1.8.3

What's New in Nova 1.8.3

Reliability

• Detached windows now stay in sync. Writing Dashboard filters and hidden states, Prose Linter review state, sidebar updates, Smart Fill indicators, resizing, and dismissal behavior now follow the Obsidian window where each view is open.
• Reloads and layout changes clean up correctly. Nova now releases view-specific listeners, timers, and editor widgets with their owning views, avoiding stale or duplicated behavior.

Safer note and plugin data

• Metadata and tag changes use Obsidian's frontmatter API. Smart Fill verifies that the same note is still active before applying AI-proposed changes and safely handles structured frontmatter values.
• Saved data is protected from overlapping writes. Settings, conversations, and Writing Dashboard cache and history now share a serialized save path, with automatic migration of existing dashboard data.

Privacy

• Production diagnostics expose less. Failed operations no longer include document excerpts, AI responses, provider request or response bodies, or endpoint details in production logs.