2026-09-26 Martin Dvorak * Released v2.5.0 - new Notebook/Note associations (BM25), status bar w/ ADLMSTW diodes, new Debian PPA. * Feature: Debian 13 Trixie PPA - MindForger is newly provided for Debian 13 Trixie in addition to Debian 12 Bookworm (Debian 11 Bullseye, 10 Buster and 9 Stretch PPAs are kept, but frozen) at https://www.mindforger.com/debian-ppa/ * Enhancement: new 3rd Note associations generation - Best Matching 25 (BM25; TF-IDF + normalization which prevents long(er) docs from winning) based associations algorithm (extension of BoW): Notes are matched by whole words (e.g. "art" no longer matches "start"), rare words weigh more than common ones (TF-IDF), long Notes no longer win just because of their length, Notes sharing tags w/ the current Note/Notebook are associated and the associations are computed ~2x faster. * Enhancement: association score is shown visually as a meter and the precise score is newly shown in the tooltip only. * Enhancement: status bar indicators ("diodes") in the lower right corner of the main window - a capsule w/ autolinking (A), diagrams (D), live spell check (L), math (M), source code syntax highlighting (S), thinking (T) and Wingman availability (W) segments. * Change: autolinking, thinking and math are newly enabled by default after fresh MindForger installation. * Change: View/CLI menu item renamed to View/Command Palette. * Change: Debian PPA installation instructions use signed-by keyring instead of apt-key, which is no longer available on Debian Trixie. * Change: Debian PPA signing key self-signatures were refreshed from SHA-1 to SHA-512 (the key fingerprint is unchanged) as Debian Trixie apt rejects keys w/ SHA-1 self-signatures - please DO re-import the key from https://www.mindforger.com/gpgpubkey.txt * Fix: MindForger could randomly crash on exit as the async autolinking and associations worker thread kept running while the application was being torn down - the worker is newly stopped and joined on shutdown w/o any delay regardless of the configured async refresh interval (#1563). 2026-09-23 Martin Dvorak * Released v2.4.1 - Flatpak @ Wayland. * Fix: Flatpak build would not start on a native Wayland session as the startup text-console check only recognized the X11 DISPLAY environment variable and exited before Qt could start, even though WAYLAND_DISPLAY was correctly set by the sandbox. 2026-09-22 Martin Dvorak * Released v2.4.0 - Flatpak. * Feature: Flatpak distribution - single-file .flatpak bundle downloadable from the GitHub release (not hosted on Flathub). * Fix: winget Makefile target paths. * Change: line endings are newly pinned repository wide by .gitattributes - text files are stored and checked out w/ LF on every platform, while Windows only scripts (.bat, .cmd, .ps1, .iss) and the vendored stemmer library keep CRLF. A clone made w/ core.autocrlf=true no longer rewrites the shell scripts to CRLF, which made them unrunnable and shipped a broken launcher inside the Snap and Flatpak packages. 2026-09-21 Martin Dvorak * Released v2.3.0 - Notebook shelves, localization to 4 languages, lines sorting, winget packaging, Markdown export, non-ASCII links navigation. * Feature: Notebook shelves - single notebook tree was rewritten to custom notebook shelves - create as many named notebook shelves for notebooks you want to group as needed and add Notebooks to them explicitly. * Feature: Notebook/Export/Markdown - export a Notebook to a file in Markdown format. * Feature: Preferences now let you pick the UI language - System default, English, Czech, Spanish or other available translation instead of following the OS locale. * Feature: Czech (cs_CZ) localization. * Feature: Mandarin Chinese (simplified, zh_CN) localization (LLM - not reviewed by native speaker). * Feature: Hindi (hi_IN) localization (LLM - not reviewed by native speaker).. * Feature: Spanish (es_ES) localization (LLM - not reviewed by native speaker).. * Feature: Edit/Sort Lines - sorts the selected lines - or the lines of the block under the cursor - alphabetically. * Enhancement: improved Emoji insert dialog so that it can be used w/o mouse, emojis can be filtered by name, selected using arrows - which move by the visual rows across the dialog sections - and inserted w/ Enter or Ctrl-[number] shortcuts. * Enhancement: changed in-app diagram support configuration from dropdown to checkbox. * Enhancement: CSV export no longer freezes UI on big repo and/or slow(er) HW