Changelog

[v0.39.0-alpha] - 2025-12-17

✨ Added

Preview: You can now display page tags at the bottom of the document. A new toggle has been added to the settings to enable this Footer Tags section, providing an alternative to the header-based tag list.
Editor: Added Tab as a supported shortcut for accepting autocomplete suggestions.
Editor: Added a Shift+Enter shortcut to quickly exit a wikilink. This automatically closes the brackets (]]) and moves the cursor past them, allowing you to continue typing without breaking flow.
Infobox: Added columns as a clearer alias for infobox groups (e.g., type: columns). This replaces the older render_as property, which has been deprecated.

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Fixed a workflow interruption where pressing Enter to create a wikilink for a new, non-existent page would insert a newline instead of completing the link. The editor now correctly allows you to confirm the creation of a new link with the Enter key.

[v0.38.2-alpha] - 2025-12-16

🔄 Changed

Editor: The syntax highlighting for Markdown lists has been updated. Bullet points now appear in the primary text color rather than the accent color.

[v0.38.1-alpha] - 2024-12-14

✨ Added

Telemetry: Implemented a minimal, privacy-first analytics system to help track the total number of active users. This system sends a single "ping" on application startup. To ensure your privacy, your machine ID is securely hashed and salted before transmission, meaning the data is completely anonymous and cannot be traced back to you.

[v0.38.0-alpha] - 2024-12-12

✨ Added

Editor: Added image autocompletion. When you type ![[ in the editor, the completion menu will now specifically suggest image files from your vault, complete with a new 🖼️ icon for easy identification.
Editor: Implemented theme-based syntax highlighting. Code blocks and Markdown syntax now use your active theme's color palette instead of generic defaults.
Editor: Added support for YAML frontmatter parsing. The editor now correctly recognizes and highlights metadata blocks at the top of your files.

🔄 Changed

Typography: Switched the primary body font for dark themes to Spectral. This change improves legibility on digital screens by providing sharper stroke definition and reducing the "blurring" effect often seen with high-contrast serif fonts on dark backgrounds.

[v0.37.4-alpha] - 2025-12-08

🐞 Fixed

Images / Windows: Fixed a bug where images using absolute paths (e.g., C:\...) failed to load on Windows. The security sanitizer was incorrectly interpreting the drive letter as an unsafe protocol and stripping the path.

🔒 Security

Sanitizer: The HTML sanitizer has been hardened to support the fix for Windows images. It now explicitly permits the data: protocol only for image sources (<img src="...">), while strictly blocking it in links (<a href="...">) to prevent potential cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

[v0.37.3-alpha] - 2025-12-08

🐞 Fixed

Page Inserts: Fixed a bug where the raw YAML frontmatter was incorrectly rendered as visible text when embedding a page using the {{insert: ...}} syntax. The renderer now correctly strips this metadata, ensuring only the actual page content is displayed in the insert block.

[v0.37.2-alpha] - 2025-12-08

🐞 Fixed

File Explorer: Fixed a bug that could cause the file explorer to freeze or crash, particularly when moving files. This was caused by the drag-and-drop system repeatedly re-initializing itself during rapid state changes. The rendering logic has been optimized to eliminate these race conditions and prevent unnecessary re-renders.
Context Menu: Fixed a bug in the "Rename" dialog where names containing periods (e.g., "Mr. Husk") were incorrectly truncated. The system now intelligently handles file extensions and ensures that the full name is always pre-filled when renaming directories.

[v0.37.1-alpha] - 2025-12-06

🐞 Fixed

Linux/File System: Fixed an issue on Linux systems with symlinked home directories (such as Fedora Kinoite), where opening a valid file would result in a "File Not Found" error. The application now correctly resolves the canonical path (e.g., mapping /home to /var/home) before retrieving the file from the index.

[v0.37.0-alpha] - 2025-12-05

✨ Added

Images: You can now create responsive, wiki-style image grids by wrapping images in a container with the class .gallery. This layout enforces uniform image heights using a "card" style similar to Fandom wikis. It automatically handles both plain images and figures with captions, and supports .small and .large helper classes to adjust the row height.
Help: Added a button to open the Help guide in your default web browser.

[v0.36.0-alpha] - 2025-12-01

✨ Added

Templates: You can now define a custom default template for all new pages. Simply create a template named _default in your template manager, and the application will automatically use it as the starting point for all new pages instead of the blank default.
UI: The dropdown menus in the "New Page" modal (for Folder and Template selection) have been replaced with searchable selects. You can now type to filter the list, making it significantly faster to find the right destination in large vaults.
UI: Added an "About" button to the sidebar footer to view application version information, credits, and links.

🔄 Changed

Welcome: The Welcome screen has been redesigned with a new full-width hero banner and updated typography.

🐞 Fixed

Fonts: Fixed a rendering issue where bold text appeared blurry or distorted ("synthetic bold"). The application now includes dedicated font files for Bold (700 weight) to ensure crisp text rendering.

[v0.35.0-alpha] - 2025-11-28

🚀 Performance

Startup: Parallelize initial scan. The application now indexes your vault significantly faster. The indexing engine has been updated to process files in parallel, utilizing all available CPU cores during the startup phase.
Image View: Large images located within the vault now load instantly in the full-screen viewer. The viewer has been updated to stream files directly from the disk (using the Asset Protocol) rather than converting them to heavy text strings, which reduces memory usage and eliminates lag.
Search: The file explorer search is now more performant. A slight delay (debounce) has been added to the input field so that the search filter updates only after you stop typing, rather than trying to filter the list with every single keystroke.

✨ Added

Infobox: You can now inject the same layout element (such as a separator or header) into multiple locations using a single rule. The above and below keys in the layout configuration now accept a list of field names (e.g., above: ["Species", "Origin"]).
Infobox: A visual separator line is now automatically added above the tags section to clearly distinguish metadata tags from the main infobox content.

🔄 Changed

(BREAKING) Infobox: The YAML syntax for defining custom layouts has been simplified. The nested position object is no longer supported. You must now place above and below keys at the top level of the rule (e.g., use above: "field_name" instead of position: { above: "field_name" }).
Styling: The automatic bottom border has been removed from infobox layout groups to prevent "double borders" and visual clutter when stacking multiple groups together.

[v0.34.0-alpha] - 2025-11-24

✨ Added

Preview: You can now sort tables with <thead> tags directly in the preview pane by clicking on the column headers. The sorting logic is alphanumeric, meaning it correctly handles numbered lists (e.g., placing "10" after "2" rather than "1").

🔄 Changed

(BREAKING) Templates: The template system has been completely overhauled. Templates are no longer stored in the global application configuration but are now managed as standard Markdown files within a _system/templates folder inside your vault. This allows you to use the main editor to create and modify your templates. Note: This is a breaking change; if you had existing templates, you will need to manually move them to the new folder.
File Explorer: Improved the file tree sorting logic to be more intuitive. "Special" folders starting with an underscore (e.g., _templates) are now consistently pinned to the top, and all items are now sorted in a a case-insensitive way.

🐞 Fixed

UI: Fixed a visual "stutter" where the "Loading..." screen would flash briefly when navigating between pages that load quickly. The loading indicator now has a 500ms delay and will only appear if the data fetching takes longer than that.

[v0.33.5-alpha] - 2025-11-20

✨ Added

Styling / Tables: The HTML sanitizer now permits the use of the bgcolor attribute on <td> tags to colour table cells.

