder" option points to an existing folder; to disable this functionality simply remove the folder path
LanguageTool now respects the lang YAML frontmatter property (if present and conforming to simple BCP-47 tags, e.g., de or de-DE), instead of defaulting to "auto"; this allows you to specify the languages of your documents instead of relying on LanguageTool to figure it out; may not work with more exotic tag variants (such as de-DE-x-simple-language)
Fixed a bug where recent documents would not turn up in the menu
Fixed the sidebar shortcut: It is now Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+0 (to align with the file manager shortcut, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+1)
Custom protocols should now be opened without problems by Zettlr (#3853)
Added Tamil (India) translation (#4848)
Removed the custom plain link parser out of two reasons: (1) It was a tad too aggressive, detecting links even where none were wanted; (2) Pandoc doesn't support auto-links in such a way as we have implemented it, leading to inconsistencies in exports
The YAML frontmatter is now ignored for the purposes of previewing files, showing a more meaningful preview of its contents (#4598)
Improve pasting behavior: Now text from Microsoft Word or Excel will be pasted as text, instead of offering to insert an image of the selection
Fix pasting behavior: Now Zettlr should properly paste most formatted text without too much noise (in the form of comments, styles, and other additions)
Fix restart-dialog showing multiple times for the same options (#4768)
Fix the active typewriter line background color in dark mode
Fixed an issue where gutter markers were not equally offset when typewriter mode was active (#4918)
Fixed non-working file deletion menu item (#3894)
Fixed a bug that would not ask users to save their changes when closing the last main window on Windows or Linux (#4898)
Fixed a bug that would not properly restore the open directory on application boot (#3797)
Fixed an issue that would break drag & drop behavior of editor panes when the pathname contained a colon on non-Windows systems (#4822)
Fixed an issue where the re-ordering of list item numbers would not ensure that lists start at 1
Fixed an issue that has removed the custom background color from the Bielefeld and Bordeaux themes (#4913)
Fixed broken context menu options for images (#4893)
Implemented superscript and subscript HTML rendering in the internal Markdown- to-HTML converter (#4943)
Improved the TableEditor to more reliably parse tables; also, when a table could not be rendered out of any reason, the editor will simply remain dormant and not render the table instead of messing up the entire document
Improvements to how the Markdown AST handles table parsing, which will improve Markdown-to-HTML conversion both within the TableEditor as well as when copying as HTML
Fixed an issue that would make a context menu on macOS appear offset from the actual mouse position if the window's GUI was scaled absolutely (as per the preferences); now the context menu should always appear exactly where it should be
Updated the CodeMirror dependencies to resolve an issue where users of keyboards with Alt-G being assigned to some character were unable to type that (specifically, Swiss-Mac keyboard users could not type an @)
Fixed a bug that would not properly highlight PHP syntax in code blocks
The link renderer will now also hide internal link/Wikilink links and only show the headers, if enabled
Internal link tooltips will now show regardless of where inside the link your mouse cursor is
Added a visible error message to two places in which saving documents may go wrong so that users have visible feedback if their changes are actually persisted to disk (#4229)
Re-enable following internal Links in the format [Title]([[Link]]) by clicking them with Cmd/Ctrl pressed
Fixed a bug that would not properly check for autocorrect values during a spell check
The cursor on the editor scrollbars should now be a regular pointer instead of a text cursor (#4441)
The global search now differentiates between the total amount of matches and the number of matched files
The search button in the global search will now be disabled during a search
Due to the new ability to add link titles, the default setting for "Link with filename" is now set to "never" for new installations; you may consider changing this as well
The updater now contains a message indicating when Zettlr last checked for updates (#4963)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes make the "New file" command hang (#4785)
Fixed a bug on Windows and Linux that would not make the context menu on the statusbars' MagicQuotes handler appear
Fixed a bug in the print window (#4902)
Fixed a bug in the image pasting modal handler (#5007)
Fixed a bug caused by a workaround from a few years ago, making dialogs modal again (see #4952)
Fixed an issue that would prevent the status bar in Code editors to switch between light and dark
Fixed an issue that would not show the color picker's color in the tag manager on Windows
Fixed list item indentation in Markdown and Code files
Fixed a bug that would make Zettlr always save files with regular newlines (LF), even if the file originally uses carriage returns (CR) or a mixture (CRLF or LFCR), leading, among other things, to save issues (#4959)
Fixed a bug that would make opening and closing folders in the file manager very hard
The importer will ask for a target directory first now, and no longer use the openDirectory configuration value as a metric
Fixed an issue with the AST parser that would be unable to successfully parse Markdown tables with empty cells (#5025)
Fixed an issue with inserting Markdown tables via the popover (#5028)
Add a somewhat more informative message to the directory selection in the file importing workflow
Improved how focusing the various open editors works (#4889)
Fixed an issue where some borders in between split views wouldn't be drawn in more complex layouts
Fixed an issue that would not add a newly created file outside the loaded workspaces to the list of standalone files, leading to various minor annoyances around other parts of the app

