What's Changed
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Breaking change
⚠️ Important This release is number 7.0.0 because significant improvements to the Boolean code required a tiny breaking change, to a feature that we expect was hardly used.
Any Boolean filters with mixed delimiters, like this, will now give an error:
(not done) AND "is recurring"
They must be changed to use consistent delimiters. Example fixed lines:
(not done) AND (is recurring)
"not done" AND "is recurring"
See Breaking Changes for full details of these changes.
Boolean filters radically improved
Boolean filters can now contain parentheses - (....)- and double quotes - " - so long as the sub-expressions do not end with any closing delimiters.
The Troubleshooting Boolean Filters guide shows patterns to use, to get any Boolean filter to work now, however complex.
Breaking change:
- Disallow mixing delimiter types in Boolean queries by @claremacrae in #2762
New features:
- Provide better Boolean help messages by @claremacrae in #2761
- Support square brackets and curly braces to surround Boolean sub-expressions by @claremacrae in #2763
- Fix any missing spaces around Boolean operators by @claremacrae in #2767
- Further improve Boolean help messages by @claremacrae in #2770
Bug fixes:
- 'explain' omitted the instruction line in some Boolean expressions by @claremacrae in #2719
- allow Boolean filters such as "description includes abc" by @claremacrae in #2755
- allow filters with ( ) and " delimiters in Boolean filters by @claremacrae in #2759
Documentation: Combining Filters - Tasks User Guide - Obsidian Publish
Main changes
Here are the other most notable user-visible changes.
🌟 Features
- Add timing code to Tasks code block rendering code by @claremacrae in #2740
- See Console timing facilities in Tasks in the Contributing guide.
📖 Documentation
- Add Resources page by @claremacrae in #2733
- Document many improvements to Boolean searches by @claremacrae in #2772
🛠️ Behind the scenes
Improvements made to new features prior to their release:
Other changes:
- refactor: adopt SASS and break up styles.css file by @ilandikov in #2717
- refactor: move
TasksFileobject toTaskLocationby @ilandikov in #2752 - refactor: Introduce BooleanDelimiters class by @claremacrae in #2754
- refactor: Start new code for preprocessing Boolean instructions by @claremacrae in #2756
- refactor: Implement new preprocessor for Boolean searches by @claremacrae in #2758
- vault: Speed up rendering in the Tasks demo vault by @claremacrae in #2741
- vault: explore parent child tasks with dataview by @ilandikov in #2769
Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):
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