[v0.33.4-alpha] - 2025-11-20

🚀 Performance

Performance / Startup: Optimized the application startup sequence. Vault data and settings are now loaded in parallel, and non-critical background checks are deferred until the application is fully ready, resulting in a faster launch time.

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Removed (Ctrl+ArrowLeft / Ctrl+ArrowRight) as navigation shortcuts, as they were overriding standard text editing behavior. Use (Alt+ArrowLeft / Alt+ArrowRight) instead to navigate pages.
Templates: The Template Manager now correctly displays an error message if it encounters a problem, rather than failing silently.
Styling: Added missing vertical spacing above the Table of Contents in the preview pane.

[v0.33.3-alpha] - 2025-11-18

🚀 Performance

Performance / Startup / Fonts: The custom font loading system has been completely overhauled to be significantly faster and more efficient. Previously, all custom fonts were loaded into memory as large Base64 strings during startup. The new system streams fonts directly from the disk on-demand using a secure asset protocol. This reduces application memory usage, speeds up startup time, and eliminates the "Flash of Unstyled Text" (FOUC).

🐞 Fixed

Settings: Fixed a broken link in the "License" section of the Settings modal.
Styling: Fixed a visual regression where dropdown arrows were missing from select menus due to a missing CSS rule.

🔄 Changed

Internal: Refactored the click handling logic for page inserts. The logic has been moved from the Preview component to the global action handler, centralizing how all interactive elements (links, spoilers, inserts) are processed.

[v0.33.2-alpha] - 2025-11-16

🐞 Fixed

Infobox: Fixed a critical regression where images embedded in the YAML frontmatter (e.g., in the infobox) stopped loading. This was caused by the HTML sanitizer incorrectly running after the image path was processed, which stripped the necessary protocol and broke the link. The rendering order has been corrected.

[v0.33.1-alpha] - 2025-11-14

✨ Added

Styling: The HTML sanitizer now permits the use of the <small> and <meter> HTML tags in your page content.

🔄 Changed

Images: You can now include external images (starting with http:// or https://) directly in your Markdown content.

🔒 Security

Security: The process for rendering YAML frontmatter has been updated. HTML sanitization now runs on the final, rendered HTML output to ensure security. Previously, it ran on the raw Markdown strings before processing.

🐞 Fixed

Editor: When applying formatting (Bold, Italic, or Strikethrough) to an empty text selection, the cursor will now be placed inside the formatting markers (e.g., **|**). This allows you to immediately begin typing with the new style. Previously, the cursor would land outside the markers (e.g., ****|).

[v0.33.0-alpha] - 2025-11-11

✨ Added

Infobox: You can now add horizontal separator lines to your custom infobox layouts using a new type: separator rule.
Infobox: Layout rules can now be positioned below a specific data field using the new position: { below: 'field_name'} syntax, in addition to the existing above positioning.
Inserts: A new | borderless attribute can be added to the insert syntax (e.g., {{insert: Page Name | borderless}}). This enables "transparent" embedding, where the inserted content appears as a natural part of the parent page without the surrounding box and title.
Footnotes: The HTML sanitizer now permits the id attribute on <p> and <div> tags. This enables support for native Markdown footnote links.

[v0.32.0-alpha] - 2025-11-04

✨ Added

Infobox: You can now show or hide the tags section in the infobox. A new settings icon (⚙️) has been added to the infobox header, which opens a modal to toggle the visibility of the tags. This preference is saved as a persistent vault setting.

🔄 Changed

Editor: Added padding to the bottom of the editor. This allows you to scroll past the end of the document, making it more comfortable to type new content in the middle of the screen.

🐞 Fixed

Styling: Fixed an issue where paragraphs in the preview could have massive vertical gaps, especially when using larger font sizes.

[v0.31.2-alpha] - 2025-11-03

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Fixed a critical race condition where rapidly switching files after an edit could cause the content of the previous file to overwrite the newly opened file. This was caused by a delayed (debounced) content update firing after the navigation was complete. The content binding is now synchronous, eliminating the bug.

[v0.31.1-alpha] - 2025-10-30

🐞 Fixed

Navigation: Fixed a critical regression that broke all wikilink navigation. This was caused by a bad merge during a recent code refactor, which left a stale function import. The import has been corrected, and navigation now works as expected.

[v0.31.0-alpha] - 2025-10-30

✨ Added

Navigation: You can now use keyboard and mouse shortcuts to navigate back and forward through your viewing history for a more native and efficient experience. Supported shortcuts include Alt+ArrowLeft / Alt+ArrowRight and the side buttons on most mice.
Inserts: The title of an embedded page can now be centered by adding the | centered attribute to the insert syntax (e.g., {{insert: Page Name | centered}}).

🐞 Fixed

UI: Fixed an inconsistency in the "Rename" prompt, which previously showed the full filename for images but only the file stem for Markdown files. The prompt now consistently shows the filename without the extension for all file types, preventing users from accidentally adding a duplicate extension.

[v0.30.2-alpha] - 2025-10-28

🐞 Fixed

Licensing: Fixed an issue that prevented licenses from being activated on multiple machines.

[v0.30.1-alpha] - 2025-10-27

🐞 Fixed

Infobox: Fixed an issue where data keys containing parentheses were capitalized incorrectly (e.g., "main language(s)" would display as "Main Language(S)"). The rendering logic now capitalizes only the first letter of the entire key.

[v0.30.0-alpha] - 2025-10-27

✨ Added

Navigation: You can now link directly to specific headers within a page using wikilinks with a hash section (e.g., [[My Page#Some Header]]).
Infobox: The image carousel now supports captions, which are displayed as a tab-based navigation system. This is enabled by using a new nested array format in the YAML frontmatter (e.g., image: [["path/to/image.jpg", "My Caption"]]).

[v0.29.5-alpha] - 2025-10-25

🐞 Fixed

Indexer / Windows: Fixed a critical bug on Windows where a recent change to support symbolic links caused paths to be stored in a non-standard format that the application could not process. This has been resolved by using a specialized library that correctly handles Windows path edge cases, ensuring all assets are indexed and rendered reliably.

[v0.29.4-alpha] - 2025-10-25

🔄 Changed

Assets: Assets, such as images, included in the vault via symbolic links are now indexed and rendered.

[v0.29.3-alpha] - 2025-10-24

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Fixed a bug where custom keyboard shortcuts (e.g., Mod+I for italic) would work in development but fail in the production build. The custom keymap is now assigned the highest priority to ensure it always overrides the defaults, resolving the conflict reliably.

[v0.29.2-alpha] - 2025-10-22

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Fixed a bug where custom keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Mod-i for italic) would work in development but fail in the production build. This was caused by a build optimization that allowed CodeMirror's default keybindings to override the custom ones.

[v0.29.1-alpha] - 2025-10-22

🐞 Fixed

Editor: The editor now preserves the text selection after applying formatting. Applying italics to an already bolded selection now correctly nests the formatting. A bug where the default CodeMirror keybinding for Mod-i (select line) overrode the custom "Italic" action has been resolved by giving custom keymaps the correct priority.

[v0.29.0-alpha] - 2025-10-22

✨ Added

Editor: A new Markdown formatting toolbar has been added to the editor, providing buttons for Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, and Headings (H1-H3). Keyboard shortcuts for Bold (Mod-b) and Italic (Mod-i) have also been added.

🔄 Changed

Images / Indexer: Images can now be found entirely by their filename, regardless of their location within the vault. The core indexing system has been significantly refactored to use a unified VaultAsset model that can generically handle any file type. Backward compatibility for older image path formats is retained as a fallback to ensure existing content continues to work.

