Obsidian Weekly 2025-08-24：At long last, the moment we've all been waiting for—Obsidian Public v1.9.11 Release Is Now Live!

Obsidian Weekly 2025-08-24：At long last, the moment we’ve all been waiting for—Obsidian Public v1.9.11 Release Is Now Live!

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-08-17 21:00 ~ 2025-08-24 21:00
Statement: This column is inspired by a series of Obsidian Roundup articles written and published by Ms. Eleanor Konik from April 2021 to June 2023. Those interested may follow the original author’s personal website Obsidian Iceberg. The section’s content is sourced from the official Obsidian Discord channel and information on corresponding projects on Github or there independent websites. Descriptions may have been modified based on personal interpretation, and corrections are welcome if there are any inaccuracies. Thank you to the Obsidian team for bringing us such excellent software.

Official News

Obsidian v1.9.11 public is now available!

v1.9.10 Desktop

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more.

Bases lets you create custom views to visualize and interact with data in your vault. You can filter your notes by properties and create formulas to derive your own dynamic properties.

All the data in a base is backed by your local Markdown files and properties stored in YAML. To support Bases, we’re introducing the .base file format and syntax.

Shiny new things

• New Footnotes view core plugin adds a new sidebar tab that helps you manage footnotes for the current file without losing your place in the note.

Breaking changes

• We have officially removed support for the properties tag, alias, cssclass in favor of tags, aliases and cssclasses. In addition, the values of these properties must be a list. If the current value is a text property, it will no longer be recognized by Obsidian. In the “Format converter” core plugin, there is a new option to fix any incorrectly formatted aliases, tags, and cssclasses in your vault. It will also migrate your old alias, tag, and cssclass properties to the new format.

Improvements

• Property editor is now available inside page preview and Canvas.
• Sync: Added new “Conflict resolution” setting. Choose how Obsidian handles file conflicts when syncing: Merge (default) or create conflict file.
• Added button to open current page preview in a tab.
• In the “Export to PDF” flow, the export button now receives initial keyboard focus.
• Settings that show file or folder suggestions now use fuzzy search for better matching.
• Whitespace is now correctly shown in Sync history and file recovery diffs.
• Text selection contrast has been increased in dark mode.
• Sync history view now includes a button to open affected files in File Recovery.
• The Sync history view now shows the file name before and after it was renamed.
• File Recovery now displays file extensions in titles and suggestions for non-Markdown files.
• If the current tab is pinned, the “Close current tab” command will unpin the tab instead of closing it. Repeat the command to close the tab.
• The “Move file to…” option remains available even when the Files plugin is disabled.
• The “Save file” command now only appears in the Command Palette when a file is active.
• Improvements to the display of an “unknown” tab. Added option to close all unknown tabs.
• The Unique Note Prefix plugin now includes an “Add unique internal link” command for linking selected text.
• When there is not enough room to display the whole path in the titlebar, the folders will be truncated before the file name.
• Improved how the Markdown parser handles large tables and large callouts. These notes will take slightly longer to load, but then the tables and callouts will be rendered instantly.
• Global search stops scanning your vault after it finds 100,000 results.
• File Explorer: When the view is active, holding Command/Ctrl while navigating through files using the arrow keys will now open the file under the cursor.
• File Explorer: Right-clicking in the empty space within file explorer will now include options to create a new base or a new canvas.
• Added “Copy path” and “Copy relative path” to the link context menu.
• Added “Toggle readable line length” command.
• macOS: Apple Writing Tools now appear in the editor context menu. This requires installing the latest installer and enabling “Native menus” in settings.

No longer broken

• Page preview no longer hides or switches to edit mode when the fold icon is clicked.
• Fixed display of titles in page preview for RTL languages.
• Improved how results in the command palette are sorted. By default, results are now sorted alphabetically. And more recently used commands will rank higher in the search results.
• Editing a file no longer resets folded sections in the Outline view.
• Pressing Shift-Enter inside a text property no longer creates an empty input.
• Cursor placement is now accurate when navigating table cells after searching.
• When using the “Obsidian frame” window frame style, the Window title will now properly update to show the currently open file in pop-out windows.
• List numbering remains consistent when editing inside callouts.
• PDF view no longer steals focus when opened in the background.
• The “Export to PDF…” command no longer causes the screen to flash white while in dark mode. It also works on Linux when the app is set to adapt to system theme.
• Strict line breaks now render properly in the first paragraph of a callout.
• Outline view now highlights the correct line when the note includes footnotes.
• Graph view: If you have saved filters, you’ll no longer see an initial flash of nodes when you open the graph view. The filters will be applied immediately.
• Markdown tables containing partially complete HTML now render correctly.
• Tab history buttons, Web viewer history entries, bookmarked URLs, and ribbon items that open notes now respect modifier keys and honor the “Focus new tab” preference.
• The Tags view now updates correctly when clearing the search filter.
• Autocompleting a codeblock now properly accounts for indentation and if the cursor is inside a list item.
• Improved the rendering of codeblocks inside quoteblocks.
• Clicking a property search result now focuses the whole row and not the property name.
• Canvas cards now support callouts without generating internal errors.
• Canvas: Fixed bug where Canvas nodes would hide when trying to move 2 groups that are the same size and at the same exact position in the viewport.
• Canvas now consistently copies selected notes when pressing Ctrl-C.
• Canvas: Fixed “New group” not selecting the label text by default.

