v1.7.10

v1.7.10 makes large Markdown previews more responsive and lets PDF exports use your selected font.

fixed

• Reduce direction-handling overhead in large previews by avoiding redundant updates on LTR prose blocks. Mixed RTL/LTR text, explicit reading direction, code, and diagrams retain their direction handling (#195).
• Keep syntax-highlighted code monospace in PDF exports with every prose font.
• Wrap long URLs and filenames within printed pages.
• Keep simultaneous exports with identical filenames separate so one export cannot overwrite another.

PDF fonts

• PDF exports now follow Settings > Reading > preview and print font: Inter, system, or mono (#196).
• Include the bundled Inter and JetBrains Mono fonts in print documents when needed, and wait for fonts to finish loading before opening the print dialog.
• Select mono to export headings, paragraphs, lists, and tables in monospace without installing an extra font.

maintenance

• Updated the opener plugin to 2.7.2 in both Rust and JavaScript, the single-instance plugin to 2.5.5, and tauri-build to 2.7.4.

notes

• Thanks to @zenbao for the detailed large-preview performance report and @arijit4 for the print-font suggestion.
• Signed updater artifacts remain enabled.

v1.7.9

v1.7.9 restores unsaved drafts after a restart and updates the desktop dependencies with security fixes.

fixed

• Restore local backups of unsaved file edits and untitled tabs, including the active draft, when the app restarts (#187).
• Clear draft backups when changes are saved or a tab is explicitly discarded. If the original file changed externally, keep the recovered edits and show a conflict warning.
• Keep recovered text available when its original file is missing, and warn if draft backup storage is full or unavailable.
• Preserve newer typing when an earlier save finishes, including when switching tabs during the save.

security

• Updated rustls to 0.23.46 and the updater's zip dependency to 9.2.2 to address reported security vulnerabilities.

maintenance

• Updated the updater plugin to 2.14.1, the filesystem plugin to 2.7.1, the dialog plugin to 2.8.4, and serde_json to 1.0.154.
• Aligned the frontend plugin packages with their Rust versions.

notes

• Draft backups stay on your device. Use Save to write changes to the original file.
• Thanks to @Rinka-Sei for reporting the draft recovery request.
• Signed updater artifacts remain enabled.

v1.7.8

v1.7.8 fixes the find shortcut on Windows and Linux and updates the desktop dependencies.

fixed

• Reserved Ctrl+F for search on Windows and Linux. Fullscreen now uses F11, as documented; macOS keeps Ctrl+Cmd+F (#178).
• Updated the Help and command palette hints to show the correct fullscreen shortcut for each platform.
• Updated the updater plugin to 2.13.2, which preserves the existing macOS app when an update installation fails.

maintenance

• Updated Tauri to 2.12.2, the filesystem plugin to 2.6.0, the single-instance plugin to 2.5.2, and the process plugin to 2.4.0.
• Aligned the frontend filesystem, process, and updater packages with their Rust plugin versions.
• Retained the rustls 0.23.45 security fix and signed updater artifacts.

v1.7.7

v1.7.7 is a small maintenance release with a TLS security update and a fix to the published updater manifest.

fixed

• Updated rustls to 0.23.45 to pick up a fix for TLS 1.3 handshake handling in the updater's network stack.
• Published the updater manifest with public GitHub release download links.

notes

• No app behavior changes from v1.7.6.
• Signed updater artifacts remain enabled.

v1.7.6

v1.7.6 adds a manual refresh for the explorer and updates the Tauri shell.

added

• Added a refresh button to the explorer header, next to search and add folder, that re-reads the file tree from disk (#163).
• Added a "refresh explorer" command to the command palette.
• Kept expanded folders, active search results, and unsaved edits intact when refreshing.

improved

• Updated Tauri to 2.12 and window-vibrancy to 0.8.1.

notes

• Automatic folder monitoring is unchanged; the refresh button covers cases where an external change is missed.
• Signed updater artifacts remain enabled.

v1.7.5

v1.7.5 fixes line breaks in table cells and refreshes diagram rendering and native plugins.

fixed

• Rendered <br>, <br/>, and <br /> as line breaks in table cells and paragraphs, matching GitHub preview (#155).
• Kept all other raw HTML escaped in the preview and PDF export.

improved

• Updated mermaid to v12 with its refreshed default diagram look and layout.
• Updated the Tauri updater, file system, dialog, opener, and single-instance plugins.

notes

• Mermaid 12 needs a Safari 17.4+ webview on macOS for diagrams to render.
• Signed updater artifacts remain enabled.

