Software-update: Zettlr 4.1.0

Versie 4.1.0 van Zettlr is uitgekomen. Zettlr is een op zettelkasten gebaseerde opensource en crossplatform markdown editor, waarmee artikelen, e-boeken en content kunnen worden gecreëerd. Ook kan het orde scheppen in de chaos van notities en artikelen, bronvermelding genereren en interactieve vragenlijsten maken. Het is daarmee geschikt voor onder meer ontwikkelaars, onderzoekers, journalisten en bloggers. Uitgebreide informatie over de veranderingen in versie 4.0 kan op deze pagina worden gevonden, in deze eerste update zijn verder nog de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:

This is the first minor update for Zettlr 4.0. It comes with many fixes and small improvements, but also two new features and a change that you should know about. The two features are that you can now additionally collapse YAML frontmatters and Pandoc divs with the collapse-arrows left of the editor area, and Zettlr furthermore remembers which sections you have collapsed on a per-editor basis. The change pertains to a configuration update that will make downgrading from this version difficult, and which requires your attention. Read everything in the Changelog below.

Read Before Updating

In this version, we perform a long-planned configuration change that affects your loaded workspaces and files. Before installing this update, please take note of which workspaces and files you have open, in case they are being closed through this update. (No data will be actually deleted, but this helps you avoid having to search for the folders.)

In addition, it is crucial to remember that once you update to this version, there is no turning back. If you decide to downgrade to a previous version, your files and workspaces will be closed, and you will have to re-open them afterwards.

GUI and Functionality

Feature: You can now collapse YAML frontmatters and Pandoc divs (#6115).Feature: Zettlr now remembers folded regions as long as the window remains open, even when you close a document (#6115).Change: Due to a configuration change, downgrading Zettlr (which we generally discourage) after updating to this version will lead to your workspaces being closed.Fixed XCode Command Line Tools setup dialog on macOS (#5428).Fixed an issue that prevented opening Markdown files with tables that include Pandoc attribute strings when the TableEditor was enabled (#6110).Fixed footnote tooltip rendering (#6107).Fixed an issue preventing Zettlr from starting if the stats file contained errors (#6127).Improved link target extraction logic when following links (#6098).Performance improvements when following links (#6072).Hide reference link labels when previewing Markdown links (#6097).Improved performance on generating the preview-bibliography in the sidebar by collecting citation keys from the document only in the main process (#6068).Improved math parsing to fix certain cases (#6030).Relaxed filename restrictions for loading custom dictionaries (#6126).Improved Pandoc div parsing (#6120).Update de-DE translation (#6081).Update ja-JP translation (#6086).

Feature: You can now collapse YAML frontmatters and Pandoc divs (#6115).

Feature: Zettlr now remembers folded regions as long as the window remains open, even when you close a document (#6115).

Change: Due to a configuration change, downgrading Zettlr (which we generally discourage) after updating to this version will lead to your workspaces being closed.

Fixed XCode Command Line Tools setup dialog on macOS (#5428).

Fixed an issue that prevented opening Markdown files with tables that include Pandoc attribute strings when the TableEditor was enabled (#6110).

Fixed footnote tooltip rendering (#6107).

Fixed an issue preventing Zettlr from starting if the stats file contained errors (#6127).

Improved link target extraction logic when following links (#6098).

Performance improvements when following links (#6072).

Hide reference link labels when previewing Markdown links (#6097).

Improved performance on generating the preview-bibliography in the sidebar by collecting citation keys from the document only in the main process (#6068).

Improved math parsing to fix certain cases (#6030).

Relaxed filename restrictions for loading custom dictionaries (#6126).

Improved Pandoc div parsing (#6120).

Update de-DE translation (#6081).

Update ja-JP translation (#6086).

