Changelog

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
• File tree now shows a per-format icon for each file type; New Note/Document/Project/Folder consolidated into one New dropdown
• Improved editor efficiency on input
• 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/Italic/etc. checkmarks in the context menu now show correctly when a selection includes the formatting 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 via a bundled or system LaTeX engine, an inline PDF preview, and a Problems panel with clickable diagnostics
• Inline and display math rendered live via KaTeX
• Syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks
• Indented code blocks now render in monospace

Changed

• Theme picker redesigned as a Light/Dark combo with Paper variants, plus High Contrast and Solarized presets
• 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 via 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
• Settings sidebar redesigned with 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 now surfaces failures that used to fail 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 via 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.