Obsidian 1.13.0 Desktop (Early access)
By Steven Van ·
This release introduces a revamped Settings panel that opens in a new window with built-in search and keyboard navigation.
Obsidian 1.13.0 desktop, in early access, moves Obsidian's Settings panel into its own window, with search across core settings and core plugins by name or description (community plugins can migrate to the new settings API to appear in results too), and keyboard navigation using arrow keys, Enter, Ctrl/Cmd-F, and Vim key bindings. Opening Settings in a new window can be turned off in Settings → Interface. The release also adds the ability to exit Restricted Mode without re-enabling plugins, for debugging a vault.
- Obsidian URIs now show a confirmation dialog before firing, with a "Don't ask again" option managed from an allow list in settings; there's also a new warning before loading HTML resources from a network drive, and a warning dialog when syncing plugins via Obsidian Sync.
- Live Preview adds keyboard selection for images, so backspace/delete removes a selected image and Ctrl/Cmd-C/X copies or cuts it.
- Note Composer now rewrites links to be relative when extracting a section from a file into a new location.
- Dragging a folder into the desktop app imports the whole folder and preserves its directory structure.
- Bookmarks view gains search, and the Sync sidebar view can now have files dragged into other views or the editor, with a search menu item added.
For developers, the release ships documentation and a migration guide for the new Settings API, a ConfirmationModal component, an upgrade of base colors to the OKLCH colorspace, and a breaking change to --callout-color, which now expects a valid CSS color instead of an RGB triplet. Moment.js is upgraded to 2.30.1 and Mermaid to 11.13.0. Full details are in the changelog.
