Release 8.3.0: Stop blocking Obsidian UI during startup; 'hide nested backlinks' instruction; safer regex searches · obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks

What's Changed

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Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

New 'hide/show nested backlink' option by @staniond in #3933

When using show tree, this can make the search results much more readable, if you don't need to jump the exact lines of nested tasks.
docs: Hide and Show Nested Backlink

Caption: Visual comparison of default display of results with show tree instruction (left hand side), and with added hide nested backlink added (right hand side)

fix: Address Edit task modal scrolling issues on mobile by @claremacrae in #3918
fix: Allow users to interact with Obsidian whilst Tasks is loading by @vincentschen in #3929
fix: stop regex searches freezing Obsidian by catastrophic backtracking by @saberzero1 and @claremacrae in #3946

docs: Show how to find nested tags using task.file.property('tags') by @claremacrae in #3915
docs: Update Reminders plugin interop notes for current behavior by @uphy in #3930
docs: Update snippets and examples in markdown by @github-actions[bot] in #3943

chore(deps): bump immutable from 4.3.8 to 4.3.9 by @dependabot[bot] in #3947
chore(deps): bump fast-uri from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #3948
chore(deps): bump linkify-it from 5.0.0 to 5.0.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #3949
chore(deps): bump hono from 4.12.23 to 4.12.31 by @dependabot[bot] in #3950
chore(deps-dev): bump @evilmartians/lefthook from 1.7.2 to 2.1.10 [REVERTED] by @dependabot[bot] in #3886
chore(deps-dev): bump esbuild from 0.27.4 to 0.28.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3900
chore(deps): bump @babel/core from 7.15.8 to 7.29.7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3905
chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3906
chore(deps): bump undici from 6.24.1 to 6.27.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3910
chore(deps): bump actions/setup-node from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3934
chore(deps): bump ws from 8.18.3 to 8.21.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3951
chore(deps-dev): downgrade @evilmartians/lefthook from 2.1.10 back down to 1.7.2 (#3952) by @claremacrae in #3953

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

Other changes:

chore: Update eslint-plugin-obsidianmd to 0.4.0 by @claremacrae in #3924
i18n: Fix some annoyances in the translation infrastructure by @claremacrae in #3911
refactor: Fix all @typescript-eslint/no-floating-promises errors by @claremacrae in #3916
refactor: Fix a few @typescript-eslint/no-misused-promises warnings by @claremacrae in #3923
refactor: Add new view instruction - rendering not yet supported by @claremacrae in #3927
test: Improve correctness and readability of tag filter tests by @claremacrae in #3925
test: Add more checks to 'hide nested backlinks' tests by @claremacrae in #3937

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

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