Under the Hood

Version updates:
- Pandoc: 3.1.12.3
- Electron: 29.2.0
Switched from the vue-recommended to the vue3-recommended ESLint ruleset
Removed the config option sortingTime since that can be inferred from the option fileMetaTime
Removed the config option zkn.autoCreateLinkedFiles, since that can be inferred from the option zkn.customDir
Simplified tab bar tab retention logic across reloads
Add the ability to programmatically open the assets window with specified tab
Failure to fetch a link preview will now simply log a verbose message instead of an error
Reimplement configuration guard options as Maps to allow for volatile state
Fully remove the renderers's dependency on Node.js's path module to prepare for fully sandboxing the window code; instead polyfill the required functions, testing them against the module's behavior
Completely sandbox renderers
Switched the popover logic away from deprecated plugin syntax to child components with Teleport (#4663)
No more JavaScript: With this update, the entire code base (sans build scripts) is written in TypeScript.
Migrated from Electron's deprecated clipboard API to the native Browser API
Migrated the entire main window store state from Vuex to Pinia
Fixed an issue with the FSALCache provider where we accidentally stored the descriptors as strings, increasing the complexity of loading the cache values (see #4269)
The internal Markdown-to-HTML converter now respects (potentially significant) whitespace in the Markdown source to construct the HTML
The TableEditor now parses any table directly from the underlying parser to ensure that the representation is (almost) identical to the parse state and reduce complexity when parsing the table; several edge cases remain
Removed a check for whether certain commands exist; instead we now attempt to run them, and if they do not succeed, we catch that error instead; removed commandExists as it appears to have a few minor issues on Windows installs
The config provider now allows specifying options that will cause an event to be emitted instructing every open MainEditor to reload itself; this can be used to change options that affect non-reloadable components such as the parser without having to manually close and re-open affected editors, or forcing a reload of the entire main window
MainEditors can now be programmatically instructed by the main process to reload themselves with the broadcast event reload-editors
Added the commands shortcut:install and shortcut:uninstall to add develop shortcuts on Linux systems, allowing the simple launching of a binary compiled from source (rather than the provided binaries)
Fixed an issue with showing the appropriate platformVersion in the about debug info tab
Move preventNavigation utility function into the lifecycle handlers to reduce boilerplate code and make the app more secure
Switched to the new YAML parser (@codemirror/lang-yaml)
Improved linting to include plain JavaScript files, but exclude type checking
Add build number (= git commit hash) to the debug info of the about dialog
Simplify exporter types
Retire the test-gui command; instead now the start command does the same; similarly, start won't touch any existing Zettlr configuration anymore
Simplify CodeMirror theming, retire the themeManager and replace it with a simpler, more general darkTheme extension
Disallow fuzzy matching during updates of translation files; previously this has led to inaccurate results (see, e.g., #5042)
All renderer processes (= all windows) now have access to Pinia
Markdown AST parser is now its own module
Removed openDirectory functionality completely from the documents manager; instead it is now again managed entirely by using the config provider, removing tons of superfluous code
Properly unmount CodeMirror instances when the MainEditor is unmounted
Reinstated ability to style tags individually again; by targeting classes with the format .cm-zkn-tag-<tagName> (#4589)
Fixed a bug that would prevent rendering of citations in certain edge cases (#5069)
The citation parser is now more strict when it comes to @Author [p. 123] citations: Now only spaces are allowed between the citation key and the suffix

New Contributors

@TamilNeram made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4848
@LaPingvino made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4910
@Kinack987 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4406
@Altonss made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4948
@Mela made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4964
@alerque made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4942
@freesrz93 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/5101
@hungvvu made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/5088

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/compare/v3.0.5...v3.1.0-beta.2

v3.1.0-beta.1

2 months ago

This update changes a few minor but notable things from the previous beta release. Here they are at a glance:

Fixed a serious bug during save that would effectively remove any non-standard linefeeds (such as CRLF or LFCR) during save, leading to various issues with detecting external changes
The dialogs are now modal even on Linux. Previously, they weren't due to (likely) a bug in Electron. We've now undone this in the hopes that the original bug that this fixed doesn't re-occur, so please report any problems you may encounter.
The app now shows the precise git commit hash from which it was compiled (in the About Debug tab). This might help reproduce bugs in the future.
Fixed an issue with the visual list indentation. This should reduce the "wobble" some were experiencing when using tabular characters for indentation as well as line up the list markers with the rest of the text.
We've switched from the legacy YAML implementation to the new mode implementation. This means that some syntax highlighting has slightly changed, but this will give us more control over the various frontmatter blocks.
Removed fuzzy translation matching. This has led to our translation library gettext to auto-translate sentences that appeared similar, which has led to confusion. That being said, should you find odd-sounding translations if you're not using English (US) as your app language, this is likely an issue that can be easily solved and we would like to invite you to become a translator. All you need to know can be found on the project repository.
Other than that, we've fixed various minor things here and there.

