TexLite 0.18.0

• Configurable snapshots: Record text files by default. Project writers can include or exclude individual files through a searchable grid. Restoring new snapshots preserves unmanaged files; existing snapshots remain recoverable.
• Local avatars: Choose a DiceBear style, generated and stored on your own server. Avatars appear consistently in comments, collaboration sessions and edit history.
• Improved PDF preview: Adopt PDF.js’s native viewer for rendering and page caching. Bundle CMaps for Chinese font support, improve loading-error feedback, and enable source-to-PDF navigation from included TeX files.
• More reliable discussions: Synchronize comments, replies, resolution states and unread notifications across sessions. Follow manuscript reading order across included files and show resolved discussions in batches of 50.
• Broader file editing: Edit more text formats, including JSON, YAML and shell scripts, with syntax highlighting. Download individual files directly from the file tree.
• Performance improvements: Precompress static assets with gzip and Brotli, load Vim and auxiliary languages on demand, move BibTeX formatting into a worker, and streamline ZIP imports and file-tree refreshes.
• UI refinements: Improve comment hierarchy, relative timestamps, history controls, PDF tabs, file icons and deletion feedback. Correct English singular/plural wording and tooltip preferences.
• Maintenance: Upgrade core frontend dependencies, reduce npm runtime dependencies, improve collaboration connection handling, and remove unused code.

Database changes are applied automatically on startup.

TexLite 0.17.0

New

• Light, dark, and system themes for the application and editor. Preferences stay in your browser and synchronize across tabs.
• Unified user menu with account information, language, theme, sign-out, and a GitHub icon opening the existing token settings.
• Update reminders for administrators, with npm/Docker upgrade instructions. Dismiss a reminder until another version becomes available.
• CPU and memory overview in System status, supporting Linux, macOS, Windows, and container limits. Includes visible TeX tools and Harper CLI; sampling stops when the dialog is closed.
• On-demand software version checks in compiler settings for TeX Live, LaTeX engines, latexmk, and related tools.

Removed

• Project-wide search and replace; editor-local search and replace remain available.
• Duplicate file-panel collapse button; use the topbar Files button instead.

TexLite 0.16.0

Improvements

• User management: Search by username or display name, with 20 users per page. Simplified permission controls, added confirmation for permission changes, and improved password resets.
• Citation tags: Create, rename, recolor, and delete tags. Large tag collections collapse to two rows with an expand control.
• Comments: Click a source comment pin again to close its discussion. Updated the “View all comments” icon.
• LaTeX completion: Unified frontend and backend symbol extraction, with improved live suggestions for custom math operators, theorem environments, and document classes.
• Branding: Introduced a consistent rounded TE logo across the application, website, favicon, and READMEs.

Fixes and maintenance

• Fixed reference suggestions containing macro parameter placeholders.
• Improved BibTeX parsing of nested braces in quoted values, text between entries, and incomplete-file diagnostics.
• Removed unused code, styles, and translations, and expanded regression coverage.

TexLite 0.15.0

A release focused on smoother comment discussions.

• Open a single discussion from its source marker, or browse all comments from the toolbar.

• Preserve source anchors through edits and undo. (Fix #8)

• Keep comment and reply drafts within the current workspace, with inline errors and duplicate-submission protection.

• Collapse long discussions while keeping active replies and mention targets visible.

• Record and display who resolved a comment and when.

• Improve reply highlighting, long-source layouts, and recovery from failed comment loads.

Existing databases are migrated automatically.

TexLite 0.14.0

• Migrated LaTeX syntax support to a Lezer-based parser, improving highlighting, folding, indentation, and completion.

• Refined editor colors for clearer commands, mathematics, references, and comments.

• Fixed common parsing boundaries, including multiline arguments and starred commands.

• Improved BibTeX completion, comment handling, macro insertion, and closing-bracket indentation.

• Reduced reference-scanning overhead during typing and simplified file-path suggestions.

TexLite 0.13.0

This release makes source comments easier to navigate and review, with bidirectional source navigation, participant filtering, and a clearer discussion toolbar.

Comment review

• Sort comments by source position (the default, top to bottom) or creation time (newest first). Sorting applies to top-level comments; replies retain their chronological order.
• Filter by participants with a multi-select participant picker. Threads include matching reply authors by default, with an optional Top-level comments only restriction. Selected participants' display names and usernames are highlighted without coloring the entire discussion.
• Combine status and unread mentions: Open/Resolved remain status filters, while unread @ mentions are a separate toggle that can be combined with either status.
• Navigate from source to comments: click unresolved annotated source or its trailing marker to open and locate the corresponding discussion. Explicit navigation temporarily reveals threads hidden by review filters, without marking mentions as read.
• Source navigation preserves normal caret placement and editing. Drag selection and Ctrl/Cmd-click reference navigation remain unaffected; resolved and orphaned comments leave no source markers.