as export newly runs in the modal dialog w/ progress bar and it can be cancelled. * Enhancement: improved performance of the find Note/Notebook by Name dialog on large repositories - filtering as you type is debounced and no longer reallocates Qt strings per keystroke. The list is newly filtered via a proxy/cache model which fixed a serious lag when using backspace. * Fix:CSV export reported success even when the CSV file could not be written and it did not check whether the target CSV file already exists. * Fix: navigation of links to Notebooks/Notes whose names contain non-ASCII characters only (e.g. Korean, Chinese, Czech diacritics). * Fix: source code syntax highlighting no longer crashes MindForger thanks to the migration to Qt WebEngine + upgraded the offline highlight.js library to new version. * Distribution: added winget distribution tooling to generate and submit MindForger.MindForger manifests to microsoft/winget-pkgs. * Build: l10n of all languages can be updated, checked and compiled by a single non-interactive 'make l10n' build target. * Build: .qm - binary localization catalogs are newly generated from their .ts sources and no longer stored in the Git repo to avoid unresolvable conflicts. * Cleanup: hid not-yet-ready Workspace/Semantic Search menu item from production builds. 2026-09-13 Martin Dvorak * Released v2.2.0 - Rewrap, Snap distro, WebEngine (Linux), KaTeX and autolinking. * Feature: Edit/Rewrap Paragraph - fills/rewraps the paragraph under the cursor to 80 columns. * Enhancement: Qt WebEngine is newly the default HTML rendering backend on Linux as it already was on Windows and macOS. * Enhancement: Math support now offers KaTeX (really fast, offline @ QT resources included MF binary) and MathJax (legacy, upgraded, offline) instead of online CDN dependency. * Enhancement: add emojis by clicking associated button when adding new Notebook/Note or editing Notebook/Note name or description. * Fix: strict Snap shipped with no menu/toolbar icons. * Fix: colors of autolinking generated Note/Outline interlinks are in blue. * Fix: bare http(s):// URLs containing Markdown-special characters (e.g. '_') got backslash-escaped by the autolinking preprocessor's Markdown round-trip which corrupted the result - fixed by verbatim using CommonMark's <...>. * Fix: "arrow down" in the dialog to find Note/Outline by name finally gives always focus to the first entry in the list instead of scrolling down. * Fix: "arrow up" in the Notebook/Note tree no longer loses tree focus and switches to the Notebook description when pressed with no row selected. * Fix: offline Mermaid diagram rendering works again - mermaid.js was not registered as a Qt resource, so it always silently failed. Online option removed. * Cleanup: stripped malformed iCCP profile from (un)used logos. * Build: simplified version handling - lib/src/app_info.h as authoritative source. 2026-09-02 Martin Dvorak * Released v2.1.0 - Local LLMs support, Notes semantic search and orphan library documents management. * Project upgraded from C++11 to C++14 - this is the conservative change which enables MindForger to be built on GitHub Actions/Appveyor/CI nodes again and catches up a bit on new distros. * Enhancement: autolinking renders manual links and auto links in different colors - blue vs. green. * Enhancement: improved tag rendering for TODO/WIP/DONE and priorities P0/P1/P2. * Feature: ollama integration brings privacy safe Wingman via local ollama hosted LLMs. * Feature: OpenRouter LLM provider support - OpenRouter (openrouter.ai) can now be configured as Wingman's LLM provider using OpenAI-compatible API. * Enhancement: improved LLM providers configuration - ollama, OpenAI and OpenRouter support environment vs. configuration, LLM model fetch and selection, indicate whether the data are shared w/ 3rd party or not. * Enhancement: library orphans detection. * Build: reworked Snap packaging - bumped base core18 -> core24, switched to strict confinement, replaced the classic qmake plugin options with the craft-parts qmake plugin, refreshed build/stage packages for Ubuntu 24.04 and wired the Snap version to app_info.h like the other release artifacts. * Build: added a classic-confinement Snap variant (build/snap/apply-classic.sh, distro-snap-classic make target) for a downloadable GitHub Release build with full host filesystem access, alongside the strict Snap Store build. * Fix: the Snap build could silently package a