- Property encryption detection now works correctly (On Self-hosted LiveSync, it was not broken, but as a library, it was not working correctly).
- Initialising the chunk splitter is now surely performed.
- DirectFileManipulator now works fine (as a library)
- Old `DirectFileManipulatorV1` is now removed.
### Refactored
- Removed some unnecessary intermediate files.
- We can perform Garbage Collection (Beta2) without rebuilding the entire database, and also fetch the database.
### Fixed
- Resetting the bucket now properly clears all uploaded files.
### Refactored
- Some files have been moved to better reflect their purpose and improve maintainability.
- The extensive LiveSyncLocalDB has been split into separate files for each role.
- Storage scanning no longer occurs when `Suspend file watching` is enabled (including boot-sequence).
### Improved
- Saving notes and files now consumes less memory.
- Chunk caching is now more efficient.
- Both of them (may) are effective for #692, #680, and some more.
### Changed
- `Incubate Chunks in Document` (also known as `Eden`) is now fully sunset.
- The `Compute revisions for chunks` setting has also been removed.
- As mentioned, `Memory cache size (by total characters)` has been removed.
### Refactored
- A significant refactoring of the core codebase is underway (please refer the release-note).
19th July, 2025
### Refined and New Features
- Fetching the remote database on `RedFlag` now also retrieves remote configurations optionally.
- The setup wizard using Set-up URI and QR code has been improved.
### Changes
- The Set-up URI is now encrypted with a new encryption algorithm (mostly the same as `V2`).
- The encryption algorithm now uses HKDF with a master key.
- `Fetch everything from the remote` now works correctly.
- Extra log messages during QR code decoding have been removed.
### Changed
- Some settings have been moved to the `Patches` pane:
### Behavioural and API Changes
- `DirectFileManipulatorV2` now requires new settings (as you may already know, E2EEAlgorithm).
- The database version has been increased to `12` from `10`.
### New Features
- Automatic display-language changing according to the Obsidian language
setting.
- Now we can limit files to be synchronised even in the hidden files.
- "Use Request API to avoid `inevitable` CORS problem" has been implemented.
- `Show status icon instead of file warnings banner` has been implemented.
### Improved
- All regular expressions can be inverted by prefixing `!!` now.
### Fixed
- No longer unexpected files will be gathered during hidden file sync.
- No longer broken `\n` and new-line characters during the bucket
synchronisation.
- We can purge the remote bucket again if we using MinIO instead of AWS S3 or
Cloudflare R2.
- Purging the remote bucket is now more reliable.
- Some wrong messages have been fixed.
### Behaviour changed
- Entering into the deeper directories to gather the hidden files is now limited
by `/` or `\/` prefixed ignore filters.
### Etcetera
- Some code has been tidied up.
- Trying less warning-suppressing and be more safer-coding.
- Dependent libraries have been updated to the latest version.
- Some build processes have been separated to `pre` and `post` processes.
- Now, we can send custom headers to the server.
- Authentication with JWT in CouchDB is now supported.
### Improved
- The QR Code for set-up can be shown also from the setting dialogue now.
- Conflict checking for preventing unexpected overwriting on the boot-up process has been quite faster.
### Fixed
- Some bugs on Dev and Testing modules have been fixed.
### Improved
#### Peer-to-Peer
- Now peer-to-peer synchronisation checks the settings are compatible with each other.
- Peer-to-peer synchronisation now handles the platform and detects pseudo-clients.
#### General
- New migration method has been implemented, that called `Doctor`.
- The minimum interval for replication to be caused when an event occurs can now be configurable.
- Some detail note has been added and change nuance about the `Report` in the setting dialogue, which had less informative.
### Behaviour and default changed
- `Compute revisions for chunks` are backed into enabled again. it is necessary for garbage collection of chunks.
### Refactored
- Platform specific codes are more separated. No longer `node` modules were used in the browser and Obsidian.
### Fixed
#### General Replication
- No longer unexpected errors occur when the replication is stopped during for some reason (e.g., network disconnection).
#### Peer-to-Peer Synchronisation
- Set-up process will not receive data from unexpected sources.
- No longer resource leaks while enabling the `broadcasting changes`
- Logs are less verbose.
- Received data is now correctly dispatched to other devices.
- `Timeout` error now more informative.
