Changelog

0.4.0 October 14, 2026

Added

• Deft for Android
• Black theme

Changed

• A list marker and the first word after it stay on one line
• The file tree's + menu reads New Note, New LaTeX Project and New Folder
• An image zooms with two fingers, and a double tap goes between fit and twice it

Fixed

• The revert button beside Breadcrumbs in Settings turned them off when showing them is the default

0.3.4 October 8, 2026

Added

• With Markup set to Always hidden, Deft edits like a rich text editor, and a click on a link, image or math reveals its source
• Mod+K edits the link under the cursor, and the right-click menu has Copy Link
• Links like [text](path) open notes and vault files in Deft
• A new note, project or folder opens with its name selected for typing
• Files changed by other programs show when the window regains focus

Changed

• The Format button opens a popover of text and block styles
• Editor Width scales with the font size
• Themes set the editor colors and accent; their settings are gone
• A new LaTeX file is always a project, and Recompile is now Compile
• Breadcrumbs show by default, and settings are regrouped

Fixed

• Pasting from a web page added backslashes before underscores

0.3.3 October 4, 2026

Added

• Table editing: Tab and Shift+Tab move between cells, Enter adds a row, and a Table menu adds, deletes and aligns rows and columns
• Clicking a table opens its source with the cursor on the clicked character and that cell in view
• Table cells render links, wikilinks, math, highlight and the rest of a note's formatting
• Formatting inside link text renders

Changed

• A table's source aligns when opened, and after an edit once the cursor moves to another cell or out of the table
• An open table's source is highlighted, and its rows scroll sideways instead of wrapping
• Wide tables use the margins before they scroll
• Nested list levels step evenly whatever the typed indentation
• A list item's wrapped lines and later lines start under its text, and so do tables, code, math and quotes inside it
• An image on its own line draws above its markup, with no empty line around it
• An image in a sentence sits in the text, one line tall
• Tables, formulas, HTML blocks and images add no space above and below; blank lines set the spacing
• A code block's fences show inside its box while revealed
• Source view's lines no longer wrap: the column widens to the longest line, then scrolls sideways
• ~x~ and ^x^ are no longer read as subscript and superscript
• New Document is now New LaTeX Document
• Closing the window finishes uploading a pending edit first, for up to 10 seconds

Fixed

• Wide tables were squeezed into the column instead of scrolling, and the table font size didn't apply
• An empty table cell shifted the cells after it
• Reformatting a table in a quote or list item moved its rows out of the quote or list
• A table, formula or HTML block in a quote or list item had an empty line above it
• The last line of an unclosed code block sat outside its box
• A quote with no space after its ">" hid the first letter of its text
• Bold, italic and the other inline formats broke tables, rules and HTML blocks in the selection
• A nested frontmatter value showed as [object Object]
• Blocks past the start of a long note showed raw for a moment when it opened

0.3.2 September 30, 2026

Added

• Find shows a match count and can replace (Ctrl+H, or Cmd+Alt+F on macOS)
• On macOS, Deft's commands are in the menu bar
• Color Scheme setting: Light, Dark or Follow System
• Quiet theme, with bars and buttons that show on hover
• Custom themes can hold a light and a dark mode in one file
• Open File and Open Folder in the sidebar menu

Changed

• Preferences is now Settings
• Paper, High Contrast, Solarized and Slate each have a light and a dark mode in one theme. Custom light and dark theme files need merging into one file
• The title bar takes the theme's color
• On Linux, Deft runs on Wayland natively. GDK_BACKEND=x11 brings back XWayland
• Find jumps to the first match as you type and centers off-screen matches
• Manuscript uses a bundled Literata font
• Typewriter has neutral paper and black ink
• [[Note#Heading]] and [[Note|alias]] open Note and count as backlinks
• A - - item line shows one bullet
• Search results show note text without Markdown syntax

