Enhancements

• Added Open Search support
• The document menu now includes an "Edit" option
• Added a new way to access the keyboard shortcut reference from the bottom right corner of documents
• The API now allows exporting your knowledge base as a zip file directly (reference)

Fixes

• Minor button alignment and padding issues
• Toolbar no longer shows unavailable options when selecting text in a heading
• Attempting to create a link in a heading no longer causes text to disappear
• Empty headings are no longer misformatted on reload

New Features

• Audit log. Actions taken by team members in your wiki are now recorded in an audit log accessible to admins.

Enhancements

• Exporting a collection now downloads a zip file instantly, rather than emailing
• Added support for additional Mindmeister link formats
• Updated branding of RealtimeBoard to Miro
• Visiting a route / document while signed out will now attempt to redirect back after signing in

Fixes

• Duplicate document menu option works again
• API requests to unknown endpoints no longer echo back request
• No longer possible to double wrap links
• The link toolbar now always saves edits on blur / exit

New Features

This release includes references (or backlinks) – these are automated links that are shown at the bottom of a document telling you which other documents it was linked from. Backlinks have been a feature of wiki software for many years and it's great to have first class support in Outline.

To create a reference you only need to link to another document in your knowledgebase.

Hint: Select some text and hit the CMD+K shortcut to quickly create a link.

Enhancements

• The "..." document menu is now available from the sidebar
• It's now possible to create public share links to your drafts
• Clearer buttons and "New doc" actions
• Improved the first-run onboarding documents to be more helpful and descriptive
• Improved color accessibility
• Tightened up list and link styling

Fixes

• Fixed a UI performance regression introduced by tooltips
• Fixed an issue that would cause Save/Publish buttons to show as disabled for an extended amount of time when creating a new document

New Features

• We've added the ability to send team members invites directly from within the app

Enhancements

• Notification settings now displays your account email address
• Updating your email address in Slack/Google will now update in Outline automatically on next sign-in
• The Slack slash command now responds to /outline help with some useful instructions
• Deeply nested documents now display a vertical breadcrumb in the header
• Improved accessibility of content in modals
• Editor buttons now have descriptive tooltips

Fixes

• The Slack slash command no longer errors if you provide no search term
• Deleting a collection locally or remotely now does a better job of cleaning up data
• It's now possible to use markdown shortcuts inside table cells
• Collapsing headings now respects the heading level correctly

Enhancements

• It's now possible to disable highlighting in code blocks to just display plain, pre-formatted text

Fixes

• Users in search filters are now correctly ordered
• Self hosted installations now support AWS S3 signature version 4

New Features

This release brings support for creating and editing simple Tables in all your documents.

Enhancements

• Added optional append flag to documents.update API endpoint to allow appending content to the end of a document

Fixes

• Block Insert no longer appears on top of formatting toolbar
• Blockquote can now be toggled from the formatting toolbar

Enhancements

• Added support for embedding Abstract public share links
• Added Bash and Powershell formatting options in code blocks

Fixes

• Fixed editor scroll jumping when focusing the bottom of large documents
• Fixed stars and underscores disappearing in code blocks on save
• Updated the loom integration to work with their fancy new loom.com domain name
• Dropdown filters on the search page now close on click
• Fixed some more potential edge-case errors in the editor

New Features

• Outline now utilizes websockets to keep everything in sync without refreshing the tab
• New filtering options when searching. Refine results by collection, author, or date to get to the information you're looking for faster!

Enhancements

• This changelog now has an RSS feed if that's your kind of thing

Fixes

• The M key is correctly mapped to "Move document" again
• The ESC key no longer reverts to editing mode after exiting it
• Creating a horizontal divider after a paragraph without a space would be interpreted as a heading after reload
• Restored missing divider on document header

Enhancements

• The full path to nested documents is now shown in search results
• It's now possible to move documents between collections and to any level of nesting
• Added the ability to optionally include archived documents in search results
• Improved editor performance and memory usage

Fixes

• Fixed Tab key should allow nesting of lists
• Fixed a crash in the editor when deleting links
• Fixed able to open the move document dialog from a draft
• Fixed sub heading beginning with same emoji as title becomes incorrectly inset

New Features

• Document archive, you can now choose to store documents outside of a collection without deleting them.
• A little thing called night mode! Toggle in the settings menu whether you prefer Outline to be daylight white 🌞 or midnight black 🌚.

