See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

Incompatible Changes

See Notes for upgrading to 5.0.11-beta for more details of these changes:

• The default output location for command line operations has changed to the /output folder within TiddlyWikiFolders (it used to be current directory)
• Note that the shadow tiddler $:/core/ui/PageMacros has changed with this release. If you've made modifications to it you should copy your modifications to a new tiddler, delete $:/core/ui/PageMacros, perform the upgrade and then manually update the new copy of $:/core/ui/PageMacros

Documentation Improvements

• Added more warnings about taking care to backup your data

Usability Improvements

• Many performance optimisations, particularly for filter operations
• Added support for PermaLinks and browser back and forward buttons
• Added support for WikiLinks in Markdown via [link text](#TiddlerTitle)
• Added support for explicit external Linking in WikiText (eg [ext[tooltip|url]])
• Replaced hamburger menu icon with double chevron icon
• Enhance plain text parsing to use the CodeBlockWidget, and hence use syntax highlighting if the plugin is installed. This gives us syntax highlighting for JavaScript shadow tiddlers, amongst other things
• Improvements to the German, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese translations
• Removed WikiText tiddlers from the sidebar "Types" tab
• Added various warnings when editing shadow tiddlers
• Allow digits in field names
• Added warning banner and when attempting to edit binary tiddlers
• Added automatic refreshing of the browser window title from $:/core/wiki/title

Hackability Improvements

• Improved vertical layouts of tabs macro
• Added "standard" tab to advanced search
• Added new filter operators before and after
• Added new get operator
• Added BuildCommand, OutputCommand and ClearPasswordCommand
• Added new extensible StartupMechanism for orchestrating startup tasks
• Updated to new version of CodeMirror
• Added https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5NodeWebkit, a demo of using TiddlyWiki as a library in a node-webkit application
• Extended .tid TiddlerFiles to allow single line text fields
• Renamed $:/ShowEditPreview to $:/state/showeditpreview

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with hovering of the topbar icons in Firefox
• Fixed problem with dragging and dropping within a text edit control

Contributors

I (@Jermolene) would like to thank the contributors to this release who have generously given their time to helping improve TiddlyWiki:

@BramChen, @mwfogleman, @nameanyone, @natecain, @pekopeko1, @pmario, @sukima, @xcazin.