What changed

• Added native RTL and BiDi reading direction support for Arabic, Hebrew, and mixed-language Markdown.
• Added persisted auto, left-to-right, and right-to-left reading direction settings.
• Kept code blocks, diagrams, and other technical content isolated in LTR layout.
• Applied direction handling to the main preview, detached preview, and PDF export.

Verification

• 82 tests passed
• TypeScript/Vite build passed
• Rust release check passed

Install

Download the installer for your platform from the assets below. Existing users can update from the app when the release is published.

v1.7.3

v1.7.3 adds a dedicated settings surface for configuring marka.md without interrupting the writing workflow.

added

• Added a settings button beside help in the status bar.
• Added cmd+, on macOS and ctrl+, on other platforms to open settings.
• Added appearance, editor, reading, startup, and language preferences in one overlay.
• Added smooth controls for writing font size, writing line spacing, reading size, reading width, and preview font size.
• Added a reset action for returning preferences to their defaults.

improved

• Kept theme selection in the theme menu while moving general preferences into settings.
• Added settings and keyboard shortcut guidance to the README, help content, and translations.

notes

• Preferences remain local to the app.
• Signed updater artifacts remain enabled.

v1.7.2

v1.7.2 is a stability patch for updater downloads, file watching, Linux startup, and preview workflows.

fixed

• Rewrote generated updater manifest URLs to public GitHub release download URLs so update downloads do not depend on unauthenticated REST API quota (#124, #126).
• Kept active-file reloads responsive by using immediate watcher events with JavaScript-side coalescing and stale watcher cleanup (#125, #127).
• Avoided the Tauri AppImage X11 backend default on Wayland sessions and kept the WebKit DMA-BUF fallback for affected Linux systems (#107, #128).

improved

• Added local-asset HTML rendering to quick previews (#130).
• Documented Arch Linux AUR installation (#131).
• Updated markdown-it to 15.0.0 (#129).

thanks

• Thanks to @11suixing11 for the updater, watcher, and Linux fixes.
• Thanks to the contributors behind the preview and documentation improvements.

notes

• Signed updater artifacts remain enabled.
• The release workflow normalizes latest.json platform URLs before publishing.

v1.7.1

v1.7.1 is the corrected packaging release for the v1.7 feature set.

included

• Quick previews for images, PDF, audio, video, text, code, and office documents (#120).
• Persisted app-wide zoom shortcuts with detached-preview support (#123).
• Faster incremental folder watching that avoids whole-tree startup freezes (#121, #122).

fixed

• Corrected the Rust lockfile so release builds resolve the published blocking crate version on every platform.

thanks

• Thanks to @beihai23 for quick file previews.
• Thanks to @sashamerzliakov for watcher performance and app-wide zoom.

notes

• The signed updater setup is unchanged.

v1.6.2

v1.6.2 is a stability patch for Windows startup and the native filesystem workflow.

fixed

• Prevented startup hangs when a persisted folder session contains a filesystem root such as V:\ (#118).
• Rejected filesystem roots as folder selections and skipped recursive watchers for unsafe restored paths.
• Cleared both folder-restore keys when an unsafe root is found, while preserving unrelated settings.

updated

• Updated serde to 1.0.229.
• Updated serde_json to 1.0.151.
• Updated tauri-plugin-dialog to 2.7.2.
• Updated tauri-plugin-single-instance to 2.4.3.
• Updated window-vibrancy to 0.8.0.

thanks

• Thanks to @Icatme for the Windows reproduction, diagnosis, fix, and regression tests.

notes

• The signed updater setup is unchanged.

v1.6.1

v1.6.1 is a small workflow and performance release for working with markdown projects.

added

• Added automatic folder monitoring so open project trees refresh when files or folders are created, removed, or renamed (#110).

