Joplin Release Notes

New

• Add OrphanTrace logging to investigate orphaned items bug (#15709)

Improved

• Allow configuring the default admin password with an environment variable (#15655 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Allow searching emails by full name or email (8d90057)
• Display JSB banner on larger Joplin Server instances (#16255)
• Don't include dev dependencies in the built image (#15472) (#15432 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Enforce session and CSRF checks on the application authorisation POST (#16270)
• Give focus to MFA field when it is displayed (380401c)
• Harden user-content responses against XSS via uploaded resources (#15787)
• Hardening: Disable the proto property (#15765 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improve UUID generation logic (#15656 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improve items/ route validation logic (#15657 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improve logging for shared notebook maintenance (#16400)
• Make LDAP login logic safer (#15707 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Prevent SAML login from accessing existing local password accounts (#15647)
• Prevent pending share recipients from writing items into shared folders before accepting the invitation (dff533c)
• Publishing an old note may display an error "Missing property deleted_time" (#16175) (#16132 by @Rygaa)
• Record which app screen a Joplin Cloud sign-up started from (b5ed2c9)
• Reject items with a null byte in any field (#15489)
• Scope password-reset tokens to their intended purpose (#16274)
• Silence Katex warnings (#15839)
• Speed up batch deletes by using whereIn instead of OR chains (#15705)
• Upgrade samlify to v2.13.1 (#15658 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Validate transcribe job ID to prevent path traversal in proxy endpoint (d97a509)

Fixed

• Allow SVG resources to be served inline (#15814) (#15802)
• Auto-unlock database after failed server migration (#15509) (#15507)
• Fix "password has not been changed" warning not shown in some cases where it should be (#15747 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fix Fountain rendering issue (#15659 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fix LDAP user auto-creation (#15847) (#15725 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fix SQLite database getting permanently locked (#16244) (#15226 by @ivan)
• Fix orphaned items task timing out on large databases (#15704)
• Fixed LDAP connection leak when login exits early (#15855) (#15857 by @tillo)
• Fixed published notes reusing disabled owner shares (#15454) (#15373 by @Rygaa)

Improved

• Improved: Implement readonly state for mobile RTE and disable the MDE interactive table editor for readonly notes (#16231 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Implement redesigned new note menu (#16082 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Implement redesigned notebook long-press menu (#16027 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Make the editor state update, if the current note is updated by the sync (#16150 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Make the startup location the first entry in the navigation history instead of 'All Notes' (#16083 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Markdown editor: Support opening same-note links to elements with id="..." attributes (#16287 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Prevent race which allows changes to be lost, during a long delta step (#16208 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Prevent the remote version of a note being overwritten if typing while the sync changes the open note (#16193 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Remove single-word titles from error/warning dialogs (#16096 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Support syncing with Joplin v3.7 (#15889) (#15753 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Sync: Enable new notebook sharing key format (#16305) (#16251 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed

• Fixed: Editor: Avoid crash when editing certain partially-loaded documents (#16286) (#16285 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix Markdown editor selection issues (#16126) (#16070 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix blank screen being shown when navigating back after tag changes and other edge cases (#16080) (#15265 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Fix empty navigation when navigating to settings from the conflicts folder after it was removed (#16197 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Fix inconsistent button order in profile switcher, tag screen, and deletion confirmation dialogs (#16076 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix note screen is not properly refreshed when updated by the sync, when E2EE is enabled (#16179 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: HTML notes: Fix certain content incorrectly renders as linked text (#16289) (#15770 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Improve shadow colors in dark mode (#16326) (#16312 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Mobile: When toggling a checkbox which is not at the cursor position, it will scroll away from the checkbox back to the cursor position (#16173) (#15920 by @Rygaa)
• Fixed: Prevent conflicts initially showing alongside the original note in the notebook when created (#16330) (#16155 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Prevent incrementing the master key updated_time when the key has not actually changed (#16223) (#16194 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Prevent scrolling the cursor into view on the markdown editor when unnecessary to do so (#16091) (#15923 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Release the save mutex when a save fails validation (#16147) (#16145 by @keshav0479)
• Fixed: Support unpublishing notes published by other users (#16246) (#16153 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improvements across desktop and mobile

A real table editor in the Markdown editor

Editing Markdown tables has always been the least pleasant part of writing in plain text. Joplin 3.7 adds an interactive table editor to the Markdown editor, with a context menu to add and delete rows and columns.

