What's Changed

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💪 Fixes

• fix: Improve performance when multiple files are edited quickly by @claremacrae in #3394
• fix: Support Check boxes and List Items in "1)"-style numbered lists by @claremacrae in #3402

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• 7.18.4...7.18.5

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What's Changed

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💪 Fixes

• Prevent Auto-Suggest for NON_TASK statuses by @claremacrae in #3384
• Stable group by function task.urgency order by @claremacrae in #3392

🛠️ Behind the scenes

• refactor: ListItem.fromListItemLine() now correctly returns null by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3390
• refactor: Remove need to construct temporary Task objects by @claremacrae and by @ilandikov in #3391

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• 7.18.3...7.18.4

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What's Changed

• fix: Prevent use of missing properties in placeholders (#3249) by @claremacrae in #3380
  • This stops things like {{query.file.property('non-existent frontmatter property')}} becoming accidentally used in queries.
• refactor: Move code for rendering ListItem to TaskLineRenderer by @claremacrae and @ilandikov in #3377

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• 7.18.2...7.18.3

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What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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• fix: convert internal heading links when task is rendered in different file by @byronluk in #3357
• refactor: ListItem construction by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3370
• refactor: Provide consistent identicalTo() methods by @claremacrae and @ilandikov in #3373
• refactor: Finish implementing ListItem.fromListItemLine() by @claremacrae and @ilandikov in #3374

New Contributors

• @byronluk made their first contribution in #3357

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• 7.18.1...7.18.2

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What's Changed

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💪 Fixes

• fix: register handlers before the layout is ready by @mnaoumov in #3368
  • This fixes the display on startup of Tasks search results when in Callouts in Live Preview editing mode.

New Contributors

• @mnaoumov made their first contribution in #3368

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• 7.18.0...7.18.1

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What's Changed

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🌟 Features

• Include layout instructions in explain output by @claremacrae in #3364
• Explain ignore global query by @claremacrae in #3365

💪 Fixes

• Only execute searches after Obsidian finishes loading by @claremacrae and @mnaoumov in #3350

📖 Documentation

• Improve the API and QuickAdd pages by @claremacrae in #3351
• Fix "Unsupported markdown: list" mermaid diagram errors by @claremacrae in #3361

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• 7.17.0...7.18.0

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What's Changed

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Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

• fix: Reinstate date picker on iPhone - week starts on Monday by @esm7 and @claremacrae in #3348
• i18n: Add Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian translations by @bav2653 and @claremacrae in #3349

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• 7.16.0...7.17.0

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What's Changed

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Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

💪 Fixes

• fix: Toggle non-task checkbox lines in tree view by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3338
  • This fixes #3170: 'show tree' does not render non-task checkboxes

📖 Documentation

• docs: Document task.lineNumber for sorting by line number by @claremacrae in #3340
  • A much-requested feature is now documented: Use sort by function task.lineNumber to override the default sort order.
  • See the documentation.

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

• spike: Experimentally cache data from query.allTasks calculations by @claremacrae in #3339

Other changes:

• chore: Run pre-commit checks on .svelte and json test data files by @claremacrae in #3327
• contrib, chore: Improvements to setting up a build environment, mostly for vscode and windows. by @EanLombardo in #3337
• refactor: add TaskLocation to ListItem by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3326
• refactor: make ListItem class more similar to Task by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3328
• refactor: check or uncheck list items by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3329

New Contributors

• @EanLombardo made their first contribution in #3337

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• 7.15.1...7.16.0

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What's Changed

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• fix: detect Chinese language and refine the translation by @dangehub in #3323

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• This release celebrates Tasks reaching Two Million downloads!
• Tasks now requires Obsidian 1.4.0 or newer.
• Translations:
  • Add Chinese translation of Settings, Editing a Status and Check your Statuses.
  • To help with translation, visit discussion #3321 on GitHub and subscribe.
• Use standardised properties in Query files to customise your searches:
  • New Query File Defaults facility can quickly customise all Tasks searches in a file.
  • New 'Add all Query File Defaults properties' command
  • Use the Meta Bind plugin to make a query user interface.
• Use custom properties in Query files to customise your searches:
  • Add query.file.hasProperty() and query.file.property() in custom filters
  • Add {{query.file.hasProperty()}} and {{query.file.property()}} in placeholders - see Using Query Properties in Placeholders.
• Placeholders can now contain functions and contain expressions.
• Roadmap reviewed and updated.
  • See items we have prioritised as being of most value to users, and to reduce our user-support workload.
  • It is just a rough guideline, mainly to convey the size of the backlog.
  • The volume of requests on the Tasks project is so large that it is impossible to say with any confident if or when any item might be done.

Two million downloads...:

Chinese translation of settings:

Quickly customise Tasks searches using Query File Defaults:

Quickly customise Tasks searches using the Meta Bind plugin:

Main changes

Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

• feat: 'explain' shows effect of Line Continuations & Placeholders by @claremacrae in #3221
• feat: partial support for query.file.property() and query.file.hasProperty() by @claremacrae in #3242
• feat: Placeholders can now contain expressions by @claremacrae in #3292
• feat: Add "Query File Defaults" facility by @claremacrae in #3300
• feat: Simplify explain text by @claremacrae in #3301
• feat: add new command Add all Query File Defaults properties by @claremacrae in #3317
• feat: Teach File Properties to recognise Tasks properties by @claremacrae in #3318
• i18n: Chinese translation of Settings and related areas by @claremacrae in #3285
• i18n: Enhance Chinese Translation by @dangehub in #3288

💪 Fixes

• fix: Allow spaces after show and hide - and improve error message by @claremacrae in #3213
• fix: Allow multi-line properties in {{query.file.property('...')}} by @claremacrae in #3245
• fix: Remove console error when line is deleted by 'Toggle task done' command by @claremacrae in #3257
• fix: date picker in Reading mode & searches honours first day of week by @esm7 in #3259
• fix: detect changes in query file path and query properties by @claremacrae in #3281
• fix: Handle Enter key event for IME inputs by @ryotatake in #3272
• fix: render non-task list items in tree by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3291

📖 Documentation

• docs: Fix URL in the help message for unexpanded template text by @claremacrae in #3226
• docs: Update snippets and examples in markdown by @github-actions in #3246
• docs: Major enhancements to Query File Defaults docs by @claremacrae in #3320

🛠️ Dependencies

• build(deps): bump @floating-ui/dom from 1.5.3 to 1.6.12 by @dependabot in #3182
• build(deps): bump svelte-eslint-parser from 0.33.1 to 0.43.0 by @dependabot in #3183
• build(deps-dev): bump obsidian API from 1.1.1 to 1.4.0 by @claremacrae in #3268

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Other changes:

• chore: Enable viewing Tasks source code with typedoc tool by @claremacrae in #3229
• chore(deps-dev): bump madge from 6.1.0 to 8.0.0 by @dependabot in #3254
• chore: Add development dependency on Fevol's obsidian-typings by @claremacrae in #3269
• refactor: Reduce repetition of parsing of show/hide options by @claremacrae in #3214
• refactor: Introduce FileParser class by @claremacrae in #3224
• refactor: Add ListItem methods findClosestParentTask() and isTask() by @claremacrae in #3228
• refactor: Improve QueryFileDefaults data maintainability by @claremacrae in #3315
• refactor: Rename 'tasks_query_*' properties to 'TQ_*' by @claremacrae in #3316

New Contributors

• @ryotatake made their first contribution in #3272
• @dangehub made their first contribution in #3288

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

• 7.14.0...7.15.0

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