Changelog

1.48.0 (2026-10-30)

Features

• add git autosync (6a00801)
• redesign settings / sync page (a7debd6)

Chore & Maintenance

• fix more pedantic clippy findings and make code more robust (034387a)
• rename release key alias variable to fix semantic release secure regex (38701c0)

Documentation

• add autosync docs (3fe2513)
• fix links in changelog (295a1ff)

1.47.0 (2026-10-28)

Features

• preserve page location on refresh actions (sync and manual refresh) (e05da28)
• redesign sync settings page. Hide sync settings when sync is configured successfully and show green check marks (60e1cd9)

Bug Fixes

• Autoupdate feature does not clean text input of markdown block anymore (b764672)
• Fix release notes urls (c820905)

Chore & Maintenance

• fix clippy pedantic findings and make code more robust (f1b0f40)
• make backend more robust about edge cases like missing file system permissions (3a9b1b5)

1.46.8 (2026-10-28)

Bug Fixes

• Enable HTTPS_PROXY settings for git sync (9f83a44)

Chore & Maintenance

• first steps towards pedantic clippy (1e96ff8)

1.46.7 (2026-10-27)

Bug Fixes

• add git cleanup on startup (if app dies or gets closed when doing git stuff) (1c7c1a5)
• dont refresh page when no incoming commit is pulled (8c20104)
• improve repo discovery performance (6a81444)

1.46.6 (2026-10-25)

Bug Fixes

• Fix version bump on semantic release artifacts (1b2bba9)

1.46.5 (2026-10-25)

Bug Fixes

• Fix version bump on semantic release artifacts (f693923)

v1.46.4 (2026-10-25)

• Fix: Git Sync with builtin git can not create diverged git repos anymore

• Fix: Disable update selection, when update is not possible in current enviroment

• Fix: Re-Add basic color scheme for mermaid diagrams

v1.46.3 (2026-10-15)

All versions

• Fix: Prevent content assist from opening when rename popup is already open

• Fix rename popup styling on light-mode

• Fix first journal date when application stays open until the next day.

v1.46.2 (2026-10-13)

All versions

• Update graph-version (and block startup) only if migrations would change the graph structure (breaking change only)
• Update dependencies

Linux rpm/deb

• Update looksyk command name from src-tauri to looksyk
• Git-Sync configuration text color adapts now to the configured design
• Add explanation on Git-Sync when internal git is not available

v1.46.1 (2026-10-03)

Android

• Fix face condition on app startup
• Fix freezing when app tries to open link in another browser

v1.46.0 (2026-09-30)

Windows / Android / Linux

• Add display-type line-markdown for insert-file-content query, and add the option and suggestion to code completion

• Fix possible outbreak out of code-blocks in insert-file-content quey

• Fix rendering of markdown in blocks query

v1.45.1 (2026-09-29)

Windows / Android / Linux (all tauri versions)

• Fix “save block” on checkbox-click in referenced markdown content
• Fix navigation when url navigates outside of the application

v1.45.0 (2026-09-28)

All versions

• Remove shift + space shortcut to open content assist

• Remove packaged git in windows portable (not needed anymore - git is already compiled into the app)

• Fix alt-enter should open new created block

• Fix delete user page

• Fix updater

v1.44.0 (2026-09-27)

Windows / Android / Linux (all version with keyboard controlls)

• Markdown-block-delete shortcut opens the next markdown block after deletion

• Alt and ArrowUp and ArrowDown navigates between the markdown block (if one is currently in edit)

• Fix: After focus out of an edit-field, the shortcuts do not remember the last open block anymore

v1.43.4 (2026-09-25)

Windows / Android / Linux (all tauri versions)

• Fix image loading for images embedded by markdown-syntax

v1.43.3 (2026-09-24)

Windows

• Fix git init function to re-enable system-git usage (when configured)

• Enable updater

AppImage

• Fix git init function to re-enable system-git usage (when configured)

• Enable updater

Linux (other)

• Fix git init function to re-enable system-git usage (when configured)

v1.43.2 (2026-09-19)

Docker

• Fix asset loading

v1.43.1 (2026-09-15)

All

• Fix edit buttons on plot pages

• Fix mermaid rendering

• Update dependencies

Linux AppImage

• Change build process to fix startup issues on non-debian systems

v1.43.0 (2026-09-14)

All

• Improve loading behavior: textfield preserves size and shows pulse animation for loading

• Move markdown rendering into backend, improves performance and stability

• Extend insert-file-content query with “pdf-viewer” type.