- No longer timeout error occurs for reporting the progress to other devices.
- Decision dialogues for the same thing are not shown multiply at the same time anymore.
- Disconnection of the peer-to-peer synchronisation is now more robust and less error-prone.
#### Webpeer
- Now we can toggle Peers' configuration.
### Refactored
- Cross-platform compatibility layer has been improved.
- Common events are moved to the common library.
- Displaying replication status of the peer-to-peer synchronisation is separated from the main-log-logic.
- Some file names have been changed to be more consistent.
Improved
- New Translation: `es` (Spanish) by @zeedif (Thank you so much)!
- Now all of messages can be selectable and copyable, also on the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Now we can copy or share the messages easily.
New Feature
- Peer-to-Peer Synchronisation has been implemented!
Fixed
- No longer memory or resource leaks when the plug-in is disabled.
- Now deleted chunks are correctly detected on conflict resolution, and we are guided to resurrect them.
- Hanging issue during the initial synchronisation has been fixed.
- Some unnecessary logs have been removed.
- Now all modal dialogues are correctly closed when the plug-in is disabled.
Refactor
- Several interfaces have been moved to the separated library.
- Translations have been moved to each language file, and during the build, they are merged into one file.
- Non-mobile friendly code has been removed and replaced with the safer code.
- Started writing Platform impedance-matching-layer.
- Svelte has been updated to v5.
- Some function have got more robust type definitions.
- Terser optimisation has slightly improved.
- During the build, analysis meta-file of the bundled codes will be generated.
### Fixed
- Some parallel-processing tasks are now performed more safely.
- Some error messages has been fixed.
### Improved
- Synchronisation is now more efficient and faster.
- Saving chunks is a bit more robust.
### New Feature
- We can remove orphaned chunks again, now!
- Vault History can show the correct information of match-or-not for each file and database even if it is a binary file.
- `Sync settings via markdown` is now hidden during the setup wizard.
- Verify and Fix will ignore the hidden files if the hidden file sync is disabled.
New feature
- Now we can fetch the tweaks from the remote database while the setting dialogue and wizard are processing.
Improved
- More things are moved to the modules.
- Includes the Main codebase. Now `main.ts` is almost stub.
- EventHub is now more robust and typesafe.
- Setting dialogue very slightly refined.
- The hodgepodge inside the `Hatch` pane has been sorted into more explicit categorised panes.
- Applying the settings will now be more informative.
New features:
- Word-segmented chunk building on users language.
Fixed:
- Sending chunks on `Send chunk in bulk` are now buffered to avoid the out-of-memory error.
- `Send chunk in bulk` is back to default disabled.
- Merging conflicts of JSON files are now works fine even if it contains `null`.
Development:
- Implemented the logic for automatically generating the stub of document for the setting dialogue.
- Case-insensitive file handling
- Full-lower-case files are no longer created during database checking.
- Bulk chunk transfer
- The default value will automatically adjust to an acceptable size when using IBM Cloudant.
- New Features:
- Case-insensitive file handling
- Files can now be handled case-insensitively.
- This behaviour can be modified in the settings under `Handle files as Case-Sensitive` (Default: Prompt, Enabled for previous behaviour).
- Improved chunk revision fixing
- Revisions for chunks can now be fixed for faster chunk creation.
- This can be adjusted in the settings under `Compute revisions for chunks` (Default: Prompt, Enabled for previous behaviour).
- Bulk chunk transfer
- Chunks can now be transferred in bulk during uploads.
- This feature is enabled by default through `Send chunks in bulk`.
- Creation of missing chunks without
- Missing chunks can be created without storing notes, enhancing efficiency for first synchronisation or after prolonged periods without synchronisation.
- Improvements:
- File status scanning on the startup
- Quite significant performance improvements.
- No more missing scans of some files.
- Status in editor enhancements
- Significant performance improvements in the status display within the editor.
- Notifications for files that will not be synchronised will now be properly communicated.
- Encryption and Decryption
- These processes are now performed in background threads to ensure fast and stable transfers.
- Verify and repair all files
- Got faster through parallel checking.
- Migration on update
- Migration messages and wizards have become more helpful.
- Behavioural changes:
- Chunk size adjustments
- Large chunks will no longer be created for older, stable files, addressing storage consumption issues.
