Zettlr Changelog

What's new in Zettlr 3.1.1

May 8, 2024

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)

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 (May 8, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 Beta 2 (Apr 22, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 Beta 1 (Mar 18, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 Beta (Mar 5, 2024)

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!

New in Zettlr 3.0.5 (Feb 7, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.0.4 (Feb 7, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.0.3 (Nov 27, 2023)

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 in Zettlr 3.0.2 (Oct 9, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.1 (Sep 19, 2023)

GUI and Functionality
Monospaced elements such as inline code elements are now rendered in monospace font again
Fixed a bug preventing assigning colors and descriptions to tags in the tag manager
Magic Quotes detect forward and backward slashes (/ and ) as non-word characters, behind which a starting Magic Quote can begin
Zettlr now properly uses a proper filename extension on export even when using extensions
The generic text input context menu shows proper labels (#4655)
Improved the French translation
Improved the Japanese translation
Improved the Catalan translation
Fixed link previews for short notes
Updated the notification and menubar (Windows/Linux) icons to the new logo
Fixed a bug that would prevent changing the directory sorting order (#4654)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the autocomplete pop-up not showing when editing an existing Zettelkasten link (#4653)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the last active tab(s) to not be remembered correctly on launch
Improved calendar view layout
Fixed a visual bug that would make a distraction-free editor overlay even pop-overs
Fixed a small glitch that would prevent proper visual indented alignment of images when inside of list items
Replace the long "Open image externally" message with an icon on prerendered images and move it to the title; also make the message translatable
Under the Hood:
Fixed the plainPandocReaderWriter utility function to properly extract the plain reader/writer in all possible configurations
Improved performance of the math equation parser
Improved performance of the footnote parser
Improved performance of the plain link parser
Renamed the Catalan translation file from ca-CA to ca-ES
Moved the notification provider to a utility function
Refactored Popover logic to use props instead of data for initialization to ensure the data is available upon component instantiation, making the logic less brittle
Refactored a hacky solution that would not remember the previous editor state when entering distraction free mode and led to various other issues and bugs
Update Electron to v25.8.1 to mitigate CVE-2023-4863

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 (Sep 15, 2023)

This update brings a host of changes and new features. If you're upgrading from an older version of Zettlr, you will have to re-do a few things because due to the extensive changes, we had to adapt how your data is persisted. Here's the quick list:
Your open documents will have to be re-opened once. Regardless of which files were open previously, they will all be closed after the update.
There are no more unsaved in-memory files.
Two default settings have changed in order to maximize benefits from the new features: Avoid new tabs is now set to false (since split-panes also allows you to spread out your open documents across several panes and windows), and Always reload remote changes is now set to true by default.
The defaults system has changed. You will see new export options that weren't there before, and you will see some weird export.format.yaml and import.format.yaml export options. These are the "old" profiles we have kept in case you made modifications. We suggest you copy over all changes to the new profiles and then delete them, or rename those old ones to more memorable names. Read more below.
The TableEditor has received a better save strategy to prevent data loss. As it is impossible to fully control the data flow from the visual table element into the underlying Markdown document, this data flow is now explicit: Tables now feature a save button (with a disk icon) at the top of the table. Its background will be green as long as the table has not been modified. Once it it modified, the background will turn red. Click the button to apply all changes to the document.
Quicklook windows are completely gone now.
Footnote editing has changed: Instead of editing the footnote in-place by Cmd/Ctrl-clicking it, there is now an "Edit" button inside the footnote preview which, upon clicking, will bring you to the footnote context. This has the benefit that you will have full syntax highlighting support as well as any shortcuts and commands you may need.
We have deprecated the Zettelkasten link start and end configuration settings. Both are now fixed to [[ and ]] respectively. We have figured that nobody needs to configure this, and it makes many parts of our code easier.
New Icons on Windows and Linux:
For 3.0, we decided that it's time to give our app icons a facelift. For the past six years, Zettlr sported working, but relatively bland icons to convey its existence on the taskbar to its users. The new icons still convey the same message, but you will notice that they now integrate much better into the new Windows 11 Fluent UI.
We decided to exchange the icons on Linux as well. They may not seamlessly integrate into your specific UI, but we feel they will definitely look more modern than the previous iteration of icons.
With this move, the Windows and Linux experience of Zettlr finally moves on par to the macOS experience, which has received an updated icon with the release of Zettlr 2.0.
Split-Panes and Multiple Windows:
A long awaited feature has made it into this version: Now you can open multiple windows and you can split the editor area in every window into multiple parts, so-called editor panes (sometimes we may call them "leafs" since internally they are represented as a tree structure. Feel free to remind us in that case that we're talking to humans, not our code). This means you can now open as many files as you wish at the same time, and you can spread them out across multiple windows. This will especially benefit workflows that rely on having open multiple files side by side to copy information or to read them. However, if you are happy with the old ways, you can of course opt not to use them. Here's how it works:
You can open a new window by choosing the corresponding menu item in the Windows submenu, or by pressing Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N.
You can now drag document tabs not just within the tab bar, but also onto the editor area. If you move a document tab to the borders of the editor, a shimmer will appear that indicates that you can split the editor to that side. If you drop the file on one of the four borders of the editor, this will split the corresponding editor in two along the specified direction (left, right, top, bottom) and also move the file into that new pane.
You can also move document tabs between multiple panes by simply dropping them in the center of an editor pane. As long as there's no shimmer, the file will be moved instead. You can also drop a file onto a tabbar of one of the editors, which will have the same effect (but it will be indicated with the same blue shimmer as when you are splitting an editor).
After you have closed the last file inside such a pane, it will automatically close itself. If the pane was part of a split, the other pane will then occupy the place of the now closed editor pane. To create the pane again, simply drag another file to the correct border of an existing editor pane.
You can resize the panes at will. Unlike the sidebar and file manager, we have not implemented any size limits, so with a little bit of care, you can create your unique mosaic of files.
Since we are now not limited to one active file and one set of open files per window, these notions have changed their meaning. Now, every editor pane has one set of open files and one active file. Each window also remembers which pane was last active so that global features (such as the sidebar) can show you information based on the most recently focused editor pane's active file.
Most contextual information (table of contents, list of references, etc.) will now update based on the most recently focused editor. In order to make those places show information relating to one of the open editors, simply click with your mouse inside to focus them.
New Defaults/Profile File System:
This update introduces a new way to work with defaults files. At a glance, here's what has changed:
Zettlr now understands the reader and writer properties of defaults files
It uses those properties to determine if a file can be used for importing or exporting, and displays the appropriate files in the relevant places for you to choose
You can now create new defaults files, rename existing ones, or remove them
When changing the writer or reader for such a file, this change will be recognized by Zettlr and be treated accordingly
This also means that Zettlr will from now on only ship with a minimum set of profiles; but any additional import/export formats can be created by you with just one click
Additionally, because of this, you are now able to export LaTeX files directly without running them through a Markdown interpreter first, allowing you to, e.g., create beamer slides or write plain TeX files within Zettlr
Furthermore, we have dropped our internal reveal.js exporter, since Pandoc supports everything we did out of the box (and better) than our exporter
Tag Manager Update:
The tag manager has received a necessary face lift. Now, the tag manager shows all your tags and allows you to assign/un-assign colors and descriptions. This makes it easier to assign colors to certain tags without having to remember the tag first. Additionally, it gives you a better overview over your tags. The info is now being propagated better across the app, with more places showing the assigned colors for tags.
Additionally, you now have a better way to consolidate your tags: Within the tag manager, you can now rename tags in order to clean up your tagging system.
Splash Screen:
As more and more users have increasingly large workspaces, we receive an increasing amount of feedback that the app start seems sluggish. To indicate that nothing is wrong and Zettlr simply needs time to recreate the cache, we have implemented a splash screen that shows if the file loading isn't finished after one second and displays the boot process to show what is happening behind the hood.
GUI and Functionality:
New Feature: You can now open multiple main windows, each with their own files loaded
New Feature: You can now arbitrarily split the editor area into multiple editor panes to keep open as many files at the same time as you wish
New Feature: After a long time, you can now again drag and drop entries in the table of contents in the sidebar to rearrange sections of your file
New Feature: Overhauled, improved, and streamlined the defaults file system used by the importer and exporter
New Feature: You can now pin tabs, which prevents them from being closed
New Feature: The editor will now check your Markdown for potential style issues (can be disabled in the preferences)
New Feature: In the combined filemanager mode, you can now see writing targets as a ring progress bar in the position of the file icon
New Feature: Zettlr can now automatically update internal links (Wiki/ Zettelkasten style) if you rename a file
New Feature: When you hover over a link, you can now get a link preview
New Feature: Zettlr now features a LanguageTool integration. You can turn it on in the Spellchecker settings and even provide your LanguageTool username and an API key to unlock premium features
New Feature: You can now activate a statusbar that shows some context- specific information for each editor pane you have open; this statusbar also shows you information for code editor panels, e.g., in the assets manager
New Feature: Changing a certain set of configuration options will make Zettlr ask you whether you wish to restart the app for the changes to take effect
New Feature: While modifying import and export profiles, Zettlr will now check them for validity, and inform you of any potential errors
New Feature: You can now specify the Pandoc working directory in a file's frontmatter with the property pandoc_working_dir within the zettlr object
New Feature: Right-clicking on a file or directory now also gives you the option to copy the absolute file or folder path to the clipboard
New Feature: There is now a new menu item that allows you to conveniently clear the FSAL cache in case of some errors
New Feature: A new gutter to the left side of the editor will now display arrow buttons next to footnote reference bodies that will select the corresponding footnote reference up in the text upon click
New Feature: Add splash screen to indicate FSAL loading progress
Note preview tooltips now display a sanitized HTML version of the note's Markdown contents
New Feature: Both entire YAML documents (including both profiles and regular files) as well as YAML frontmatter sections in Markdown documents are now linted, providing a visual indication that a piece of YAML code contains syntax errors that prevents, e.g., Zettlr from detecting the file's title or Pandoc from properly reading the metadata of the document
Removed the "Get LaTeX" menu item since (hopefully) now the advice in the docs and in the tutorial are sufficient
Replaced the old Markdown-to-HTML and HTML-to-Markdown converter with more up- to-date modules. This should not change how pasting from HTML or copying as HTML work, but it could.
The TableEditor now has a clear data saving strategy: Whenever you change a table, you need to manually click the disk icon at the top of the table to apply all your changes to the document so that it can then be saved
Quicklook windows are gone completely now, since they can be more than replaced by the new split views and multiple windows
The windows now finally correctly remember their positions, fixing an old bug
Improved the link tooltip inside the editor; it will show faster now and is easier to access
Zettlr now recognizes Quarto Markdown files (*.qmd)
Code files (e.g. *.tex or *.json) now have line numbers enabled and the margins of the main editor removed by default
The sidebar tabs are now static at the top, meaning you don't have to scroll up within a long list just to see the tabbar
Lists (especially in the assets manager) now also allow you to remove entries with a right click
Fixed the Simple PDF, Textbundle, and Textpack exporters
Added new variables for snippets
CURRENT_ID: Holds the currently assigned Zettelkasten ID to the file
FILENAME: Holds the filename of the current file
DIRECTORY: Holds the directory path for the current file
EXTENSION: Holds the file extension for the current file
Fixed inability to move the text cursor while renaming files in the file tree
Fixed ability to case-sensitively rename files
Fixed an incredibly dangerous bug that would lead to data loss if the app was being shut down before the statistics provider has been booted up; in which case the provider would overwrite sometimes several years worth of statistics with empty data
Added the ability to use mouse buttons 4 and 5 for forward/backward navigation
Fixed a visual glitch on Linux where in dark mode the active tab would have no colored bottom border
Added a third exporter option: You can now have Zettlr ask you everytime where it should store an exported file
In case of an error, the error dialog will now also present the Pandoc error code
Fixed a minor bug in toolbar toggle controls that necessitated clicking them twice to bring them into the "active" state (holds especially true for the sidebar toggle)
Fixed faulty updates on Windows: Now the downloaded file should be opened without any errors
Middle-mouse clicks on the collapse/uncollapse indicators in the file tree should no longer trigger scrolling behavior on Windows
File tree items now show their absolute path on mouse hover
Clicking a directory will now also uncollapse it without having to click on the arrow
The graph view now uses as labels YAML frontmatter titles, first headings level 1, or a filename without extension based on the preferences
Fixed a usability issue on macOS where if you wanted to select a BibTeX file for your citations you had to click through intransparent buttons before being able to; now you can immediately select both CSL JSON and BibTeX files
Parsed links will now show the correctly resolved link as titles
The file tree now properly cuts too long file and directory names, indicating these with an ellipsis, rather than simply cutting off the text mid-letter
Pressing Cmd/Ctrl+S while a TableEditor is focused, this will now trigger an update that applies the changes to the underlying document. In other words, when editing a table, you can press Cmd/Ctrl+S twice to first apply any changes from the table to the document and second save the document itself.
The editor now recognizes Pandoc attribute syntax (e.g., {.unnumbered})
Added lua syntax highlighting support
Improved the tutorial to make use of the new split views
Citation keys in the autocomplete dropdown are now sorted by number of occurrences in the text
Fixed the readability mode color gradient (red -> purple -> blue -> green)
The "Save changes" dialog is now simpler and easier to understand
The main editor is finally properly styled and looks more natural to work with
Pre-rendered citations within Zettlr now respect the composite flag, meaning that Some sentence by @Author2015 renders as Some sentence by Author (2015) instead of Some sentence by (Author 2015)
Tags now include a measure of informativeness or uniqueness, called Inverse Document Frequency (IDF); the higher this value the more informative a tag is. This number is shown in the tag manager, and tags are ordered by this in some places
The file autocomplete now also includes links to not-yet-existing files. This enables you to define links to files that you may want to create at another point in time and ensure that all files that link to this file include the correct link
The editor now uses the built-in search panel from CodeMirror
Added support for COBOL syntax highlighting
Zettlr can now recognize changes to the Zettlr directory files (where things such as sorting and project settings are stored), which means that, if you have Zettlr open on two computers and synchronize your files, changes you make in one app should be picked up by the other
Zettlr can now detect changes to the status of a directory as a git repository during runtime
The "Characters without spaces" info is no longer present in the toolbar counter widget; the "characters" count now represents always the count without spaces across the app
Mermaid charts now dynamically switch themes between default and dark depending on the app's display
In various parts of the app, URLs will now be displayed in a shortened format if they are long and the space is limited
If you make use of glob-patterns to filter which files will be exported during project exports, you will now get a visible error message if your glob- patterns have removed all files so that none remain to be exported
Clicking on the "Project Properties" button in a directory properties popup with activated project functionality now closes the popup
Redid the emphasis renderer to work on the SyntaxTree directly, which makes the emphasis render more properly and now works much faster than before
Users on macOS can now disable window vibrancy
Non-existing citekeys in the document no longer cause the list of references to be empty
Dark mode is now set to system by default for all operating systems, not just macOS/Windows
A new "match whole word" setting allows to control whether AutoCorrect can also correct partial words
The tutorial is now available in Dutch as well.
The combined file tree is now more verbose when it comes to icons: Folders now always have icons to indicate that they're folders (can be overridden with a project icon or a custom icon), and Markdown files have a more distinct icon
Under the Hood:
Refactored the main editor component further
Refactored the Sidebar panels into their own respective components
Upgrade Electron to 25.x.x
Upgrade Pandoc to 3.1.6.2
Pandoc is now also available natively for Apple Silicon (darwin arm64)
Upgrade Chart.js to 4.x.x
Upgrade CodeMirror to version 6
Upgrade to Yarn v2
Exchange electron-devtools-installer with electron-devtools-assembler, as the former appears to be unmaintained
Moved from Electron Builder to Electron Forge for building Debian and RPM- packages, since Electron Builder seems to produce a few errors which Forge doesn't
Switch from deprecated @clr/icons to @cds/core
Pandoc logs are now logged in every case
Improve the display and functionality of log messages
Switched the configuration file management for the different service providers from the previously very bodged methods to the unified and new PersistentDataContainer
Changed the default ports for the logging server to 9001 to avoid collisions with PHP fpm installations on development systems
The yaml frontmatter title property is now its own property on file descriptors to centralize the extraction logic and save some code on the renderer's side
Extracted the ID extraction functionality to its own utility function
Fixed a bug that would incorrectly detect Python comments or C++ pragmas as tags
Removed all Meta descriptors; now all descriptors are unified across main and renderer processes
Documents are now no longer managed by the editor leafs. Instead, they are managed by the document provider
Completely removed all instances of hash; the FSAL cache now is being called with absolute file paths. Hashed paths are only used to determine the shard.
Exchanged nspell with nodehun so that we can load any Hunspell-compatible dictionary file in Zettlr, including the previously too-complex ones such as the Italian or Portuguese dictionaries
Fixed the build pipeline so that native Node modules are now code-signed and work on macOS and Windows, meaning that chokidar should not need to fall back to CPU intensive polling anymore
Sandbox print preview window iframe elements
The update check will no longer block the boot cycle, making start up times fast even in degraded Wifi contexts where there is a connection, but extremely slow
Zettlr now attempts to extract the version strings for supported external programs (such as Pandoc, Git, and Quarto) and displays them in the About panel
Exchanged Zettlr Translate system with gettext
Removed the translation provider, since its remaining functionality to list available dictionary files and translations has now been moved to the main command hub
Removed the Zettlr class; the last remnant of the old, class-based system
Remove deprecated modules svg-inline-loader, raw-loader, and file-loader

