TiddlyWiki v5.3.6 is due to be released on Friday 15th November 2024. Before that happens we would appreciate everyone helping with testing the new release.
This release includes many smaller improvements that together take us a good deal further on our journey to improve (and fix) TiddlyWiki. Some of the highlights include:
- New translations for “Chinese (Hong Kong)” and “English (Philippines)”
- Improvements to the Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Polish translations
- The Geospatial Plugin gets support for custom wikitext popups to be attached to map features
- The Markdown Plugin gets several usability updates and fixes to bring it closer to the capabilities of native wiki text
- The TestCase widget gets a slew of improvements to make it easier to set up complex test cases
- Added support for social media preview cards
- Extended the “export” button so that it can be dragged to export the tiddlers to another wiki
- Added an animation while lazily loaded tiddlers are being loaded
- A control panel setting to configure the maximum number of tiddlers shown in the “recent” tab
- A keyboard shortcut for opening the control panel (by default it is ctrl-alt-C)
- Added support for HTTP Bearer authentication to the WidgetMessage: tm-http-request
- Over 30 bug fixes
The prerelease is available at:
https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease
There are several ways you can help:
- Visit the prerelease on the web, explore the release note and try out the new features. Let us know if the release note or documentation is not clear
- Use the prerelease upgrader at https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/upgrade.html to make a test upgrade of your own single file wiki and try out your usual workflows. It is suggested that you use a copy of your real life wikis, ie complex wikis that you’ve tweaked and personalised over a long time, so that the new version is tested under tough conditions
- If using Node.js, download the prerelease from GitHub - TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5: A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc. and try it with your own data and plugins
- One specific thing that we would appreciate attention is testing the refactoring of the keyboard driven input macro. That means careful checking of the search autocomplete and the tiddler type autocomplete
Any feedback is welcome here, or on GitHub.
Please wait until the official release before updating your day-to-day wikis, and remember the first rule of TiddlyWiki: to make sure to take (and verify) backups before doing anything risky.
Best wishes
Jeremy
