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QOwnNotes Changelog

What's new in QOwnNotes 24.4.5

Apr 30, 2024
  • Scripting labels
  • now support external links as well as internal links to notes, tasks, deck cards, etc.
  • (for #3017)
  • For more information about what's supported see
  • Setting the text of a registered label
  • There now is a software repository for Fedora 40
  • Please visit the Fedora installation page
  • for instructions
  • Added more Arabic translation (thank you, noureddin)

New in QOwnNotes 24.4.4 (Apr 25, 2024)

  • Tag support for multiple tags was fixed for tasks in the Todo dialog (for #2998, thank you, @Akselmo)
  • Added more Dutch translation (thank you, stephanp)

New in QOwnNotes 24.4.3 (Apr 25, 2024)

  • Tag support was added to tasks in the Todo dialog (for #2998, thank you, @Akselmo)
  • Tags can be added to and removed from tasks
  • There now is a software repository for openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • Please visit the openSUSE installation page for instructions
  • There now is a software repository for Fedora Rawhide
  • Please visit the Fedora installation page for instructions
  • Added more Korean, German, Arabic, Dutch, French translation (thank you venusgirl, rakekniven, noureddin, stephanp, jd-develop)

New in QOwnNotes 24.4.2 (Apr 13, 2024)

  • We now assume --allow-multiple-instances if --completion is used as cli parameter
  • (for #3003)
  • Added more German, Dutch, Korean, Spanish, Swedish translation (thank you rakekniven, stephanp, venusgirl, fitojb, dzenan)

New in QOwnNotes 24.4.1 (Apr 12, 2024)

  • There now is a new cli parameter --completion that generates shell completion
  • code for fish and bash (for #3003)
  • for example QOwnNotes --completion fish will generate fish shell completion code
  • for more information please take a look at
  • Cli parameters
  • There was a new release of the QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension 2024.4.0
  • The "running away" of the Preferences dialog was fixed under Firefox when
  • using a zoom-level over 100% (for #63)
  • Update dependencies
  • Add more translations
  • Added more French translation (thank you jd-develop)

New in QOwnNotes 24.4.0 (Apr 3, 2024)

  • Added System Verilog support to the note edit code block syntax highlighter (for #2997, thank you, @maya-doshi)
  • The QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud App was updated to version 24.4.0 to support Nextcloud 29 (for #48)

New in QOwnNotes 24.3.5 (Mar 25, 2024)

  • Now text between two asterisks in in-line code blocks in a bullet point list gets highlighted correctly (for #2972, thank you, @Waqar144)

New in QOwnNotes 24.3.4 (Mar 20, 2024)

  • For the dark-mode there now is a new icon for the clear button for all line edits, like the note search field, in the main window and all dialogs (for #2986)

New in QOwnNotes 24.3.3 (Mar 15, 2024)

  • added a new editor color schema VSCodium by @nkahe (for #2982)

New in QOwnNotes 24.3.2 (Mar 15, 2024)

  • The creation of not existing linked notes was fixed for Windows (for #2899)
  • Now more platform information will be added to the Platform debug information, like xcb and wayland
  • And information about the available database drivers was added
  • added more Korean translation (thank you venusgirl)

New in QOwnNotes 24.3.1 (Mar 9, 2024)

  • If the current note was the bookmarks note and a browser bookmark was added the
  • current note will now be reloaded (for #2980)
  • added more Dutch, Spanish translation (thank you stephanp, fitojb)

New in QOwnNotes 24.3.0 (Mar 9, 2024)

  • in the Note folder not found! dialog, the missing note folder path will now be shown
  • (for #2975)
  • added more German, Italian, Arabic, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified
  • translation (thank you bumpsy, marcoxbresciani, techman, dzenan, mateus_b, crwd9931)

New in QOwnNotes 24.2.6 (Mar 7, 2024)

  • try to fix an issue that the desktop icon is not shown under KDE Plasma 6 in Wayland
  • (for #2976)