🐞 Fixed

File Watcher / Windows: Fixed a critical bug, particularly on Windows, that prevented the application from detecting when files or folders were deleted externally (e.g., in Windows File Explorer), which led to an inconsistent vault state. The watcher now correctly handles ambiguous "remove" events, ensuring the index remains synchronized across all platforms.

[v0.28.1-alpha] - 2025-10-19

✨ Added

Page Inserts: Content inserted from other pages can now be set to appear collapsed by default. This is done by adding the | hidden attribute to the insert syntax (e.g., {{insert: Page Name | hidden}}).
Styling: The HTML sanitizer now permits the use of the style attribute on <p> and <span> tags. This allows for applying inline CSS to change properties like font-family, color, and font-size for specific text sections.

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Resolved a scrolling issue where the down arrow key would fail to scroll the editor pane when the cursor reached the end of the document. The editor's height is no longer fixed, allowing it to grow with its content and ensuring the parent container handles scrolling correctly.

[v0.28.0-alpha] - 2025-10-17

✨ Added

Page Inserts: You can now embed the content of one page directly into another using the new {{insert: Page Name | title="Optional Title"}} syntax. This is useful for creating and re-using navboxes, item cards, stat blocks etc.

🐞 Fixed

Updater: Fixed a bug where Markdown in the update changelog modal was rendering incorrectly. For instance, inline code like <table> would be interpreted as HTML and disappear instead of showing the literal text.

[v0.27.0-alpha] - 2025-10-15

✨ Added

Preview: A new .float-container class has been introduced to allow for more flexible, custom layouts. This feature lets you float elements like images or tables and have subsequent content, including headers, wrap correctly around them. Helper classes like .float-left and .float-right are also available for easy styling.

🔄 Changed

Renderer: The image processing logic has been improved to be non-destructive. Previously, it would discard all existing attributes (like alt or style) from an <img> tag during processing. The renderer now preserves all attributes and intelligently adds the necessary embedded-image class.

🐞 Fixed

Styling: Fixed a series of CSS layout issues that prevented content from flowing correctly around the right-floated infobox and other floated elements, which often created large vertical gaps. The fix allows text to properly wrap underneath the infobox for the desired "wiki-style" layout.

[v0.26.5-alpha] - 2025-10-13

🐞 Fixed

Licensing: Fixed a critical bug where the license validation token was missing from the application binary, causing all license checks to fail. The build process has been corrected to inject the necessary secrets at compile-time.

[v0.26.4-alpha] - 2025-10-13

🔄 Changed

Licensing: The licensing system has been overhauled to fully support machine activation, correctly handling the device lifecycle required by the Keygen policy.
Internal: The build process has been updated to securely manage secrets for the licensing system.

🔒 Security

Licensing: Implemented a tamper-proof verification system for the local license file using HMAC-SHA256 signatures. The license data is now signed using a secret key and the unique machine ID when it's saved. This signature is verified on every startup using a constant-time comparison to prevent tampering with the license's contents, such as its expiry date.

[v0.26.3-alpha] - 2025-10-11

🔄 Changed

Themes & Fonts: Font selection has been decoupled from color themes to provide a more flexible and intuitive customization experience. You can now mix and match any color theme with any available heading and body font.
Styling: The global CSS rule that forced width: auto; on all tables has been removed, allowing the HTML width attribute to function as expected.
Internal: All business logic for handling theme and font changes has been centralized into the settingsStore. There is now a single source of truth for orchestrating theme changes and automatically synchronizing fonts for built-in theme. UI components are now purely presentational, improving code maintainability and scalability.

[v0.26.2-alpha] - 2025-10-08

🔄 Changed

Renderer: The HTML sanitizer has been updated to allow the use of width, cellspacing, and cellpadding attributes on table elements, providing users with more layout control.
Styling: Removed the global CSS rule that explicitly forced all table cells to be left-aligned. This change restores the browser's default alignment behavior (centered headers, left-aligned data) and allows the HTML align attribute to function as expected.

🐞 Fixed

Styling: Fixed an issue where a global CSS rule was applying a default border to all tables, ignoring the border="0" HTML attribute. A more specific CSS selector has been introduced to ensure that cells within borderless tables do not have a border.

[v0.26.1-alpha] - 2025-10-08

🔄 Changed

Renderer: The HTML sanitizer has been updated to permit additional safe attributes for styling tables. You can now use border and align on <table> tags, and valign on <th> and <td> tags to create basic table layouts and control vertical alignment in cells.

🐞 Fixed

Templates: Fixed an issue in the template editor where long templates could not be scrolled. The wrapper now correctly allows vertical scrolling when the content exceeds the container's height.

[v0.26.0-alpha] - 2025-10-06

✨ Added

Reports: A new "Parse Errors" report has been added to provide a centralized view of all files that contain malformed YAML frontmatter or other parse errors. The backend now tracks these files and their specific error messages in real-time. The new report view allows you to click on any file to navigate directly to it to fix the issue.
Logging: A file-based logging system has been implemented to aid in debugging and user support. Logs are now written to the standard application log directory, with a new file created daily (e.g., chronicler.YYYY-MM-DD.log). A new link has been added to the footer of the Settings modal that allows you to easily open the log directory from within the application.

🔄 Changed

Help: The Help guide was rewritten and restructured into a three-part guide (Essentials, Customization, Advanced), simplifying technical language and improving readability.

🐞 Fixed

Indexer: Fixed a critical bug where saving a file with invalid YAML frontmatter would cause it to be completely removed from the index, leading to a misleading "File not found" error. If parsing fails on an update, the indexer now creates a default "placeholder" page object to ensure the file remains accessible in the application.

[v0.25.0-alpha] - 2025-10-01

✨ Added

Infobox: You can now create highly customizable, wiki-style infobox layouts directly from the YAML frontmatter.A new layout key allows you to inject header rules to add centered titles and group rules to render multiple fields as columns. Rules can be positioned relative to existing fields (e.g., { "above": "field_name" }).

[v0.24.4-alpha] - 2025-09-29

🐞 Fixed

Images: Fixed a bug that prevented images embedded as Base64 data: URIs from rendering, which broke the full-screen image viewer. This was caused by the data: source being accidentally removed from the Content Security Policy's img-src directive during a recent refactor.

[v0.24.3-alpha] - 2025-09-27

🐞 Fixed

Fonts / Windows: Fixed an issue that prevented custom fonts from rendering correctly on Windows 11. This was because the font's filename was being used as its CSS font-family, which stricter browser engines reject if it doesn't match the font's internal metadata. The application now extracts the correct "Font Family Name" from the file's metadata, ensuring fonts are applied reliably across all platforms.

[v0.24.2-alpha] - 2025-09-25

🐞 Fixed

Importer: Fixed an issue where the MediaWiki importer would fail with a "program not found" error. The importer now correctly locates and uses the application-managed Pandoc executable instead of attempting to call a globally installed version.

[v0.24.1-alpha] - 2025-09-24

🐞 Fixed

Windows / New Page: Fixed a bug on Windows where the "New Page" modal failed to pre-select the correct parent directory due to inconsistent path separators.

[v0.24.0-alpha] - 2025-09-24

✨ Added

Fonts: You can now add and use your own custom fonts in themes. The application will automatically scan a new fonts directory in the app's configuration folder on startup. Supported formats are .woff2, .ttf, and .otf.