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 8 (Aug 10, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 7 (Jul 31, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 6 (Jul 12, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 5 (Jun 20, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 4 (Apr 28, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 3 (Apr 28, 2023)

Upgrade the bundled Pandoc to version 3
Improvements to the status bar
The tag suggestions are now gone from the tag cloud
Improvements to the new Markdown AST parser
Re-enabled in-place editing of footnotes
Re-enabled minimized starting behavior
Better window management
Citation databases now properly reload on change
Copying and pasting has been improved
Upon changing certain settings, Zettlr will now automatically offer to restart
Improved a race condition on document save that could lead to data loss
Fixed the word and character counter
The FSAL file parser now utilizes the Markdown parser, ensuring that the detected metadata matches what the editor shows you
What's Changed:
Do not crash on empty window_state.yml by @UFOMelkor in #4128
chore(deps-dev): bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 5.48.0 to 5.52.0 by @dependabot in #4149
run Linux builds on Ubuntu 20.04 machines by @marado in #4155
chore(deps): Bump http-cache-semantics from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 by @dependabot in #4126
fix: Prevent search panel text from being selected by @kyaso in #4177
Use existing lastLeafId computed property in App.vue by @kyaso in #4189
refactor: Simplify link detection for file preview by @kyaso in #4197
chore(deps-dev): bump eslint-plugin-n from 15.6.0 to 15.6.1 by @dependabot in #4036
chore(deps): bump chart.js from 4.1.1 to 4.2.1 by @dependabot in #4143
chore(deps-dev): Bump @types/uuid from 9.0.0 to 9.0.1 by @dependabot in #4166
chore(deps): Bump ky from 0.33.1 to 0.33.3 by @dependabot in #4206
chore(deps): Bump minimatch from 5.1.2 to 7.4.3 by @dependabot in #4210
chore(deps-dev): Bump electron from 22.3.0 to 23.2.0 by @dependabot in #4212
arch linux: upgraded from aur to a regular package by @UweKrause in #4217
Insert DisplayName instead of FileName after an zkn-link by @UFOMelkor in #4209
chore(deps-dev): Bump webpack from 5.75.0 to 5.77.0 by @dependabot in #4226
chore(deps-dev): Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 5.53.0 to 5.57.0 by @dependabot in #4225
chore(deps-dev): bump eslint-plugin-import from 2.26.0 to 2.27.5 by @dependabot in #4064
refactor: Make MainEditor single-document only by @nathanlesage in #4215
refactor: Move FSAL parser to utilize the Markdown AST Parser by @nathanlesage in #4242

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 2 (Apr 7, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta (Jan 9, 2023)

Your open documents will have to be re-opened once. Regardless of which files were open previously, they will all be closed after the update.
There are no more unsaved in-memory files.
Two default settings have changed in order to maximize benefits from the new features: Avoid new tabs is now set to false (since split-panes also allows you to spread out your open documents across several panes and windows), and Always reload remote changes is now set to true by default.
The defaults system has changed. You will see new export options that weren't there before, and you will see some weird export.format.yaml and import.format.yaml export options. These are the "old" profiles we have kept in case you made modifications. We suggest you copy over all changes to the new profiles and then delete them, or rename those old ones to more memorable names. Read more below.
The TableEditor has received a better save strategy to prevent data loss. As it is impossible to fully control the data flow from the visual table element into the underlying Markdown document, this data flow is now explicit: Tables now feature a save button (with a disk icon) at the top of the table. Its background will be green as long as the table has not been modified. Once it t modified, the background will turn red. Click the button to apply all changes to the document.
Quicklook windows are completely gone now.
Footnote editing has changed: Instead of editing the footnote in-place by Cmd/Ctrl-clicking it, there is now an "Edit" button inside the footnote preview which, upon clicking, will bring you to the footnote context. This has the benefit that you will have full syntax highlighting support as well as any shortcuts and commands you may need.
We have deprecated the Zettelkasten link start and end configuration settings. Both are now fixed to [[ and ]] respectively. We have figured that nobody needs to configure this, and it makes many parts of our code easier.
Split-Panes and Multiple Windows:
A long awaited feature has made it into this version: Now you can open multiple windows and you can split the editor area in every window into multiple parts, so-called editor panes (sometimes we may call them "leafs" since internally they are represented as a tree structure. Feel free to remind us in that case that we're talking to humans, not our code). This means you can now open as many files as you wish at the same time, and you can spread them out across multiple windows. This will especially benefit workflows that rely on having open multiple files side by side to copy information or to read them. However, if you are happy with the old ways, you can of course opt not to use them. Here's how it works:
You can open a new window by choosing the corresponding menu item in the Windows submenu, or by pressing Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N.
You can now drag document tabs not just within the tab bar, but also onto the editor area. If you move a document tab to the borders of the editor, a shimmer will appear that indicates that you can split the editor to that side. If you drop the file on one of the four borders of the editor, this will split the corresponding editor in two along the specified direction (left, right, top, bottom) and also move the file into that new pane.
You can also move document tabs between multiple panes by simply dropping them in the center of an editor pane. As long as there's no shimmer, the file will be moved instead. You can also drop a file onto a tabbar of one of the editors, which will have the same effect (but it will be indicated with the same blue shimmer as when you are splitting an editor). After you have closed the last file inside such a pane, it will automatically close itself. If the pane was part of a split, the other pane will then occupy the place of the now closed editor pane. To create the pane again, simply drag another file to the correct border of an existing editor pane.
You can resize the panes at will. Unlike the sidebar and file manager, we have not implemented any size limits, so with a little bit of care, you can create your unique mosaic of files.
Since we are now not limited to one active file and one set of open files per window, these notions have changed their meaning. Now, every editor pane has one set of open files and one active file. Each window also remembers which pane was last active so that global features (such as the sidebar) can show you information based on the most recently focused editor pane's active file.
Most contextual information (table of contents, list of references, etc.) will now update based on the most recently focused editor. In order to make those places show information relating to one of the open editors, simply click with your mouse inside to focus them.
New Defaults/Profile File System:
This update introduces a new way to work with defaults files. At a glance,
here's what has changed:
Zettlr now understands the reader and writer properties of defaults files
It uses those properties to determine if a file can be used for importing or exporting, and displays the appropriate files in the relevant places for you to choose
You can now create new defaults files, rename existing ones, or remove them
When changing the writer or reader for such a file, this change will be recognized by Zettlr and be treated accordingly
This also means that Zettlr will from now on only ship with a minimum set of profiles; but any additional import/export formats can be created by you with just one click
Additionally, because of this, you are now able to export LaTeX files directly without running them through a Markdown interpreter first, allowing you to, e.g., create beamer slides or write plain TeX files within Zettlr
Furthermore, we have dropped our internal reveal.js exporter, since Pandoc supports everything we did out of the box (and better) than our exporter
Tag Manager Update:
The tag manager has received a necessary face lift. Now, the tag manager shows all your tags and allows you to assign/un-assign colors and descriptions. This makes it easier to assign colors to certain tags without having to remember the tag first. Additionally, it gives you a better overview over your tags. The info is now being propagated better across the app, with more places showing the assigned colors for tags.
Additionally, you now have a better way to consolidate your tags: Within the tag manager, you can now rename tags in order to clean up your tagging system.

New in Zettlr 2.3.0 (Jun 14, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.6 (May 9, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.5 (Apr 10, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.4 (Mar 7, 2022)

GUI and Functionality:
New Feature: You can now switch between zooming the whole GUI or just the editor font size when using the zoom menu items/shortcuts
Restores the display of links in the related files section of the sidebar
Differentiate between inbound, outbound, and bidirectional links in the related files section
Fix related files display and link reporting
Added a smooth scrolling effect for the tab bar
Added classes in order to conditionally style the related files section based on the type of relation, the classes are tags if the relation is based on keywords, inbound for incoming links, outbound for outgoing links, and bidirectional for links from and to the said file
Clicking on math now places the cursor correctly, reducing friction
Select the image markup when clearing a rendered image by clicking on it
Image captions do not disappear anymore while you are editing it, even if you move the mouse out of the image area
Improve icon alignment in the related files section
Relaxed conditions for emphasis rendering by just excluding word-characters
Tab characters are no longer detected as spelling errors
You can now choose to indent using tab characters instead of spaces
Do not close the file left to a new usaved file upon saving the file
Fixed a weird race condition in which the file manager would remain ignorant of an in-memory file after it has been saved to disk
Changes to your files should now be detected immediately also on macOS
Fixed a bug that would disable both types of magic quotes (single + double) if you disabled only one type
Improve styling of progress bars on all platforms
Under the Hood:
Resolve links on-demand in the link provider
Factor out the clickAndClear functionality to its own helper
Improve editor image CSS
Factor out the checks to see if we can render some element to unify behavior across rendering plugins
Update most pure Node scripts from CommonJS to ESM in order to support the new versions of csso, chalk, and got
FINALLY managed to get fsevents to run! After about three years or so.
Add support for JabRef fileDirectory-style comments

New in Zettlr 2.2.3 (Mar 7, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.2 (Feb 16, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.1 (Feb 13, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.0 (Feb 10, 2022)

GUI and Functionality:
Tags and keywords within a YAML frontmatter are now clickable
AutoCorrect values are no longer detected as spelling mistakes
Fix an issue with false detection of footnote reference texts
Fix link resolving: Now files dropped onto the editor will be easier to detect as files (rather than weblinks)
Fixed reloading issues with very large citation databases
Fixed a visual glitch when choosing to "Open in a new tab" in a note preview
Fix a regression that inserting pasted image paths into the editor didn't work
Fix wrong display of citations if there was an error rendering the citation
The tutorial is now also available after the first start; you can reopen it any time from the Help menu
The autocompletion popup doesn't disappear anymore if you completely remove anything already written to begin anew
Fix a bug that would with some installations result in a blank main window.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes not update the tag autocompletion
Ensure documents are saved when renaming a directory
Do not show "Open Image Externally" if loading a data URL
Improve styling for the "No results" message on file tree filtering
Newly created files now always open in a new tab
Fixed a bug where you would receive two "paste image" dialogs if you had text selected when pasting an image onto the editor
Fixed conflicting text decorations between strikethrough and spellchecking
Fixed a bug where a YAML frontmatter beginning and end would also be recognized even if it was not valid. A valid YAML frontmatter must be delimited by exactly three dashes/dots on their own line, and not more
Under the Hood:
Update Pandoc to 2.17.1.1
Activate watchdog polling for the citeproc provider. This should reduce issues with very large citation databases.
If the error message upon a failed database reload indicates that the file was simply incomplete, the citeproc provider now attempts a second reload after a delay of 5 seconds
Moved the workspace and root file opening logic into their own command
Make the ZettlrCommand base class abstract and require constraints on derived
Remove all calls to global in the renderer processes; instead properly type the API provided via the window object
Refactor the main process:
Move the FSAL, the WindowManager, and the DocumentManager into the service provider realm
Factor out all commands into a new CommandProvider
Use singleton dependency injection to provide services to each other, utilizing an AppServiceContainer
Remove (almost) every dependency on the global object
Move the littered code from the Zettlr main class into their corresponding service providers
Fixed the dependency hell within the FSAL
The app doesn't attempt to download the Vue3 devtools in production anymore
The date formatter now takes everything as parameters and has unit tests

New in Zettlr 2.1.3 (Jan 31, 2022)

GUI and Functionality:
Display inline math using monospaced font
Right-clicking citations doesn't select parts of it anymore
Inline-equations are now properly syntax highlighted
Fixed a bug that caused unintentional pastes when closing a tab using the middle mouse button on Linux
Heavily improved the full text search: Previously, certain files that should have been returned for specific search terms were not considered a match, and multiple results per line were mostly not reported; additionally, search results are now ordered by relevancy and the search results are marked more visibly
Heavily improved the table editor user interface: Now the table editor will on certain actions write all changes back to the document so that the possibility of data loss involves a single table cell at most in case the user forgets to un-focus the table. Furthermore, the table editor will now not be removed from the document when it loses focus, and instead the table will be updated silently
The log viewer now only displays errors and warnings initially
Fix a small visual glitch on macOS for toolbar searches
Added "Open in new Tab" button to link preview tooltip, when user has preference "Avoid Opening Files in New Tabs" set to true
Fix Use the CodeMirror default actions for Home and End preference not working on MacOS
Fix task item strikethrough appearing laggy
Fix task item strikethrough covering the preceding whitespace
On macOS, file tree icons are now displayed using the theme/system color. On all platforms, you can customize the appearance using the selector body .tree-item clr-icon.special (including platform/mode selectors)
Improve the readability mode: Now it will not render a YAML frontmatter and it will additionally treat sentences smarter than before
Fixed an issue that would sometimes break images when you edited the caption in the rendered image caption.
Enable resetting of the custom Zettelkasten directory
The default value for "Use system accent color" is now off for all platforms except macOS
The app now remembers if you had the sidebar open, and which tab you selected
The app now remembers your recent global searches
The file tree now expands when you are filtering for files/directories
Translate the auto dark mode start/end setting strings
The ToC now displays the currently active section
Fix file manager always showing word count, even if user selected character count in preferences
When clicking on a heading in the ToC, the cursor is now set to that heading and the editor is focused immediately
Fix recent documents items not being clickable in Linux
Fix drag & drop of files onto the editor
Fix some bugs in the link opener
Under the Hood:
Update Pandoc to 2.17
Removed the unused PDF settings from the config
Removed the unused pandoc and xelatex config options
Convert all MarkdownEditor hooks and plugins to TypeScript
Tests now simply transpile without type checking
Move service provider types to the new types directory
Provide @dts as an alias to retrieve typings
Move FSAL types to the new types directory
Convert the remaining utility functions to TypeScript
Polyfill the path module in renderer processes
Convert the MainSidebar component to TypeScript
Move out the statistics calculation from the FSAL
The yarn package and yarn test-gui commands now skip typechecking, reducing build time by a large margin

New in Zettlr 2.1.2 (Jan 14, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.1.1 (Jan 5, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.1.0 (Jan 5, 2022)

GUI and Functionality:
New Feature: Implemented "forward" and "back" actions, which are especially useful for people managing a Zettelkasten and frequently follow links: Now you can go back and forth between opened files (shortcuts: Cmd/Ctrl+[ and Cmd/Ctrl+]) so you can more quickly navigate your files
Fixed an error in the link filtering process that would throw an error when you attempted to remove internal links completely upon export
Fixed Cmd/Ctrl-Click-behavior on footnotes
Dragging and dropping files (both from the desktop and the sidebar) now always inserts relative paths
More reactive updating of the related files section
Improvements during insertion of snippets
The footnote editor now has a consistent background color in dark mode
You can now open linked files from within the preview tooltips
Removed the shortcut to rename directories since that was rarely used and could confuse users since it was not obvious where the directory is in the file manager
Moved the file renaming process via shortcut to the document tabs since it's much more visible there
Fix a very rare bug in which selections inside headings would look off
Fixed an error that would fail the print preview if you had images with relative paths in your document
Internal links to files that contain a period should work now (except what follows exactly matches an allowed Markdown file extension)
Scrollbars on Windows and Linux should now switch colors according to the app's dark mode setting
Zettlr doesn't detect links to other headings in the form of [link](#target) as tags anymore
Reinstated the ability to use pure number tags or hexadecimal numbers as tags
Using the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-V to paste something as plain text will no longer paste it twice on Windows and Linux
Zettlr can now be started minimized (in the tray/notification area) by passing the CLI flag --launch-minimized, which means the main window will not be shown after launching the app
On single-file export, unsaved changes are now also exported
MagicQuotes can now surround selections
File duplication will now make sure to always create new files instead of overwriting existing ones
Attempt to scroll back to the correct position after applying remote changes
Adapt styles on Windows
You can now specify a TeX template and an HTML template for projects
Fix double titlebars on Windows and Linux when displaying modals
Following internal links now also works for systems in which the ID is part of the file name
Updated the display name in the Add/Remove Programs entry for Windows
Task list items in the editor are now correctly spaced again
Fixed a bug that would render it impossible to open images and files with non-ASCII characters within their path
You can now copy the underlying equation code for LaTeX equations
Under the Hood:
Added a further check to the filter copying. Since the filters that ship with Zettlr are bound to the inner workings of the app, we should always overwrite them if applicable (to ensure they are updated with the app), unlike the defaults which people should be able to modify without us messing with them
Sanitized and standardized all Vue component names and app entry points
Fix a whole bunch of linter warnings
Remove the custom event system ($on, $off, and $once) in preparation for Vue 3
Switched to Vue 3 (incl. Vuex 4, vue-loader 16, vue-virtual-scroller 2)
The state is now being instantiated using a function which adds reactivity
The modified documents are now updated in such a way that attached watchers are notified
The snippet insertion process is now much more precise and allows snippets to be inserted at any point within non-empty lines without any quirks
Update Pandoc to 2.16.2
The VS Code debugger now uses the test-gui configuration and not the regular (potentially critical) main configuration; NOTE that this means you must run the test-gui command first to generate that data-dir in the first place before starting the debugger
Cleaned up the handler for rendering task-list items
Switched the windows update, tag-manager, stats, quicklook, project-properties, print, paste-image, log-viewer, error, assets, preferences, and about to TypeScript
extractYamlFrontmatter does not require the linefeed anymore
Remove the openFile method from the main Zettlr object. Use getDocumentManager().openFile instead to open a file
Add an automatic updater for CITATION.cff
Zettlr now extracts outlinks from a file and adds them to descriptors
Added @common as a shorthand alias for importing files within the common-directory
The file autocompletion database now uses the full paths to index files