Because the editor is shared between platforms, this is available on mobile as well.

More reliable syncing

Syncing is faster and safer this cycle. Deleting a lot of notes at once on Joplin Server and Joplin Cloud no longer takes as long, and if you happen to be typing in a note just as it's being updated from another device, your changes are no longer at risk of being overwritten.

Faster startup

Joplin no longer processes plugin files that don't need processing at startup, which noticeably reduces launch time for users with several plugins installed.

Desktop-specific improvements

AI features (Beta)

The headline addition of this release is a set of AI features built into the app.

The chat panel sits alongside the current note and can answer questions about it, summarise it, or make edits to it on your behalf, as well as read images in your notes.

To use the AI features you need a provider, and this release introduces Joplin Cloud AI to make that as simple as possible. If you already sync with Joplin Cloud, you can simply turn it on and start using the chat panel right away - there's no API key to obtain, and nothing to configure.

If you would rather use your own provider, that remains possible: the chat panel also works with your own OpenAI or Anthropic key. It can equally be pointed at a local model running on your own machine, in which case your notes never leave your computer at all.

Semantic search is now available in the sidebar and in Go To Anything. Unlike the regular search, it matches on meaning rather than exact words, so a search for "holiday plans" can surface a note titled "Trip to Portugal".

This is powered by a new note embeddings indexer, which runs in the background and indexes both note titles and content.

Finally, all of this is available to plugin authors too. Plugins can now hold conversations with a model, run semantic searches, and work with the note index directly - which opens the door to a whole new class of plugins, from automatic tagging and summarising to tools that surface related notes as you write.

All the AI features are marked as Beta: they work, but they are new, and we expect to refine them based on how people actually use them.

MCP server

Joplin now includes an MCP server, which means external AI tools and assistants can read from and write to your notes through a standard protocol. If you already use an MCP-capable app such as Claude, it can now work directly with your Joplin data.

Whiteboards

A brand new feature on desktop: whiteboards let you arrange notes, files and free-form cards on an infinite canvas, and connect them with labelled arrows.

Notebooks and tags are good at filing things away, but they say little about how your notes relate to one another. A whiteboard gives you that missing view: you can map out a project, plan a piece of writing, or lay out the pieces of a problem and see the connections between them at a glance.

Cards and groups can be coloured, and files can be dragged and dropped straight onto the canvas.

Importing from other apps

Joplin 3.7 adds support for importing an Obsidian vault, on both desktop and the CLI, making it straightforward to move over from Obsidian while keeping your notes and their structure.

The Evernote importer now resolves cross-notebook links in many cases where they were previously lost.

The OneNote importer also received another round of fixes, in particular around note order, printouts and handwriting.

Publishing and sharing

Joplin Cloud users could already publish a note to the internet as a public page. It is now possible to publish a whole notebook at once.

The notes are published together, with their links between each other preserved, which effectively turns a notebook into a small website: a piece of documentation, a recipe collection, a set of course notes, or anything else you want to share as a whole rather than one page at a time. Anyone with the link can read it, and it stays up to date as you edit the notes in Joplin.

And when sharing a notebook, email addresses are now auto-completed, which makes sharing with the same people repeatedly much quicker.

Settings search

Joplin has accumulated a lot of settings over the years, and it is not always obvious which section holds the one you need. The configuration screen now has a search box: type what you are after, and the matching settings appear, wherever they happen to live.

Post-quantum encryption for connections

Joplin desktop now supports post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for TLS connections. This protects your synchronisation traffic against "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks, where encrypted data captured today could be decrypted by a quantum computer in the future.

Easier installation on Linux

The Linux AppImage no longer depends on the deprecated libfuse2 library. On many distributions, installing Joplin used to mean first tracking down and installing that dependency by hand - it should now simply run out of the box.

Mobile-specific improvements

The interface redesign continues

The mobile redesign that started in previous releases carries on through 3.7, this time focusing on the menus you reach for constantly - creating a note, acting on one, or long-pressing a notebook. They are now easier to read at a glance, and their options are laid out more sensibly, so common actions take less hunting. The search screen has had the same treatment.

Dialogs have been tidied up too, with buttons always appearing in the same order throughout the app - a small thing, but it means you stop having to check which side "Cancel" is on before tapping.

