Obsidian 1.14.0 Desktop (Early access)

New

Editor

• 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.

Bases

• 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.

Improvements

• 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**
  

No longer broken

• 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 OptionShift↑ and OptionShift↓ 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 ![]( caused all following text in the document to be treated as part of the image.
• Editor: Fixed incorrect cursor placement when moving the cursor to the end of the line with multiple formatting markers (e.g. **__text__**).
• 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.

Developers

• 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 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.