New in Zettlr 2.0.3 (Nov 14, 2021)

New in Zettlr 2.0.2 (Nov 3, 2021)

New in Zettlr 2.0.1 (Oct 20, 2021)

New in Zettlr 2.0.0 (Oct 20, 2021)

32bit Builds Are Discontinued:
We do not ship any more 32bit builds. From 2.0.0 onwards, only 64bit builds (both Intel and ARM) are supported. For Windows ARM builds, Pandoc is not available, so to export and import files on Windows ARM you must install Pandoc manually, if possible.
New Configuration Options:
Several existing configuration options have changed their format. This means that changes to these won't be recognised and they will reset to their default. In this case, you may have to re-adapt your preferences in several places. Please have a look at your settings after updating and see if they still are set the way you like.
Writing Targets Must Be Re-Applied:
Due to a change in the underlying data structure, this version of Zettlr will not recognise any writing target set by a Zettlr version 1.x. This means: Please note down the important writing targets you have set before updating and then once re-apply them. We would like to apologise for this inconvenience, but believe its benefits by far outweigh the single additional migration effort on your side.
No More Transitive Files / New Browser-Like Behavior:
The idea of "transitive files" we implemented in previous iterations of Zettlr proved to be counter-intuitive to many people. We now removed that feature in favor of a much better tab-management. By default, Zettlr will now try to avoid opening new tabs and instead attempt to replace existing tabs whenever you open any new file. You can force Zettlr to open a file in a new tab instead by either middle-clicking, or right-clicking the file and choosing "Open in a new tab." If you generally do not want tabs to be closed in favor of other files, you can uncheck the option "Avoid opening new tabs." Files with unsaved changes will never be replaced. This behavior is very closely aligned with how modern browsers handle links.
Autosave Is Now A Setting:
A few years ago we implemented auto-saving after a delay of five seconds with no change to the current file. However, some people mentioned that they'd like to choose what to do. Now you can switch between three modes of autosaving. "Off" disables autosave and you have to manually save using Cmd/Ctrl+S. "Immediately" saves files after a very short delay of 250ms, that is basically whenever you stop typing. "After a delay" (default) will save files after the 5s delay you know from previous versions of Zettlr. PDF-Preferences Are Discontinued: The PDF-Preferences window has been removed in favor of the new "assets manager." While it did prove to be a nice reminiscence of how LibreOffice or Word handled layout, it was not a scalable solution. Instead, we have now switched to defaults files, which are a little more complex than this dialog, but provide much more functionality and flexibility.
New Dialog: Assets Manager:
Instead of the old PDF-Preferences window, Zettlr now contains a so-called "assets manager." This is a new preferences window that allows you to customize settings which are stored in individual files. The first two tabs feature exporting and importing settings using so-called defaults files. Defaults files are written using YAML and provide Pandoc with sensible defaults for every export. We will shortly after the release of 2.0 include extensive documentation for how these work. The defaults we provide should work well for most users.
The third tab contains the custom CSS, and the fourth tab contains the new snippets feature.
Custom CSS Has Moved:
The Custom CSS can now be edited directly in the assets manager instead of in its own dialog.
Zoom Functionality Has Changed:
Previously, you could increase and decrease the editor's font size using the zoom shortcuts. Now, the zoom shortcuts will zoom the complete user interface.
This is an accessibility feature, since several people with visual impairments as well as people with large external displays have mentioned they would like the user interface itself to be scalable.
The editor's font size can now directly be edited with a new setting in the editor settings tab.
Scroll-to-zoom has been removed, because too many people have accidentally held down Cmd/Ctrl while using the scrollwheel, causing many accidental zoom operations.
The Pandoc Command Has Been Removed:
In the past, you had the ability to modify the command that Zettlr would run to export your files. However, several times we had to adapt the command, which lead to frustration among users because we had to manually inform everyone of these changes and they had to manually "reset" the command. Now that we have switched to defaults files, the command that will be run in every case is pandoc --defaults "/path/to/defaults.yaml". Instead of modifying the CLI arguments, you can now adapt the defaults Pandoc will be run with, which is possible because every CLI argument has a corresponding setting in defaults files, which can be edited in the assets manager.
Native User Interface:
Another notable change is that now we have switched to a native user interface.
This means that Zettlr does not have a completely custom design anymore, but rather orients itself at the various interface guidelines published by Apple, Microsoft, and the GNOME team. Thus, on macOS and Windows Zettlr now follows the Big Sur style and the Metro style respectively. On Linux, we have attempted to model the GNOME interface but had to make a few changes due to the fact that there are numerous different window managers with different aesthetics.
Two PDF Export Options:
You will notice that there are now two different PDF exporting options, one is called "PDF Document", the other "PDF (LaTeX)". The first option enables you to export a document to PDF without the help of a LaTeX distribution. This way you can have PDF exports without installing such a distribution. The second option allows you to export to PDF as you know it from previous versions of Zettlr. Project Settings Have Moved
With the introduction of defaults files, there is less necessity to ship a full dialog just to edit a project's settings. Instead, the project settings have been moved to the novel "Properties" dialog of directories, which you can access via the context menu.
GUI and Functionality:
Feature: Switched to using defaults files in the exporter. Additionally the exporter is now modular, allowing for more extensions in the future
Feature: You can now define snippets, reusable pieces of text that allow you to save some time when writing
Feature: The "global search" has been renamed "full text search" and has moved to its own sidebar panel -- you can switch between the file manager and the full text search using the three-way toggle in the toolbar
Feature: A new sidebar tab shows you related files
Feature: Added a calendar view to the stats dialog, showing you what you've written over the year
Feature: The macOS version of Zettlr now boasts a new application icon adapted to fit the style of the Big Sur operating system. It was provided by Marc Oliver Orth (@marc2o) – thank you
Feature: Zettlr now supports bibliography files on a per-file basis. Just set the wanted bibliography in your YAML frontmatter, within the bibliography-property
Feature: The tag cloud now offers you "suggested tags" for the current file. Tag suggestions are words equalling tags found inside your file which are not yet prepended with a hash-character. You can modify the list of suggestions and insert them at once. Zettlr will insert them into the frontmatter so that the actual text will remain untouched. If there are any tag suggestions, the tag cloud icon will feature a small red dot
Feature: Now Zettlr can export to PDF even without any LaTeX-distribution installed on the system
Feature: The footnote editing logic has been improved. Now, multiline footnotes are handled appropriately, and you can safely use multi-line footnotes alongside the in-place editing feature
Feature: You can now customize the data directory using the data-dir="/path/to/directory" switch. This allows portable installations
Feature: In addition to the "Glass" sound you can now also have the Pomodoro timer play a "Chime" or a "Digital Alarm" after each step
Feature: The filter now not only filters the file list but also the file tree
Feature: New "Properties" popouts give you access to information about your files and folders via the context menu
Feature: Projects can now be exported into multiple formats at once allowing you to choose from every available format
Feature: You can now further filter which files will be exported using glob patterns
Feature: A new update dialog improves the updating experience 32bit AppImages and Windows builds are no longer supported
Double-dollar equations are now rendered in display mode
Removed the Pandoc installation item from the help menu
Moved the Pandoc and XeLaTeX settings to the export tab in preferences
Updated the tutorial instructions to install Pandoc
Fixed a bug that would delete file if it got renamed as itself
All languages will now be downloaded by the CI workflow. Updates will still be pulled via the application on boot
Removed the ability for the translation provider to arbitrarily request languages that have not been installed in order to remove that fragile feature. All languages will now be provided from the application immediately
All windows will now remember their last position
Some components of the renderer elements will now respect a given accent color set by your operating system (only available for macOS and Windows)
You can choose between a theme's accent color and the operating system's in the display settings
You can now close files by middle-clicking their tabs MDX supported as a type of markdown file
New File and Edit File can now fast rename without selecting the extension
Add a tray to the system notification area, off by default. To activate, see Preferences ? Advanced ? "Leave app running in the notification area" (or
"Show app in the notification area" when using MacOS)
Fixed a bug that would mark some quotation marks as misspelled
Fix the visibility problems under night mode mentioned in issue #1845
Enabled syntax higlighting for fenced code blocks that use attribute lists as per issue #2259
Added the SIL Open Font License to the About dialog
Under the Hood:
Removed support for 32 bit AppImages on the CI.
Migrated the exporter to TypeScript.
Completely rewritten the exporter in order to be able to use defaults files and enable much more flexibility.
Removed the Pandoc command.
Add typings for external modules, remove the internal custom ones for bcp-47 and nspell.
Reenabled the Pandoc and XeLaTeX options in preferences.
Removed the generic IPC call from the config provider and replaced it with consistent checks as to which options have actually changed. This increases the performance after configuration saves.
Migrated the config provider to TypeScript.
Migrated the Citeproc Provider to TypeScript, and cleaned the provider up:
The provider has now the capability to load multiple databases at once and switch between them.
Furthermore, the provider now needs much less variables, the logic is much simpler, and many unnecessary ipc calls have been removed.
Migrated many utility functions and other scripts to TypeScript. The translations are now loaded by the trans helper to make sure it will always work.
Migrated the complete GUI to Vue.js, using a reusable component system.
The window chrome is no longer controlled by the window registration handler.
Now tests can be run as JavaScript or as TypeScript files (use .js or spec.ts files respectively).
Generalised the window state management so that all windows are now able to remember their positions easily.
Zettlr is now completely jQuery-free.
Migrated the FSAL cache from unstable Objects to Maps and Sets.
Migrated the TagProvider to a Map as well.
Added an assets provider responsible for maintaining the various files Zettlr now uses
Completely sandboxed the renderer processes. Now, even if an attacker gains access to a browser window, the chances of them causing any damage is greatly reduced
Moved all static assets to their own directory
Fixed font, image, and resource loading in general via webpack
Fixed the debug capabilities; now everyone should be able to debug both the main process as well as the renderer processes using VS Code
Added "recommended extensions" to the VS Code setup, allowing for easier interoperability across code contributors
Switched to the native "recent documents" functionality on macOS and Windows
Switched to a new, completely GDPR compliant API for updates. No piece of data will be transferred anymore (except the update information from our server to the apps)

New in Zettlr 1.8.9 (May 13, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.8 (May 13, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.7 (Jan 24, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.6 (Jan 17, 2021)

GUI and Functionality:
Your typing speed is now as fast as previously again, even for long paragraphs and files (thanks to @mattj23 for implementing the fixes in the multiplexer).
You can now also switch to sub-directories using the file list navigation; it is not limited to files anymore.
Fixed a bug that would show a wrong path on pasting image data onto the editor.
Fixed a bug that would make dragging items from the file list impossible.
Fixed odd behaviour that would make dragging and dropping items in the file tree (especially in combined mode of the file manager) hard.
Fixed a logical bug that would open a dialog notifying of remote changes for every detected change, rather than just once per file.
Added RMarkdown files (.Rmd) to the list of supported file extensions for which Zettlr can be registered as a default handler.
Fix a regression error that has rendered citation exporting impossible.
Under the Hood:
Fixed a performance sink in the multiplexer module which introduced noticeable lag while writing long paragraphs and documents (implemented by @mattj23).
Implemented a global event listener that prevents any arbitrary navigation away from the loaded URL that occurs within webContents. So this way we do not need to sanitize any anchors or take care about setting window.location, because all of these events will be captured and navigation will be prevented. For opening local files and directories, make sure to prepend the path with safe-file://, which is recognized by this listener.
Implemented a global event listener that makes sure any call to console.log is also received in the main process so that we can intercept those and add them to our global logging interface as well. This way, debugging errors in the renderer process can be debugged together with users as well. Messages from the renderers are indicated by a [R] including the window identifier (e.g. "[Main Window]").
Migrated the Tags Provider to TypeScript. Cleaned up the IPC calls.
Moved electron-builder configuration to electron-builder.yml.
Removed no longer necessary scripts.
Moved most type annotations to corresponding types files. The structure is currently: All node_modules without type support reside within ./source, whereas the service provider types are stored in ./source/app/service-providers/assets.
Removed generic IPC calls for the CSS Provider and migrated that to the provider class.
Zettlr now detects a potential downloaded Pandoc in the resources directory during development.
Fixed a logical error in calculating the application uptime.
The application now exits forcefully if an error is produced during boot.

New in Zettlr 1.8.5 (Jan 8, 2021)

Apple Silicon Support:
This version provides native Apple Silicon/M1 support, a.k.a. the darwin/arm64 architecture. Make sure to download the correct update file (either x64 for Intel-based Macs or arm64 for the new Apple Silicon chips).
A Note to Apple Silicon users:
If you possess one of the new Apple devices sporting Apple's M1 chip, please see whether or not the application is able to run the built-in pandoc (which is still compiled for 64 bit). If your bundled exporter fails, please report an issue.
A Note to Windows ARM users:
As of the current development build, Microsoft has finished support for running 64 bit applications on ARM computers. However, this is not yet officially released, so the bundled Pandoc might not work and you have to return back to the system-wide installation. However, if the bundled 64 bit Pandoc does work on your ARM computer, please notify us so we know that we can officially support Windows ARM again!
Drag Behaviour Fixes:
Due to efforts within the file manager structure, we could re-enable the functionality to drag files out of the app without having to press any modification key before actually dragging something.
Final Fix to the Pandoc Command:
Make sure to reset your Pandoc command once again in the advanced preferences tab, especially if you receive "could not open binary file"-errors from Pandoc!
GUI and Functionality:
Feature: 64bit applications will now run the built-in Pandoc. To see whether your application runs using the bundled Pandoc, open the developer logs and look for "pandoc." If Zettlr has used the built-in Pandoc for an export, the pandoc command will not begin with "pandoc" but with the full, absolute path to the bundled Pandoc binary. If your application does use the bundled Pandoc, you can uninstall any system-wide Pandoc installationn; Zettlr should still be able to export. If not, please report a bug!
Feature: macOS-users can now use horizontal scrolling instead of using the arrow button to toggle between the file tree and the file list (only available in thin file manager mode; this behaves exactly like back and forth navigating in browsers such as Safari and Chrome).
Enhancement: Added a new option to allow spaces during autocompletion (of tags, citations, or internal links).
Enhancement: Added a configuration option to programmatically set the editor's base font size. Additionally, the zooming now works reliably. (This setting is independent of the --base-font-size below.)
Enhancement: Values from the AutoCorrect replacement table will now also be indicated as correct, so you don't have to add them to your user dictionary anymore.
Enhancement: Added an option to prevent auto-searches when following Zettelkasten-links.
Enhancement: Zettlr now recognizes the tags frontmatter property. Please note that Pandoc does not recognize the tags-property, so if you need tags to be processed by Pandoc, consider using the keywords-property.
Enhancement: The File System Abstraction Layer (FSAL) now spits out a few descriptive statistics collected across all loaded files and folders.
Made the dialogs' tab lists more accessible for screen readers.
Fixed the other files's extension icons in the sidebar -- they now also display in dark mode.
Fixes to the stylesheets.
Fix too dark colours for some variables in CodeMirror.
Added a new CSS variable that allows you to set the font-size of the whole application, --base-font-size. You can set it in your custom CSS to increase or decrease the overall font-size of everything persistently. Remember to apply it to the :root-pseudo element.
Fixed a race condition in the dictionary provider that would render spellchecking unfunctional in certain edge cases.
Revamped the about dialog's other project tab.
Removed the deprecation warning for deprecated installations.
Improved the preferences explanations with regard to AutoCorrect modes and the Magic Quotes section (some require adaptions by the users in the corresponding translations!)
Re-built the QuickLooks. Now they share even more code with the rest of the app, should react more snappy, and are more responsive then ever.
Fixed a few logical bugs where the meaning of the "Overwrite file?"-dialog's buttons were swapped, overwriting a file if you chose "Cancel" and not overwriting a file if you chose "Ok."
Fixed a bug that would mistakenly show a file twice in the file manager if a file rename or the creation of a new file would overwrite a file that was already present.
Added a switch in the export options to choose whether to use the internal Pandoc or the system wide application.
Messages can now be filtered in the log viewer.
Windows can now be regularly closed using the Cmd/Ctrl+W-shortcut without interfering with the open tabs in the main window anymore.
On macOS, Zettlr will not force-show the main window anymore when you click on its Dock icon, but rather restore the default behaviour on macOS.
You can now zoom both Quicklook editors and the main editor independently using the zoom shortcuts.
Unlocked the ability to select "Follow Operating System" in the auto dark mode settings. Please note that this setting might have no effect on certain linuxoid Operating Systems.
Improved tag/keyword detection in frontmatters. Comma-separated lists should now also work.
Fixed a bug making it impossible to open Markdown files from the menu.
Under the Hood:
Removed jQuery UI from the dialog classes completely.
Removed jQuery from the editor controller.
Removed jQuery from the updater.
Removed jQuery from the tag cloud dialog.
Removed jQuery from the stats dialog.
Removed jQuery from PDF preferences.
Removed jQuery from the CSS dialog.
Removed jQuery from the file manager.
Removed jQuery from the Pomodoro counter.
Fix a bug in the error handler during update checks.
Removed the timeout on the dictionary provider, as the dictionaries are likely to be loaded prior either way.
Force electron-packager to 15.2.0 to enable darwin/arm64 (Apple Silicon) builds.
Zettlr now detects Byte Order Marks (BOM) if present in a file.
The LogViewer got a new paint job: It's now based on Vue, much less resource-heavy and it includes filters to only show certain log levels.
Moved the log window creation to the Window Manager.
The window registration procedure now supports handling the toolbar which now also doubles as a title bar (if you don't want a toolbar).
Migrated the Quicklook windows to Vue.js.
Overhauled the print window.
Changed function name askOverwriteFile to shouldOverwriteFile to make it semantically more correct.
Aligned the exact behaviour of the file-rename and file-new commands to be the same when it comes to overwriting files.
Began implementing another new menu functionality: A shortcut property will send a shortcut-message to the currently focused window.
Migrated the Appearance Provider to TypeScript.
Renamed darkTheme to darkMode.
Migrated the Target Provider to TypeScript.
Transform the zoom-commands to shortcuts.
Move the loadIcons function to a more central place in the window registration module.
Moved the tree view functionality to its dedicated Vue component.
Fixed a regression error from updating LESS.
Moved the file list functionality to its dedicated Vue component.
Unified ES6 syntax within the file manager components.
Migrated the Vuex store to TypeScript.

