Joplin Desktop Updates & Release Notes

• New: Add setting to hide the AI Chat toolbar button (#16607)
• Improved: AI Chat: Persist conversation history and add a chat switcher (#16583) (#16498 by @Rygaa)
• Improved: Improve how semantic search interacts with item IDs (#16652) (#16644 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix AI configuration test failing on reasoning models (#16594)
• Fixed: Fix AppImage StartupWMClass (#16547) (#16434 by @MiQ71)
• Fixed: Fix ENEX import failing on Evernote's unescaped ampersands (#16580)
• Fixed: Fix LMStudio compatibility (#16552) (#16539 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix dropping notes into the whiteboard editor (#16565) (#16457 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix notes and sub-folders are still marked as published after being moved out of a published folder (#16648) (#16647 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix reasoning blocks leaking into AI chat replies (#16595)
• Fixed: Fix sync deadlock when Joplin Server rejects an item with HTTP 422 (#16544) (#16504)
• Fixed: Fix table editor losing and mis-rendering inline markdown (#16632)
• Fixed: Fix x-callback-url responses never reaching the calling app (#16497)

• Improved: Fix notes imported from OneNote are displayed with a very small font size (#16440) (#16424 by @Rygaa)
• Improved: Tag area broken with Japanese language (#16483) (#16427 by @Rygaa)
• Improved: Whiteboard: Double-click empty canvas to add a note (#16470)
• Fixed: Allow OpenAI reasoning models to be used with tools (#16451) (#16444)
• Fixed: Fix WebDAV sync failing with 409 errors after 3.7 upgrade (#16471) (#16422)
• Fixed: Fix keyboard navigation issues related to level-1 headings (#16409) (#16407 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: In-editor Markdown rendering: Fix markup syntax is visible while clicking and dragging the scrollbar (#16461) (#16454 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Return 202 for MCP notification requests (#16473) (#16414)
• Fixed: Toggle AI Chat keystroke shortcut does nothing (#16433)
• Fixed: Treat private network AI providers as local and make their API key optional (#16472) (#16431)
• Fixed: Whiteboard: Add missing "Add note to whiteboard" menu item (#16468) (#16457)
• Fixed: Fix WebDAV sync error "Protocol https: not supported" on servers that redirect (#16488) (#16486)

• Improved: Add fail-closed guardrails for locked notes (#16098) (#16054 by @keshav0479)
• Improved: Add support for unpublishing notebooks (#16237) (#16156 by @Rygaa)
• Improved: Add support to import notes from Obsidian (#16136) (#15223 by @Rygaa)
• Improved: By default, show only the editor when opening the app for the first time (#16254)
• Improved: Highlight global search matches in the Rich Text Editor (#11361) (#6088 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Implement readonly state for mobile RTE and disable the MDE interactive table editor for readonly notes (#16231 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Improve chat connection check (#16256 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Improve refresh for whiteboards and ensure undo stack is cleared upon note refresh (#16337 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Increase semantic search minimum relevance (#16340) (#16120 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Markdown editor: Support opening same-note links to elements with id="..." attributes (#16287 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Prevent ability to link to note or set tags for a trashed note after switching to all notes (#16320 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Prevent race which allows changes to be lost, during a long delta step (#16208 by @mrjo118)
• Improved: Restrict Web Clipper pairing to extension origins (#16276)
• Improved: Sharing: Improve error message when public key format is unsupported (#16306 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Strip style elements from whiteboard card content (#16275)
• Improved: Support syncing with Joplin v3.7 (#15889) (#15753 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Sync: Apply changes to proxy settings immediately (#16222 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Sync: Enable new notebook sharing key format (#16305) (#16251 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Validate x-callback-url response targets (#16269)
• Fixed: Disable link to note button when note is readonly (#16238) (#15947 by @mrjo118)
• 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 exiting having no visible effect when on the settings screen during a long sync (#16278) (#16250 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Fix note screen is not properly refreshed when updated by the sync, when E2EE is enabled (#16179 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Fix position does not always re-center when switching to a whiteboard (#16341) (#16234 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Fix regression which causes text to be lost if switching to another note immediately after typing in the Rich Text editor (#16213) (#16205 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Fix semantic search availability check (#16220) (#16219 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix share notebook error message disappearing after half a second (f034ad2)
• Fixed: Fix sync wizard extended options are partially offscreen (#16247) (#16015 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix toggling the chat panel clears undo/redo history (#16236) (#16007 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix video/audio in Markdown viewer continuing to play after hiding it or switching notes (#16299) (#15278)
• Fixed: HTML notes: Fix certain content incorrectly renders as linked text (#16289) (#15770 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Limit maximum size of stored OCR text (#16325) (#15890 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Markdown editor: Disable table editor when opting out of in-editor rendering (#16333) (#16317 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• 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 password checking loop when verifying the encryption password (#16267) (#16202 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Rich Text Editor: Fix error while saving changes (#16307 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Rich Text Editor: Save note changes after changing formatting (#16308) (#12811 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Show a warning icon when a sync completes with errors (#16279) (#15258 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Support unpublishing notes published by other users (#16246) (#16153 by @personalizedrefrigerator)