Enhancements

• CMD+Enter will now publish the current document if it's a draft
• The Esc key now exits editing a document
• The N key is now a shortcut to start a new document in the current collection
• Improved the empty state for user profiles

Fixes

• Fixed list editing functionality in editor
• Fixed a bug that could result in a corrupted session cookie when signing out of one account while signed in to multiple accounts
• Updated to Slack's fancy new icon
• When sharing a link to a heading the page will now scroll to the heading correctly once the document loads
• Fixed adding Outline as a PWA now works correctly
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts now display correctly to non-mac users

Enhancements

• Added support for Mindmeister embeds
• When searching from Slack a "Post to Channel" option is now available so you can share the best search results with your team directly

Fixes

• Lines inside code blocks are no longer individually scrollable
• It's now possible to link to places on the same subdomain that aren't in the wiki
• Insertion marks (++) no longer disappear on save
• Suspended users now see the correct error message when attempting to sign in
• The collections sidebar no longer scrolls to the top when changing documents

New Features

• Headings can now be collapsed

Enhancements

• Updated Slack branding
• Keyboard behavior when editing block quotes has been improved

Fixes

• Lines in code blocks can now be easily deleted
• Code block horizontal scroll behavior has been fixed
• Image captions now wrap to multiple lines
• Multiline block quotes no longer collapse onto a single line on save
• Fixed link in welcome email did not include team subdomain
• Tables in imported documents are no longer removed on save

New Features

• Added user profiles! Click on any avatar to see a brief profile of the user and the documents they've been editing.

Enhancements

• Improved Editor and UI performance
• Improved tooltips on collaborators and viewers to be much clearer

Fixes

• Fixed a number of small Editor bugs
• An issue where triggering multiple toast messages in quick succession would leave some hanging in the UI
• Slack notifications for edited documents now correctly display the author of the update, rather than the original creator of the document
• RealtimeBoard and Vimeo embeds now correctly embed the secure version

New Features

• Added the ability to see which team members have viewed a document, and when

Enhancements

• Added new sort options to collections including "Least recently updated" and alphabetical
• Search now includes partial word matching
• Search now has a local cache to increase the speed – navigating back from a document to search results is now instant.

Welcome to the first release of 2019! We're kicking the year off right with a big new feature – private collections. It's now possible to create a hidden collection that is only visible to team members that you invite, a much requested addition.

New Features

• Private collections
• Google Slides embed support
• Prezi embed support

Enhancements

• Improved the clarity and simplicity of the navigation sidebar
• Improved button styling throughout
• Added a dismissible help tip on the dashboard to help onboarding new teams

Fixes

• Fixed typeface fallback for non-latin languages
• Lucidchart embeds fixed
• Broken links in Slack notifications when team has custom subdomain

Enhancements

• The public content pages got a bit of a facelift, we made the API reference easier to browse, added a sidebar in this here changelog and added pages for all of the integrations that Outline supports.

Fixes

• Errors when authenticating Slack commands from a team subdomain
• The block toolbar now hides automatically when clicking to focus the document
• The block insert menu no longer appears when hovering an embed
• A message is now displayed when copying a link to a heading in a shared document
• "Your Teams" menu item no longer erroneously shows up on content pages when logged into a single non-subdomain team.

New Features

• This release introduces rich document embeds. Pasting share links from supported services will now show an interactive embed inside the document. The following services are support at this time:

  • GitHub
  • Numeracy
  • Mode Analytics
  • Figma
  • Airtable
  • Vimeo
  • RealtimeBoard
  • Loom
  • Lucidcharts
  • Framer
  • InVision
  • Typeform
  • Marvel
  • Spotify
  • Codepen
  • Trello

Fixes

• Collections not visible in settings after connecting Slack
• Teams with non-latin characters in their names unable to signin
• Several issues with the recent document notifications addition

New Features

• Secure subdomains are now available for your team! Head to the team settings to choose or update your subdomain. Once a subdomain is set new logins will automatically be redirected.