New in Zettlr 1.8.4 (Dec 24, 2020)

GUI and Functionality:
Enhancement: Navigating the file list has just become easier. Now when you navigate the list files will not be opened immediately! Rather, they are being marked as "active," making the navigation much less cumbersome. To open an activated file, simply hit Enter.
Visual improvements to the quick filter. The "back"-arrow now appears below the input.
The quick filter now searches for all search terms (delimited by space) separately.
The editor will now be focused whenever the containing document is changed.
The cursor will now be of the correct height no matter whether you are on a heading class or within a normal-height text line.
Pandoc will now be pre-bundled with 64 bit installers.
Fixed a bug that the TableEditor would oftentimes "swallow" table cell content, making it almost unusable.
Fixed a logical error that would display .tex-files as if they were directories in the file manager's tree view.
Added two more variables, %y and %X for Zettelkasten-IDs, which allow you to use a two-digit year or the unix epoch (seconds since Jan 1st, 1970) in your IDs (thanks to @cdaven for implementing).
RMarkdown files (.rmd) are now supported in general.
Under the Hood:
The statistics controller is now the Stats Provider.
Migrated the Stats Provider to TypeScript.
ASAR support reinstated
Switched GitHub Actions CI to use Node 14.x.
Prepared everything so that Pandoc can be bundled with Zettlr at every time. However, the corresponding code is not yet active to provide for a transition phase where we still ship 32 bit builds.
Fixed the TableEditor. The two major changes are that it does not depend on jQuery anymore, and that now all changes are always applied to the AST, not the DOM element. The DOM element is always rebuilt after the AST has changed so that the single source of truth is always the AST.
Made sure that environmentally necessary directories are now created recursively.
Added a prompt-passthrough to the main Zettlr class.
Fix function signatures in the FSAL.
Fix function signatures in the WindowManager.
Migrate the command infrastructure to TypeScript.
The regular expressions are now unified within the ./source/common/regular-expressions.js-file (thanks to @Kangie for implementing).
The recent docs provider is now written in TypeScript.
Removed conditional RMarkdown checks.
Remove empty strings, if applicable.

New in Zettlr 1.8.3 (Dec 17, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.8.2 (Dec 13, 2020)

Support for Pandoc 2.11:
The default Pandoc command now targets Pandoc 2.11 and above. In order to use the new command, make sure to "reset" it once, or (if it contains customisations) replace $citeproc$ with --citeproc --bibliography "$bibliography$" $cslstyle$. However, you can retain compatibility with older versions by replacing the new part --citeproc with --filter pandoc-citeproc. The new $bibliography$ variable will be replaced with /path/to/your/library.json. Furthermore, the $cslstyle$-variable will be replaced with --csl /path/to/your/style.json, if applicable.
GUI and Functionality:
The file search popup now retains your last search again.
The global search now lets you select all text again.
Removed deprecated Pandoc command variable $citeproc$ and added the two variables $bibliography$ and $cslstyle$.
Began implementing better screen reader support for Zettlr. Now, a certain amount of elements has received correct labels according to the ARIA guidelines so that screenreader are now better in handling the app
The toolbar is now being recognised as such, the toolbar buttons themselves have correct labels
The editor tabs are recognised as a tabbar and you can easily switch tabs now.
The sidebar buttons are now being correctly identified as tabs.
Added region landmark roles to a few of the components in order to facilitate quicker voice over navigation.
The icons in the file manager now have role="presentation" set to not have the screen reader name all of those "unlabelled images" one by one.
Fixed some relative links to files on your system not being resolved correctly.
Fix weird indentation rendering in the syntax code highlighting blocks.
Fixed an issue that sometimes did not fully shut down the application before exit. This lead to numerous issues, the most visible of which was that sometimes configuration changes were not persisted.
Fixed an issue in which user dictionary-entries were not actually removed when removed from the preferences.
The citation engine now also supports loading CSL YAML files as bibliographies.
Fixed some issues with the citeproc provider.
Fixed multi-cursor placement.
Fix duplicate IDs when linking files whose filename contains the ID with the setting "Always link with filename."
Fix a few visual link rendering oddities.
Fix the ToC navigation sometimes not working.
Under the Hood:
Migrated the UpdateProvider to TypeScript.
Migrated the DictionaryProvider to TypeScript.
TextMarkers are now bound to the Document instances, not the editor overall. This increases the speed of document switching.
Updated dependencies:
@clr/icons 4.0.8
adm-zip 0.5.1
archiver 5.1.0
bcp-47 1.0.8
citeproc 2.4.52
codemirror 5.58.3
got 11.8.1
mermaid 8.8.4
semver 7.3.4
uuid 8.3.2
vuex 3.6.0
fsevents 2.2.1
@electron-forge/cli 6.0.0-beta.54
@electron-forge/plugin-webpack 6.0.0-beta.54
@teamsupercell/typings-for-css-modules-loader 2.4.0
@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin 4.9.1
@typescript-eslint/parser 4.9.1
cross-env 7.0.3
css-loader 5.0.1
csso 4.2.0
electron 11.1.0
electron-bundler 22.9.1
eslint 7.15.0
eslint-config-standard 16.0.2
eslint-plugin-standard 5.0.0
eslint-plugin-vue 7.2.0
file-loader 6.2.0
fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin 6.0.6
less 3.13.0
less-loader 7.1.0
mocha 8.2.1
style-loader 2.0.0
ts-loader 8.0.12
typescript 4.1.3
vue-loader 15.9.5
Removed dependency:
v8-compile-cache

New in Zettlr 1.8.1 (Dec 4, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.8.0 (Dec 4, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.5 (Aug 16, 2020)

GUI and Functionality:
Fixed a bug where opening RMarkdown files with Zettlr not open would throw an error.
Fixed a bug where the app would not process inline images during export, leading to missing images.
HTML Export now centres figure captions underneath figures (thanks to @Kangie for implementing).
Zettlr finally allows alternative/title texts in images to be specified, making it possible to preview images with a title, and have them properly export even with relative filenames.
Fix wrong design of the sorters in combined sidebar file trees.
Fixed a bug where adding more and more list-characters in front of a list item would make the left gutter "swallow" these due to an extreme amount of negative indent. Now the line indentation for soft-wrapped lists (or anything indented) should work as expected.
Fixed a behaviour that would sometimes lead to the editor inserting tab-characters instead of spaces.
Added UX improvements to the fold gutter and the global search bar (thanks to @doup for implementing).
Fixed non-centered button icons and made some UI elements a little bit bigger.
You can now abort searching in Quicklook windows by pressing escape while the search field is highlighted.
Fixed a rare error where codeblocks would not be indented correctly in HTML outputs.
Zettlr now renders linked images.
Restored the security question when you are about to overwrite an already existing file.
Made URLs in references into clickable links that open in the system's browser (thanks to @maxedmands for implementing).
The context menu on directories within the file list now correctly shows you project options, if the directory is one.
The file tree has been cleaned up. Now, the children toggle (if a directory has any) as well as any additional icon will be displayed aligned with each other.
Fixed a bug that would not display the filename but a heading level 1 that has been removed from the file.
Single inline image inserts are now handled without adding newline characters.
Under the Hood:
Added an additional check for directory exports to check that they indeed have an attached project.
Removed all legacy WebHostingHub-Glyph references and switch fully to Clarity.
Removed unused legacy code from the Quicklook windows.
Replaced getTokenAt with getTokenTypeAt, hopefully achieving performance gains on documents littered with renderable elements.

New in Zettlr 1.7.4 (Aug 3, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.3 (Aug 3, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.2 (Jul 24, 2020)

GUI and Functionality:
The NSIS installer (Windows) now contains customized, branded images for the sidebar and header of the various pages visible during the setup process.
Added syntax highlighting modes (with keywords): Clojure: clojure, LaTeX: latex/tex
Fixed a bug where the trailing --- of a YAML frontmatter would mistakenly be identified by the renderer as ATX-headings in readability mode, resulting in weird display of the last YAML frontmatter line.
Added feedback if there was no directory selected, but one is needed to do a certain task.
Multiline math equations now feature syntax highlighting.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes render parts of multiline equations as headings.
Added an option to tell Zettlr to use the first heading level 1 of a file to display instead of the filename (however, a frontmatter title will override this).
YAML frontmatter ending characters should not trigger AutoCorrect anymore.
The exporter now respects values from a YAML frontmatter, if (and where) applicable.
You should now be able to fold Markdown sections from anywhere within their section text.
Fixed a rare bug where Zettlr would attempt to render an internal link as a citation.
Creating files using a case-sensitive extension name should now work.
Set desktop Linux desktop icon in BrowserWindow config.
reveal.js-presentations now do not have standalone-flags during export.
The "Import"-option now also lets you select Markdown and text files. However, instead of running them through Pandoc, they are directly copied into the target directory.
Fixed a bug that would cause the global search to stop working in certain situations, e.g. after renaming a file.
The middle mouse button now closes tabs (thanks to @Kaan0200 for implementing).
Under the Hood:
Added the logo source files to source control. Please make sure to read the accompanying README file in the icons-directory before using!!
The AutoCorrect replacement now checks for the actual mode at both range endings before actually performing a replacement.
The importer is now a module.
Fixed a logical error in the FSAL change detection, which would lead to the FSAL not being able to process additions of assets.
The application now uses app.getVersion() instead of requiring the package.json-file (thanks to @Aigeruth for implementing).
CodeMirror is now required directly within the plugins and is independent of the location of node_modules.

New in Zettlr 1.7.1 (Jul 6, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.0 (Jul 6, 2020)

