Software-update: Zettlr 4.10.0

Versie 4.10.0 van Zettlr is uitgekomen. Zettlr is een op zettelkasten gebaseerde open source en crossplatform Markdown-editor, waarmee artikelen, e-boeken en content kunnen worden gecreëerd. Ook kan het orde scheppen in de chaos van notities en artikelen, bronvermelding genereren en interactieve vragenlijsten maken. Het is daarmee geschikt voor onder meer ontwikkelaars, onderzoekers, journalisten en bloggers. De releasenotes voor deze uitgave kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.

Release v4.10.0

This new update of Zettlr primarily fixes things that were either broken for some time, or broke in 4.9. However, it also includes a set of features and other improvements that will come in handy.

Among the most notable changes in this update are: (1) attachments specified in BibTeX or BibLaTeX libraries are properly opened via the context menu in Zettlr; (2) Mermaid diagrams will render again; (3) keywords and tags in YAML frontmatters are clickable again; (4) we fixed a bunch of shortcuts that stopped working after the custom shortcut update; (5) the LanguageTool linter now additionally checks various text-fields in your frontmatters; and (6) we have begun homogenizing Zettlr's UI across all platforms. macOS-users should not see many differences, but on Windows and Linux, the app will look considerably different. This change does not affect the placement or functionality of any UI elements, only their styling.

GUI and Functionality

• Feature: The context menus for links and images now also feature various items that may be useful for formatting aspects of the link/image descriptions (#6417).
• Feature: Make the "find next" and "find previous" commands of the editor search configurable. Previously, both Mod-g and F3 would move to the next search result, but after implementing custom shortcuts, these two commands were left unconfigurable and hard-coded to Mod-g. These are now configurable so that you can change the default keybinding of Mod-g to F3 if you wish (#6575).
• Feature: The LanguageTool linter now also lints text-only properties in the frontmatter, using the same language as the rest of the document. This allows spotting issues with these metadata fields as well. Currently, the linter includes in its detection the following properties:
  • title
  • subtitle
  • abstract
  • abstract-title
  • description
  • shorttitle
  • shortsubtitle
  • thanks
• Change: The styles and layouts of various UI components have been adjusted. The following components should now look mostly the same across all operating systems:
  • Toolbar
  • File Tree
  • Sidebar
• Change: Removed the .md extension from the default new filename pattern in the Advanced Preferences menu. This pattern is used as the filename, so the extension is unnecessary. Previously, creating a new file with the default pattern would result in the .md extension being added twice to markdown files, or added incorrectly to non-markdown files. Existing users should update the pattern manually by removing .md from it. For new installations, the pattern will be correct. (#6638).
• Change: The layout of the document information popover is now improved. We have moved the bold styling over to the actually important parts, improved legibility of the popover, and included more information -- notably, regardless of which unit (words or characters) you select in the preferences, the popover will now display both numbers, with your preferred one clearly visible.
• Fixed a misaligned size distribution between the file manager, editor view, and sidebar. Now, when double-clicking the dividers between these three components, they will resize so that both sidebars take up 20% of the window width, as opposed to a distribution of 20% for the file manager and ca. 15% for the sidebar. This way, both sidebars of the main window are visually equally sized.
• Fixed a bug where Zettlr would never load attachments from your main database if that database was in BibTeX or BibLaTeX format, as a small logical error made the relevant code for retrieving attachments never find the database in memory and thus would always fall back to attempting to contact Zotero, which would, logically, fail for JabRef users (#6619).
• Library loading on boot is now asynchronous, also we register a long-running task during database loads to visualize especially the loading of large library files.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Mermaid diagrams from rendering due to an underlying bug in the new API (#6625).
• Fixed an issue that would cause full-text searches to start even as the input field was still composing non-latin text (#6597; #6604).
• Fixed the spacing on the changelog entries to make it more pleasant to read.
• Fixed an issue that could, under the right circumstances, write unusual values for resized split views into the configuration, necessitating a configuration modification to render Zettlr usable again (#5829).
• Fixes various issues pertaining to keywords/tags which are present in YAML frontmatters of files. Zettlr now again correctly detects these and they are clickable, yielding a search for keywords, which also includes keywords with spaces (#2443; #2590; #4498; see PR #6496).
• Fixed a 404-link to an old documentation page in the onboarding dialog.
• Fixed the LanguageTool language overrides. Previously, if you wanted to change the language in which LanguageTool would check your document via the lang property (e.g., lang: fr to force French instead of autodetection), you had to reload the entire document. Now changes are detected on the fly as you modify the lang property in the YAML frontmatter.
• Fixed the styles of both subscripts (e.g., H~2~O) and superscripts (e.g., 2^10^). Previously, both types of elements were not displayed using a small font and set to super or sub alignment.
• The formatting characters for subscripts and superscripts are now appropriately hidden if "Render emphasis" is turned on.
• Fixed many of the newly customizable shortcuts which would mostly work on just macOS, since we accidentally declared the Mac-specific Command-key to be part of the shortcut, instead of also providing an alternative with the Control key. We remain puzzled why nobody complained about this issue since it affected quite a few important shortcuts. (If you are reading this right now, you're not included in this statement ;).

Under the Hood

• Update Electron to v44.10.
• Update Pandoc to v3.14. Caution: Pandoc 3.13 has switched its underlying YAML parser. For the most part, this change should not affect you, but it could if you relied on odd behavior of YAML, such as treating no as false instead of a string. If you receive errors during exports, this is a potential cause.
• Update the gettext-parser to v10.
• Added error-handling code in case titlebar overlays cannot be set for windows (see #6417).
• Exchanged biblatex-csl-converter with bibliojson.
• Refactor the splash screen to silence an error caused by a benign race condition during the boot sequence.
• Pin the AppImage toolset in Electron builder to use a more modern one which depends on fuse3 instead of the deprecated fuse2 library. This change must be reverted once Electron builder is updated to v27 (#6632).
• Refactored the render-code plugin to allow for a generic set of persistent decorators for various elements.

Versienummer	4.10.0
Releasestatus	Final
Besturingssystemen	Linux, macOS, Windows 10, Windows 11
Website	Zettlr
Download	https://zettlr.com/download
Licentietype	GPL