Developers

• The installer has been updated to Electron 37.3.0.
• idb has been updated to version 8.0.2.
• yaml has been updated to version 2.7.0.
• CSS properties added to document.body are now mirrored across all pop-out windows.
• ButtonComponent now automatically shows a loading spinner if the onClick event is async.
• You can now bypass the Web viewer and specify that a URL is opened in the user’s default browser using window.open(url, '_external').
• YAML aliasing has been disabled to prevent unintended references when assigning the same object to multiple keys.
• Assigning the same object to multiple keys via processFrontmatter will no longer create a YAML alias.

v1.9.10 Mobile

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.10.

Improvements

• The app now smoothly resizes when the on-screen keyboard appears and disappears.
• Two-finger swipe to navigate forward and backwards in tab history will now be more responsive. On iOS, this gesture is disabled when the keyboard is active to avoid interfering with iOS’s two-finger cursor movement gesture.
• The app now better adapts to landscape mode.
• It is now possible to reset your Obsidian account password from the initial onboarding flow.
• You can now open the file context menu by pressing and holding on the file name in the Search view.
• Search inputs are automatically focused when an external keyboard is attached.
• Several improvements to the “Follow link” tooltip that appears in source mode. The tooltip now more reliably opens the link, it also shows and hides more consistently.
• Swipe down on notices to dismiss them.
• Canvas: Added ‘Duplicate’ option to the node context menu.
• The default toolbar now shows undo and redo at the start of the row.

No longer broken

• Ensure the sidebar collapses after opening a file from the file explorer.
• Minor fixes to the layout when sidebars are pinned on tablet.
• Navigation bar now uses ”+” to open a new tab, and a search icon for opening the quick switcher.
• Graph view: Dragging force sliders will no longer cause sidebars to slide open.
• “Split down” and “Split right” no longer appear in the context menu for the sidebar tabs.
• Fixed appearance of sidebar if you close all tabs.
• Fixed “File recovery” dialog not navigable on tablet devices.

iOS

• App icon now adapts to home screen appearance.
• Pressing and holding on links in Live Preview now shows the context menu.
• Popovers can no longer overlap with OS elements such as the Dynamic Island and navigation bar.
• Added Ctrl-Tab and Shift-Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs on iPad.
• Fixed toolbar placement on iPad when using Stage Manager or the floating keyboard.

Android

• Pressing the ‘back’ button to exit the app now minimizes instead of quitting.
• Fix app crash on font selection for Android 9 or earlier.
• The app is now edge-to-edge, meaning the status bar and navigation bar will always fit in with the rest of the app.
• Improved how the app layout adapts to the on-screen keyboard.
• App now resizes correctly in split-screen mode.
• Added missing 500 font weight for Inter.
• Fixed opening links in Live Preview when the editor is not focused.
• Fixed tapping checkboxes causing scroll position to be lost.
• Fixed scrollbars missing in editor.

v1.9.11 Desktop

Improvements

This update introduces a new migration assistant for Obsidian Sync. This tool will allow you to perform migrations for your remote Sync vaults, such as encryption upgrades, and in the future the ability to switch regions.

Obsidian occasionally upgrades Sync encryption to maintain the highest security standards. If an encryption upgrade is available you will see an option titled “Upgrade vault encryption” in Obsidian Settings → Sync.

• Obsidian Sync has received a minor security upgrade. File names have always been end-to-end encrypted, but they’re now protected using an even stronger method. All new vaults automatically use this stronger encryption. Existing vaults can be upgraded with the new migration assistant in Obsidian 1.9.11.
• The old method of encrypting file paths and hashes derived the initialization vector (IV) from a hash of the string. In rare cases, this could create a pattern that an attacker might try to take advantage of if they were able to get access to your encrypted data. Now, file paths and hashes are encrypted with AES-SIV so those patterns can no longer exist.
• The way file contents are encrypted hasn’t changed, they’ve always been secured with AES-GCM.

No longer broken

• Bases: Fixed view not refreshing after renaming the currently active view.
• Bases: Fixed file.tags.contains() not finding files with parent tags (e.g. a/b should match when looking for “a”).
• Properties: Fixed context menu immediately hiding after right-clicking in Local Properties view.

v1.9.11 Mobile

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.11.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Kindle Vocab By Truong Gia Bao

Let you import vocabulary lookups from your Kindle device and convert them into structured, interactive Markdown notes.

Linear By Casey Becking

Integrate Linear issues with advanced filtering, sorting, and visual enhancements. Features include due date indicators, status colors, and comprehensive debug logging.
Note: This plugin is currently desktop-only and does not support mobile devices.

Updates

EasyTyping v5.5.15 By yaozhuwa

• Optimize Tabstops display in multi-cursor scenarios for custom rules
• Attempt to fix potential freeze issues caused by TypeError under specific conditions

Attachment Management v0.10.0 By trg anda

Support chinese language.

Produced by PKMer

Info

PKMer (PKMer.cn, PKMer.net) aims to create a powerful knowledge management community in the Eastern Hemisphere. “PKM” stands for Personal Knowledge Management, and the “er” suffix represents individuals. Anyone who is focused on and enjoys personal knowledge management work, and who seeks efficiency, can be included in this category. We hope the community can bring together more people like this.

Zotlit has been updated to v1.1.11

• feat (obsidian): electron support update

Thino has been updated to v2.7.19

• fix padding issue reproduced in 1.9.10