• We added optional notifications for documents published, documents edited, and collections created. Choose your own notification settings here.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that would cause the server to hang on requests to load document revisions
• Fixed collection delete option appearing visible to non admins
• Improved error messaging when offline

New Features

• It is now possible to choose the language for highlighting in code blocks 🙌

Enhancements

• We added some subtle branding to shared documents
• Recently viewed and edited documents are now displayed in a more sensible order
• The name of the documents collection is now visible on the "Starred" screen

Fixes

• Fully deleting an image in the editor no longer requires hitting backspace twice

New Features

We added a rich text area to the top of collections so you can add more details than just a name. This is great for when a collection represents an area of your company and makes it easy to add links to other company resources.

Enhancements

• Added filtering options to the admin "People" listing
• Profile picture is now saved once uploaded
• Optimized images

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where dashes within a hashtag would be escaped on save
• Google Analytics events are now triggered correctly for more than the first page load
• Fixed some UI jank when resizing a large uploaded profile picture
• Fixed a layout issue on keyboard shortcuts dialog on Linux

Fixes

• Document history menu can now be opened again
• It is now possible to underline text in the editor and have that persist

Enhancements

• Upgraded dependencies for improved performance

Enhancements

• Upgrades the editor

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with S3 uploads for self hosted configuration
• Fixed issue when title of a document includes the word "history"
• SSL is now enforced on subdomains

Fixes

• Visual feedback when avatars and logos are uploading
• Fixed a couple of server side issues when deleting documents
• Added Zapier to integrations

New Features

• It is now possible to see a documents version history from the "..." menu select "Document history". You can also restore a previous version, creating a new one if you need to easily go back to how things were.

Fixes

• Restored the collection name on documents listed on the dashboard
• Fixed an issue where document content changed between image uploading start and finish is lost
• Fixes an issue where an image is lost after upload if document is immediately closed without further edits
• Fixed an issue that could cause undefined to appear in the document
• Fixed an editor issue that would result in an extra newline before links that wrap #778
• Fixed typos in the welcome email and document 🙈

We've been working on a Zapier integration. If you're interested in hooking Outline events up to other aspects of your teams workflow, give it a look! React to documents being created or automatically create documents in specific collections from external events. Find more information on the Zapier integation here.

New Features

• The dashboard now features three tabs "Recently viewed", "Recently updated", and "Created by me" to allow easier discovery. We also added infinite pagination to these dashboard tabs
• This release adds the ability to restrict public sharing of documents, check out the new security section in your Outline settings

Enhancements

• Improved performance of the editor when typing in large documents
• Creating a new document now shows a menu to clarify and choose exactly where the document will go

Fixes

• The block toolbar items were incorrectly colored, making them difficult to see

Enhancements

• Search results now show a snippet of where in the document the term was found
• Slack slash command results also show this snippet! ^
• Improved the ranking of search results
• Added the ability to create a new document from the Starred and Drafts screens
• Added a button to share the document in the header
• When connecting a Slack channel we now post an explanatory message into the channel #738

Fixes

• It's now possible to create links to anchors within a document, clicking those links will scroll correctly and not hide the heading behind the top bar.
• Clicking anchors next to headings now copies a link to the clipboard #739
• There is now a 100 character limit on document titles
• If a document errors while rendering it no longer renders the entire app unusable. We also added more error details to make bug reporting easier. #737

Fixes

• Slack integrations can now be set up by users that are authenticated through Google OAuth. Previously If you signed in with Google and then tried to setup an integration it would fail. #730
• Fixed an issue where once a share link had been revoked the same document could not be shared by the same user again. #733
• Fixed the link to developer documentation from the token settings.
• Fixed a potential JS error when clicking badly formatted links in a document.

This update fixes an important issue where Slack integrations would be associated with the first user in the database. On the hosted version of Outline all of these integrations ended up associated with an inactive test user and have since been purged from the db.

If you connected Slack since June 3rd 2018 you'll need to do so again.

Fixes

• Associate Slack integrations with the correct user (see note above ^)
• Very long document titles now overflow and ellipse correctly everywhere in the UI. #724
• A number of small markdown parsing issues in exceptional situations that could cause a document to fail to render. #723