Release v0.26.0 · inkeep/open-knowledge

0.26.0

Stable promotion of beta v0.26.0-beta.4.

Aggregated changes since previous stable:

New projects can now start from a starter pack right on the first-run launcher. When you open OpenKnowledge with no recent projects, the launcher leads with the starter packs (Knowledge base, Software lifecycle, Codebase wiki, and more) so a brand-new project opens already scaffolded with folders and templates instead of a blank editor. Picking a pack flows into the create dialog with the pack pre-selected; you still name the project and choose where it lives, then the editor opens populated. Prefer to start differently? Open a folder, clone from GitHub, or start a blank project from the same screen. Returning users (anyone with recent projects) see the launcher exactly as before.

Fix copying from the editor dropping line breaks when you paste into other apps.

Soft line breaks — the everyday single-newline wraps inside a paragraph,
blockquote, or list item — used to be copied as a bare newline whose rendering
relied on the editor's own styling. Gmail and other rich-text destinations strip
that styling, so the lines merged into one on paste. They now copy as real line
breaks that survive everywhere. Copying a partial selection that contained a
<br> line break used to fail silently and paste as raw markdown source
(pipes, dashes, and literal <br> text); those breaks now come through as
proper line breaks too.

Multi-line table cells also copy correctly to spreadsheets: a cell with an
in-cell line break is exported as a quoted field so Excel and Google Sheets keep
both lines in one cell instead of merging them or splitting the row.

Checked items in a task list now keep their checked state when copied, so a
ticked checkbox no longer pastes as unticked in apps that preserve checkboxes.
Fix search snippets splitting an emoji across the truncation boundary, which left a lone UTF-16 surrogate in the JSON-RPC response and caused strict MCP clients (Rust / pydantic parsers) to reject it as invalid UTF-8. Snippets are now well-formed before serialization.

The timeline now reads the incoming commits and attributes each changed document to the author of the commit that last touched it, so pulled changes show the
contributor's name rather than a generic disk write.
- @inkeep/open-knowledge-core@0.25.1-beta.0

Fix: files that no document links yet now appear in the composer @-mention and [[ wiki-link suggestions. The pickers previously offered only assets already referenced by a doc, so a freshly-added file stayed invisible in autocomplete even though it showed in the sidebar — circular, since those pickers are how you create that first reference. This surfaces every linkable file the sidebar shows (images, GPX, video, CSV, and also source/config), not just media; hidden files stay excluded via the same isHiddenDocName rule the sidebar uses (dot-path entries plus OK-managed configs like opencode.json).
- @inkeep/open-knowledge-core@0.25.1-beta.0
- @inkeep/open-knowledge-server@0.25.1-beta.0

Reworked the first-launch "Connect your AI tools to OpenKnowledge" consent dialog. The description copy is now plain-language instead of listing internal implementation details, undetected editors show a "How to set up" link to their integration docs, and the shell-PATH rc-file detail moved into an info tooltip.