QOwnNotes release versions

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.9

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 19:48:42 +0000

Fixed developer-mode builds with older Qt versions and GCC 14 or newer failing on a warning in Qt's headers
Fixed Qt5 developer-mode builds with GCC 11 or newer failing on a false-positive allocation warning in Qt's QSharedPointer implementation
The local trash and server trash dialogs now support bulk operations on many notes
- A Select all checkbox below the list selects or deselects all notes that match the current search, and shows a partial state when only some of them are selected
- The server trash now allows selecting multiple notes, to restore, download or delete them all at once
- Buttons show how many notes they will affect, and the note count shows how many notes are selected
- The list has a context menu with all actions, Select all (Ctrl + A) and Clear selection, and Delete removes the selected notes
- Longer operations show a cancelable progress dialog, and notes that couldn't be restored, removed or deleted are listed afterwards
- The note name and details above the preview have more spacing, so they no longer stick to the list
The welcome dialog now finds local folders that already contain notes, so your notes are no longer split between a new Notes folder and an existing one (for qownnotes-android#54)
- Folders like a localized Nextcloud Notes folder (e.g. Notizen) in your local Nextcloud / ownCloud sync folder, or existing QOwnNotes note folders, are listed with their number of notes, and you can choose one to use it as note folder
- Before creating a new note folder while such folders exist, you are asked whether you want to use an existing folder instead; no folder is ever selected automatically
- Show subfolders is enabled when the chosen folder has notes in subfolders, like Nextcloud Notes categories
Refreshed all five layout preset previews in the welcome screen and layout preset dialog
- Transparent screenshot margins now show the dialog's background correctly in light and dark mode instead of a mismatched light rectangle
The Full layout preset now enables the Document overview minimap between the note editor and preview, using its minimum width of 80 logical pixels
- Updated the layout-selection description and preview image to show the new arrangement
- Existing saved workspaces are unchanged; select the Full preset to use the new arrangement
Fixed the Document overview panel remaining visible when switching from Full to Minimal or an older saved workspace that does not include the panel
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v26.11.2
- Browse Nextcloud folders in Note settings and choose from existing note folders, with note counts and an indication of whether QOwnNotes desktop uses them (for #54)
- Account setup offers to switch folders when the current folder is empty or other folders contain notes; nothing changes without your choice, and no files are moved
- Images are now saved as WebP and shrunk by default, with separate switches for camera photos, chosen images and annotated copies in the renamed Images settings
- PNG graphics are converted losslessly, and originals are kept when conversion or scaling would not make them smaller; chosen images up to 30 MB are supported while shrinking is enabled
- Shrink existing images from the full-screen viewer, compare file sizes and replace the image in the note or insert a smaller copy; the original file stays in the media folder
- Swipe between a note's images in the full-screen viewer and inspect image details, including format, resolution, file size and camera metadata, with Show on map for recorded locations
- Fixed entering edit mode from a scrolled note sometimes placing the cursor at the end
The 26.11.1 release of QOwnNotes for Nextcloud improves note folder selection (for qownnotes-android#54)
- Fixed taking over the Nextcloud Notes app's folder on first use, so localized folders like Notizen no longer result in a separate Notes folder
- Choose a note folder with the Nextcloud file picker or from detected existing note folders in settings; changes take effect only when saved, and no notes are moved
- An empty note list also offers to use another folder that already contains notes
- Added the GET settings/note-folder-candidates Notes API extension to list existing note folders

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.8

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:20:06 +0000

The Full layout preset now enables the Document overview minimap between the note editor and preview, using its minimum width of 80 logical pixels
- Updated the layout-selection description and preview image to show the new arrangement
- Existing saved workspaces are unchanged; select the Full preset to use the new arrangement
Fixed the Document overview panel remaining visible when switching from Full to Minimal or an older saved workspace that does not include the panel
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.3.4
- Updated rusqlite and bundled SQLite to prevent memory disclosure from crafted database or WAL files (RUSTSEC-2026-0459, CVE-2026-119375)
- Updated Ratatui and lru to address RUSTSEC-2026-0002 and RUSTSEC-2026-0253, removed the unmaintained paste dependency and replaced a yanked clipboard-win release
- Building from source now requires Rust 1.89 or newer, up from 1.88
There is an upcoming release of QOwnNotes for Android, v26.11.1
- Tap images to view them full screen, zoom, pan and copy them without downloading them again or passing private addresses to another app (for #46)
- Annotate images with drawing tools and text, then insert, replace or copy the annotated image; the original file is never overwritten
- Added Take photo to the editor toolbar and a Reduce photo resolution setting, enabled by default, with configurable sizes; reduced photos omit location metadata (for #45)
- Fixed sideways photos and synchronized photos larger than 5 MB appearing blank
- Long-press a task's checkbox to open block actions, including the new Copy block action that preserves nested items and checkbox states; long-pressing task text now selects it (for #53)
- Copying selected table content now includes cell text separated by tabs instead of blank lines
- Note-list selection now shows checkboxes and announces selection states to screen readers (for #41)
- Fixed Deck card loading and error updates running outside the UI thread

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.7

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:46:41 +0000

Added a Markdown formatting toolbar above the description editors in the Tasks and Nextcloud Deck dialogs (for #3816)
- Supports bold, italic, strike-out, inline code, code blocks, quotes, bullet, numbered and checklists, and links, also available in the Format menu of the editor's context menu
- Inline formatting and quotes can be removed again with the same button, and the link prompt suggests a selected or copied URL
- Ctrl + B, Ctrl + I and Ctrl + L format text or insert a link in the focused description editor without changing the current note
- A help button opens the Markdown cheat sheet
Added Manage Nextcloud Deck cards and Recent Deck cards to the system tray menu (for #3832)
- The last 10 cards opened, saved or linked in QOwnNotes are remembered locally for each cloud connection, including across restarts, without API requests when opening the menu
- Cards can be opened directly without opening the main window; locally deleted or archived cards are removed from the recent list
Added an Allow external symlinks (unsafe) setting for each note folder to show and edit notes and subfolders linked to locations outside the note folder (for #3836)
- External links are hidden by default; enable this only for trusted note folders
- Other path security checks remain enabled, and deleting a linked subfolder removes only the link, not its target
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v26.11.0
- Use a local folder without Nextcloud, with Markdown files compatible with QOwnNotes desktop note folders, for example synchronized with Syncthing (for #47)
- Choose Use a local folder on the setup screen or Add local folder in account management
- Supports offline editing, subfolders, images, attachments, audio notes, favorites, notes.sqlite tags and a restorable trash; external changes become conflicts instead of being overwritten
- Added Refresh when opening the app, enabled by default, to refresh the active account when opening or returning to the app, with five minutes between attempts; manual refresh remains immediate
- Fixed Nextcloud synchronization and account import failing after the Gson update by updating Nextcloud Single Sign-On to 1.3.5

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.6

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:21:43 +0000

Fixed the text of the tag list of the Nextcloud Deck dialog and the Note tags panel being cut off when the interface font size is overridden (for #3834)
Fixed external changes of the current note getting overwritten by the automatic note saving while the dialog about the external modification was still open, so that Reload from disk loaded the overwritten text instead of the external changes (for #3838, #3842, thank you, @myukitty)
- This affects the default setup with note checksum checks turned off

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.5

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:04:33 +0000

Raised the minimum supported Qt 5 version to 5.13, matching the oldest retained CI build, and removed the Qt 5.9 build job (related to #3752)
- qmake and CMake now reject older Qt 5 versions during configuration
Added Ubuntu 27.04 Tenacious T-Rex to the Qt6 Launchpad build script
Line ending markers (¶) in the note editor now use the Whitespace marker color of the editor color scheme, like the markers for spaces and tabs (for #3840)
Added tag support to the Nextcloud Deck dialog (for #3834)
- Tags of the cards are shown as colored pills in the new Tags column of the card list, and the search also finds cards by their tags
- The tags of a card are shown as colored chips in the card editor and can be removed with a click
- Tags can be added via the Add tag button or Ctrl + T, which opens a searchable tag list of the board
- New tags can be created right from the tag list, with a choice of the Deck tag colors
The Note tags panel got a new look (for #3841)
- Tags are shown as rounded chips in their tag color, and can be removed via their ✕ button
- Clicking a tag shows all notes with that tag in the Tags panel
- Tags wrap onto more lines instead of needing a horizontal scrollbar
- Add tag opens a searchable list of all tags, nested tags are shown with their parent tags, tags can be toggled and new tags can be created right from the list
- With multiple notes selected, tags that are only on some of the notes are shown faded with a dashed border, and adding them in the tag list adds them to all selected notes

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.4

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:42:23 +0000

The link dialog now opens immediately when a URL is in the clipboard or selected, and fetches the title of the webpage in the background
- A slim progress bar shows which website the title is fetched from, and the fetch can be cancelled
- The download stops as soon as the title is found, so big webpages are much faster
- Typing a URL no longer starts a request for every keystroke, and typing a link name stops the title fetch
- Errors, like timeouts after 15 seconds, are shown briefly below the URL

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.3

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:27:20 +0000

Fixed PDF exports adding extra margins beyond those selected in page setup, for both single notes and selected notes (for #3837)
Fixed unsafe media and attachment paths being followed when copying, moving, or exporting notes (thank you, r3vpwnx) (for GHSA-fmqx-8x8h-gf76)
Hardened file and folder names from notes, imports, the local trash and remote data, so they can no longer lead to files outside their folders being read, written or deleted (for #3836)
- The Files navigation panel ignores media and attachment links that escape their folders
- Note files, including notes created from wiki links or server data, are never stored outside the note folder
- The Joplin import skips folder names and resource file extensions that point outside their folders
- Trashed notes, and scripts from the script repository, are only used with plain file names
- Exporting a note as HTML with embedded images only embeds files that are real images
- Path-containment checks resolve symlinks while preserving symlinked root directories
- Filename cleanup preserves new titles containing path punctuation without touching files at their original, unsafe paths
- Media and attachment transfers reject symlink escapes while preserving links within their folders
- Image filename extensions alone are not trusted when exporting HTML; extensionless images and long-header SVGs remain supported
- Joplin imports reject folder and resource symlinks that escape the import or note folder
- Local trash restoration rejects symlink destinations outside the note folder
- Script installation and updates reject symlink escapes from the script repository
- Creating notes from wiki links rejects subfolder symlinks that escape the note folder
The 26.11.0 release of QOwnNotes for Nextcloud adds bookmark management
- A Bookmarks dialog lists bookmarks from notes tagged bookmarks or named Bookmarks, compatible with QOwnNotes Desktop's Web Companion bookmarks and QOwnNotes Android bookmarks
- Search and filter bookmarks by tags, open, edit or delete them, with changes saved to all bookmark notes containing them; editing includes a Markdown preview
- Fixed notes failing to load with status code 423 when the note folder doesn't exist yet

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.2

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:08:38 +0000

Fixed regular expression replacements losing surrounding text context, so lookarounds and word-boundary checks work correctly, while preserving capture references and case sensitivity (for #3831)
Added an Enable font ligatures option in the editor font settings for regular text and code (requires Qt 6.7 or newer and a ligature-capable font; restart required) (for #3830)
Added built-in OpenRouter AI support, listed first in the AI settings with encrypted API-key storage and a connection test (for #3829)
- Includes the free-only openrouter/free router and free Gemma 4 and Liquid LFM 2.5 models for summarizing, rewriting and organizing notes
- Free model availability and rate limits can change; no paid fallback is configured
Changed the default Groq AI model to openai/gpt-oss-20b for users without a saved model selection, replacing the retired llama-3.1-8b-instant (thank you, Agustin Torres) (for #3813)
Fixed AI connection tests changing the selected backend or saved model, and made them work even when AI features are disabled
- The Groq test now uses openai/gpt-oss-20b instead of displaying a retired model name while testing the saved model
Fixed the stored attachments and stored images dialogs allowing links to be inserted into the current note in read-only mode
Double-clicking a file in the stored attachments and stored images dialogs now opens it externally instead of inserting a link into the current note

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.1

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:24:34 +0000

Added a release deployment safeguard that checks the local and remote versions, published GitHub release, and release tag commit before uploading source archives

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.11.0

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:09:41 +0000

Dialogs that load data now open right away and show a loading overlay with a spinner, a progress bar, the elapsed time and a Cancel button (for #3825)
- This covers the Nextcloud / ownCloud note versions and trash dialogs, the Nextcloud Bookmarks import and the Nextcloud Deck dialog
- Canceling or closing the dialog aborts the request to the server
- The Git note versions dialog shows how many versions were already gathered and can be canceled too
Fixed Nextcloud Deck boards being loaded twice when opening the Nextcloud Deck dialog
Fixed Nextcloud Deck cards being loaded twice when toggling the display of archived cards
Polished the Nextcloud Deck dialog with a cleaner layout and clearer card states
- The board / stack selection is now above the search field, and the card list shows how many cards are listed or match the search
- The editor shows whether a new or existing card is being edited, with a hint when no card is selected
- The due date adjustment buttons are in one compact row and are disabled without a due date
- Archived cards are shown muted and in italics, cards due today are shown in bold
- The Reload button now reloads directly instead of opening a menu
- Fixed the Ctrl + S shortcut for saving a card not working
- The splitter position between the card list and the editor is now remembered
- New cards can now be created without inserting a link into the current note and without closing the dialog, so you can keep managing your cards (for #3828)
- Create card (Ctrl + Shift + S) creates the card and selects it in the list
- Create and insert link (Ctrl + S) still inserts a link into the current note and closes the dialog, like before
- Fixed the dialog closing when creating a new card failed
Polished the note versions dialogs and the local and Nextcloud / ownCloud trash dialogs
- A header above the preview shows the selected version or trashed note, the trash dialogs also show when a note was trashed or where it will be restored to
- The lists show how many versions or trashed notes there are, and how many match the search
- Actions like restoring or deleting are only enabled when something is selected
- The local trash dialog shows dates in your locale format, marks unreadable files with a warning icon and got a Close button
- The preview gets more room by default, and the panes can no longer be collapsed by accident
Polished the todo dialog with a cleaner layout and clearer todo item states
- The todo list selection is now above the search field, and the list shows how many todo items are listed or match the search
- The editor shows a header and a hint when no todo item is selected, and uses labeled fields
- The priority is shown as translated text next to the slider
- The reminder date is disabled instead of hidden when no reminder is set
- Completed todo items are shown muted and crossed out, overdue todo items in red and todo items due today in bold
Polished the stored images and stored attachments dialogs
- A header above the preview shows the selected file name, the stored images dialog also shows the image size in pixels, the file size and the modification date
- The lists show how many files there are and how many match the search
- Files that are not used in any note are shown muted, attachments show a file type icon
- The notes list shows how many notes are using the selected file
- Actions like deleting or adding files to the current note are only enabled when something is selected
- Large images are scaled down to fit into the preview
- The OK button was replaced by a Close button
Polished the dialogs that show text differences, like the dialog for notes that were modified outside of QOwnNotes
- Added and removed text is now readable in dark mode too, and the differences are grouped to whole words, so they are easier to read
- A legend explains what the colored text means
- The external modification dialog got Reload from disk and Keep current text buttons instead of Yes and No
- The note versions dialog uses the same readable colors for its differences
Polished the new note dialog
- The OK button is now called Create note and is disabled when the note name is empty
- The note name field shows a placeholder text and a clear button
Polished the add tag dialog
- The OK button is now called Add tag and is disabled when the tag name is empty
- Surrounding whitespace is removed from the tag name and the dialog got a sensible minimum width
Polished the note encryption password dialog
- The OK button is disabled as long as no password was entered
- The dialog only takes as much height as it needs, and long texts are wrapped
- The "Passwords don't match!" warning uses a red that is readable in dark mode too
Polished the note bookmarks dialog
- The Jump to bookmark and Delete bookmark buttons are only enabled when a bookmark is selected
- The first bookmark is selected when the dialog opens, and the selection is kept when reloading
- The dialog shows how many bookmarks there are, or a hint how to store bookmarks
- The note path is shown as tooltip and the redundant row numbers were removed
Polished the Find action dialog
- Menus are shown as bold section headers, shortcuts use a muted color that is readable in dark mode too
- The first matching action is selected while searching and can be triggered with Return directly from the search field
- Actions that are currently disabled are shown as disabled and can't be triggered
Polished the Nextcloud Bookmarks import dialog
- The dialog shows to which note the bookmarks will be added, or a message if no bookmarks were found on the server
- After importing, the dialog shows how many bookmarks were added and the Import bookmarks button gets disabled to prevent importing them twice
- The dialog got a Close button
Polished the share note dialog
- The shared link field got buttons to copy the link to the clipboard and to open it in the browser
- The dialog got a Close button
Polished the browser extension security token dialog
- The dialog now shows when the token was copied to the clipboard
- The token is shown in a fixed width font, so similar looking characters can be told apart
- The OK and copy buttons are disabled when the token is empty
Added a Copy version information button to the about dialog, to easily add the version, build number, release and Qt version to bug reports
Polished the insert image dialog
- The dialog shows the size of the image in pixels and the file size, or a message why an image can't be loaded, like a missing file or a failed download
- The OK button is now called Insert image and is only enabled when there is an image to insert
- The title field shows that the title is optional
Polished the insert attachment dialog
- The dialog shows the file name, size and type, a message if the file doesn't exist or a hint that a URL will be downloaded
- The OK button is now called Insert attachment and is only enabled when there is a file or URL to insert
- The title field shows that the title is optional and that the file name is used otherwise
Polished the link dialog
- The OK button is now called Insert link and is only enabled when a URL was entered or a note is selected, so no link to a random note is inserted by accident
- Searching for notes selects the first matching note, so a note that is hidden by the search can't be linked anymore
- The note list shows how many notes there are and how many match the search
- A hint is shown instead of an empty heading list, if the selected note has no headings, then Return in the note list inserts the link right away
- Both search fields now look the same, and a text is shown while the title of a webpage is fetched
Polished the insert table dialog
- The OK button is now called Insert table and is only enabled when there is a table to create or a CSV file or clipboard text to import
- A message is shown if the clipboard doesn't contain any text to import
- Only existing files can be selected for the CSV import
- Temporary files of clipboard imports are now cleaned up
Polished the edit Markdown table dialog
- The header row is shown in bold and labeled as header, the cells are aligned like their columns, so the grid looks more like the rendered table
- The buttons to remove rows and columns are only enabled when the selected row or column can be removed
- The OK button is now called Update table
Polished the update dialog
- The dialog now also shows which version you are currently using
- The new version is shown as a larger header, and the "Version" text can now be translated
- The buttons got tooltips that explain what they do, hints are shown in a muted color
Polished the dictionary manager dialog
- Dictionaries that were already downloaded are marked in the list of available dictionaries
- A hint is shown when no dictionaries were downloaded yet, and after changes the dialog tells you that a restart is needed to use them
- Deleting dictionaries now needs to be confirmed
- The Download dictionary button is no longer enabled after canceling a download without a selected dictionary
- The panes can no longer be collapsed by accident
Polished the Evernote and Joplin import dialogs
- The dialogs now show how many notes were imported, or why nothing could be imported
- The Import notes button is only enabled when a file or directory was selected
- The dialogs got a Close button and hints are shown in a muted color
The note dialog, that shows a note in a separate window, now shows the folder and the modification date of the note, the full file path as tooltip and a hint if the note is encrypted and can't be decrypted
Polished the script repository dialog
- Installed scripts are marked in the script list, scripts that aren't supported explain why in their tooltip and use a muted color that is readable in dark mode too
- The list shows how many scripts there are and how many match the search, and a message is shown if no script matches or the script repository couldn't be loaded
- Fixed the first script not being selected after searching
- The dialog got a Close button and the panes can no longer be collapsed by accident
Polished the issue assistant dialog
- The dialog shows on which step of the assistant you are
- A hint explains what is still missing when the Next button is disabled
- Fixed the Next button not being updated when changing the issue type
Polished the welcome dialog
- The dialog shows on which step you are, like "Step 1 of 4: Note folder"
- Return opens the next step, or finishes the dialog on the last step
- Note folder errors are wrapped and use a red that is readable in dark mode too
Polished the search in the settings dialog
- If the current settings page doesn't match the search, the first matching page is shown
- A hint is shown below the settings list if no settings match the search
- Texts outside of the settings pages, like the page headline, are no longer highlighted by the search
Polished the command bar
- The search field shows a search icon and a placeholder text
- The selected action is now readable with every color scheme, because its text uses the highlighted text color, the menu names use a muted color from the color scheme
- Actions that are currently disabled are shown muted and can't be triggered
- A hint is shown instead of an empty list if no action matches the search
The text search in the note preview and the update dialog now shows how many matches there are and which of them is selected, like "2 of 5"
Fixed the text search in the note preview and the update dialog ignoring the regular expression mode when the search wrapped around to the start of the text
The backlinks in the navigation panel are now sorted by note name instead of being shown in random order, and the linking notes are shown in bold to stand out from their links
The match count in the note editor search now uses a color from your color scheme, shows "No matches" if nothing was found and explains itself in a tooltip
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v26.10.10
- Search the text of trashed notes in the Remote trash dialog, with match counts, highlighted excerpts and a preview that lets you step between matches
- The filter menu can limit the search to note names
- Releases now use year, month and a monthly release counter like QOwnNotes desktop; existing installations can update normally

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.15

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:40:21 +0000

Extended the search field in the local and Nextcloud / ownCloud note trash dialogs to search note text as well as note names, ignoring case (for #3823)
- Selecting a match shows its note text; clearing the search shows all trashed notes again
- The in-note search bar opens with the same query to highlight and navigate text matches
Retired the legacy Qt 5-named Snap jobs from stable and continuous GitHub releases (for #3752)
- Use the Qt 6 snap from the Snap Store
- The final genuine Qt 5 AMD64 snap, QOwnNotes-Qt5-amd64.snap, remains available in the 26.10.6 release
- Later artifacts with that filename already used Qt 6; Qt 5 macOS builds and source compatibility remain supported for now
Added an editor setting Do not insert a space after autocompletion to suppress the trailing space for script and language server completions (for #3781, #3819, thank you, @sciurius)
Added case-insensitive text search across all loaded versions in the Nextcloud / ownCloud and Git note version dialogs (for #3822)
- The search field above the version list filters versions by their note text
- Matches are highlighted with the regular search bar in the Note text tab
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.8.0
- Search text across all note versions in the note versions dialog, filtering the list to matching versions with match counts and highlighted excerpts
- The version preview highlights all matches and lets you step between them

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.14

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:20:24 +0000

Added export of selected notes to individual PDFs from the note list context menu (for #994, #3821, thank you, @serebryakov02)
- Choose the destination folder and page settings once for all selected notes
- Existing PDFs are preserved by using numbered filenames
Added clickable
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sections to both note preview backends, including nested sections and initially expanded sections with open (for #3818)
- Expansion state is preserved while editing the current note
- HTML exports keep native disclosure markup; printing and PDF export include all content
Failed CalDAV task saves now show an error and leave the cached task unchanged, instead of making rejected edits appear saved after refreshing the task list (for #3815)
- Apply the same protection to new tasks, completion changes, and task moves
- Only close the task dialog after a successful save
- Save and insert only inserts the task link after the save succeeds
Added a Windows installer QOwnNotes.msi to the releases, next to the QOwnNotes.zip archive, so QOwnNotes can be installed without unzipping
- It installs QOwnNotes for the current user, without administration permissions, adds a start menu shortcut and keeps the automatic updater working
There was a new release of the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension 2026.10.0
- Context-menu actions now open the setup popup when user data consent or the security token is missing (for #122)
- The popup now has a minimum height so dialogs display properly even with few or no bookmarks, including searches with no results
- Updated dependencies
There was a new release of the QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud App, v26.8.1
- QOwnNotesAPI is now deprecated; Nextcloud users are encouraged to switch to QOwnNotes for Nextcloud
- Read the migration guide for installation and client compatibility requirements before removing QOwnNotesAPI
- QOwnNotes for Nextcloud does not support ownCloud, so ownCloud users cannot migrate to it
qc v0.7.0 was released
- qc switch now uses the configured searchable selector to choose a note folder, marking the current folder and using a bordered layout with fzf (for #25)
- Pressing Ctrl + C exits with code 130 without printing an error, including when cancelling snippet selection (for #1)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.13

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:49:28 +0000

Fixed nix run github:pbek/qownnotes failing to build because GitHub flake archives omit the required Git submodules
Added icons to the note list context menu and its folder and tag submenus (for #2589, thank you, @serebryakov02)
Raised the CMake compatibility minimum to 3.10 to avoid deprecation warnings with recent CMake versions, including for bundled dependencies
Switched translation source updates to CMake, removing the deprecated qmake input to lupdate and preserving existing edits to other languages
- Include library strings across platforms and optional build features
Reorganized menus for easier discovery (for #3811)
- Added top-level Insert and Search menus, moved note deletion, version history, and encryption into Note, and flattened Edit → Edit
- Added a Tools menu for spelling, grammar, dictionaries, AI, stored images and attachments, and sending the clipboard, so Edit only contains editing actions
- Replaced Extra with a Copy submenu and directly accessible editing actions, renamed Note text edit to Editor context menu, and moved Activate context menu and Allow all note editing into Edit
- Combined layout selection and management under Window → Layout
- Adjusted menu access keys so they don't conflict with each other or existing shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts are unchanged
Added more French, German, Russian, Chinese Simplified, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian, Polish, Spanish, Japanese translation (thank you, jd-develop, pbek, spamcutters)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.7.0
- Edit bookmark names, URLs, tags, and descriptions, or delete bookmarks directly from the bookmark browser; changes are saved offline to the source Markdown note, preserving unrelated text and protecting changed, read-only, or conflicted notes
- Long-press a checkbox block in the note preview to delete it together with nested items and continuation text after confirmation; read-only and conflicted notes remain protected
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.6.1
- Fixed checkbox dragging and toggling in notes containing checkbox-like lines that are not rendered as checkboxes, such as empty items or lines inside HTML comments or code blocks
The 26.10.4 release of QOwnNotes for Nextcloud hides its navigation entry for users excluded by Nextcloud's app group restrictions

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.12

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:04:57 +0000

Moved Add tag to note directly into the Edit menu and removed the Tag menu; Insert Nextcloud Deck card link is now only in Edit → Insert, not also in Todo (for #3803)
Remember the last-used Diff or Note text tab in the Git and Nextcloud/ownCloud note version dialogs (for #3809)
Enabled the built-in Git version viewer in the Qt6 AppImage, Windows, macOS, Snap, Launchpad, OBS, and Slackware release builds with CMake and libgit2 support (for #3802)
Fixed the secure credential store migration notice appearing on every startup when keychain writes fail; the notice is now only shown until acknowledged, while migration continues to retry and secrets remain in legacy-encrypted storage until it succeeds (for #3801)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.11

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:27:36 +0000

Fixed command injection through note filenames in the external Git version viewer (CWE-78, reported by Dilanka Kaushal Hewage / r3vpwnx)
- External Git log commands now run directly without an implicit shell; %notePath% must be a separate argument. Configurations using shell syntax need a wrapper script that accepts the note path as an argument
- Security advisory: GHSA-jp2h-69pm-p69c
QOwnNotes for Android is now available on F-Droid
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.6.0
- Copy notes to an existing or new subfolder, or duplicate them in the same folder; move and copy also support multiple selected notes, with folder actions available when Use subfolders is enabled for the account
- Share notes through public Nextcloud links, optionally with password protection and editing permission; links can be copied, sent, or opened, and passwords changed or removed later
- Reorder checkbox list items in the note preview by dragging their grip handles, moving nested items with their parent within the same list and scrolling automatically near the note's edges
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.3.2
- Updated rustls, rustls-webpki, and webpki-roots to address six security advisories in the HTTPS dependencies
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.3.1
- Fixed Windows-style line endings and embedded ASCII control characters disrupting note rendering and leaving text from previous notes visible in the viewer and editor
The 26.10.2 release of QOwnNotes for Nextcloud adds translations and improves the note list and editor
- The web interface, admin settings, and Nextcloud integrations now follow the user's Nextcloud language, with German, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, French, and Spanish translations
- Notes whose title starts with an emoji can show it as their note-list icon, even if QOwnNotes Desktop removed it from the file name; conflict copies are marked with a warning icon
- Fixed the editor cursor being hard to see in dark mode

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.10

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:55:01 +0000

Added a lightweight Nextcloud Deck link picker using the existing Deck dialog, with search, board/stack selection, and insertion of links for multiple selected cards (for #3790)
- Insert Nextcloud Deck card link now opens the picker, while Manage Nextcloud Deck cards keeps the full editing interface
Added touchscreen drag-to-scroll with kinetic scrolling in the note editor and both preview backends, while keeping mouse text selection unchanged (for #3800)
Fixed in-note searches with no results moving the cursor and scrolling to the start or end of the document, in both the editor and preview (for #3799)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.9

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:45:26 +0000

The 26.10.3 release of QOwnNotes for Nextcloud adds more editor actions to the web interface
- Link dialog with web page title fetching and a searchable Link to note tab, inserting relative note links compatible with QOwnNotes Desktop (Ctrl+L, or Ctrl+Shift+L for note links)
- Insert inline code or fenced code blocks, including wrapping selected text (Ctrl+Shift+C)
- Toggle checkbox list formatting on the current line or selected lines, preserving list markers and indentation (Alt+L)
- These actions are also available in the note's "…" menu; use Cmd instead of Ctrl on macOS
Fixed saved task list selections being cleared when accepting settings without changes (for #3798)
Added an optional Linux Qt6 CMake build with KDE Frameworks application metadata (QON_KDE_INTEGRATION), a qownnotes-qt6-kde Nix flake package, and build diagnostics (for #3796)
- just build / just nix-build now select the KDE variant on Linux; plain Qt6 and macOS builds remain available without KDE dependencies
- KDE builds initialize KCrash for GUI startup, with DrKonqi support when the reporter and system crash-reporting setup are available
- KDE builds use native Plasma global shortcuts when its service is available, preserving Plasma-side changes and retaining the portal/QHotkey backends on other desktops
- All actions are offered in the Plasma shortcut settings, so global shortcuts can also be assigned there, and they are shown with their menu path (e.g. Note → New note)
- KDE builds send desktop notifications that can be configured in Plasma's notification settings, e.g. when the current note was modified externally while QOwnNotes was in the background
- KDE builds use the PlasmaActivities library for the KDE Plasma activity integration, so activities are loaded without blocking, while older activity managers and other desktops keep using the existing implementation
- KDE builds can use an installed KDE color scheme for the user interface, which can be selected in the Interface settings, while the system palette stays the default
- When QOwnNotes is started again while it is already running, or by a global shortcut of the desktop portal, its window is now raised with the activation token of the launch on Wayland, and with the startup notification ID on X11 in KDE builds
- KDE builds can send note files to installed targets like KDE Connect or email with the new Send note to menus in the Note menu and the note list context menu
- Notes of a running QOwnNotes can be found in KDE Plasma's KRunner search by their name or text, without showing note text, if the KRunner plugin file is installed, which KDE builds do
Added a new scripting command script.showNotification() to show a desktop notification, falling back to the system tray or the status bar (for #3796)
- For more information please take a look at the Showing a desktop notification documentation

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.8

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:27:22 +0000

Fixed Nextcloud Deck cards sometimes not moving to another board or stack without an error (for #3795)
- Move requests now use consistent destination IDs and verify the returned card location
- Unconfirmed moves and server failures now show an error that cannot be suppressed
Updated documentation, welcome notes, and server settings to recommend the QOwnNotes Nextcloud app instead of QOwnNotesAPI, while keeping legacy Nextcloud and ownCloud server support
Added more Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Italian, German, Chinese Simplified, French, Spanish, Japanese translation (thank you, pbek, jd-develop, AlejandroMoc, spamcutters)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.7

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:04:03 +0000

Migrated the Snap Store edge build from the legacy Qt5/core22 recipe to Qt6/core26, so it also includes the desktop portal file chooser, real home directory, and Wayland fixes (for #3791)
- Fixed missing toolbar and other SVG icons in Qt6 Snaps by bundling the separately packaged SVG image and icon engine plugins, with packaging checks to ensure both are included
Fixed the token for the QOwnNotes web application sometimes being replaced with a new one at application start, which caused other connected devices to go out of sync (for #3792)
- If the token can't be read from the keychain (e.g. because it is still locked, not yet available or timed out), the stored token is now kept and the connection is retried later
- The browser extension, MCP server and bookmark suggestion API tokens are also no longer replaced if they can't be read from the keychain
The first release of QOwnNotes for Nextcloud, v26.10.1, is now available in the Nextcloud App Store (for #3793)
- View and edit the notes of your note folder in the Nextcloud web interface, including note subfolders and the tags of the note folder's notes.sqlite, which are shared with QOwnNotes Desktop and Android
- Markdown editor with syntax highlighting, search and replace, task toggling, note links and an optional live preview that scrolls together with the editor
- Tag tree with hierarchy, colors and filters, note versions, deleted notes and conflict handling
- Dashboard widget, unified search (also by tags), link previews and "Open in QOwnNotes" in the Files app
- Provides the server APIs for QOwnNotes Desktop and Android, replacing the QOwnNotesAPI app and, for QOwnNotes Android, the Nextcloud Notes app
- API-only mode to disable the web interface and only provide the APIs
- For more information, see the QOwnNotes Nextcloud App documentation

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.6

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:24:18 +0000

Prevent saved layouts from being overwritten by toolbar signals during layout restoration (for #3779)
Fixed missing GTK settings schemas that could crash the Qt6 Snap when opening a file or folder chooser, such as when selecting a new note folder on Pop!_OS with COSMIC/Wayland (for #3791)
- The bundled schemas are now compiled during packaging instead of relying on a runtime compiler that may be absent from the base snap
- Fixed Snap builds failing by ensuring the GTK part is primed before compiling the schemas
- Qt6 Snaps now use the desktop portal file chooser instead of forcing GTK dialogs
- The file chooser's home directory and suggested new note folders now use the real home directory, while existing settings, databases, caches, and note folder paths stay unchanged
Notes can now be shared on Nextcloud / ownCloud with a password in the Share note dialog, which is needed if your server enforces passwords for shared links (for #3788)
- If sharing fails, the error message hints at the password field and focuses it
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.5.0
- Notes can now be renamed from the editor's menu without leaving edit mode, optionally updating the first heading while preserving the latest draft and undo history
- Checking or unchecking a task in view mode now preserves the note's scroll position
- Account setup now clarifies that QOwnNotes or Notes is required on the Nextcloud server and Nextcloud Files on Android, not the Nextcloud Notes Android app; the missing-server-app error is localized and onboarding remains scrollable on smaller screens
- The Refreshing status now stays as small as Available offline, without shifting the note list during refresh
- Photo notes captured offline now display the local picture until it has been uploaded, instead of a red placeholder square

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.5

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:08 +0000

The layout settings now explain that the central widget cannot be hidden and that selecting No central widget allows hiding the note edit or note preview panel (for #3732)
Automatically discover QOwnNotes for Nextcloud for note versions and deleted notes, with fallback to QOwnNotesAPI on older Nextcloud and ownCloud servers
The connection test shows the detected server app, and setup links to both supported apps
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.4.0
- Audio notes can now be recorded from the note-list menu or home-screen widget, previewed before saving, and stored locally as M4A files in attachments/ before synchronization
- Audio attachment links can be played in QOwnNotes or opened with another app, with an optional remembered choice; the in-app player also supports recordings not yet uploaded
- QOwnNotes for Nextcloud is now discovered automatically for notes, versions, trash, and attachments, with fallback to the existing Notes and QOwnNotesAPI apps
- Widget photo notes now save the note and picture locally before background synchronization, retain failed uploads for retry, and resume interrupted capture processing
- The optional Clean trailing spaces on save setting now only removes single trailing spaces from edited lines, preserving untouched lines and Markdown hard line breaks
- Recovery checkpoints no longer restore trailing spaces removed during save-time cleanup

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.4

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:54:40 +0000

Fixed headless unit tests crashing on macOS when displaying Nextcloud Deck error dialogs
Nextcloud Deck cards can now be moved to another board or stack with the Move… button or the card-list context menu, including multiple selected cards (for #3786)
Fixed encrypted notes potentially being saved with an empty password after a long period of inactivity; passwords are retained while the decrypted editor is open, and encrypted saves now preserve the existing file and pending edits if the password is missing (for #3785)
Fixed the Snap crashing on startup under Wayland by bundling the missing XKB keyboard data (for #3784)
Fixed a remaining crash when switching layouts with global keyboard shortcuts by resolving the current menu action after menus are rebuilt (for #3779)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.3.0
- Nextcloud Deck cards can now be browsed and searched by board and list, linked from notes, archived, and edited in the app, including their title, description, and due date
- Tapping a Deck card link offers opening it in QOwnNotes or Deck, with a remembered choice per account
- Tapping the note-list widget's title bar opens its account's notes for browsing and searching
- Long-pressing the heading button lets you choose heading levels 1 to 6 or normal text
- Editor tools now have long-press hints, a Help button, and optional toolbar labels
- The note editor, toolbar, menus, dialogs, bookmarks, and settings have a refreshed layout, with the formatting toolbar above the keyboard and Cancel editing and Done in the top bar
- Moving multiple notes to trash now asks for confirmation
- Note conflict recovery now preserves the latest edits, including changes made after a background sync reports a conflict

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.3

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:55:16 +0000

Fixed a possible crash when switching layouts with keyboard shortcuts (for #3779)
The GitHub Actions branch builds now provide downloadable Qt6 AppImage, macOS DMG and Windows ZIP artifacts for testing, in addition to the Qt6 Snap
Every color mode can now have its own accent color in the Color modes settings, which is used for selected text and selected items, like the current note in the note list (for #2647)
- In dark mode it replaces the default orange accent color
- The accent color of a color mode is also returned by script.getColorModes()
The Qt6 Snap now runs natively on Wayland when used in a Wayland session, under X11 it still uses X11 (for #3777)
- Set the environment variable QOWNNOTES_SNAP_FORCE_X11=1 to force X11 (XWayland)
- The Snap is now based on core26 (Ubuntu 26.04) with Qt 6.10
- The Snap is now built from the checked-out commit and the GitHub Actions test builds provide a downloadable Qt6 Snap artifact
- The taskbar icon of the Snap is now shown correctly under Wayland
Images of web pages sent to QOwnNotes by the browser extension, and of pasted HTML, are now downloaded into the media folder again, instead of linking to the remote images (for #3778)
- Images with single-quoted src attributes are no longer dropped when converting HTML to Markdown
- Lazy-loading attributes like data-src are no longer mistaken for the image source
- The alt text of images is now kept
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.2.0
- The editor's Insert link button now opens a dialog prefilled with a clipboard web URL and fetches the page title as the Markdown label, keeping selected text as the label
- The app is now translated into German, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, French, and Spanish
- Nextcloud categories are now called subfolders and shown as a tree with note counts
- Per-account Use subfolders and Show notes from subfolders settings now work like their QOwnNotes desktop counterparts, with Use subfolders off by default
- Search stays within the listed subfolder, with a Search all folders option to search the whole account
- The Move to subfolder dialog now shows an indented tree, including empty parent folders
- Note-list widgets now follow the app's preview and subfolder display settings
- Fixed stale page-title lookups in the link dialog and Markdown rendering in note previews

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.2

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:48:29 +0000

Scripts can now list the color modes with script.getColorModes(), get the active one with script.getCurrentColorModeId() and switch to another one, including its editor color schema, with script.switchToColorMode() (for #2647)
- script.switchToColorMode() accepts the id or the name of a color mode
- For more information please take a look at the Working with color modes documentation and the example script toggle-color-mode.qml
Stylesheets added by scripts with script.addStyleSheet() are now kept when the color mode is switched, previously they were removed (for #2647)
WebSocket message handling is now deferred until Qt finishes processing the incoming frame, preventing a possible crash when running qc exec while authentication waits for the system keychain (for #3772)
Hovered menu items and hovered or open menu-bar items now use a medium-dark gray background and white text in dark mode for better contrast (for #3771)
The note filename selection for wiki-style links is now also shown when [[ is typed on keyboard layouts that need AltGr or Option to type [, like Spanish or German (for #3769)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.3.0
- The current note can be opened in an external editor with E or Ctrl-e, using $VISUAL, $EDITOR, or vi, saving local edits first and reloading after the editor exits
- Editor changes can be undone and redone with Ctrl-z and Ctrl-Shift-Z (or Ctrl-y), grouping typed words and consecutive deletions
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.2.0
- Pressing Enter at the start of a Markdown list item or just after its marker now creates an empty item before it, preserving indentation and checklist style
- Pressing Down on the last line now moves the cursor to the end of the note in view and edit modes, including Shift-Down selection
- Pressing Up on the first line now moves the cursor to the start of the note in view and edit modes, including Shift-Up selection
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.1.1
- Fixed conversion of single-URL terminal pastes into Markdown links with fetched page titles when the terminal handles Ctrl-Shift-V
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.1.0
- Editor indentation and un-indentation are now available with Tab and Shift-Tab, including Markdown list/checklist items and selected lines
- Clipboard URLs can be pasted as Markdown links with fetched page titles using Ctrl-Shift-V
- Words can be deleted with Ctrl-Backspace and whole lines with Alt-Backspace
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.1.0
- The tag-assignment dialog now has a search field to filter tags by name or parent path
- The editor toolbar can indent the current line or selected lines by four spaces, or remove up to four leading spaces, with undo and redo support
- Pressing Enter before an existing list or checklist item now creates an empty item above it
- Pressing Enter removes one trailing space from the previous line while preserving Markdown hard line breaks
- Nextcloud SSO account preferences are now excluded from Android cloud backups and device transfers
- Fixed cursor jumps and misplaced typing when switching to Edit with Find in note open

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.1

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:58:47 +0000

On Linux, QOwnNotes can now switch to a note folder and/or a layout when a certain KDE Plasma activity gets activated, and also when it starts in that activity (for #3767)
- Configure the activity mappings in the KDE Plasma activities settings
- The QOwnNotes window needs to be shown on all activities to prevent Plasma from switching back when the window is activated
- Only one note folder and one layout can be linked to an activity
The magnifier of the Document overview panel was improved (for #3768)
- Text is now drawn in the editor text color, so it is readable in dark mode
- Hovering the overview doesn't change the layout of the overview anymore
- The magnifier now follows the mouse cursor without lagging behind
The General settings are now shown at the top of the settings list
The legacy Qt 5.7 Windows build for Windows XP to Windows 8.1 is no longer built on AppVeyor (for #3752)
- The Windows release needs at least Windows 10
- The final legacy build of QOwnNotes 26.10.0 is available as QOwnNotes-Qt5.7-legacy.zip in the 26.10.0 release

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.10.0

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:56:34 +0000

Changes to the note-folder database notes.sqlite made outside QOwnNotes now refresh note tags and the tag tree (for #3764)
On Windows, the Font rendering interface setting is no longer reset to Automatic when the settings dialog is closed (for #3757)
On Windows, italic text in fonts without a real italic face, like Tahoma, is now also rendered without font smoothing when Windows font smoothing is disabled (for #3757)
If the setting to ask for a note name when creating a new note with Ctrl + N is enabled, the dialog is now prefilled with the default note name including the current date and time, which is selected so it can be overwritten right away, and the setting and dialog now talk about a note name instead of a headline (for #3765)
The Secure password storage dialog doesn't show up on every start anymore if there is no system keychain, like GNOME Keyring or KWallet, available on Linux; in that case passwords and API keys stay in the legacy storage (for #3766)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v1.0.0
- Note tags are shared with QOwnNotes desktop through the notes.sqlite file in the notes folder, and notes can be filtered and tagged, even offline
- Opening a note while searching the note list opens Find in note with the same text
- A new Ask for name of new notes setting asks for the name of a new note before creating it
- Nextcloud Deck cards can be created from the editor toolbar, and card links open in the Nextcloud Deck Android app
- The account menu now lists all accounts at the top, so switching accounts is one tap away
The unit tests are now built with CMake and Qt 6 instead of qmake, and a crash of the unit tests caused by leftover data in the test database was fixed

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.14

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:12:06 +0000

Due dates in the past are now highlighted in the card list of the Nextcloud Deck dialog (for #3761)
On Windows, automatically use legacy GDI font rendering when system font smoothing is disabled, with a new interface setting to choose automatic, DirectWrite, or GDI rendering (for #3757)
Fixed editor highlighting for indented code block lines that start with a list marker like -, * or + (for #3749)
A new opt-in setting Ignore accents in search in the Panels settings lets searches without accented letters also find text with accented letters, for example avion also finds Avión (for #3128)
- It works for the note search, including the highlighting in the note editor and preview, and for the filters of the tag, note subfolder and navigation panels
- Searches with accented letters still only find exact matches, so schön doesn't find schon
- Only Latin letters are affected, characters of other scripts are always matched exactly
- The scripting methods script.fetchNoteIdsByNoteTextPart and script.searchTagsByName got a new optional ignoreAccents parameter
The scripting documentation now explains how to format dates and times with Qt.formatDateTime and the scripting examples use it instead of formatting dates by hand (for scripts#298)
- See Formatting dates and times
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.9.0
- Search text can be turned into a new note named after the query in the selected category
- The Markdown editor toolbar can insert the local date or date and time at the cursor
- A clipboard web URL can be turned into a Markdown link labeled with the page title
- Note view provides an information dialog with note, text statistics and synchronization details
- Editing medium-large notes with many links and tasks now stays responsive
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.10.0
- Notes are shown as bordered cards in the note list, with an optional compact note list setting
- Note-list widgets can show all notes, uncategorized notes, or a single category
- Widgets and the note list have new appearance settings for colors, headers, and category labels
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v1.0.0
- The cursor can move word by word in the viewer and editor with Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right, and text can be selected with Ctrl-Shift-Left and Ctrl-Shift-Right
- Typing / in the editor now inserts the character instead of opening the in-note search; use Ctrl-f to search while editing

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.13

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:50:49 +0000

Fixed a startup crash when restoring the layout of a maximized or fullscreen window (for #3758)
Fixed the Secure password storage dialog appearing on every startup when a legacy password or API key contains an encrypted empty string (for #3756)
Fixed duplicate taskbar icons in KDE Plasma on Wayland for the Flatpak package by matching the application's desktop identity to its exported launcher (for #3755)
- Existing custom window rules matching the old Flatpak identity PBE.QOwnNotes may need updating, and stale taskbar pins may need re-pinning

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.12

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:48:35 +0000

Fixed scripts installed from the script repository no longer being found after a Snap package update (for #3753)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.11

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:11:16 +0000

Deprecated the non-GitHub Qt 5 release packages by removing the legacy Ubuntu Launchpad and OBS deployments from the release process, while retaining the Qt 5 artifacts built by the GitHub release workflow (for #3752)
Added more French translation (thank you, jd-develop)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.10

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:17:51 +0000

Migrated the Slackware 15.0 build system to Qt 6 and retired the Slackware 14.x release targets (for #3751)
Fixed the first line of code blocks being offset to the right in the Markdown preview (for #3750)
Fixed editor highlighting for indented code block lines that start with a digit (for #3749)
Fixed stale packages in the Arch Linux OBS repository by explicitly unpublishing artifacts from the retired build target (for #3743)
Fixed a second application instance and a second system tray icon being able to start after the application was restarted from the settings while the single app instance mode was enabled (for #3746)
- The application is now restarted after the current instance released its single app instance lock, so the new instance can register itself again
A notice is now shown before stored passwords and API keys are migrated to the operating system keychain, explaining the system password prompts that may follow (for #3597)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.9

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:24:37 +0000

Added a separate font setting for Markdown PDF export and printing (for #3740)
Fixed links to files in the media/ folder with note file extensions being treated as missing notes (for #3742)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v0.9.0
- Markdown lists and checklists now continue automatically when pressing Enter
- Notes can be soft-wrapped in the editor, with cursor tracking and mouse selection across wrapped rows
- Search within notes is now available in the viewer and editor, including match navigation
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.8.0
- Configurable home-screen widgets can show an account's note list or a selected note
- An offline bookmark browser adds text search, tag filters, and a configurable bookmarks file
- Images can be selected while editing and inserted as Markdown links in the compatible media/ folder

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.8

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:16:07 +0000

Fixed release assets not being uploaded by replacing the deprecated GitHub release asset upload action (for #3744)
Fixed the inconsistent Arch Linux package repository by preventing the legacy OBS target from publishing duplicate QOwnNotes packages (for #3743)
Added a text magnifier when hovering over the Document overview panel (for #3730)
Further improved typing performance in large notes with full-sync Markdown language servers by reducing synchronization frequency and only re-highlighting lines with changed diagnostics (for #3739)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.7

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:00:32 +0000

Added an optional Document overview panel with a minimap of the current note, viewport indication, and quick mouse navigation (for #3730)
Improved typing performance in large notes when using full-sync Markdown language servers such as Rumdl (for #3739)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.5.0
- The remote trash dialog can now be searched by note name and shows deletion dates more clearly
- Adding a Nextcloud account now reports malformed or empty SSO responses as a clear protocol error instead of crashing
- Note lists and searches can now handle notes too large for Android's CursorWindow
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.6.0
- Relative attachments/ and media/ links in note previews can now be opened in installed Android apps
- Find in note now also searches the Markdown source in the editor and highlights every match
- Large Nextcloud accounts can prune stale local notes without exceeding Android SQLite bind-variable limits
- Malformed Nextcloud update responses no longer replace a local note's remote identity
A new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.7.0, adds
- Background synchronization with network constraints and retry backoff
- Conflict review, merging, and recovery for notes changed locally and remotely
- Local changes are preserved when a note is deleted remotely or becomes read-only, with an explicit recovery action when needed
- Durable synchronization diagnostics and more responsive editing for large notes
- Synchronization failures and completed updates no longer overwrite newer local edits or deletion intent
- Nextcloud Notes API files from the top-level attachments/ and media/ trees no longer appear as notes

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.6

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:11:08 +0000

Undo in the note editor now groups consecutive typing instead of undoing one character at a time (for #3729)
Fixed external links with a URL fragment not opening and bare URLs with characters like @ in paths or / and = in fragments not being recognized in the note preview (for #3737)
Notes can now optionally be saved with a final newline by enabling the existing Ensure an empty last line in the note text editor setting (for #3734)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.5

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:07:02 +0000

Fixed duplicate resource files being created during Joplin imports when a resource's file extension differs from Qt's MIME-derived canonical suffix (for #3736)
Internal note links like [QOwnNotes Android Done](QOwnNotes%20Android%20Done.md) are now styled like external links, where the note file name is grayed out while the link text keeps the internal link color (for #3735)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.4

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:22:18 +0000

Fixed a crash when editing wrapped Markdown list items with hanging indentation (for #3733)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.4.0
- Note-search filter for title-only and title-and-content search modes
- Note-list sorting by latest modification or by title in ascending or descending order
- Account management from the profile menu with shared folder and extension settings
- Swipe actions to toggle favorites and move notes to trash, configurable in Settings
- Reorganized note-list toolbar with compact search and overflow menu

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.3

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:10:52 +0000

Fixed excessive spacing between information items in tall Script repository dialogs (for #3709)
Fixed percent-encoded local Markdown links not showing the pointer cursor or opening with Ctrl + click in the note editor (for #3695)
Add HTML and tags rendering as subscript and superscript in the QLiteHtml note preview (for #3728)
The tooltips in the Headings panel now show the full heading text and the heading level (for #3731)
There were four new releases of QOwnNotes for Android, v0.3.0, v0.3.1, v0.3.2, and v0.3.3

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.2

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:44:59 +0000

Introducing QOwnNotes for Android! (https://github.com/qownnotes/qownnotes-android)
- Offline-capable Markdown notes with Room as the source of truth, synchronized through the Nextcloud Notes API with incremental pulls, ETags, and conflict-safe updates
- Import Nextcloud accounts via Single Sign-On from the Nextcloud Files Android app
- Render CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown, checkbox lists with three states, wiki links, tables, fenced code, and safe remote images
- Edit highlighted Markdown source with formatting actions, undo/redo, cursor preservation, and local draft persistence
- Browse and restore note versions and remotely trashed notes with the QOwnNotesAPI app
- Favorite notes with a star and keep them above other notes
- Create notes from text shared by other Android apps
- Light and dark themes on Android 9 and newer
Fixed notes with duplicate names in the same subfolder potentially overwriting each other's content, and prevented duplicate image and attachment copies during Joplin imports (for #3726, thank you, @MySkeletonHurts)
Added Qt6 Open Build Service configurations for Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch Linux (for #3727)
Added more French translation (thank you, jd-develop)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.1

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:05:57 +0000

Pasting or dropping a Markdown file into the note edit panel now asks whether to add it as a new note or insert it as an attachment (for #3721)
Added a Username field to the LanguageTool settings so LanguageTool Premium accounts, which authenticate with a username and API key together, can be used for grammar and style checking (for #3718, thank you @gregoreficint)
Text inside code blocks, inline code, bold, italic and link text can now be selected with the mouse in the note preview panel, instead of only being selectable by dragging over the surrounding text (for #3720)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.9.0

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:08:45 +0000

Added a new editor setting to disable highlighting and applying of Markdown text formatting across multiple lines; it is enabled by default (for #3690)
Whitespace markers in the note editor can now use a separate foreground color configured in the editor color scheme (for #3670)
Added an Insert footnote action to the Edit menu and the note editor context menu that inserts a footnote reference with the next free number at the current cursor position, adds the footnote definition at the end of the note, and jumps there to enter the footnote text (for #3714)
The Joplin importer now preserves notes' original modification dates, allowing imported notes to be sorted by their actual update time (for #3715, thank you, @MySkeletonHurts)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.11

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:04:54 +0000

Added support for numeric and named Markdown footnotes, with link styling and navigation between references and definitions in the note editor and preview (for #3714)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.10

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:29:41 +0000

Layouts can now use either the note edit or note preview panel as the central widget, allowing preview-only layouts to resize correctly (for #3712)
Added a new Layouts panel to the interface settings where layouts can be created, switched, removed, renamed, reordered, configured to use the central widget, or created from layout presets in a dedicated dialog; the former layout management dialog and separate preset settings page were merged into this page (for #3713)
Improved fenced code block syntax highlighting in the note editor and preview with more common language aliases, support for richer fence info strings, and fixes for JavaScript, SystemVerilog, SQL, Forth, C/C++ and CSS highlighting (for #3711)
Fixed deleting a note in the note tree resetting the selected note subfolder to the root folder (for #3708)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.9

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:30:25 +0000

The Script repository dialog now links to available script changelogs and shows the relevant changelog entries between the installed and target versions when updating a script (for #3709)
Updated script repository links and downloads to use the repository's main branch instead of the obsolete master branch

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.8

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:30:37 +0000

Added a new editor setting to insert an autocompletion directly if there is only one result, without showing the popup menu; it applies to word, wiki-link, equation, script and Markdown LSP completions and is disabled by default (for #3703)
Fixed the Ctrl + Space autocompletion menu not showing word, wiki-link, equation or script completions when Markdown LSP support is enabled; the LSP server is now only queried if there are no built-in completions (for #3705)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.7

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:22:30 +0000

The pointer cursor now appears over the entire inline Markdown link and Ctrl + click opens it from both its label and URL, while the URL part remains highlighted on hover (for #3695)
There was a new release of the QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud App, v26.8.0
- Added and tested support for Nextcloud 35 (for #59)
- Dropped support for unsupported Nextcloud versions older than 32
- Updated dependencies
Added more Spanish, French, Korean translation (thank you, AlejandroMoc, jd-develop, VenusGirl)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.6

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:26:35 +0000

Fixed unmatched or malformed Markdown emphasis, underline, and strikeout markers incorrectly applying formatting to following text or lines in the note editor and preview (valid formatting containing internal underscores, such as __foo_bar__, still works) (for #3702)
Fixed the Cloud connection combo box in the Note folder settings initially showing "None" instead of the selected cloud connection (for #3699)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.5

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:38:59 +0000

Fixed the detected file suffix being ignored when saving inserted media or attachments (for #3701, thank you, @VXNCXNX)
Note folders can now be set to use no cloud connection by selecting "None" in the Cloud connection combo box in the Note folder settings (for #3699)
- Cloud versioning, cloud trash and note sharing are then disabled for that note folder, as if no cloud connection was configured at all
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v0.6.0
- Added a --session option for using a separate QOwnNotes settings and database context
- Added Ctrl + Space support for opening links and toggling checkboxes at the cursor in the viewer and editor
- Viewer cursor positions and selections are now preserved when entering and leaving edit mode
- The project was relicensed under GPL-3.0-only

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.4

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:24:31 +0000

Fixed the boundary arrow navigation in the note editor being dead on macOS, where pressing the Up arrow on the first line should move the cursor to the start of the line and Down on the last line to the end of it, because Qt delivers arrow keys with Qt::KeypadModifier set on macOS and the modifier is now masked off before comparing (for #3572, thank you, @VXNCXNX)
The AppImage no longer requires libfuse2 to be installed separately because its FUSE userspace library is now included in the runtime (for #3694)
Added configurable link hover highlighting to the note editor and preview, including dedicated Link hover colors for the Light and Dark editor schemas (for #3695)
There was a new release of the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension 2026.8.1
- Bookmark links can now be copied from the bookmark list (for #121)
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v0.5.0
- Added Markdown highlighting for angle-bracketed URI autolinks
- Added clickable HTTP and HTTPS links in the viewer, including links that wrap across lines
- Added restoration of the last opened note when the application starts
There was a new release of QOwnNotes TUI, v0.4.0
- Added shell completion generation for Bash, Fish, and Zsh
- Added clickable relative, legacy note://, and wiki-style note links in the viewer
- Added back and forward note navigation with preserved viewer and editor positions
- Added keyboard and mouse text selection, clipboard actions, and a visible viewer cursor
- Added reverse pane focus cycling and navigation from the viewer back to the note list
- Added checkbox-list and Setext-style heading highlighting in the viewer and editor

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.3

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:59:36 +0000

The new QOwnNotes TUI project provides a keyboard-first terminal browser and editor for local, QOwnNotes-compatible Markdown note folders
- It can use note folders configured in QOwnNotes and follows its note sorting settings
- Notes can be created, edited, searched, syntax-highlighted, renamed from their content, and safely deleted from the terminal, with automatic saving and external-change conflict detection
- It supports configurable themes, mouse controls, Nix, and a Home Manager module
Added support for highlighting and applying strikeout and other Markdown text formatting across multiple lines (for #3690)
Improved performance when switching away from notes with wiki-style links when the Note relations panel was visible (for #3691)
Renamed the Message boxes section in the General settings to Dialog preferences and clarified which remembered dialog choices can be reset (for #3692)
There was a new release of the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension 2026.8.0
- An error dialog now explains how to resolve a failed connection to the QOwnNotes socket server (for #120)
- The dependencies were updated

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.2

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:03:45 +0000

Fixed Ctrl + Space no longer auto-formatting Markdown tables when Markdown LSP support was enabled (for #3685)
Added OpenSSL 3 to the universal macOS Qt 6 package, enabling connections to TLS 1.3-only servers while retaining TLS 1.2 and certificate verification support (for #3681)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.1

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:39:45 +0000

In read-only mode, pressing Ctrl + Space on a linked Markdown checkbox now asks to enable editing and toggles the checkbox instead of opening the link (for #3682)
Fixed an empty color mode ID warning when opening the Color modes settings (for #3526)
Improved the heading folding gutter by reducing the space between folding symbols and line numbers and ensuring the symbols remain visible with mixed dark application and light editor themes on Windows (for #3680)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.8.0

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:18:49 +0000

Fixed Joplin RAW import silently skipping some attachments (for #3672, thank you, @MySkeletonHurts)
The Nextcloud Deck dialog now preserves an already entered description and due date when pressing Enter on an unmatched search to create a new card (for #3673)
qc v0.6.3 was released
- qc configure no longer fails with command not found when the configured editor is not installed on the system (for #24)
- The editor is now resolved every time the config file is edited, falling back to the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables and then to a list of common editors
- A clear error message is shown when no editor could be found at all
- The config file path is now quoted when it is passed to the editor, so paths containing spaces work as expected
- Update dependencies
- Go 1.25 is now required to build the project

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.10

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:30:32 +0000

Improved text selection in the QLiteHtml preview by avoiding redundant selection processing and full preview repaints, preserving selections while dragging across whitespace, and automatically scrolling beyond the viewport (for #3668)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.9

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:56:39 +0000

Added syntax highlighting for GNU R fenced code blocks in the note editor and preview (for #2845)
Added the word: and w: note search operators for matching whole words without changing the existing substring and quoted-phrase search behavior (for #1756)
- See the searching documentation for more information about the new operators and how they interact with existing search syntax

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.8

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:39:11 +0000

Fixed excessive system keychain (libsecret on Linux) access while typing: the LanguageTool checker no longer re-reads and decrypts its API key on every keystroke and scroll event (only when its settings actually change), and the Markdown note preview no longer re-decrypts the Nextcloud/ownCloud password on every debounced preview refresh unless the note actually contains an unresolved Nextcloud preview image (for #3665)
Added a Search in the selection only toggle to the note text search, next to Match case sensitive, so search and search & replace can be limited to the selected text range (for #3664)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.7

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:54:37 +0000

The active entry is now marked with a checkbox in the Note folder and Color modes settings lists, which can also be used to set the active item (for #3663)
Added more Spanish, French, Korean translation (thank you, AlejandroMoc, jd-develop, VenusGirl)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.6

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:03:16 +0000

Nextcloud sync conflicted-copy notes like TODO (conflicted copy 2026-07-10 070952).md are now marked with a warning emoji in the note list so they are easier to spot (for #3662)
Added a General settings option for the keychain access timeout, defaulting to 2 seconds, so QOwnNotes falls back to SimpleCrypt legacy encryption faster if the system keychain service is unavailable (for #3661)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.5

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:41:06 +0000

Fixed generated note insertions while read-only mode is active, so QOwnNotes now asks to allow note editing before adding links, attachments, media, HTML as Markdown, data-url images, or autocomplete text (for #3659)
Added more French, Korean translation (thank you, jd-develop, VenusGirl)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.4

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:38:22 +0000

Fixed non-breaking spaces like U+00A0 and U+202F being converted to regular spaces when notes were edited and saved (for #2839)
Fixed the status bar note path staying on the old filename after a note was renamed from its header/title until switching notes (for #3658)
Fixed frontmatter entries followed by the closing --- delimiter being shown as Setext headings in the Navigation panel (for #3657)
Added a button to the Debug settings to open the active settings file in an external editor on systems where the settings are stored in an editable file (for #3656)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.3

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:38:59 +0000

New notes now use ATX headings by default for generated titles, and the General settings now include an option to use Setext headings instead (for #3655)
Fixed the Preview panel font scaling on Windows with high display scale settings, so the preview no longer grows larger than the note editor at e.g. 300% desktop scaling (for #3653)
Added emojis to the note title of the welcome notes to demonstrate emojis in the note list (for #2190)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.2

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:25:24 +0000

Added support for an optional settings override file, derived from the active settings file name like QOwnNotes.override.conf, which is loaded once on startup and keeps debug builds and named sessions separated; the debug settings output now also shows the override path, how many settings were loaded from it, and how many existing settings were overwritten (for #3654)
The security token for the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension is now generated on first application start if no token exists yet (for web-companion#111)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.1

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:41:45 +0000

Added a new checkbox "Don't use leading emojis in note filename" in the General settings (enabled by default): when a note title starts with an emoji, the emoji is stripped from the generated filename so filenames stay compatible with other tools (for #2190)
Added a new checkbox "Show leading emoji from note title as icon in the note list" in the Panels settings (enabled by default): when a note title starts with an emoji, the emoji is rendered as the icon for that note in the note list and note tree, replacing the standard document icon (for #2190)
The note text search now supports searching for note titles with spaces by using quoted name filters like n:"note title" (for #1890)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.7.0

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:11:07 +0000

Fixed leaving Vim mode insert mode with the Escape key on KDE Plasma 6.7 when the alternate-character keyboard overlay is enabled (for #3647)
Fixed quitting QOwnNotes on macOS when the menu bar item is enabled, so the application no longer minimizes back to the menu bar during quit or session shutdown and blocks shutting down the Mac (for #3651)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.11

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:08:48 +0000

Fixed the Qt 5 Ubuntu Launchpad release container by pinning it to Ubuntu 24.04, because newer Ubuntu CDBS packages no longer ship the qmake/makefile classes required by the Qt 5 source package build
Fixed the OBS release container osc workaround so it no longer corrupts existing Python import importlib statements, and made the OBS release scripts stop immediately when checkout fails

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.10

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:14:27 +0000

Added libsecret to the Linux build dependencies so qtkeychain can use the Secret Service backend instead of falling back to KWallet on non-KDE desktops (for #3650)
The Insert checkbox list item action now automatically uses the existing Create checkbox list behavior when multiple lines are selected, so selected lines are converted consistently with the dedicated list action (for #3610)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.9

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:31:20 +0000

Cleaned up remaining Qt 6 build warning noise in the application and test builds, including generated KWallet proxy and fortify warning output (for #3648)
Fixed the missing internal bookmarks.svg icon resource used by the note bookmark menu, so QOwnNotes no longer logs a startup warning for that icon (for #3649)
Improved secret storage fallback handling by keeping legacy SimpleCrypt encryption compatible with pre-qtkeychain secrets and migrating old plaintext secret settings to encrypted storage even when the desktop keychain is unavailable (for #3597)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.8

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:29:00 +0000

Added Expand all and Collapse all context menu actions to heading items in the Headings panel, remembering the in-memory expansion state per note until the application is closed (for #2784)
Added Adwaita Light and Adwaita Dark editor color schemes (for #3299)
Added optional editor settings Show whitespace markers and Show line ending markers (for #3253)
There was a new release of the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension 2026.6.1
- The extension popup no longer failed to open in Firefox after the Quasar 3 migration. The background script still used the old bexBackground() wrapper, which became a no-op in Quasar App Vite 3, so the background bridge was never created. The popup waited forever for the bridge connection and therefore never mounted its UI. The background script now uses the new createBridge() API

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.7

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:44:56 +0000

Added the Send clipboard as text action to the tray menu when web application support is enabled, and to the task manager / launcher context menu (for #3371)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.6

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:39:23 +0000

Fixed the Security token dialog for the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension to keep generated or edited tokens only when pressing OK, so closing the dialog with Cancel no longer changes the token for the current application session (for #3638)
There was a new release of the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension 2026.6.0
- The extension build tooling was updated to Quasar App Vite 3 / Rolldown
- Vue and Vue Router were updated for the new Quasar toolchain
- The extension popup was fixed for the updated Vue/Quasar build output
- The dependencies were updated
Added more Korean, French, Spanish translation (thank you, VenusGirl, jd-develop, AlejandroMoc)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.5

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:14:44 +0000

Added editor and Markdown preview syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks tagged as console or shell-session (for #3094)
Added an optional editor setting to ensure that the note text ends with an empty last line when a note is stored (for #3255)
Added more French, Korean, Spanish translation (thank you, jd-develop, VenusGirl, AlejandroMoc, AnSpanishTranslator)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.4

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:56:25 +0000

Added an optional editor setting to show character, word and line counts in the status bar (for #536)
Try to fix typing lag with Notes on a network share by avoiding repeated backlink scans while typing when the backlink inputs did not change, and by computing backlink-relative note paths without touching every note file on disk (for #3587)
Fixed a crash when closing QOwnNotes while LanguageTool was active by clearing checker state without triggering editor rehighlighting during text edit destruction (for #3496)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.3

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:04:57 +0000

Added a compact web application connection status indicator to the main window status bar when web application support is enabled; right-clicking it now shows a context menu with a Connected systems submenu (for #3632)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.2

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:10:36 +0000

Fixed custom shortcuts for actions that appear in multiple menus, such as Find text in notes, being treated as their default shortcut in the Shortcuts settings page; shortcut initialization now processes each action only once and the Shortcuts settings page only shows one row per action, so restored custom shortcuts no longer overwrite the stored default shortcut used for visual marking and reset handling (for #3619)
Fixed a possible crash when changing Icons checkboxes in the Color modes settings by avoiding unnecessary web application client restarts for unrelated settings changes, and removed obsolete restart tooltips from the icon settings because those changes now apply live (for #3619)
Fixed a crash when saving the settings dialog after enabling Enable logging to file while the web application client service was disabled, and now show the real Log file path directly below the checkbox from the start (for #3634)
Improved bash shell completion by completing proper short and long command line options, shell names for --completion, and filenames for --decrypt-note (for #3633)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.1

Sun, 31 May 2026 18:55:46 +0000

Fixed settings search highlight not being visible for checkboxes, radio buttons, group boxes, and push buttons when Windows OS dark mode is active but QOwnNotes uses a light palette; the highlighted widget text was rendered in a light foreground color by the native Windows style, making it invisible against the light-amber highlight background; an explicit foreground color is now always set alongside the background color in the highlight stylesheet (for #3631)
Renamed the built-in Light color mode to System, because ther is no real "Light mode"; existing settings storing the name Light are automatically migrated to System on startup (for #3526)
Fixed a crash on Windows 11 when opening the Settings dialog caused by a null pointer dereference on the WebSocket object inside sendRegister() and sendRequestConnectedDevices() — these methods were called during settings initialisation even when the web application feature was disabled and the socket was never created (for #3632)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.6.0

Sun, 31 May 2026 17:24:08 +0000

Added Connection name setting to the web application settings, defaulting to qownnotes--; the name is sent to the relay server on connect so other devices in the same room can identify this desktop instance (for #3632)
Added a Test connection button to the web application settings that shows whether QOwnNotes is currently connected to the web application server (for #3632)
Added a Connected devices list to the web application settings that shows all devices currently connected to the same token; a Refresh button requests an updated list from the server (for #3632)
Removed the intrusive warning dialog that appeared when more than two connections used the same token — the connected devices list now surfaces this information without interrupting the user (for #3632)
Changes to the web application settings (server URL, security token, enable toggle) now take effect immediately without restarting the application (for #3632)
Fixed CLI password prompt for --decrypt-note to mask input with asterisks instead of echoing characters, while still providing typing feedback (for #3629)
Fixed CLI arguments like --decrypt-note, --help, --dump-settings and --completion now work without a graphical environment (no DISPLAY needed) by using QCoreApplication instead of QApplication for headless CLI modes (for #3629)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.17

Fri, 29 May 2026 19:15:29 +0000

Added a command line option --decrypt-note to print the decrypted text of an encrypted note file to stdout, with --decrypt-note-password for providing the password directly instead of being prompted (for #3629)
Fixed the Ignore all external note folder changes setting still allowing note folder watcher paths and delayed external-change re-indexes to trigger repeated note folder reloads while notes were stored, especially on Windows network drives (for #3587)
Fixed resetting shortcuts in the Shortcuts settings page back to their defaults, such as restoring Move up in note list to Alt+Up, not being persisted when an explicit empty shortcut setting existed; fixed custom actions without a default shortcut being stored as explicit empty shortcut settings after saving the Shortcuts settings page; existing empty custom-action shortcut settings are now removed when the actions are loaded (for #3619)
Added more French, Spanish, Korean translation (thank you, jd-develop, AlejandroMoc, VenusGirl)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.16

Tue, 26 May 2026 20:08:56 +0000

Fixed a memory leak when switching between notes, especially noticeable with large encrypted notes, by reusing the scripting current-note API object instead of allocating a new one on every note change, releasing temporary note objects from note-store script hooks, and clearing the decrypted encrypted-note editor plus undo history when switching back to the regular editor; encrypted-note typing now also avoids writing and refetching the full decrypted note text from the in-memory database on every keystroke (for #3627)
Fixed solving equations like 1+1= with Ctrl+Space in the note text edit when the Markdown LSP completion provider was enabled or when note editing was disabled; the normal equation-solving autocomplete flow now takes precedence (for #3625)
- Fixed toggling checkbox list items with Ctrl+Space when note editing was disabled
Fixed a limitation where note text search required at least 2 characters to start searching; this also affected OR searches, where each individual term had to be at least 2 characters long to trigger the search (for #3624)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.15

Sun, 24 May 2026 20:54:09 +0000

Added a warning comment before the encrypted text markers in encrypted notes to inform users that the content between the BEGIN ENCRYPTED TEXT and END ENCRYPTED TEXT markers must not be edited manually; the warning comment is stripped when decrypting so it is never shown to the user or re-encrypted (for #3621)
Added per-script hook execution time profiling for performance diagnostics (for #3620)
- When debug logging is enabled all hook invocation times are logged unconditionally via qDebug()
- When debug logging is not active, only hook invocations that exceed a configurable threshold are logged as warnings
- The threshold (default 500 ms) can be configured in the new Script hook execution time warning threshold spinbox in the Debug options settings page
- External-process scripting functions (startDetachedProcess, startSynchronousProcess) are intentionally excluded from profiling because their runtime is dominated by the child process, not the scripting engine
- Log messages have the form: [script profiler] :: took ms

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.14

Wed, 20 May 2026 19:24:41 +0000

Fixed changed shortcuts not being saved from the Shortcuts settings page after the recent lazy-loading performance change; shortcut storage now reads the built shortcut tree directly again instead of relying on cached widget maps, settings are now stored from dialog acceptance so the OK button cannot bypass shortcut persistence, and edited shortcut values are captured directly from the shortcut widgets and stored in portable format (for #3619)
Allow Ctrl+Space in read-only mode to ask whether note editing should be enabled again when there is no URL to open at the current cursor position

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.13

Mon, 18 May 2026 19:09:47 +0000

Improved autosaving encrypted notes by running the expensive Botan encryption step in a worker thread, keeping typing responsive while encrypted notes are saved and avoiding overwriting newer edits made during encryption (for #3617)
Fixed unchanged encrypted notes being marked dirty and rewritten on every Ctrl+S while editing encrypted notes, which changed their file modification date and repeatedly showed Stored 1 note(s) to disk; encrypted note files are now also protected from being truncated to 0 bytes before save validation runs (for #3616)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.12

Fri, 15 May 2026 19:32:13 +0000

Added a native Diff selected notes note-list context menu action using a new External tools option in General settings for the external diff tool path, so the external diff tool can be configured and used directly in the application (for #3615)
Fixed internal note links such as [the note](the-note.md) and being highlighted as note links inside inline code spans and code blocks (for #3614)
When a note is renamed and backlinks are updated, Markdown link titles that still match the old note title are now renamed too, for example [the note](the-note.md) becomes [the new note](the-new-note.md), while other link titles are preserved (for #705)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.11

Wed, 13 May 2026 19:59:23 +0000

Fixed a startup SQL warning when creating a new note folder by migrating tag dark colors without using the final tag schema before all database migration steps have run (for #3612)
Fixed creating tags after importing old settings and selecting a new note folder by repairing incomplete note-folder database schemas and by no longer marking note-folder database migrations as complete when a schema step fails; first-run fetch queries now also return cleanly while database tables are still being initialized instead of logging misleading No query warnings (for #3612)
Fixed a crash when starting QOwnNotes with --clear-settings by delaying disk database cleanup until after the application object exists, avoiding early Qt SQL access before QCoreApplication is initialized (for #3612)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.10

Tue, 12 May 2026 19:48:13 +0000

Added a fetchUrlTitleHook(url) scripting hook for the link dialog, allowing scripts to provide a webpage title before QOwnNotes tries to fetch it itself; the new hook is documented on the Scripting hooks documentation page with a kanboard-cli example script with configurable Kanban URL prefixes (for #3611)
Added an Insert checkbox list item action to the Edit / Insert menu, inserting - [ ] at the beginning of the current text block after any existing indentation, converting existing - list items to checkbox list items, toggling checkbox list items back to normal list items when triggered again, and preserving the cursor position, with Alt+L as the default shortcut (for #3610)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.9

Mon, 11 May 2026 18:36:08 +0000

Fixed Ctrl+Space no longer opening URLs at the current cursor position in the note editor when Markdown completions were available, and kept URL opening available in read-only note mode because it does not edit the note (for #3609)
Fixed saving modified notes by synchronizing the visible note editor text before autosave or Ctrl+S writes dirty notes to disk, preventing saves from being skipped if the editor modification state gets out of sync (for #3513)
You can now update all script repository scripts automatically (for #3608)
- Added an Update all button to the Script updates dialog to install all available updates for scripts from the script repository at once
- Added a new setting in the Script updates dialog to automatically install available updates for scripts from the script repository during the startup update check
- Added a Debug options checkbox to fake old installed script versions, making it easier to test the script update dialog

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.8

Sat, 09 May 2026 14:19:26 +0000

Fixed the script repository dialog not opening when triggered from the script settings page via the Add script button drop-down menu; the action was connected using old-style SIGNAL/SLOT macros to a method not declared as a slot, causing the connection to silently fail (for #3607)
Improved settings dialog open and close performance (for #3606)
- The shortcut settings tree is now built lazily — it is only constructed when the user actually navigates to the Shortcuts page, instead of on every dialog open. This is the largest single win and makes the dialog open nearly instantly in the common case where shortcuts are not being edited.
- storeShortcutSettings() now uses pre-built QHash lookup maps populated during loadShortcutSettings(), replacing the previous O(n²) recursive tree traversal with O(1) per-action widget lookups.
- The QML scripting engine is no longer restarted unconditionally on every OK press; it is now only reloaded when the enabled state of at least one script actually changed.

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.7

Fri, 08 May 2026 18:14:12 +0000

Note text edit List operations now work on the current line when no text is selected, so they can be used directly from the cursor position (for #3603)
Fixed the Todo settings cloud connection selector initialization and made calendar backend changes debounce calendar-list reloads while ignoring stale replies, preventing slow repeated backend switches and related crashes (for #3605)
Fixed a possible crash when script initialization triggered synchronous URL downloads while settings/calendar actions requested another scripting engine reload; nested reloads are now coalesced until the current reload finishes (for #3605)
Fetched webpage titles in the link dialog now preserve literal < and > characters, so titles such as GitHub version bump pull requests are no longer altered when used as link names (for #3604)
Added more French, Spanish, Croatian, Korean translation (thank you, jd-develop, AlejandroMoc, milotype, VenusGirl)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.6

Thu, 07 May 2026 18:44:46 +0000

Note folder Subfolder visibility selections now keep parent folders selected with a partial check state when some or all subfolders are unchecked individually, while checking a parent still selects its subfolders (for #3602)
Fixed a possible crash when opening the settings dialog by synchronizing access to the shared settings cache while background tasks may read or write settings (for #3597)
Fixed dead-key accent composition in the note editor on Linux systems where Qt delivered dead-key events without composed text, allowing Spanish accented words such as había to be entered correctly (for #3085)
Fixed duplicate light/dark mode prompts on application startup when the Linux portal color scheme check and Qt color scheme fallback both detected the same mismatch, and avoided applying the changed theme before main window startup finished (for #3578)
Fixed printing and exporting the note text to PDF while using a dark editor color schema by rendering the exported text with the built-in Light editor schema instead (for #1524)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.5

Wed, 06 May 2026 18:47:17 +0000

Security tokens generated by generateRandomString() now use the operating system random source via QRandomGenerator::system() on Qt 5.10+ and no longer fall back to qrand() on older Qt versions (for #3601)
Refactored internal ownCloud-specific class names, file names, and function names for cloud integration to generic cloud naming, since the integration is used with Nextcloud as well as ownCloud (for #3600)
Improved cloud connection creation and deletion safeguards by asking for confirmation before deleting a cloud connection and by starting new cloud connections with empty settings instead of copying the previous connection (for #3599)
Keychain secrets are now deleted together with their references when removing scripts, cloud connections, settings groups, or all settings, preventing stale qtkeychain entries from being left behind (for #3597)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.4

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:20:49 +0000

Fixed a startup crash when the Markdown LSP server initialized while qtkeychain secret migration was running a nested event loop during main window setup; Markdown LSP startup is now delayed until the status bar exists, fixing the regression from the keychain changes (for #3597)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.3

Tue, 05 May 2026 18:40:44 +0000

New note encryption now writes a portable versioned encryption envelope with per-note salt and nonce metadata, derives keys with Botan PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1, and encrypts with AES-256-CBC plus HMAC authentication while keeping legacy encrypted notes decryptable (for #3598)
Secrets such as cloud connection passwords, proxy passwords, API keys, and scripting secret settings are now stored in the operating system keychain via qtkeychain instead of being obfuscated with SimpleCrypt in the settings file; existing SimpleCrypt-backed secrets are migrated to the keychain automatically when possible (for #3597)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.2

Mon, 04 May 2026 17:32:59 +0000

Pressing Ctrl+R in the note text edit now automatically turns off read-only mode before opening the replace panel (for #3596)
Fixed dark mode detection on GNOME/Wayland where Qt's colorScheme() incorrectly reported light mode even when the system was in dark mode, by preferring the D-Bus freedesktop portal query on Linux over Qt's built-in detection (for #3594)
Local scripts in the Scripting settings now read sibling info.json metadata when the selected QML file matches the script entry, showing the parsed version, authors, and description in the UI (for #3595)
Added a new Edit table context menu item to the note text editor that opens a visual table editor dialog when right-clicking inside a Markdown table (for #3593)
- The dialog shows the table data in an editable grid
- Clicking a column header selects that column and updates the alignment combobox to reflect its current alignment, making it easy to see and change alignment
- Supports adding and removing rows (via dedicated Row buttons) and columns (via dedicated Column buttons)
- Allows changing the alignment of the selected column(s) (default/left, left, center, right) via the alignment combobox and Apply alignment button
- Automatically formats the table when changes are applied

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.1

Fri, 01 May 2026 18:13:55 +0000

Added a Reload button to the Note Bookmarks dialog to re-check bookmarks from disk without having to close and reopen the dialog (for #3589)
The Store note bookmark sub-menu in Note / Navigation is now grayed out when the note editing panel does not have focus, making it clear that storing a bookmark requires the editor to be active (for #3589)
Fixed several security issues (for #3591)
- Fixed a plaintext password leak where a qDebug() call in restoreTrashedNoteOnServer() logged a QUrl containing the embedded server password
- Changed the default value of the Ignore SSL errors network setting from true to false to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on fresh installs
- The MCP server CORS header was narrowed from the wildcard * to http://localhost to reduce the DNS-rebinding / localhost attack surface
- The Linux dark-mode D-Bus check now invokes dbus-send directly instead of via /bin/sh -c, eliminating unnecessary shell interpretation
- URLs typed without a scheme now default to https:// instead of http://
- A table-name whitelist was added to generateDatabaseTableSha1Signature() to guard against SQL injection via concatenated table names
- The FakeVim shell-filter (!) on Qt < 5.15 no longer passes the full command string to QProcess::start() (which invoked the shell); the executable is now split out and run directly in all Qt versions
- The macOS updater temporary script file now has owner-only permissions (0700) set before its content is written, hardening against TOCTOU replacement by other local users
Fixed IME candidate window overlapping text when typing with a Japanese (or other CJK) IME on Windows by overriding inputMethodQuery() in QOwnNotesMarkdownTextEdit to offset the reported cursor rectangle by the current viewport margins (for #3590)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.5.0

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:22:03 +0000

Added Note Bookmarks sub-menus to the Note / Navigation menu (for #3589)
- New Store note bookmark sub-menu with slots 1–9 (Ctrl+Shift+1–Ctrl+Shift+9)
- New Go to note bookmark sub-menu with slots 1–9 (Ctrl+1–Ctrl+9)
- All bookmark shortcuts are now proper QActions in the menu and can be customised in the Shortcut settings, superseding the old hardcoded QShortcut-based approach
Added a new Note bookmarks entry in the Note / Navigation menu that opens a non-modal Note Bookmarks dialog listing all currently stored bookmarks with the ability to jump to a bookmark or delete it (for #3589)
Fixed a bug where searching for a multi-word text like "Heading 1" in the Note search panel would not correctly use all terms in the in-note regexp search, because the search mode was set after the search text causing performSearch() to fire with the old mode; the search mode is now set before the search text in doSearch() (for #3588)
Fixed a bug where the in-note search widget's text was overwritten by the currently selected match word when the search was activated programmatically from the note search panel, causing only one term (e.g. "Heading" instead of "(Heading|1)") to be searched; the preset-from-selection logic in activate() now only applies when the user manually opens the search widget (for #3588)
Added the ability to delete one or multiple cards in the Nextcloud Deck dialog using the Del key or via a new Delete X card(s) context menu item; a confirmation dialog is shown in all cases (for #3357)
A PPA for Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) was added
- See Install on Ubuntu for more information on how to install the PPA

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.4.25

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:37:29 +0000

Updated Toggle checkbox(es) in the note text edit context menu so it now only toggles existing checkbox list items and no longer turns plain selected lines or regular list items into checkbox list items (for #3524)
Major performance improvement for the Markdown LSP integration on large notes (for #3467)
- Added a new MarkdownLspDocumentTracker class that uses Qt's QTextDocument::contentsChange signal to track edits incrementally instead of calling toPlainText() on every keystroke; the per-keystroke cost drops from O(n) (full-document copy) to O(log n + delta)
- The client now reads the server's textDocumentSync capability from the initialize response and sends incremental didChange payloads (TextDocumentSyncKind=2) when the server supports it (e.g. marksman), falling back to full-text sync for servers like rumdl
- Optimized the LSP diagnostic wave-underline painter in the highlighter to batch contiguous characters with the same base format into single setFormat() calls, reducing format-range fragmentation from O(characters) to O(format-runs)
- When the Markdown LSP feature is disabled, zero additional work is performed on the text-change hot path — no toPlainText(), no timer restarts, no signal connections fire
Added a global Ignore rule action to the inline Markdown LSP diagnostic context menu and a Reset ignored rules button on the Markdown LSP settings page, so Markdown LSP rules can be suppressed across all notes and later restored from one place (for #3467)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.4.24

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:08:44 +0000

Fixed a URI percent-encoding mismatch that prevented Markdown LSP diagnostics from being applied when a note filename contains spaces; the incoming LSP URI (e.g. Top%20heading.md) is now decoded with QUrl::fromPercentEncoding before being compared to the stored document URI so wave-underlines appear correctly for notes with spaces in their name (for #3467)
Added an inline Markdown LSP diagnostic context menu section that appears when right-clicking on a wave-underlined region in the note editor; it shows the diagnostic message as a header and fetches available LSP code actions (fixes) via a short synchronous wait, then lists each fix as a clickable menu item — matching the same UX pattern used by the LanguageTool and Harper context menus; the old standalone Code actions menu item in the Markdown LSP submenu has been removed in favour of this inline approach (for #3467)
Fixed a protocol bug where the Markdown LSP client did not respond to server-initiated requests (e.g. client/registerCapability), causing the LSP server to stall after the initial didOpen; subsequent didChange notifications were silently ignored by the server so diagnostics never refreshed after the first note load (for #3467)
Fixed stale Markdown LSP wave underlines remaining visible after applying a quick-fix or manually editing the text to resolve a diagnostic; when fresh diagnostics arrive from the server, blocks that previously had diagnostics are now also rehighlighted so their old underlines are cleared (for #3467)
Moved the Markdown LSP configuration out of the Editor settings into its own Markdown LSP settings page to make the language-server options easier to find and manage (for #3467)
Added Auto-detect and Test Connection actions to the Markdown LSP settings page so QOwnNotes can discover supported servers such as marksman and rumdl, prefill the correct command-line arguments, and verify that the configured LSP server completes its initialization handshake (for #3467)
Fixed switching the configured Markdown LSP service in the settings so the editor now restarts the running LSP client and reconnects the current note immediately instead of continuing to talk to the previously selected server until the application is restarted (for #3467)
Fixed the AI toolbar disabled confirmation so choosing Don't ask again! together with No now actually suppresses the dialog on later runs instead of prompting again every time an AI backend is configured while the toolbar stays hidden (for #3561)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.4.23

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:25:33 +0000

Fixed shortcuts not being saved or restored in the Shortcuts settings; storeShortcutSettings now iterates the actual menu actions (mirroring how initShortcuts reads them) and looks up the corresponding widgets in the tree by action name, and shortcut values are stored as strings to match the format expected by initShortcuts (for #3584)
Fixed a crash when assigning a shortcut in the Shortcuts settings; keySequenceEvent and findKeySequenceWidget now use recursive tree traversal to handle the multi-level menu hierarchy correctly (for #3584)
Fixed a possible crash that occurred when Qt's internal style machinery was still processing a system color scheme change event while applyDarkModeSettings() was called synchronously, causing a SIGSEGV in QtWidgets; the UI update is now deferred via QTimer::singleShot so it runs after the current event is fully processed (for #3578)
Added a Show all LSP server log output in debug log checkbox to the Markdown language server section in the Editor settings; when enabled, every line written to the LSP server's stderr is forwarded to the Qt debug log so the full server output is visible (e.g. via QT_LOGGING_RULES="*.debug=true"); the checkbox is disabled when the LSP is not enabled (for #3467)
- All Markdown LSP server stderr output is then forwarded to the debug log (via qDebug) so the full server log is visible when running QOwnNotes with debug output enabled; previously only lines containing ERR/ERROR were forwarded
- Added debug logging when textDocument/publishDiagnostics notifications are received from the Markdown LSP server and when they are applied to the note text edit, to help diagnose why error markers may not appear; note that marksman (the default LSP server) does not publish diagnostics — it focuses on cross-reference and wiki-link completion only; to get real-time wave-underline error markers in the note editor, configure a linting LSP such as rumdl (command: rumdl, argument: server) which provides 71 Markdown lint rules and publishes textDocument/publishDiagnostics

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.4.22

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:34:54 +0000

The Shortcuts settings action name tree now shows the full menu hierarchy, with submenus rendered as nested tree nodes so all levels of the menu structure are visible (for #3583)
Added a new Note text edit submenu to the Edit main menu that exposes all note text edit context menu actions (link, block quote, list operations, Markdown operations, search text on web, find note, copy code block) so they can be reached from the menu bar and have shortcuts assigned in the Shortcuts settings; the submenu is only enabled when the note edit panel is visible (for #3582)
Added more French, Spanish, Korean translation (thank you, jd-develop, AlejandroMoc, VenusGirl)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.4.21

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:49:57 +0000

Added a new Markdown operations submenu to the note text edit context menu with actions to increase or decrease the heading depth of selected ATX and setext Markdown headings (for #672)
The note link dialog note list now also shows the Modified column even when note sub-folder support is disabled (for #1679)
Fixed auto-detected links inside italic or bold Markdown text so trailing brackets and emphasis markers are no longer treated as part of the URL target or link highlight (for #3580)
Fixed the Harper settings status row so the Status: label is aligned with the status text again and the result text no longer repeats the Status: prefix in the Settings dialog (for #3576)
Updated the Harper linter list in the Settings dialog to remove the upstream-deleted Matcher and Wrong Quotes rules and add Quote Spacing, No French Spaces, and Wrong Apostrophe instead (for #3576)

New release of QOwnNotes: v26.4.20

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:05:58 +0000

Added the linked note's tags to the note link dialog list, so notes can be distinguished more easily before inserting a link (for #1679)
Added cross-platform system color scheme detection for Qt 6.5+ builds at startup and while the app is running, so QOwnNotes can now also ask on macOS and other supported platforms whether it should switch dark mode when the system appearance changes; the live prompt mentions that updating the UI takes a short while (for #3578)
Added support for Harper as an offline, privacy-first grammar checker, available as an alternative to LanguageTool (for #3576)
Added persistence for custom column order and widths in multi-column list and tree headers such as the note link, Todo, Nextcloud Deck, locally trashed notes and shortcuts dialogs, so manual header rearrangements survive reopening the views (for #3579)
Fixed note editor cursor navigation so pressing Up at the first character of the second line now correctly moves the cursor to the first line again (for #3572)