- Flag file automation
- Confirmation will be shown and we can cancel it.
- Fixed:
- Database File Scanning
- All files in the database will now be enumerated correctly.
- Miscellaneous
- Dependency updated.
- Now, tree shaking is left to terser, from esbuild.
- Remote Storage Limit Notification dialogue has been fixed, now the chosen value is saved.
Improved:
- The Enlarging button on the enlarging threshold dialogue now displays the new value.
- Per-file-saved customization sync has been shipped.
- Customisation sync has got beta3.
Improved:
- Start-up speed has been improved.
Fixed:
- On the customisation sync dialogue, buttons are kept within the screen.
- No more unnecessary entries on `data.json` for customisation sync.
- Selections are no longer lost while updating customisation items.
Tidied on source codes:
- Many typos have been fixed.
- Some unnecessary type casting removed.
- Overall performance has been improved by using PouchDB 9.0.0.
- Configuration mismatch detection is refined. We can resolve mismatches more smoothly and naturally.
Fixed:
- Customisation Sync will be disabled when a corrupted configuration is detected.
New feature:
- We can get a notification about the storage usage of the remote database.
- No longer batch-saving ignores editor inputs.
- The file-watching and serialisation processes have been changed to the one which is similar to previous implementations.
- We can configure the settings (Especially about text-boxes) even if we have configured the device name.
Improved:
- We can configure the delay of batch-saving.
- Default: 5 seconds, the same as the previous hard-coded value. (Note: also, the previous behaviour was not correct).
- Also, we can configure the limit of delaying batch-saving.
- The performance of showing status indicators has been improved.
- Now notes will be split into chunks in the background thread to improve smoothness.
- Default enabled, to disable, toggle `Do not split chunks in the foreground` on `Hatch` -> `Compatibility`.
- If you want to process very small notes in the foreground, please enable `Process small files in the foreground` on `Hatch` -> `Compatibility`.
- We can use a `splitting-limit-capped chunk splitter`; which performs more simple and make less amount of chunks.
- Default disabled, to enable, toggle `Use splitting-limit-capped chunk splitter` on `Sync settings` -> `Performance tweaks`
Tidied
- Some files have been separated into multiple files to make them more explicit in what they are responsible for.
- Now we *surely* can set the device name and enable customised synchronisation.
- Unnecessary dialogue update processes have been eliminated.
- Customisation sync no longer stores half-collected files.
- No longer hangs up when removing or renaming files with the `Sync on Save` toggle enabled.
Improved:
- Customisation sync now performs data deserialization more smoothly.
- New translations have been merged.
- Now we are ready for i18n.
- The setting dialogue has been refined. Very controllable, clearly displayed disabled items, and ready to i18n.
Fixed:
- Many memory leaks have been rescued.
- Chunk caches now work well.
- Many trivial but potential bugs are fixed.
- No longer error messages will be shown on retrieving checkpoint or server information.
- Now we can check and correct tweak mismatch during the setup
Improved:
- Customisation synchronisation has got more smoother.
Tidied
- Practically unused functions have been removed or are being prepared for removal.
- Many of the type-errors and lint errors have been corrected.
- Unused files have been removed.
Note:
- From this version, some test files have been included. However, they are not enabled and released in the release build.
- No longer missing tasks which have queued as the same key (e.g., for the same operation to the same file).
- Some trivial issues have been fixed.
New feature:
- Reloading Obsidian can be scheduled until that file and database operations are stable.
- Now the remote chunks could be decrypted even if we are using `Incubate chunks in Document`. (The note of 0.23.6 has been fixed).
- Chunk retrieving with `Incubate chunks in document` got more efficiently.
- No longer task processor misses the completed tasks.
- Replication is no longer started automatically during changes in window visibility (e.g., task switching on the desktop) when off-focused.
- Now we can check configuration mismatching between clients before synchronisation.
- Now we can perform remote database compaction from the `Maintenance` pane.
Fixed:
- We can detect the bucket could not be reachable.
- We can now use `Incubate Chunks in Document` to reduce non-well-formed chunks.
Fixed:
- No longer experimental configuration is shown on the Minimal Setup.
- Journal Sync will not hang up during big replication, especially the initial one.
- All changes which have been replicated while rebuilding will not be postponed (Previous behaviour).
