Release 5.3.7

7th July 2025 at 11:50am

See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

This is a minor bug fix release before introducing the major changes planned for v5.4.0. The changes planned for that release do involve some minor breaks in backwards compatibility so this release is intended to be a stable point for users before they upgrade.

New Features

added The new TiddlyWiki Surveys edition at https://tiddlywiki.com/surveys.html is a home for surveys and interviews with the TiddlyWiki community. There will be a new 2025 survey soon, but in the meantime you can read the results of the Great Viral TiddlyWiki Interview Project from 2010.

addedThe new Wiki Information tab in the control panel provides a convenient way to view and copy key configuration information about your wiki. This is useful for debugging and support purposes. Find it in $:/ControlPanel under the "Info" tab.

Translation improvements

Chinese
French
German
Greek
Japanese

Plugin Improvements

updated CodeMirror Plugin to CodeMirror version to 5.65.19

Widget Improvements

extended 'disabled' attribute to SelectWidget and BrowseWidget
extended 'tabindex' attribute to BrowseWidget, RangeWidget, CheckboxWidget and RadioWidget

Usability Improvements

added (and here) Hidden Setting: Default Type for Missing Tiddlers
fixed incorrect use of national flags to represent languages
fixed vertical spacing of sidebar "Tools" tab when displayed in the story river, and add some utility CSS classes
added control panel setting to specify the default tiddler info tab

Palette Improvements

added DiffTextWidget colours to several core palettes
improved (and here) Flexoki palette with additional colours
updated Vanilla palette with resolvable #RRGGBB values
added test case palette entries to the remaining core palettes
updated (and here) SolarizedLight and SolarizedDark palettes to improve readability of stability badges and the download button
updated Nord palette to improve accessibility and make the editor border visible
updated ContrastDark palette to improve accessibility
updated SolarFlare palette, fix plugin button hover and sidebar icon hover
updated Rocker palette, make toolbar buttons visible, sidebar tabs adjusted
updated GruvboxDark palette, improve accessibility contrast, add network activity
updated DesertSand palette, fix some errors, make values resolvable
updated DarkPhotos palette, make colours resolvable
updated Cupertino dark palette
updated ContrastLight palette, slightly improved contrast
updated Blanca palette with resolvable values, add missing indices, slight colour adjustments

Hackability Improvements

updated several macros such as colour-picker Macro, dumpvariables Macro, image-picker Macro, translink Macro, tree Macro and list-links-draggable Macro to use the newer syntax
extended rendered plain text template to support more languages
updated the editor link dropdown to use newer syntax
added support for images in AVIF format
added a CSS class to the import table
added a CSS class to help style links in modals

Bug Fixes

fixed problem with overwriting shadow tiddlers from plugins that do not have a plugin-priority field
fixed (and here) problem with switching language not correctly updating the lang attribute of the root <html> element
fixed bug with refreshing ExternalImages with a _canonical_uri field
fixed unusedtitle Macro to trim whitespace from the generated title
fixed file extensions and MIME types for font files
fixed bug where the wiki would be marked as dirty when a shadow tiddler is changed
fixed unnecessary refresh with GenesisWidget
fixed WidgetMessage: tm-http-request to pass custom variables to the progress actions
fixed FillWidget to no longer display its content
fixed inconsistent whitespace in page toolbar "More" dropdown
fixed RSOD with contains Operator if created field is accessed
fixed incorrect .html file extension of exported tiddlers on Android
fixed Arabic text using sans-serif font by adding "system-ui" to default font family
fixed refresh problem with "save" button
fixed list-tagged-draggable Macro to use the "caption" field if available
fixed problem with missing expandable arrow in toc-selective-expandable
fixed the default value does not work for the CheckboxWidget if it is bound to an index in a data tiddler
fixed median Operator to order values as numbers, not strings
fixed red screen of embarrassment error with moduleproperty filter operator
fixed red screen of embarrassment when using a startup action with the now Macro
fixed some download file types not being specified
fixed configuration filter in $:/AdvancedSearch "Standard" tab
fixed stringification of derived fields for tiddlywiki.files Files
fixed broken tag pill styling in edit mode after v5.3.3
fixed adding external themes to the Highlight Plugin

Node.js Improvements

fixed incorrect redirect when combining a custom path-prefix with manual HTTP Basic Authentication via the /login-basic endpoint
fixed crash loading large files

Performance Improvements

updated plugin editions to use the external core

Developer Improvements

updated Widget.prototype.addEventListener not overwriting old listeners
added configurations for dprint and eslint (partially reverted in #8987)

Acknowledgements

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