Breaking Changes:
This release contains several breaking changes to 1.6 due to heavy internal refactoring.
Your virtual directories will be gone after installing.
Projects will be incorporated into the .ztr-directory-files, which means that you need to extract these files (or backup them) if you plan to roll back to 1.6 or earlier, lest you will lose the project settings.
Cmd/Ctrl+W will now attempt to close open tabs first before closing the window. To close the main window directly, use Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+W.
Now you will need to either Cmd+Click (macOS) or Ctrl+Click (other platforms) on internal and external links as well as on tags in order to follow the link/start a search.
Cmd/Ctrl+[1-9] now do no longer toggle recent documents -- rather they select the corresponding tab!
GUI and Functionality:
New Feature: Zettlr now supports (theoretically) unlimited open documents and orders them in tabs at the top of the editor instance.
The tabs display the frontmatter title, if applicable, or the filename.
On hover, you can get additional info about the documents.
Drag and drop the tabs to re-sort their order.
Get going where you left of the day before: Open files are persisted during restarts of the application.
Transiency: Tabs are opened transient, which means if you do not modify their contents, they will be replaced with another file that you open. This way you can quickly stroll through search results without having to close hundreds of tabs afterwards!
New Feature: RTL support! Now whether you are writing in Hebrew, Persian, Urdu or any other right-to-left writing system, you can do so now. We've added support for the respective options of CodeMirror in the "Preferences -> Editor" tab.
New Feature: You can now direct Zettlr to automatically create new files if you click on an internal link that does not match a file. Thanks to @halcyonquest for their contribution!
New Feature: Vim and Emacs insertion modes are now supported! You can switch persistently between these two and the "normal" insertion mode using the preferences. Thanks to @JorySchossau for implementing this feature!
New Feature: Directory icons. From now on you can select an arbitrary icon to further visually distinguish certain directories from the others. This has no other than a purely visual effect and may help identify specific directories within a longer list reliably.
New Feature: Many apps feature it already, Zettlr joins them now. An interactive tutorial will be opened on the first start of the app.
If available, a title from a YAML frontmatter will be appended to the displayed file entry when linking files.
Copying images from the Explorer/Finder/file browser now offers to insert them into the document, copying them over to the assets directory.
The popups are now more resilient against accidental closing, just like the dialogs.
When focus-selecting the global search bar (pressing the mouse button in the input and using it to select some text immediately) works as in other inputs now.
Added the week-number as a variable for filenames and the Zettelkasten IDs (use %W).
Changes to the Pomodoro timer: Now the sound will play each time you release the mouse button on the volume slider to check how loud it is. Furthermore, the mute button has been removed in favor of a volume indication, with 0% equalling the former mute setting.
When the tag cloud is filtered, "Copy Tags" will only copy the filtered tags, and no longer all tags. To copy all tags, reset the filter. Furthermore tags will now be copied to clipboard including the leading hashtag.
Re-enabled double-dollar inline equations for rendering and syntax highlighting.
HTML-style comments () are now also exempt from the word counting.
Fixed an error in the Table Editor that would assume empty rows to be header rows, leading to false behavior when trying to display a completely empty table.
The Table Editor can now also parse and display simple and grid tables, and a wider range of pipe tables, as described in the Pandoc manual.
Fixed a small mistake where literal blocks would be wrongly offset as the editor treated them as list items.
Fixed artefacts with spellchecking errors. Thanks to @ryota-abe for proposing the correct selector!
The Table Editor now remembers what the source table looked like and tries to recreate that when it applies the changes to the DOM.
Added verbose error reporting and improved the error handling during citeproc boot. Now, Zettlr will (a) remove error-throwing CiteKeys so that the rest of the library loads just fine and (b) display the exact errors as reported by citeproc-js so that users can immediately identify the bad keys and know where to look.
The global search bar's autocomplete will now also work for non-western scripts such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, or any other.
Virtual directories have been discontinued. Parts of their functionality will be re-implemented in different ways.
On Linux, we've restored the default window decorations -- that is, the burger menu button is gone, and the menu will be displayed wherever the window manager decides.
Fixed a small bug that could lead to errors during autocomplete selection if no frontmatter is present in the file.
Fix the colours of the heatmap search list.
Fixed a logical error in the detection of remote changes of attachment files.
Fenced code blocks, delimited by three backticks have a customizable box background. The colour (and different styles) can be customized by targeting the code-block-line-CSS class.
The font size of mathematics was decreased a bit to align it better with the size of normal text. Thanks to @tobiasdiez.
Support fenced code blocks surrounded by tildes (~) instead of backticks.
The About dialog of the application now also holds a tab with debug information about both the binary, the system, and the current environment.
Tags with diacritics are now also removed on export (with the respective setting turned on), so that the removed tags match the tags which are highlighted in the editor.
Fixed searches behaving irrationally if you search again while the previous search has not yet ended.
Switched to using the Clarity Design icon set where possible.
Sort buttons now show how the directory is currently sorted. One shows and toggles what is being sorted by (name or time). The other shows and toggles what direction is being sorted ine (ascending or descending).
Modified display settings are now applied on configuration changes (not just after clicking somewhere in the document).
Modals now also apply a dark theming if in dark mode.
Fixed image exports.
Fixed correct exporting of images when exporting to Textbundle and Textpack.
Fixed revealJS presentations which now display Math.
Fixed the autocomplete behaviour, especially with cursor movement.
If there is a selection in the document, its contents are used to fill in the search field now. Furthermore, the occurrences of the search term are now already highlighted without you having to search first.
If there is a selection in the document, its contents fill up the global search field on focus, if the global search field does not have any contents.
Fixed wrong display of project property table of content evaluation level.
When linking files, Zettlr will now present you those files that match with at least one tag with the currently active file, making cross-linking of notes as easy as typing the link-start and hitting the arrow down-key. Bonus: It'll present you these options even if the files reside in a completely different root directory.
Fixed behaviour of nested checkboxes.
Fixed escaping of special TeX characters in input value fields (e.g. project properties).
Finally fixed the parenthesis-link-problem. This means: For each Markdown link, the algorithm will parse the full detected URL and see if all opening parentheses have closing ones. If there are more opening parentheses than closing ones, the algorithm will push the link further in an attempt to fully resolve all parentheses. If this is not possible (because the link itself contains more opening than closing parentheses to begin with), you need to encode one opening parenthesis using ( for the algorithm to successfully render the link.
Dragging search results like normal files is now possible.
When switching directories while a search result list is displayed, this search is now performed at the other directory immediately after switching.
Reversing a MagicQuote can now be performed by pressing backspace after a replacement has taken place, in order to restore the default double (") or single (') quote.
Math doesn't render in comments anymore.
Opening files with Zettlr when the app is not running will now correctly open them.
Zooming on Windows and Linux can now be facilitated by scrolling while holding down the control-key.
Use Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+L to copy the active file's ID to the clipboard.
You can now also use F2 to trigger a file rename for the current file.
Improve the detection and rendering of Setext-headings.
Dropping files from the file list onto the editor now inserts a valid Zettelkasten-link to that file into the editor.
Images will now also render in-line.
The "Window" submenu is now not confined to macOS applications anymore, but available to all platforms.
URLs in Markdown links will not be rendered anymore.
Enabled the context menu now also for both directories in the file list and the empty space in the file list (if there is some).
You can now open directories externally (read: in Finder/Explorer/your Linux file browser) in the context menu now.
Zettlr now attempts to set the cursor back to the place where it has been after programmatically updating the document content, e.g. after a remote change.
Added a setting to control the sensitivity of Zettlr checking for remote file notifications on certain systems.
Prevent multiple cursors when performing a special action (following a link, clicking a tag, etc.)
Now both the current cursor position and the word count are displayed side by side. No need to right-click again to toggle!
Citations in comments are now no longer rendered.
Added syntax highlighting modes (with keywords):
Elm: elm
F#: f#/fsharp
Haskell: hs/haskell
VB.net: vb.net/vb/visualbasic
HTML: html
XML: xml
Markdown: markdown/md
Julia: julia/jl
Turtle: turtle/ttl
SPARQL: sparql
Verilog: verilog/v
SystemVerilog: systemverilog/sv
VHDL: vhdl/vhd
Tcl: tcl
CommonLisp: clisp/commonlisp
Scheme: scheme
PowerShell: powershell
Under the Hood:
FSAL Refactor: This release includes a huge refactor of the file system core of the application. In general terms, the rewritten core enables Zettlr to handle the file system more efficiently, uses up less RAM and has some other goodies that make the whole File System Abstraction Layer (FSAL) much more scalable for future feature implementations.
From OOP to Functional: While previously files and directories were heavily object-oriented with one full object being instantiated for each and every file including a whole prototype chain, the new core switches to a functional approach, removing the memory-intensive prototype chains. Instead, files and directories are now represented by a descriptor which includes the all meta-information packages, but no function bodies. Instead, the new FSAL calls functions to which it passes one or more descriptors in order to enable the function to modify the descriptor itself. This also makes state management easier, as the whole FSAL only works with object pointers and does not re-instantiate most descriptors every time a function modifies them.
Improved state management: Now the state is not littered across the main process code base, but instead is centrally managed by the FSAL core class, which emits events every time anything in the state changes. This keeps the functional logic of the application much simpler. As opposed to before, the Zettlr main application class only accesses the FSAL state, and furthermore makes use of three events -- directory replacement, file replacement, and full file tree update -- to propagate any changes to the renderer process.
File Caching for faster boot: The FSAL additionally includes a sharded file cache which approximately halves the boot time. Furthermore, this enables the app to be much more resource-friendly for your storage, as the number of file accesses is reduced heavily -- at most, one hundred files will be opened during boot, instead of up to 10,000 or more, depending on the amount of open files you had.
Improved remote change detection: As a result of the descriptor-system and improved central state management, detecting and managing state changes induced remotely much easier. The whole logic of the watchdog has been cut down to its essential parts to make its business logic more manageable.
Improved debugging: Also as a result of implementing the new FSAL core as a self-contained EventEmitter module, it's much easier to locate logical errors, as due to improved state management missing state updates in the graphical user interface most likely emanate from exactly there, and not the FSAL. This has already helped identify several very small and almost unnoticeable bugs that did not update the renderer's state as wanted.
Improvements to image dragging and dropping from the attachment sidebar.
Switched the string variable replacer from vanilla JavaScript to moment.js, which simplified the function considerably.
The export module is now really a module.
Switched to cTime internally as the representation for modification time, because it'll capture more changes than mTime.
Updated insecure dependencies.
.git-directories are now ignored.
Applying the CSS line classes for Markdown headings should now be less computationally intensive.
Switched to Gulp for LESS compilation (thanks to @tobiasdiez for implementing).
The command autoloader now logs potential errors during command loading.
You can now pass a temporary configuration file to Zettlr, e.g. for testing purposes. Simply start Zettlr from the command line and pass --config /your/config/file.json. It can also only be a stub (e.g. only containing certain selected configuration parameters), as Zettlr will set all missing properties to their respective defaults. If the path is relative, Zettlr will attempt to find the file either at the repository root, if app.isPackaged is false, or at the current executable's directory.
Added a test command for GUI testing. It creates a small directory structure so that you can test the GUI without having to sacrifice your files or your mental health for that issue. Run yarn test-gui to run Zettlr in that test environment, and do to the files whatever you want!
The targets class is now a service provider.
Fixed the flattenDirectoryTree utility function. I have no idea why it worked for eleven months, but when it started throwing errors on the FSAL I realized it did a lot of things but it should've never worked. JavaScript is magic. Update: Found a newer and more optimized utility function, objectToArray, so I'm trashing it for good.
The Pandoc-command is now logged in its resolved state immediately before actually being run.
Windows installers are finally signed.
Switched back to the package.json configuration for electron-builder, because, well, Electron.
Fix a lot of unused and weirdly coded code.
Added a flag to determine if the Zettlr version has changed, indicating an update (or downgrade). Based on this, the FSAL will clear its cache on boot.
Added command-line flag --clear-cache to programmatically clear the FSAL cache on startup.
Moved the forceOpen-functionality to a command.
Refactored the autocompletion logic and moved it out into its own designated class to reduce the size of the ZettlrEditor class.
Refactored the logic for building the bibliography in an attempt to further reduce the size of the ZettlrEditor class.
Include the codemirror.css into the geometry styles so we have one less dependency to include on startup.
Switched to Electron 9.0.0.
Set the standalone flag for Pandoc on all non-special exports.
Image rendering now also supports base64-encoded inline images.
Improvements to the detection of tags, internal links and footnotes. The algorithm is now more efficient and stable in various situations.

New in Zettlr 1.6.0 (May 8, 2020)

Breaking Changes:
If you want to enable the newly added MathJax CDN support for equation rendering, make sure to add the --mathjax-flag to your Pandoc command. If you did not modify the Pandoc command, you can "restore" the (new) default value, which will add the MathJax support for you.
GUI and Functionality:
New Feature: Mermaid chart support! Now you can add code blocks with the keyword "mermaid" (i.e. "```mermaid")to your document and use the Mermaid chart language to create charts!
New Feature: Zettlr is now able to open file attachments for citations in your files. Simply right-click a citation, go to "Open Attachment" and select the cite-key for which you want to open the file attachment. Got multiple? Here's how Zettlr chooses which one to open: All attachments are listed and then the PDF files are sorted on top of the list. Then, Zettlr will open whatever attachment is the first in the list.
New Feature: You now have an additional setting that allows you to determine if, and when, the filename will be automatically added to your link. "Never" means that the file name will never be added, "Only with ID" means that the file name will only be added, if the link is constructed using the ID, and "always" (the default) means that the file name will always be added, possibly duplicating it.
New Feature: NOT search operator. Now you can use an exclamation mark (!) before the term in your global search to exclude certain search terms. If any NOT-condition is satisfied, the file will no longer be considered a candidate. You can combine the NOT-operator with both exact matches (!"an exact phrase") and single terms (!word).
Added TypeScript syntax highlighting. Keywords: typescript, ts.
Added Windows 32bit build.
Switched from showdown to turndown for converting HTML to Markdown on pasting contents. This makes pasting HTML formatted text much better than prior. Thanks to @Zverik for implementing!
Pressing Alt-Up and Alt-Down will now swap lines in the editor window up or down.
Cleaned up the shortcuts. Until now, Ctrl+B would also make text bold on macOS. Now, only Cmd+B will work, while Ctrl+B will only work on non-Apple systems.
Improved the Math equation detection again. Now it's simpler, faster and will work more reliable. Escaping dollar signs should most of the time not be necessary anymore.
Added syntax highlighting to inline and block Math equations. Now they're displayed in monospace to make it easier for you to write them.
Title and tag matching of search terms during global search is now performed case insensitive.
Added an option to copy the filename of files to the clipboard via the context menu.
Exact search terms in the global search are no longer trimmed (trailing and leading whitespace is not removed) to maintain the meaning of "exact".
The AutoCorrect option can now be activated and deactivated as intended.
Added German secondary guillemets to the MagicQuotes settings.
Better citation detection: Now, standalone-citations at the beginning of line will also be rendered.
Improved the contextmenu behaviour.
When creating a new file, the editor is re-focused again so that you can immediately begin writing.
Task items are now rendered irrespective of the list-type-character they use, i.e. the following examples will all be rendered correctly: - [ ], + [ ], and * [ ].
The "Empty directory"-message is now translatable and available in several languages.
Headings will no longer be considered tags
Fix Ctrl+F-shortcut on macOS.
When linking a file using the Zettelkasten links, the prompt will now include all files from the whole root, not just the files from within the current directory.
Made the dialogs more resilient. Now you can select text somewhere on dialogs, and regardless of whether you accidentally moved too far (out of the dialog), it will not close anymore, when you release the mouse.
The front matter is now disregarded when counting words or chars.
In case of renaming a directory, the containing directory is now re-sorted everytime so that changes are reflected immediately.
The HTML template now includes a switch to include MathJax (CDN) in order to display equations in HTML exports and the print preview (only works with Pandoc installed).
Improved placement of Input Method Editors (IME) for non-western input sources (e.g., Japanese or Korean typeset). Thanks to @ryota-abe for implementing!
The file linking autocomplete will now respect your choice of Zettelkasten link starting characters, if they differ from [[.
The formatting of Zettelkasten-links is now according to other formattings (such as emphasis or bold text), slightly transparent.
On autocompleting Zettelkasten-links, the closing characters for the links are now added in case they are not already present (due to autoclosing, or else).
The automplete-dropdown for Zettelkasten-links does not appear anymore if editing a footnote.
Added overall days statistics to the stats dialog.
Image-Paths correction for Windows systems.
Setext headers are now rendered in the correct size, in line with the ATX headers.
Abstracts in the YAML frontmatter are now considered on PDF exports.
Fixed a rare bug, which would cause the edit flag on the main process to remain even though the renderer reports the editor is clean (that is, no changes to the document).
Fixed an error where a completely empty custom CSS (e.g. when the user simply selects and deletes all content in the dialog or in the file) would cause the dialog generation to crash until a restart of the app.
Fixed a rare error where an error would be thrown during export of extremely small projects.
Fixed an error where the writing target popup would close itself via click on an option on Windows systems.
Fixed "Select All" context menu item for text selection.
Allow spaces in header delimiting rows.
revealJS-presentations now have a basic syntax highlighting (Solarized theme).
HTML exports now have a basic syntax highlighting (Solarized theme).
Under the Hood:
Fixed a small bug that would display a non-intuitive message when checking for updates and the update server is not available.
Fixed wrong error logging in the Citeproc provider.
Added the necessary cslenvironment to Zettlr's default TeX template so that Pandoc >2.8 does not throw errors. Thanks to @frederik-elwert for implementing!
Cleaned up the keymap for CodeMirror. It's now centralised within generate-keymap.js and not scattered in all the plugins anymore.
Rewrote the i18n loading logic, resulting in huge performance gains on startup. Thanks to @BAKFR for implementing!
Exchanged deprecated API calls in the AppearanceProvider class.
The default DMG height for macOS installers now again shows the disclaimer at the bottom of the archive window.
Fixed a logical bug with zoom levels bigger than 40x.
Fixed the welcome log message, because whatever it was, it did not read こんにちは (Hello).
Now during startup all files that do not exist anymore in the openPaths-property will be removed (because only directories can be "dead").
Wrote script to automatically update the CSL styles and locales that are shipped with the app. Also, updated the CSL styles and locales.
The YAML mode within frontmatters is now correctly detected by all plugins, so that e.g. AutoCorrect does not apply within YAML-frontmatters and quotes are the "correct" ones (no need to disable MagicQuotes temporarily to write frontmatters).
Added an additional check to make sure to differ between explicit and implicit paste events in the CodeMirror instance.
Finally fixed the weird glitches of the file list. Now it will correctly scroll files into view, not break, and be not empty for a fraction of a second.
Overhauled the QuickLook windows. Now they react to much more finetuned configuration changes, are more responsive, and in general react faster to changes.
Switch to Electron 8.
Fix Pandoc error logging.
Detach Popup event listeners on close.

New in Zettlr 1.5.0 (Jan 27, 2020)

GUI and Functionality:
New Feature: AutoCorrect! Zettlr can now automatically replace certain characters with special symbols. For instance, by default it will replace --> with →, != with ≠ or perform certain default replacements, such as transforming hyphens and fullstops with their typographically correct symbols (... -> … and -- -> –). You can edit the replacement table in the preferences and adapt them to your own needs. Please note that this feature will only be active when you are outside of codeblocks. This is meant to prevent unintended replacements, especially with certain languages such as R, where ASCII arrows are part of assignment operations.
New Feature: Magic Quotes! Together with AutoCorrect, we've implemented the ability of Zettlr to use magic quotes. That means, whenever you type " (double quote) or ' (single quote), it will instead insert the typographically correct characters of your choice, for instance „…“ for German, or « … » for French. Even 「…」 for Japanese are supported! Please note that this feature will only be active when you are outside of codeblocks. This is meant to prevent unintended replacements, as most languages require the ASCII quotes. Note also that having this feature active will deactivate the automatic bracket matching for quotes.
YAML Frontmatters now receive the correct syntax highlighting.
YAML Frontmatters do now have influence on the appearance of files: If a title is given, Zettlr will use this instead of the filename in the file list. If an array of keywords is given, Zettlr will add them to the rest found within the file.
Codeblocks are now excluded from both tag extraction and ID search algorithms, so for example #include (used in C++ code) will no longer be recognised as a tag.
Fixed a bug that would ignore the page size set in your PDF preferences when using the default template.
Fixed a bug that prevented you from moving files and folders in combined sidebar mode.
Fixed the broken footnote in-place preview and editing support when using named references.
Improved the design of wrongly spelled words -- now the dotted line is closer to the actual words.
Fixed Alt-clicking files in the combined sidebar mode. Now this will also open QuickLooks.
Added the shortcuts Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+E to focus the editor and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T to focus the file list.
On macOS, you can now also Cmd-Click links and tags to open/follow them.
Added the variable %uuid4 to use Universally Unique Identifiers version 4 (random UUID) within certain strings in the app.
Improve "Copy as HTML" to also provide fallback Markdown.
Fixed paste detection (if there's only HTML in the clipboard)
Changed the Support-link to link to Patreon.
Added a new error message informing you of malformed citation keys.
Fixed the print preview.
Removed the quotes from the matchbrackets-configuration.
Fixed link rendering and the opening of links.
Added the shortcut Cmd/Ctrl+T to create a task list. Thanks to @jeffgeorge for implementing!
The blockquote character > is not treated as a list-item anymore, meaning you don't have to Shift-Enter into the next line anymore to prevent the blockquote from expanding unnecessarily.
Implemented a "fat" cursor for the insert mode of Windows, so that when you press the Ins-key to toggle between inserting and replacing, Zettlr will graphically announce that you'll now be replacing characters rather than inserting. Please note that this will only look good for monospaced fonts -- the other themes will have characters that are bigger than the cursor.
Improve the tabs display for long titles (e.g. in the preferences dialog).
The link detection algorithm is now less aggressive.
On HTML exports (both revealJS presentations and regular HTML files), image paths will not be absolute anymore, but relative.
Under the Hood:
Switched to Electron 7.
Added v8 code caching for better startup performance.
Added a global logging interface for better error and bug handling.
Relaxed the policy on wrong citation keys: One wrong key won't stop the loading of the rest of the database anymore, only the wrong key won't be included.
Moved out the markdownOpenLink-function from the editor class to the utilities.
Added much better heuristics to resolve paths linked to in markdown documents. Except a few edge cases, the algorithm should be able to open most varieties of links.
The exporter now escapes the templates to account for potential spaces in the template path.
Increased efficiency and cleanliness for loading the fenced code highlighting modes. Thanks to @BAKFR for implementing!
Added support for building AppImage releases using the command yarn release:app-image (or npm run release:app-image). Thanks to @yashha for implementing!