For everything that has changed since v3.0.0, refer to the full changelog below.

Changelog

Changes to the link detection

This changes brings Zettlr's link functionality much more into alignment with other editors as well, since this is the way that many other applications handle links as well.

Introducing Wikilink Titles

Since there is no way of knowing which of the two parts is the link, and which is the title, Zettlr follows Pandoc's solution in allowing you to specify how internal links are structured for you. The default and recommended setting is to put links first, and titles second ([[link|title]]). This ensure compatibility with VimWiki, MediaWiki, Obsidian, and others. However, should you need to target GitHub wiki pages or another application that expects a title to come first, you can select the alternative option ([[title|link]]).

In order to make Pandoc aware of your choice, you can add one of the following reader extensions to your export profiles: wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe.

Lastly, due to this improvement, we have changed the default setting for "link with filename" from "always" to "never", since it will be more ergonomic to use a custom link title directly instead of having the filename pop up after the link. This default setting applies to new installations; so you may consider to change this setting manually yourself as well.

Re-enabling old Link-Title-Syntax

Note that we have not yet implemented the functionality of auto-renaming files or showing tooltips on these links.

GUI and Functionality

Feature: Zettlr now supports titles in internal (wiki) links; the default setting instructs the parser to expect first the link, and then the title ([[link|title]]), which ensures compatibility to, e.g., VimWiki, MediaWiki, or Obsidian, whereas the alternative setting ([[title|link]]) is compatible to GitHub wiki syntax. Remember that you need to enable the corresponding option on the Pandoc Markdown reader (wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe, respectively) if you wish to export files with this option
Feature: Zettlr can now suggest you emojis during autocompletion. Emojis use the same trigger character as the snippets autocomplete, a colon (:); and Emojis will always be sorted below your snippets -- you can turn this off in the editor settings
Feature: We've completely redesigned the preferences dialog; now it is more aligned with the system preferences on macOS and Windows, allows searching and follows a more stringent structure
Removed the option for choosing to sort by either file creation or last modification time, since that can also be inferred from whichever time you choose to display
Feature: The assets manager now provides buttons to open the defaults and snippets directories directly from within the app
Removed the option for activating or disabling automatic file creation upon following internal links; now this will happen automatically as long as the "custom folder" option points to an existing folder; to disable this functionality simply remove the folder path
Fixed a bug where recent documents would not turn up in the menu
Fixed the sidebar shortcut: It is now Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+0 (to align with the file manager shortcut, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+1)
Custom protocols should now be opened without problems by Zettlr (#3853)
Added Tamil (India) translation (#4848)
Removed the custom plain link parser out of two reasons: (1) It was a tad too aggressive, detecting links even where none were wanted; (2) Pandoc doesn't support auto-links in such a way as we have implemented it, leading to inconsistencies in exports
The YAML frontmatter is now ignored for the purposes of previewing files, showing a more meaningful preview of its contents (#4598)
Improve pasting behavior: Now text from Microsoft Word or Excel will be pasted as text, instead of offering to insert an image of the selection
Fix pasting behavior: Now Zettlr should properly paste most formatted text without too much noise (in the form of comments, styles, and other additions)
Fix restart-dialog showing multiple times for the same options (#4768)
Fix the active typewriter line background color in dark mode
Fixed an issue where gutter markers were not equally offset when typewriter mode was active (#4918)
Fixed non-working file deletion menu item (#3894)
Fixed a bug that would not ask users to save their changes when closing the last main window on Windows or Linux (#4898)
Fixed a bug that would not properly restore the open directory on application boot (#3797)
Fixed an issue that would break drag & drop behavior of editor panes when the pathname contained a colon on non-Windows systems (#4822)
Fixed an issue where the re-ordering of list item numbers would not ensure that lists start at 1
Fixed an issue that has removed the custom background color from the Bielefeld and Bordeaux themes (#4913)
Fixed broken context menu options for images (#4893)
Implemented superscript and subscript HTML rendering in the internal Markdown- to-HTML converter (#4943)
Improved the TableEditor to more reliably parse tables; also, when a table could not be rendered out of any reason, the editor will simply remain dormant and not render the table instead of messing up the entire document
Improvements to how the Markdown AST handles table parsing, which will improve Markdown-to-HTML conversion both within the TableEditor as well as when copying as HTML
Fixed an issue that would make a context menu on macOS appear offset from the actual mouse position if the window's GUI was scaled absolutely (as per the preferences); now the context menu should always appear exactly where it should be
Updated the CodeMirror dependencies to resolve an issue where users of keyboards with Alt-G being assigned to some character were unable to type that (specifically, Swiss-Mac keyboard users could not type an @)
Fixed a bug that would not properly highlight PHP syntax in code blocks
The link renderer will now also hide internal link/Wikilink links and only show the headers, if enabled
Internal link tooltips will now show regardless of where inside the link your mouse cursor is
Added a visible error message to two places in which saving documents may go wrong so that users have visible feedback if their changes are actually persisted to disk (#4229)
Re-enable following internal Links in the format [Title]([[Link]]) by clicking them with Cmd/Ctrl pressed
Fixed a bug that would not properly check for autocorrect values during a spell check
The cursor on the editor scrollbars should now be a regular pointer instead of a text cursor (#4441)
The global search now differentiates between the total amount of matches and the number of matched files
The search button in the global search will now be disabled during a search
Due to the new ability to add link titles, the default setting for "Link with filename" is now set to "never" for new installations; you may consider changing this as well
The updater now contains a message indicating when Zettlr last checked for updates (#4963)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes make the "New file" command hang (#4785)
Fixed a bug on Windows and Linux that would not make the context menu on the statusbars' MagicQuotes handler appear
Fixed a bug in the print window (#4902)
Fixed a bug in the image pasting modal handler (#5007)
Fixed a bug caused by a workaround from a few years ago, making dialogs modal again (see #4952)
Fixed an issue that would prevent the status bar in Code editors to switch between light and dark
Fixed an issue that would not show the color picker's color in the tag manager on Windows
Fixed list item indentation in Markdown and Code files
Fixed a bug that would make Zettlr always save files with regular newlines (LF), even if the file originally uses carriage returns (CR) or a mixture (CRLF or LFCR), leading, among other things, to save issues (#4959)

