BRAT 2.1.0 — Release Notes

Release date: 27 June 2026
Full changelog: 2.0.8 → 2.1.0

Highlights

• Internationalisation (i18n): BRAT now speaks multiple languages, with initial support for German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
• Semantic-release pipeline: Automated versioning and release generation for more reliable, traceable updates.
• New community plugin page command: Quick access to the community plugin catalogue directly from BRAT.

New Features

• i18n support for settings and plugin modal — localises the UI for a broader user base. (#176)
  • Improved locale resolution; unsupported base locales now fall back gracefully.
  • Localised copy-identifier UI strings in settings.
• Community plugin page command added. (#183)
• Copy actions for plugin and theme identifiers for quick reuse. (#183)

Bug Fixes

• Replaced obsidian-daily-notes-interface with local plugin detection — simplifies the dependency surface. (#183)
• Safe-cast loadData result in settings initialisation. (#183)
• Resolved floating promises in ConfirmModal and AddNewPluginModal. (#183)
• Renamed token to tokenName in plugin commands for clarity. (#183)

Refactoring & Dependency Alignment

• Pinned Obsidian typings to version 1.11.4 with npm overrides. (#183)
• Aligned Obsidian typings import version across the project. (#183)
• ESLint sentence-case brand allowlist expanded, and redundant disable comments cleaned up. (#183)

Release Engineering

• Migrated the release pipeline to semantic-release for automated version management. (#182)
• Manifest synchronisation streamlined post-semantic-release. (#182)
• Unused semantic-release plugins removed. (#182)

Dependency Updates

• esbuild bumped from 0.25.9 to 0.28.1. (#177)
• markdown-it bumped from 14.1.1 to 14.2.0. (#179)
• dompurify bumped from 3.4.7 to 3.4.11. (#180)

New Contributors

@jiaoyingxing made their first contribution with the i18n support (#176) — welcome to the project!

Full Changelog: 2.0.8 → 2.1.0