Dev Log
Everything that changed in Forestry.md, the Digital Garden plugin and its template, newest first.
October 2026
Notes with a number or date as their title, and headings that contain footnotes, no longer fail your site build
A PNG or JPEG favicon saved as an .svg file no longer breaks your build
Bases that show or sort by file created/modified time now work on your published site
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
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
Fix note suggestions not showing when settings are open in a pop-out window
Text colored with the Fast Text Color plugin now keeps its colors when published
Refreshed dashboard design, with light, dark and system themes
Publish history is now an activity list with filters
September 2026
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
Bonus publishes now show that they expire after 14 days
The Publication Center works on phones, and has a new "Select all" checkbox
Choose the order garden plugins appear in, with up/down controls in the plugins view (also on the dashboard)
On screens narrower than 1400px, the table of contents, backlinks and graph open in a bottom sheet instead of dropping below the note
New setup checklist on your garden's page that follows your progress
The Plugins tab replaces the Components tab on the dashboard
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
The Publication Center now warns when your site is live but has no home page yet
Gardens without a home page now show a list of published notes at the root instead of a 404
Publishing hundreds of notes at once no longer fails. Large batches are split into smaller commits
Deleting many notes from the Publication Center now happens in one batch instead of one commit per note
Rename your garden, with suggested names when creating a new one
Publish failures now show the actual error in the Publication Center, with a copy-details button and a new "Copy debug log" command
August 2026
Sites now build up to 5x faster
New logo size setting: control how large your site logo appears
Template update notifications are now opt-in
See your garden's recent builds and publish status right in the Publication Center
Excalidraw drawings are now published as crisp SVGs
Inline notes in Excalidraw drawings render as content previews
Garden plugin manager: browse, install, and configure community plugins right from Obsidian
Community plugin system: extend your garden with community-built plugins
Publishing rewritten on a lossless markdown engine for more accurate note conversion
Very large gardens no longer run out of memory during builds
Fix settings dropdowns not working in pop-out windows
Date-only properties now display without a spurious midnight timestamp
Bases views support more formula functions, with fixes for date and list comparisons
A broken math expression no longer fails your whole site build
Fix Dataview links being broken by markdown link resolution
Markdown-style links now resolve to the right note when published
Image-heavy sites now build up to 38% faster
July 2026
New graph depth setting to control how many levels of connections your graph view shows
Note links in frontmatter properties now resolve to the right note when published
Your site build no longer fails on images that can't be decoded: they're served as-is instead
Fix cover images in Base card views not resolving for wikilinks and Obsidian-generated syntax
Fix batch publishing removing cover images referenced in frontmatter
New Publication Center: browse new and changed notes in a file tree, preview diffs, and publish from one view
Publish your garden into a subfolder of your repo: new Content base directory setting for monorepo layouts
Embed a specific named view from an Obsidian Base
June 2026
Hide notes everywhere with dg-hide: keeps them out of search, the graph, backlinks, feed, and sitemap
Regenerate your garden key right from the dashboard
Garden vitality indicator in the sidebar: see your usage at a glance
Personalized greeting on your dashboard home
Fix header links to notes whose names contain an ampersand (&)
New dg-hide-in-filetree property: hide a note from the file tree while it stays searchable
Fix custom navigation ordering for notes that use path rewrite rules
May 2026
Use large SVG files as your site favicon
Fix being unexpectedly logged out after your session refreshed
April 2026
Fix local export not creating notes in subfolders on Windows
Custom navigation ordering: drag and drop to reorder your sidebar
Fix wikilinks not converting when the same link exists in frontmatter
noteProps shorthand available in custom component templates
Better feedback when your site is already up to date
Embed GitHub Gists in your notes
Table of contents now highlights the current heading
Sidebar renders automatically when custom components are added
Code editor for custom components in Design Lab
Local export: build your garden locally and deploy anywhere
Fix inline math rendering in transcluded files
Fix diff text visibility when comparing changes
All features enabled by default for easier setup
Live-edit graph CSS variables for easier theming
New design: refreshed dashboard and landing page
Mirror remote garden settings into Obsidian
March 2026
Rewrite graph view with PixiJS for better performance
Fix browser back-navigation gesture not working
Support Mermaid diagram init syntax for custom themes
Obsidian Bases support: publish database views
Random page navigation and smaller search index
New UI text customization options
Fix sized images in tables not rendering correctly
February 2026
Better search for accented characters (e.g. Spanish ñ)
Fix file tree breaking when a folder is named "notes"
Improved SEO meta tags
Fix printing of main content
Support for header links within the same note
Fix favicon and logo upload for Forestry users
Fix image and PDF preview in canvas pages
Link to images and PDFs without transcluding them
GitHub as sign-in option
Images are only uploaded once, faster publishing
Natural file sorting: "Day 2" comes before "Day 10"
January 2026
Canvas support: publish Obsidian canvases
YouTube embed support in notes and canvases
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