v6.1.0 release

✨ New features

• #176: New block field type that allows you to define a group of fields that can be used to create a list of data

🎨 Enhancements

• Updated the activity bar icon for better visibility
• Storing the panel collapse section states
• #241: Added taxonomy limit field property which allows you to limit the number of selections
• #242: Keep comments at the root of the front matter
• #248: Added support for front matter highlighting to all file types specified in frontMatter.content.supportedFileTypes
• #255: Added support for default values on block fields / data creation
• #257: Allow preview images to be used in multi-dimensional fields
• #271: Added image size placeholders for media snippets

⚡️ Optimizations

• Show the data item its details when clicking on the record
• Refactoring of the explorer view panel listeners
• Added {{now}} placeholder to the publishing date for content creation
• #243: Refactoring front matter parsing

🐞 Fixes

• #247: Fix the front matter highlighting in markdown documents
• #261: Fix to allow that tag and category fields can be renamed
• #264: Fix for Windows paths on content folder registration
• #268: Fix for the panel that only shows a loading indicator

v6.0.0 release

✨ New features

• #193: Support added for editing data files.
• #197: Support for multi-dimensional content type fields on content creation and editing.
• #225: Placeholder support for front matter field values (template and content type).
• #226: Ability to specify the local server start command and trigger it from the UI.
• #227: Specify the file types to support with the new frontMatter.content.supportedFileTypes setting.
• #228: Show bulk button actions in panel and dashboard view.
• #231: Once you authenticate via GitHub as a supporter, the support links will be hidden from the UI.

🎨 Enhancements

• Added default field value for content type fields
• HMR support for panel webview development
• Added reveal media file action
• #187: Svelte support with the #227 features has been added.
• #198: Additional media sort options (alt, caption, and size).
• #230: JSON front matter support added.
• #233: Partial update when a page is updated.

🐞 Fixes

• #234: Fix for multi-word keywords
• #235: Fix for reselecting the previously removed value from a choice field

v5.10.0 release

🎨 Enhancements

• #218: Add support for creating mdx files from templates and content types. This introduced a new setting: frontMatter.content.defaultFileType.
• #220: Add support DateTime updates in mdx files when the mdx extension is not installed.

🐞 Fixes

• #221: Automatic DateTime switch from on text change to on save to prevent multiple updates.

v5.9.0 release

🎆 Happy new year! Best wishes for 2022! 🎇

🎨 Enhancements

• Fixing the spinner which overlaps the global navigation bar
• Quick actions added for media files (edit, delete, insert markdown, insert snippet)
• #199: Search media files in the currently selected folder
• #211: Replace text selection on media inserts
• #212: Create folder watchers for content folders. When new content gets created, the dashboard updates.
• #213: New media folder overview design

🐞 Fixes

• #210: Fix for adding media files with uppercase file extensions
• #214: Fix for opening markdown file after creating it for the specified content type

v5.8.0 release

🎄 🎅 🧑‍🎄 🤶 🎄

Probably the last release of 2021.

Thank you for all your support feedback. Let us make Front Matter even better in 2022.

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2022

🎨 Enhancements

• Refactoring of the WebView logic to new message handlers
• Optimized the getMedia call from the webview
• Keep the dashboard its context when switching tabs
• #205: Define a logging level setting
• #206: Add front matter issues to the diagnostic tab

🐞 Fixes

• #207: Fix the quick picks for content creation
• #208: Fix for the collapse sections action so that it is not available everywhere, but only on the Front Matter panel

v5.7.0 release

🎨 Enhancements

• #188: Support for .markdown files added to the dashboard
• #190: Diagnostic output for the extension
• #194: WYSIWYG controls added for markdown files + configuration to enable/disable the functionality

🐞 Fixes

• #191: Fix beta settings page
• #200: Fix last modified date sorting for media files
• #201: Fix overflow issue with the media filename
• #202: Fix checkbox label color for light themes

v5.6.0 release

🎨 Enhancements

• Updated camera icon from VS Code to media icon
• Updated the media card actions to show it within a menu. This will give a better experience with custom scripts.
• #97: Custom Script support for media files and folders
• #178: Sorting added to the media dashboard
• #179: Updated the open dashboard icon to make it easier to spot it
• #180: Added {filename} as placeholder for media snippets
• #181: Support for custom taxonomy fields added

🐞 Fixes

• #183: Fix type error on the frontMatter.content.sorting setting

v5.5.0 release

As from this version onwards, the extension will be published to open-vsx.org.

🎨 Enhancements

• #173: Allow to specify your own sorting for the content dashboard
• #174: Added option to exclude sub-directories from page/markdown content retrieval

v5.4.0 release

🎨 Enhancements

• #166: Added preview button to the panel base view
• #167: Allow to set the preview path per content type

v5.3.1 release

🐞 Fixes

• #163: Setting workspace state instead of global state for the media view