Under the Hood

Switched from the vue-recommended to the vue3-recommended ESLint ruleset
Removed the config option sortingTime since that can be inferred from the option fileMetaTime
Removed the config option zkn.autoCreateLinkedFiles, since that can be inferred from the option zkn.customDir
Simplified tab bar tab retention logic across reloads
Add the ability to programmatically open the assets window with specified tab
Bump the bundled Pandoc to version 3.1.12
Bump Electron to version 29
Failure to fetch a link preview will now simply log a verbose message instead of an error
Reimplement configuration guard options as Maps to allow for volatile state
Fully remove the renderers's dependency on Node.js's path module to prepare for fully sandboxing the window code; instead polyfill the required functions, testing them against the module's behavior
Completely sandbox renderers
Switched the popover logic away from deprecated plugin syntax to child components with Teleport (#4663)
No more JavaScript: With this update, the entire code base (sans build scripts) is written in TypeScript.
Migrated from Electron's deprecated clipboard API to the native Browser API
Migrated the entire main window store state from Vuex to Pinia
Fixed an issue with the FSALCache provider where we accidentally stored the descriptors as strings, increasing the complexity of loading the cache values (see #4269)
The internal Markdown-to-HTML converter now respects (potentially significant) whitespace in the Markdown source to construct the HTML
The TableEditor now parses any table directly from the underlying parser to ensure that the representation is (almost) identical to the parse state and reduce complexity when parsing the table; several edge cases remain
Removed a check for whether certain commands exist; instead we now attempt to run them, and if they do not succeed, we catch that error instead; removed commandExists as it appears to have a few minor issues on Windows installs
The config provider now allows specifying options that will cause an event to be emitted instructing every open MainEditor to reload itself; this can be used to change options that affect non-reloadable components such as the parser without having to manually close and re-open affected editors, or forcing a reload of the entire main window
MainEditors can now be programmatically instructed by the main process to reload themselves with the broadcast event reload-editors
Added the commands shortcut:install and shortcut:uninstall to add develop shortcuts on Linux systems, allowing the simple launching of a binary compiled from source (rather than the provided binaries)
Fixed an issue with showing the appropriate platformVersion in the about debug info tab
Move preventNavigation utility function into the lifecycle handlers to reduce boilerplate code and make the app more secure
Switched to the new YAML parser (@codemirror/lang-yaml)
Improved linting to include plain JavaScript files, but exclude type checking
Add build number (= git commit hash) to the debug info of the about dialog
Simplify exporter types
Retire the test-gui command; instead now the start command does the same; similarly, start won't touch any existing Zettlr configuration anymore
Simplify CodeMirror theming, retire the themeManager and replace it with a simpler, more general darkTheme extension
Disallow fuzzy matching during updates of translation files; previously this has led to inaccurate results (see, e.g., #5042)

v3.1.0-beta

2 months ago

New Preferences UI | Link Improvements | Bug Fixes | Quality of Life Improvements

