changes.md

Changes

Unreleased

• Preserve the Markdown edit cursor and selection when returning from read mode if the mapped position is already visible (#2768)
• Keep Lucius tree selections blue when unfocused so they remain distinct from gray hover highlights
• Add the standard Select All action to the Markdown read-mode context menu
• Keep KaTeX cross-copy clear at its natural size by sharing the in-place preview's tight, padded layout and high-DPI renderer
• Embed local images as base64 in WeChat and Evernote cross-copy; use a generic SVG-to-image rule for graphs and MathJax, and rasterize complete KaTeX formulas with embedded fonts
• Fix CI fixtures for self-contained encrypted notes and macOS sync-error dialogs
• Use icon-only View and Settings menus in the main toolbar, with the Lucide View icon
• Remember Comments and Tools dock sizes across editor switches and restarts, replacing the fixed Outline/Comments split ratio
• Fix encrypted-note opens silently failing while notebook maintenance is busy; self-contained notes no longer require a migration lease, and protected-open errors reach the unlock UI
• Make newly encrypted notes and backups self-contained: each v2 .vne carries its wrapped keys and no longer depends on a shared notebook vault
• Migrate legacy encrypted notes and backups on writable open without rewriting their encrypted payload; read-only opens leave the original files unchanged
• Preserve shared master-password unlocking across notes; retain old vaults for unmigrated notes and historical copies. Older VNote versions cannot read v2 notes

v4.9.1

A maintenance release with more flexible mind-map tools, theme fixes and attachment improvements on top of VNote 4.9.0:

• Mind maps
  • Show node properties in a Tools dock by default, with a setting to keep them embedded in the editor; dock titles follow the active view and property edits remain synchronized when focus moves to the dock
  • Keep folding local to each editor and preserve node positions when folding and expanding branches
  • Standardize English mind map wording in settings and documentation
• Markdown and themes
  • Refresh cached code-block and math syntax colors when switching themes without reopening notes or losing drafts, selection or Undo/Redo history
  • Restore code-block syntax highlighting in encrypted Markdown edit mode and apply bundled reader and syntax styles to encrypted previews on opening and theme changes, including dark themes
• Attachments and encrypted notes
  • Fix Chinese input when renaming attachments on Windows; after a successful rename, reopen the attachment list with the renamed file selected and focused (#2755)
  • Fix encryption and decryption of open notes incorrectly treating their temporary editing freeze as a read-only change
  • Add privacy-safe note-conversion diagnostics identifying failed checkpoints and backend phases
• Translations: Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), Japanese (ja) and Korean (ko) catalogs updated; restore missing translations in Sort/Properties dialogs, locked notes, counts, settings, command-line help and exported HTML link prompts

v4.9.0

A feature release with WebDAV synchronization, a native mind-map editor and opt-in Windows updates on top of VNote 4.8.0:

• Notebook synchronization
  • Sync notebooks through WebDAV with ordinary editable remote files, secure per-device credentials, remote open, conflict choices, cancellation and journaled recovery
  • Generic WebDAV and Nextcloud use dedicated existing collections with conditional writes; HTTPS is recommended because HTTP exposes credentials and notebook data, and empty remote folders are retained rather than recursively deleted
  • Add Jianguoyun sync with VNote-managed versioned remote storage, remote clone, whole-version conflicts and resumable recovery; retained remote history and deleted data are not automatically removed
  • Preserve encrypted key/file cohorts and open editor/comment drafts during sync, retain separate provider recovery archives, and refresh clean editors, previews and notebook trees after incoming changes
  • Show underlying setup failures in New Notebook, including failed WebDAV checks, HTTP status and missing or weak ETags; display the sync method below notebook type and keep it selectable in Manage Notebooks
• Mind maps
  • Replace the web-based mind-map view with the native m3 editor, including theme-aware formatting controls, Undo and Redo, links, images, search and an outline
  • Use .mmm as the preferred built-in suffix while retaining .emind support and existing custom suffix settings
  • Add persistent settings for default fonts, text size, undo history, subtree-deletion confirmation and automatic branch colors; applying settings updates open maps without reloading them
  • Open and reload maps at 100% zoom; toolbar zoom controls stay synchronized with shortcuts and Ctrl+wheel, offer Fit and percentage presets, and accept custom percentages with Enter
  • Present mind maps fullscreen with F9 and exit with Escape; node properties start collapsed and the toolbar fades like text-note presentations
  • Empty mind-map files open with a Central topic ready to edit, and saving no longer closes an active inline edit
• Markdown and images
  • Preview and format tables immediately after paragraph or list-item text without requiring a blank line (#2763)
  • Skip empty headings when generating editor section numbers; turning Allow Auto Section Number off restores only source prefixes changed in the current editor session, preserving manual numbering
  • Put image actions directly in the context menu, align View Image (V) and Copy Image (G) access keys in read and edit modes, and add proportional percentage resizing to Set Image Size
  • Support Shift+wheel horizontal scrolling in the text editor
• Themes and interface
  • Restyle Dreamy with a Phycat Mauve-inspired light palette, plum accents, rounded gradient headings, coordinated editor and reader syntax, and matching control icons
  • Use system text colors for Native theme content, including mind maps, and remove the Lucius Markdown read-mode width cap while preserving responsive padding
  • Localized theme names follow UI-language preferences for Default language, including Chinese script tags; add Simplified Chinese names for Dreamy, Jadeite and Pink Shock
  • Use text-only View and Settings menus on the main toolbar, move Themes under Settings, and rename the window submenu to Windows List
  • Hide Comments for unsupported views, collapse empty editor status rows, and size notification popups to their content
  • Copy filesystem paths with native separators in notebook, attachment, tag and tab actions (#2762)
• Encrypted notes and reliability
  • Record notebook encryption initialization explicitly instead of scanning all folder metadata; legacy notebooks with unknown encryption history require confirmation before first setup
  • Note conversion no longer audits unrelated folder metadata; missing known keys still require recovery, and cancelling legacy confirmation leaves notes and configuration unchanged
  • Fix a use-after-free when a notebook closes after its explorer widget is destroyed, and improve delivery of files opened through a secondary VNote instance
• Updates and packaging
  • Add an explicit Windows Update Now notification action using an external updater; it verifies signed full packages before requesting shutdown, preserves portable configuration and unowned files, and retains a recovery backup
  • Ordinary update checks remain check-only, with Check Release available; protected installations receive manual-update guidance rather than elevation, and reopening follows an accepted shutdown
  • Add a separate universal macOS package targeting 12.1 alongside the macOS 13+ package; use Schannel for Git sync in Windows 7 builds
• Translations: Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) and Japanese (ja) catalogs updated, including the native mind-map editor; add Korean interface translations for VNote, text and mind-map editors, startup tips, Git tasks and bundled Qt dialogs

