Marked Changelog

NEW

• Announcement system so that the developer can show updates and announcements to users without requiring a new build
• Style Manager allows you to enable/disable built-in styles, reorder, preview and reveal/edit styles.
• Option-click back button in mini stats panel opens file in default editor
• Export Markdown now copies local image assets to assets folder
• Side panel for word repetition counts. Shows how many times each stem appears in the document, with options for ignoring per-document or globally.
• Export Drawer converted into Spotlight-style panel for keyboard-driven export functionality

IMPROVED

• Reorganize menu items, add Proofing menu
• Mini stats panel back button icon changes when option key is held
• Mini stats expand button now uses system ellipsis icon instead of text
• Mini stats panel height increased for better content display
• Help panel layout updated to use flexbox for better responsiveness
• Export menu item now pops up a searchable, Spotlight-style dialog with all available export options (instead of the previous drawer)

FIXED

• Sandboxed access to wiki files and backlinks
• Add History menu items to MAS and Setapp builds
• Save dialog now ensures suggested filename includes .md extension
• Empty inline links no longer incorrectly match image syntax
• JavaScript regex fix for HTML id attribute detection

An all-new, best-in-class DOCX exporter. Marked can now even open DOCX files and export them as Markdown or any other format.

New Markdown processors built in: CommonMark (with GFM extensions) and Kramdown! Kramdown adds the ability to apply ids, clases, and other attributes to inline and block elements, among other features.

Let’s see, what else?

NEW

• Syntax highlighting for CSS and JSON fields
• Custom Styles can be dragged and dropped on the Settings window to add them
• Menu of static Word export styles
• Ability to open DOCX files directly and convert to Markdown
• Display a message when an empty file is opened
• DOCX change tracking is now converted to CriticMarkup in the Markdown document
• CommonMark processor option, includes all GFM extensions
• Kramdown processor (requires Ruby), supports all Kramdown syntax
• UI for setting up conditional processors based on various criteria, with built-in filters, transforms, and command execution
• EPUB export
• Allow custom word styles
• Import/Export all preferences as a JSON file
• Display comments (CriticMarkup, Scrivener, Word) in a sidebar instead of inline
• Drag and drop files onto the Custom Rules window to intellegently detect file type and add an appropriate action to the current rule
• Convert [[wiki links]]
• Fully functional back/forward navigation when following links to other Markdown files
• Allow user to specify minimum level to include in table of contents (<!--TOC min4--> or {{TOC:2-6}})
• Make missing file links clickable to create a new file
• Show wiki backlinks to current document
• Save as TextBundle/TextPack
• Logo/image in PDF/Print header/footer
• Current heading in PDF/Print header/footer
• Footnotes at bottom of page they occur on
• Save export settings to profiles for easy re-use
• Built-in Style Stealer for extracting styles fro web sites
• Markdown Dingus (Help->Markdown Dingus) for live testing of syntax for Marked’s built-in processors
• Style Manager allows for complete control over built-in and custom Styles

IMPROVED

• Completely rewritten DOCX export, faster, valid style markup
• Reorderable custom Styles
• Button visibility in Settings
• Double click to rename Custom Styles in menu
• Performance improvements for lined text views
• Hide advanced config options when MathJax is disabled
• Ignore non-numeric values in reading speed text field
• Suppress open dialog when opening a file
• Scrivener import will convert single-cell tables (used for asides) into block quotes
• When exporting, convert non-built-in fonts to equivalent system fonts
• Better regex for detecting highlights and deletions in text
• Completely rewritten Scrivener import, faster and with no reliance on Ruby or Python
• Rewritten RTF/RTFD export
• Rewritten CriticMarkup handling, all native, no reliance on external scripts or tools
• Handle DOCX highlights, using a <mark> tag with appropriate background color
• In DOCX import, allow highlights to be suppressed when comments are disabled
• Clicking on the WPM number in the detailed stats window makes it editable
• Detailed stats view UI adjustments
• Native mmd_merge handler
• Hold option to set debug logging level from the Help menu
• Additional documentation about debugging and support requests
• Store current autoscroll speed as a global preference instead of preview-specific value, ensuring consistent behavior across previews and maintaining preferences across launches.
• Autoscroll now works with a WPM (words per minute) setting, and calculates how many words would fit on the screen with the current style, setting the scroll speed accordingly
• Syntax highlighting in code blocks is preserved when exporting to Word
• Markdown export can optionally wrap text at a specified width
• Markdown export can optionally convert inline links to reference links
• Change default file extension for markdown export to “.md”
• Clean up Markdown export, especially for Word files
• Better handling when custom processors are disabled or not available
• Save assets to subfolder when exporting HTML, OPML, or Markdown
• Add option to convert Word change tracking <-> CriticMarkup
• Substitute Goldilocks for Multi-Column
• Handle proper conversion of Pandoc % metadata
• Make document metadata available as MD_keyname environment variables to custom Run Command and Run Embedded Script actions
• Improved conversion of existing custom processor settings to the new Custom Rules format
• Bi-directional MathML to OMML (Word)
• Intra-document links work in PDFs

