Changelog

Follow Obsidian updates and improvements.

January 30, 2025

1.8

Desktop

Highlights

• Web viewer, a new core plugin, lets you open external links within Obsidian. This makes it easier to read linked content without leaving the app and improves multitasking for web research. The plugin is disabled by default and must be enabled manually in settings.
• Sync now has a new view option, "Hide my changes," which hides your own file changes in a shared Obsidian sync vault.
• File Explorer now includes an option to automatically reveal the active file.
• Added the "Download attachments for current file" command, which downloads all externally embedded images and replaces the external links with internal embeds.
• Added the "Insert footnote" command. Footnote autocomplete now provides a fallback to create a new footnote if no match is found.
• Tags view now includes a search filter.
• Outline now has an "Auto-scroll to current section" option.

Improvements

• When modifying a numbered list, the numbers are now updated automatically.
• Recently used commands now appear at the top of the command palette.
• Editor suggestions now scroll back to the top when input changes.
• Middle-clicking the tab forward/back navigation buttons now opens the file in a new tab.
• Added a "Comment" option to the editor context menu under the "Format" submenu.
• Improved handling of files with invalid frontmatter:
  • Reading mode now shows an error message at the top of the file.
  • The "Add property" command now shows an error instead of removing invalid frontmatter.
• Canvas groups can now have empty labels, which remain visible while editing.
• Canvas cards now stay mounted while being actively edited, even when zoomed out.
• Sync version history now renders a preview image when viewing a Canvas file.
• The "Search current file" search bar now displays the total number of results.
• Improved rendering of bookmarked URLs in the quick switcher.
• Pressing the Down arrow key in search now removes the cursor from the search bar, making it easier to navigate results.
• The "Insert template" command now sorts templates by file path and displays folder names.
• Right-clicking anywhere in the File Explorer now shows a context menu.
• File Explorer now includes a menu option to create a new folder with the selected items.
• Individual values from list properties can now be copied using the context menu or Command/Ctrl + C.
• Right-clicking anywhere in the Local Properties view now shows the property menu.
• Dragging a file over a collapsed folder in File Explorer now automatically expands the folder.
• Sort options are now available in the properties menu.
• <img>, <video>, <audio> and <source> tags with relative src paths are now rendered in Live Preview and Reading mode.
• The tab close button is now hidden if the tab is too small.
• In Sync History, clicking an active item now expands its entry.
• The callout context menu now includes an option to remove callout formatting.
• The "Show backlinks in document" preference is now saved for each tab in the workspace.
• The "Show ribbon" setting is now saved in appearance.json instead of app.json.
• Page previews on hover are now supported in tab headers of notes and attachments.
• Obsidian Publish now includes a new command, "Open in live site," to open the current live version of a note.
• Improved the screen shown when connecting to a sync remote vault.
• The Sync plugin is now enabled by default to improve visibility in settings. Added a new command, "Sync: Set up sync."
• File Explorer now automatically deselects files after they are moved into a collapsed folder.

No longer broken

• Live Preview now renders reference-style links correctly.
• The "Tab indent size" setting now controls the visual width of tabs/indents.
• Fixed renaming headings and block IDs showing the incorrect number of modified files.
• Graph view no longer considers Canvas files as attachments.
• Fixed search sort order preference not always being saved.
• Layout and config changes now always save before quitting Obsidian.
• Fixed a rare bug where "Insert template" failed if the cursor was at the start of a file and the template content began with a horizontal rule.
• Fixed a bug where right-clicking the property icon while the property name was empty would hide the entire row.
• Fixed Alt-Enter not working if the cursor overlapped with the embed start ![[.
• Fixed an issue where the app switched to the default theme after removing an inactive theme.
• Canvas now shows additional context menu options when multiple file cards are selected.

Third-party libraries

• Updated Electron to 33.3.2.
• Upgraded Prism.js to 1.29.0.
• Upgraded Turndown to 7.2.0.
• Upgraded Mermaid to 11.3.0.
• Upgraded CodeMirror to the latest version.