0.5.1 - 2026-11-10

Release Notes

This is a minor update focused on performance and everyday usability, with faster startup, smoother scrolling, and more reliable rendering.

Added

• Open raw Markdown URLs directly with normal Markdown rendering, preserving untrusted resource permissions and resolving relative links against the source URL.

Changed

• Reduce Windows startup work by skipping unused indirect-draw validation and redundant GPU surface reconfiguration (#39).
• Speed up styled paragraphs and highlighted code with indexed reading, style and syntax-color ranges, and avoid repeated whitespace scans and discarded tail solutions during line breaking, preserving typography, selection and copying.

Fixed

• Open the window already showing its first frame on Windows instead of a blank one for the whole startup (#39).
• Show Android JNI and system-operation failures in native Android dialogs with error details, and keep fatal error messages visible after the reader closes.
• Avoid Android startup failures when falling back from Vulkan to OpenGL ES, including on screens larger than 2048 pixels.
• Keep natural spacing on lines ending with an HTML <br> instead of stretching them to the full text width.
• Smooth consecutive mouse-wheel steps by preserving scroll velocity and avoiding accumulated travel at document boundaries.
• Recognize web code block languages from common highlighter markup and enclosing containers, with language aliases, explicit highlighting opt-outs and shebang fallback.
• Preserve code block line breaks and blank lines on Docusaurus and other web pages that use HTML line break elements.
• Show recent workspaces on blank pages whenever no folder is open, including when document tabs are open.
• Skip font files in font directories that are not usable faces instead of shaping with non-finite geometry.

Install markview 0.5.1

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/szdytom/markview/releases/download/v0.5.1/markview-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/szdytom/markview/releases/download/v0.5.1/markview-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download markview 0.5.1

File	Platform	Checksum (SHA-256)
markview-0.5.1-aarch64.app.zip	Apple Silicon macOS	dedac15c3e17521c9f567d4473135b4db6751ed77d7be6284c0be587fc10c87e
markview-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi	x64 Windows	15b19df8113ff7e731b8529aabeab5a75f6abeac8e7e1bc44881fe9e9df03f84
markview-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows (Portable)	ab980a683abd6839b665956d58099301edac454a31cd98828a6ef70e1aefd998
markview-0.5.1-x86_64.AppImage	x64 Linux	84e35cfeded7b0a29debff47616cf96ae799a6b8665d2f24c902d38b7514892b
markview-0.5.1-android.apk	Android 11+ (ARM64)	0443fb3c334f0cd45dd7a49a920e6dc565ad4949ba049baf8ff9560aa11613e8
markview-export-0.4.0-darwin-arm64.vsix	VS Code: Apple Silicon macOS	90da67259d245658ab748a7f71eee1a42a65b1acd705598e9cf28f485e180bed
markview-export-0.4.0-win32-x64.vsix	VS Code: x64 Windows	b6838347cb6dca98ef1007e486d4276bba34dc04a4d587d3216a43db26087ac3
markview-export-0.4.0-win32-arm64.vsix	VS Code: ARM64 Windows	da7179f3d47c8bfb2f9ef9cd1ee195d8e06197ed1a8ac4c05f9cf765d6f8d456
markview-export-0.4.0-linux-x64.vsix	VS Code: x64 Linux	be7fb7861ade3e483f339022b701037e2e5b367c3d990a1436f1ecf091541eac
markview-export-0.4.0-linux-arm64.vsix	VS Code: ARM64 Linux	9ad8372e59407eaae8479d223697e90f4fc9c69b2e12a762d7c0870eac6ade6d

macOS: Extract the .app.zip, drag Markview.app to Applications, then run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Markview.app in Terminal to remove the quarantine flag before opening the app.

VS Code: Install Markview Integration from the Marketplace, or download the .vsix for your platform and choose Extensions → Install from VSIX… in VS Code. The exporter is included.