Fixed

• Settings' buttons used the system font instead of the app's or theme's
• A caret at the start of a note's body opened its properties, and a note with only properties had no body line
• Up from the body landed on the properties' opening line
• A triple-click, or selecting a task's first word, revealed unrelated markup
• Clicking a display formula put the caret inside the opening $$
• Mod-click on [[#Heading]] created a note named #Heading
• Pasting a list item, task, quote or heading onto an empty marker doubled it
• Images stopped showing when the note or image moved folders
• After switching folders, Problems and Export PDF used the previous folder's TeX build
• In Always Rendered mode, Backspace and Delete misbehaved around code blocks and images
• On Windows, Ctrl+F sometimes opened the system's find bar
• On macOS, files and folders opened from Finder were ignored
• Slate's muted text was too faint in places
• File tree names clipped descenders
• Opening a folder note while an outside file was open left the wrong folder showing, with the sidebars collapsed
• Opening an outside file changed which note the folder reopens to
• Dragging one sidebar's edge highlighted both edges
• An empty search box drew a double line under the search panel

0.3.1 September 26, 2026

Added

• Themes: Typewriter, Manuscript, Slate, Slate Dark and a light High Contrast
• Custom themes: CSS files in the themes folder (Settings > Appearance > Open Themes Folder) join the theme list, with any fonts and images beside them
• Follow System Color Scheme switches between a light and a dark theme as the system does
• Line Height setting for the editor
• Preferences on the first-run screen, before a folder is open
• A Welcome note in an empty folder opened from the first-run screen
• A Format button in the editor's toolbar, for the formatting menu

Changed

• The black High Contrast theme is now High Contrast Dark
• Font Size in Settings shows the theme's size when no override is set
• Tables have rounded corners, like code blocks
• Sidebar tabs are one Tab stop per sidebar, and the arrow keys move between them

Removed

• The Light and Dark themes; anyone using one follows the system with Paper and Paper Dark

Fixed

• A text file opened from outside Deft with an extension the file tree doesn't list could not be saved
• A submenu near the window's right edge opened on top of its parent menu

0.3.0 September 24, 2026

Added

• Deft Sync: end-to-end encrypted sync between devices
• Version History and Recover Deleted Files for connected folders

Changed

• Names that would not work on every system are refused: reserved names, names ending in a dot or a space, and names that differ from a neighbor only by capitalization
• Code blocks scroll sideways instead of wrapping their lines
• A wide markdown table scrolls inside its box instead of squeezing its columns
• Touching any part of a quote shows its whole source, without the quote bar
• Confirmations and prompts are dialogs inside the window instead of the system's

Fixed

• A crash or a full disk while a note was saving could leave it empty or cut short
• Typing could stall for a moment each time a note saved
• A PDF figure in a TeX note stalled scrolling the first time it came into view
• The window flashed unpainted for a moment at launch, a black square on Linux
• On macOS and Windows, changing only the capitalization of a file's name was refused
• Text between colons, like :this:, was highlighted as an emoji shortcode
• A settings file that couldn't be read was replaced on the next change; it is now kept as settings.json.corrupt-<time>
• With no note open, the empty view was a shade off the editor's background in some themes
• On Windows, notes opened from File Explorer and % !TEX root targets had paths the rest of the app didn't recognize

0.2.4 September 16, 2026

Added

• HTML rendering
• Math renders inside quotes and lists
• Mod-click follows a reference link to its definition's destination

Changed

• Following a link in the editor takes Mod-click rather than a plain click
• On macOS, Ctrl no longer stands in for Cmd

Fixed

• Bracketed phrases were styled as links
• Quoted math showed its > marks
• A backslash-escaped character in a table cell drew its backslash
• A missing image showed a broken icon instead of a labeled placeholder
• The file tree could scroll sideways
• A horizontal rule stood taller than one line
• The find bar’s close button sat over the editor’s corner buttons

0.2.3 September 2, 2026

Added

• Compile with the bundled Tectonic or a local TeX installation you point at, which also picks the engine latexmk runs
• Settings > Appearance sets an accent color
• A figure is drawn at the width its \includegraphics asks for, PDF figures included
• A document that needs biber says so in the errors panel
• .latexmkrc is listed in the file tree and opens like any other file

Changed

• Paper and Paper Dark are what the app draws with no theme chosen; the flat pair they replace is renamed Flat Light and Flat Dark
• The open file and the current row take a neutral fill rather than the accent
• Settings draws its content on the editor's canvas, beside a wider category rail
• File tree names are muted until hovered or open
• Scrollbars on Windows are drawn thin, in the theme's own color

