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#1

We have now passed the code freeze for v5.4.0. It has been in development for long time, and has nearly 100 changes. We’ve never attempted a release this ambitious.

The first thing is to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release. The GitHub contributors are listed in the release note, but there are many, many others in the community who have provided feedback and bug reports that have shaped this release.

You can try it out here:

https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease

Because of the large number of changes, we’ve needed to improve the presentation of change notes with categories and search, which should help you find the changes of interest.

You can upgrade your wikis here:

https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/upgrade.html

While there are many new features that make wikitext more expressive and efficient, there are relatively few end user changes that can be found by clicking around TiddlyWiki.

Nonetheless, it a major release because of the groundwork it lays for future improvements.

We need lots of testing before the release of v5.4.0. Everyone can help, from end users and wikitext authors to JavaScript developers.

Here are some ways that end users can help:

  • Perform test upgrades of your wikis and thoroughly test the features you depend on
  • Test end user features such as the cascade details that are now shown in the tiddler info pane

Some of the new features that need to be tested by wikitext authors:

  • Multi-valued variables and the :let filter run prefix
  • Dynamic parameters for procedure/function/macro invocations
  • Background actions
  • The new architecture for $:/info/browser/* tiddlers
  • Improvements to the <$diff-text> widget

You can report bugs and feedback here, or via GitHub.

Doing a good job of this sort of intensive testing is hard work, but it will pay off if it helps us have a smooth release without showstopping bugs.

We would also welcome feedback on the presentation of the release note. Is it easy enough to find out what you want to know? Are there other changes that we should be summarising?

All being well, we plan to release v5.4.0 in the second half of March.

Thank you to everyone for your help,

Best wishes

Jeremy

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#2

Date will be adjusted - Pinned till 31st April 2026 for the moment

Especially important is the Impacts tab, since it documents incompatibilities and deprecations. That’s important to test with your 3rd party plugins.

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#3

5 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Problems with text-reference transclusions

#5

4 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Import is much slower now

#7

It seems Uglify from @Flibbles does not work with new release. This is uglified empty.html with few tiddlers

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#8

Relink won’t work either. Not with any new syntax.

If I had known that by making those plugins, I was signing myself up for perpetual updates with every major release of TW, I… I probably still would have done it. I have a problem.

But those plugins will have to wait a minute. I’m working on other stuff right now. Taking a TW break for a while.

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#9

3 posts were split to a new topic: Test locally built empty.html with prerelease libraries

#16

3 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Zoomin Story View - Close All triggers RSOD

#21

4 posts were split to a new topic: 5.4.0 prerelease - Code lines pre-wrap setting as default

#23

Tested on my main wiki and nothing looks broken.
Not having the tidgraph problem reported above.

#24

2 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Inconsistency in Call Documentation

#25

3 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Clearifications about MVVs using with various operators

#26

2 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Simple Search Plugin Seems to Have a Problem

#28

2 posts were split to a new topic: V.5.4.0 prerelease - link-to-tabs Plugin Link Icon has Wrong Colour

#30

3 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Several block-quote syntax blocks are slow

#33

A few notes I’ve found running the updater against my wiki. 5.4.0 RSOEs my wiki currently:

  • the “Vis” plugin from @Flibbles’s graph plugin complains when updating a wiki (but I can’t reproduce in the sample for that plugin):
[Error] Script error.
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:5208)
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:5260)
	(anonymous function) ($:/plugins/flibbles/vis-network/vis.js:39)
  • Maybe related, or unrelated, but I hit an error in the transclusion widget immediately after:
[Error] ReferenceError: Can't find variable: alt
	(anonymous function) ($:/core/modules/widgets/transclude.js:462)
	(anonymous function) ($:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js:691)
	(anonymous function) ($:/core/modules/widgets/element.js:83)
	(anonymous function) ($:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js:691)
	(anonymous function) ($:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js:72)
	(anonymous function) ($:/core/modules/startup/render.js:72)
	(anonymous function) ($:/core/modules/startup/render.js:74)
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:7640)
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:7587)
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:7597)
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:7777)
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:6782)
	(anonymous function) (upgrade-4.html:7775)
	_boot (upgrade-4.html:7784)
	Global Code (upgrade-4.html:7796)

I’ll see if I can get a minimal reproducing case for this (this is a private wiki).

#34

2 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Quick Image Plugin causes EditTemplate Problem

#36

3 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Markdown plugin causes RSOD

#38

If by any chance you use the markdown plugin, this error about the alt variable may be related to an issue I just patched.

#41

5 posts were split to a new topic: V5.4.0 prerelease - Performance Regression Using List Filters in ViewTemplate