Interface improvements

• A compact review toolbar separates discussion status and navigation from participant, unread-mention, and sorting controls.
• Participant selection uses an anchored popover that does not push discussions down; selections apply immediately, with a separate clear action.
• Author-only Edit/Delete actions now live in a ⋯ menu for each comment and reply. Deletion still requires confirmation.
• Quoted source uses a monospaced, truncated excerpt with a light background; replies use a subtle gray indentation line.

TexLite 0.12.0

TexLite v0.12.0

This release improves GitHub backup, makes selection history easier to access, simplifies project snapshots, and refines editor settings.

GitHub backup

• GitHub personal access tokens are now managed per user rather than per project. Click your account name on the project dashboard to configure your token once.
• Repository creation and pushes use the current project owner's credentials. Repository bindings remain project-specific.
• Commit and push operations keep the Git dialog open and display success or failure feedback without reloading the workspace.
• Commit is disabled when there are no local changes; push is disabled when there are no unpushed commits.
• Removed the manual refresh control and improved token authentication and permission error messages.
• Commit-history diff buttons now toggle the comparison open and closed. Their tooltips remain available regardless of the workspace tooltip setting.

History and snapshots

• Selection history is now available directly from the line-number gutter when source text is selected, alongside the comment action. The top toolbar retains a single project snapshots button.
• The selected file, range, and source are captured before opening selection history, keeping the comparison stable during collaborative edits.
• New snapshots are saved only when files are added, changed, or deleted. Settings-only changes no longer create empty timeline entries.
• Existing empty snapshots are hidden from the timeline without being automatically deleted.
• PDF, image, and other non-text attachment changes appear as compact notices instead of text diffs. Attachments remain available for recovery.
• Fixed deletion-only snapshots incorrectly appearing to have no changed files. Invalid or oversized text comparisons are reported as unavailable rather than unchanged.

Editor settings and localization

• Added a compact Harper CLI availability indicator beside the project dictionary, with a recheck action when unavailable or when the status request fails.
• Moved writing-issue counts and navigation controls below the spelling and grammar checking option.
• Simplified helper text for tooltips, math previews, editor tabs, and formatting in English and Chinese.
• File and folder move controls always show a concise “Move or rename” tooltip, even when interface tooltips are disabled.
• Fixed the HTML lang attribute remaining Chinese when the interface was English. It now follows both initial language detection and subsequent switches. Fixes #6.

TexLite 0.11.0

New

• Optional ChkTeX diagnostics: Enable project-wide LaTeX writing checks in compiler settings. TexLite runs checks after a short editing pause, limits concurrent jobs, and displays parsed diagnostics in the editor.

Improvements

• More reliable PDF preview: Keep the previous PDF visible while a new one loads, retry failed PDF loads, and show the PDF’s size and last-updated time.
• Better PDF-to-source navigation: SyncTeX can open a source file that is not already active, reveal it in the file tree, and switch layouts when needed.
• Clearer project uploads: ZIP uploads show real transfer progress, then indicate that archive validation and extraction are in progress.
• Cleaner workspace transitions: Changing the main document immediately clears results from the previous document; reopening a project still restores its retained compile result.
• UI refinements: Reduce dashboard control sizes and make the dictionary input placeholder less prominent.
• Website redesign: Refresh the landing page with a more editorial visual style and reorganize its feature comparison.

Reliability

• Improve recovery from PDF document and page loading failures.
• Prevent duplicate compile notifications from disrupting SyncTeX state.
• Make compiler-setting saves safer against conflicts and duplicate submissions.
• Prevent Ctrl/Cmd+S inside dialogs from accidentally triggering a compile.

TexLite 0.10.0

Highlights

• Improved collaboration presence

  • User and permission tooltips remain visible even when interface tooltips are disabled.
  • Collaborator details include username, active file, activity state, and access permission.

• Improved workspace navigation

  • Browser tab titles now show TexLite | when a project is open.
  • BibTeX files use a dedicated library icon in the file tree.

• Public access documentation

  • Added TexLite Share setup instructions for securely sharing a local TexLite instance.

TexLite 0.9.4

Highlights

• Added semantic file icons in the project file tree for TeX, PDF, images, text, source code.
• Added dedicated PDF and TeX SVG assets, including a clearer PDF icon in the preview header and consistent download-action styling.
• Improved BibTeX highlighting so embedded TeX commands such as \url, \href, and \texttt are highlighted as complete commands.
• Added distinct highlighting for protected nested BibTeX groups such as {{ISO/IEC}}.

Workspace improvements

• The outline remains bound to the configured main document when switching between source files.
• File selection, folder selection, and drag-and-drop moves now keep their visual state consistent without unnecessarily resetting collaboration.
• Local development data and configuration remain isolated from a deployed TexLite instance.