v4.8.0

A feature release with Markdown presentations, search-and-replace across notes, new light themes and more flexible encrypted notes on top of VNote 4.7.0:

• Presentations and Markdown
  • Present rendered Markdown as offline reveal.js slides with F9; H2/H3 headings split slides, H3 slides retain their parent H2, and oversized content scrolls
  • Presentation palettes follow the active VNote theme, including Native; PDF presentations retain their controls in whole-view fullscreen and refit when the viewport changes
  • A default-on, per-window Allow Auto Section Number toggle temporarily disables numbering in Markdown read mode, edit mode and the outline without changing saved settings
  • Choose whether a sole leading level-1 heading is excluded from automatic section numbering or numbering starts at the first heading
  • Select JPEG (default) or PNG with transparency for clipboard images saved as files; original file/URL formats and lossless Base64 insertion remain unchanged
  • Inline and display math previews are dispatched in document order, and CSS heading-fold arrows no longer paste as oversized SVGs into rich-text editors
• Search and replace
  • Replace selected or all reviewed Simple content-search matches with literal text; confirmation saves affected notes, including existing unsaved edits, with cancellation and failed-write recovery
  • Content-search results navigate to the correct editor line
  • Vi-mode search updates incrementally and uses correct source positions in folded documents and table cells
• Encrypted notes
  • Decrypt selected encrypted notes in place to return them to normal notes
  • Shared-folder bundle import accepts encrypted mind-map notes while preserving authenticated transfer and destination-key protection
  • Bundled KaTeX works offline in encrypted Markdown reading and live previews; in-place math previews remain blocked
  • Note encryption works when the notebook has an empty Git sync directory; preflight failures include notebook locations and localized guidance for unreadable sync metadata or conflicting key files
• Export
  • A compact palette-icon Follow Theme button selects the active theme's rendering and syntax styles
  • HTML exports resolve the selected theme palette like read mode, preserving table borders and other themed colors
  • The exported outline opens and closes smoothly, with refreshed controls, active-section styling, keyboard support and reduced-motion support
  • HTML code blocks retain read mode's Copy and Collapse/Expand toolbar; copying a collapsed block still copies all of its code
  • Exported outline and code-block labels, tooltips and accessibility text follow the application language, including Simplified Chinese and Japanese
• Themes and interface
  • Added three light themes: Lucius, based on Jonathan Filip's Lucius Light normal-contrast palette; Dreamy, with light lavender colors; and Jadeite, with linen and teal colors
  • Light-theme graph canvases blend into the page, including PlantUML, Mermaid, Flowchart, WaveDrom and Graphviz SVGs; PlantUML PNG previews are transparent while preserving explicit diagram backgrounds and node fills
  • PDF viewer backgrounds and scrollbars follow the active theme without recoloring PDF pages, and annotation icons refresh on theme changes
  • Outline and Find And Replace stay on view-window toolbars while secondary actions move into a three-dot Menu; PDF Find sits beside Outline and Readable Width is available in the Menu
  • Editor-toolbar Outline, Tags, Attachments, Word Count and Insert Table popups stay anchored to their buttons and on-screen, including in presentation mode
  • Read-only note tabs and notebook badges use a pen-off icon, and History sticker tooltips show full filesystem paths
  • Refined Pink Shock syntax colors, restored the Lucius button border and Dreamy/Jadeite Close hover contrast, and made the United Entry icon follow toolbar colors
  • The startup splash appears only for the primary instance; a 256x256 anniversary splash is shown during October 2026 according to the local date
• Help and settings
  • Restored read-only Markdown Guide and Shortcuts Help from the Settings menu in English and Simplified Chinese, with English fallback and an updated keyboard reference
  • The greeting sticker shows hourly tips, and localized tips follow the preferred UI language rather than the system regional format
  • A default-on General setting allows Ctrl+Alt shortcuts; disable it and restart to avoid AltGr conflicts without losing custom bindings
  • A text-only Edit JSON button on the Settings toolbar opens vnotex.json in VNote
• Reliability and diagnostics
  • Read-only buffers, including View Logs, survive visible and hidden workspace recovery after restart
  • Freshly installed bundled tasks load on first request without requiring a restart
  • Removed buffer-reload log feedback at normal log levels and added Git sync phase timings, queue outcomes and bounded credential diagnostics, plus Windows Git/WinHTTP diagnostic tooling
  • Fixed sync credential callback lifetimes and shutdown crashes with native keychain operations in flight; repaired Qt 5 presentation builds and cross-platform CI fixtures, keychain event loops and sync IO-gate checks
• Translations: Simplified Chinese and Japanese catalogs updated for the new strings

v4.7.0

A feature release with encrypted notes, richer Markdown editing, offline math rendering and faster keyboard navigation on top of VNote 4.6.1:

• Encrypted notes
  • Protect the contents of individual Markdown, plain-text and mind-map notes in bundled notebooks with a password-protected portable key hierarchy
  • Unlock on demand; Lock All in the Settings menu saves protected edits and closes protected views while leaving ordinary tabs open
  • Protected note previews use memory-only profiles; exporting and printing encrypted note bodies are not supported
  • Filenames, folders and tags remain visible; conversion does not erase plaintext in existing Git history, backups, shared resources or external source files
  • Images, attachments and comments stored as separate files remain unencrypted; conversion warns about this and never scans or changes assets
  • Insert as Base64 embeds images through reference links and is the default insertion method for encrypted Markdown notes
• Editor and Markdown
  • Automatically number unnumbered headings in read mode and the outline; an independent edit-mode option writes and maintains heading numbers in the source, using the shared section number pattern
  • Navigation mode reaches Markdown content across visible splits, in both edit and read modes
  • The editor includes upstream AST-aware list editing and Vi open-line continuation; themed list-item guides and active-item backgrounds accompany automatic ordered-list renumbering, which can be disabled in Markdown Editor settings
  • Long image, link and reference destinations are visually shortened by default in edit mode; concealment can be disabled without changing the source
  • Markdown pipe-table preview cells display inline images and math; Insert Image targets the selected cell, including embedded images and image-host uploads
  • Single-line $$...$$ formulas preview in table cells, paragraphs and lists with inline placement and display-style typesetting
  • Editor find supports multiline matches, and the replacement tooltip explains capture references, newline, tab and literal-backslash escapes
  • Bundled notebooks can override the global editor line-ending setting, and saves respect Git line-ending rules
  • Clipboard images inserted as files use JPEG with a white background for transparency; original file/URL formats and lossless Base64 insertion are unchanged
• Math and diagrams
  • KaTeX, its fonts and the preview rasterizer are bundled for offline reading, editor previews and exports; standalone HTML embeds the math fonts, while protected-note math restrictions remain unchanged
  • PlantUML sequence diagrams show each newpage page in read mode and stack all pages into one editor-preview image, without changing the note source
  • Choose SVG or PNG for PlantUML graphs in read mode and exports; editor previews use PNG, and PNG-only renderers no longer loop through duplicate pages
  • Graphviz accepts engine-named Markdown fences as well as the existing graph syntax
  • Math rendering, in-place previews and raster exports wait for KaTeX fonts rather than document-wide font/layout readiness, avoiding hidden-viewer stalls
  • Invalid PlantUML SVG responses fail locally without replacing the failed block's source, and valid partial pages remain usable
  • Headings containing math formulas retain formula text in their anchors, fixing navigation to math-only headings and keeping TOC links consistent
• Quick notes and notebooks
  • Quick Note is available through a global shortcut and the system tray; each scheme can open its notes in a detached window from any quick-note entry point
  • New quick-note schemes default to the same my_notebook folder under Documents used for the first-run notebook; existing scheme folders remain unchanged
  • Quick notes outside notebooks open at their actual path; the picker and parentless error dialogs activate even when the main window is hidden or minimized
  • File import from the toolbar uses the correct source and destination folder, selects imported files and reports batch results
  • Folder rename releases Windows directory watches and preserves descendant metadata, loaded child rows, expansion and selection without requiring Reload
  • Sorting from a folder in the notebook explorer reorders its parent's children, matching notes
  • Gitee notebook sync accepts the token owner's Git username; Configure Sync and Open Notebook expose the field, and username-only changes preserve local Git history
• Interface and packaging
  • Added the Pink Shock light theme
  • Daily localized usage tips include acknowledgement and a persistent opt-out, and the default notebook includes Markdown guides
  • Save All is available directly above Close Tab in the tab context menu, and notebook context-menu actions have been reordered
  • The Outline dock receives more default space than Comments; search status text no longer widens its dock
  • The notification popup has a taller, font-scaled minimum height; long toasts stay visible for 60 seconds and persistent toasts auto-hide after 30 seconds, above native WebEngine content
  • Git task icons and the Image Host toolbar icon follow live theme switches, and existing math and diagram previews regenerate with the new theme
  • Application views no longer use alternating row backgrounds; selected Location List results remain readable in the VX Idea theme and retain their selection background with the native Windows 11 style
  • Heading hover no longer changes the layout in read mode or exports, and the Markdown read-mode WebEngine inspector is available again
  • Linux AppImages are built on Ubuntu 22.04 for broader distribution compatibility
• Translations: Simplified Chinese and Japanese catalogs updated for the new strings

v4.6.1

A maintenance release with cross-notebook transfers, more flexible Markdown editing and preview fixes on top of VNote 4.6.0:

• Notebooks and attachments
  • Copy and move notes and folders between bundled notebooks, with progress and per-item results; pending note edits and comments are saved before copying, while moves require the affected notes to be closed
  • Attachments remain usable after cross-notebook transfers, including notebooks with existing attachment metadata
  • The attachment popup can scan for unlisted attachments and register them in place, and opening an attachment now follows the standard file viewer flow
  • Bundled notebooks can use a custom recycle bin folder, specified as an absolute path or relative to the notebook root
  • Optional automatic recycle bin cleanup permanently removes entries older than a configurable retention period
• Editor and Markdown
  • Headings can be folded in read mode and HTML exports, with fold controls shown beside the heading on hover
  • Drag headings in the outline to reorder whole sections, adjusting heading levels to preserve the hierarchy, including moves under an adjacent heading
  • A table-size picker was added to the Markdown toolbar
  • Table-source alignment also formats directly edited Markdown tables; interactive table previews support Markdown type actions, highlight edited cells and write changes back after one second
  • Choose KaTeX or MathJax for formulas in read mode and previews, with room reserved for numbered KaTeX equations
  • KaTeX, MathJax and SVG-based graph previews retain higher-resolution pixels without enlarging their display size; KaTeX raster exports retain the same extra detail
  • Inline and display math previews resize immediately with editor zoom while sharper rasters refresh asynchronously, preserving unrounded layout geometry
  • Folding ranges track surviving source anchors after edits; bulk deletion no longer retains deleted block handles, preventing folding crashes, misplaced fold markers and hidden unrelated text
  • The %folder% magic word expands to the current note's notebook-relative folder in snippets and note templates
• Export and interface
  • Export is available directly from the main file toolbar
  • Exported HTML offers the corresponding HTML target when following a relative Markdown link
  • The Save shortcut applies changes in Settings
  • The United Entry toolbar input has a bounded width, and its n alias searches files by name
  • No-match find feedback, panel close buttons and notification close icons follow the active theme
• Fixes
  • PDF highlights, drawings and text boxes use the page content origin, eliminating the page-border offset when capturing annotations
  • PDF highlights join adjacent text fragments into one region per continuous line, removing internal frames and overlapping fills, including for existing highlights
  • Qt 6.9+ builds no longer create an empty WebEngine directory under Roaming AppData/VNoteX on Windows
  • Cloning notebooks and enabling Git sync no longer crash on Linux due to unintended libgit2 Iconv configuration
  • Hovering Markdown links no longer resizes the editor, and creating a Markdown style file no longer produces a spurious warning
• Translations: Simplified Chinese and Japanese catalogs updated for the new strings