• New: Add support for translating Markdown editor table context menu items (140ff45)
• Improved: Add data loader and word-level diff for Conflict resolution UI (#16135) (#16134 by Sriram Varun Kumar)
• Improved: Chat panel: Support reading images (#16141 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Enable semantic search in the sidebar and go-to-anything (#16118) (#15824 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Evernote import: Support importing cross-notebook links in some cases (#16151) (#16148 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Improve rendering of Markdown editor table context menu (15756bb)
• Improved: MCP: Return correct API response type (#16144 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Improved: Mark AI features as Beta (#16097) (#16065 by @Rygaa)
• Improved: Prevent the remote version of a note being overwritten if typing while the sync changes the open note (#16206 by @mrjo118)
• Fixed: Chat panel: Allow closing the chat panel in small windows (#16189) (#16016 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Chat panel: Fix OpenAI, Anthropic compatibility (#16188 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Fix conflict created when syncing a just-published note (#16182) (#16167 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Plugin API: Fix panels hidden on startup are incorrectly shown in some cases (#16072 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fixed: Release the save mutex when a save fails validation (#16147) (#16145 by @keshav0479)
• Fixed: Skip the note lock session effect on the first render (#16100) (#16099 by @keshav0479)

New

• Add getCurrentNote and createNote x-callback-url commands (#16041)

Improved

• AI chat panel: Improve accessibility (#15956 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Stop retry loop after several repeated failures (#15944 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Support cancelling in-progress responses (#15946 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Add hidden feature flag for conflict resolution (#16040) (#16039 by Sriram Varun Kumar)
• Add note lock UI (#15961) (#15872 by @keshav0479)
• Add note lock configuration screen (#15852) (#15786 by @keshav0479)
• Avoid including unused onnxruntime-node files in the built application (#15997) (#15880 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Make links in the table editor clickable with Ctrl/Cmd+click (#15977)
• Provide a clear message on what needs to be done when sync fails due to wrong version (#15837) (#15828 by @Rygaa)
• Publish a notebook (#15276 by @Rygaa)
• Record which app screen a Joplin Cloud sign-up started from (b5ed2c9)
• Selection sometimes misses markdown starting formatting characters (#15858) (#15788 by @Rygaa)
• Sync Wizard: Make Joplin Cloud the primary sync option (#16004)
• Whiteboard: Allow selecting which arrow to move when two arrows share an anchor (3515c6a)