Under the Hood

Moved the openPaths property. The openPaths property was a simple array holding all currently loaded root files and workspaces intermingled. This setting stems from the time when Zettlr could not load arbitrary files, and mixing files and folders is generally a bad practice. This property has now been moved into the new namespace app in the settings, and divided into openFiles and openWorkspaces. This will make a few future checks and features easier to implement, as the separation into files and folders is made explicit and not left to the OS. This will allow us to better clean up the property (personal note: I've seen a colleague's config file which was full of non-existing file paths, and I didn't like that). In rare situations, this change may close all your workspaces, in which case you would have to re-open them.New utility function disambiguateFile that can be used to retrieve a time-based non-existing path that can be used for backup purposes.Added a new environment variable, ZETTLR_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK. If that variable is detected during build, this will hard-disable update checks in the application. This can be used by package maintainers to ensure update checks from within the app are disabled, and Zettlr instead must be updated via the package manager. Please note that the build script will only check for the presence of the variable, not its contents. To ensure you are building with updates enabled, you need to ensure the variable is not set, for example by running unset ZETTLR_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK before commencing the build. For more information, please see issue #6075. When this environment variable is present during build, the resulting binary will exhibit this behavior:The "Check for updates" menu item will not be present.The "Updates" and "Beta releases" preferences will not be present. Instead, the updates-setting will be replaced by an informative message informing that updates have been disabled for the app.The update check itself in the update provider will never run.Zettlr will include an environment variable indicating whether updates are disabled (1) or enabled (0) that is visible within the debug panel.Added a new environment variable, BUNDLE_PANDOC. If this variable is set to a value of 0, this will prevent the build script from downloading and bundling Pandoc during the build stage. This can be used by package maintainers to reduce the package size when there is a better way to provide Pandoc (e.g., by listing it as a dependency for Zettlr). This also means that the build environment does not require the dependencies that are specifically for the download script.fix: The Pandoc Attribute parser does not throw an error on malformed attribute strings anymore, and instead just returns an empty record (#6110).

Moved the openPaths property. The openPaths property was a simple array holding all currently loaded root files and workspaces intermingled. This setting stems from the time when Zettlr could not load arbitrary files, and mixing files and folders is generally a bad practice. This property has now been moved into the new namespace app in the settings, and divided into openFiles and openWorkspaces. This will make a few future checks and features easier to implement, as the separation into files and folders is made explicit and not left to the OS. This will allow us to better clean up the property (personal note: I've seen a colleague's config file which was full of non-existing file paths, and I didn't like that). In rare situations, this change may close all your workspaces, in which case you would have to re-open them.

New utility function disambiguateFile that can be used to retrieve a time-based non-existing path that can be used for backup purposes.

Added a new environment variable, ZETTLR_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK. If that variable is detected during build, this will hard-disable update checks in the application. This can be used by package maintainers to ensure update checks from within the app are disabled, and Zettlr instead must be updated via the package manager. Please note that the build script will only check for the presence of the variable, not its contents. To ensure you are building with updates enabled, you need to ensure the variable is not set, for example by running unset ZETTLR_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK before commencing the build. For more information, please see issue #6075. When this environment variable is present during build, the resulting binary will exhibit this behavior:The "Check for updates" menu item will not be present.The "Updates" and "Beta releases" preferences will not be present. Instead, the updates-setting will be replaced by an informative message informing that updates have been disabled for the app.The update check itself in the update provider will never run.Zettlr will include an environment variable indicating whether updates are disabled (1) or enabled (0) that is visible within the debug panel.

The "Check for updates" menu item will not be present.The "Updates" and "Beta releases" preferences will not be present. Instead, the updates-setting will be replaced by an informative message informing that updates have been disabled for the app.The update check itself in the update provider will never run.Zettlr will include an environment variable indicating whether updates are disabled (1) or enabled (0) that is visible within the debug panel.

The "Check for updates" menu item will not be present.

The "Updates" and "Beta releases" preferences will not be present. Instead, the updates-setting will be replaced by an informative message informing that updates have been disabled for the app.

The update check itself in the update provider will never run.

Zettlr will include an environment variable indicating whether updates are disabled (1) or enabled (0) that is visible within the debug panel.

Added a new environment variable, BUNDLE_PANDOC. If this variable is set to a value of 0, this will prevent the build script from downloading and bundling Pandoc during the build stage. This can be used by package maintainers to reduce the package size when there is a better way to provide Pandoc (e.g., by listing it as a dependency for Zettlr). This also means that the build environment does not require the dependencies that are specifically for the download script.

fix: The Pandoc Attribute parser does not throw an error on malformed attribute strings anymore, and instead just returns an empty record (#6110).

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