Fixed

• A failed compile usually named no cause, and one no parser recognized reported nothing at all
• Compiling again with nothing changed did nothing and reported nothing
• Choosing the bundled engine didn't survive a restart
• Dropping a note onto a folder row could also move it to the vault root
• The text column scrolled sideways instead of shrinking when a note held a table or a wide figure
• Revealing one $...$ left the paragraph's other formulas drawn where they used to be

0.2.2 August 30, 2026

Added

• Images (png/jpg/gif/webp/svg/bmp) are listed in the file tree and open in a read-only viewer
• PDFs gained page and zoom controls
• The breadcrumb row now shows for a PDF or an image too

Fixed

• Exporting a PDF under a name typed with another extension ("paper.tex") overwrote the document it was compiled from; exports now land on a .pdf name and ask before replacing a file
• Reloading a note after an external change, or toggling a task, could write a discarded edit back over it
• Duplicating a file, or converting a document to a project, missed anything typed just before
• Converting a document to a project left an open companion file pointing at the path it moved from
• settings.json is written atomically, so an interrupted write can no longer leave it empty
• Resizing the pane a PDF is shown in no longer flashes each page white while it redraws

0.2.1 August 29, 2026

Fixed

• Opening a PDF from the file tree could empty it
• Renaming the open note from its title dropped that note's external-change guard, so the next save could silently overwrite an edit made outside Deft

0.2.0 August 28, 2026

Added

• LaTeX live preview
• Tex Format, Paragraph, Align, and Insert context menus, with keyboard shortcuts (Mod-B/I/E/U) matching markdown's
• LaTeX outline
• Tab/Shift-Tab nest and un-nest LaTeX list items (\item), including multi-item selections; Enter continues list
• Windows builds are now code-signed

Changed

• Editor font size can be zoomed with Ctrl+scroll
• Settings reorganized: update checks and Tectonic's package downloads can now be turned off
• Each file type has its own icon in the file tree, and New Note, Document, Project and Folder are one New menu
• Typing in a long note is quicker
• Clicking inside a fenced code block or a verbatim block now reveals both its opening and closing markers

Fixed

• A keystroke could delete past a hidden marker it wasn't touching in always rendered mode
• Leading indentation on a LaTeX list item no longer reveals
• Clicking a rendered LaTeX title/author/date now reveals and jumps into the corresponding section in the preamble
• The Bold and Italic checkmarks in the right-click menu were wrong when the selection included the markup itself
• Focusing the editor no longer selects a range; UI chrome no longer answers a drag with a text selection

0.1.10 August 22, 2026

Added

• LaTeX (.tex) files: syntax highlighting, compile to PDF with a bundled or system LaTeX engine, an inline PDF preview, and a Problems panel with clickable diagnostics
• Inline and display math render in place, with KaTeX
• Syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks
• Indented code blocks now render in monospace

Changed

• The theme picker is a Light or Dark choice with Paper variants, plus High Contrast and Solarized
• Editor gained a Wide width preset; default font size increased to 16px
• Empty state now offers Open File/Open Folder/Create File

Removed

• Demo vault

Fixed

• File tree drag-to-move now works on Windows; drop-highlight no longer flickers
• Ordered lists renumber correctly when an item is deleted
• Table widget cursor no longer drifts near a table's vertical margins

0.1.9 August 14, 2026

Added

• Paste HTML content from Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, or a browser as markdown instead of plain text
• An editor mode where markdown syntax never reveals, with formatting from shortcuts or the right-click menu
• A scroll-aware Outline panel
• A Numbered Lists setting to control auto-continue at the end of a list

Changed

• Frontmatter properties are now shown as a read-only widget
• Backlinks moved into a movable, hideable sidebar panel
• The Settings sidebar has icons and an Editor Behavior tab
• Both sidebars auto-collapse when opening a stray file from outside the folder
• Table auto-reformat respects the new hidden-markup mode

Fixed

• Up/Down cursor jumped over lines near a table
• Bold/italic unwrap misbehaved when the marker characters themselves were selected
• Vertical motion could skip past frontmatter or scan an unbounded region
• Backlinks could show stale results when switching notes mid-scan
• Note or folder names with Windows-invalid characters are now rejected at creation
• Tilde, indented, and unclosed fenced code blocks are now recognized correctly

