obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks 5.3.0 on GitHub

What's Changed

Please quit and restart Obsidian after updating the plugin. Thank you.

🌟 Easily postpone tasks that have dates. Thanks @m0rtyn and @ilandikov

🌟 New "change task status" context menu. Thanks @chrabia

🌟 Add Tasks docs to the HelpMate plugin

View the latest Tasks documentation in a side-panel right inside your vault.
The HelpMate plugin provides a lovely way to view plugin docs inside your vault.
And now it knows how to find the Tasks documentation.

Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

💪 Fixes

fix: Debug logging in File.ts works; better logging by @claremacrae in #2472
fix: Correctly indent Tasks search results in Live Preview by @claremacrae - with the fix supplied by @mackaaij! in #2489
perf: Do not index attachments after plugin has loaded by @claremacrae in #2465

📖 Documentation

docs: fix typo about comment tasks in getting-started by @PikaBlue107 in #2475
docs: Fix typo by @rdimaio in #2477
docs: Create new 'Editing/' section in the documentation by @claremacrae in #2492
docs: Document 'show/hide postpone button' instruction by @claremacrae in c5ca925
docs: Document the Postpone button by @claremacrae in 9a07044
docs: Document 'Change task status' context menu in major new page by @claremacrae in 7deb2f9
vault: Update plugins in Tasks-Demo vault by @claremacrae in #2468
vault: Install the HelpMate plugin, to access Tasks help by @claremacrae in #2469

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

feat: Enable postponing of start dates by @ilandikov in #2454
feat: postponement usability improvements by @ilandikov in #2455
feat: hide postpone button if happens date absent or invalid by @ilandikov in #2485
feat: Improve usability of Statuses context menu by @claremacrae in #2493
feat: Experimental changes to (unreleased) Postpone menu options by @claremacrae in #2497
fix: Postponing now works repeatedly by @claremacrae in #2486
fix: better menu items to postpone future dates by @ilandikov in #2499
fix: can now postpone scheduled dates from file name by @ilandikov in #2500
fix: prevent postpone from overwriting invalid dates. by @ilandikov in #2501
fix: Bug-fixes and tests for the new Statuses context menu by @claremacrae in #2508

Other changes:

contrib: Update Node version in Contributing guide by @mathisgauthey in #2467
internal: Add Priorities menu (not yet used anywhere in the plugin) by @claremacrae in #2495
refactor: Extract functions from postpone code, and start testing by @claremacrae in #2453
refactor: fix async/await warnings in QueryRenderer.ts by @ilandikov in #2470
refactor: Rename postpone symbols and standardise parameter order by @claremacrae in #2483
refactor: remove an if that is always true in TaskLineRenderer.ts by @ilandikov in #2487
refactor: modify componentString variable closer to its usage by @ilandikov in #2488
refactor: rename variables in postpone code by @ilandikov in #2490
test: add tests for shouldShowPostponeButton() against Task dates by @ilandikov in #2474
test: test postponed task and date creation by @ilandikov in #2473
test: improve TaskLineRenderer tests by @ilandikov in #2494
test: group TaskLineRenderer tests by @ilandikov in #2498

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

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