Joplin Release Notes

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We are glad to announce the first Joplin Meetup that will take place on 30 August 2022 in London!

This is an opportunity to meet other Joplin users as well as some of the main contributors, to discuss the apps, or to ask questions and exchange tips and tricks on how to use the app, develop plugins or contribute to the application. Everybody, technical or not, is welcome!

We will meet at the Old Thameside Inn next to London Bridge. If the weather allows we will be on the terrace outside, if not inside.

More information on the official Meetup page:

https://www.meetup.com/joplin/events/287611873/

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As always a lot of changes and new features in this new version available on both desktop and mobile.

Multiple profile support​

Perhaps the most visible change in this version is the support for multiple profiles. You can now create as many application profile as you wish, each with their own settings, and easily switch from one to another. The main use case is to support for example a "work" profile and a "personal" profile, to allow you to keep things independent, and each profile can sync with a different sync target. …

• Improved: Automatically start sync after setting the sync parameters (ff066ba)
• Improved: Color of Date-Time text changed to match theme (#6279 by Ayush Srivastava)
• Improved: Make search engine filter keywords case insensitive (#6267) (#6266 by @JackGruber)
• Improved: Sort sync target options (814a5a0)
• Fixed: "Move Note" dropdown menu can be very narrow (#6306) (#3564 by Ayush Srivastava)
• Fixed: Error when pressing undo or redo button while editor is closed (#6426) (#6328 by Tolulope Malomo)
• Fixed: IOS and Dropbox synchronisation not working on iOS 15 (#6375)
• Fixed: Remove white border around Beta Editor (#6326) (#6318 by Henry Heino)
• Fixed: Support inserting attachments from Beta Editor (#6325) (#6324 by Henry Heino)

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We are glad to announce that Google allocated us six projects this year for Google Summer of Code! So this is six contributors who will be working on various parts of the apps, both desktop and mobile, over the summer.

Over the next few weeks, till 13 June, will be the Community Bonding Period during which GSoC contributors get to know mentors, read documentation, and get up to speed to begin working on their projects.

Here's the full list of projects, contributors and mentors.

Project Title

Contributor

Assigned Mentor(s)

Improve PDF previewer of Joplin

asrient

Roman, JackGruber

Implement default plugins on desktop application

mak2002

CalebJohn, Laurent

Mobile — Easier Editing

Henry H

Daeraxa, CalebJohn

Improve plugin search and discoverability

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• Improved: Allow filtering tags in tag dialog (#6221 by @shinglyu)
• Improved: Automatically start sync after setting the sync parameters (ff066ba)
• Improved: Color of Date-Time text changed to match theme (#6279 by Ayush Srivastava)
• Improved: Handle invalid revision patches (#6209)
• Improved: Improve error message when revision metadata cannot be decoded, to improve debugging (a325bf6)
• Improved: Make search engine filter keywords case insensitive (#6267) (#6266 by @JackGruber)
• Improved: Sort sync target options (814a5a0)
• Fixed: "Move Note" dropdown menu can be very narrow (#6306) (#3564 by Ayush Srivastava)
• Fixed: Cursor hard to see in dark mode (#6307) (#5987 by Henry Heino)
• Fixed: Ensure that note revision markup type is set correctly (#6261)
• Fixed: Error when pressing undo or redo button while editor is closed (#6426) (#6328 by Tolulope Malomo)
• Fixed: Long path in "Export profile" prevents tapping OK button (#6359) (#6026 by Tolulope Malomo)
• Fixed: Prevent multiline note titles (#6144) (#5482 by @Daeraxa)
• Fixed: Support inserting attachments from Beta Editor (#6325) (#6324 by Henry Heino)
• Fixed: The camera button remains clickable after taking a photo bug (#6222 by @shinglyu)

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The "Contributor Proposals" phase of GSoC 2022 is starting today! If you would like to be a contributor, now is the time to choose your project idea, write your proposal, and upload it to https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

When it's done, please also let us know by posting an update on your forum introduction post.

If you haven't created a pull request yet, it's still time to create one. Doing so will greatly increase your chances of being selected!

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For the third year, Joplin has been selected as a Google Summer of Code mentor organisation! We look forward to start working with the contributors on some great new projects. This year's main themes are:

• Mobile and tablet development - we want to improve the mobile/tablet application on iOS and Android.
• Plugin and external apps - leverage the Joplin API to create plugins and external apps.
• And of course contributors are welcome to suggest their own ideas.

Our full idea list is available here: GSoC 2022 idea list …

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This new release is largely focused on bug fixing and optimising various parts of the apps. There's about 26 improvements and 25 bugs and security fixes included - as always many of these apply to both the mobile and desktop app (see the desktop changelog and mobile changelog).

Many thanks to all the contributors who helped create this release!