New in QOwnNotes 24.2.5 (Feb 21, 2024)

  • fixed another crash, when someone enters a misplaced comment marker directly before
  • the closing mark of the code block, with the starting marker directly before that
  • (for #2962)
  • the md4c library fork was updated

New in QOwnNotes 24.2.1 (Feb 9, 2024)

  • support was added for the new QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension 2024.2.2 to allow deleting of bookmarks (for #57)
  • added more Croatian, Arabic translation (thank you milotype, noureddin)

New in QOwnNotes 24.1.5 (Jan 31, 2024)

  • an attempt was made to fix the issue that shortcut settings table columns
  • didn't get resized to fit the containing text on some computers (for #2950)
  • the Snap version of QOwnNotes is now able to use git (for #1306)
  • the Web Companion browser extension
  • is currently rewritten in Vue.js 3 with Vite and QUASAR with BEX to get rid of
  • all the legacy libraries that need Node.js 14 to build the project (for #56)
  • you can watch the progress on the GitHub issue

New in QOwnNotes 24.1.4 (Jan 19, 2024)

  • the spellchecking menu will now also be shown on already selected words (for #2946)

New in QOwnNotes 24.1.3 (Jan 13, 2024)

  • you now can also use Ctrl + = to increase the text size
  • in the note text edit (for #2941)
  • added more Croatian, Spanish, Dutch, Korean translation (thank you milotype,
  • fitojb, stephanp, venusgirl)

New in QOwnNotes 24.1.2 (Jan 8, 2024)

  • the Snap version of QOwnNotes was (in a Herculean effort) migrated from Core18 to Core22
  • to cause less problems on Ubuntu 23.10 systems (for #2876)
  • in new releases, the source code tar.xz file will now also have a .sha256sum
  • and a .sha512sum file, that is compatible with sha256sum and sha512sum
  • (for #2938)

New in QOwnNotes 24.1.1 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • a crash on certain systems at startup after the script update check was fixed (for #2937)

New in QOwnNotes 24.1.0 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • the script update check at startup now runs in a separate thread to not block the application startup (for #2934)

New in QOwnNotes 23.12.3 (Dec 9, 2023)

  • the QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud App was updated
  • to version 23.12.0 to support Nextcloud 28 (for #46)
  • a regression with falsely highlighting of links in 4-Spaces fence code blocks was fixed
  • (for #199, thank you, @tim-gromeyer)

New in QOwnNotes 23.11.3 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • if the current note is encrypted, read-only or the doesn't exist any more now some menu actions are also disabled to prevent writing to the note text edit (for #2904)
  • a PPA for Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) was added

New in QOwnNotes 23.11.2 (Nov 18, 2023)

  • more not very useful internal warnings are now ignored in the log panel:
  • QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size

New in QOwnNotes 23.11.1 (Nov 13, 2023)

  • added more Japanese, Arabic, Czech, Spanish, Tamil, Korean, Dutch, Slovenian,
  • German translation (thank you yateno, noureddin, vojtaanton, fitojb,
  • tamilneram.github.io, venusgirl, stephanp, salamelek, rakekniven, nlpz404)

New in QOwnNotes 23.11.0 (Nov 2, 2023)

  • there now is a new PasswordLineEdit component that is now used for entering
  • passwords in all dialogs (for #2893)
  • it allows to also show the password
  • links will now be highlighted in headings in the note text edit
  • (for #196, thank you, @tim-gromeyer)
  • this, of course, only makes sense if you allow the note filename to be
  • different from the headline

New in QOwnNotes 23.10.1 (Oct 13, 2023)

  • a fakevim fix for building with Qt 6.6.0 was added
  • (for #2878, thank you, @NickCao)
  • added more Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, Korean, Tamil, German, Dutch translation
  • (thank you noureddin, fitojb, rgucluer, venusgirl, tamilneram.github.io, bumpsy, stephanp)

New in QOwnNotes 23.10.0 (Oct 3, 2023)