FIXED

• Help document list item link styling
• Tab order in Proofreading Settings
• Paragraphs generated by DOCX converter that start with <mark> not being properly handled by MultiMarkdown
• Don’t strip query parameters when copying URL with right click or popup menu
• Thread safe accessors for document stats
• Status bar and drawer not changing to dark mode
• Recognize more ways Word inconsistently marks paragraphs as headings
• Handle metadata document in Scrivener binder as document metadata
• Race condition on filesize
• Don’t show open dialog if Welcome screen is opening
• Handle MarsEdit 5 previews
• Handle emphasis with internal spaces when converting HTML to Markdown
• Raw file includes not working

CHANGED

• Keyboard shortcuts for export options
• Remove RTFD export option. RTFD will be automatically selected when the export includes images
• Remove Additional Scripts window as it’s been replaced by Custom Rules
• Custom Processor Log changed to Custom Rules Log

IMPROVED

• Only shows subscription window when no active subscription or trial is found
• Clean up INFO level logging

IMPROVED

• Only shows subscription window when no active subscription or trial is found
• Clean up INFO level logging

FIXED

• Indentation in Discount guide code blocks
• When titles are missing from Scrivener documents, avoid inserting
• Repeated security bookmark requests
• Skip backlink scanning if the document is in the Watchers directory
• Automatic Open dialog repeating after cancelation

IMPROVED

• Update documentation
• Additional debug logging

FIXED

• Display headlines for empty Scrivener documents
• Remove “Headlines for Scrivener Document Titles” from Export Profiles, so that the preferenc sticks when reloading profiles
• Remove “Change Tracking <-> CriticMarkup” from Export Profile saving
• Button backgrounds in Style Stealer and Markdownify URL
• Scrivener documents not updating preview when file changes

Big changes revolving around how the MAS version handles Run Command actions in Custom Rules.

CHANGED

• Default shell detection now falls back to /bin/zsh on modern macOS
• Log messages formatted as single lines for easier filtering
• Crossgrade menu item now opens help document instead of showing window
• Menu item now reads “Save Transient Preview” to reflect that clipboard, streaming, and extractor windows all use the same save path.

NEW

• MAS version can execute external binaries when copied to app bundle
• Automatic detection and execution of scripts with external shebangs via system interpreters
• Proactive file access requests when entering commands in Conductor window
• File access checking for executables referenced in script content
• Error dialogs with step-by-step instructions for copying binaries to bundle
• “Copy Terminal Commands” button in error dialogs for easy setup
• Wrapper script generation for Python scripts to prevent xcrun errors
• Added Help->Copy UUID menu item to copy user identifier for license crossgrade requests
• Added Sandbox Restrictions help document with crossgrade instructions and mailto link with pre-filled body text
• “Kind” predicate option for Custom Rules (choose from known document types)
• Mark all changes between document saves and allow navigation

IMPROVED

• File picker dialog now allows selecting executable files directly
• Better handling of symlinks in file access requests
• Error messages now include actual paths and actionable instructions
• Error messages for sandbox execution failures now include instructions for copying UUID when requesting crossgrade
• Updated Custom Processor documentation to clarify Python/Ruby script limitations in MAS version
• When making changes to preferences that Export Profiles track, automatically save the change to the current profile
• “Restore default styles” in Style Manager offers to restore default order of built-in styles
• Option to only show most recent edit marker
• Fix width/height of diff markers
• Add multi-select to Style Manager
• Top alignment of all Settings panes
• Content Extractor previews generate slugged filenames from the capture URL (queries removed) so default save names match the source site/article.

FIXED

• Crash when canceling file access permission dialog
• Missing file access checks for external scripts selected via file picker
• Scripts with external Python interpreters now execute through system Python
• Preview content now displays correctly after crash recovery by detecting loading page and forcing full reload
• Default to .md extension for New File
• Automatic preview updates not happening on save
• Drag improvements for style manager
• Settings->Advanced option alignment and spacing
• Saving transient previews now defaults to Markdown extensions and writes the underlying text instead of the old HTML placeholder.
• Opening transient previews in an editor now prompts for a Markdown save location and launches the external editor with that file.