See GitHub for detailed change history of this release
Congratulations to dmikh for their winning design for the banner for this release (here is the competition thread and the voting thread).
Important Update
After the release of v5.2.5, we found some backwards compatibility issues with the stylesheet changes in #7039 and #6910. We have therefore decided to make a rapid bug fix Release 5.2.5 to resolve these issues, and all users should upgrade to the new version.
Major Improvements
New Twitter Archivist plugin to import the tweets and associated media from a Twitter Archive as individual tiddlers.
added new GenesisWidget that allows the dynamic construction of another widget, where the name and attributes of the new widget can be dynamically determined, without needing to be known in advance
added (and here) new operators for reading and formatting JSON data: jsonget Operator, jsonindexes Operator, jsontype Operator, jsonextract Operator and format Operator
Translation Improvements
Improvements to the following translations:
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Polish
- Spanish
- Japanese
Improvements to the translation features of TiddlyWiki itself:
- improved the Translators Edition to add an option to display the original English text underneath the text area
- updated "delete" button text in $:/AdvancedSearch so that it is translatable
Usability Improvements
- fixed problem with long presses on tiddler links triggering a preview on iOS/iPadOS
- improved consistency of button and input elements across browsers
- fixed edit preview to use the View Template Body Cascade
- fixed opening a tiddler in a new window to use the View Template Body Cascade
- improved detection of infinite recursion errors in widgets and filters
- extended default styles for styled runs
- improved upgrade wizard to make the version number more prominent
- improved parsing of tiddlers containing CSV data for greater compatibility
- added new page control button to summon the layout switcher
- fixed folded tiddlers to ensure that the unfold button is always visible
- improved handling of Modals to optionally allow them to be dismissed by clicking on the background
Widget Improvements
- fixed EditTextWidget to remove the default text "Type the text for the tiddler 'foo'"
- added focus attribute to SelectWidget
- removed restriction of the LetWidget being unable to create variables whose names begin with a dollar sign
Filter improvements
- fixed issue with availability of variables within filter runs
- fixed issue with removing multiple items from a linked list during filter processing
Hackability Improvements
- added support for nested macro definitions
- added support for SystemTag: $:/tags/ClassFilters/TiddlerTemplate and SystemTag: $:/tags/ClassFilters/PageTemplate to assign dynamic CSS classes to both tiddler frames and the page template
- improved safe mode to disable wiki store indexers
- fixed safe mode to prevent globally disabling parser rules
- extended keyboard shortcut handling to allow to global shortcuts to override all other shortcuts
- extended list-links Macro to allow the rendered field to be overriden
- improved Table-of-Contents Macros to allow the default icons to be overridden
- added data-tags-* and data-tiddler-title attributes to the edit preview area
- extended timeline Macro to override the link template
- added support for Unix epoch timestamps in date format strings
- fixed the "big green download button" to use the defined palette colour
- added new hidden setting to use horizontal tabs for the "more" sidebar tab
- extended the external JavaScript templates to allow the URL of the external script file to be configured
Bug Fixes
- fixed truncated search results on small screens
- fixed table contents overflow on small screens
- fixed "new image" keyboard shortcut not to assign journal tags
- fixed SelectWidget class to update if it uses a filter
- fixed issue with wikification within the advanced search filter dropdown
- fixed the table in $:/Import to avoid creating hidden empty rows
- fixed advanced search keyboard shortcut not navigating correctly
- fixed erroneous display of drafts within the advanced search filter dropdown
- fixed backwards compatibility of new field editor cascade introduced in v5.2.3
Node.js Improvements
- added new CommandsCommand to enable command tokens to be dynamically generated from a filter
- improved console logging to avoid spaces and
<empty string>message - fixed problem with lazy loading deleting tiddler bodies under certain circumstances
- fixed handling of ".mp4" file extension so that it defaults to video not audio
- added test server to the plugin library edition
- added Hidden Setting: Sync Logging to control logging of sync-related messages
- updated Jasmine plugin to require the explicit use of the
--testcommand in order to cause the tests to be run
Performance Improvements
- improved performance of
wiki.getTiddler() - improved performance of variable prototype chain handling
- improved performance of list handling during filter processing
Acknowledgements
@Jermolene would like to thank the contributors to this release who have generously given their time to help improve TiddlyWiki:
