martinkoutecky/tine v0.6.986

Tine v0.6.986

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Fixed

• On Android 11 to 14 shared storage, creating, saving and renaming pages
  failed with "Invalid argument (os error 22)", because the storage refuses
  the rename that is guaranteed never to overwrite a file. Tine now checks
  that the name is free and renames without the guarantee on storage that
  refuses it. The same applies to network drives (NFS) that refuse it
  (GH #538).

• Renaming a page that many pages link to, or a sync tool changing many
  files at once, no longer holds up searches and references while Tine updates
  its index. The update is written as one transaction instead of one per 32
  pages, and copying the index's log into the index file moved off the update
  onto a background thread. On a 10,000-page graph a rename now writes about
  a third as much (603 to 200 MB) and finishes in half the time; on Windows,
  where each of those copies flushed the disk, a rename took about a minute
  (GH #543). Once copied, the log is emptied, so the next launch does not
  copy it again. Internal: tine-storage v0.28.2.

• Typing in a block no longer resends the list of every linked page name to
  the editor after each save when no link changed: a precision loss in the
  check made it resend all of it, 307 KB on a 10,000-page graph (GH #543).

• A save refused to protect data in the file, such as a page with unresolved
  merge markers or a page-header property moved into the outline, is now
  reported once and not retried. v0.6.985 said this was fixed, but the app
  still received the refusal as unknown and retried it (GH #535, GH #546).

• When a save fails because the device refuses a file operation, the message
  now names the operation and the system's error number, so a report or
  screenshot tells which step failed (GH #538, GH #590).

• Search no longer treats letters that differ by a mark as the same letter
  where the mark makes a different letter or syllable: か no longer finds
  が, и no longer finds й, and in Hindi, Thai or Tibetan a vowel sign
  or virama is no longer dropped, so क no longer finds कु. Accents still
  fold as before (cafe finds café, γεια finds γειά), елка finds
  ёлка, and lodz now finds Łódź (likewise ø, đ, ħ, ŧ). The first launch
  after this update re-indexes the graph once.

• A Ctrl+K search of one or two Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, such
  as 会议 or 東京, now reads an index of those short words and visits only
  the matching blocks. Before, it scanned every block, which for a rare word
  took about 1.5 s per keystroke on a 10,000-page graph. Unlinked References
  of a one- or two-character page name and content match queries use the
  same index. It is built during the same one-time re-index as the change
  above (GH #543). Internal: tine-storage v0.28.0, projection schema 31.

• Reopening a graph no longer makes Ctrl+K, Linked and Unlinked References,
  query blocks, the page list and block reference counts wait while Tine
  compares the graph on disk with its search index. Until that comparison
  finishes they answer from the index as you left it, and they update by
  themselves when it finishes, so a page edited in another app while Tine was
  closed shows up then. Edits you make meanwhile show up at once. Actions
  that depend on the answer, such as creating, renaming or deleting a page,
  inserting a template or exporting, still wait for the comparison (GH #550).

• Reopening a graph no longer waits for a full check of the search index
  before Ctrl+K, references and queries answer: that check took over a second
  on a 10,000-page graph at every launch. The index is now checked in the
  background, and only after the computer or phone restarted or once a week;
  a phone closing Tine in the background never causes a check or a rebuild.
  Damage the check finds still rebuilds the index (GH #550).

• A block reference whose target cannot be found now shows its full
  ((…)) text, as Logseq does, instead of the first eight characters of its
  id. This includes (((uuid))), which Logseq and Tine both read as a
  reference to the id (uuid; write ( ((uuid))) or [label](((uuid))) to
  show a reference in parentheses (GH #589).

• Linked and Unlinked References no longer lose blocks from pages you edited
  before restarting Tine. A block you added or moved on a page in one session
  went missing from other pages' reference panels after a relaunch, and stayed
  missing until that page was edited again. Looking such a block up by its
  id after a relaunch works again too. The first launch after this update
  re-indexes the graph once (GH #594).

• When the search index cannot be built, Linked and Unlinked References and
  query blocks now say so instead of staying empty or "indexing" for the rest
  of the session. Tine tries a failing build at most three times; after that
  those panels show "couldn't be built" with a short code, a Retry button
  and Create diagnostic report, and a relaunch tries again. Each failed
  attempt is recorded in the diagnostic report as a fixed code with no graph
  content. While the index is still building, Linked References shows
  "indexing…" instead of hiding, and reads that can fall back to the pages
  themselves, such as the page list, wait at most a minute for the index.
  A page Tine cannot read, or one deleted while Tine was not watching, no
  longer makes Linked or Unlinked References read every page in the graph
  (GH #594).

• Ctrl+K answers a one- or two-character search in a large graph in a
  fraction of the time: such a search now reads only the most recent blocks
  and says More matches exist when older ones may match too, where it
  could take over a second on a 10,000-page graph. A search in Chinese,
  Japanese or Korean, where one or two characters are a whole word, still
  searches every block. While the index is first being built, Ctrl+K answers
  from the pages up to several times faster, and it switches to the index
  sooner once the index is ready. While you type, the
  previous results stay on screen until the new ones arrive instead of
  blanking on every key, and Enter waits for the new results. With
  --debug, the log says whether each search was answered by the index or
  by scanning pages, and how long it took (GH #543).

• On a Mac, Tine now declares macOS 12.3 (Monterey) as its minimum, and the
  startup message for a too-old web engine no longer says to update Safari: on
  older macOS, updating the Safari app does not update the engine other apps
  use, so the advice could not work (GH #572).

• On Windows and macOS, a page whose name differs from its file name only in
  case (for example Contents stored as contents.md) opens and can be
  edited again. It failed with "could not be activated for editing" when
  opened as the home page, from search or from the sidebar, and it could
  appear twice in search. A file renamed by case only outside Tine, for
  example by another device, is now listed once under its new name, and a
  tab or Recent entry saved under the old spelling opens again (GH #597).

Download an installer for your platform below. Windows and Linux ship both x64 and ARM64 builds (match your CPU). Windows users who prefer no installer can grab the portable Tine_*-portable.zip for their architecture. Windows builds are currently unsigned, so Windows may show a warning on first launch. The macOS build is signed and notarized. On macOS, if Tine repeatedly asks to access Documents, see the workaround in the README.