Faster encryption

The native crypto module has been refactored, which makes encryption and decryption substantially faster on mobile. This is most noticeable when first setting up end-to-end encryption or syncing a large collection for the first time.

Notebook sort options

You can now choose how the notebook list itself is ordered, from the configuration screen: alphabetically, or by which notebook was most recently updated - and in either direction. Sorting by recent activity is particularly handy on mobile, as it keeps the notebooks you are actually working in at the top of the sidebar.

Bug fixes and security fixes

Beyond the new features, a lot of this release went into making the apps more reliable and more secure: Joplin 3.7 includes over 100 bug fixes and eight security fixes across desktop and mobile.

For the full list of changes, see the desktop changelog and the mobile changelog.

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Improved: Implement readonly state for mobile RTE and disable the MDE interactive table editor for readonly notes (#16231 by @mrjo118)

Improved: Markdown editor: Support opening same-note links to elements with id="..." attributes (#16287 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improved: Support syncing with Joplin v3.7 (#15889) (#15753 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improved: Sync: Enable new notebook sharing key format (#16305) (#16251 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: Editor: Avoid crash when editing certain partially-loaded documents (#16286) (#16285 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: Fix Markdown editor selection issues (#16126) (#16070 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: HTML notes: Fix certain content incorrectly renders as linked text (#16289) (#15770 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: Improve shadow colors in dark mode (#16326) (#16312 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: Mobile: When toggling a checkbox which is not at the cursor position, it will scroll away from the checkbox back to the cursor position (#16173) (#15920 by @Rygaa)

Fixed: Prevent conflicts initially showing alongside the original note in the notebook when created (#16330) (#16155 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Support unpublishing notes published by other users (#16246) (#16153 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

New

Add shadows to the new note and note actions menus (#16067 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improved

Dialogs: Bold and add margin below titles (#16113) (#16107 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Implement redesigned new note menu (#16082 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Implement redesigned notebook long-press menu (#16027 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Make the editor state update, if the current note is updated by the sync (#16150 by @mrjo118)

Make the startup location the first entry in the navigation history instead of 'All Notes' (#16083 by @mrjo118)

Prevent race which allows changes to be lost, during a long delta step (#16208 by @mrjo118)

Prevent the remote version of a note being overwritten if typing while the sync changes the open note (#16193 by @mrjo118)

Remove single-word titles from error/warning dialogs (#16096 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed

Fix blank screen being shown when navigating back after tag changes and other edge cases (#16080) (#15265 by @mrjo118)

Fix empty navigation when navigating to settings from the conflicts folder after it was removed (#16197 by @mrjo118)

Fix inconsistent button order in profile switcher, tag screen, and deletion confirmation dialogs (#16076 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fix note screen is not properly refreshed when updated by the sync, when E2EE is enabled (#16179 by @mrjo118)

Prevent incrementing the master key updated_time when the key has not actually changed (#16223) (#16194 by @mrjo118)

Prevent scrolling the cursor into view on the markdown editor when unnecessary to do so (#16091) (#15923 by @mrjo118)

Release the save mutex when a save fails validation (#16147) (#16145 by @keshav0479)

New: Add shadow to note actions menu (#16053 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improved: Add note lock configuration section (#15963) (#15853 by @keshav0479)

Improved: Consider tags and smart filters when opening the last open location on app start (#16058 by @mrjo118)

Improved: Note action menu: Vertically align icons (#15996 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improved: Note actions menu: Decrease padding size (#15998 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improved: Provide a clear message on what needs to be done when sync fails due to wrong version (#15837) (#15828 by @Rygaa)

Improved: Update Search screen (#15736 by @Rygaa)

Fixed: Add file extension validation to import actions (#15960) (#15915 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Avoid reverting to the default editor state when the editor reloads the same note (#15986) (#15968 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Fix WebDAV support for Koofr (#15983) (#15975 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Fix auto navigate to latest notebook shortly after app start, when the selected notebook was previously deleted (#15950) (#15914 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Fix menu animations and drag-to-dismiss (#15971) (#15928 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: Increase minimum prompt button width (#15966) (#15959 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: New note list design does not include the padding in the touch target to open notes (#15987) (#15972 by @Rygaa)

Fixed: New note list design does not look good in multi select mode (#15990) (#15973 by @Rygaa)