Below are some of the more noticeable changes:

Notebook custom icons​ …

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As of 15 Feb 2022, disabled accounts on Joplin Cloud will be automatically deleted after 90 days. A disabled account is one where the Stripe subscription has been cancelled either by the user or automatically (eg for unpaid invoices).

Although it is an automated system, I will manually verify each account that's queued for deletion over the next few days for additional safety (for now everything's working as expected).

When an account is queued for deletion, all notes, notebooks, tags, etc are removed from the system within 2 days, and permanently deleted within 7 days. User information, in particular email and full name will be removed from the system within 2 days, but archived for an additional 90 days for legal reasons, after which they will be deleted too.

• New: Add additional time format HH.mm (#6086 by @vincentjocodes)
• Improved: Do no duplicate resources when duplicating a note (721d008)
• Improved: Make heading 4, 5 and 6 styling more consistent (fca5875)
• Improved: Show login prompt for OneDrive (#5933 by Jonathan Heard)
• Improved: Update Mermaid 8.13.5 -> 8.13.9 and Katex dependencies (#6039 by Helmut K. C. Tessarek)
• Fixed: Fixed issue where synchroniser would try to update a shared folder that is not longer accessible (667d642)
• Fixed: Prevent multiline note titles (#6144) (#5482 by @Daeraxa)
• Fixed: Shared resource was not encrypted with correct encryption key (#6092)

• New: Add task to automate deletion of disabled accounts (1afcb27)
• Improved: Always display Help link even when not logged in (00163f5)
• Improved: Call server start command directly, without going through npm (c185f00)
• Improved: Disable session expiration logic for now (4c11bbf)
• Improved: Enabled task to automatically delete sessions every 6 hours (69170dd)
• Improved: Fixed handling of mailer security settings, and changed env variable name MAILER_SECURE => MAILER_SECURITY, and default port 587 => 465 (Breaking change) (#5222)
• Improved: Improved env variable validation and support true-false as boolean values (fd322ed)
• Improved: Improved string localization in views (98bfb65)
• Improved: Make page wider only when displaying admin pages (df9c460)
• Improved: Move admin pages under /admin (#6006)
• Improved: Put admin pages under /admin (09cbe3c)
• Improved: Remove unneeded CSS file (9dbf5e0)
• Improved: Set NODE_ENV to "production" in Docker image (ed0f0fa)
• Improved: Set a timestamp when disabling a user (2f7ab7e)
• Improved: Simplify Docker image (#6010)
• Improved: Temporarily save user info before deleting account (68469bc)
• Improved: View sent emails from admin dashboard (f5f7981)
• Fixed: Fixed sharing notebook with a user that does not have E2EE enabled (#5958)
• Fixed: Use multi-stage builds and smaller base image (#6048) (#5397 by @aaron)

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Many changes in this new release, available on mobile, desktop and CLI:

Per-notebook sort order and sort buttons

This new feature adds a number of changes to the way notes are sorted. The most visible one is the addition of a sort button above the note list - it allows sorting by modification date, creation date, title or by custom order, in either ascending or descending order:

By default, this sort order is going to apply to all notebooks, however you can now also assign a per-notebook sort order. In this case, any sort order will be apply to that notebook only. To enable this behaviour, simply right-click on a notebook and select "Toggle own sort order": …

• New: Add date format YYYY/MM/DD (#5759 by Helmut K. C. Tessarek)
• New: Add support for faster built-in sync locks (#5662)
• New: Add support for sharing notes when E2EE is enabled (#5529)
• New: Added support for notebook icons (e97bb78)
• Improved: Also duplicate resources when duplicating a note (c0a8c33)
• Improved: Improved S3 sync error handling and reliability, and upgraded S3 SDK (#5312 by Lee Matos)
• Improved: Improved error message when synchronising with Joplin Server (#5754)
• Improved: Ping joplinapp.org domain instead of Google when doing the WiFi connection check (#5705)
• Improved: Set min supported iOS version to 13.0 (298e85f)
• Improved: Update Mermaid: 8.12.1 -> 8.13.5 (#5831 by Helmut K. C. Tessarek)
• Improved: Upgraded React Native from 0.64 to 0.66 (66e79cc)
• Fixed: Alarm setting buttons were no longer visible (#5777)
• Fixed: Fixed "Invalid lock client type" error when migrating sync target (e0e93c4)
• Fixed: Fixed iOS 12 crash that prevents the app from starting (#5671)
• Fixed: Fixed issue that could cause application to needlessly lock the sync target (0de6e9e)
• Fixed: Fixed issue with parts of HTML notes not being displayed in some cases (#5687)
• Fixed: Handle duplicate attachments when the parent notebook is shared (#5796)
• Fixed: Links in flowchart Mermaid diagrams (#5830) (#5801 by Helmut K. C. Tessarek) …