  • newlines are now removed from links from the clipboard in the link dialog
  • (for #2726)
  • notes are now imported to the current note subfolder in the Evernote and Joplin
  • import instead of the root folder (for #2863)
  • the seconds of the selected time will now be set to 0 instead of the current seconds
  • of the time in the Nextcloud Deck dialog (for #2789)
  • there now is a setting for the feature to unset the All notes selection in
  • the subfolder panel when clicking a note tab in the Panels settings
  • (for #2861)
  • added more Arabic, Slovenian, Dutch, German, Korean translation (thank you
  • noureddin, salamelek, stephanp, bumpsy, venusgirl)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.7 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • Evernote notes with malformed XML will now stop the import process when importing
  • them in the Evernote import (for #2858)
  • the All notes selection in the subfolder panel will now be unset when
  • clicking a note tab, so that the subfolder of a note can be selected
  • (for #2861)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.6 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • an issue with duplicate imported media files and attachments when importing notes
  • from Evernote was fixed (for #2859)
  • the missing qtconcurrent package was added to the Gentoo build process
  • (for #2857, thank you, @FireUnderTheMountain)
  • the ! character will now also be highlighted in the note text edit for images
  • (for #192, thank you, @tim-gromeyer)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.5 (Sep 23, 2023)

  • an issue with importing the content of notes from Evernote with the evernote-export4 format was fixed (for #2856)
  • links from the clipboard are now trimmed in the link dialog (for #2726)
  • the Gentoo build process was improved (for #2821, thank you, @FireUnderTheMountain)
  • qc v0.5.1 was released
  • the last selected command is now only stored when there actually was a command selected and the dialog wasn't quit without selecting a command (for #9)
  • added more German, Bulgarian, Tamil, Dutch, Bosnian, Arabic, Turkish, Korean, Romanian translation (thank you bumpsy, m.angelov, tamilneram.github.io, stephanp, noureddin, rgucluer, venusgirl, ioancroitor)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.4 (Sep 17, 2023)

  • the font size in the preview will now change immediately when the font size in
  • the note text edit is reset (for #2836)
  • amount of items in the schema drop-down in the Editor fonts & colors settings
  • was increased to 15 to make it easier to see the schemes (for #2841)
  • in the Note main menu the menu item to Setup note folders was renamed to
  • Setup note folders / subfolders in an attempt to make note subfolders more accessible
  • (for #2843)
  • added more German, Dutch, Korean translation (thank you bumpsy, stephanp, venusgirl)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.3 (Sep 17, 2023)

  • in the Editor fonts & colors settings the default color schemes are now ordered alphabetically, with the two default schemes in front (for #2840)
  • the custom schemes are still placed at the back of the list this should improve readability
  • added more German translation (thank you bumpsy)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.2 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • the font size in the preview will now change immediately when the font size in
  • the note text edit changes (for #2836)
  • added more German, Spanish translation (thank you bumpsy, tummechatronics)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.1 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • URLs with their title are not loaded anymore, if the note-link shortcut was used
  • with the link-dialog (for #2833)
  • the Gentoo process should run again (for #2821)
  • added more Slovenian, Ukrainian, Turkish translation (thank you salamelek, eugeneuvin, rgucluer)

New in QOwnNotes 23.9.0 (Sep 1, 2023)

  • when all notes of a tag, including the notes of their child-tags are shown in the
  • note list the numbers of notes per tag are now calculated correctly in the tag tree
  • (for #2819)
  • added more French translation (thank you chocolatine)

New in QOwnNotes 23.8.2 (Aug 27, 2023)

  • added a new editor color schema Atom Mellow Dark by @davuses (for #2817)
  • link highlighting in the note text edit was made faster and more link types are now supported (for #188, thank you, @tim-gromeyer)

New in QOwnNotes 23.8.1 (Aug 23, 2023)

  • #2813 doc: update changelog

New in QOwnNotes 23.8.0 (Aug 7, 2023)