Thank you for testing Zettlr's beta releases and helping us create a stable and enjoyable release! Please report any bugs you find on GitHub. If you have any questions, we warmly welcome you on our Discord server. Finally, Zettlr is and will always remain Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), but every app requires some funding. If you enjoy Zettlr and would like to ensure it remains a viable alternative for professional writing, consider becoming a Patron on Patreon or use PayPal. If you prefer, you can also send over a small tip on Ko-Fi. You can find more information on our website.

Since the 3.0.0 major release, we've been hard at work at improving the app everywhere to aid your writing process even better. Zettlr 3.1 will contain a serious amount of improvements, all of which you can find in the changelog below. Let us highlight a few of the main things we have implemented:

A new preferences UI. Together with UI/UX designer Artem Barinov, we have spent the better half of 2023 thinking about how to improve the preferences UI. The result is a fully redesigned and much more accessible UI that allows you to find settings faster and adapt Zettlr to your own style.

A more accidental but nonetheless central theme of this release is links. One thing you may immediately note when testing out the beta is that the plain link detection has changed. You can read more below, but in short: What you see within Zettlr is now much closer aligned with what you actually get once you export your files.

Continuing with the ~~Zelda~~ link theme, Zettlr finally supports proper Wikilinks in: you can now add titles to them. This is a long-awaited feature that other editors already support, and we're happy that Zettlr now follows suit. This means, instead of the (depending on how you use them) cumbersome "Add filename after link" setting, you can now directly link them within proper, grammatical sentences. Activating the link renderer in the preferences will automatically hide the link and only show the title if applicable.

Finally, we have received many reports by users online and offline that their links broke after the release of v3.0.0. If you belong to this group of users, rejoice: We listen to the user base, and this release begins the work of re-enabling their functionality. Again, a more elaborate description can be found below.

Lastly, one issue that people have been wanting is an easy way of backing up snippets or export/import profiles. Until now this was a bit cumbersome, as you had to manually navigate into the application data directory. But no more! This version adds buttons to the appropriate places in the assets manager that allow you to open the corresponding folders directly, making it easy to simply copy and/or paste files into those folders, synchronizing that between your devices.

A lot more has changed, and we hope that these changes are all to your liking. Should something not work as expected, you know where to go!

Thank you again for helping the project by rigorously testing the beta releases.

Changelog

Changes to the link detection

This changes brings Zettlr's link functionality much more into alignment with other editors as well, since this is the way that many other applications handle links as well.

Introducing Wikilink Titles

Since there is no way of knowing which of the two parts is the link, and which is the title, Zettlr follows Pandoc's solution in allowing you to specify how internal links are structured for you. The default and recommended setting is to put links first, and titles second ([[link|title]]). This ensure compatibility with VimWiki, MediaWiki, Obsidian, and others. However, should you need to target GitHub wiki pages or another application that expects a title to come first, you can select the alternative option ([[title|link]]).

In order to make Pandoc aware of your choice, you can add one of the following reader extensions to your export profiles: wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe.

Lastly, due to this improvement, we have changed the default setting for "link with filename" from "always" to "never", since it will be more ergonomic to use a custom link title directly instead of having the filename pop up after the link. This default setting applies to new installations; so you may consider to change this setting manually yourself as well.

Re-enabling old Link-Title-Syntax

Note that we have not yet implemented the functionality of auto-renaming files or showing tooltips on these links.

