Released 20 Jan 2026. Build number is 770.
Minor changes not necessarily warranting explicit mention in an aTbRef note:
- AI/Natural Language Processing:
- Notes with long texts pasted from Claude Desktop were slow, because they can contain thousands of paragraphs, each needing to be scanned for quick lists. We now avoid this scan in more cases.
- Hyperbolic view:
- Corrected an error in force-directed layout of Hyperbolic view, is which crosslinks could recurse without limit.
- Inspector:
- The Inspector window is hidden when Tinderbox is running in the background.
- Improved the layout of HTML Inspector Markup, Style, and List panes.
- Map view:
- Major revisions to map view with regard to animation management.
- The scroll position of maps and outlines should be recorded more consistently, and honoured more effectively when switching tabs.
- Miscellaneous:
- The recent fix of the crash observed when auto fetching DEVONthink files failed to fix the crash. I believe this update will do a better job.
- Corrected a crash in NodeNetworkUpdate, caused when asynchronous tasks called back to a NodeNetworkUpdate that no longer existed.
- The cache for inbound links in the Roadmap window inadvertently cached outbound links.
- Large documents are loaded and saved more quickly.
- Corrected several typos in Tinderbox Help.
- Renamed the prototype "LaTeX" to "A LaTeX page", and made its DisplayedAttributes more sensible.
- Renamed the template "LaTeX" to "LaTeX Document'
- Revised the LaTeX prototype.
- Resolved a crash in TbxIconView, which stored obsolete Node pointers in notes slated for recycling. Awakening Tinderbox from the background could briefly display table rows with stale node pointers.
- More work on ensuring that the Change manager responds appropriately to stressful situations, especially on fast machines.
- Addressed a crash when an agent action modified a stamp while we are saving the file.
- Fixed a thread leak when running HTMLPreviewCommand.
- Fixed a crash if the MCP server was closed while a tool was in use.
- Fixed a crash when cmd-opt-dragging a reference from Bookends, which now updates asynchronously (and much faster).
- Adding the option-modifier to resize handles was much harder than it ought to have been. Created a new TbxResizeHandle object to isolate and simplify the complex logic involved in resizing.
- Addressed a crash when closing TbxExportProgressIndicator; we should not attempt this close asynchronously.
- Addressed (again) a crash in Breadcrumb Bar, which continued to try to display its tabs while the document was being closed.
- Tinderbox should now be more willing to save tabs in which the view window is completely collapsed.
- Moving to a new, faster version of Base64 caused problems when reading old documents. We now fallback to the older version if problems arise, and save documents using the newer version.
- A small loophole may have been able to delete style information intermittently in the previous beta. It should now be closed.
- OS Dark/Light modes:
- Displayed Attributes table. Added a light tint to the attribute column to further set it off, now that it is smaller; this tint adapts automatically in dark mode, and is only available in macOS 14 (Sonoma) and later.
- Text pane:
- Tinderbox is more aggressive in applying $LineSpacing changes to note text. A change in line spacing is applied throughout the text, overriding the previous setting.
- Modified the Displayed Attributes table to more aggressively reclaim space that is not actually required for attribute names, allowing more space for value display.
- Syntax Highlighting rules now accept a
font:command. Its argument is the PostScript name of the font, which can be found in FontBook; for example,ArcherSSm-Medium. Thefont:command should precede asize:command if you wish to set both typeface and size.
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