Fixed

• AI chat panel: Fix changing the note body causes a cache miss (#15969) (#15874 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Fix failure when tool responses are invalid JSON (#15886 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Chat panel: Fix rate limit handling (#16031 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fix WebDAV support for Koofr (#15983) (#15975 by @mrjo118)
• Fix cycling of the active note when other notes in the notebook are moved (#15868) (#15867 by @mrjo118)
• Fix layout divider behaviour in nested layouts and move mode (#15955)
• Keep trailing spaces in table cells while editing (#15964) (#15918)
• Upgrade CodeMirror View to v6.43.6 (#16017) (#16009 by @mrjo118)
• Upgrade electron-builder (#15043) (#15030 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Whiteboard: Fix edge keeping the blue selection colour after reconnecting (2268981)
• Whiteboard: Fixed newline handling within cards (f410ace)

Improved

• Unable to select text within links (#15871) (#15842 by @Rygaa)
• Whiteboard: Place new groups in empty space instead of viewport centre (#15901)
• AI chat panel: Change APIs used to expose note edit operations (#15881) (#15862 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Improve reliability of the Joplin Cloud AI provider (#15885 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Make edit operations more likely to succeed (#15845 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Make model responses more likely to be valid (#15801 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Render markdown (#15836) (#15834 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• AI chat panel: Support multiple windows (#15803 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Editor: Ensure checkbox size is proportional to font size (c6cc90a)
• Hide "Sign up to Joplin Cloud" button once the user is logged in (8e5d29f)
• Improve usability of Link to note command (#1449)
• Notes issued from an imported .one file show a double title on the published page (#15735) (#15723 by @Rygaa)
• Plugins: Change joplin.ai.chat to return an object with a text property (694cbd9)
• Published note issued from an imported .one file breaks UI (#15734) (#15716 by @Rygaa)
• Reveal markup on mouseup instead of mousedown (#15778) (#15763 by @Rygaa)
• Slightly adjust button colors and add new theme variable (#15764 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Surface Joplin Cloud AI degraded state and map error codes (#15849)
• Tests in lib package print OneNote related warnings (#15767) (#15720 by @Rygaa)
• Update note lock session state (#15773) (#15772 by @keshav0479)
• Whiteboard: Allow changing the origin of an edge by dragging it (a8100e3)
• Whiteboard: Also color the background of cards and groups (7169314)
• Whiteboard: Double-click an edge label to edit it (d17d845)
• Whiteboard: Improve card content styling (0d4534e)
• Whiteboard: keep wheel scrolling inside scrollable cards (90c1d1e)

New

• AI Chat: Added warning in console when structured output schema is not accepted by the model (c227b66)
• Add AI chat panel for the active note (#15771)
• Add joplin.ai.getEmbeddings() plugin API for raw vector access (#15799)
• Add joplin.ai.getIndexStatus() plugin API (#15800)
• Whiteboard: Add support for colors (affb456)

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 alignement of checkboxes (89884e9)
• Fix "Link to note" command not working from command palette (#15780)
• Fix crash on startup when layout references a component that no longer exists (34b5e8c)
• Fix issue with Chat API not working with max_completion_tokens parameter of OpenAI (7fa42e0)
• Fix secondary widnows have visible scrollbars while/after resizing (#15844 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Make the editor absorb space on window resize, regardless of layout position (#15774) (#4238)
• Markdown editor: Fix certain types of note edits can't be undone with ctrl-z (#15806 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Update GotoAnything selection on mouse hover (#15779)

New

• Add AI chat backend and plugin API (#15643)
• Add MCP server (#15699)
• Add note embeddings indexer (#15674)
• Add tooltip on note title in note list (#15732)
• Added email autocomplete when sharing a notebook (#15241 by @Rygaa)
• Plugins: Add semantic search plugin API (joplin.ai.search) (#15686)
• Whiteboard: Add support for drag and dropping files on whiteboard (e856627)
• Whiteboard: Add support for groups (345b7b6)