stale, previously locally-built binary (potentially an RC/debug build) instead of a fresh compile - fixed by making the build self-contained (builds its own cmark-gfm dependency, strips untracked host artifacts via 'git clean -xdf' on its own source copy) and by fixing a latent app.pro bug where 'make install' resolved the compiled binary against the source directory instead of the actual build directory, which only ever mattered for an out-of-source/shadow build (like the Snap's). * Fix: the first O name rendering after MF start no longer shows ellipsis. * Fix: added escaping of ampersands in O name Qt view. * Fix: Ctrl+/ now uses the model configured in Preferences instead of a stale cached model when only the model name (not provider type) changes. * Fix: macOS CI updated to use macos-13 (Intel) runner with jurplel/install-qt-action@v4 to get Qt 5.15.2 with WebEngine - Homebrew's qt@5 on Apple Silicon (macos-latest) no longer ships qtwebengine. * Fix: source code fixed to be compilable w/o warning on systems w/ GCC 13+ (deprecated language and QT constructions updated & conditionally compiled). * Fix: removed call incorrect cURL option CURL_HTTPOST for legacy POSTs. * Fix: Linux desktop integration reworked - .desktop file and icons moved to standard hicolor theme paths, AppStream metainfo added for Linux software centers. * Test fix: stabilized MindTestCase.LearnAmnesiaLearn expected stale ontology tags count (14/17) - updated to match the P0/P1/P2 priority tags added by the tag colorization feature. * Doc: added media directory w/ banner(s), screenshots and favicon. * Experimental WIP Feature: embeddings calculation by ollama hosted LLM models. 2024-02-16 Martin Dvorak * Released v2.0.0 - a major release that removes unused features and brings several new features like Wingman. * Feature: Wingman brings OpenAI LLM integration allowing to compose, rewrite, summarize, NER or fix grammar of notes. * Feature: Notebook Tree view brings ability to organize Notebooks to a tree (outline). * Feature: Libraries bring ability to index external PDF files and generate Notebooks which represent them in MindForger. Synchronization and removal of the library (directory with files) is supported as well. * Feature: Emojis dialog allowing to use Unicode-based emojis in Notebooks and Notes names or text. * Feature: CLI can newly search knowledge on the internet sites - like Wikipedia, arXiv, or StackOverflow - on phrase which is the current context (Notebook or Note name; selected text or text under the cursor) in order to get more information about the phrase. * Enhancement: CLI rewrite - help, search, knowledge search (Wikipedia, arXiv, search engines) and commands. * Enhancement: Limbo added to the application menu View/Limbo. * Enhancement: Polished Preferences - Appearance refactored to Controls, restart requirement highlighted. * Enhancement: Added up and down button in O/N preview mode to move around O's Ns while presenting a N. * Enhancement: MindForger icon changed to GenAI style. * Enhancement: menu refactoring impacting Scope, and Navigate and various menu items. * Fix: Missing OOTB Eisenhower Matrix is automatically added back to the list of Organizers. * Fix: Conflicting menu keyboard shortcuts resolution (e.g. Organizers view). * Fix: Edit and Format menus re-enabled on single Markdown file configuration. * Upgrade: new version(s) of Qt with enhanced security support added - Qt 5.15.2 LTS is supported on macOS and Windows. * Deprecation: dashboard view removed. * Deprecation: experimental Mitie (NER) code removed (replaced by LLM integration). 2023-01-15 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.55.0 - a minor release which fixes delete of a Note in the Notebook view that now keeps selected an adjacent Note, improves page up/page down navigation in table widgets, adds charset to the exported HTML head, adds new Note templates, and renames Repository to Workspace in the UI (source code kept intact). 