Obsidian 1.14.0 Desktop (Early access) - Obsidian

Changelog

Follow Obsidian updates and improvements.

September 2, 2026

Added color highlights. Add a color emoji (🔴, 🟠, 🟢, 🔵, 🟣) to the start of a highlight to change its color, or pick a color from the new formatting submenu.
Typing == in the editor now suggests highlight colors.
Live Preview: When the cursor overlaps a highlight, an inline swatch now appears. Click it to quickly change the highlight color.

Added a new kanban layout to display files in ordered columns. Use Group by to define the columns, then drag and drop to reorder them.
Groups are now collapsible in the table, cards, and list layouts.

The entire workspace, including the sidebars, now flips when Obsidian is set to a right-to-left (RTL) language. Commands stay the same, so "Toggle left sidebar" now refers to the visual left sidebar, even when the interface is flipped.
Closing popout windows (such as Settings) is now much faster.
Editor: Pasting a list item onto a line that already contains a list marker (e.g. - [ ]) no longer duplicates the marker.
Editor: Improved the inline formatting commands. For example, "Toggle bold" on this line:

some **bold |text** on the line|

now results in:

some **bold text on the line**

Fixed periodic input lag in large vaults caused by properties getting recomputed in the background.
Fixed copy and paste not working correctly in popout windows, including copying and pasting notes in Canvas.
Web viewer: Fixed Google sign-in failing.
Bases: Fixed the "+" button not generating correct frontmatter for unresolved links, e.g. file.hasLink("[[unresolved]]").
Editor: Fixed Option Shift ↑ and Option Shift ↓ not working consistently on macOS in long paragraphs, where the scroll position would sometimes reset and the text selection would be incorrect.
Editor: Fixed a parser issue where `.
Editor: Fixed ↑ not moving from the editor to the inline title when there are no properties.
Note composer: Fixed "Extract this heading" not preserving the newline when there is only one newline between the section and the next heading.

Replaced MathJax with Temml for rendering math in Live Preview and Reading mode.
Editor: Each line of a math block ($$) now has the .HyperMD-math class.
Settings: Added optional SettingDefinitionItem#id for setting a unique ID on individual settings. Think of it like <div key={key} /> in React. Use it to differentiate between sibling settings that share a name, or to keep a stable reference when a setting or setting page is renamed.