v4.6.0

A feature release that adds PDF comments, batch tag editing and substantial Markdown preview improvements on top of VNote 4.5.0:

• PDF viewer and comments
  • The bundled pdf.js viewer was upgraded to v6 and now supports per-file PDF comments: draw, highlight and place movable text boxes, with per-tool colour, size and opacity settings
  • The built-in web toolbar was replaced by native Qt controls, including an overflow menu and a dedicated comments panel
  • The built-in PDF viewer is disabled on the Qt 5 / Windows 7 build because pdf.js v6 requires a newer web engine; PDFs continue to open with the configured external application
• Editor and Markdown
  • Task-list checkboxes in the read-mode preview are clickable
  • The edit-mode outline shows rendered heading titles, and image sizes can be authored from the image context menu
  • New settings align Markdown table source and automatically fold previewed blocks
  • Interactive table previews are built on demand, preserving space for off-screen tables while substantially reducing opening, editing and scrolling costs; syntax highlighting is capped at 5000 cells in extreme documents
  • Read-mode diagrams appear progressively, duplicate Mermaid renders share one result, and repeated PlantUML diagrams reuse their encoded server URL
  • In-place previews publish results in batches, prioritize visible graph previews and recover cleanly when a render pass stalls, is hidden or is replaced
  • Notes with more than 100 math blocks are no longer silently truncated, image-host images are not downloaded again for each preview, and multiline inline highlights render correctly
  • Prism was upgraded to 1.30.0 with every bundled language
• Tags: tags can be added to or removed from multiple selected files in one operation
• Interface
  • The right dock tabs now use the same compact sidebar treatment as the left dock, with consistent indentation and theme-owned row spacing
  • The sort dialog shows Name, Created and Modified columns and compares wide digit runs as fields
  • VNote can start automatically when signing in to Windows
  • The application display name used in window titles, the system tray and About can be customized
  • Windows spanning screens expand on the correct display, notification popups no longer truncate horizontally, and the notebook context menu places Close at the end
• Fixes
  • Opening a file through Windows Open with no longer crashes when the WebEngine process inherits an incompatible command line
  • Read-only state is resolved when a buffer opens, preventing stale permissions from leaking into later operations
  • Context menus use the correct Qt API on each supported major version
• Translations: Simplified Chinese and Japanese catalogs updated for the new strings

v4.5.0

A feature release that adds shared-folder import, two paper themes, movable dashboard stickers and a batch of export fixes on top of VNote 4.4.3:

• Import a shared folder (Notebook explorer › Import Folder): the other half of 4.4.3's Share Folder
  • A bundle produced by Share Folder is imported with its notes' ids, dates, tags and attachments intact, so a folder can travel between notebooks without losing its history; importing an ordinary folder from disk still generates fresh ids and timestamps
  • The bundle is validated before anything is copied, the copy is verified before it is published, and a cancelled or failed import leaves the notebook exactly as it was
  • Refuses symbolic links, junctions and reparse points, detects duplicate node ids and names that would collide on a case-insensitive filesystem, and declines to re-import a folder that is already in the notebook rather than overwriting it
• Two new themes: LaTeX Light and LaTeX Dark. A paper-and-ink look for the Markdown viewer, editor and export — serif body text with a capped line measure, weight-led headings, booktabs-style tables (no vertical rules, no zebra stripes) and a boxed blockquote. No fonts are bundled: the stylesheets fall back to Times/Georgia and Consolas, and installing Latin Modern (plus Noto Serif CJK for Chinese) gives the intended look. Inspired by typora-latex-theme; independently authored, with nothing copied from it.
• Editor
  • The cursor position is now restored when a buffer is reloaded from disk
  • In-place previews (images, diagrams, formulas) zoom together with the editor
  • The source of a previewed fenced-code, display-math or table block is folded automatically when its preview appears; unfolding it by hand is respected
  • The interactive table in-place preview is enabled by default: tables can be edited in place as a real rich-text sheet, with syntax-highlighted cells, row/column/alignment operations from its Table menu, and Enter in the last cell appending a row; its preview sheet no longer draws a stray frame and background
  • Block quotes continue automatically on Enter, including nested and lazily-continued ones
  • The default input mode for the text editor is now VSCode, where Ctrl+Shift+[ and Ctrl+Shift+] fold and unfold at the cursor
  • The drag-and-drop cursor is shown at the drop target instead of at the pointer (#2249)
  • Snippet date placeholders %MMM%, %MMMM%, %ddd% and %dddd% follow VNote's language instead of the system locale
• Notes & templates
  • New Note proposes an available default name, and remembers a default template per file type
  • A built-in title.md template ships out of the box
  • Open as Detached was added to the notebook explorer context menu
  • Open V3 Notebook moved into the Open Notebook dialog
• Export
  • Mermaid diagrams are rasterized at the printed size and 384 dpi, so they are no longer blurry in PDFs
  • CJK text and Mermaid labels render correctly in wkhtmltopdf PDFs, with a clear warning when no CJK-capable font can be loaded
  • A file opened from outside any notebook can be exported
  • wkhtmltopdf process failures are reported instead of failing silently, wkhtmltopdf-only PDF options are disabled when it is not used, and the Complete page option has an explanatory tooltip
  • Export was added to the Markdown read-mode context menu
• Dashboard: stickers can be moved and resized by direct manipulation — drag the centre to move or an edge to resize, with arrow keys (and Shift with arrow keys) as the keyboard equivalent
• Interface
  • The notebook tree scrolls horizontally when labels overflow
  • The dock separator is more visible across themes
  • The Home tab closes automatically when a file is opened
  • The main window's fixed 800x600 minimum size was removed, and the PDF navigation pane is hidden by default
  • Dialog form labels dropped their trailing colons
• Fixes
  • Image hosts are persisted when the settings are saved, and remote images that are still referenced elsewhere are no longer deleted
  • A cleared quick access list is persisted, Reset no longer leaves a stale selection on the Appearance page, reloading File Associations no longer keeps a stale Add Program button pointer, and reloading image-host settings while a test is pending no longer risks a crash
  • Note move failures report the underlying vxcore error detail (#2729)
• Windows 7 build (win64-windows7) fixes
  • Search now works. Content, file and tag searches silently returned nothing on this build: every search result was discarded before it could reach the UI. The same defect also stopped image-host uploads from ever starting.
  • Network/HTTPS now works. Checking for updates and uploading to an image host failed with "TLS initialization failed" because the bundled OpenSSL could not be loaded. VNote now ships an OpenSSL that actually loads (1.1.1w, built from source), together with its licence notice, and logs a clear message if TLS is ever unavailable.
• Build: Qt was bumped to 6.10.3 on all platforms, tests are no longer built by default (VNOTE_BUILD_TESTS), and a regression gate catches drift between the two vendored cmark pins
• Translations: Simplified Chinese and Japanese catalogs updated for the new strings