New in Zettlr 1.4.3 (Nov 4, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.4.2 (Oct 8, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.4.1 (Sep 9, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.4.0 (Sep 9, 2019)

New Feature: Table management has just become easier. With the new table helper plugin, Zettlr enables you to circumvent manually having to edit Markdown tables. All you need to do now is keep the table helper active in the settings and just edit your tables as you would do in any other application. The table helper offers the following keyboard navigation shortcuts:
Tab: Move to the next cell, or the first cell on the next row, if the cursor is in the last column. Adds a new table row, if the cursor is in the last row.
Shift-Tab: Move to the previous cell, or the last cell on the previous row, if the cursor is in the first column.
Return: Move to the same column on the next row. Adds a new table row, if the cursor is in the last row.
Arrow Up: Move to the same cell in the previous row.
Arrow Down: Move to the same cell in the next row.
Arrow Left: If the cursor is at the beginning of the cell, move to the previous cell. Moves to the last cell on the previous row, if the active cell is in column 1.
Arrow Right: If the cursor is at the end of the cell, move to the next cell. Moves to the first cell on the next row, if the active cell is in the last column.
Alignment-Buttons (top-left): Aligns the currently active column left, center, or right.
Removal-Buttons (top-right): Removes either the current row or the current column. Does not remove the last row or column.
Add-Buttons: Adds rows or columns to the top, left, bottom or right hand side of the currently active cell, depending on the button.
New Feature: 1.4 introduces a readability mode that you can turn on. It will try to highlight your sentences based on four possible algorithms, where green means that it's readable and red means that the sentence is difficult to read. You can turn on the mode in the toolbar. Thanks to @wooorm at this point for providing the incentive of implementing the algorithm!
New Feature: The Translatr-API is now integrated into the app. This means: All translations will automatically be kept updated. Additionally, you can comfortably download all available languages (completed at least 50 percent) from the preferences dialog.
The app will boot much faster now.
Root directories that have not been found on app start, or are removed during runtime, are indicated as "dead" in your directory tree. If they reside on a removable medium, you can now simply plug the medium into the computer and rescan the directory. You don't have to manually open it anymore.
Citations in your text are now always updated, you don't have to type anything for this to work.
Inserting tasklists is now possible via context menu and formatting toolbar.
New Theme: Karl-Marx-Stadt.
Now you can choose which time to use for sorting and for displaying in the file meta: It's either the last modification time of the files or the creation time.
Directory sorting is now persisted during reboots.
Clicking on tags now initiates a search for the given tag.
Added three new optional variables to pass to external exporter programs: $infile_basename$ (input filename without directory), $outfile_basename$ (output filename without directory) and $indir$ (the input file's directory)
You can now change the number of spaces to indent by in the preferences.
Images can now be put inside links on the condition that they are (a) the only element inside the link's description and (b) relative links won't work during preview.
You can now activate RMarkdown file support in the advanced preferences.
You can now tell Zettlr to count characters instead of words (e.g. for Chinese).
Custom CSS is now also rendered in the QuickLook windows.
The preview image colour is now adapted to the active theme.
You can now choose the formatting characters that should be used by the formatting commands.
You can now change the pattern used for generating new file names, and omit being asked for filenames in general.
Zettlr now tries to escape the input you provide for options that are directly passed into LaTeX documents.
When you have open two or more root files with the same filename, Zettlr will display the containing directory's name as well.
French-style guillemets are now supported for auto closing.
Image display in HTML exports fixed.
The About dialog contributors' tab now displays the date when the translation was last updated at.
The dates and times all across the app are now correctly localised.
When initiating a replace command with a regular expression search, you can now use variables in your replacement value so that you can re-use capturing groups from the search regular expression: $1 in the replacement value will be replaced with the first capturing group; $2 with the second capturing group ... and so forth.
Zettlr now automatically downloads updates to the translations, if available.
The editor now has a light background image in case it is empty.
Fixed a bug with certain types of keyboards on macOS conflicting with internal CodeMirror commands.
Prevent opening of a user's home directory.
The citation rendering plugin won't render the domain parts of Emails anymore.
Markdown links in braces won't include the closing brace anymore.
The search's heatmaps now use the theme's colour as a base to indiciate the relevancy instead of always green.
The image regular expression is now a little bit less restrictive, allowing for some spaces before and after the image.
Fixed a small bug during checking and unchecking of task list items that would prevent the updating of the underlying Markdown text.
When you enter an ID and choose the ID from the popup list, the filename belonging to that ID will also be inserted after the ID.
You can now filter the tags in the tag cloud.
You can now duplicate files within a given directory.
The tag selection dropdown will not appear anymore, if you type a # somewhere within a word or a link. It must either be at the beginning of a line, or preceded by a space for the tag dropdown to appear.
If there are two or more root directories open with the same name, Zettlr will now display the containing directory just like with root files.
Added a line:column indicator mode to the word counter (switch modes with right-click).
You can now move through the file-list with the arrow buttons in steps
Arrow down: Select next file
Arrow up: Select previous file
Shift key: Move up or down by ten files
Command or Control: Move to the bottom or the top.
Added a table generator.
Fixed a small bug that would not correctly sort newly created files.
Under the Hood:
Massive rewrite of the underlying mechanism of loading the directory trees into the app. It's now asynchronous and the app starts up way faster than before.
Replaced the citation engine with Citr for more accurate results in previewing citations.
The Citeproc engine is now a service provider.
Switched internally to CSS-variables for all colours.
Moved all Zettlr CodeMirror modes to their respective files.
Moved all helper functions to their own files.
Translations located in the lang-directory in the user data folder now take precedence over the shipped translations.
Moved all local find functionality to a new class EditorSearch and did some fixing.
Massive rewrite of the watchdog logic. Now the app is blazingly fast, there's no up-to-five-seconds-delay anymore when you add/remove any files and the app should generally feel smoother to handle.
Fixed duplicate dictionary entries and saving of the dictionary preferences function.
Moved the comment detection in the link rendering command further back to speed up performance significantly.
Added a clipboard inspection dialog to inspect the contents of the clipboard and make sure copy & paste operations work as expected.
Updated the make.sh script to automatically infer the version to use from the source's package.json.
Simplified the process of maintaining the revealJS templates, added a few other goodies. The command reveal:build will now re-build the full revealJS templates with the installed revealJS version.
The Citeproc-provider now logs all errors that prevent a successful boot to the console.
Replaced the sidebar with a Vue.js component.
The configuration setting for the sidebarMode is finally called as such.
Removed ZettlrWindow::setTitle().
ESLint is now added to the devDependencies so that everyone can use the same code style.
Add activation for opening external links on macOS.
Switched to Electron 6.

New in Zettlr 1.2.3 (Apr 5, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.2.2 (Mar 29, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.2.1 (Mar 25, 2019)

GUI and Functionality:
Removed the Quicklook overlay windows. Quicklooks now directly become standalone windows.
General improvements to the default PDF template.
On Windows and macOS, Zettlr now also fills up the recent document list in the Taskbar/Dock.
Huge UX improvements.
Improvements to the spellchecking engine. Now, it won't check inline code.
We're removed the "Create new Directory" button from the toolbar, and made the "Create new File" button more visible by replacing the icon with a huge "Plus" sign.
The Pomodoro timer now sends out notifications when a task has ended so that you'll always know what's up next!
The find popup detects when you start to type a regular expression. If it's a valid regular expression, it will switch to a monospaced font, helping you to write the expression correctly.
The find popup now remembers your search term on a per-session basis.
Fixed the position of the popups. Now they won't cover the toolbar.
Fixed the misbehaving markdown shortcuts in the formatting toolbar. Now block formats are replaced, not left in place when changing the formatting of a paragraph.
Fixed a small bug in the PDF template that would render emphasised text underlined instead of italic in exported PDF files.
Fixed the links inside footnote tooltips. Now they are readable and don't break out of the tooltip anymore.
Fixed an error that prevented Zettlr from being able to automatically import language files.
Fixed a bug causing emails not to render.
Fixed a bug preventing you from clicking the "Print" icon on Windows.
Fixed double-clicking the Quicklook and Print window title bar on macOS and Linux.
Under the Hood:
Bumped dependencies. Switched to Electron 5 Beta.
The Quicklook-windows will now also load the correct CodeMirror-plugins from the autoload file.
Moved out the recent files to its own provider.
Design cleanup. Many variables have been renamed to make it possible to create new themes based upon the Berlin theme.
The renderer does not constantly query the main process for up-to-date citations anymore, which both reduces CPU power and increases battery life.
The popups can now be told if their contents have changed so that they re-place themselves correctly.

New in Zettlr 1.2.0 (Mar 25, 2019)

GUI and Functionality:
New Feature: Zettlr can now import and export both textbundle and textpack files. Refer to textbundle.org for more information.
Removed the Speech submenu from Windows and Linux, as it is only used on macOS.
Attention: The recent documents submenu is now to be found in the File menu! It resides no longer in the toolbar.
Added an "Inspect Element" context menu item if the debug mode is enabled.
The context menu doesn't show up on directory items in the file list anymore, which it wasn't supposed to anyway.
Fixes in the math rendering. Now the app will correctly render all equations, be they inline or multiline.
Added a flag to let the app know if you want to receive beta release notifications. If you tick the checkbox, Zettlr will also present you with beta releases, so that you can stay up to date.
When importing files, the "All Files" filter is now at the top and should be selected by default.
Fixed a small bug that would render exporting of standalone files impossible.
Rendered Markdown links now retain the outer formatting (e.g., if you wrapped the whole link inside bold or emphasis).
The Zettlr default tex-template now doesn't break checkbox exports by including the amsmath and amssymb-packages.
New shortcuts: Pressing Ctrl+Enter will insert a new line below the one in which you are currently, placing your cursor there. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter will do the same but above the current line.
Added context menu entries to copy mail addresses and links to clipboard.
For compatibility reasons with some Linux distributions that reserve the Alt-key for dragging windows around it is now also possible to press the control key to follow links and initiate searches.
Removed a bug that would allow multiple dialogs to be shown as some kind of "overlays" on top of each other.
Updates to the design of the editor. Now the margins of the editor don't resize as soon as you change the font size.
Updates to the zooming of the editor's font: Now it'll stop at both 30 percent and 400 percent for lower and upper limits. Exceeding these may yield very weird errors.
The cursor over the Quicklook windows' window controls is now the default, not the dragging.
Added shell syntax highlighting (using keyword: shell or bash [for compatibility with Highlight.js]).
Adapted the styles - now the filenames stay readable even during global searches.
If you drag a file out of the app and cross a directory, it won't retain its highlighted state after you finish your drag&drop-operation.
Tags, internal links and normal links now only have a pointer cursor when one of the meta keys (currently: Alt or Ctrl) is pressed.
Implemented formatting support for HTML paste operations. If there's HTML in the clipboard as you paste, it will be converted to Markdown so that the formatting is retained.
Removed the minimum window size constraint so that the application window will be resizable to half a screen even on smaller devices.
Restored the window maximise/minimise-functionality by double-clicking on the toolbar.
Fixed a small bug that would throw errors on Windows and Linux if you would open a file in Zettlr by double-clicking it in the file browser while Zettlr was already running.
Links are now correctly detected by the preview algorithm.
Fixed a bug that would make it impossible to export Markdown files with strikethrough text using the Zettlr default template.
Under the Hood:
Fixed a small logical error in the menu buildup process.
The context menu in the ZettlrBody class is now always instantiated anew.
Rewrote the logic of detecting and rendering mathematical equations.
Updated the KaTeX.css stylesheet to the newest version and removed some errors (thanks to @Wieke for doing this).
Rewrote the complete command structure of the app and branched it out into standalone files. Thereby the system becomes extremely modular and new commands can be written with ease. Additionally, it becomes possible to create shortcuts for certain commands.
Fixed a small possibility of running into an error while performing a global search.
Exchanged the variables for usage in TeX-templates with Pandoc-Style $-variables. Additionally, now all occurrences will be replaced with the correct value.
Moved the JavaScript bits out of the Handlebars templates and added them to the Dialog handler classes.
Code cleanup.
Removed the complete KaTeX dist files from the Zettlr source and switched to using the shipped files provided by the KaTeX module, reducing the binary sizes, maintenance effort and code clutter at once.
The Custom CSS is now a service provider.
The configuration is now a service provider.
The tags handler class is now a service provider.
Removed the superfluous getLocale-functions from ZettlrBody and ZettlrRenderer.
Pulled in the URL regular expression from the GFM CodeMirror mode so that the pre-rendered links by the command are the same as those detected by the GFM mode.
Added the ulem-package to enable export of strikethrough and underline text.

New in Zettlr 1.1.0 (Feb 8, 2019)

