What's Changed

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Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

💪 Fixes

• fix: Tasks search results now render correctly in Tabs plugin by @claremacrae in #2945 - thanks to @xhuajin for reporting the issue and finding the fix.

Tasks can now be used in the Tabs plugin!

For example:

````tabs

tab: Todo

```tasks
folder includes Obsidian
not done
```

tab: Done

```tasks
folder includes Obsidian
done today
```

````

Might give:

📖 Documentation

• docs: fixed a minor typo by @WhoAmI-WhereAmI in #2928
• docs: Fix first task example in Getting Started by @luxedo in #2948

🛠️ Dependencies

• build(deps): bump boon-js from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5 by @dependabot in #2427
• build(deps-dev): bump eslint from 8.54.0 to 8.57.0 by @dependabot in #2902
• chore(deps): bump ws from 8.14.2 to 8.17.1 by @dependabot in #2906
• chore(deps): bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 by @dependabot in #2907
• chore(deps-dev): bump @evilmartians/lefthook from 1.5.2 to 1.7.2 by @dependabot in #2952
• chore(deps-dev): bump markdownlint-cli2 from 0.8.1 to 0.13.0 by @dependabot in #2747
• chore(deps-dev): bump svelte-check from 3.6.0 to 3.8.4 by @dependabot in #2927

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

CAUTION! Do not use these - they are subject to significant changes prior to their eventual release. Thank you.

• feat: Experimental access to raw frontmatter in query.file & task.file by @claremacrae in #2940
• feat: improve access to tags by @ilandikov in #2949
• fix: Prevent task.frontmatter.tags being null if no tags in frontmatter by @claremacrae in #2951

New Contributors

• @WhoAmI-WhereAmI made their first contribution in #2928
• @luxedo made their first contribution in #2948

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

• 7.6.0...7.6.1

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What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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• feat: New setting to recognise dates format in file names by @j0rdanba1n in #2874
  • help: Additional date format
  • implements #1369
• fix: recurrence with 'when done' could give wrong 'done' date by @claremacrae in #2919
  • fixes #2867
• docs: Update the docs for Obsidian 1.6.5 release by @claremacrae in #2917
• test: ensure dates reset by @ilandikov in #2924

New Contributors

• @j0rdanba1n made their first contribution in #2874

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

• 7.5.0...7.6.0

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What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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⚠️ Obsidian 1.6.3 and 1.6.4 callouts issue

If you use either Obsidian 1.6.3 or 1.6.4, and have tasks in callouts, please read:

• Missing tasks in callouts with some Obsidian 1.6.x versions

🌟 Features

• Increase Default Max Auto Suggestion Number to 20 by @Genei180 in #2888

💪 Fixes

• Restore the original order in Auto Suggestions menu by @Genei180 in #2889
• Tasks Auto-Suggest works again in the Kanban plugin by @claremacrae in #2908

📖 Documentation

• Update Task Dependencies.md by @liambresnahan in #2883
• Update snippets and examples in markdown by @github-actions in #2900
• Write up the Obsidian 1.6.x titled callouts issue by @claremacrae in #2910

🛠️ Behind the scenes

• refactor: Store ListItems by @stasmarkin in #2875
• test: Add tests of Obsidian cache with labelled callouts by @claremacrae in #2905
• vault: add missing end-of-line to "Smoke test Kanban Integration.md" by @github-actions in #2909

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

• 7.4.0...7.5.0

🙏 Support Tasks development

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What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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🌟 Features

• Add Auto Suggest for Task dependencies by @Genei180 in #2771
  • with additional work by @claremacrae

💪 Fixes

• Correctly align 'Before ...' & 'After ...' in Edit Task modal by @ilandikov in #2864

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

• fix: Prevent duplicate characters at end of line if adding ID via auto-suggest by @claremacrae in #2851
• fix: Don't rewrite any existing ID when adding dependencies by @claremacrae in #2853
• feat: Re-enable auto-suggest for dependencies by @claremacrae in #2871
• fix: Prevent Auto-Suggest from making tasks with multiple ids by @claremacrae in #2876
• fix: Auto-suggest can search many more characters for dependsOn field by @claremacrae in #2877
• docs: Finalise the documentation for Auto-Suggest supporting dependencies by @claremacrae in #2879