🔄 Changed

File View: The main view will now remain focused on a file after it has been renamed or moved. Previously, these actions required you to manually locate and re-open the file.
Reports: The "Broken Links" report now uses natural sort order instead of alphabetical. This ensures that numbered items (e.g., "1st Scion", "18th Scion") are sorted correctly and intuitively.
Internal: The frontend's view navigation logic has been centralized, removing duplicated local functions.

[v0.23.4-alpha] - 2025-09-23

🔄 Changed

Performance / Images: The high-performance hybrid image loading system has been re-instated. This system significantly improves performance and reduces memory usage by loading in-vault images asynchronously via a custom asset protocol, while retaining Base64 encoding for external images.

🐞 Fixed

Windows: Fixed a critical bug that prevented in-vault images from loading on Windows with the new asset protocol. This was caused by a difference in how webview engines handle custom protocols. The backend now uses conditional compilation to generate the correct URL format for each platform, making the performance improvements fully cross-platform.

[v0.23.3-alpha] - 2025-09-22

🐞 Fixed

Images: Fixed a critical regression where images stopped loading after the recent change in v0.23.2. This reverts image handling back to the previous behaviour.

[v0.23.2-alpha] - 2025-09-22

🔄 Changed

Performance: Implemented a new hybrid image loading strategy to resolve critical performance bottlenecks and UI freezes caused by the previous all-Base64 approach. Images located inside the vault (using relative paths) are now loaded via Tauri's highly performant asset:// protocol, which loads them asynchronously to prevent UI freezes and reduce memory usage.

🐞 Fixed

Styling: Fixed an issue where inline images in the infobox were not styled correctly. A consistent CSS class (embedded-image) is now applied to all <img> tags during rendering, regardless of their source, and the infobox styles have been updated to account for this.

[v0.23.1-alpha] - 2025-09-22

🐞 Fixed

Infobox: Fixed a regression that caused fields in the infobox to be rendered in an unpredictable order, which often resulted in the last field from the YAML appearing first in the UI.

[v0.23.0-alpha] - 2025-09-21

✨ Added

Infobox: An image carousel has been implemented for the infobox. The image field in the YAML frontmatter now accepts a list of image paths in addition to a single string.
View Modes: A new "editor-only" view mode has been added.

🔄 Changed

Infobox: The component's styling has been refactored to use modern CSS best practices. All hardcoded px values have been replaced with relative rem units, making the component fully scalable and accessible. CSS Custom Properties have also been introduced to create a consistent design system for spacing and sizing.

🐞 Fixed

UI: Fixed an issue that caused a flash of the default light theme on application startup and when the vault selector was open.

[v0.22.2-alpha] - 2025-09-21

🐞 Fixed

Windows: Fixed a bug that prevented wikilinks from navigating correctly on Windows due to inconsistent path separators. The HTML renderer had not been updated to account for an earlier change that standardized path serialization to a web-standard format. A new helper function has been added to centralize path normalization, guaranteeing all paths sent to the frontend use the web-standard format.

[v0.22.1-alpha] - 2025-09-20

🐞 Fixed

Windows: Fixed a critical bug that caused navigation to fail when creating new pages in subfolders. The issue stemmed from the backend sending paths with inconsistent separators (\ vs. /) due to a subtle behavior in Tauri's serialization layer. A custom serializer has been implemented to guarantee that all paths sent to the frontend are consistently formatted with forward slashes.

[v0.22.0-alpha] - 2025-09-18

✨ Added

Infobox: You can now use inline Markdown formatting (like bold and italics) in any string value within the YAML frontmatter.
Infobox: Images can now be embedded directly into frontmatter fields using either standard <img> tags or wikilink syntax (![[...]]). These images are converted to Base64 data URLs and styled to display correctly within the infobox.

🔄 Changed

Infobox: The default italic styling has been removed from the infobox subtitle. This change allows users to apply their own formatting now that Markdown is supported.
Internal: The backend rendering pipeline has been refactored to improve maintainability. All frontmatter processing logic—including sanitation, field rendering, and image handling—has been encapsulated into a single process_frontmatter function.

[v0.21.1-alpha] - 2025-09-17

🔄 Changed

Help: The Help page has been updated with new sections covering horizontal separators (---), embedding images using both Markdown and wikilink syntax, and using YAML block scalars (|).

🐞 Fixed

Preview: Fixed a bug that prevented creating new pages by clicking on broken links in the preview pane. A previous bad cherry-pick had caused the HTML sanitizer to incorrectly strip the necessary data-target attribute from links.

[v0.21.0-alpha] - 2025-09-16

✨ Added

Infobox: A new subtitle field is now supported in the YAML frontmatter. It is rendered directly below the main title in italics.

🔄 Changed

Table of Contents: A new "Contents" button has been added to the header of the main view, allowing you to toggle the visibility of the Table of Contents globally.
Help: The Help page has been updated with a new section for using inline images, such as flags or icons, and also mentions the new 'subtitle' YAML field.

🐞 Fixed

File Explorer: The file and folder sorting has been changed from standard alphabetical to natural sort order. This corrects an issue where numbered files were sorted unintuitively (e.g., 100 appearing before 21) and ensures all entries are now listed in a more human-friendly order.

[v0.20.0-alpha] - 2025-09-13

✨ Added

Importer: Added a new importer for MediaWiki XML dumps, which is now available as an option in the Importer modal. It uses a robust two-pass process to accurately parse pages and infer tags from infobox templates by mapping template categories. The importer automatically downloads all images referenced in the content from the live wiki's API, flattens infobox data into YAML frontmatter, and converts wikitext to Markdown with [[wikilinks]].
Images: You can now embed images using the popular wikilink syntax (![[image.jpg]]). The renderer converts this into a standard <img> tag and processes it through the same consistent pipeline as other images.

🐞 Fixed

Table of Contents: Corrected the rendering of headers that contain wikilinks. The TOC will now display the clean alias or page name (e.g., "Display Text") instead of the raw Markdown ([[My Page|Display Text]]). The anchor link URLs are also now generated from this cleaned text for more readable links.

[v0.19.1-alpha] - 2025-09-11

🔄 Changed

Performance: Significantly improved performance of batch file operations, such as adding multiple files to the vault at once. Previously, the application would trigger a full, expensive re-indexing for each individual file change. The file watcher now collects multiple events into a single batch, and the expensive relationship-rebuilding step is performed only once after all changes have been processed.

[v0.19.0-alpha] - 2025-09-09

✨ Added

New Page Workflow: The "New Page" modal has been enhanced with a dropdown menu that lists all available folders within the vault. This allows you to select a destination for the new page directly from the modal.

🐞 Fixed

Renderer: Wikilinks located inside raw HTML blocks (e.g., within <table> tags) are now correctly processed and rendered as clickable links. Previously, they were passed through as plain text.
Parser: Corrected an issue where wikilinks with aliases used inside Markdown tables were not parsed correctly. The parser now properly handles the necessary escaped pipe character (\|), which is required to prevent conflicts with table syntax.
UI: Fixed a minor layout issue that could cause an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar to appear in the text input modal.

[v0.18.2-alpha] - 2025-09-07

🐞 Fixed

Styling: Fixed a layout regression where main page content would incorrectly appear below the infobox instead of wrapping around it. This was resolved by adding a new wrapper element that correctly contains the flow of the main content while allowing headings inside it to clear floats as intended.

[v0.18.1-alpha] - 2025-09-06

✨ Added

Infobox: The page title is now displayed at the top of the infobox.