GUI and Functionality:
Attention! Installing this update will reset the application language to the detected system locale and reset all spellcheck choices (i.e. you will have to re-select the dictionaries using the preferences window). The reason for this is that Zettlr is now compliant with the regulations for language codes as laid out in the Best Current Practices No. 47 (BCP 47). To achieve this, all mechanisms of finding and loading translation files and dictionary files had to be modified.
New Feature: Paste Images. From now on it is possible to copy images directly to the clipboard, then press Cmd/Ctrl+V in the editor and Zettlr will ask how to proceed. By pressing Return the default action will be taken: The image will be saved into the currently selected directory using either the original filename or a simple hash (for instance if you took a screenshot and there's no associated URL available), and it will be inserted at the current cursor position as a standard Markdown image tag, using the filename as title. If you don't press Return directly, you can adapt some options, such as the file size and the filename, and also choose a custom directory alternatively.
New Feature: Set writing targets. You can set writing targets for files by right-clicking them in the preview list. Each file that has a writing target will display its progress in the snippets section. Set an existing target to 0 to remove it.
New Feature: Print support. Just press Cmd/Ctrl+P to open the print preview, which is essentially an exported HTML file. Click the printer icon in the titlebar to print it!
New Feature: Custom CSS. Beneath your tag preferences, you now have a new menu option that lets you override certain styles of the app to customise it even further! From now on, the sky really is the only limit for customising the app.
Huge updates to the statistics dialog. We've added a lot of functionality to the statistics dialog. If you click the More … button in the statistics popup, the resulting dialog now presents you with a overhauled interface. Now you'll be able to filter your data by week, month, and year. Additionally, you can choose to compare the timeframe with the previous one (either week, month, or year). This way you'll be able to track your writing habits much more differentiated.
Tags are now only rendered as such and detected by the internal engine, if they are preceeded by a newline or a space. This will prevent page anchors inside links (e.g. example.com/page#anchor-name) or words with hashes in them from being detected as tags.
Switched from Droid Mono to Liberation Mono for displaying monospaced code and comment blocks because of better support for glyphs in the latter font.
Fixed an issue with the titles of the exporting buttons for HTML, docx, odt and PDF.
Fixed a small bug that made it unable to open standalone files from the directory list.
Small fix to the margins of switches. General fixes to the colours of the input controls in dark mode.
Fixed a bug that led to files reporting the same tags more than once.
Search results are now readable even in dark mode.
Fixed a bug that would not correctly transform the links of images dragged from the attachment sidebar onto the editor, causing errors by pandoc when trying to export the file.
Task list items are now rendered directly after you leave the formatting. You don't have to leave the line anymore.
Special tags that you've assigned a colour to are now displayed distinct from other tags in the tag dropdown list.
Now changing dictionaries during runtime yields the expected effects: The full word buffer will be invalidated so that formerly-wrong and formerly-correct words are checked against the new dictionaries.
Fixed a small bug that would cause users with French localisation to not be able to use the preferences dialog as it was intended.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to load new dictionaries from the user directory.
Fixed a small issue that would display the full translation strings for dictionaries and languages that were not translated in the currently loaded translation, instead of just the language codes.
Fixed a small bug that would, on some Linux distributions, lead to the operating system opening up loads of file explorer windows when the "Open Directory"-button in the attachments sidebar was clicked.
Now it's not possible anymore to try to create files and directories within virtual directories.
The cursor blinks now smoothly.
Changes to the word-count chart: Now numbers are localised and the date is not in the ugly ISO format anymore.
You can now easily search for a file to link with the newly implemented autocompletion list that will pop up if you begin writing an internal link (i.e. type [[). After accepting an autocomplete suggestion, Zettlr will either put the ID between the brackets, or the filename, if there is no ID.
Fixed a bug that would throw an error if updating the config with no dictionary loaded on app boot.
Fixed a bug that would move a file to a random directory instead of enabling you to actually copy said file outside the app, if you dragged the file out of the app and passed the directory list.
Fixed the highlighting effect on drag operations. Now even if you use the thin sidebar mode, the directories where you can drop files will receive the highlighting shimmer.
Added an option to hide the heading characters and replace them with a small tag indicating the heading level (h1, h2, etc). Off by default.
Refined the rendering of links. Now, inline elements will be also rendered correctly inside rendered links.
The app will now correctly scroll to the selected file again (if any).
Added an option to hide directories from the preview list while performing a global search.
Fixed a small error that would strip false positive tags on export (i.e. that would also strip escaped tags).
Massive updates to the notification service provider. If a message is too long, it will be truncated when it is first shown to you. If you then click on the notification, it will expand itself so that you can read the full message. Click on it again to hide it. Additionally, the notifications are now the same height and move smoothly as soon as new notifications arrive or old ones get removed.
Gave the exporter an update: Now, if Pandoc experiences an error during export, you will be presented with a better error dialog which even lets you select portions of the error message for you to google them.
Under the Hood:
Moved the input styling to the geometry section and only left the colouring in place.
Added a data-default-action support for Dialogs. Now there can be a button with the attribute data-default-action="data-default-action" (repetition necessary for ensuring a correct DOM structure) in each dialog that will be focused on instantiation of the dialog, thereby enabling a simple "default action".
Small changes to the translation files to remove some duplicates.
Added md5 for generating simple hashes.
The ZettlrDictionary-class is now an EventEmitter and emits update-events whenever the composition of the loaded dictionaries changes.
Renamed the default theme to its correct name: Berlin.
Small changes to enable on-the-fly theme CSS replacement.
Better escaping of some feedback strings in the preferences template.
The app is now BCP 47 compatible. This means that it should be possible to load every translation file and every dictionary folder using the correct language tag, instead of having to fall back to the crude xx_XX-type Zettlr used until now.
Moved the editor-specific getWordCount function out as a helper function.
Added an updateFile method to the global.ipc to enable files to update themselves silently if something changed.
Moved the calculating functionality of the ZettlrStatsView class to the main process's ZettlrStats class.
Removed the ZettlrStatsView class and moved the triggering functionality to the ZettlrBody class accordingly with the other popups/dialogs.
Branched out the ZettlrDialog class so that all functionality is now provided by specialised dialog classes that inherit from the base class.
Rearranged the options within the "Advanced" tab in the preferences dialog.
Moved out all CodeMirror require() to a new file called autoload.js in the assets directory to save space in the main ZettlrEditor class.
Added a security pass to the droppable directories to make sure they don't accidentally accept the file and direct the main process to move it out of the app instead of moving it to themselves.
Switched back to electron 3 for the time being, as electron 4 still has a nasty bug that renders the toolbar unusable when exiting fullscreen on macOS (see electron/electron#16418 ).
Switched to nspell for spellchecking, as the correction-finding algorithm works smoother and the repository is not as old as Typo.js.
makeExport now returns a Promise instead of the Exporter object. The exporter is now only returned if it's call succeeded (by passing it to resolve).
There is now the yarn command yarn less:extract available which extracts the CSS class names and IDs from the prebuilt styles. Please note that you must run the yarn less command beforehand.

New in Zettlr 1.0.0 (Jan 3, 2019)

GUI and functionality:
Added a written reason for why some preferences options failed validation and need to be corrected.
Moved the attachment options to the "Advanced"-tab in the preferences window.
Fixed a bug that threw errors when you tried to Alt-click a virtual directory.
Fixed the bug that virtual directories got duplicated on the creation of new files.
Added a "Donate" menu entry to the help menu.
The startup overlay is now gone.
Dictionaries can be selected and deselected at runtime.
Fixed a bug that did not remove the file's ID in the preview list, after it has been deleted from the file itself.
Added an option to deactivate the automatic closing of pairs of matching characters in the editor.
The app now supports code folding! Now you can click the new, small arrows left to Markdown headings to collapse everything below it!
Removed the customised word processor templates. Zettlr now uses the default reference docs provided by Pandoc.
Projects can now also be exported to odt, docx, and HTML.
Added tag autocomplete. Now when you start typing a #-character, you are presented with a list of tags you already use inside your files, so you don't use similar (but not same) tags in different files.
Added citeproc-js integration: Now you can point Zettlr to a JSON CSL-file (ideally generated by Zotero) and it will automatically enable you to put @BibTex-IDs or even complex Pandoc citations in your text, which will not only be automatically replaced by a correct citation (only Chicago supported, because it is only a preview), but also renders a preview bibliography! Additionally, if you point Zettlr to a CSL Style file in the settings of a project, it will use this file to generate your citations!
Added an option to change the sansfont property of LaTeX-documents, used mainly for headings.
The Pomodoro timer now remembers your settings on a per-session basis.
Added an additional check to see whether or not a huge number of words has been pasted into the editor. If so, the word counter won't count these towards the overall counter. So if you need to paste in whole documents, this won't raise your word counter absurdly high.
Fixed a bug that rendered unwanted Math previews.
Added file-open buttons. Now, whenever you are required to select a normal file, Zettlr provides you with a button that lets you choose the file comfortably.
Zettlr now features an additional "Display" preferences tab, which lets you control all things that define Zettlr's appearance.
You can now constrain the maximum size of images in the editor, separated by maximum width and maximum height.
Updated the about dialog to now feature a tabbed interface containing main projects with licenses for the four big projects Zettlr use (Electron, Node.js, CodeMirror, and CitationStyleLanguage), all complementary projects, and the license of Zettlr itself.
Now only escaping characters are formatted, not the characters following them.
Fixed a bug that would prevent you from being able to modify an already loaded image without restarting Zettlr, because it would cache the image and not reload the modified version of it.
Updated the styling of form elements: Now ranges and radio buttons are also displayed in the Zettlr design.
Added an option to set a custom TeX template for PDF exports both in the general PDF preferences as well as on a per-project setting.
Restored the functionality to quickly navigate the files in the preview container using the arrow keys Up and Down. Also you can once again jump to the end of the list by pressing an arrow key while holding Cmd/Ctrl.
Zettlr now sorts your files based on a natural sorting order. You can restore the ASCII-sorting (the sorting as it has been until now) in the settings.
Tags can now be escaped with a backslash () to make sure they won't show up in the tag dropdown list and also won't render as tags.
Keyboard navigation is much more reliable.
Fixed creation of new files while writing in the editor with no file open.
The search functionality in both editor and Quicklook windows has been enhanced. It is now faster and you have to explicitly request a regular expression search by typing it literally. This means: Searching for /w/ will select all words inside the editor, while w will literally search for that string.
Zettlr now supports internal links. If you place a pandoc-compatible identifier inside a markdown link, it will try to jump to the respective line. E.g., the identifier #tangos-photography-and-film will match the heading # Tangos, Photography, and Film. Simply use a standard Markdown link: [Go to Tangos, Photography, and Film](#tangos-photography-and-film).
Zettlr keeps some margin between the cursor where you are writing and the window edges, i.e. it won't touch the window edges anymore, but keep a nice distance.
Quicklook windows can now be "popped out" so that they are no longer bound to the main window but can be dragged onto different displays, etc.
Windows and Linux windows now follow macOS in having no native window frame, but instead they employ the same strategy as macOS: The toolbar is the top element inside the main window of Zettlr, featuring window controls and, additionally, a button to open the application menu from the toolbar.
Zettlr correctly selects words containing apostrophs so that you can correct them adequately without the app "forgetting" the l' or 'll-part (or similar) of the word.
There's now an option to copy a file's ID to clipboard, if the file has one.
We've updated the Zettlr icon! It now matches the brand colour and has a modern look.
The image size constrainers look nicer and more intuitive now.
Added controls to determine which elements are rendered inside Markdown documents.
Simplified the attachment file handling and enabled dragging the paths of the files into the editor (e.g., to insert images).
Now the ID- and tag-search is case-insensitive.
Changes to the ID generation: Now if you press Cmd/Ctrl+L, the generated ID will be pasted wherever your cursor is currently (e.g. inside all text fields). Zettlr tries to back up your clipboard's contents and restore them afterwards.
Zettlr recognises IDs inside the name of a file. If the ID pattern returns a match in the file name, this ID takes precedence over any ID that may be in the file's content!
Added context menu entry to open link in the browser.
Images can now be dragged from the attachment pane onto the editor and will automatically be converted into valid Markdown links.
The tooltip that displays footnote texts when you hover over footnote references now displays formatted text, and not raw Markdown.
The zoom level of the editor's text is not lost on toggling the distraction-free mode anymore.
Update to the citeproc search. If you type an @ and begin searching for a work to cite, you can now also search through the title and don't necessarily have to know the ID anymore!
Added basic tag cloud functionality. You have now a new button in your toolbar that shows you all the tags that you've used somewhere in your files. You can also copy the full list into the clipboard!
Updates to the search functionality: Now the AND operator works as a requirement again (until now files have also reported search results if one or two of the search terms have matched, even if they were all required). Additionally, the tag search within files now accounts for a hashtag in front of the search term.
Under the hood:
Documentation update in ZettlrValidation.
Updated the .dmg-installer file with a better background image.
Consolidated the package.json build fields.
Warning: The app ID has changed from com.zettlr.www to com.zettlr.app. For the implications please check this link -- the change only affects Windows users.
Refactored the complete menu logic to make it more accessible.
Added a global notify() method in the renderer process for convenience.
Added an option to make footnotes inside files unique prior to project exports.
Moved the dictionary functions to the main process for asynchronous background loading.
Began using tern.js for better autocompletion.
Fundamental Core Update: Now on each request for a new file tree (using the command paths-update) not the whole object is sent towards the renderer because of app crashes arising from the use of synchronous messages via the new typo-channel. Instead, a dummy list is sent containing only the properties that the renderer accesses anyway. This way not only the amount of data is reduced quite significantly, but also the app does not crash on file and directory operations.
Removed an additional openPaths-update during the renaming of root files.
Now the current directory is re-set correctly after renaming the current directory.
Refactored the context menu to resemble the same structure as the application menu.
Switched to the handlebars.js templating engine.
The askSaveFile()-dialog is now non-blocking.
ZettlrFile objects won't forcefully try to move a file to trash while handling watchdog events anymore.
ZettlrRendererIPC and ZettlrIPC now access the ipc-modules consistent with all other classes.
Generalised the askFile() function in ZettlrWindow for further purposes.
The ZettlrConfig now acts as an event emitter and emits update-events, whenever the configuration object changes. It can be subscribed to using global.config.on (to unsubscribe use global.config.off).
Added a global.ipc.notify-function to easily send notifications to the renderer.
Added a "cachebreaker" to the preview images in Zettlr.
Moved a lot of files around: The CSS, Fonts, JavaScript and the template files are now in the common directory, so that it makes sense that there can be multiple windows that share those files.
ATTENTION: We've stopped committing the compiled Handlebars templates and CSS files to the repository, so even if you don't develop styles or templates, you now need to run yarn/npm less and yarn/npm handlebars before you run the application!
Removed a bunch of superfluous pass-through functions from the ZettlrRenderer class.
Bugfixes in the ZettlrExport class.
Switched to documentation.js for generating the API documentation.

New in Zettlr 0.20.0 (Oct 15, 2018)

GUI and functionality:
Fixed a bug during import that resulted in crashing the app if no Pandoc was found.
Updated the styling of the app to make it feel more modern.
To open a file directly by typing its name into the search bar you don't have to get the capitalisation correct anymore.
It is now possible to traverse the file tree directly by clicking on the directories inside the preview pane. Use a single click to make that directory your current one, or use an Alt-click to traverse back up to its parent directory.
Now the "Save changes before quitting?"-Dialog won't appear — all your files will be saved immediately before quitting.
Zettlr now remembers your last opened file and the last selected directory and restores them on each restart (if they still exist).
Images can now also have pandoc attributes assigned (in curly brackets after the image tag) and will both render correctly inside Zettlr and work as intended on export.
The app will now remember its size and position on screen and restore it after a restart.
Changes to the design of the dark mode. It's now a little bit blue-ish and the colours are finally adapted to the brand.
The directory list is now way less cluttered and looks way better than before.
Dropping images onto the app is now possible!
Added the long-commented-out blockquote command to the context menu.
iframes will now be rendered as well (such as the embed codes by YouTube or Vimeo). Note that only -tags will be rendered, so Twitter embed won't work, for example.
Removed a small bug that would use the text selection cursor over directories after you've dragged a file.
Zettlr now remembers the last directories you were in when you successfully imported a file or opened a directory.
Added Droid Sans Mono as monospaced font family and updated the fonts around the app.
The Zettelkasten ID doesn't need to be in the format @ID: anymore. Also the zkn-links can be customised.
The generation of IDs is now up to your creativity.
Made the search progress indication better. Now, instead of the background filling up with sometimes ugly colours, a circle just as for the Pomodoro timer is used.
The file snippets now hold additional information, such as the ID of the given file or the amount of tags. Additionally, if you hover over the number of tags, a popup will tell you which tags the file holds. Directories also now show their number of children elements (both directories and files).
The text snippets have been removed from the app.
The Quicklook windows now follow the application's theme.
Fixed a bug that generated a falsy first search cursor and prevented case insensitive searching.
Added extended statistics. Now you can exactly see when you've written how many words by clicking the new button in the small statistics popup.
You may now use #-characters inside tags.
macOS users now have an inset titlebar to make the app feel more immersive while not in fullscreen as well.
QuickLook windows now display the headings in the correct size again.
On smaller displays, Zettlr now has smaller margins and paddings so that each display size's space is used best.
Removed the ID-button from the toolbar. The command is still present in the menu and still works using the shortcut Cmd/Ctrl+L.
Fixed the bug that the attachment pane tooltip was partially hidden.
Quicklook windows are now constrained to the body area, and cannot be dragged over the toolbar.
Added validation to the settings so that you can't accidentally set wrong values.
The default buttons for dialogs are now reactivated, so you can remove files and folders by simply hitting Return to confirm the removal.
Anything markdown-specific (links, tasks, images) won't be rendered in any mode other than markdown anymore. So you can now rest assured that your links won't be converted and comments won't be displayed the size of headings in comment blocks or something.
Indented tasks are now rendered.
The table of contents now ignores comments in comment-blocks (no matter which language) and also has a better detection for the level of these.
Fixed a bug that threw errors on moving directories around.
Added Math inline-rendering.
Under the hood:
Implemented the try/catch construct around ZettlrImport to actually catch the errors that were thrown by this function.
Added globally accessible config getters and setters so that the ZettlrConfig-object is now reachable from within all classes in the app.
Changes to ZettlrWindow to create windows using programmatical boundaries.
Updated the image finding regex again.
Reorganised the font families in the less resources.
The popup is now much simpler to call.
Removed instantiation from both ZettlrImport and ZettlrExport.
All Zettlr installations now receive a unique UUID.
Using global.config.get it is now possible in the renderer to access the configuration programmatically without the need to send events.
Replaced all renderer configuration requests with the new, faster and synchronous method.
Fixed a missing dependency in ZettlrAttachment.
Updated to electron 3.
Changed app.makeSingleInstance to app.requestSingleInstanceLock as recommended by the docs.
Updated dependencies to the newest versions.
Image preview rendering is now independent of path.
Refactored the complete configuration setting process.
Explicitly set defaultId on confirmation dialogs.
detach() is now called only after the move operation of a ZettlrDir has been completed to remove the parent-pointer.

