Dev Log

Everything that changed in Forestry.md, the Digital Garden plugin and its template, newest first.

Forestry.md hosting and dashboard Plugin the Obsidian plugin Template your published site

October 2026

  1. Notes with a number or date as their title, and headings that contain footnotes, no longer fail your site build

    Template
  2. A PNG or JPEG favicon saved as an .svg file no longer breaks your build

    Template
  3. Bases that show or sort by file created/modified time now work on your published site

    Plugin
  4. Bases fixes: dates and timestamps display properly, sorting by date works, link and backlink filters, images and tags render, and hidden notes stay out of results

    Template
  5. New publish branch setting: self-hosted gardens can publish to a branch other than the default, so you can review changes before they go live

    Plugin
  6. Fix note suggestions not showing when settings are open in a pop-out window

    Plugin
  7. Text colored with the Fast Text Color plugin now keeps its colors when published

    Plugin
  8. Refreshed dashboard design, with light, dark and system themes

    Forestry.md
  9. Publish history is now an activity list with filters

    Forestry.md

September 2026

  1. Publishing a single note, or deletions from "Publish all", is now one commit. That means one build and one publish instead of one per file

    Plugin
  2. Bonus publishes now show that they expire after 14 days

    Forestry.md
  3. The Publication Center works on phones, and has a new "Select all" checkbox

    Plugin
  4. Choose the order garden plugins appear in, with up/down controls in the plugins view (also on the dashboard)

    Plugin
  5. On screens narrower than 1400px, the table of contents, backlinks and graph open in a bottom sheet instead of dropping below the note

    Template
  6. New setup checklist on your garden's page that follows your progress

    Forestry.md
  7. The Plugins tab replaces the Components tab on the dashboard

    Forestry.md
  8. Home page picker: choose your garden's home page from a note search, right after connecting or via the new "Choose Garden Home Page" command

    Plugin
  9. The Publication Center now warns when your site is live but has no home page yet

    Plugin
  10. Gardens without a home page now show a list of published notes at the root instead of a 404

    Template
  11. Publishing hundreds of notes at once no longer fails. Large batches are split into smaller commits

    Plugin
  12. Deleting many notes from the Publication Center now happens in one batch instead of one commit per note

    Plugin
  13. Rename your garden, with suggested names when creating a new one

    Forestry.md
  14. Publish failures now show the actual error in the Publication Center, with a copy-details button and a new "Copy debug log" command

    Plugin

August 2026

  1. Sites now build up to 5x faster

    Template
  2. New logo size setting: control how large your site logo appears

    Plugin
  3. Template update notifications are now opt-in

    Plugin
  4. See your garden's recent builds and publish status right in the Publication Center

    Plugin
  5. Excalidraw drawings are now published as crisp SVGs

    Plugin
  6. Inline notes in Excalidraw drawings render as content previews

    Template
  7. Garden plugin manager: browse, install, and configure community plugins right from Obsidian

    Plugin
  8. Community plugin system: extend your garden with community-built plugins

    Template
  9. Publishing rewritten on a lossless markdown engine for more accurate note conversion

    Plugin
  10. Very large gardens no longer run out of memory during builds

    Template
  11. Fix settings dropdowns not working in pop-out windows

    Plugin
  12. Date-only properties now display without a spurious midnight timestamp

    Template
  13. Bases views support more formula functions, with fixes for date and list comparisons

    Template
  14. A broken math expression no longer fails your whole site build

    Template
  15. Fix Dataview links being broken by markdown link resolution

    Template
  16. Markdown-style links now resolve to the right note when published

    Plugin
  17. Image-heavy sites now build up to 38% faster

    Template

July 2026

  1. New graph depth setting to control how many levels of connections your graph view shows

    Plugin
  2. Note links in frontmatter properties now resolve to the right note when published

    Plugin
  3. Your site build no longer fails on images that can't be decoded: they're served as-is instead

    Template
  4. Fix cover images in Base card views not resolving for wikilinks and Obsidian-generated syntax

    Template
  5. Fix batch publishing removing cover images referenced in frontmatter

    Plugin
  6. New Publication Center: browse new and changed notes in a file tree, preview diffs, and publish from one view

    Plugin
  7. Publish your garden into a subfolder of your repo: new Content base directory setting for monorepo layouts

    Plugin
  8. Embed a specific named view from an Obsidian Base

    Plugin

June 2026

  1. Hide notes everywhere with dg-hide: keeps them out of search, the graph, backlinks, feed, and sitemap

    Template
  2. Regenerate your garden key right from the dashboard

    Forestry.md
  3. Garden vitality indicator in the sidebar: see your usage at a glance

    Forestry.md
  4. Personalized greeting on your dashboard home

    Forestry.md
  5. Fix header links to notes whose names contain an ampersand (&)

    Template
  6. New dg-hide-in-filetree property: hide a note from the file tree while it stays searchable

    Plugin
  7. Fix custom navigation ordering for notes that use path rewrite rules

    Template

May 2026

  1. Use large SVG files as your site favicon

    Template
  2. Fix being unexpectedly logged out after your session refreshed

    Forestry.md

April 2026

  1. Fix local export not creating notes in subfolders on Windows

    Plugin
  2. Custom navigation ordering: drag and drop to reorder your sidebar

    PluginTemplate
  3. Fix wikilinks not converting when the same link exists in frontmatter

    Plugin
  4. noteProps shorthand available in custom component templates

    Template
  5. Better feedback when your site is already up to date

    Plugin
  6. Embed GitHub Gists in your notes

    Template
  7. Table of contents now highlights the current heading

    Template
  8. Sidebar renders automatically when custom components are added

    Template
  9. Code editor for custom components in Design Lab

    Forestry.md
  10. Local export: build your garden locally and deploy anywhere

    Plugin
  11. Fix inline math rendering in transcluded files

    Plugin
  12. Fix diff text visibility when comparing changes

    Plugin
  13. All features enabled by default for easier setup

    Template
  14. Live-edit graph CSS variables for easier theming

    Template
  15. New design: refreshed dashboard and landing page

    Forestry.md
  16. Mirror remote garden settings into Obsidian

    Plugin

March 2026

  1. Rewrite graph view with PixiJS for better performance

    Template
  2. Fix browser back-navigation gesture not working

    Template
  3. Support Mermaid diagram init syntax for custom themes

    Template
  4. Obsidian Bases support: publish database views

    PluginTemplate
  5. Random page navigation and smaller search index

    Template
  6. New UI text customization options

    Plugin
  7. Fix sized images in tables not rendering correctly

    Plugin

February 2026

  1. Better search for accented characters (e.g. Spanish ñ)

    Template
  2. Fix file tree breaking when a folder is named "notes"

    Template
  3. Improved SEO meta tags

    Template
  4. Fix printing of main content

    Template
  5. Support for header links within the same note

    Plugin
  6. Fix favicon and logo upload for Forestry users

    Plugin
  7. Fix image and PDF preview in canvas pages

    Plugin
  8. Link to images and PDFs without transcluding them

    PluginTemplate
  9. GitHub as sign-in option

    Forestry.md
  10. Images are only uploaded once, faster publishing

    Plugin
  11. Natural file sorting: "Day 2" comes before "Day 10"

    Template

January 2026

  1. Canvas support: publish Obsidian canvases

    PluginTemplate
  2. YouTube embed support in notes and canvases

    PluginTemplate

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