🔄 Changed

UI: The application icons have been updated with the new Chronicler logo.
Styling: The width of tables in the preview area is now set to auto to better fit their content.

🐞 Fixed

Images: Fixed a bug that prevented images from rendering if their file paths contained special characters (like &) or URL-encoded characters (like %20 for a space). The renderer now correctly decodes these paths, making image handling significantly more reliable.
Preview: Resolved a critical issue where clicking a broke Markdown link (e.g., [link](Target)) would cause an unrecoverable 404 error, breaking the page view. All click events are now handled by a unified system that neutralizes such links to prevent the error.
Styling: Corrected a layout bug where headings would incorrectly wrap around floated images from a previous section. Headings now automatically clear preceding floats, ensuring a predictable document structure.

[v0.18.0-alpha] - 2025-09-05

✨ Added

Importer: You can now import an entire folder of .docx files at once.
Importer: When converting .docx files, any embedded images are now automatically extracted and saved into a dedicated images directory. The resulting Markdown files will correctly link to these images using clean, relative paths.
Importer: The import UI has been moved from the general settings into a new, dedicated modal. This new interface provides better user feedback by displaying a loading message while the import is in progress.

[v0.17.1-alpha] - 2025-09-03

🔒 Security

Security: All values within the YAML frontmatter are now sanitized before rendering. This prevents malicious HTML, like onerror attributes, from being injected and executed in the infobox, protecting against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

🐞 Fixed

Preview: Fixed a bug where the page title would display a link's alias instead of the actual page name when navigating via internal links. Page titles are now correctly derived from the file path.

[v0.17.0-alpha] - 2025-09-02

✨ Added

Preview: An automatic Table of Contents (ToC) is now generated for pages that contain Markdown headers, making it easier to navigate long documents. The ToC comes with a [hide] button, and Chronicler remembers your choice.

🔄 Changed

UI: Modals now have a maximum height to prevent them from overflowing the viewport and will display a vertical scrollbar when their content is too long.
Writer: The logic for writing page content to disk has been centralized into the application's writer module to ensure all saves are atomic operations. This improves data integrity by preventing corruption or data loss if an operation is interrupted.
Renderer: The HTML sanitizer has been configured to no longer automatically add rel="noopener noreferrer" to external links. This change was implemented to resolve internal test failures and results in cleaner HTML output.
Help: The Help page has been updated with a new section explaining how to create tables using Markdown syntax.

[v0.16.1-alpha] - 2025-08-31

🐞 Fixed

Parser: Fixed the wikilink parser which was incorrectly allowing multiple # characters in a link, such as [[Page#Section1#SubSection]]. The logic has been updated to enforce a stricter syntax, ensuring that malformed links with multiple section markers are now treated as plain text.
Parser: Resolved an issue where wikilinks with extra whitespace around the alias pipe character (e.g., [[link | alias]]) were incorrectly flagged as broken. The parser now trims leading and trailing whitespace from the link target and alias, making it more permissive of common user formatting and improving the accuracy of link resolution.

[v0.16.0-alpha] - 2025-08-30

✨ Added

Preview: You can now create a missing page by clicking its "broken" wikilink directly in the preview pane.
Reports: Added a new "Reports" tab to the sidebar to house vault analytics.
Reports: Implemented a "Broken Links" report that lists all unresolved wikilinks and the source pages they appear on, allowing you to click on the broken link's target to create the missing page.

🔄 Changed

Internal: The frontend logic for rendering the main view (e.g., file view, reports) has been refactored to a more scalable and modern component map system.
Internal: As part of the view rendering refactor, the welcome screen has been extracted into its own dedicated WelcomeView.svelte component.
Internal: The modal management system has been modernized, improving code clarity.

[v0.15.0-alpha] - 2025-08-28

✨ Added

Templates: Added a system for creating, managing, and using user-defined page templates. These templates are stored in a global configuration directory, making them accessible across all vaults.

🔄 Changed

New Page Workflow: The "New Page" workflow has been updated with a new dropdown menu. This menu is populated with your saved templates, allowing you to start a new page with pre-defined content.

[v0.14.3-alpha] - 2025-08-24

🔄 Changed

Build: Optimized the backend's dependencies. Default features for several dependencies were disabled in favor of an opt-in approach, ensuring only necessary and cross-platform compatible code is compiled. This speeds up build time, reduces the final binary size and improves build reliability.
Images: Restored support for SVG images.

[v0.14.2-alpha] - 2025-08-23

🐞 Fixed

Renderer: Fixed a bug where certain Markdown-generated HTML (e.g horizontal lines via ***) was being removed due to overly restrictive sanitization. The sanitizer whitelist has been extended to include formats that were previously working.

[v0.14.1-alpha] - 2025-08-23

🐞 Fixed

Renderer: Fixed a critical bug where internal page links were broken, attempting to open external URLs instead of navigating to the linked page.

[v0.14.0-alpha] - 2025-08-23

✨ Added

File Explorer: You can now duplicate any page from the file explorer's context menu. A copy is created in the same directory with a numerical suffix.
Images: Added the ability to embed images directly in the body of a page using standard HTML <img> tags. The renderer automatically converts the src paths of these images into self-contained Base64 data URLs.

🐞 Fixed

Nag Screen: Corrected the URL for the donation link in the license nag screen.

🔒 Security

Security: Implemented an HTML sanitizer to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks from user-provided content. The renderer now strips dangerous tags (like <script>) and attributes (like onerror) while allowing a whitelist of safe elements.
Security: Removed support for SVG images to mitigate a potential XSS vulnerabilities. Because SVGs can contain embedded <script> tags, this change hardens application security by disallowing the format in favor of safer raster image types.

🔄 Changed

Infobox: Images can now be viewed full-screen with a single click instead of a double click.
Help: The Help page has been updated with a new section for the spoiler syntax and examples for embedding and styling images using HTML.

[v0.13.0-alpha] - 2025-08-21

✨ Added

Spoilers: Added support for Discord-style ||spoiler|| syntax in Markdown.
License Nag Screen: Implemented a modal to encourage unlicensed users to purchase a license after 30 days of use.

🔄 Changed

Styling: The CSS rules for internal wikilinks have been consolidated from individual components into the global app.css file.
Internal: The backend rendering logic for custom syntax has been refactored to improve maintainability.

[v0.12.0-alpha] - 2025-08-19

✨ Added

Infobox: You can now double-click the image within a page's infobox to open it in the full-screen image viewer.

🐞 Fixed

Fonts: Updated the "Cinzel" font file to a version that includes the full Greek character set, fixing a rendering bug where the mu character (μ) would not display correctly.
File Explorer: Added checks to avoid unnecessary error popups when attempting to move a file or folder into the folder it's already in.

🔄 Changed

Infobox: Fields in the infobox are now displayed in the same order they are defined in the YAML frontmatter, rather than being sorted alphabetically.

🔒 Security

Images: The method for displaying images has been completely refactored for better performance and security. All image processing is now handled by the Rust backend, which reads image files and embeds them as Base64 Data URLs.

[v0.11.1-alpha] - 2025-08-17

✨ Added

Image View: Navigation controls have been added to the Image View. A new reusable ViewHeader.svelte component has been created to unify the header structure across the application. Previously, header logic was duplicated in FileView and TagIndexView but was absent in ImageView.