v4.4.3

A maintenance release that drops the built-in updater, adds folder sharing and a window pin on top of VNote 4.4.2:

• Share Folder (Notebook explorer context menu): export a folder as a self-contained, movable bundle you can hand to someone else or drop into another notebook
  • Notes you currently have open are saved first, so the bundle always carries their latest content
  • The copy is verified before it is published, and a failed export leaves nothing half-written behind
  • Refuses to follow symbolic links, junctions and reparse points, and warns up front when two names would collide on a case-insensitive destination filesystem
• Stay on Top: detached view windows now have a pin so a window can be kept above the others
• The built-in updater has been removed. VNote no longer downloads or installs anything, and never modifies its own installation directory. It simply checks for a newer release and, when one exists, tells you and offers to open the release page, where you download and install the new version yourself.
  • Fixes VNote failing to start from a read-only or non-writable installation directory (/usr/bin, Program Files for a standard user, a read-only DMG), where the old updater's startup lease could not be created (issue #2728). Per-machine MSI installs were affected on Windows too.
  • The Update source setting (Settings › General) still selects GitHub or Gitee. New installations now default to Gitee; an existing installation keeps whatever it already had, and no setting is migrated.
  • If you used the in-app updater before, you can safely delete the leftover .vnote-old and .vnote-update folders next to vnote.exe. VNote no longer creates or reads them.
• Translations: Simplified Chinese and Japanese catalogs updated for the new strings

v4.4.2

A feature release that adds a built-in updater, a reworked PDF viewer, detachable view windows, and a Gitee release mirror on top of VNote 4.3.0:

• In-app updates (new, Windows x64, Qt 6 build): VNote can now update itself
  • Downloads only what changed — a release publishes a signed file manifest plus an optional delta package, and the client resolves a delta chain before falling back to the full package
  • Every manifest is verified against a compiled-in Ed25519 key; an unsigned or unverifiable release is refused (fail-closed), and hosts are allow-listed per release source
  • Files are staged inside the install directory and swapped in under a durable write-ahead journal at exit, with automatic rollback and crash recovery on the next launch
  • A machine-wide lease serializes updates across sessions; Microsoft Store and Program Files installs are detected and directed to their own update channel
  • Surfaces as an Update dialog (Update / Skip This Version / Later / Restart Now) and a startup notification with inline progress
  • Update source setting (Settings › General) to fetch updates from either GitHub or Gitee
  • The Windows 7 (Qt 5.15) build publishes no update packages; there the check simply points at the release page
• PDF viewer
  • Upgraded the bundled pdf.js from 3.1.81 to 3.11.174 (the last v3 release; v4+ requires Chrome 125+, which the Qt 5.15 / Windows 7 build cannot provide), and vendored the previously-missing web/standard_fonts/ so PDFs relying on non-embedded Helvetica/Times/Courier render correctly
  • The PDF's embedded outline (bookmarks) now populates the Outline dock and a new per-window Outline toolbar popup, with click-to-jump
  • Fix the external file path not resolving for drag-and-dropped PDFs
• Views & windows
  • Detach a view window into a separate top-level window from the tab context menu
  • New --detached-view CLI option to open files directly in a detached split
  • Ctrl+G, X closes the focused dock or, when the editor has focus, the current tab
  • The Console dock activation shortcut is now configurable
• Notifications: attention routing, incident de-duplication, and a toast surface, so repeated failures (image upload, auto-save, sync) collapse into one actionable entry with a Details view
• Editor & Markdown
  • Offer to migrate a note's legacy vx_images pictures into its assets folder, with an inline banner and a Don't Ask Again choice
  • Edit-mode Copy Link action for headings
• United Entry: new task entry to find and run tasks, a popup sized from the UI font and clamped to the screen, and a readable selected task row
• Settings: a Quick Note scheme can now use a note template
• macOS: capture selected text from any app as a note through a system Service
• Tags: Esc clears the selection in the Tags explorer
• Fixes
  • Recover from a partially-installed bundled resource set instead of leaving stale data behind
  • Keep the frameless title bar out of Qt's menu-bar slot eviction
  • Fix the export dialog not remembering the last-used theme (#2389)
  • Fix enable-sync failing on macOS when opening a remote notebook (#2718)
  • Stop duplicating legacy attachments during VNote3 migration
  • UTF-8-safe .vswp backup path (#2721)
  • Bundle the MSVC CRT for toolsets newer than CMake's redistributable list
  • Use Git Bash explicitly in init.cmd instead of relying on WSL bash
  • Remove the version-specific config override logic
• Internals
  • core_services no longer links VTextEdit or Qt Widgets
  • Inline chrome is themed through the stylesheet instead of hardcoded colors, with a test gate that fails the build on literal colors in setStyleSheet()
• Infrastructure: code and releases are mirrored to Gitee, keeping the two most recent releases
• Packaging (Windows): the release ZIP is now flat — VNote-<ver>-win64/vnote.exe instead of VNote-<ver>-win64/bin/vnote.exe. The bin/ level was unintended (src/CMakeLists.txt asked for a flat install, but a submodule's include(GNUInstallDirs) seeded the CMake cache first) and it is incompatible with the incremental updater, which strips exactly one level from a full package
• Translations: updated Simplified Chinese and Japanese translations