2022-03-07 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.54.0 - macOS fix release: Qt downgraded from 5.9.9 (security) (macOS only), native L&F theme used by default, fixes which avoid loss of data (RD_ONLY file detection, preview links click, ...), macOS menu shortcuts (new Notebook, Note refactoring, ...), polished MindForger logo and menu icons, main window is not wider than screen on boot, view/edit bottom buttons work even if double-click 2 edit is disabled, toolbar is not hidden on window minimization, platform-driven default editor key binding fixes, Vim keybinding removal, Kanban/EM selection model and moves rewritten (at most one row selected, items can be moved around columns with shortcuts), home/end/page up/page down navigation in recent, notebooks and note tree listings. Note editor: Emacs editor keybinding enhancements (^-y, alt-w, ^-w, alt-d, ...), new buletted/numbered lists and code fences auto indentation on Enter, pair characters ({[" auto completion. Non-repository (MD file mode) fixes: Edit menu availability. * See also https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger/milestone/69?closed=1. 2021-12-26 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.53.0 - Custom Eisenhower Matrix on tags, Kanban style organizer on tags, repository specific configuration, lazy (PDF) documents indexation POC, edit Note in external editor/WYSIWYG (or tool), CSV export with one-hot-encoded tags, terminal allowing to run commands from MindForger, configuration of custom CSS file for HTML viewer, hunspell-based spell check, cmark-gfm upgrade to the latest version (0.29.0.gfm.2), various minor improvements (CSV export progress bar, configurable click view to edit, ...) and bug fixes (Note cloning, Markdown lists syntax highlighting, tags escaping, ...), Doxygen source code documentation generator. * See also https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger/milestone/68?closed=1. 2020-03-08 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.52.0 - Production quality Autolinking (cmark-gfm and Trie based), macOS improvements (keyboard shortcuts, drag & drop, key characters, ...), discount (MD to HTML processor) removal. * See also https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger/milestone/59?closed=1. 2020-02-16 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.51.0 - Live HTML preview, (partially) fixed Mermed diagrams, persistent Os table listing and various minor improvements and bug fixes. * See also https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger/milestone/60?closed=1. 2020-01-18 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.50.0 - New dashboard view, complete fulltext search rewamp, toolbar switch to flat icons theme; new menu items icons; images and attachments can be added with drag&drop, images and icons can be automatically copied to MindForger repository, added Notebook and Note completion on Ctrl-/, persistent hoist mode, (not released: autolinking rewrite to cmark-gfm for high performance, robust and extensible implementation). * See also https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger/milestone/44?closed=1. 2019-03-09 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.49.2 - Stabilization: fixed scrolling loop on Win, missing Win installer icon, panel maximization of FTS result page. 2019-03-06 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.49.1 - Stabilization: Ctrl-mouse wheel HTML preview zooming removed on Windows as it caused MindForger to crash. 2019-03-03 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.49.0 - native Windows version, Discount replaced with cmark-gfm as HTML preview engine and fix of 100% CPU consumption in table views. 2019-02-03 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.48.3 - Stabilization: partial fix of 100% CPU consumption in table views on Ubuntu 18.04. 2018-11-13 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.48.2 - Autolinking stabilization: less breaking of MD lines with links, math and code. 2018-11-10 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.48.0 - CSV export, autolinking preview, MathJax format menu. 2018-10-03 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.47.0 - Knowledge graph navigator, regex-based FTS, HTML notebook export, TWiki document import, recent notes (significant improvement), asynchronous associations calculation and Docker distro. 2018-09-03 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.46.0 - Normal terminology (nerd-style terminology can be enabled in the configuration) and toolbar. 2018-07-10 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.43.0 - Eisenhower matrix, tags view and recent notes view. 2018-05-30 Martin Dvorak * Released v1.42.0 - The first MindForger release on the day of my 42nd birthday. 2018-01-07 Martin Dvorak * The first commit to public Git repository. 2016-09-29 Martin Dvorak * The first line of the project written.