Release v3.4.2

Urgent Update for Windows | Maintenance Release | Bug Fixes

After two months, we are happy to present a new update that fixes a few things. Most importantly, this update updates all the various dependencies that you usually don't see to their newest versions in preparation for the upcoming code signing certificate switch. Therefore, the most important part of this changelog that you need to read is the section "An Important Note for Windows Users" below. We will be releasing a second update next week in accordance to this. Please read our blog post for more information!

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Changelog

An Important Note for Windows Users

If you use Zettlr on Windows, we urgently recommend you to install this update. We will release a second update approximately one week after this update, which you may not be able to install on Windows right away due to Zettlr switching code signing certificates. Therefore, please absolutely make sure you install this update on your Windows computers.

For more context, please read our blog post that outlines our roadmap for the code signing certificate change, as well as our Community Forum post. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them on the Community Forum, on Discord, or as a comment on our BlueSky or Mastodon accounts.

GUI and Functionality

• Breaking Change: To better support the now recommended Wikilink syntax
  with titles ([[filename|Some title]]), links that use the old and not
  recommended syntax of adding titles from the time when Zettlr did not support
  titles ([Do not use this syntax]([[filename]])) can no longer be
  automatically replaced when renaming files (#5606).
• Zettelkasten links with titles will now get properly replaced when renaming
  files (#5606).
• Fixed an issue that prevented the FSAL cache clearing from proceeding
  appropriately.
• Fix an issue that could lead to accidental overwriting of existing files in
  some cases (#4940; also previously #5460 in Zettlr 3.3.0).
• Fixed malformed rendering of plain links into HTML links (#5587).
• Fixed a bad interaction between the default keymap and inserting an Å
  character on macOS keyboards.
• Fixed a bad interaction between the default keymap and inserting backticks on
  macOS keyboard layouts without deadkeys (#5517).
• Fixed file exports not working after renaming file (#5574).
• Links won't be pre-rendered if their title is empty, as this would hide the
  entire link syntax.

Under the Hood

• Bump Pandoc to v3.6.3.
• Bump chokidar to v4.0.3.
• Bump Electron to v34.2.0.
• Fixed the boot order of providers to ensure certain actions are taken before
  providers access each others (primary case: the FSAL needs to be booted asap).
• Promisify the cache clearing procedure.
• Switched Apple Code Signing Certificate from expiring to new one.
• Improve the linting experience by also including a TypeScript lint on top of
  vue-tsc; in addition to stylistic and code-issues that are handled by ESLint
  this will capture serious TypeScript issues as what happened during the patch
  from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0 (see for context #5526); the new linting experience will
  run by default, the old linter has been renamed from lint to lint:code,
  and the new linter can be called individually using lint:types.
• Rename value to target in Markdown AST ZettelkastenLink nodes to make it
  more explicit that this field contains the value and never the title.
• Add new property targetRange to Markdown AST ZettelkastenLink nodes to
  allow for easy manipulation of link targets.

Full Changelog: v3.4.1...v3.4.2