Improved:
- Now Journal Sync works efficiently in download and parse, or pack and upload.
- Less server storage and faster packing/unpacking usage by the new chunk format.
- Now journal synchronisation considers untransferred each from sent and received.
- Journal sync now handles retrying.
- Journal synchronisation no longer considers the synchronisation of chunks as revision updates (Simply ignored).
- Journal sync now splits the journal pack to prevent mobile device rebooting.
- Maintenance menus which had been on the command palette are now back in the maintain pane on the setting dialogue.
- Improved:
- Now all changes which have been replicated while rebuilding will be postponed.
- Error handling on booting now works fine.
- Replication is now started automatically in LiveSync mode.
- Batch database update is now disabled in LiveSync mode.
- No longer automatically reconnection while off-focused.
- Status saves are thinned out.
- Now Self-hosted LiveSync waits for all files between the local database and storage to be surely checked.
- Improved:
- The job scheduler is now more robust and stable.
- The status indicator no longer flickers and keeps zero for a while.
- No longer meaningless frequent updates of status indicators.
- Now we can configure regular expression filters in handy UI. Thank you so much, @eth-p!
- `Fetch` or `Rebuild everything` is now more safely performed.
- Minor things
- Some utility function has been added.
- Customisation sync now less wrong messages.
- Digging the weeds for eradication of type errors.
- Fixed the issue that binary files were sometimes corrupted.
- Fixed customisation sync data could be corrupted.
- Improved:
- Now the remote database costs lower memory.
- This release requires a brief wait on the first synchronisation, to track the latest changeset again.
- Description added for the `Device name`.
- Refactored:
- Many type-errors have been resolved.
- Obsolete file has been deleted.
- Faster start-up by removing too many logs which indicates normality
- By streamlined scanning of customised synchronisation extra phases have been deleted.
- We can disable the status bar in the setting dialogue.
- Improved:
- Now some files are handled as correct data type.
- Customisation sync now uses the digest of each file for better performance.
- The status in the Editor now works performant.
- Refactored:
- Common functions have been ready and the codebase has been organised.
- Stricter type checking following TypeScript updates.
- Remove old iOS workaround for simplicity and performance.
- The default settings has been changed.
Improved:
- Default and preferred settings are applied on completion of the wizard.
Fixed:
- Now Initialisation `Fetch` will be performed smoothly and there will be fewer conflicts.
- No longer stuck while Handling transferred or initialised documents.
- Fixed a bug on `fetch chunks on demand` that could not fetch the chunks on demand.
- Improved:
- `fetch chunks on demand` works more smoothly.
- Initialisation `Fetch` is now more efficient.
- Tidied:
- Removed some meaningless codes.
- Now fetch and unlock the locked remote database works well again.
- No longer crash on symbolic links inside hidden folders.
Improved:
- Chunks are now created more efficiently.
- Better performance in saving notes.
- Network activities are indicated as an icon.
- Less memory used for binary processing.
Tidied:
- Cleaned unused functions up.
- Sorting out the codes that have become nonsense.
Changed:
- Now no longer `fetch chunks on demand` needs `Pacing replication`
- No longer deleted hidden files were ignored.
- The document history dialogue is now able to process the deleted revisions.
- Deletion of a hidden file is now surely performed even if the file is already conflicted.
- Fixed a problem with synchronisation taking a long time to start in some cases.
- Now we can disable E2EE encryption.
Improved:
- `Setup Wizard` is now more clear.
- `Minimal Setup` is now more simple.
- Self-hosted LiveSync now be able to use even if there are vaults with the same name.
- Now Self-hosted LiveSync waits until set-up is complete.
- Show reload prompts when possibly recommended while settings.
New feature:
- A guidance dialogue prompting for settings will be shown after the installation.
Changed
- Some setting names has been changed
- Now the result of conflict resolution could be surely written into the storage.
- Deleted files can be handled correctly again in the history dialogue and conflict dialogue.
- Some wrong log messages were fixed.
- Change handling now has become more stable.
- Some event handling became to be safer.
Improved:
- Dumping document information shows conflicts and revisions.
- The timestamp-only differences can be surely cached.
- Timestamp difference detection can be rounded by two seconds.
Refactored:
- A bit of organisation to write the test.