New in Zettlr 0.19.0 (Sep 10, 2018)

GUI and functionality:
Import functionality: Now you can import from nearly all file types pandoc supports into Zettlr. Simply select the desired target directory and select File -> Import files!
Added a lot of exporting options. More are still to come!
Export Markdown files as reveal.js presentations: From 0.19.0 on, Zettlr will support the export of reveal.js-presentations. Also, there's theme support built in!
If you insert a footnote, the cursor is not moved throughout the document so that the writing flow is more immersive.
The text field used to edit a footnote reference text is now automatically focused.
The editor will now directly mute lines when in full screen as soon as you change the preference setting for this. You don't have to move the cursor anymore for this.
Fixed a bug that showed a dedicated file menu when right-clicking directory ribbons and then threw errors if you clicked on anything in the menu.
Fixed the strange behaviour of Zettlr telling you there are no suggestions for a word, although you did not right-click a wrongly spelled word.
Inline links rendered inside headers are now always the correct size.
Email-addresses are now correctly identified and will be rendered as clickable links as well. If you Alt-click on them, they will open the default email option (i.e. they are the same as clicking on any website's email addresses).
Fixes to the project feature.
Made the dictionaries finally independent from the four default translations.
Added about 70 languages to the four default translations. This means: If you now include a custom dictionary or a custom translation, chances are high that it will be detected and translated automatically!
Added a bunch of dictionaries that now come shipped with the app.
Finally found & fixed the bug that kept detecting whole swathes of text as links and inserted them on link insert or didn't detect any link at all.
Transferred the download page in the updater to the new download landing page at zettlr.com/download.
Clicking on marked tags in the preview list will now trigger a search for these tags.
Added support for TeX-files. So in case you want to export something to PDF, you can add custom LaTeX statements in their respective file to amend the styling Zettlr applies.
You can now rest assured that on export of projects with nested files all images, even relative ones, will successfully be rendered in your PDF output.
Changes to the HTML exporting template. Now, images should always fit on screen.
You can now create LaTeX files by using the extension .tex when creating new files.
Better Pomodoro counter.
Under the hood:
Changes to the runCommand method in ZettlrEditor.
Changes to the insertFootnote command.
Changes to the _editFootnote() method in ZettlrEditor.
Changed the event type the editor is listening to when you finished editing a footnote from keyup to keydown.
Moved the inline and block element rendering functions to their own commands to reduce the file size of ZettlrEditor.
Fixed the task recognition regex to prevent ugly errors logged to the console if you entered on an empty line a task list item directly followed by braces (such as - [ ](some text)).
Additional security checks while building the context menu.
Amended the regex for rendering links. Also provided a callback option for CodeMirror to be able to port the plugin fully externally and integrate it into other instances.
Added ZettlrImport class for handling file imports.
Removed the unnecessary PDF exporting LaTeX template from the pandoc directory.
Added another newline character when gluing Markdown files together on project exports.
Fixed a bug that would not read in a saved project config on restart.
Huge changes to the selection and retrieval of dictionaries for the spellchecking algorithm.
Made the regular expression detecting links in the clipboard non-global and limited it to only detecting single links in the clipboard.
The download page will now count all updates by users to keep track of how many users are using the app (only the click is counted, no personal information is collected). To avoid detection of you updating, simply visit zettlr.com/download manually.
Amended ZettlrRenderer by a function to programmatically trigger global searches.
Added .tex to the list of supported file types. Added a mode switch to ZettlrEditors open() method.
Small fix to the toolbar CSS for not having a hover effect on the Pomodoro button in dark mode.
Change to the less.js script. It now minimises the CSS output to further optimise the styling.
Spell checking is now off by default in fresh installations to speed up the first start.
Amendments to ZettlrProject, ZettlrFile and ZettlrExport to ensure relative image paths are accurately converted into absolute ones on exporting them.
Streamlined setting the ZettlrWindow title. Zettlrwindow::setTitle() is now deprecated.

New in Zettlr 0.18.3 (Aug 25, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.18.2 (Aug 24, 2018)

Removed the annoying "Replace file in editor?" message:
As many of you have already noticed (and as an issue actually reported a few days ago), Zettlr always had an annoying problem. Every time when you were editing a file that was stored via a cloud service, such as Dropbox, Nextcloud, or GoogleDrive, it could occasionally happen that Zettlr permanently asked you whether or not you want to replace the remotely-modified file. This message was irrational as you were the only one editing the file, and it broke your workflow every time. The reason for this message is that somehow the detection mechanism of cloud services seem to trigger another "change"-event inside Zettlr, which is then not ignored but passed on to the mechanism that prompted you to replace the file. Now, Zettlr will first determine whether or not the file has really changed since it last checked, and only if that is true, Zettlr will bother you with the prompt.
Syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks:
Somehow, Zettlr is becoming more and more popular among coders, which is really nice! As my primary goal is to create a Markdown editor for researchers in the arts and humanities, I didn't initially implement code highlighting, because most of us never really need fenced code blocks to explain some code. But now after the issue has been raised, I decided to activate this functionality of Zettlr. Currently, a variety of popular languages is highlighted, but more can be implemented as well.
Currently implemented are: C, C++, Objective C, C#, Java, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, Python, R, SQL, Swift, YAML, CSS and LESS.
You can activate code highlighting for these languages by using the Commonmark specification for info text (i.e. write the language after your beginning fence, like this: ```javascript`)
The strings that trigger code highlighint are as follows: c, cpp, objectivec, csharp, java, javascript, php, ruby, python, r, sql, swift, yaml, css and less.
Do you want code highlighting enabled for additional languages? No problem, simply head over to the list of modes that CodeMirror supports and tell me. Enabling them is a matter of seconds.
GUI and functionality:
Minor fix to the style of code-blocks in modals.
Fixed a bug that prevented you from immediately re-selecting the previous file by simply clicking it again, after you opened an external markdown file in Zettlr, which then was selected automatically.
Fixed an error thrown if a root file was removed remotely.
Fixed Zettlr always asking to replace a file although it hasn't been modified remotely.
Fixed a missing translation for changed files.
Fixed the threshold for being close to surpassing average from 50 words below average to the half of average. 50 words were definitely too narrow for anyone to really see the intermediary message.
Fixed some design rules.
Reallowed arbitrary text selection inside the editor (mainly necessary for macOS's quick lookup functionality).
Added styling for horizontal rulers (* * *) and escaped characters (e.g. *).
Fixes to the new tooltips. Now all tags receive the nicer tooltips on mouse over.
Replaced the old footnote tooltip bubble, which did not look nice, with the much better tippy.js-bubbles.
Added HTML syntax highlighting.
Fixed an error on the export of Markdown files with code blocks.
Added syntax highlighting capabilities in fenced code blocks for the following languages (use the words in brackets after the beginning of a code block, i.e. ```javascript`):, C (c), C# (csharp), C++ (cpp), CSS (css), Java (java), JavaScript (javascript), LESS (less), Objective C (objectivec), PHP (php), Python (python), R (r), Ruby (ruby), SQL (sql), Swift (swift), YAML (yaml)
Under the hood:
Added an additional check to definitely determine if chokidar has choked or the file has indeed been modified remotely.
Lots of documentation has been added to the source code.
Moved the tippy() function from the ZettlrRenderer to the correct classes (ZettlrToolbar and ZettlrPreview).
Changes to the link detection regex in ZettlrEditor.
Changes to the export.tex LaTeX export template. It now provides the Shaded-environment Pandoc requires on exporting files containing fenced code blocks.
Added some amount of HTML syntax highlighting.
Added a multiplex mode that can highlight fenced code blocks.
Changed signature documentation of ZettlrRenderer's setCurrentFile method to reflect the actual process (it is being passed a hash, not a file object).
Changes to the _tags-array in ZettlrPreview. Now, the array is never completely regenerated, but resized according to the actual _data-array. The changes have affected the functionality of the functions _gen() and refresh() in this class.
Added a remove() method to Zettlr for root files wanting to delete themselves.

New in Zettlr 0.18.1 (Aug 19, 2018)

Notable features:
You can now import any translation file to translate Zettlr into whatever language you like. Please also feel free to notify me, if you have translated the app, so that I may include your language files into the source and ship them by default!
You can now copy text as HTML, which enables you to paste Markdown into word processors such as Word, Writer or Pages, or into e-mail clients, which will thereby retain the formatting.
Also, Zettlr now performs a check to determine whether or not you are online. This means that you won't get these ugly internal errors ever again if you open Zettlr while on the train or somewhere with bad connectivity.
GUI and functionality:
Now it's possible to download and install custom translations for Zettlr! If you want to use a translation that is not (yet) officially bundled with the app, simply import the translation JSON-file into Zettlr using the respective option. It will immediately be available for selection within your preferences (but a restart to apply the change is still necessary). The language file must be in the format aaa_AAA.json so that the app can detect the language by looking at the file name.
Numbers are now localised with the correct delimiters.
Zettlr now automatically indents text using four spaces to better work with other Markdown parsers.
Changed resizing constraints: Editor can now have 90 percent width at maximum.
Fixed a small bug that lets you open non-markdown files as roots.
You can now copy selected Markdown text as HTML! Just press Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+C instead of Cmd/Ctrl+C.
Added an online-check. From now on, if you are offline, Zettlr won't show you ugly error messages, but a simple notification that you are, in fact, offline and Zettlr can't check for updates.
Improved footnote placement.
Improved the placement of images in exported PDF files.
Increased search speed and fixed internal errors in displaying search results.
Under the hood:
Changes to getSupportedLangs(): The function now returns a dynamically generated array of all available translations. This also includes language files that are placed inside the app's data directory (in the subdirectory lang).
Changes to i18n.js to reflect the fact that a language could also be located inside the application data directory (it now first tries to load the file from within the app, and if this fails searches for the file in the app data directory).
Zettlr now preserves the linefeeds of a file on saving.
Refactored the app's LESS and style handling.
Simplified the theme toggling.
Consolidated CSS styles.
Updated dependencies. Switched to Electron 2.0.6.
Removed package-lock.json, because nobody uses them anyway and yarn 1.9.2 just complained about them.
Changed resizing constraints: Editor can now have 90 percent width at maximum.
Fixed a logical error in ZettlrConfig that allowed non-markdown-files to be opened as root files.
Buffered the update check with an online-check. Renamed the original check() to _fetchReleases().
Fixes to the footnote placement.
Removed an unused function from ZettlrEditor.
Removed excess console.log from ZettlrBody.
Added an additional security check before marking results in the editor instance.

New in Zettlr 0.18.0 (Aug 19, 2018)

GUI and functionality:
Added the project feature: Now you can convert directories into "projects" (via context menu). A project is simply the possibility for you to adjust PDF options for a set of files differently than in your general PDF settings and tweak the generation a little bit more. It is thought especially for exporting many files into a single PDF file, and has options to generate a table of contents or a title page. All files in the project directory and all of its sub-directories are concatenated in the same way as the preview list does it. Directories themselves are ignored. Then all these files are simply glued together and exported using the special settings you've given the project.
Included tag preferences. These allow you to assign colours to specific tags, so that you can see in the preview list directly which files contain specific tags (such as, e.g., #todo or #in-progress) to have an overview over the work you need to do or categorise your files.
Now the editor should correctly resize itself if the window itself changes its size.
Now, if you use the combined view, Zettlr recognises a second click on an already selected directory and switches to the preview list instead. If you do so while the expanded mode is active, nothing will happen.
I finally found the bug that was showing NaN instead of real numbers in the stats view. Now it should work on all systems just fine. (It only happened when there were less than thirty days of recorded statistical history available.)
Adjusted the placement of the dialogs. Now they should definitely be placed in the center, if they are smaller than the window and should never result in a scrollable window.
The dialog windows should pop up much faster now.
Changed the styles of all dialog windows, and made pretty especially the PDF preferences windows.
Replaced the system default's title popups with nicer looking popups.
Changed image preview rendering. Now, images smaller than the viewport will not scale up to fill the full width, but remain smaller than the viewport width.
Added a preview rendering of task items with checkboxes.
Now Zettlr will directly react to you clicking with your mouse into the window and doesn't require you to click a second time after the app has been focused again.
Snippets are now off by default.
Fixed a small error that led to the editor behaving strange after resizing the sidebar.
There is now no lag anymore on saving files. As a side effect, the global search is not exited when you change a little bit and then save the file.
Changed PDF export.
Small fix to the ZKN tag detection.
Added additional error handling in the updater (so you know why Zettlr couldn't tell you why no update check is possible).
Renaming files is now faster.
If you now begin to drag a file, after you have stopped dragging the file (i.e. either you dropped it onto a directory or you dropped it somewhere else to cancel the move), the preview pane will be shown again.
Now it is possible to drag out Markdown files from Zettlr into other apps.
Clicking on the "No open files or folders"-notification when there are no open folders or files in the directory tree will automatically show the open-dialog.
Fixed the theming in the QuickLook windows. Now they will be the same theme as the app itself.
Under the hood:
Finally renamed the strong element in the file tiles in the preview list to a simple p to re-gain semantic correctness there.
Lots of LESS-code added, several other files have been changed.
Added an event listener to Window resizes to change the editor's width accordingly with the resizable activated.
Changes to requestDir() function in ZettlrRenderer.
Changes to the Statistics viewer.
Changes to ZettlrDialog.
Changes to ZettlrRenderer. Now the translation strings will be copied into the memory of the renderer process directly. This results in better overall performance, especially in dialogs, for which a lot of such strings are needed.
Updated development dependencies: electron is now 2.0.4, electron-builder is now 20.19.2 and less.js is now 3.5.3.
Changes to ZettlrBody-proceed function.
Added tippy.js to the list of dependencies; replaced standard system titles with Tippy titles.
Added the acceptFirstMouse option to the creation of new BrowserWindows.
Now refreshing the editor instance after dragstop of the divider between combiner and the editor.
Removed an unnecessary if-statement in ZettlrToolbar.
Added a method to only update the current file in the renderer process, which speeds up saving a lot.
Additional check in ZettlrVirtualDirectory.
Changes to the LaTeX export template.
Replaced the complicated and unreliable tag recognition to a much simpler regular expression.
Error handling in ZettlrUpdater.
Changes to the process of renaming files. Now the renaming process should be reflected quicker in the renderer, because we don't send a complete new path object, but only the specific, renamed file.
Fixes and changes to the dragging behaviour in the renderer.
Added a dragging event, so that the main process automatically enables dragging out of the app.
Added the getRenderer()-function to ZettlrDirectories, so that the EmptyPaths-object can send the respective event to the main process.
Combined the setContent() and save()-functions in ZettlrFile, because there was simply no need to have them separated. Also, removed the modified-flag from the file.

Zettlr Changelog

What's new in Zettlr 3.1.1

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 (May 8, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 Beta 2 (Apr 22, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 Beta 1 (Mar 18, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.1.0 Beta (Mar 5, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.0.5 (Feb 7, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.0.4 (Feb 7, 2024)

New in Zettlr 3.0.3 (Nov 27, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.2 (Oct 9, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.1 (Sep 19, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 (Sep 15, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 8 (Aug 10, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 7 (Jul 31, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 6 (Jul 12, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 5 (Jun 20, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 4 (Apr 28, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 3 (Apr 28, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta 2 (Apr 7, 2023)

New in Zettlr 3.0.0 Beta (Jan 9, 2023)

New in Zettlr 2.3.0 (Jun 14, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.6 (May 9, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.5 (Apr 10, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.4 (Mar 7, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.3 (Mar 7, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.2 (Feb 16, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.1 (Feb 13, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.2.0 (Feb 10, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.1.3 (Jan 31, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.1.2 (Jan 14, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.1.1 (Jan 5, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.1.0 (Jan 5, 2022)

New in Zettlr 2.0.3 (Nov 14, 2021)

New in Zettlr 2.0.2 (Nov 3, 2021)

New in Zettlr 2.0.1 (Oct 20, 2021)

New in Zettlr 2.0.0 (Oct 20, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.9 (May 13, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.8 (May 13, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.7 (Jan 24, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.6 (Jan 17, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.5 (Jan 8, 2021)

New in Zettlr 1.8.4 (Dec 24, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.8.3 (Dec 17, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.8.2 (Dec 13, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.8.1 (Dec 4, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.8.0 (Dec 4, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.5 (Aug 16, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.4 (Aug 3, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.3 (Aug 3, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.2 (Jul 24, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.1 (Jul 6, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.7.0 (Jul 6, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.6.0 (May 8, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.5.0 (Jan 27, 2020)

New in Zettlr 1.4.3 (Nov 4, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.4.2 (Oct 8, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.4.1 (Sep 9, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.4.0 (Sep 9, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.2.3 (Apr 5, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.2.2 (Mar 29, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.2.1 (Mar 25, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.2.0 (Mar 25, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.1.0 (Feb 8, 2019)

New in Zettlr 1.0.0 (Jan 3, 2019)

New in Zettlr 0.20.0 (Oct 15, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.19.0 (Sep 10, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.18.3 (Aug 25, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.18.2 (Aug 24, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.18.1 (Aug 19, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.18.0 (Aug 19, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.17.1 (Aug 19, 2018)

New in Zettlr 0.17.0 (Aug 19, 2018)