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tweet: What's new in Joplin 2.9
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forum_url: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/28661
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# What's new in Joplin 2.9
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## Proxy support
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Both the desktop and mobile application now support proxies thanks to the work of Jason Williams. This will allow you to use the apps in particular when you are behind a company proxy.
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## New PDF viewer
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The desktop application now features a new PDF viewer thanks to the work of Asrient during GSoC.
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The main advantage for now is that this viewer preserves the last PDF page that was read. In the next version, the viewer will also include a way to annotate PDF files.
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## Multi-language spell checking
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The desktop app include a multi-language spell checking features, which allows you, for example, to spell-check notes in your native language and in English.
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## New mobile text editor
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Writing formatted notes on mobile has always been cumbersome due to the need to enter special format characters like `*` or `[`, etc.
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Thanks to the work of Henry Heino during GSoC, writing notes on the go is now easier thanks to an improved Markdown editor.
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The most visible feature is the addition of a toolbar, which helps input those special characters, like on desktop.
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Moreover Henry made a lot of subtle but useful improvements to the editor, for example to improve the note appearance, to improve list continuation, etc. Search within a note is now also supported as well as spell-checking.
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At a more technical level, Henry also added many test units to ensure that the editor remains robust and reliable.
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To enable the feature, go to the configuration screen and selected "Opt-in to the editor beta". It is already very stable so we will probably promote it to be the main editor from the next version.
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## Improved alignment of notebook icons
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Previously, when you would assign an icon to a notebook, it would shift the title to the right, but notebook without an icon would not. It means that notebooks with and without an icon would not be vertically aligned.
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To tidy things up, this new version adds a default icons to notebooks without an explicitly assigned icon. This result in the notebook titles being correctly vertically aligned.
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Note that this feature is only enabled if you use custom icons - otherwise it will simply display the notebook titles without any default icons, as before.
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## Improved handling of file attachments
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Self Not Found made a number of small but useful improvements to attachment handling, including increasing the maximum size to 200MB, adding support for attaching multiple files, and fixing issues with synchronising attachments via proxy.
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## Fixed filesystem sync on mobile
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This was a long and complex change due to the need to support new Android APIs but hopefully that should now be working again, thanks to the work of jd1378.
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So you can now sync again your notes with Syncthing and other file-based synchronisation systems.
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## And more...
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In total this new desktop version includes 36 improvements, bug fixes, and security fixes.
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As always, a lot of work went into the Android and iOS app too, which include 37 improvements, bug fixes, and security fixes.
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See here for the changelogs:
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- [Desktop app changelog](https://joplinapp.org/help/about/changelog/desktop)
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- [Android app changelog](https://joplinapp.org/help/about/changelog/android/)
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## About the Android version
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Unfortunately we cannot publish the Android version because it is based on a framework version that Google does not accept. To upgrade the app a lot of changes are needed and another round of pre-releases, and therefore there will not be a 2.9 version for Google Play. You may however download the official APK directly from there: [Android 2.9 Official Release](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin-android/releases/tag/android-v2.9.8)
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This is the reality of app stores in general - small developers being imposed never ending new requirements by all-powerful companies, and by the time a version is finally ready we can't even publish it because yet more requirements are in place.
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For the record the current 2.9 app works perfectly fine. It targets Android 11, which is only 2 years old and is still supported (and installed on millions of phones). Google requires us to target Android 12 which only came out last year. |