v4.3.0

A feature release that adds an in-app notification system, a Tasks dock, a reworked export experience, and a column-based editor status bar on top of VNote 4.2.0:

• Notifications (new): an in-app notification system with a toolbar button and popup, plus Clear All / Dismiss actions
• Tasks
  • New Tasks dock and Console log viewer, with in-app editing of task files
  • The task subsystem was migrated to the ServiceLocator/DI architecture (the legacy task-output console was removed)
  • Snippets and Tasks docks gained a title-bar search filter
• Status bar: Text and Markdown view windows now use a column-based status bar with Material-style chip theming and a Spelling control (enable spell check / auto-detect language)
• Export
  • Built-in export schemes with a New / Duplicate / Delete split button
  • Split-pane workspaces can now be selected as export sources
  • Configurable PDF header/footer for wkhtmltopdf export (supports [page], [title], [date] placeholders)
  • MathJax equations are rasterized to PNG for docx/custom export, and exported syntax colors resolve the real highlight.css
• Editor & Markdown
  • Code block line wrap option for read mode
  • Customize global styles button to open user.css for styles applied under every theme
  • Syntax highlighting for display math ($$) source in the editor
  • Ctrl+Left-Click opens a Markdown link in edit mode; external links now prompt before opening
  • Snippet expansion and the @@ cursor mark are honored in note templates and Quick Note folder paths
  • Manual file-encoding override to fix non-UTF-8 mojibake
• Workspaces & views
  • Remove Other Workspaces corner-menu action
  • Double-clicking the empty tab-bar area triggers Quick Note
  • A View action was added to the read-mode image context menu
• United Entry: collapses to an accent toolbar icon and expands to an input, with trigger on list-row activation
• General: a global wake-up hotkey to show the main window, a --quiet startup flag, --remote-debugging-port for QtWebEngine, and updated bundled Mermaid (v11.16.0)
• Security
  • Fix stored XSS via YAML frontmatter (GHSA-vfhj-c636-h59x)
  • Prevent external-program argument injection (CWE-88)
• Fixes
  • Fix the search keyword combobox growing unshrinkably wide
  • Fix a missing home dashboard after removing a hidden workspace
  • Fix \label equations rendering as black boxes, Graphviz render errors cascading, SVG data-URI images not displaying, and graph popup preview for nodes with line breaks
  • Make Cancel on the external-change dialog a sticky ignore
• Translations: updated Simplified Chinese and Japanese translations

v4.2.0

A feature release that adds a Personal Knowledge Management home dashboard, cross-notebook history, activity tracking, and a dedicated Sync settings page on top of VNote 4.1.1:

• Dashboard (new): a customizable PKM home tab built from movable, resizable stickers
  • Built-in Calendar, Greeting, and History stickers
  • History sticker with recent-files and calendar-day modes, plus a one-click clear-date-filter
  • Lock/Unlock mode to prevent accidental layout changes, an Add Sticker menu, a per-sticker Resize dialog, and Reset Dashboard to restore the default layout
  • Toolbar and calendar icons follow the active theme
• History: reworked into a cross-notebook HistoryService, so recent files are aggregated across all notebooks (the legacy per-notebook history panel and option were removed)
• Activity tracking: focus time and note activity are now tracked via vxcore
• Settings: new Sync page; the auto-sync interval moved there and now defaults to 120s
• Editor
  • Re-added the In-Place Preview toggle to the Markdown toolbar
  • The image-host button now appears only in edit mode
  • Removed the markdown editor Override Font option and its settings UI
• Windows switcher: a new Windows entry lists open view windows across workspaces, with prefix-matching and focus-restore fixes
• Title bar: the current note name is now shown in the system title bar
• Fixes
  • Fix opening files from the command line / "Open with VNote", and absolutize forwarded open-file paths at the IPC boundary
  • Preserve heading anchors in Insert As Relative Link
  • Avoid a pre-QApplication event-loop warning by lazily starting the search/image-host worker threads
• Translations: updated Simplified Chinese and Japanese translations

v4.1.1

A maintenance release with search improvements, PDF export fixes, and editor polish on top of VNote 4.1.0:

• Search
  • Content-search results now stream in incrementally, so matches appear as they are found instead of after the whole search completes
  • The maximum number of search results is now configurable
  • Content matches are grouped by line, removing duplicate result rows
• Export: fix squeezed or mis-sized MathJax equations in PDF export, and stop exports from hanging on documents that mix equations with Mermaid/Graphviz/Flowchart/WaveDrom diagrams
• Editor
  • Fix emoji next to styled text (such as headings) rendering as tofu boxes
  • Refresh the editor style immediately when switching themes
• Notebooks (raw): enable image paste, and preserve note timestamps and metadata across rename
• Startup: merge instead of overwrite QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS, so user-set Chromium workaround flags (e.g. --single-process, --disable-gpu) are respected
• macOS: always use the system title bar

v4.1.0

VNote 4 is a major release built on a brand-new native core (vxcore) that powers notebook management, search, configuration, and synchronization. The whole application has been re-architected (clean MVC + dependency injection) for reliability and future extensibility. Highlights versus VNote 3:

• Notebook Sync (flagship): keep notebooks in sync across devices through any Git remote (GitHub, GitLab, self-hosted) over HTTPS or local file:// repositories
  • Enable per notebook from the new Sync button and Sync Info panel in the notebook explorer
  • Authenticate with a Personal Access Token, stored securely in your system keychain (Windows Credential Manager, macOS Keychain, or Linux Secret Service) — never written to config or logs
  • Changes sync automatically in the background, with a configurable Auto-sync interval in Settings > General (or sync on demand with Sync Now)
  • Built-in conflict resolution when the same note is edited on two devices
  • Live status (last sync time, idle/syncing/conflict/error) plus actionable messages for authentication failures
• Open & clone notebooks: the redesigned Open Notebook dialog supports a Local folder mode and a Remote URL mode that clones a notebook straight from a Git URL (with optional token and mid-clone cancel)
• Read-only notebooks: open a remote notebook without a token to browse it read-only; a lock badge marks read-only notebooks and tabs, and editing actions are safely disabled. Add a token later to enable editing
• VNote 3 migration: import and convert existing VNote 3 notebooks via Open VNote3 Notebook
• Filesystem-aware notebooks
  • Detects notes whose files were deleted on disk, renders them dimmed, and offers a batch "remove missing items from the notebook" prompt
  • Show/import external (unindexed) files, per-notebook ignore list, and Rebuild Database for index maintenance
  • "Remove from Notebook" to drop a note from the index while keeping the file on disk
  • Raw vs Bundled notebook types
• Notebook explorer: drag-and-drop reordering and a manual Sort dialog (Top/Up/Down/Bottom), per-node Mark (custom text/background color), Pin to Quick Access, and multiple view orders (configuration, name, created/modified time)
• Editor & views
  • Split panes (vertical/horizontal), move tabs across splits, maximize and evenly distribute splits, with full session layout persistence
  • Per-tab Reload and Auto Reload with scroll-position preservation, and external-change detection
  • Reopen last closed tab (Ctrl+Shift+T)
  • Markdown editor with live preview, side-by-side edit/preview, in-place code/math block preview, MathJax, Mermaid, flowchart.js, WaveDrom, PlantUML and Graphviz diagrams, syntax highlighting, image paste and image-host upload
  • Plain-text, PDF, and mind-map view windows
• Responsiveness: note saving now runs off the UI thread, so large files, network drives, or antivirus scans no longer freeze the editor; saves and Git operations on the same notebook are serialized for safety
• Tags & search: hierarchical tag tree with per-note tagging; search by File Name / Content / Tag across Buffers / Folder / Notebook / All Notebooks, with case-sensitivity, regex and file-pattern options
• Docks: Notebook explorer, Outline, Tag, Search, Snippet, History, Quick Access / Location List, and Console panels
• Themes: 10 built-in themes spanning light and dark (Everforest, Moonlight, Pure, Native, Solarized Light/Dark, VSCode Dark, Vue Light/Dark, VX-Idea) with one-click switching
• Platforms: Windows, Linux, and macOS (universal Intel + Apple Silicon); built with Qt 6, with a Qt 5.15.2 build still provided for Windows 7 compatibility

v3.20.0

• Mind Map: add outline and linking support
• Refine themes
• Support searching tags
• Enhanced QuickAccess with unique id
• NoteExplorer: support customizing node's color/background/outline
• MarkdownEditor: support copying local GIF
• Fix attachment and tag popup
• InputMode: add VSCode input mode and keep the default Normal input mode simple

v3.19.2

• Codesign MacOS Bundle
• Fix toolbar expansion button style
• Support hot-reloading of theme via --watch-themes option

v3.19.1

• Fix toolbar button in Qt 6.8

v3.19.0

• Add VSCode-sytle editor shortcuts

v3.18.1

• Fix crash caused by Qt6 change
• Fix XSS protection exemption
• Check link before open

v3.18.0

• Upgrade to Qt6
• Support MacOS universal build
• Upgrade Mermaid, Flowchart.js, and markdown-it
• Markdown-it
  • Fix XSS protection and turn it on by default
  • Support mark by ==xx==

v3.17.0

• Quick note: create note in given scheme (@feloxx)
• MarkdownEditor: support inserting multiple images (@feloxx)
• Mermaid: upgrade and fix preview issue (@ygcaicn)
• Flowchart.js: upgrade

v3.16.0

• Support reading PDF format
• Support Ming Map editor in suffix *.emind
• Support "View By" for notebooks selector
• ViewWindow: add shortcut Ctrl+G,V to alternate among view modes
• Bug fixes

v3.15.1

• Add two themes
• Bug fixes

v3.15.0

• Editor supports Word Count
• Add Open Windows panel
• Theme: add Vue-light theme
• Support default open mode
• NotebookSelector: support dynamic icons for notebooks

v3.14.0

• Theme: support custom icons
• Theme: refine icons
• NavigationMode: fix issue for input method

v3.13.1

• Shortcuts for Copy/Paste/Properties in node explorer
• Global shortcut to call out main window
• UnitedEntry: bug fix for macOS

v3.13.0

• United Entry: migration of Universal Entry

v3.12.888

• Fix shortcuts in key sequence with input method (like Ctrl+G, E)
• Add line ending settings for config files
• FindAndReplace: fix zero-length search
• QuickAccess: support folders
• Upgrade to Qt 5.15.2
• Support file associations
• NewNoteDialog: remember default file type