• Add delete-block shortcut

• Allow right-click on bullet point to open context menu

• Replace openmoji icons with default system emojis

Docker

• Fix loading of user-pages

Linux AppImage

• Remove bundeled git (only builtin git available, when no git is installed on the host)

v1.42.0 (2026-09-07)

All

• Move zoom settings from keyboard-shortcut only to the settings page. This allows zoom for non-keyboard devices.

• Enlage letter-spacing in markdown-blocks on windows machines to enhance readability.

• Fix link name on help page

Android App

• Align version number in apk with looksyk versions

Windows Portable

• Replace Electron with Tauri (prevents potential port conflicts, reduce bundle size -70%, removes the need for startup-scripts)

Linux AppImage

• Replace Electron with Tauri (prevents potential port conflicts, reduce bindle size -70%, removes the need for startup-scripts)

Linux PKGBUILD

Replace Electron with Tauri (prevents potential port conflicts, reduce bindle size -70%, removes the need for startup-scripts)

v1.41.0 (2026-09-03)

Enhancements:

• Simplify sync: Replace two button workflow with a single button

• Make all read- (and render-) actions parallel. This improves loading of all pages and elements.

• Improve memory layout (smaller backend footprint, needs less CPU and Memory on changes)

Bugfixes:

• Fix copy-pasting html content in non-markdown textfields

• Fix / Improve Android App startup time when git sync is enabled.

• Reduce loading of journal-pages in actix-web deployments to prevent statuscode 512

v1.40.0 (2026-08-24)

Enhancements:

• Replace mermaid-diagramm renderer. Now support of all diagramm-types and it it renders them much faster

• Replace sha3 checksum for files with blake3 checksum, that is significantly faster

• Additional git support with HTTP (PAT) auth. PAT is stored in system keystore if available

• Improve scrolling-stability of journal view. Items are loaded and rendered much further in advance so that scrolling is smoother.

• Replace native plotters font dependencies (and embeds a default font), systemfonts are not needed for plotting anymore

Bugfixes:

• Mermaid-Edit page refreshes the preview on every button click (and not on every other button click)

• Kanban Page does not load page information multible times after a while

• Git-Sync pushes updates when reconnected to the internet (not only on next commit)

• Connecting to a git-graph with different version will trigger migrations immediately

v1.30.3 (2026-07-29)

Enhancements:

• Fix update-check on startup

v1.30.2 (2026-07-28)

Enhancements:

• Update dependencies

v1.30.1 (2026-06-12)

Enhancements:

• Fix windows updater

v1.30.0 (2026-06-09)

Enhancements:

• When pasting html-text into the text field, it gets automatically converted to markdown

v1.29.0 (2026-06-08)

Enhancements:

• Add table query
• Improve spacing of sidebar-elements on mobile browsers
• Add updater for AppImage deployments
• Add updater for Windows deployments
• Update dependencies

v1.28.0 (2026-05-28)

Enhancements:

• Add divider-query

Bugfixes:

• Remove basic-auth gateway on non-auth-situations
• Replace outdated material-checkbox with looksyk-checkbox in referenced markdown

v1.27.3 (2026-05-26)

Enhancements:

• Secure local app endpoints with random basic auth

v1.27.2 (2026-05-20)

Enhancements:

• Add matrix link

• Update dependencies

v1.27.1 (2026-05-14)

Enhancements:

• (windows) The parameters of the BAT script are passed on to the application wrapper.
• Revised App Icon
• Add “copy link” button on user pages in user page menu
• Add “copy embed code” button on media details page

Bugfixes:

• Update check detects Codeberg versions (with a leading ‘v’).

• Migration to 1.27.0 (and later) no longer disables the Tab keyboard shortcut (this can be configured via new settings).

v1.27.0 (2026-05-13)

Enhancements:

• Set icon on windows portable build

• Package git in windows portable build

• Add file upload button on mobile devices

• Add configuration to disable tab-key indentation behavior

• Add update check via codeberg

Bugfixes:

• Configuration changes are documented in git commits

v1.26.3 (2026-04-24)

Enhancements:

• Update dependencies

v1.26.2 (2026-04-21)

Enhancements:

• 🎉 First windows build

• Add an error message to the Electron client if the backend process cannot even be started.

• Electron Client no longer looks for a preload.js file (it was never needed).

• If the backend has longer startup times, the update interval of Electron is reduced to save resources.