Fixed: Prevent update to note via the api from refreshing the editor if the change is for a different note (#15985) (#15968 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Upgrade CodeMirror View to v6.43.6 (#16017) (#16009 by @mrjo118)

Improved

• Adjust UI padding to match the mobile app redesign (#15741 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Editor: Display tooltip above links to allow opening the link (7979cf8)
• Editor: Ensure checkbox size is proportional to font size (c6cc90a)
• Implement redesigned note action menu (#15873 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Index locked note resources (#15717) (#15714 by @keshav0479)
• Slightly adjust button colors and add new theme variable (#15764 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Update appearance of dialogs (#15706 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Update note lock session state (#15773) (#15772 by @keshav0479)
• Updated packages react-native-localize (v3.7.0)

Fixed

• Add safeguard to prevent revision chains being broken by revision cleaning, where old revisions still exist unexpectedly (#15812) (#15811 by @mrjo118)
• Editor: Fixed vertical alignment of checkboxes (89884e9)
• Fix auto-derived title being cleared after saving a new note (#15846) (#13901)
• Fix sharing to Joplin when opening in edit mode with the RTE enabled (#15746) (#15618 by @mrjo118)
• Harden share to Joplin logic, to prevent overwriting existing notes in certain cases (#15794) (#11479 by @mrjo118)
• Hide private feature flags (#15730) (#15729 by @keshav0479)
• Improve sidebar swipe gestures and reduce the likelihood of gesture navigation conflicts (#15875) (#12962 by @mrjo118)
• Prevent data loss when toggling the checkbox on a todo immediately after changing note data (#15815) (#15663 by @mrjo118)

New

New: Add notebook sort options in config screen (#15203 by Self Not Found)

Improved

Improved: Add local note encryption schema metadata (#15557) (#15556 by @keshav0479)

Improved: Add migration 51 for conflict resolution columns (#15565) (#15549 by Sriram Varun Kumar)

Improved: Exclude user_data from note revisions (#15245 by @alondmnt)

Improved: Give conflict_note_states table a numeric primary key and set note_id as unique (#15724) (#15722 by Sriram Varun Kumar)

Improved: Joplin Server/Cloud sync: Improve item deletion performance (#15392 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Improved: Load plugin scripts directly from filesystem instead of passing through bridge (#15095)

Improved: Prevent notes with null bytes in title or body from being saved (#15485)

Improved: Refactor (native) Crypto module to improve encryption performance on mobile (#15288) (#15287 by Self Not Found)

Improved: Reject malformed item IDs during sync (#15540)

Improved: Remove old workaround for S3 and Dropbox sync to improve performance (#15314) (#15313 by Self Not Found)

Improved: Speed up app startup by skipping unnecessary plugin file processing (#15085) (#15081)

Fixed

Fixed: Add the ability to delete the default profile (#15153) (#14506 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Disable external embeds on mobile and hide the setting (#15602) (#15483 by @mrjo118)

Fixed: Fix Android IME text corruption by upgrading @codemirror/view to 6.39.9 (#15283) (#13134 by Sriram Varun Kumar)

Fixed: Fix Joplin Cloud login failing when Android kills the app during OAuth (#15111)

Fixed: Fix XSS vulnerability in HTML notes (#15435)

New

New: Add padding to the bottom of the viewer and editor (#15418 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

New: Add setting to choose the default view / edit state (#15423 by @mrjo118)

Improved

Improved: Improve view/edit toggle button appearance in note header (#15450)

Fixed

Fixed: In-editor rendering: Do not render empty inline HTML (#15470) (#15467 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed: Voice typing: Fix speech-to-text accuracy regression for non-English languages (#15412) (#15363 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

New

• Add rate limiter on SAML auth code endpoint (#15433)

Improved

• Joplin Server/Cloud sync: Improve item deletion performance (#15392 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Performance: Store update changes per-user, rather than per-item (#14712 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

Fixed

• Fix XSS vulnerability in HTML notes (#15435)
• Fix banner handling (51637d6)
• Fix conditions for sending oversized account emails (#15271 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fix database connection pool corruption after transaction failures (e7631bc)
• Fix database connection pool corruption when processing orphaned items (2f4f0a5)
• Fix startup can fail after downgrading if an interrupted task no longer exists (#15301 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Static asset resolution fails on Windows due to backslash path separators (#15396) (#15395 by @Rygaa)