🔄 Changed

Preview: The preview area has been refactored to allow page content to wrap around the infobox for a more fluid reading experience.
File View: Simplified infobox logic. The FileView component now passes the frontmatter object directly, and the Infobox component itself determines whether it should render.
Donations: The Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee links in the welcome footer have been replaced with a single, consolidated link to the support section of chronicler.pro.

[v0.11.0-alpha] - 2025-08-15

✨ Added

Licensing: A complete backend system has been implemented for validating and managing user licenses via the Keygen.sh API.

🔄 Changed

Donation Prompt: The donation prompt logic has been refactored to no longer show for users with an active license, providing a better user experience for supporters.

[v0.10.4-alpha] - 2025-08-14

🐞 Fixed

Writer: Fixed a data consistency issue where renaming a file externally (e.g., in the system's file explorer) would not update its backlinks, leading to a broken link graph. Previously, only renames initiated from within the application would trigger backlink updates. The backlink logic has now been centralized into a single transactional function that handles renames from both the file watcher and internal app operations.

🔄 Changed

Writer: Periods are now allowed in filenames. Previously, the application would interpret the last period as the start of a file extension, causing a name like "api.v1" to be saved as "api.md". The path construction logic has been changed to ensure that periods in user-provided names are preserved.

[v0.10.3-alpha] - 2025-08-13

🐞 Fixed

Writer: Fixed a regression where renaming a page would incorrectly add a pipe separator (|) to wikilinks that did not have an alias. This would cause a link like [[old-name]] to be changed to [[new-name|]]. The logic now correctly handles both aliased and non-aliased links, preserving their original structure.

[v0.10.2-alpha] - 2025-08-12

🐞 Fixed

Linux: Resolved a critical crash when launching the AppImage on Wayland-based systems (e.g., Arch Linux, Steam Deck). The build configuration has been adjusted to prevent bundling a conflicting media framework library.

[v0.10.1-alpha] - 2025-08-12

🐞 Fixed

Writer: Fixed a critical bug where renaming a page would corrupt any backlinks that used an alias. The update logic now correctly preserves the | separator, ensuring that links with custom display text (e.g., [[new-page|display text]]) are formatted correctly after a rename.

[v0.10.0-alpha] - 2025-08-11

✨ Added

Settings: Implemented a new hybrid settings model that distinguishes between global and per-vault configurations. Custom themes are stored globally, allowing them to be used across all vaults. Vault-specific settings like the active theme, font size, and sidebar width are stored in a new settings file within each vault, making them self-contained and portable.
Theme Editor: The theme editor has been enhanced to allow for font selection. You can now choose separate fonts for headings and body text from a dropdown menu, and the changes are applied in a live preview.

[v0.9.5-alpha] - 2025-08-10

🐞 Fixed

File Explorer: Resolved a layout issue where the file explorer's scrollbar was not flush with the edge of the sidebar.
File Explorer: Fixed a bug that caused inconsistent text alignment for long file and directory names that wrapped to a new line.
File Explorer: Corrected an issue where file and folder names could be truncated prematurely because hidden action buttons were still occupying space.

🔄 Changed

Sidebar: The width of the sidebar is now a persistent setting that will be remembered across application sessions.
Settings: The system for saving settings to disk has been refactored to be automatic and debounced. This improves performance and responsiveness by bundling multiple quick changes (e.g., from a slider) into a single write operation.

[v0.9.4-alpha] - 2025-08-08

🐞 Fixed

Pandoc: Corrected the logic for locating the Pandoc executable on macOS by simplifying the search pattern.

🔄 Changed

Themes: Centralized the list of CSS variables that define a theme's color palette into a single source of truth. The theme editor's UI is now dynam ically generated from this central list.
Themes: Refactored the internal theme data structures to derive the ThemePalette type directly from the canonical list of theme keys, improving type safety and reducing redundancy.
Themes: Simplified the internal function for setting the active theme.

[v0.9.3-alpha] - 2025-08-06

✨ Added

Theme Editor: Implemented a live preview feature. The entire application UI now updates in real-time as you edit a theme's colors.
Theme Editor: The theme list now displays a user-friendly message when no custom themes have been created yet.

🐞 Fixed

Theme Editor: Fixed a critical bug where applying a theme would incorrectly overwrite other global styles, such as the user's selected font size.
Theme Editor: Deleting a theme now uses an asynchronous confirmation dialog, preventing the theme from being deleted accidentally if the user cancelled the action.
Theme Editor: Resolved an issue where lingering CSS variables from a custom theme were not being properly cleaned up when switching back to a built-in theme.
Theme Editor: Fixed a layout bug where the theme name input field could overflow its container and cause a horizontal scrollbar.

🔄 Changed

Core: The title field in a page's YAML frontmatter has been restored, reverting its deprecation in v0.9.2-alpha.
Theme Editor: The user experience has been significantly improved with several UX enhancements.
State Management: The application's global style and theme management has been overhauled to be more robust and performant, resolving several state synchronization bugs.

[v0.9.2-alpha] - 2025-08-06

🐞 Fixed

Config: Fixed an issue where images and other assets would not load if they were located outside of the user's home directory.
Modals: Fixed a bug where submitting the text input modal would attempt to close it twice.
Accessibility: Resolved accessibility warnings to improve usability for screen reader users. This includes adding a semantic role to the file explorer and providing more descriptive alt text for images in the infobox.
Sidebar: Removed unnecessary code related to the "Change Vault" functionality in the settings
Warnings: Cleaned up the codebase by removing unused imports to fix TypeScript compiler warnings.

🔄 Changed

Core: The filename is now the single source of truth for a page's title. The title field in YAML frontmatter has been deprecated and is no longer used.
State Management: The application's core lifecycle state (e.g., loading, ready) has been separated from UI state for improved maintainability and a clearer separation of concerns.

[v0.9.1-alpha] - 2025-08-04

✨ Added

Themes: Added a new built-in "Professional" theme.

🐞 Fixed

CSS: Corrected the fallback CSS for several themes that were using incorrect generic font family fallbacks (e.g., specifying 'serif' for a sans-serif font).
Theme Editor: Addressed multiple TypeScript warnings within the theme editor to improve type safety. This includes resolving issues with implicitly typed variables and refining null-checking logic.
Preview: Resolved a layout bug where preformatted content, such as indented code blocks, could overflow and break the page layout. The preview area was refactored to correctly isolate the scrolling content.

🔄 Changed

Themes: The "hologram" theme has been improved to use a proper italic font file instead of relying on the browser to synthetically slant the regular font.
Startup: The application's startup process and state management have been overhauled to be more robust, predictable, and maintainable. All initialization logic is now centralized in a single module, and the sequence is guaranteed to prevent race conditions.
State Management: The application's status store was improved from a simple string to an object, allowing for more detailed error messages to be displayed in the UI.
Help: The "Help" page was updated to include the special behaviour of the "infobox" field in the YAML frontmatter, that specifies the header text of the infobox.

[v0.9.0-alpha] - 2025-08-04

✨ Added

Theme Editor: Implemented a user-defined theme editor. You can now create, edit, save, and delete an unlimited number of custom themes, all of which are persisted between sessions.
Themes: A new slider has been added to the Settings modal, allowing users to adjust the application's base font size for better readability.

