TiddlyWiki5/editions/prerelease/tiddlers/Release 5.1.16.tid

caption: 5.1.16
created: 20171114142602640
modified: 20180328120356008
tags: ReleaseNotes
title: Release 5.1.16
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

//[[See GitHub for detailed change history of this release|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/compare/v5.1.15...v5.1.16]]//

!! Improved ~CodeMirror Plugins

The ~CodeMirror plugin has undergone a substantial rewrite, with many new improvements:

* Upgrade to ~CodeMirror version v5.36.0
* Now modularised into:
** Base plugin
*** Basic lightweight configuration, approximately 240KB
** Add-on plugins
*** Search and Replace
*** Auto-completion
*** Fullscreen editing
*** Auto-close brackets
*** Auto-close tags
*** SublimeText keymap
*** Emacs keymap
*** Vim keymap
*** Highlighting modes:
**** Javascript
**** Xml
**** Html (htmlmixed)
**** Html (htmlembedded)
**** Css
**** Markdown
**** X-Tiddlywiki
* Automatic configuration (the configuration tiddler is not needed anymore)
*** ~CodeMirror (engine.js) builds the configuration using information within the installed c~CodeMirror plugins
* New control panel configuration tab:
** Line numbers
** Theme
*** Editor font family (same as native TiddlyWiki)
*** Cursor settings
*** Line wrapping
** Active line highlighting
*** Autocompletion on/off (if installed)
** Keymap

!! Other New and Improved Plugins

* New [[Dynaview Plugin]] makes it possible to build user interfaces that dynamically respond to changes in scrolling or zooming
* Improved [[Text-Slicer Plugin|Text-Slicer Edition]] with customisable JSON rules
* Updated [[KaTeX Plugin]] to latest v0.9.0

!! Translation Improvements

New and improved translations:

* New Slovenian translation
* New Português (Brasil) translation
* Improved Dutch translation
* Improved French translation
* Improved German translation
* Improved Traditional and Simplified Chinese translations
** These translations now also reset the minimum search length to one character

!! Privacy Improvements

Prompted by the [[General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation]], we've [[removed all third party cookies from tiddlywiki.com|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3106]].

!! Usability Improvements

* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3112]] new DiffTextWidget, and integrated it into the import listing and as a preview pane
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/9e03264ebe141a5dc4d37dcb62f3bbf2f740d983]] selectable previews to the import listing
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3155]] new editor toolbar buttons for wrapping the selection with double square and curly brackets
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3134]] new [[sortan Operator]] for sorting alphanumeric values such as "Apple 6", "Apple 7", "Apple 8", "Apple 9", "Apple 10", "Apple 20", "Apple 30", "Apple 100"
* [[Improved|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/da0ffce2d66f16ad14587fbe58b8d7a5c8d36657]] default fonts for readability as advised by [[GitHub|http://markdotto.com/2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/]]
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3131]] an editor toolbar button for stamping fragments of formulae for the [[KaTeX Plugin]] 
* [[Simplified|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/1c8170463c80a18c0753783aa0b32a0ff2f9028c]] the page scrolling behaviour: navigating to a tiddler now scrolls the top of the tiddler to the top of the viewport
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/d2ff164c07788818ded9826c9e3811599272e69c]] [[WidgetMessage: tm-copy-to-clipboard]] and [[also|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/1b6a06a4d79ad5c58593a7844e306c25848979ea]] [[copy-to-clipboard Macro]] for copying text directly to the clipboard
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3040]] a hint to the field list dropdown
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3135]] a control panel setting for the default tab in the More sidebar
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3149]] a control panel setting for the titles of new tiddlers
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/c0569849d22f99623423d349c0d96ecae11ffbe8]] "rotate left" button to bitmap editor toolbar
* [[Improved|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3180]] criteria under which certain editor toolbar buttons are displayed
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3190]] support for a minimum length for the new tag field before the dropdown is shown
* [[Improved|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/02529a51d0be47477e62cd52dd5e4989a4993663]] consistency and reusability of the palette, language and theme switchers

!! Hackability Improvements

* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/033feda02d7f5cdf27a9393b8229f22219cdab88]] support for comparison operators to the RevealWidget
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/1c6942402ee7b6d938f01bad23130ebe75b109f2]] support for StartupActions to execute action widgets at startup
* [[Extended|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/f4fd5e76f8da8555bb9056725f11e0c0c91649f7]] ServerCommand to allow the port number to be specified as an environment variable
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/28e713caac1582e30b9ab8f7364ac8a564f4ffd7]] screen width/height to [[platform information exposed at startup|InfoMechanism]]
* [[Extended|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3167]] DroppableWidget to pass modifier keys in a variable
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/7cb54f32c6ee2d98f3f13ddda39f92281d419afd]] a new [[TaskManagementExample (Draggable)]]
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/460a07ca03a501009530a57352d6bec0e3cf49cd]] new 'Stylesheets' tab to control panel
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/b4c7c59d5d1bc5282fcfed58abbf087b9f65b86c]] new 'emptyMessage' parameter to [[list-links Macro]] and [[list-tagged-draggable Macro]]
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/de4eb5ca89132db136c8f5fb3103f289f25fe98a]] new `th-page-refreshed` hook
* [[Enhanced|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3063]] macro evaluation by making parameters available as variables - see "Parameters as Variables" in [[Macro Definitions in WikiText]]
* [[Enhanced|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3052]] LinkWidget to allow better customisation of CSS classes
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3124]] new "value" suffix for the [[each Operator]]
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/0d354fe57f7424c1751a5c0cf5fbf1203803f3c8]] new ''subtiddler'' attribute to the SetWidget
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/47cdf5513391742c3410bb80b36107ab17b0476d]] new [[subtiddlerfields Operator]] for extracting the fields from tiddlers within plugins
* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3182]] ability to trigger actions on unchecking the CheckboxWidget

!! Bug Fixes

* [[Removed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3043]] superfluous list item at the end of list-links-draggable macro
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/7e71fcfab80bed9aed4389eea386fb2036cc4a85]] problem with the content area of vertical tabs sometimes overflowing their right hand margin
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3079]] problem with double quotes within the new journal template
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3070]] problem with dragging inside a textarea
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3099]] usage of "default" attribute of SelectWidget when "index" attribute is used
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3093]] problem with crash when dragging over TiddlyWiki on some browsers
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3079]] issue with new journal button
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3164]] problem with ''filter'' and ''value'' attributes of SetWidget
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3190]] problem with numeric operands in the [[The Extended Listops Filters]]

!! Developer Bug Fixes and Improvements

* [[Added|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/1dc764764055243acd07d0c4f480e6e912be6870]] ''plugin-priority'' field to core plugins
* [[Fixed|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3113]] problems with plugin ordering
* Several optimisations to the tiddler store:
** [[Avoiding slow Object.keys calls|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/254e1ca7f7a5fe9d2deef72692ada2b7637f34ce]] - saving 50% of some operations
** [[Optimising the tag filter|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/e4b10d42f9480c0505862a93f0b97d1c4270ed65]] - saving 50% on some tag operations
** [[Minor improvements to tiddler deletion|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/358d4165260311446f2b433591762dd667250975]]

! Contributors

[[@Jermolene|https://github.com/Jermolene]] would like to thank the contributors to this release who have generously given their time to help improve TiddlyWiki:

* [[@alexhough|https://github.com/alexhough]]
* [[@anavarre|https://github.com/anavarre]]
* [[@BramChen|https://github.com/BramChen]]
* [[@BurningTreeC|https://github.com/BurningTreeC]]
* [[@diego898|https://github.com/diego898]]
* [[@furicle|https://github.com/furicle]]
* [[@gernert|https://github.com/gernert]]
* [[@ibnishak|https://github.com/ibnishak]]
* [[@Marxsal|https://github.com/Marxsal]]
* [[@metebalci|https://github.com/metebalci]]
* [[@mklauber|https://github.com/mklauber]]
* [[@pmario|https://github.com/pmario]]
* [[@Skeeve|https://github.com/Skeeve]]
* [[@TheDiveO|https://github.com/TheDiveO]]
* [[@tobibeer|https://github.com/tobibeer]]
* [[@twMat|https://github.com/twMat]]
* [[@xcazin|https://github.com/xcazin]]