Release 5.2.7

26th March 2023 at 8:32am

See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

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

This is a bug fix release intended to resolve a backwards compatibility issue discovered in v5.2.6. See this GitHub ticket for the background.

The issue is that trailing newlines within a macro definitions were being ignored, which affected whether the content were parsed in inline or block mode.

Since v5.2.7 replaces v5.2.6 that was only released for less than a week, here is the release note for v5.2.6.

Release Note for v5.2.6

See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

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

Major Improvements

Improved Markdown Plugin

updated the Markdown Plugin to use the newer and better maintained markdown-it library. The previous Markdown plugin remains available as "markdown-legacy"

Better Handling of Loss of Network Connectivity with Client Server Configuration

added integration between the BrowserStorage Plugin and the client-server configuration to allow changes to be made while offline and then later resynchronised with the server

New Diff-Match-Patch Primitives

added three new operators exposing previously hidden features of the Diff-Match-Patch library that is integrated with TiddlyWiki:
- new levenshtein Operator to calculate the similarity of two strings as the number of characters that need to be inserted, deleted or modified in order to turn one into the other
- new makepatches Operator and applypatches Operator that can be used to make and apply patches that represent the difference between two different texts. See the examples

Translation Improvements

Improvements to the following translations:

Chinese
German
Italian
Polish

Plugin Improvements

fixed Innerwiki Plugin to allow the <$data> widget to override existing tiddler fields
fixed, here and here problem preventing Share Plugin from working properly
updated XLSX Plugin to handle importing numeric fields
fixed Dynannotate plugin crash when using the fake DOM used for static rendering
fixed bug where pasting text into the CodeMirror editor also opened an $:/Import tiddler
improved documentation for the Railroad Plugin

Accessibility Improvements

improved appearance of save wiki button so that it is accessible to users without colour vision

Usability Improvements

improved consistency of tiddler deletion by allowing missing tiddlers to be 'deleted', which just results in them being closed
improved layout switcher to include an optional icon for each layout
removed improvements to table layout from v5.2.5 that have proved to not be backwards compatible
added support for &dollar; HTML entity

Widget Improvements

extended EditTextWidget to support focusSelectFromStart and focusSelectFromEnd attributes to give better control over text selection

Filter improvements

extended encodeuricomponent Operator to encode characters such as * that are illegal in Windows filenames
added encodebase64 Operator and decodebase64 Operator

Hackability Improvements

extended the pragma syntax to allow them to be indented with whitespace
improved readability of tag-picker Macro and keyboard-driven-input Macro
improved reliability of list-links-draggable Macro and list-tagged-draggable Macro by using the new GenesisWidget instead of textual substitution
improved external JavaScript core support to make it possible to save an external JS wiki as a standard single file wiki
added a warning message in the browser console when the Zoomin storyview fails due to the tiddler view template lacking a single containing element

Bug Fixes

fixed bug with the DropzoneWidget that prevented all the available formats being pasted
updated PDF rendering to use an <iframe> instead of the older <embed>
fixed issue with .tid files with fieldnames containing hash characters by saving such tiddlers in .json format
fixed (and here) overriding toc-caption macro for Table-of-Contents Macros
fixed rendering of $:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Tags when viewed within the story river
fixed undefined variable crash in reduce Operator, filter Operator and sortsub Operator
improved GenesisWidget not to create anything if the $type attribute is blank or missing
fixed GenesisWidget to pass isBlock flag to the generated widget
fixed crash using jsonget Operator with "fixed" as key name
fixed importing of MP3 files to match current browser implementations
fixed crash when attempting to create an element with a blank tag name
fixed layout issue with "save tiddler" button
fixed (and here) handling of whitespace in lists to cover all Unicode whitespace characters
fixed test spacing of parser rule checkboxes in control panel
fixed CSS classes assigned to edit toolbar buttons
fixed usage of broken CSS class tc-storyview-zoomin-tiddler in Zoomin story view
fixed usage of importTitle and autoOpenOnImport options for WidgetMessage: tm-import-tiddlers
fixed fixed text editor refresh when the palette is changed
fixed crash with LetWidget when referencing a variable that exists but has an undefined value
fixed unwanted double braces around tags specified in $:/config/NewTiddler/Tags when using "new here" button

Node.js Improvements

fixed duplicate fields in internal templates used in client-server configuration
fixed lazy loading not triggering a sync from the server
fixed crash on creating a new tiddler if anonymous users manage to create syncable tiddlers in a read only wiki
improved handling of logout in the client-server configuration to avoid 404 errors
fixed problem with saving tiddlers with _canonical_uri field as .tid files
fixed missing meta viewport to static river template

Performance Improvements

improved field indexer to more efficiently process lookups

Acknowledgements

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