[v0.8.2-alpha] - 2025-08-03

🐞 Fixed

Writer: Fixed a critical bug where renaming a file could lead to an invalid path in the indexer. The rename handler now correctly differentiates between file and folder operations to ensure path integrity.
Writer: Improved the stability of file renames by making the entire operation, including all backlink updates, fully transactional. This prevents the vault from entering an inconsistent state if an update is interrupted.
Writer: Renaming files with non-markdown extensions (e.g., .jpg, .png) now correctly preserves their original file extension instead of incorrectly changing it to .md.
Infobox: Improved image loading diagnostics. Error messages for failed images now include the specific URL that failed, making it easier to debug broken image links.
Resources: Standardized error handling for bundled application resources to provide more helpful and actionable error messages.

[v0.8.1-alpha] - 2025-08-02

🔄 Changed

Renderer: Wikilink rendering has been overhauled for more intuitive, context-aware behavior. Links are now correctly processed inside block-level code (fenced and indented) but are ignored inside inline code snippets. This fixes a bug where links in code blocks were previously rendered incorrectly as literal html.
Styling: The application's CSS color system has been refactored to use semantic variable names (e.g., --color-background-primary instead of --parchment), improving theme consistency and maintainability.

[v0.8.0-alpha] - 2025-07-31

✨ Added

Themes: A theme switcher has been implemented, allowing users to switch between multiple built-in themes ("Parchment & Wine", "Slate & Gold", etc.) from the Settings modal. The chosen theme is persisted across application sessions.

🔄 Changed

Styling: The application's styling has been significantly refactored for consistency and scalability.
Preview: The main content preview has been refactored to use a modern Flexbox layout, fixing a visual bug where heading borders would render underneath the infobox.

[v0.7.0-alpha] - 2025-07-30

✨ Added

Context Menu: Added a new "Open in Explorer" option to the context menu to allow users to open folders in the OS's default file manager.
Context Menu: Right-clicking the empty space now shows context menu options for the vault root.

🔄 Changed

Context Menu: The menu is now context-aware, hiding actions like "Rename" and "Delete" for the vault root. The underlying event handling was also refactored to be more robust and maintainable.
UI: Standardized the appearance of buttons and error messages throughout the application by replacing custom styles with the unified Button and ErrorBox components for better consistency.

[v0.6.1-alpha] - 2025-07-28

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Fixed a bug where wikilink autocompletion was showing directories instead of Markdown files.

[v0.6.0-alpha] - 2025-07-28

✨ Added

Image Viewer: You can now click on image files in the file explorer to open them in a full-page viewer.
Changelog Modal: A new "View Changelog" button in Settings opens a scrollable modal showing the full version history from CHANGELOG.md.

🔄 Changed

Image Errors: Improved error handling when loading images in the infobox. If a referenced image is missing, users now see a helpful message instead of a generic "Can't load image".
File Tree: The internal file model was refactored for type safety and clarity. Files now use a FileType enum (Directory, Markdown, Image) to distinguish between nodes in the tree. This improves rendering and sorting logic.
Sorting: Custom sort order ensures that directories always appear above files in the file explorer.

[v0.5.2-alpha] - 2025-07-27

🔄 Changed

Writer: Implemented atomic file writes to prevent data corruption or loss during application crashes or power failures. This was achieved by writing changes to a temporary file before renaming it, which guarantees that an operation either completes successfully or not at all.
Help: The Help page was re-written to be more user-friendly and provide additional information to new users. It was also refactored to load its content from a bundled application resource (HELP.md) rather than a static file.
Internal: Various code style improvements, documentation updates, and refactoring were completed to improve maintainability and readability.

[v0.5.1-alpha] - 2025-07-25

🐞 Fixed

Drag and Drop: Fixed a critical bug that caused file and folder move operations to fail on Windows. Path construction logic is now handled exclusively by the backend to ensure cross-platform compatibility and reliable drag-and-drop functionality.

🔄 Changed

Performance: Reworked the core state management to use granular locking instead of a single global lock. This significantly improves concurrency and UI responsiveness by allowing operations like rendering and file fetching to run in parallel without blocking each other.
Stability: File rename and move operations are now fully transactional. A new backup-and-rollback strategy prevents data loss or vault corruption if an operation (like updating wikilinks) is interrupted.
Architecture: The backend was refactored to improve separation of concerns. All file system write operations were moved from the Indexer into a new, dedicated Writer component, making the codebase more modular, testable, and maintainable.
Internal: Refactored backend path handling to use idiomatic, safer methods from Rust's standard library instead of manual string manipulation.

[v0.5.0-alpha] - 2025-07-24

✨ Added

Preview: The infobox is now fully responsive, using a clamp()-based width to scale correctly on different screen resolutions.
Preview: External URLs clicked within the preview now open in the user's default web browser for convenience.

🐞 Fixed

CI: Fixed a shell parsing error in the release workflow that caused the Ubuntu build to fail when updating release notes.

🔄 Changed

Updater: The changelog displayed in the update modal now uses the default monospace font for better visual consistency with the rest of the application.

[v0.4.2-alpha] - 2025-07-24

🐞 Fixed

Editor: Fixed wikilink autocompletion to append the correct number of closing square brackets.

[v0.4.1-alpha] - 2025-07-23

✨ Added

Editor: The editor is now automatically focused whenenever it's opened so the user can immediately start typing.

🐞 Fixed

Updater: A summary of the latest changes is now properly displayed in the update modal.

🔄 Changed

Editor: Refactored wikilink autocompletion logic to be simpler and more maintainable.

[v0.4.0-alpha] - 2025-07-22

✨ Added

Editor: The editor has been replaced with CodeMirror 6, which enables link and tag autocompletions.

🐞 Fixed

Drag and Drop: Disabled the operating system's native drag-and-drop to ensure the HTML5 drag-and-drop feature works correctly on Windows and MacOS.
Internal: Updated Tauri and its dependencies, fixing a bug that prevented the changelog from being displayed in the update modal.

🔄 Changed

Internal: Reduced log pollution by no longer logging full page content for the write_page_content trace, as the path is sufficient.

[v0.3.2-alpha] - 2025-07-21

✨ Added

Welcome Page: Added a link to join the community on Discord in the welcome screen's footer.

🐞 Fixed

Linux Build: Fixed a critical issue that caused the Linux AppImage build to fail. This also resolves compatibility problems for some Linux distributions, making the application runnable for more users.

[v0.3.1-alpha] - 2025-07-21

🔄 Changed

File Watcher: The file watcher is now more comprehensive. It correctly interprets a "Move to Trash" operation as a deletion and handles the creation and deletion of entire folders more intelligently, ensuring the file index remains consistent.
Stability: The core locking strategy for file operations was refactored to use top-level write locks, preventing potential deadlocks and race conditions under heavy use.
Internal: The application's code structure was improved for better maintainability, which will speed up future development.

[v0.3.0-alpha] - 2025-07-19

✨ Added

Updater: The update notification modal now displays a formatted changelog with notes on the latest version.
File Explorer: File explorer search has been improved; directories now dynamically expand to show matching files, and the manual expansion state is remembered after a search is complete.
Sidebar: The search term in the sidebar is now automatically cleared when switching between the "Files" and "Tags" tabs.

🔄 Changed

Internal: All application capabilities have been refactored into a default.json file.

[v0.2.0-alpha] - 2025-07-19

✨ Added

Improved Drag-and-Drop Experience:

Root Drop Zone: A dedicated drop zone now appears at the top of the file explorer when dragging, allowing files and folders to be moved to the vault root in a clear and predictable way.
Auto-Scrolling: The file explorer now automatically scrolls when you drag an item near the top or bottom edge, making it easy to drop files into folders that are currently out of view.