Improved

• Add local note encryption schema metadata (#15557) (#15556 by @keshav0479)
• Add migration 51 for conflict resolution columns (#15565) (#15549 by Sriram Varun Kumar)
• Allow arrow keys to move past tables in the CodeMirror editor (#15439)
• Embeddings indexer: Also index note titles (1eea1f8)
• Error importing from format: one (#15615) (#14211 by @Rygaa)
• Front matter: Wrap long lines in the viewer (#15356) (#15328)
• Give conflict_note_states table a numeric primary key and set note_id as unique (#15724) (#15722 by Sriram Varun Kumar)
• Highlight matching cells when searching tables in the CodeMirror editor (#15440)
• Importing from OneNote: Issues with XPS-Printouts (#15290) (#15202 by @Rygaa)
• Importing from OneNote: Note order should be preserved (#15609) (#15334 by @Rygaa)
• Improve how resource filenames are determined (#15672 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Joplin Server/Cloud sync: Improve item deletion performance (#15392 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• OneNote Import: Handwriting/pen strokes imported incorrectly (#15681) (#15578 by @Rygaa)
• Padding between bottom of setting screen and button bar doesn't appear (#15698) (#15690 by @Rygaa)
• Plugins: Filter what values joplin.settings.globalValues can return (#15651 by @Rygaa)
• Preserve customised note history settings when syncing across clients (#15728)
• Prevent notes with null bytes in title or body from being saved (#15485)
• Reject malformed item IDs during sync (#15540)
• Render inline markdown formatting inside table cells (#15437)
• Restrict KaTeX \href to safe URL schemes (#15538)
• Set Windows publisher name for installer verification (#15539)
• Show selection highlight on tables in the CodeMirror editor (#15438)
• Upgrade to Electron 42.3.0 (#15571 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Whiteboard: Use clearer "Linked item" label on file cards (554ee18)

Fixed

• Copying and pasting image from Affinity adds the image as Base64 (#15566) (#15277 by @Rygaa)
• Crash on deleting ca. 4000 notes (#15640) (#15575 by @Rygaa)
• Desktop: Whiteboard unusable in Secondary Window (#15375)
• Fix Electron build/download failure (#15579 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fix Fountain rendering issue (#15659 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Fix Markdown export folder paths with dot in parent path (#15455) (#15374 by @Rygaa)
• Fix XSS vulnerability in HTML notes (#15435)
• Fix duplicate tag creation for special unicode characters (#15613) (#15608 by @mrjo118)
• Fix external embeds originating from Youtube on mobile not working (#15605) (#15482 by @mrjo118)
• Fix fatal startup crash when sync target upgrade is required (#15348) (#15346)
• Fix importing legacy keyboard shortcuts (#15308)
• Fix possible crash when creating a note or notebook with an excessively long title (#15434)
• Fixed crash when the profile database is updated (d85f430)
• Importing from OneNote: Fix importing .zip files containing .onetoc2 files (#15476) (#15430 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Importing from OneNote: Notebooks can be imported as subfolders of the trash (#15555) (#15217 by @Rygaa)
• In-editor rendering: Do not render empty inline HTML (#15470) (#15467 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• In-editor rendering: Render URLs when the link text is empty (#15444) (#15425 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Note list: Don't detect checkbox-like markup in tables and paragraphs as checkboxes (#15357) (#15307 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Plugins: Removed semver and used regex for version check (#15711) (#15710 by @akshajrawat)
• Prevent links with empty title from disappearing in the Markdown editor (#15462) (#15425)
• Prevent text selection inside whiteboard action buttons (#15386)
• Prevent trashed notes from opening in edit mode (#15248)
• Revert PR #14612 (#15384) (#15382)
• Rich Text Editor: Fix find/replace dialog fails to scroll to the next match (#15298) (#15297 by @personalizedrefrigerator)
• Show clearer message on whiteboard cards when the linked note or resource has been deleted or moved to the trash (#15385)
• Upgrade CodeMirror view to 6.42.1 (#15639) (#15498 by @mrjo118)