• Reduce docker image size

Bugfixes:

• Renaming the backend executable for the local build to prevent possible endless recursion at startup in case of incorrect configuration.

v1.26.1 (2026-04-08)

Enhancements:

• Improve design of quotes (desktop and mobile)
• Improve behavior on malformed requests

v1.26.0 (2026-04-07)

Enhancements:

• Add mermaid diagrams
• Add embed button for all plot types (line charts from page properties aswell as mermaid diagrams)
• Improve sidebar spacing on mobile
• Improve documentation

v1.25.0 (2026-03-29)

Enhancements:

• Improve design

v1.24.0 (2026-03-29)

Enhancements:

• Improve design

Bugfixes:

• Fix scrolling in settings-page

v1.23.0 (2026-03-24)

Enhancements:

• Replace material checkbox with html checkbox to fix issues in mobile browsers. The checkbox now also follows the user’s color theme.

Bugfixes:

• Journal-View: Scrolling forward and then backward no longer spontaneously displays outdated data (display only).

v1.22.2 (2026-03-16)

• Fix software-keyboard input on mobile navigation pages
• Update backend dependencies

v1.22.1 (2026-03-15)

• Fix software-keyboard input on mobile navigation pages
• Add back button on mobile navigation pages<

v1.22.0 (2026-03-13)

Enhancements:

• Add navigation buttons in sidebar on mobile devices
• Remove white border on indentations

Bugfixes:

• Fix git configuration command on initial git sync setup

v1.21.0 (2026-03-11)

Enhancements:

• Improve whitespace in menu for mobile devices
• Add “increase indentation” and “decrease indentation” buttons to the markdown menu
• Add “close menu” button to the markdown menu for mobile devices

v1.20.5 (2026-03-10)

Enhancements:

• Show if backend has errors in the UI
• Improve whitespace for mobile devices

Bugfixes:

• Un-Poison add-state on refresh app
• Allow deleting non-existing files

v1.20.4 (2026-03-10)

Bugfixes:

• Stabilize media.json when starting up the app

v1.20.3 (2026-02-18) First Codeberg release 🎉🎉🎉

• Initial release on Codeberg
• Update dependencies

v1.20.2 (2026-02-07)

Maintenance:

• Update dependencies

v1.20.1 (2026-02-03)

Maintenance:

• Update dependencies

v1.20.0 (2026-02-02)

Enhancements:

• Add plot property query
• Boards and board-configurations can now be stored in favourites
• Material theme is now adapted to light/dark mode

Bugfixes:

• Light/darkmode toggle does not throw internal error anymore
• SVG-assets in journal-view are not desturbing the scrollbar anymore

Other:

• Improve documentation
• Make version-check via submodule

v1.19.0 (2026-01-29)

Enhancements:

• The prioritization properties on cards of the Kanban board now have an effect on the sorting of the cards within the column.
• Trim Kanban column titles in configuration to make the configuration more robust

Bugfixes:

• Update static asset caching mechanism to fix style-caching problems in electron

Maintenance:

• Update dependencies

Other:

• PKGBUILD: Run tests on release profile, to reduce build time

v1.18.3 (2025-12-28)

Bugfixes:

• Fix error when asset folder contains subfolders (not supported yet, but should not crash the app)
• Fix highlighting on focus out of markdown block on firefox desktop.

v1.18.2 (2025-12-16)

Maintenance:

• Update dependencies
• Update log-output on startup

v1.18.1 (2025-11-25)

Bugfixes:

• Fix Kanban-Board rendering update on drag- and drop of cards between columns
• Rename startup-script to prevent name clash on windows systems
• Add new navigation shortcut Shift + Space (because keyboard shortcut clash on GNOME and Electron >=38)

v1.18.0 (2025-11-22)

Enhancements:

• The date of journal entries can be adjusted to different date formats.
• Improvement of the configuration interface of the board view
• Revision of the Global Configuration Interface

v1.17.0 (2025-11-06)

Enhancements:

• Add Boards 🎉
• Add block properties (currently only used for boards, and highlighted in the markdown)
• Internal refactoring of backend and frontend. Homogenization of the rendering of the built-in pages. Improves load-time of built-in pages (slightly).
• Add performance test for Markdown parser to track performance changes over time

Bugfixes:

• After a partial render update, the block is displayed in the same way as if the entire page were re-rendered.

v1.16.2 (2025-10-08)

Enhancements:

• Show application version in configuration

Bugfixes:

• Fix theme name in configuration

v1.16.1 (2025-10-07)

Enhancements:

• Show saving state on exit application when git sync is enabled

v1.16.0 (2025-09-30)

Enhancements:

• Errors on startup show in the window (not only in console)
• Add new theme “Glacier” (and made it default)

Bugfixes:

• Fix “halt on startup when git not accessible” switch to halt again

v1.15.0 (2025-09-21)

Enhancements:

• Redesign of journal calendar view

Bugfixes:

• Navigate to internal links via angular router instead of reloading the whole page

v1.14.3 (2025-09-17)

Enhancements:

• Change default graph location according to XDG base directory specification or Documents/graphs when xdg not set
• Change default config location according to XDG base directory specification or ~/.config/looksyk/config.json when xdg not set
• Update dependencies of backend, frontend and application-wrapper

Fixes:

• De-duplicate history entries in sidebar again
• Fix journal titles in loading state to show Loading… instead of undefined

v1.14.2 (2025-09-03)

Enhancements:

• Add version in metadata

v1.14.1 (2025-09-03)

Enhancements:

• Add appinfo / metainfo xml for appstream build

v1.14.0 (2025-08-27)

Enhancements:

• Increase max file size for assets (>10gb)
• Add git sync feature
• Add AppImage build to CI
• Update fav-icon for docker deployment

Bugfixes:

• Frontend-State gets refreshed on rename-page aswell as delete-page
• Fix Frontend-Caching in Electron Clients

v1.13.5 (2025-08-03)

Internal refactoring / reduction of code duplication

v1.13.4 (2025-07-20)

Enhancements:

• detecting the followiing file types as code: yml, yaml, json and bash

v1.13.3 (2025-07-17)

Enhancements:

• Improve design
• Detect avif files as images

v1.13.2 (2025-07-14)

Bugfixes:

• Fix focus out event on markdown block only to fire once.

v1.13.1 (2025-07-11)

Enhancements:

• Allow trailing new-line in version.txt

Bugfixes:

• Skip folders an non-markdown files in journal and pages folder.

v1.13.0 (2025-07-08)

Enhancements:

• Add settings page

v1.12.0 (2025-07-06)

Enhancements:

• Add query type todo-progress
• Add display type cards for blocks query
• Add help page
• Change markdown rendering to allow html in markdown (allows custom styling)
• Improve overall design of the application

v1.11.3 (2025-07-02)

Enhancements:

• Insert loading pinner in bootup process
• (flatpak local): Add wayland support for flatpak

Fixes:

• Fix content assist to insert the correct amount of leading braces

Maintenance:

• Update backend dependencies

v1.11.2 (2025-07-01)

Maintenance:

• Update electron to fix security issues and shortcut issues

v1.11.1 (2025-06-30)

Enhancements:

• (flatpak) github release automation
• (flatpak) use zypak for running instead of no-sandbox-mode

v1.11.0 (2025-06-30)

Enhancements:

• Change application icon
• Show loading spinner instead of loading text
• Improve Flatpak desktop file, and flatpak archive name

Fixes:

• Disable horizontal scrolling in journal log page

v1.10.4 (2025-06-29)

Enhancements:

• Fix focus out bug
• Improve flatpak build (desktop icon)

v1.10.3 (2025-06-28)

Enhancements:

• Add flatpak build
• Update docs

v1.10.2 (2025-06-25)

Enhancements:

• Add appearance settings to the config.json to fix light/dark mode switching

v1.10.1 (2025-06-23)

Enhancements:

• Replace index-based block identification tracking of angular with block id tracking (fixes rendering issues)
• Add max width for sidebar
• Change download fab to download icon

v1.10.0 (2025-06-21)

Enhancements:

• Refactor overall UI / UX (Part 1), thanks to @mschmidtkorth
• Refactor content assist / search UI / UX, thanks to @mschmidtkorth
• Add keyboard shortcuts for MacOS/Arc

v1.9.0 (2025-06-15)

Enhancements:

• Add templates
• Fix missing action on “Insert Block” in content assist
• Fix pages without blocks (not possible anymore, treated as empty page)
• Improve backlink formatting for journal backlinks
• Improve design of backlinks

v1.8.0 (2025-06-12)

Enhancements:

• Improve overall design in frontend
• Improve rendered special-pages in backend

v1.7.0 (2025-06-07)

Enhancements:

• Design rework
• History shows only unique consecutive entries
• Show “/” in title on user pages
• Fix out of bound scrolling
• Increase max filesize for single pages
• Fix forced page reload on special pages

v1.6.0 (2025-06-04)

Enhancements:

• Add “Convert block to page” button in block context menu
• Enhance documentation with more example screenshots
• Change “rename page” dialog to pop-up dialog

v1.5.6 (2025-06-01)

Enhancements:

• Update application-wrapper dependencies
• Update backend dependencies
• Update docs

v1.5.5 (2025-05-29)

Enhancements:

• Update frontend dependencies
• Update page title

v1.5.4 (2025-05-27)

Enhancements:

• Add parameter window-height, ẁindow-width and window-zoom as command args
• Update documentation
• Update backend dependencies
• Update application-wrapper dependencies

v1.5.3 (2025-04-30)

Enhancements:

• Dependency updates in frontend, backend and application-wrapper
• Docs: Update intro gif

v1.5.2 (2025-04-10)

Enhancements:

• Dependency updates in frontend, backend and application-wrapper

v1.5.1 (2025-03-28)

Enhancements:

• Add block query in docs

Bugfixes:

• Fix WM_CLASS in desktop file (windows are now grouped in the taskbar)

v1.5.0 (2025-03-14)

Enhancements:

• Add custom css file for advanced styling
• Add docker/docker compose deployment
• Update dependencies

Bugfixes:

• fix font loading

v1.4.6 (2025-03-08)

Enhancements:

• Update backend dependencies
• Update PKGBUILD

v1.4.5 (2025-03-06)

Enhancements:

• Change create desktop icons to use installed looksyk version
• Rename package and remove “-git”
• Update frontend dependencies

v1.4.4 (2025-03-05)

Enhancements:

• Improve PKGBUILD

v1.4.3 (2025-03-04)

Enhancements:

• Add PKGBUILD for arch linux

v1.4.2 (2025-03-03)

Enhancements:

• Move title option into the config.json

Internal:

• Prepare pkgbuild

v1.4.1. (2025-03-01)

Enhancements:

• Save config.json and media.json in pretty-json format

Internal:

• Replace ngIf directive with @if
• Fix clippy warnings
• Update angular

v1.4.0 (2025-02-16)

Enhancements:

• Add block-query
• Insert filename in content assist input on select file

Bugfixes:

v1.3.4 (2025-02-12)

Enhancements:

• Reduce whitespace in journal-view

Bugfixes:

• Fix z-index on hide sidebar button

v1.3.3 (2025-02-11)

Enhancements:

• Security updates (dependencies)

Bugfixes:

• Fix scolling out of bounds on “open markdown”
• Fix horizontal scrolling in sidebar
• Fix “hide sidebar” button-position on initial paint

v1.3.2 (2025-01-28)

Enhancements:

• Make content assist suggestions scrollable
• Improve design of scrollbars
• Scroll into view on open markdown

Bugfixes:

v1.3.1 (2025-01-27)

Enhancements:

• Add blinking cursor in content assist pop up
• Improve content assist spacing
• Add trigger to hide / show menu bar
• Improve performance of content-assist filtering

Bugfixes:

• Change sidebar to global sidenav
• Fix clicking on item in content-assist

v1.3.0 (2025-01-22)

Enhancements:

• interpret *.sh extension as “code”-file
• reduce min-width in journal view

Bugfixes:

• Fix horizontal scrolling in journal view

v1.2.0 (2025-01-21)

Enhancements:

• Add refresh button to the sidebar
• Add journal overview page

Internal:

• Update angular frontend
• Update electron application-wrapper
• Update rust backend

v1.1.0 (2025-01-21)

Enhancements:

• Added filesize and last modified date to the media detail view
• Added a download button in media detail view
• Removed “Media:” prefix in media detail view title
• Add “reload” button that invalidates and reloads the complete backend- and frontend-state

Bugfixes:

• Names of file upload files get sanitized
• Disable rich-text editor when copy/paste

v1.0.2 (2025-01-15)

Enhancements:

• Reduce font-size of large items in history-list in sidebar

Bugfixes:

• Page does move out of the viewport anymore when large code-blocks are re-rendered
• Hover-effect on title-hierarchy does not move the title a few pixels anymore
• Checking / Unchecking a todo in a referenced query when the page does have special characters in the name does not throw an error anymore

v1.0.1 (2025-01-13)

Enhancements:

• Hints for query names and parameters, when query is not compiling

Bugfixes:

• Fix incremental refresh of tag-index
• Fix code-completion for references-query

Internal:

• Rewrite PageId from String to surrogate key of PageType and SimplePageName

v1.0.0 (2025-01-06)

• Initial release