Preparatory work for storage of indented tasks and list items in nested lists :

• feat: Store task inheritance by @stasmarkin in #2848
• refactor: encapsulate adding children in ListItem constructor by @ilandikov in #2873

Maintainability improvements for the Edit Task modal:

• refactor: Create EditableTask class by @ilandikov in #2857
• refactor: make EditableTask constructor private by @ilandikov in #2865
• refactor: Improve encapsulation of behaviour in EditableTask class by @ilandikov in #2868
• refactor: move parseAndValidateRecurrence() to EditableTask by @ilandikov in #2870

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

• 7.3.0...7.4.0

🙏 Support Tasks development

• https://github.com/sponsors/claremacrae

What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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🌟 Features

• Add 'Remove date' option to the Postpone context menu by @claremacrae in #2844

💪 Fixes

• remove background under the dependency delete button by @ilandikov in #2835

🛠️ Behind the scenes

• chore: run update-docs-markdown.yml on ubuntu by @ilandikov in #2838
• chore: require prior agreement on fix & feature PRs by @claremacrae and @ilandikov in 12188c4
• refactor: extract RecurrenceEditor component by @ilandikov in #2832
• refactor: remove _onPriorityKeyup() by @ilandikov in #2833
• refactor: extract, simplify and test parseAndValidateRecurrence() by @ilandikov in #2839
• test: test Cache.getTasksFromFileContent() by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #2837
• test: Add more sample data for testing Cache - and streamline its creation by @claremacrae in #2841

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

• 7.2.0...7.3.0

🙏 Support Tasks development

• https://github.com/sponsors/claremacrae

What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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New features

• Add executeToggleTaskDoneCommand() to Tasks Api by @mgmeyers in #2781
  • see the interface and description.
• Allow showing/suppressing the Auto-Suggest in custom editor implementations by @mgmeyers in #2778
  • see the description.
• Better Edit Modal on smaller screens by @ilandikov in #2809
• Compacter look of recurrence, lines & dependencies in Edit Task modal by @ilandikov in #2811

Bug fixes

• Align the look of Priority section in task modal with date sections by @ilandikov in #2794
• Remove access keys mentions when access key setting is disabled by @ilandikov in #2796

obsidian-tasks-custom-icons

Phil Ricketts - @replete - created a lovely CSS mechanism for compact, monochrome Tasks emojis, and shared it in Discussion #1965.

As Phil is no longer using this, we have transferred it over to the obsidian-tasks-group organisation, in the new location: obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks-custom-icons. Many thanks Phil for all the work on this.

We are now looking for someone with design experience to help add support for some extra emojies. Contact @claremacrae if you would like to know more.

Coming soon...

Auto-suggest for task dependencies is coming soon, with just a little more polishing before release.

• feat: Add Auto Suggest for Task dependencies by @Genei180 in #2771
• test: Add some tests for dependency suggestions by @claremacrae in #2806
• fix: Test and improve behaviour of auto-suggest with dependencies by @claremacrae in #2826
• fix: Disable auto-suggest for dependencies to allow 7.2.0 release by @claremacrae in #2828

Other changes

Here are the other user-visible changes.

📖 Documentation

• docs: fix typo in Task Dependencies.md by @kgeis in #2792
• docs: Update snippets and examples in markdown by @github-actions in #2802
• contrib: Document the source-code directory structure by @claremacrae in #2800

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

Other changes:

• refactor: group CSS classes by @ilandikov in #2791
• refactor: reorder CSS classes in EditTasks.scss by @ilandikov in #2793
• refactor: clean EditTask.scss by @ilandikov in #2799
• refactor: split CSS class tasks-modal-section by @ilandikov in #2804
• refactor: finalise CSS split in `EditTask.scss by @ilandikov in #2812
• refactor: add ListItem class by @stasmarkin in #2819
• refactor: extract label generation for Edit Task modal by @ilandikov in #2822
• refactor: extract StatusEditor component from Edit Task modal by @ilandikov in #2831

New Contributors

• @kgeis made their first contribution in #2792
• @Genei180 made their first contribution in #2771
• @mgmeyers made their first contribution in #2778
• @stasmarkin made their first contribution in #2819

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

• 7.1.0...7.2.0

🙏 Support Tasks development

• https://github.com/sponsors/claremacrae

Please quit and restart Obsidian after updating the plugin. Thank you.

