vnote

v4.14.0

A feature release with scoped HTTP automation, richer Markdown paste and smoother navigation on top of VNote 4.13.0:

• HTTP automation and security
  • Add an opt-in, loopback-only HTTP API for local agents and administrator-managed HTTPS reverse proxies, with notebook-scoped tokens and separate read, live-read, write and trash permissions
  • List notes, read saved or live content, search, and conditionally create, edit, append, rename or trash notes without overwriting dirty editors or exposing protected notes
  • Require reversible trash without falling back to permanent deletion, preserve save/sync coordination, and drain pending operations during shutdown
  • Manage tokens in Settings with a dedicated issuance dialog, notebook and permission selection, expiry presets or Never, a 90-day default, one-time Copy and immediate revocation
  • Store listener settings in local session configuration and Windows token verifiers in the local profile, preserving portable isolation and owner-only access, including elevated accounts
  • Audit requests, rejected connections and asynchronous mutation outcomes with privacy-safe structured records and shared request IDs; omit note paths and raw exception details from create/rename diagnostics
• Editing and Markdown
  • Preserve KaTeX and MathML formulas when parsing HTML to Markdown and pasting: prefer annotated TeX, recover supported MathML when annotations are stripped, and retain inline/display math and labeled underbraces without duplicate rendered text
  • Avoid unnecessary escapes in leading numbered headings while preserving literal backslashes and paragraph list protection
  • Prevent concealed Markdown markers from blinking during unrelated typing by retaining and remapping the last parsed concealment until fresh results arrive
  • Add Collapse and Expand below Export in read-mode code-block context menus
  • Restore warm Markdown page visibility before rendering when switching tabs, avoiding blank WebEngine frames without keeping inactive pages active
• Navigation and mind maps
  • Search file names across notebooks with ordinary United Entry input; require the explicit > prefix for commands, show command discovery for empty input, and enable Expand All by default while retaining saved preferences
  • Restore focus to the source content after closing previews, including the mind-map canvas
  • Refine mind-map field menus, shortcut editors and node-anchored popups, improve node icons, and place the nonempty note indicator before the hyperlink indicator
  • Open files classified as Others with the system application instead of the plaintext editor, retain inferred text/image viewers, and skip unsupported restored tabs without launching external applications
• Interface and reliability
  • Enlarge Sort Folders and Sort Notes to 800 × 600 by default and select the triggering folder or note when present
  • Reserve persistent editor status rows below the content and prevent Windows status/link-preview overlays from promoting entire tab containers to native windows
  • Stack notification action buttons vertically, unify Settings card surfaces and action alignment, restore complete theme button borders, and clarify editor toolbar option hints
  • Select bundled release-note language from the loaded UI translation rather than the regional locale
  • Improve native CI credential, popup and notification-layout checks, preserve first-failure diagnostics, and recover transient macOS package-mount and WebEngine-shutdown failures
• Translations: Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), Japanese (ja) and Korean (ko) catalogs updated

v4.14.0

本次功能版本基于 VNote 4.13.0，带来按权限限定的 HTTP 自动化、更完善的 Markdown 粘贴及更流畅的导航体验：

• HTTP 自动化与安全
  • 新增默认关闭、仅监听回环地址的 HTTP API，供本地自动化客户端及管理员配置的 HTTPS 反向代理使用；令牌按笔记本授权，分别控制读取、实时读取、写入和移入回收站权限
  • 支持列出笔记、读取已保存或实时内容、搜索，以及有条件地创建、编辑、追加、重命名或移入回收站，不覆盖编辑器中的未保存更改，也不暴露受保护笔记

v4.13.0

A feature release with outline mind maps, editable node-note previews, source-aware exports and refined editing on top of VNote 4.12.0:

• Mind maps and navigation
  • Open source-bound mind-map previews of document outlines, use a sole leading H1 as the central topic, and apply automatic branch colors
  • Focus outline previews on the current heading and click nodes to navigate to their original source headings; reopen the preview after the outline changes
  • Edit mind-map node notes in source-bound plain-text previews with normal autosave; keep these previews attached to their source rather than promoting them to independent tabs
  • Compact node icon rows and fix the clipped Tags label when keyboard shortcut underlines are visible
  • Add Open Link above Copy Link in mind-map URL context menus, including read-only maps
  • Always open context-menu links in a new tab across Markdown, Typst and mind maps, regardless of the new-tab preference
  • Allow Never Ask for local-file and custom-protocol link warnings and share the saved opt-out across warning paths
• Editing and Markdown
  • Enable Markdown marker concealment by default and move long-link concealment into the editor menu, with independent persisted preferences and existing opt-outs preserved
  • Fix closing Markdown heading-marker highlighting and preserve syntax backgrounds on the cursor line; update vtextedit and both vendored cmark copies
  • Preserve preformatted and class-hinted HTML code blocks when pasting Markdown, including indentation, language hints and embedded fences, without copying controls or swallowing surrounding prose
  • Update bundled Turndown to 7.2.4 for improved link escaping and ordered-list indentation while retaining VNote's custom paste rules
  • Add Ctrl+W and Ctrl+U editing shortcuts to plain-text fields; assign the default Ctrl+8 and Ctrl+9 shortcuts to unchecked and checked task lists instead of unordered and ordered lists
  • Rename Toggle In-Place Preview to In-Place Preview
• Export
  • Make export targets and options follow the selected source types, including native Typst and MindMap source output; reject incompatible selections before creating output
  • Export Typst through its native compiler to HTML and PDF, preserving authored page layouts; copy internal relative images for native source exports and report unbundled imports or dynamic references
  • Add a shared, editable web/css/export.css stylesheet for HTML and HTML-based PDF/Custom exports; preserve user styles across upgrades and leave native Typst PDF unchanged
  • Simplify option labels and explain when custom commands use original disk files rather than the current buffer snapshot
• Notebooks and interface
  • Support drag-and-drop changes to tag parent hierarchies
  • Replace the node Mark dialog with separate Text and Background color menus using the existing 12 colors and PDF-style swatches; Auto clears only the selected override
  • Keep Chinese IME input in toolbar popup fields on Windows and macOS, with frameless dismissal, overflow access, fullscreen focus and focus restoration after owned dialogs
  • Move the raw-notebook action to the explorer title bar, inset editor status controls within their frame, and throttle tree-column remeasurement during resizing
  • Use Documents/vnote_notebook for new first-run notebooks and manually added quick-note schemes without migrating existing folders or saved paths
  • Reopen an existing default notebook during first-run setup without replacing its contents on failure; add all-in-one.md and pin it to Quick Access when the list is empty
  • Add the default Quick Note in Current Notebook scheme using Quick Notes/quick_note_%da%.md; existing installations are not migrated, and the bundled Chinese welcome note is named Welcome_zh_CN.md
  • Expand localized VNote Tips from 12 to 64 with Markdown, navigation, image, PDF, mind-map, export and

A feature release with editable link previews, native Markdown rendering, Typst math and stronger security on top of VNote 4.11.0:

• Link previews and navigation
  • Preview supported file links in editable overlays without leaving the current note; use Open Link to open normally and dismiss previews from the source backdrop
  • Open preview tabs in their source workspace without reopening editors or losing drafts and Undo history; replacing duplicate tabs honors Save, Discard and Cancel
  • Require Ctrl+click to open links in the Markdown editor so ordinary clicks only position the cursor
  • Put Open Link before Copy Link in Markdown reader link menus and hide unrelated Edit and Export actions on links and images
  • Allow file-open settings to target an existing main or detached split, preserving background selection and reporting unavailable destinations without rerouting
• Markdown and Typst
  • Render Markdown natively with cmark in Read mode, live previews and WebEngine exports, reusing current editor parse trees while preserving wikilinks, tasks, alerts and the table of contents
  • Remove emoji shortcode and emoticon expansion; authored Unicode emoji remain unchanged
  • Add Typst as an optional Markdown math renderer, including authorized encrypted notes, in-place previews, self-contained HTML/PDF exports and cross-copy; KaTeX remains the default, and selecting Typst uses Typst syntax inside the existing dollar delimiters
  • Render fenced typst blocks as self-contained markup independently of the math setting, preserving authored page layouts and multi-page output in previews, exports and cross-copy
  • Align Markdown Typst blocks with surrounding content by removing their default page margin; explicit margins and standalone document layouts remain unchanged
  • Replace the Typst helper process with a bundled shared runtime and bounded background workers, retaining previews and exports with orderly shutdown
  • Discover installed system fonts to fix missing Chinese glyphs in Typst previews and exports, while retaining configured-font precedence
  • Match Typst editor fonts and preview backgrounds to the active theme, including Typst-specific overrides; authored document styles take precedence and theme preview colors do not alter exports
  • Remove informational overlays from the Typst PDF preview while retaining errors and compiler diagnostics; clean obsolete Typst images when document closure is accepted
  • Keep presentation requests alive across delayed reader focus and native window reconstruction, and prevent stale PDF state or WebChannel rebinding from disrupting replacement notes
  • Restrict editor section numbering to ATX headings rather than numbering Setext headings
• Security and tasks
  • Fix Markdown raw-HTML URL sanitizer bypasses by validating browser-decoded URLs before installing content in readers, live previews and exports
  • Add a searchable Protect Markdown from XSS setting under Markdown Editor → Read; filtering remains mandatory for encrypted notes
  • Prevent task command injection through filenames, selected text and other variables: shell commands and options must be static, variable values belong in literal args, and values are no longer recursively expanded
  • Migrate the bundled Git commit task and provide guidance for custom tasks; shell tasks with arguments require Bash or PowerShell, otherwise use type: process
  • Share external-link warnings and the Never Ask preference across Markdown, Typst and mind maps while preserving authorization, cancellation, stale-view checks and independent local-file warnings
• Mind maps and interface
  • Add image context actions to view, copy, copy the source address and resize with Undo support; hide image tooltips that exposed URLs or base64 data
  • Apply mind-map node-properties placement immediately without reopening the editor or losing edits; kee