  • the warning scroll event from unregistered device, which is triggered by for example by plugging a YubiKey in or out is now ignored in the Log panel (for #2808)
  • added more Arabic translation (thank you noureddin)

New in QOwnNotes 23.7.3 (Jul 28, 2023)

  • added a new editor color schema Revontuli by @Akselmo
  • (for #2804)
  • added more German, Croatian, Korean, Dutch translation (thank you rakekniven,
  • milotype, sdicke, venusgirl, stephanp)

New in QOwnNotes 23.7.2 (Jul 14, 2023)

  • there now is a new checkbox in the General Settings to automatically enable read-only mode
  • after a certain amount of time of inactivity (for #2802)
  • added more Korean, Dutch translation (thank you venusgirl, stephanp)

New in QOwnNotes 23.7.1 (Jul 13, 2023)

  • since the TuxFamily upload server has been very
  • unreliable and down for several days, we have now switched to GitHub releases
  • as hosting service for the source archive (for #2799)
  • the format of the source archive URL now looks like:
  • https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases/download/v23.7.0/qownnotes-23.7.0.tar.xz
  • a tooltip typo in the Git Settings was fixed

New in QOwnNotes 23.7.0 (Jul 10, 2023)

  • when you now select text in a note that text will be used as title when you open the Nextcloud Deck dialog (for #2789)

New in QOwnNotes 23.6.6 (Jun 25, 2023)

  • some menu text was adapted to be more readable
  • added more German, Arabic, Korean, Dutch, Ukrainian translation (thank you sdicke,
  • noureddin, venusgirl, stephanp, prolinuxua)
  • qc v0.5.0 was released
  • the last executed command is now stored and can be executed again via qc exec --last
  • (for #9)
  • neovim is now also used to edit the config file

New in QOwnNotes 23.6.5 (Jun 16, 2023)

  • Markdown is now stripped out of the heading text in the navigation panel to
  • improve readability (for #2791)
  • there now is an action to copy the absolute path of the current note to the
  • clipboard in the Edit / Extra menu and the note list context menu
  • the QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud App was updated
  • to version 23.6.0 to support Nextcloud 27 (for #44)
  • added more Arabic, Portuguese, Korean translation (thank you noureddin, manuelarodsilva, venusgirl)

New in QOwnNotes 23.6.4 (Jun 10, 2023)

  • improve Nextcloud Deck API compatibility with wonky Nextcloud servers
  • (for #2789)
  • added more Korean, Persian, Dutch translation (thank you venusgirl, amirkbrpr, StephanP)

New in QOwnNotes 23.6.3 (Jun 8, 2023)

  • a Nextcloud Deck stack can now really be selected if no stack was previously selected
  • (for #2789)

New in QOwnNotes 23.6.0 (Jun 7, 2023)

  • you now can quickly create Nextcloud Deck Cards with a dute date and link them in the current note with the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + D (for #2789)
  • before you can do that you need to set the IDs to the board and stack in the Nextcloud / ownCloud settings
  • added more Persian, Dutch, Korean translation (thank you amirkbrpr, stephanp, venusgirl)
  • the QOwnNotes command-line snippet manager qc Can now be installed via the Nix Store
  • you can use nix-shell -p qc --run qc to try it out
  • the Korean translation was now integrated into the webpage on QOwnNotes webpage in Korean

New in QOwnNotes 23.5.3 (May 8, 2023)

  • added more Arabic translation (thank you noureddin)

New in QOwnNotes 23.5.2 (May 5, 2023)

  • there now is code block syntax highlighting for Forth code (for #2780, thank you, @0x3508A)
  • added more Spanish, Korean translation (thank you fitojb, venusgirl)

New in QOwnNotes 23.5.1 (May 4, 2023)

  • improve file-extension detection for images sent from a browser via the Web
  • Companion extension (for #2781)

New in QOwnNotes 23.5.0 (May 1, 2023)

  • the text [Debug] is now prepended in the window title for debug builds
  • the code block syntax highlighting for nix code was improved (for #2779)
  • there now is a software repository for Fedora 38
  • ARM builds for Debian have been added (for #1457)