🌟 Edit Task modal usability improved

• Add access keys for Created, Done and Cancelled by @claremacrae in #2787
• Improve Edit Task modal's use of space by @claremacrae and @ilandikov in #2788
• fix: set correct font size to Priority label by @ilandikov in #2790

We will improve the layout for mobile-phones and other smaller screens in a future release.

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

• 7.0.0...7.1.0

🙏 Support Tasks development

• https://github.com/sponsors/claremacrae

What's Changed

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Breaking change

⚠️ Important This release is number 7.0.0 because significant improvements to the Boolean code required a tiny breaking change, to a feature that we expect was hardly used.

Any Boolean filters with mixed delimiters, like this, will now give an error:

(not done) AND "is recurring"

They must be changed to use consistent delimiters. Example fixed lines:

(not done) AND (is recurring)
"not done" AND "is recurring"

See Breaking Changes for full details of these changes.

Boolean filters radically improved

Boolean filters can now contain parentheses - (....)- and double quotes - " - so long as the sub-expressions do not end with any closing delimiters.

The Troubleshooting Boolean Filters guide shows patterns to use, to get any Boolean filter to work now, however complex.

Breaking change:

• Disallow mixing delimiter types in Boolean queries by @claremacrae in #2762

New features:

• Provide better Boolean help messages by @claremacrae in #2761
• Support square brackets and curly braces to surround Boolean sub-expressions by @claremacrae in #2763
• Fix any missing spaces around Boolean operators by @claremacrae in #2767
• Further improve Boolean help messages by @claremacrae in #2770

Bug fixes:

• 'explain' omitted the instruction line in some Boolean expressions by @claremacrae in #2719
• allow Boolean filters such as "description includes abc" by @claremacrae in #2755
• allow filters with ( ) and " delimiters in Boolean filters by @claremacrae in #2759

Documentation: Combining Filters - Tasks User Guide - Obsidian Publish

Main changes

Here are the other most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

• Add timing code to Tasks code block rendering code by @claremacrae in #2740
  • See Console timing facilities in Tasks in the Contributing guide.

📖 Documentation

• Add Resources page by @claremacrae in #2733
• Document many improvements to Boolean searches by @claremacrae in #2772

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

Other changes:

• refactor: adopt SASS and break up styles.css file by @ilandikov in #2717
• refactor: move TasksFile object to TaskLocation by @ilandikov in #2752
• refactor: Introduce BooleanDelimiters class by @claremacrae in #2754
• refactor: Start new code for preprocessing Boolean instructions by @claremacrae in #2756
• refactor: Implement new preprocessor for Boolean searches by @claremacrae in #2758
• vault: Speed up rendering in the Tasks demo vault by @claremacrae in #2741
• vault: explore parent child tasks with dataview by @ilandikov in #2769

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

• 6.2.0...7.0.0

🙏 Support Tasks development

• https://github.com/sponsors/claremacrae

What's Changed

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🌟 Features

• 'explain' shows Continuations and Placeholders for filters by @claremacrae in #2711

Below: The original layout of line continuations is now shown in explain output:

Below: The original text of placeholders is now shown in explain output:

🛠️ Behind the scenes

• refactor: move date functions to DateTools.ts by @ilandikov in #2704
• refactor: Introduce Statement class by @claremacrae in #2710
• refactor: create DateEditor Svelte component by @ilandikov in #2713
• test: add Edit Task modal snapshot test by @ilandikov in #2705
• chore: lint Svelte files by @ilandikov in #2714

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

• 6.1.2...6.2.0

🙏 Support Tasks development

• https://github.com/sponsors/claremacrae

What's Changed

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💪 Fixes

• Tasks no longer prevents checking off tasks on Canvas cards by @claremacrae in #2698

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

• 6.1.1...6.1.2

🙏 Support Tasks development

• https://github.com/sponsors/claremacrae