Windows 7 and older Windows 10 are no longer supported from now on!

A feature release with native Typst editing, reusable note tabs and refined mind-map tools on top of VNote 4.10.0:

• Typst
  • Create and edit .typst notes with a bundled native compiler, live PDF preview, in-place previews and compiler diagnostics; switch to PDF-only Read mode without losing the source editing session
  • Toggle Live Preview and In-Place Preview independently, search source in Edit mode and PDF text in Read mode, and use page navigation, presentation and shared zoom controls
  • Follow the active theme in the preview, with a per-view Theme Style in Preview toggle; explicit document styles take precedence and exports retain their original styling
  • Insert images, links, attachments and file contents from dialogs, the clipboard and drag-and-drop, keeping local image resources inside the note's Typst project
  • View, copy and safely resize images from source, in-place previews and PDF context menus; open image overlays with zoom and pan, and route local-file links through VNote
  • Navigate compiled headings from Outline without selecting their text, use consistent preview menus in Edit and Read modes, and restore the session cursor without jumping to the end
  • Add a default title.typst template using the filename without its extension, while preserving existing template choices
• Tabs and performance
  • Add an Always open notes in new tabs setting; disable it to reuse the current tab, or hold Ctrl when activating a note to open a new tab
  • Retain compatible editors, preview resources and zoom/layout preferences across note replacement, with save/comment confirmation and isolation of document history and pending operations
  • Release hidden Markdown web views after a configurable timeout, defaulting to five minutes; returning reloads the current preview without losing unsaved text or Undo history
  • Delay Markdown readers in edit-only mode, share editor JavaScript work across tabs with protected-note isolation, and release obsolete MathJax, menu and Graphviz content when readers change
• Mind maps
  • Refine balanced layouts with clockwise ordering, add Ctrl+H/J/K/L navigation, show branch-facing expand/collapse controls on hover, and restore canvas keyboard focus after layout changes
  • Use softer theme-derived connectors, outlines and tag borders in the editor and exports; match properties controls and separators to the active theme
  • Exclude neutral colors and Mint from automatic branch colors while preserving existing branch colors and manual choices
  • Add a default title.mmm template using the note title as the central topic, while preserving existing template choices
  • Add Alt+M for the Image property while keeping Alt+I for Icons, align property heading styles, and remove the redundant add-link shortcut and dialog
• Printing and export
  • Print mind maps from the toolbar menu, fitting the current layout onto one page with vector text, images, links and inline drafts; open Export directly from the empty-canvas context menu
  • Print the rendered Markdown document in Read mode and current source in Edit mode, including selections and live-preview split layouts
  • Produce readable document-style mind-map Markdown exports and align node links with their HTML articles
  • Fix clipped KaTeX fractions in PDF/custom exports and inline math alignment in exports and cross-copy (#2776)
  • Initialize export rendering and syntax styles from the current theme on the first dialog show of each session, retain later choices, and show the notebook name in Current notebook exports
• Search, themes and interface
  • Add United Entry aliases t/T for tag searches in the current/all notebooks, and N/G for filename/content searches across all notebooks; group aliases by scope
  • Add Undo and Redo toolbar buttons to text and Ma