obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks 7.21.0

7.21.0: Urgent fix for recent iOS/iPadOS; access Links; API can edit task lines

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What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

Please run the Reload app without saving command or quit and restart Obsidian after updating the plugin. Thank you.

Links facility

• Obsidian links are now accessible in custom searches, sorting and grouping.
• We plan to provide built-in instructions for these features in future.
• Written by @rhhub, and refined by @claremacrae and @ilandikov.
• See the user documentation

Tasks API

• The Tasks API can now edit existing task lines.
• Note that the caller needs to save the modified task line (or lines).
• Written by @justise.
• See the user documentation.

Fix Tasks on iOS and iPadOS versions 18.6 and 26 Public Beta 2

• Fixed an issue reported by many uses, that Task was broken by/on iPadOS/iOs 18.6 and iPadOS/iOs 26 Public Beta 2.
• Fixed by @claremacrae in #3563

/⏳/u.test('🔺⏳')
/⏳/u.test('🔺 ⏳')
/⏳/u.test('🔺  ⏳')

Main changes

Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

• feat: Add ability to filter and group by linked note by @rhhub in #3466
  • Additional contributions:
  • refactor: Minor refactoring of links code and tests by @claremacrae in #3495
  • refactor: Rename outLinks getters to outlinks - changing unreleased code by @claremacrae in #3520
  • feat: Add outlinksInProperties and outlinksInBody - outlinks returns both by @claremacrae in #3526
  • feat: Add Link.markdown for reliable rendering of links by @claremacrae in #3527
  • feature: Add Link.isLinkTo(), for easy 'filter by function' by @ilandikov in #3542
  • feat: Add Link.destinationPath by @claremacrae in #3555
  • fix: Link.isLinkTo() now works when passed TasksFile objects by @claremacrae in #3556
  • refactor: Rename Link.isLinkTo() to Link.linksTo() by @claremacrae in #3557
• feat: Add the ability to launch the task modal to edit an existing line by @justise in #3528

💪 Fixes

• fix: Allow text selection with mouse in Preset settings by @claremacrae in #3511
• fix: Allow other plugins to auto-suggest & document settings for this by @rhhub in #3503
• fix: Enable adding dependencies from modal created via API's createTaskLineModal() by @justise in #3509
• fix: Inline attachment previews are now visible in Live Preview and Reading modes by @ramarivera in #3498
• fix: Enable new iPad/iPhone OS versions to read Emoji tasks (#3546,#3560) by @claremacrae in #3563

🌍 Translations

• i18n: Update Chinese translation(zh_cn.json) by @aoaoho in #3501

📖 Documentation

• docs: Initial documentation for Links feature by @claremacrae in #3569

🛠️ Dependencies

• build(deps-dev): bump async-mutex from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3209
• chore(deps-dev): bump esbuild-svelte from 0.8.0 to 0.8.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #3253
• chore(deps): bump nanoid from 3.3.7 to 3.3.8 by @dependabot[bot] in #3234
• chore(deps): bump undici from 6.21.0 to 6.21.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #3507
• chore(deps): bump rrule from 2.7.2 to 2.8.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3258
• chore(deps): bump @babel/runtime from 7.23.2 to 7.27.6 by @dependabot[bot] in #3506
• chore(deps-dev): bump jest-environment-jsdom from 29.7.0 to 30.0.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #3518

🛠️ Behind the scenes

• test: Save the parsing diffs from Obsidian 1.9.2 to 1.9.4 by @claremacrae in #3517
• vault, tests: Visualise Obsidian, dataview & Tasks behaviour with #3481 by @claremacrae in #3516

New Contributors

• @rhhub made their first contribution in #3466
• @aoaoho made their first contribution in #3501
• @justise made their first contribution in #3509
• @ramarivera made their first contribution in #3498

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

• 7.20.0...7.21.0

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