Release 5.3.1

20th August 2023 at 11:28am

See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

Congratulations to vilc for their winning design for the banner for this release (here is the competition thread).

Overview of v5.3.1

This release comes only a few weeks after v5.3.0. The motivation for the release is to swiftly fix some issues that have emerged with v5.3.0. There are also some other improvements included in this release, notably the ability to access binary resources over HTTP – the demo downloads a random image or video of a dog.

Bug Fixes and Reversions of v5.3.0 Changes

Reverted adding the widget.destroy() method because of performance concerns (see https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5/pull/7468)
fixed inefficiency when transcluding with the $output attribute set to text/plain that manifested itself as extremely slow export times
fixed unwanted error message "Global assignment is not allowed within modules on node"

Translation improvement

Improvements to the following translations:

Chinese
Polish

Widget Improvements

added tabindex attribute to SelectWidget

Hackability Improvements

improved ImportVariablesWidget and Pragma: \import to trim whitespace when parsing tiddlers
extended WidgetMessage: tm-http-request to handle binary responses (demo)

Bug Fixes

fixed table of contents indentation
fixed bindStatus and bindProgress parameters of WidgetMessage: tm-http-request
fixed attribute substitution to handle variables containing non-word characters
fixed the pragmas introduced in v5.3.0 so that they can be indented with whitespace
fixed size of tiddler icons
fixed drag and drop from Chrome-like browsers to Firefox
fixed listIndex mode of checkbox widgets

Node.js Improvements

improved console reporting of JavaScript errors

Developer Improvements

fixed overeager onload handler in Jasmine plugin
fixed ordering of shadow tiddler listings to not reflect order of insertion

Acknowledgements

@Jermolene would like to thank the contributors to this release who have generously given their time to help improve TiddlyWiki: