Beacon 1.5.0

What’s new

• Added full Obsidian Mobile support with safe-area handling, touch-sized controls, software-keyboard-aware sizing, and mobile-friendly rendering batches.
• Deeply optimized search and indexing with shared in-flight reads, cached query preparation, immediate stale-search cancellation, adaptive work budgets, and more efficient result deduplication.
• Improved large-outline performance and reduced heading navigator DOM work while keeping the same design and behavior.
• Selecting a search result now highlights every matching word or phrase on the destination line, including repeated and regex matches; overlapping ranges are merged cleanly.
• Hardened live indexing against file edits, renames, deleted files, stale reads, and failed superseded reads.
• Preserved all existing search modes, query syntax, Markdown rendering, sorting, highlighting, theme integration, and heading navigation.

Validation

• 46 automated tests pass.
• ESLint, TypeScript checks, production bundling, release metadata validation, and CSS parsing pass.

Manual installation

Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css and place them in:

<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/vault-searchlight/

Reload Obsidian and enable Beacon under Community plugins.

Beacon 1.4.1

Maintenance release to trigger a fresh Obsidian Community Directory release scan after the 1.4.0 automated review could not be completed.

No functional changes from Beacon 1.4.0.

Validation:

• 30 automated tests passed
• Lint passed
• Production build passed
• Smoke-tested in the Tester vault only

Beacon 1.4.0

Vault Searchlight is now Beacon. The plugin ID remains vault-searchlight, so existing installations continue updating normally.

Highlights

• New compact, middle-right in-file heading navigator with rendered Markdown headings, H1–H6 hierarchy, hover-aware current-heading context, search highlighting, and keyboard navigation
• Jumping from the heading navigator now selects and highlights the full destination heading until the next editor action
• Vault-relative file and glob exclusions across every search mode
• Optional Excalidraw Data exclusion for heading navigation
• Refined Apple-like floating search and heading interfaces with theme-aware colors, compact spacing, hidden scrollbars, and stronger hierarchy indentation
• Preserved current-file, all-files, properties, and tags search modes, exact phrases, operators, optional fuzzy matching, persistent sorting, and click-to-jump highlights
• Improved excluded-file accessibility feedback

Validation

• Tested only in Obsidian 1.13.7 using the Tester vault
• 30 automated tests passed
• Obsidian lint and production build passed

Vault Searchlight 1.3.2

Polishes Vault Searchlight’s theme-native shell and removes broad CSS selectors while preserving the approved compact design.

• Removes broad :has() selectors
• Avoids CSS !important overrides
• Keeps the toolbar, hidden close control, and result panel visually unchanged
• Tested in Obsidian 1.13.7 using the Tester vault
• 21 automated tests, Obsidian lint, and production build pass

Vault Searchlight 1.3.1

Initial public release of Vault Searchlight.

Highlights:

• Current-file, all-files, properties, and tags search modes
• Rendered Markdown results with highlighted matches and heading context
• Exact phrases, exclusions, OR, regex, field operators, and optional fuzzy matching
• Persistent icon-based sorting and theme-aware design
• Fast incremental local index with no telemetry