improved

• Replaced active-file polling with native filesystem watching for faster external edit detection and lower idle work.
• Lazy-loaded Markdown syntax highlighting so documents without code blocks start with less work.
• Ignored access and metadata-only filesystem events when refreshing the active document.

notes

• The signed updater setup is unchanged.

v1.6.0

v1.6.0 is a workflow release for people who write and review markdown side by side.

added

• Added a separate live preview window for keeping rendered markdown on another display or workspace (#97).
• Added a small floating preview-pane control for opening the separate preview window without crowding the command palette or toolbar.
• Added command palette insertions for common markdown blocks: 2x2 tables, 3x3 tables, bulleted lists, numbered lists, and fenced code blocks (#98).
• Added Traditional Chinese localization (#103).

improved

• Kept layout/navigation commands grouped under workspace in the command palette, so insert commands stay easier to scan.
• Updated the welcome and help overlays for the current markdown insertion workflow.
• Preserved live preview sync when the separate preview window is reopened, focused, or already running.
• Added visible failure feedback if the separate preview window cannot be created.

notes

• This release closes #97 and includes the already-closed #98 markdown insertion work.
• The signed updater setup is unchanged.

v1.5.18

v1.5.18 is a small workflow release for richer previews and faster tab navigation.

added

• Added playable video and audio previews for markdown image-style links that point at local or remote media assets (#95).
• Added Cmd/Ctrl+T for a new untitled tab.
• Added Cmd/Ctrl+1 through Cmd/Ctrl+9 for switching to visible tabs by position.

improved

• Updated the help overlay, README keyboard table, welcome tutorial, and demo document with the new tab shortcuts.
• Updated Tauri from 2.11.3 to 2.11.5.

notes

• This closes #95.
• #97 stays open for the separate preview window and automatic formatting follow-up.

v1.5.17

What changed

• chore(deps): bump tauri-apps/tauri-action from 0 to 1 (#91)
• chore(deps): bump actions/cache from 5 to 6 (#92)
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 (#93)
• feat: support cli editor wait mode
• chore: release v1.5.17

full diff: https://github.com/mattenarle10/markamd/compare/v1.5.16...v1.5.17

Install

macOS Apple Silicon: marka.md.dmg macOS Intel: marka.md_intel.dmg Windows: marka.md_*-setup.exe Linux: pick .AppImage, .deb, or .rpm

Existing users on auto-update get this on next launch.

v1.5.16

v1.5.16 is a small bugfix release for keyboard behavior on desktop.

fixed

• Fixed Cmd+W / Ctrl+W so it closes the active markdown tab instead of letting the app window close.
• Reused the existing unsaved-change confirmation when closing a dirty tab from the keyboard.

notes

• This is a patch release for the tab-close shortcut regression.

v1.5.15

v1.5.15 is a display and reading polish release shaped by recent community feedback.

fixed

• Fixed selected editor text replacement after preview selection sync changes (#83).
• Kept hidden toolbar mode collapsed while giving macOS traffic lights a compact safe row (#88).

improved

• Added reading size controls and quick zoom buttons in reading mode (#84).
• Added reading width controls for narrow, comfort, wide, and full layouts (#87).
• Added preview and reading prose font choices: Inter, system, and mono (#86).
• Updated the Gemini theme with a cleaner white, gray, and blue palette (#85).

notes

• Thanks to @spyderdsn for the reports, feedback, and screenshots across #83-#88.

v1.5.14

v1.5.14 is a follow-up startup restore bugfix release.

fixed

• Fixed the remaining path where the persisted active file could make an untitled/demo tab look like an already-open file before disk content was read.
• Prevented the restore/open-file flow from skipping loadFile() when the visible buffer was still the demo document.

notes

• This issue was reported after v1.5.13 and is tracked in #82.
• This release keeps the signed updater setup unchanged.

v1.5.13

v1.5.13 is a small startup restore bugfix release.

fixed

• Fixed a startup/session restore race where the demo "welcome to marka.md" buffer could appear under a real restored or opened file tab before the file content was loaded.
• Kept untitled/demo tabs from being marked as file-backed tabs just because a persisted active path exists.

notes

• This was a display/session-state bug, not a disk overwrite. File contents were not changed unless the visible buffer was manually saved.
• This release keeps the signed updater setup unchanged.