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.7 (Apr 29, 2023)

  • the timing of the Start hidden feature got improved (for #2778)
  • there now is basic code block syntax highlighting for nix code (for #2779)
  • added more Arabic, Korean, Chinese Simplified translation (thank you noureddin, venusgirl, integral_68)

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.6 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • the manual and automatic script update process now also works again after the script
  • repository integration re-implementation (for #2772)

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.5 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • the build process for Snapcraft and older operating systems was fixed
  • (for #2772)

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.4 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • the script repository integration was rewritten, because GitHub now demands
  • an access token for the code search API and has a harsh quota on the amounts of
  • searches per person (for #2772)
  • an index will now be generated on the Script Repository on GitHub,
  • which can be accessed by QOwnNotes without using the code search API of GitHub
  • script searches, installs and updates are now much faster, because only
  • one single request is made
  • all scripts are now shown instantly, instead of needing to search for
  • a script and browse multiple pages
  • scripts are now searched while typing in the search bock, instead of
  • only when pressing Enter

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.3 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • the GitHub issue links were updated to make use of the new issue templates
  • (for #2768)

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.2 (Apr 12, 2023)

  • an issue was fixed in the preview where code comments where always italic
  • regardless of the color schema settings (for #2765)

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.1 (Apr 8, 2023)

  • added a new editor color schema Springtime by @igorp74
  • (for #2763)
  • added more French translation (thank you emericg)

New in QOwnNotes 23.4.0 (Apr 4, 2023)

  • the QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud App
  • was updated to version 23.3.0 to support Nextcloud 26 (for #42)
  • added more French translation (thank you chocolatine)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.8 (Mar 24, 2023)

  • an issue with html tags in code-blocks that where not previewed correctly was fixed
  • (for #2756)
  • added more Basque translation (thank you izendegi)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.7 (Mar 22, 2023)

  • text parts with an @ in it will now not be detected as note link (for #2720)
  • added a new editor color schema Orange and Green by @Beurt (for #2754)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.6 (Mar 19, 2023)

  • AppImage updater test release (for #2751)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.5 (Mar 19, 2023)

  • The size of search items that are stored in the "stored searches" history is now limited to prevent clogging the application settings with them (for #2752)
  • Another AppImage update issue that came with the changes from #2728 should now be fixed (for #2751)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.4 (Mar 19, 2023)

  • the Snap build process was re-invented because the necessary Ubuntu 18.04 build system will vanish from GitHub with the end of March (for #2728)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.3 (Mar 14, 2023)

  • unfortunately since 23.3.1 the AppImage reports the wrong application path, because
  • of that update mechanism fails, this should (could) be fixed after this release
  • (for #2728)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.2 (Mar 13, 2023)

  • the indent spaces are now limited between 2 and 5 in the settings, because
  • that's the range the md4c supports when
  • converting Markdown to HTML (for #2744)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.1 (Mar 7, 2023)

  • the whole AppImage build process was re-invented because the necessary
  • Ubuntu 18.04 build system will vanish from GitHub with the end of March
  • (for #2728)
  • added a new editor color schema IntelliSerious by @marcoXbresciani
  • (for #2742)

New in QOwnNotes 23.3.0 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • in read-only mode you will now also get a dialog to
  • ask you if you want to allow note editing if you press
  • Ctrl + Space (e.g. when you want to
  • toggle a checkbox) in the note edit panel
  • added more Chinese Simplified, Arabic translation (thank you integral_68, noureddin)

New in QOwnNotes 23.2.5 (Feb 19, 2023)

  • improvements to the read-only mode were made
  • if a script tries to write into the current note in read-only mode a
  • dialog will now ask you if you want to allow note editing
  • if you create a new note via the note search line edit read-only mode
  • will automatically be exited
  • added more Portuguese, Bulgarian, Spanish translation (thank you jofazepa, m.angelov, fitojb)