🔄 Changed

Refactored Drag-and-Drop Logic: The internal code for drag-and-drop was refactored into reusable Svelte DOM actions (draggable and droppable), simplifying component logic and improving maintainability.

[v0.1.10-alpha] - 2025-07-18

✨ Added

Drag-and-Drop support: Enabled drag-and-drop functionality in the File Explorer, allowing you to move files and folders to new locations directly within the app.

[v0.1.9-alpha] - 2025-07-17

✨ Added

Quick-Create Buttons: Added hover-activated buttons to each directory in the file explorer, allowing for the quick creation of new pages and folders directly within that directory.

🔄 Changed

Improved Styling: Further unified CSS styling by centralizing more colors and typography into global variables.

🐞 Fixed

Editor Reverted: Temporarily reverted the editor from CodeMirror 6 back to a standard textarea. This was done to resolve critical bugs in the production build. The advanced editor with autocompletion will be re-introduced once the build issues are fully solved.
Build Stability: Corrected the SvelteKit configuration to properly build for SPA (Single-Page Application) mode, which is essential for Tauri apps.

[v0.1.8-alpha] - 2025-07-15

✨ Added

Editor Autocompletion: The editor has been upgraded to CodeMirror 6 and now provides autocompletion suggestions for [[wikilinks]] and frontmatter tags: [].
Donation Prompt: A modal will now appear on application close asking users to consider supporting development. This choice is saved persistently so it only appears once.

🔄 Changed

UI & Branding: The application logo has been added to the welcome screen and vault selector for a more consistent brand identity.

🐞 Fixed

Frontmatter Rendering: Fixed a bug where having duplicate keys in a page's frontmatter would prevent the page from rendering correctly.

[v0.1.7-alpha] - 2025-07-13

✨ Added

Automatic Link Updating: When you rename a file from within Chronicler, all wikilinks pointing to that file in your vault will now be updated automatically.

🔄 Changed

Improved Backlinks Panel: Backlinks are now sorted alphabetically and display a reference count in parentheses if a page links to the current page more than once (e.g., (3)).
Version Display: The current application version is now visible in the Settings modal and the update notification window.
Page Template: The default template for new pages now uses a YAML array for tags, which is more user-friendly.
macOS Instructions: The installation instructions for macOS users have been updated to be more robust.

[v0.1.6-alpha] - 2025-07-12

✨ Added

View Navigation: Added back and forward arrows to the main view, allowing for easy navigation through browsing history, similar to a web browser.
Backend Unit Tests: Added unit tests for the backend rendering engine to ensure stability and prevent regressions.

🔄 Changed

File Explorer: The file explorer has been improved to hide the redundant root folder and start with all sub-folders collapsed by default, providing a cleaner initial view.
Improved Documentation: Added extensive documentation to both the frontend and backend codebases to improve clarity and maintainability.
Refactored Image Handling: Simplified the logic for displaying infobox images by handling it directly in the frontend, making the code easier to follow.

[v0.1.5-alpha] - 2025-07-10

✨ Added

Automatic Updates: Chronicler now checks for updates when the application starts, allowing users to easily download and install the latest version.

🔄 Changed

Welcome Page: Added a footer to the welcome page informing the user that Chronicler is still in early (but active) development, and providing links for those who wish to support the project either by donation, reporting bugs, or requesting features.

[v0.1.4-alpha] - 2025-07-10

✨ Added

Help Page: Added a button that opens a help page with instructions on writing Markdown and YAML frontmatter. It explains how to format content, use tags, and create links between pages.

🔄 Changed

Infobox Location: Moved the infobox into the Preview component. This simplifies the FileView and ensures the infobox scrolls naturally with the rest of the page.

🐞 Fixed

Malformed YAML: Fixed an issue where invalid YAML frontmatter would cause the entire page to fail rendering.

[v0.1.3-alpha] - 2025-07-09

✨ Added

Infobox Images: The infobox can now display the image defined by the YAML frontmatter.

🔄 Changed

Dynamic Infobox Layout: The infobox is now responsive and changes its position based on the context. It appears at the top of the page in split view and on the right-hand side in preview-only mode. The layout also adapts for screens narrower than 480px.
Simplified Tag Data: Refactored tag data handling by updating the backend to return data in the desired format, and updating the frontend to consistently use the single unified tag store derived from the global world state.
Backlinks Sidebar: The width of the backlinks sidebar has been reduced from 280px to 200px.
Editor Scrollbar: The editor's scrollbar is now flush with the side of the window for a cleaner look.

[v0.1.2-alpha] - 2025-07-08

✨ Added

Context Menus: Right-click context menus have been added to the file tree, providing actions to create, rename, and delete files and folders.
Timestamp Display: The user interface now displays the last modified timestamp for the currently viewed page.
"New Folder" Button: Added a button to create a new folder directly in the vault's root.

🔄 Changed

Improved New Page Workflow: Creating a new page now automatically opens it and focuses the editor, allowing you to start typing immediately.
Centralized Modal Logic: The modal system was refactored to use a central store and a generic TextInputModal, simplifying the code and improving maintainability.
Removed Tailwind CSS: All styling is now handled with plain, scoped CSS for a simpler and more lightweight frontend.
Sidebar Configuration: The initial width of the sidebar is now a configurable setting.

🐞 Fixed

Empty Directory Display: Fixed a bug where empty directories were not being displayed correctly in the file tree.

[v0.1.1-alpha] - 2025-07-05

✨ Added

Importer for .docx Files: Added the ability to import Microsoft Word documents, which are automatically converted to Markdown while preserving formatting.
Automatic Pandoc Installation: The application can now check for and download the correct version of Pandoc on-demand to power the import functionality.
Accessibility Controls: Added keyboard controls and improved focus management for modals, previews, and the resizable sidebar.

🔄 Changed

Centralized State Management: Major refactor of the frontend state. A single worldStore now acts as the source of truth for files and tags, with other parts of the UI subscribing to it.
Abstracted Backend Commands: All calls to the Rust backend were moved into a dedicated commands.ts file, creating a clean API layer for the frontend.
Bundled Fonts Locally: Fonts are now included in the application binary instead of being fetched from the web, preventing a "flash of unstyled content" on startup.
Backend-driven Filename Sanitization: The Rust backend is now solely responsible for removing the .md extension from filenames, simplifying frontend logic.

[v0.1.0-alpha] - 2025-07-04

✨ Added

Initial Project Setup: The Chronicler application was born! This initial version includes a Rust backend powered by Tauri 2.0 and a Svelte 5 frontend.
Full File System Indexing: The application performs a full scan of the vault on startup, building an in-memory index of all pages, tags, and links.
Real-time File Watching: The application watches the vault for file changes (creations, modifications, deletions, and renames) and updates the UI in real-time.
Backend Markdown Rendering: A dedicated rendering engine was included to process Markdown and wikilinks into HTML on the backend.
Configurable Vault Path: Added a settings dialog to allow users to select and change their vault directory.
File Explorer: A file tree is displayed in the left sidebar to navigate the vault and open files.
File View: Markdown editor and preview to change the content of a file and see the rendered output.
Backlinks and Tag Views: Implemented a backlinks sidebar and a dedicated view to see all pages associated with a specific tag.
Search Functionality: A search bar was added to the sidebar to filter both files and tags.
GitHub Actions Release Workflow: A CI/CD pipeline was set up to automate the building and releasing of the application.
Custom Fonts and Styling: The application was given its unique parchment and ink aesthetic with the "IM Fell English" and "Uncial Antiqua" fonts.