Release 5.1.10

7th January 2016 at 11:16pm

See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

Major Improvements

Performance Optimisations

This release includes several low-level performance optimisations that should improve speed and responsiveness in many common operations.

There is a new setting in the control panel to enable performance instrumentation, making it much easier to measure and improve performance issues.

New Editions

Three new editions of TiddlyWiki are included in this release. These can be used as starting points for creating your own wiki for several purposes:

The Résumé Builder Edition by @inmysocks is a custom edition to guide you through the process of using TiddlyWiki to create a good looking résumé (or curriculum vitæ)
The Blog Edition provides tools for using TiddlyWiki under Node.js to create a static HTML blog that can be published on GitHub pages (or similar)
The Text-Slicer Edition is a custom edition with tools to help advanced users slice longer texts up into individual tiddlers.

External Text Tiddlers

Limited support for tiddlers stored in external .tid files:

standalone TiddlyWiki HTML files with external text tiddlers can be built under Node.js
wikis with external text tiddlers can be worked with in the browser, automatically lazily loading the content of external text tiddlers when it is first referenced
- saving changes in the browser doesn't work as expected: if edited, the external text tiddler is replaced with an ordinary tiddler
- lazy loading of external text tiddlers doesn't work in Chrome when viewing the TiddlyWiki HTML file on a file: URI; it works OK in Firefox
- lazy loading works on an HTTP URI on all browsers as long as the target file is either stored on the same domain or is served by a server that supports CORS

See Alice in Wonderland for an example. Try opening it without a network connection.

New "Tight" Theme

A new theme called "Tight" uses reduced padding, margins and font-sizes to pack as much text as possible:

Other Improvements

Translation Improvements

Added Swedish translation by @Superdos
Added Korean (Korean Republic) translation by @araname
Improved Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish translations

Usability Improvements

Enhanced the tiddler editor to accept new fields and tags when clicking confirm, without having to click "Add tag" or "Add field"
Added new fold and fold others buttons to the tiddler toolbar to temporarily hide the body of a tiddler, and also added new fold all and unfold all page buttons
Added ability to disable individual WikiText parser rules (see the Advanced tab of $:/ControlPanel). Also added a simple setting for disabling automatic linking of CamelCase words
Extended support for automatically linked system tiddler titles to include digits and underscore
Added warning when trying to use plugins designed for TiddlyWiki Classic
Upgraded to version v8.8.0 of highlight.js for the Highlight Plugin
Removed the need to manually confirm deleting alerts
Added optional tooltips to tabs Macro

Hackability Improvements

Updated to KaTeX v0.5.1, with several new features
Added publishFilter to default save template
Allow delete button to be used in the tiddler view-mode toolbar
Added a new hidden setting for keyboard shortcuts
Update ActionSetFieldWidget to allow timestamp to be preserved
Added option to suppress navigation for edit/cancel/save
Enhance SaveTiddlersCommand with do not delete option
Enhance RenderTiddlerCommand with template option
Extend tm-open-window to pass variables
Added new utility method $tw.utils.tagToCssSelector(tagName) for converting tag titles into a form suitable for matching the tc-tagged-* classes generated by TiddlyWiki
Added support for tiddlers containing mp4 videos
Extended the ActionSetFieldWidget to enable it to be used to delete a field or indexed property
Made the tw5.com documentation available as a plugin and an edition, simplifying some scenarios for re-using it
Improved rendering of "More" sidebar tab gradients in the "Snow White" theme
Added option in control panel to enable the display of detailed performance instrumentation in the browser developer console
Added a LazyLoading template for all non-system tiddlers
Improved handling of TiddlerLinks in Markdown tiddlers
Extended FieldManglerWidget to create the target tiddler if it does not exist
Extended KeyboardWidget to trigger ActionWidgets
Extended SelectWidget to support multiple selections
Added new days Operator
Added official plugin wrappers for the JavaScript libraries async.js and JSZip
Added new ActionListopsWidget
Added rows attribute to EditTextWidget

Bug Fixes

Fixed problem introduced in 5.1.9 with processing tiddlywiki.info files
Fixed problem with invisible icons in $:/AdvancedSearch
Improved check for required plugins in ServerCommand
Fixed problem with queueing change events for deleting non-existent tiddlers
Ensure EditTextWidget fixes height even if refresh isn't required
Fixed the gradient on the sidebar tabs divider
Fixed problem with tiddler titles such as $:/templates/something being erroneously classed as $:/temp tiddlers, and so excluded from syncing
Switched to absolute date format in tiddler subtitles

Node.js Improvements

Fixed problem with the filesystem adaptor saving new image files as base64-encoded .tid files instead of as native binary files with an accompanying .meta file
Extended tiddlywiki.files support in TiddlyWikiFolders to allow directories to be loaded recursively, as well as individual files

Contributors

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