New in QOwnNotes 23.2.4 (Feb 19, 2023)

  • the link name in the link dialog will not be overwritten anymore by a
  • fetched title of a webpage (for #2726)

New in QOwnNotes 23.2.3 (Feb 14, 2023)

  • the calendar selector in the Todo List dialog was fixed for Qt6
  • (for #2734)
  • the note tree setting was now moved to a new settings panel Experimental
  • (for #790)
  • added more Korean translation (thank you venusgirl)

New in QOwnNotes 23.2.2 (Feb 14, 2023)

  • a button to manually load the todo list items from your cloud server was added
  • (for #2735)
  • added more Korean, Italian, Arabic translation (thank you venusgirl, marcoxbresciani, noureddin)

New in QOwnNotes 23.2.1 (Feb 10, 2023)

  • the webpage title fetching in the link dialog is now made asynchronously to
  • reduce waiting time if no link title should be preset automatically
  • (for #2726)
  • the title parsing was also improved to guess more webpage titles
  • the progress bars for other download processes, like the update-, attachment-
  • or dictionary-dialog was also improved to be able to handle larger download sizes
  • added more Bulgarian, Spanish translation (thank you maximborisov031, fitojb)

New in QOwnNotes 23.2.0 (Feb 6, 2023)

  • the toolbar selector in the Toolbar settings was fixed (mainly for Qt6,
  • for #2721)
  • added more French, German, Arabic translation (thank you chocolatine, rakekniven, noureddin)

New in QOwnNotes 23.1.6 (Feb 3, 2023)

  • there now is a checkbox in the General settings that allows to start the
  • application in read-only mode (for #2717)
  • notes are also not stored in read-only mode anymore if they are changed by accident
  • some more main menu items are now disabled in read-only mode
  • added more Polish, Korean, Arabic, French translation (thank you hansa2662,
  • venusgirl, noureddin, chocolatine)

New in QOwnNotes 23.1.5 (Jan 31, 2023)

  • a possible crash with the note history was fixed (for #2716)
  • added a new editor color schema Breezy Dark by @N-Upchurch
  • (for #2715)

New in QOwnNotes 23.1.4 (Jan 30, 2023)

  • the obsolete (because of re-implementation of all XML parsing parts in QOwnNotes)
  • Qt module xmlpatterns was now removed from all build process to save disk space
  • (for #1304)
  • added more Korean, Croatian, French translation (thank you venusgirl, milotype, chocolatine)

New in QOwnNotes 23.1.3 (Jan 30, 2023)

  • the Evernote import was completely rewritten with stream support (QXMLStreamReader)
  • to now support reading huge ENEX Evernote files (for #2711)
  • it also works under Qt 6 now

New in QOwnNotes 23.1.2 (Jan 27, 2023)

  • the XML parsing for the Nextcloud / ownCloud support was re-implemented
  • to work with Qt6 (for #1304)
  • fixed a possible crash when reloading the note folder after changing the
  • sharing status of a note (for #1304)

New in QOwnNotes 23.1.1 (Jan 18, 2023)

  • toggling Markdown checkboxes in preview is now not any more allowed in read-only mode
  • (for #2704)
  • you will get a confirmation to disable the read-only mode if you click a checkbox in read-only mode

New in QOwnNotes 23.1.0 (Jan 4, 2023)

  • the Web Companion browser extension
  • was updated to version 22.12.0
  • changed Firefox default shortcut to Ctrl + Alt + B since the browser blocked
  • Ctrl + Shift + B (for #48)
  • added a lot more translation
  • added more Danish translation (thank you simonpmt)

New in QOwnNotes 22.12.3 (Dec 15, 2022)

  • added a new editor color schema Monokai by @MarkFirewhal
  • added more Korean, Russian translation (thank you venusgirl, wdmdanila)

New in QOwnNotes 22.12.2 (Dec 11, 2022)

  • an issue where the alarm date of todo items couldn't be unset was fixed
  • (for #2684, thank you, @WDMdanila)