Release 5.3.6

15th November 2024 at 7:40pm

See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

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

Translation improvements

added support for new language "Chinese (Hong Kong)"
added support for new language "English (Philippines)"

This release includes improvements to the following translations:

Chinese
French
Japanese
Spanish
Polish

improved the translators edition with various fixes and updates

Plugin Improvements

Geospatial Plugin

added support for custom wikitext popups to be attached to map features
added support for click actions to be attached to map features
fixed ordering of latitude and longitude in geospatial operators
fixed crash when geomap contains an empty geolayer widget
fixed loading map state from saved tiddlers

Markdown Plugin

added support for dragging and dropping images directly into Markdown tiddlers
added strikethrough, superscript and subscript editor toolbar buttons
improved readability of Markdown links to other tiddlers
added image toolbar dropdown to editor toolbar
fixed colour for target footnote background
added settings tab
added reorganised "readme" and "config" tabs
added support for the excision tool
updated Markdown plugin to use the same formatting for highlighted text as ordinary WikiText

Browser Storage Plugin

added added support for separate messages to delete the cookie saved by the Browser Storage Plugin and for disabling the plugin entirely

TestCaseWidget and Related Improvements

This release includes several fixes and improvements to the TestCaseWidget, its default template, and the related DataWidget and CompoundTiddlers format. These features were first introduced in Release 5.3.4 and are undergoing continuous improvement as we work on integrating them more widely across the system.

added new $compound-filter attribute for the DataWidget that allows other compound tiddlers to be imported. There is also a companion import-compound field for the TestCaseWidget template
improved the TestCaseWidget default template to make it more modular
added support for an import field in TestCaseTiddlers, allowing additional tiddlers to be imported
fixed TestCaseWidget default template to allow wikitext within the test case narrative
added WikiText formatting buttons when editing CompoundTiddlers
added CompoundTiddlers type text/vnd.tiddlywiki-multiple to the editor type dropdown
fixed filesystem handling so that CompoundTiddlers are saved as .tid files

Widget Improvements

updated DroppableWidget to allow actions to be triggered once passing all the items in the list rather than invoking the actions separately for each item in the list

Usability Improvements

added new light and dark "Flexoki" palettes, originally designed by Steph Ango – see https://stephango.com/flexoki
improved presentation of core plugin settings by adding them to the main "Settings" tab in $:/ControlPanel
improved language descriptions by localising them
fixed the contrast of plugin stability badges on hover
added a "copy to clipboard" button to the view template body template used for code tiddlers
added support for social media cards to be added to TiddlyWiki
added type attribute to input fields in control panel, allowing virtual keyboards to switch to the proper one when editing settings
added empty message to tag picker, search dropdown and advanced search
added a search button to the control panel tiddler fields tab
improved (and here) the view and edit toolbars with more descriptive Aria labels
extended export button so that it can be dragged to export the tiddlers to another wiki
updated $:/TagManager to use the colour-picker Macro
added an animation while lazily loaded tiddlers are being loaded
updated font stacks used in "Vanilla" theme to contemporary best practice

Hackability Improvements

improved keyboard-driven-input Macro to use modern syntax
a shortcut syntax for setting CSS variables on an HTML element
added support for a control panel setting to configure the maximum number of tiddlers shown in the "recent" tab
updated Table-of-Contents Macros to default to showing the table of contents for the current tiddler whenever no parameter is specified
added support for the HTML entity &NoBreak; which can be useful for joining HTML elements without an unwanted linebreak
added a keyboard shortcut for opening the control panel (by default it is ctrl-alt-C)
added new Hidden Setting: Tag Pill Drag Filter that allows configuration of the tiddlers that are transferred when dragging a tag pill
added tests to ensure that the syntax elements {% %} and {= =} are reserved for external tooling, and will never be recognised by TiddlyWiki itself
added new cascades for the view template subtitle and tags
improved excision tool implementation to make the excision tiddler title translatable
improved editor toolbar buttons to use the new Conditional Shortcut Syntax
improved page control toolbar buttons to use the new Conditional Shortcut Syntax
improved WidgetMessage: tm-new-tiddler to allow tiddlers to be created with no tags field
added startCount parameter to unusedtitle Macro
added trimSelection parameter to WidgetMessage: tm-edit-text-operation
added option to set a keyboard shortcut for the menubar search text input
updated (and here) Plugin Stability badges to support translation of the labels
updated all core colour palettes to use six digit hex colours
added support for HTTP Bearer authentication to the WidgetMessage: tm-http-request

Bug Fixes

fixed ordering of global macros
fixed timeline Macro to avoid exceeding the limit on the number of tiddlers displayed in a single day
fixed tiddlers should not be interactive after they are closed
fixed crash when WidgetMessage: tm-copy-to-clipboard is passed an empty string
fixed disengage "select all" when cancelling an import
fixed transcludes Operator and backtranscludes Operator minor issue with transclusions made via a filtered attribute
fixed scroll top position when animation duration is zero
fixed importing $:/build tiddler when upgrading to avoid overwriting it
fixed crash with RenderCommand when filename filter returns empty result
fixed display of language plugins
fixed (and here and here) display of non-square plugin icons
fixed appearance of input elements other than type text and search
fixed crash with filesystem adaptor if the wiki folder is missing
fixed unwrapped oveflowed code blocks not showing scroll bars when setting "Wrap long lines in code blocks" to "No" in "Theme tweaks"
fixed (and here) search input box outline in Chrome-like browsers
fixed problem with rapid typing in the advanced search filter tab
fixed crash with EditionsCommand if an edition directory does not have a tiddlywiki.info file
fixed DataWidget to allow title fields to be overwritten
fixed "Put Saver" to correctly interpret HTTP response codes
fixed invalid accept header in "Put Saver"
fixed duplicated search results in advanced search when more than one tiddlers are tagged with SystemTag: $:/tags/SearchResults
fixed crash if the KeyboardWidget is used within a startup action
fixed suffix in the encodebase64 Operator and decodebase64 Operator
fixed overflow of floated elements
fixed (and here and here) tables overflowing tiddler margins on narrow screens
fixed the colour-picker Macro wrongly autoclosing when selecting or typing a colour
fixed confusing message when the tag picker dropdown is empty
fixed misaligned tiddler subtitle
fixed GenesisWidget so that explicit attributes take precedence

Node.js Improvements

fixed BuildCommand crashing when no wiki folder has been specified
fixed server crash when authenticating if newlines are contained in the site title

Developer Improvements

improved the browser checks used in $:/boot/bootprefix.js
extended parse tree format to add start/end properties to table row and cell elements
improved and simplified plugin library edition usage

Acknowledgements

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