GUI and Functionality

Feature: Zettlr now supports titles in internal (wiki) links; the default setting instructs the parser to expect first the link, and then the title ([[link|title]]), which ensures compatibility to, e.g., VimWiki, MediaWiki, or Obsidian, whereas the alternative setting ([[title|link]]) is compatible to GitHub wiki syntax. Remember that you need to enable the corresponding option on the Pandoc Markdown reader (wikilinks_title_after_pipe or wikilinks_title_before_pipe, respectively) if you wish to export files with this option
Feature: Zettlr can now suggest you emojis during autocompletion. Emojis use the same trigger character as the snippets autocomplete, a colon (:); and Emojis will always be sorted below your snippets -- you can turn this off in the editor settings
Feature: We've completely redesigned the preferences dialog; now it is more aligned with the system preferences on macOS and Windows, allows searching and follows a more stringent structure
Removed the option for choosing to sort by either file creation or last modification time, since that can also be inferred from whichever time you choose to display
Feature: The assets manager now provides buttons to open the defaults and snippets directories directly from within the app
Removed the option for activating or disabling automatic file creation upon following internal links; now this will happen automatically as long as the "custom folder" option points to an existing folder; to disable this functionality simply remove the folder path
Fixed a bug where recent documents would not turn up in the menu
Fixed the sidebar shortcut: It is now Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+0 (to align with the file manager shortcut, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+1)
Custom protocols should now be opened without problems by Zettlr (#3853)
Added Tamil (India) translation (#4848)
Removed the custom plain link parser out of two reasons: (1) It was a tad too aggressive, detecting links even where none were wanted; (2) Pandoc doesn't support auto-links in such a way as we have implemented it, leading to inconsistencies in exports
The YAML frontmatter is now ignored for the purposes of previewing files, showing a more meaningful preview of its contents (#4598)
Improve pasting behavior: Now text from Microsoft Word or Excel will be pasted as text, instead of offering to insert an image of the selection
Fix pasting behavior: Now Zettlr should properly paste most formatted text without too much noise (in the form of comments, styles, and other additions)
Fix restart-dialog showing multiple times for the same options (#4768)
Fix the active typewriter line background color in dark mode
Fixed an issue where gutter markers were not equally offset when typewriter mode was active (#4918)
Fixed non-working file deletion menu item (#3894)
Fixed a bug that would not ask users to save their changes when closing the last main window on Windows or Linux (#4898)
Fixed a bug that would not properly restore the open directory on application boot (#3797)
Fixed an issue that would break drag & drop behavior of editor panes when the pathname contained a colon on non-Windows systems (#4822)
Fixed an issue where the re-ordering of list item numbers would not ensure that lists start at 1
Fixed an issue that has removed the custom background color from the Bielefeld and Bordeaux themes (#4913)
Fixed broken context menu options for images (#4893)
Implemented superscript and subscript HTML rendering in the internal Markdown- to-HTML converter (#4943)
Improved the TableEditor to more reliably parse tables; also, when a table could not be rendered out of any reason, the editor will simply remain dormant and not render the table instead of messing up the entire document
Improvements to how the Markdown AST handles table parsing, which will improve Markdown-to-HTML conversion both within the TableEditor as well as when copying as HTML
Fixed an issue that would make a context menu on macOS appear offset from the actual mouse position if the window's GUI was scaled absolutely (as per the preferences); now the context menu should always appear exactly where it should be
Updated the CodeMirror dependencies to resolve an issue where users of keyboards with Alt-G being assigned to some character were unable to type that (specifically, Swiss-Mac keyboard users could not type an @)
Fixed a bug that would not properly highlight PHP syntax in code blocks
The link renderer will now also hide internal link/Wikilink links and only show the headers, if enabled
Internal link tooltips will now show regardless of where inside the link your mouse cursor is
Added a visible error message to two places in which saving documents may go wrong so that users have visible feedback if their changes are actually persisted to disk (#4229)
Re-enable following internal Links in the format [Title]([[Link]]) by clicking them with Cmd/Ctrl pressed
Fixed a bug that would not properly check for autocorrect values during a spell check
The cursor on the editor scrollbars should now be a regular pointer instead of a text cursor (#4441)
The global search now differentiates between the total amount of matches and the number of matched files
The search button in the global search will now be disabled during a search
Due to the new ability to add link titles, the default setting for "Link with filename" is now set to "never" for new installations; you may consider changing this as well
The updater now contains a message indicating when Zettlr last checked for updates (#4963)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes make the "New file" command hang (#4785)
Fixed a bug on Windows and Linux that would not make the context menu on the statusbars' MagicQuotes handler appear