0.1.8 August 11, 2026

Added

• A banner reports failures that used to pass silently
• External changes to an open note are now detected instead of silently overwritten
• Pending edits now flush to disk on window close, not just the autosave timer
• A second Deft launch now focuses the running window, or opens a new one for a different folder
• Insert Image and Numbered List added to the editor's right-click menu
• Sort-direction icons in the file tree's sort menu
• Right-click the title/breadcrumbs to quick-switch between them
• Table cells now render formatted text

Changed

• "Vault" is now called "folder"
• Note title display now defaults to none
• Selected text no longer drags to relocate itself
• Tasks/Bookmarks panel entries no longer show raw markdown markup
• Search snippets no longer show raw highlight/bookmark/footnote syntax

Removed

• Orphan notes list

Fixed

• A long note with many checkboxes could hang the editor
• Note/image/folder creation could silently overwrite each other on a fast double-click
• A vanished or unreadable file could break an entire folder listing
• Imported files with Windows-invalid characters could fail to save
• The Linux desktop entry had a malformed MIME type and miscategorized file associations

0.1.7 August 7, 2026

Fixed

• Pressing Enter right after a checked task's checkbox could leave the checkmark on an empty line instead of on the task text
• Task checkboxes and list bullets needed an extra keystroke to delete, or could show inconsistent state under a partial selection
• Typing an image or note-embed reference showed a broken-image icon, or could be clicked like a link, before the filename was finished
• Backlinks and orphan-note detection mistook an image/note-embed reference for a real link to another note
• The demo vault opened to a blank editor instead of the Welcome note
• Linux AppImage builds could show a blank window on launch
• The Linux app's desktop entry was missing a category

0.1.6 August 7, 2026

Added

• Drag an image in from your OS file manager directly into a note
• List and blockquote indentation now scales with real nesting depth
• Scrolling past the end of a note's content
• Window size, maximized state, and sidebar widths are now persisted across launches

Changed

• Images now always render as pictures instead of collapsing into markup on click
• Pasting an image is faster
• Tab now inserts a wider indent
• Markdown syntax markers rendered muted
• Context menus now open upward when they wouldn't fit below the click point
• Minimum window width lowered to 480px; sidebars auto-collapse below 900px
• The file tree now only shows folders and files it can actually open

Fixed

• Pasting a long clipboard silently failed on Windows
• Checkboxes were hard to edit
• Images with a space in the filename failed to render
• Dragging an existing vault image into a note duplicated it instead of reusing the file

0.1.5 August 5, 2026

Changed

• Opening a file from outside your vault now switches to it for that session instead of changing the configured vault

Fixed

• External links whose display text looked like a URL rendered as nothing at all
• Plain typed or pasted URLs weren't rendered as clickable links
• Links with no display text rendered as invisible
• Clicking a link didn't open it

0.1.4 August 1, 2026

Added

• .txt file support
• Source view toggle
• File tree sorting
• OS to file tree drag copy
• "Reveal in File Explorer" added to file tree context menus
• Note title display setting: full title, breadcrumbs, or none
• Markdown highlights with a customizable highlight color
• Check for updates from Settings
• Installs register Deft as OS's handler for .md files and folders

Changed

• Copying or cutting a task list item now strips the raw markdown syntax
• Breadcrumbs title display is now a sticky toolbar
• File tree hides files that can't be opened or embedded in notes

Removed

• Customizable status bar color

0.1.3 July 31, 2026

Added

• Customizable status bar color
• Automatic updates

Changed

• Windows installer now installs per-user

0.1.2 July 30, 2026

Added

• Demo vault
• Markdown tables
• Markdown links and autolinks
• Markdown horizontal rules
• Markdown footnotes
• Markdown images

Fixed

• Notes created from an unresolved wikilink could be written outside the vault if the link text contained path segments like ../
• Trashing the currently open note right after an edit could make it reappear
• Switching quickly between two notes could occasionally leave the wrong one open
• Renaming a note property to match another property's name could silently drop one of them
• Editor cursor showing black instead of matching text color

0.1.1 July 29, 2026

Fixed

• Note titles displayed as the full file path on Windows

0.1.0 July 29, 2026

Initial alpha release.