ckeditor/ckeditor5 v44.0.0

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Release Highlights

We are excited to introduce CKEditor 5 v44.0.0, a release packed with high impact updates designed to enhance your editing experience and simplify access to our premium offers. Here's what’s new:

🚀 Self-service plans: Simplified access to premium features

We are introducing flexible self-service plans that put you in control with full transparency. Now, you can:

• Choose the plan that fits your needs, pay only for what you use, and get started instantly with a commitment-free trial.
• Seamlessly manage your license keys, track usage, and more in the new Customer Portal.

💡 Important for current users:

If you are upgrading to v44.0.0+, ensure a smooth transition by updating your license keys in the editor, as we implemented a new format of the key. To get the new key, visit the Customer Portal. You can also refer to our license key and activation guide for help with logging in to the portal.

📣 The open-source licensing remains unchanged. However, config.licenseKey is now a required property in the editor configuration. Use 'GPL' for installations under the GPL terms. Read more in the update guide.

🔖 Bookmarks: Organize your content with ease

Say hello to Bookmarks, a long-awaited feature that simplifies content navigation within the editor. With this release, you can:

• Add anchors as reference points within text.
• Link to the newly created bookmarks in the editor to navigate to specific locations within complex documents, such as contracts or technical manuals.

📍 Future updates to Bookmarks and the linking experience are planned for the upcoming releases. Follow progress and share your feedback on GitHub.

⚡ Performance improvements: Faster table rendering

The current release includes another stride towards improving the performance aspect of the editor, this time focusing on how tables are handled in the content. Implemented optimizations have made table rendering 3x faster, with the average load time of a document with a very long, complex tables dropping from around 4.5 seconds to just 1.5 seconds.

MAJOR BREAKING CHANGES ℹ️

• config.licenseKey is now a required property in the editor configuration. Use 'GPL' for installations under the GPL terms. See #17317.

Features

• bookmark: Introduced the Bookmarks feature. Closes #1944. (commit)

Bug fixes

• clipboard: An in-text drop of an inline object with elements inside should be possible. Closes #16101. (commit)
• cloud-services: Handle refresh token when editor destroyed during token fetching. Closes #17462. (commit)
• editor-classic: Excluded modal windows from the Classic Editor's integration between dialogs and the sticky toolbar. Closes #17339. (commit)
• engine: List markers should be visible after changing the list type from multi-level to numbered. Closes #17488. (commit)
• find-and-replace: Find and replace no longer randomly jumps to the first found item after the replace operation. Closes #16648. (commit)
• list: Inserting or dropping a paragraph after the end of a list should not convert the paragraph to a list item. Closes #17224. (commit)
• pagination: The pagination line should be rendered properly on tables. Closes ckeditor/ckeditor5#17158.
• restricted-editing: Remove existing restricted editing markers when setting new data to prevent marker resurrection. Closes #9646, #16721. (commit)
• theme-lark: Letter descenders should not be clipped in the top-level menu bar categories. Closes #17422. (commit)
• track-changes: Export the AttributeData, FormatData and Description typings from package.
• ui: The menu or dropdown panels will no longer be placed in an incorrect position when a optimal position cannot be found. Closes #17220. (commit)
• ui: The dialog plugin should not handle Esc key press when default-prevented by the guest view. Closes #17343. (commit)
• upload: Editor should no longer crash when executing undo while an image is still being uploaded. (commit)
• utils: Use binary search in insertToPriorityArray() for better performance when handling big tables. (commit)
• utils: No longer scroll to the top of the document if pasted element is larger than scrollable editable. Closes #17079. (commit)

Other changes

• collaboration-core: The types of publicly exported plugins will now be correctly resolved when accessed using editor.plugins.get.

• comments: The types of publicly exported plugins will now be correctly resolved when accessed using editor.plugins.get.

• real-time-collaboration: Editor will be switched to read-only mode when an unrecoverable error will be returned by Cloud Services server during real-time editing.

• real-time-collaboration: The types of publicly exported plugins will now be correctly resolved when accessed using editor.plugins.get.

• revision-history: The types of publicly exported plugins will now be correctly resolved when accessed using editor.plugins.get.

• track-changes: The types of publicly exported plugins will now be correctly resolved when accessed using editor.plugins.get.

• track-changes: The descriptionFactory property will now be accessible publicly.

• track-changes: Suggestions of the same type that are not directly next to each other will no longer be represented as one suggestion in the UI.

• ui: Improved the performance of the BodyCollection DOM wrapper lookup by replacing document.querySelector() with a static element reference. (commit)

  Huge thanks to Ben Demboski for this contribution!

• Changes related to the introduction of self-service channel for CKEditor 5 Premium Features. See #17317. (commit)

• Updated translations. (commit)

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