Under the Hood

Switched from the vue-recommended to the vue3-recommended ESLint ruleset
Removed the config option sortingTime since that can be inferred from the option fileMetaTime
Removed the config option zkn.autoCreateLinkedFiles, since that can be inferred from the option zkn.customDir
Simplified tab bar tab retention logic across reloads
Add the ability to programmatically open the assets window with specified tab
Bump the bundled Pandoc to version 3.1.12
Bump Electron to version 29
Failure to fetch a link preview will now simply log a verbose message instead of an error
Reimplement configuration guard options as Maps to allow for volatile state
Fully remove the renderers's dependency on Node.js's path module to prepare for fully sandboxing the window code; instead polyfill the required functions, testing them against the module's behavior
Completely sandbox renderers
Switched the popover logic away from deprecated plugin syntax to child components with Teleport (#4663)
No more JavaScript: With this update, the entire code base (sans build scripts) is written in TypeScript.
Migrated from Electron's deprecated clipboard API to the native Browser API
Migrated the entire main window store state from Vuex to Pinia
Fixed an issue with the FSALCache provider where we accidentally stored the descriptors as strings, increasing the complexity of loading the cache values (see #4269)
The internal Markdown-to-HTML converter now respects (potentially significant) whitespace in the Markdown source to construct the HTML
The TableEditor now parses any table directly from the underlying parser to ensure that the representation is (almost) identical to the parse state and reduce complexity when parsing the table; several edge cases remain
Removed a check for whether certain commands exist; instead we now attempt to run them, and if they do not succeed, we catch that error instead; removed commandExists as it appears to have a few minor issues on Windows installs
The config provider now allows specifying options that will cause an event to be emitted instructing every open MainEditor to reload itself; this can be used to change options that affect non-reloadable components such as the parser without having to manually close and re-open affected editors, or forcing a reload of the entire main window
MainEditors can now be programmatically instructed by the main process to reload themselves with the broadcast event reload-editors
Added the commands shortcut:install and shortcut:uninstall to add develop shortcuts on Linux systems, allowing the simple launching of a binary compiled from source (rather than the provided binaries)
Fixed an issue with showing the appropriate platformVersion in the about debug info tab

v3.0.5

3 months ago

Minor patch | Fixes Linux ARM | Drops support for macOS 10.13 & 10.14

This update includes a critical security fix. We therefore recommend all users install this update as soon as possible. If you run macOS below version 10.15, which is no longer supported in Zettlr 3.0.5, please upgrade to Zettlr 3.0.4 by downloading this from GitHub Releases, which includes the security patch but still works on macOS 10.13 and 10.14 until you are able to update your macOS to 10.15 or higher.

Immediately after v3.0.4, we decided to release a minor upgrade that bumps the underlying Electron framework to the most recent version. This will stop segmentation faults in Wayland environments and prevent the flagging of Zettlr in repositories such as AUR due to outdated dependencies.

Dropping Support for macOS 10.13 and 10.14

Due to Zettlr's underlying Electron framework dropping support for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and 10.14 (Mojave), Zettlr drops support for these operating systems as well. To continue to use Zettlr on a Mac, ensure to update to at least macOS 10.15 (Catalina).

Linux ARM builds functionally again

Since Zettlr v3.0.0, Linux users on ARM-machines had the issue that they could not run the app, as a dependency has been compiled for the wrong architecture. Thanks to efforts by @LaPingvino, this has now been finally fixed and you should be able to run the app again just fine on ARM computers with Linux.

Changelog

GUI and Functionality

Fix: Segmentation faults in Wayland environments (#4877)
Fix Linux ARM builds (#4910)

Under the Hood

Update Electron from v25 to the latest available release (v28.2.1); this fixes segmentation fault issues in Wayland environments (#4877) and ensures that Zettlr keeps running a supported Electron version, which is especially pressing for the Arch Linux repository (see #4887; thanks to @alerque for bringing this to our attention), but also means that macOS 10.13 and 10.14 are no longer supported
Switched to Zig compiler to enable successful compilation for Linux ARM targets (#4910)

v3.0.4

3 months ago

Security patch | Please Update immediately

Dear users,

a security researcher has brought to our attention an issue that can lead to a potential remote code execution (RCE) attack utilizing Zettlr's binary. This issue has been first discovered and exploited in 2023. It is unlikely that you have been affected, since the effort for this exploit is comparatively high and it requires you to take some non-trivial actions. However, since we are committed to making the app as safe as humanely possible to use, and the corresponding fix was pretty easy to implement, we decided to offer this security release that includes the same functionality as Zettlr v3.0.3, but with the added security patch included.

A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) number has been applied for at MITRE, but not yet issued. Once we know the number, we will publish a postmortem on our blog and include some background as well as details about what this issue exactly implied, how it could have been exploited, and how we have mitigated the issue in this patch.

Thanks again to user "soulfood" for bringing this to our attention and for the cooperation in fixing the issue in a timely manner.

Changelog

GUI and Functionality

Nothing changed.

Under the hood

Update Electron to the last version 25 update (v25.9.8)
Add Electron fuses support and disable those that allow certain debug commands to be sent to the binary (e.g., --inspect). This can be abused by malicious actors for remote code execution (RCE) attacks (CVE number applied for at MITRE; not yet issued; please see the Zettlr blog for updates)

v3.0.3

5 months ago

Bug Fixes | Performance Improvements | CSS Changes

This patch includes a series of minor bug fixes and performance improvements. In addition, this patch refactors a lot of the theming of the app. This should not impact anyone, but may lead to some of you having to do minor updates to your Custom CSS, if you use any.