v3.12.0

• NotebookExplorer: support separate node explorer
• Theme: add user-provided VSCode-Dark theme
• MarkdownEditor: use web to highlight code blocks
• MarkdownViewWindow
  • Add switch for code block line number
  • Fix ParseToMarkdown <style> issue
  • Add config for overridding MathJax script
• SortDialog: fix sorting issue of date
• FramelessMainWindow: fix StayOnTop issue

v3.11.0

• Task: support a simple task system (@tootal)
• Theme: add user-provided Solarized-Dark and Solarized-Light themes
• Export: fix wkhtmltopdf table-of-contents translation
• Support equation begin in MathJax
• MainWindow: decide DPI on the screen vnote starts
• Settings: support searching
• Fix crash caused by Youdao Dict

v3.10.1

• MarkdownEditor: fix view mode issue
• Support print
• Refine icons

v3.10.0

• MarkdownEditor
  • Support side-by-side edit with preview
  • Support config for highlighting whitespace
• Tag: fix input method issue on macOS

v3.9.0

• Remove recycle bin node (now recycle bin is just a simple folder)
• Quick Access: support removing items directly
• MarkdownEditor
  • Support centering images in read mode
  • Add user.css for user styles in read mode
  • Add debugger by F12
  • Support context-sensitive context menu for images and links

v3.8.0

• Support tags
• Introduce notebook database using SQLITE
• A perfect frameless main window on Windows
• Add switch to control whether store history in notebook
• Refine dock widgets of main window
• NotebookExplorer: support scan notebook and import external files

v3.7.0

• PlantUml/Graphviz: support relative path executable
• macOS: support opening file with VNote in Finder
• Sort notes by name case-insensitively
• Export
  • Support All-in-One in PDF format
  • Support Custom export format (like Pandoc)
  • Allow minimizing the export dialog and doing export at background
• MainWindow: use icon-only bar for docks
• Support update check
• Add shortcuts for CloseOtherTabs and CloseTabsToTheRight
• Search: highlight matched items in opened files
• Editor: support specifying line ending

v3.6.0

• Support Image Host: GitHub and Gitee
• Add config page for Vi

v3.5.1

• LocationList: fix recently introduced regression when highlighting segments of text

v3.5.0

• Support History
• ViewArea
  • Ctrl+G, H/J/K/L to navigate through ViewSplits
  • Ctrl+G, Shift+H/J/K/L to move ViewWindow across ViewSplits
• MarkdownEditor
  • Add configs for in-place preview sources
  • Add a tool button to disable in-place preview
• Vi: support align and indent commands = and >
• LocationList: highlight matched text segments
• SelectDialog: support shortcuts (such as Rich Paste)

v3.4.0

• Support Snippet
  • Ctrl+G S to insert a snippet
  • %snippet_name% to insert a snippet (the legacy Magic Word)
    • Snippet is supported in some dialogs (such as creating a new note)
• Support note template (snippet is supported)
• Remove ' and " from auot-brackets

v3.3.0

• Editor: support auto indent, auto list
• Support opening notes with external programs
• Add a delay after code/math blocks update before preview

v3.2.0

• Support local PlantUml and Graphviz rendering
• Add shortcuts to tab navigation in ViewSplit
• Editor: support auto bracket and overridding font family

v3.1.0

• Support Japanese translation (Thanks @miurahr)
• MarkdownEditor: guess image suffix when fetching to local
• Refine read mode styles (Thanks @heartnn)
• Support recovering edit session on start
• Support recovering notebook explorer session on start
• Support Flash Page
• Support Quick Access
• Allow to keep docks (like Outline) when expanding content area

v3.0.1

• Support spell check via Hunspell
• Ctrl+Alt+F to trigger full-text search
• Auto focus to the input widget when activating full-text search
• Fix Expand Content Area with panels

v3.0.0-beta.11

• Full-text search

v3.0.0-beta.10

• Show more tips
• Add exclude patterns for external nodes
• Add command line parser and support opening files from command line
• Update Mermaid.js to 8.9.1
• Support exporting current note
• Add ExpandAll to node explorer

v3.0.0-beta.9

• Fix crash when exporting external files
• Support manual sorting folders and notes
• Support showing external files in notebook

v3.0.0-beta.8

• Note explorer supports different view orders
• Fix Ctrl+V paste in editor
• Fix Linux HTTPS crash bug
• Add button to show/hide recycle bin node
• Other small fixes

v3.0.0-beta.7

• Support export to Markdown/HTML/PDF
• Support base level 1/2/3 for section number in read mode
• Support opening link to folder in read mode

v3.0.0-beta.6

• Add theme pure for light mode
• Small fixes

v3.0.0-beta.5

• Refine themes
• Add section number style "1.1" and "1.1.", and use the later as default
• Support indentation of first line of paragraph in read mode
• Add file type combo box in NewNoteDialog
• Add "Insert Mark" in tool bar
• Support Smart Table
• Support *.rmd as Markdown suffix
• Turn on system title bar by default
• Enable AutoBreak by default

v3.0.0-beta.4

• Add theme moonlight for dark mode
• Add shortcuts for split and workspace
• Bug fix
• More configs in Settings dialog for Markdown viewer
• Support section number in edit mode (without the dot suffix)
• Support link jump in Markdown viewer
• Use socket for single instance guard

v3.0.0-beta.3

• Support [TOC]
• Fix MathJax
• Add shortcut for StayOnTop
• Add Markdown guide and shortcuts guide
• Show hovered link in read mode
• Smart Input Method in Vi mode
• Bug fix in Markdown editor when finding current heading index
• Add custom Info.plist on macOS
• Support minimizing to system tray
• Support restart
• Add read and edit in Markdown ViewWindow
• Add Chinese translations

v3.0.0-beta.2

• Fix Import Legacy Notebook
• Refine toolbar
• Fix Outline viewer