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Changelog

A Note on Custom CSS

This update includes a full refactor of the theming: The editor themes (Berlin, Frankfurt, Bielefeld, Karl-Marx-Stadt, and Bordeaux) have now moved to their own theme files and do not come with standard CSS anymore. This heavily un-clutters the codebase, but it may impact your Custom CSS, should you use this feature. We have ensured that no class names change and that the styling is mostly the same, but the possibility of having to adapt the Custom CSS may arise for some of you.

GUI and Functionality

Fixed a visual issue that would handle overly long window titles improperly
Fixed Tab not indenting/unindenting code in the CodeEditors (snippets, profiles, etc.)
Fixed a precedence issue that would make it impossible to use autocomplete while filling in a snippet; now, accepting a potential autocomplete has a higher precedence than moving to the next tabstop of a snippet, making working with snippets more ergonomic
Images now render more appropriately in inline-contexts
Updated the German translation
Fixed the keyboard shortcut for inserting footnotes on Windows and Linux
Removed the accent color setting: now the accent color will always be the system accent color on macOS and Windows, and Zettlr's brand green on Linux; themes do not provide an accent color anymore
Restored syntax highlighting for inline math code
Fixes an issue that would frequently may make the cursor appear to jump or a dialog appearing warning of external changes (#4729; #4732)
Added some translations
Generating link previews no longer downloads the entire link target if the content is not preview-able
Improved layout of link previews
Overly long summaries of link previews are now shortened
Project properties now adequately resolve the readers and writers of the existing profiles, enabling the usage of profiles with extended readers/writers (#4699)
GraphView's labels are now rendered filled instead of stroked, to make it easier to read the labels.
The GraphView does now support multi-window, so clicking a link will open it in the last focused window. If the file is already open in a leaf, that file will be in that leaf, otherwise it will open the file in the last focused leaf.
Alt+Click in GraphView will force the document to be opened in a new tab.
Zettelkasten links and tags will now be output by our custom Markdown-to-HTML parser (i.e., in various places in the app as well as on Copy with Style)

Under the Hood

Moved all themes from the *.less-files into proper theme plugins for CodeMirror v6; this means that they will not provide any global styles anymore; any applicable styling has been moved to more appropriate places (CodeMirror plugins as well as the WindowChrome and the various remaining *.less files). We tested the changes out and in our settings, no changes were necessary; sometimes you may need to adapt class definitions
Remove unused color variable definitions
Move gray color palette to the Window Chrome component
Fixed an issue where the font definitions were borked and required usage of !important to make them work (#4719)
Upgraded all available CodeMirror components to the most recent version
Replaced fs.unlink with fs.rm in safeDelete to support recursive removal of directories
fsal-directory::removeChild now calls pathExists instead of isFile to make sure directories also are removed in removeChild
pathExists wraps fs.promises.access.
(CodeMirror) Move plugin-specific base styles from the main override as well as from the themes to the respective plugin files
Bump Pandoc to version 3.1.9
Fixed a weird layouting issue with the code block backgrounds
DocumentManager's openFile does now handle the case when windowId and leafId is undefined, by keeping track on the last used editor.

New Contributors

@pseandersson made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4707
@conglinyizhi made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4759

v3.0.2

7 months ago

Bug Fixes | Quality of Life Updates | Security Improvements

This update fixed a few issues here and there that have been identified since the last release. This mainly refers to how link rendering is done, a potential data loss issue, and the file importer. Additionally, some translations have been updated. Finally, this update contains a security patch, so we recommend a swift update.

Changelog

GUI and Functionality

Fixed a bug that would not parse plain-text links at the end of a line completely
Added two heuristics to plain link parser: (a) if the matched link ends with a period, exclude the period; (b) if the matched link ends with a closing bracket that does not match an open bracket, exclude the closing bracket (remember that you can explicitly define the start and end of plain links by wrapping them in < and >)
Fixed an issue that could lead to data loss if "Always load remote changes" was checked in the settings (#4706)
Improved the Czech translation (#4688)
Improve the Chinese (Taiwan) translation (#4711)
Fixed an issue that would import Markdown files as LaTeX instead of simply copying the file
If multiple candidate profiles to import files are found, the user can now choose the correct one

Under the Hood

Increased the "immediate" save delay from 250 to 500ms to give slower systems more time to persist changes to disk
Replaced direct access and stat calls for files and directories in the FSAL with a wrapper that will later on allow us to keep different file systems (e.g., WebDav versus local filesystem) opaque to the user
Fixed a potentially (?) horrible bug where directory modification times were accidentally set to ctime instead of mtime, leaving any changes to the directory that do not also update ctime hidden from the FSAL
Fixed a misalignment of the InlineCode element for the Pandoc attribute parser
Upgrade Electron to v25.8.4, mitigating CVE-2023-5217

New Contributors

@czneal made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4688
@seanmars made their first contribution in https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/4711