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• Alpha 2: This is what the team's been silently building and shipping since the original Alpha release of the editor. The editors used on network sites were updated to include this release on June 21, 2022. The team’s worked to fix many of the issues reported by you, including:

  • some issues caused by flipping from the Markdown mode (MD) to the Rich Text (RT) mode, and back (examples here, here, and here);

  • issues with tooltips obscuring the editor area on mobile;

  • and Enter key oddities in Firefox.

• Beta 1: This was released on July 5, 2022 and is in production as of July 12. Full release notes are available. The main accomplishment of this release is to ensure the back-end library is feature-complete as compared to the old editor — meaning the Stacks team laid the groundwork that’ll allow the dev teams responsible for the Public Q&A sites to work on Stack Exchange-specific functionality. With this, the latter teams will be able in the future to build plugins into the editor, with the goal of reaching feature-parity (for all sites) to the old editor available on the network. Some of the issues addressed on this release were:

  • adding initial support for a Markdown preview pane — we know this was a big pain point for many of our power users. Some integration work with the product still remains to be done before this is usable on the sites — we will post a separate update detailing this when it’s ready;

  • enhancements to link insertion and editing, as per the issues reported here and here;

  • triple-clicking selecting the whole text in Markdown mode;

  • and adding official external plugin support, which will be required for supporting various extra editor features across the Stack Exchange network, such as poker, go, chess, code snippets, and MathJax.

• Beta 2: This was released on July 28, 2022, and the editor was released on participating sites on August 8, 2022. For this release, we identified some issues we feel should be addressed before launching the Ask Wizard and Staging Ground projects. This release also included some issues that were reported in answers to this post. Some of the highlights for this release are (full release notes also available):

  • Improvements to code block indentations;

  • An overhaul to the code highlighting system that addresses a number of issues reported with highlights to Markdown mode when text isn’t CommonMark compliant, as reported here, here, and here.

  • A change in the toggle between Rich Text and MarkDown modes - the toggle is now icon-based, instead of the on-off switch that had been in place up until now.

  • Bug fixes with image-uploads (here and here), code block serialization.

  • Block elements are now allowed inside list items.

  • Note: while the preview pane plugin is working in the editor code, some work remains with integrating this into the site. We'll post a separate update detailing this when it’s ready.

• Beta 3: These are issues that would be beneficial to address, but not required for baseline functionality. Once these are addressed, the Stacks Editor should be ready for a network-wide deployment (though we don’t currently have any plans to do that; more on that below). There isn’t a timeline for addressing these issues, and the team will tackle them as their bandwidth permits. Highlights for this release include:

  • adding the ability to change the code block language in Rich Text mode;

  • using a different resize anchor;

  • and some issues with line breaks in tables, that occur when switching from Markdown to Rich Text and back.

• Alpha 2: This is what the team's been silently building and shipping since the original Alpha release of the editor. The editors used on network sites were updated to include this release on June 21, 2022. The team’s worked to fix many of the issues reported by you, including:

  • some issues caused by flipping from the Markdown mode (MD) to the Rich Text (RT) mode, and back (examples here, here, and here);

  • issues with tooltips obscuring the editor area on mobile;

  • and Enter key oddities in Firefox.

• Beta 1: This was released on July 5, 2022 and is in production as of July 12. Full release notes are available. The main accomplishment of this release is to ensure the back-end library is feature-complete as compared to the old editor — meaning the Stacks team laid the groundwork that’ll allow the dev teams responsible for the Public Q&A sites to work on Stack Exchange-specific functionality. With this, the latter teams will be able in the future to build plugins into the editor, with the goal of reaching feature-parity (for all sites) to the old editor available on the network. Some of the issues addressed on this release were:

  • adding initial support for a Markdown preview pane — we know this was a big pain point for many of our power users. Happy to announce that preview mode is now available;

  • enhancements to link insertion and editing, as per the issues reported here and here;

  • triple-clicking selecting the whole text in Markdown mode;

  • and adding official external plugin support, which will be required for supporting various extra editor features across the Stack Exchange network, such as poker, go, chess, code snippets, and MathJax.

• Beta 2: This was released on July 28, 2022, and the editor was released on participating sites on August 8, 2022. For this release, we identified some issues we feel should be addressed before launching the Ask Wizard and Staging Ground projects. This release also included some issues that were reported in answers to this post. Some of the highlights for this release are (full release notes also available):

  • Improvements to code block indentations;

  • An overhaul to the code highlighting system that addresses a number of issues reported with highlights to Markdown mode when text isn’t CommonMark compliant, as reported here, here, and here.

  • A change in the toggle between Rich Text and MarkDown modes - the toggle is now icon-based, instead of the on-off switch that had been in place up until now.

  • Bug fixes with image-uploads (here and here), code block serialization.

  • Block elements are now allowed inside list items.

• Beta 3: These are issues that would be beneficial to address, but not required for baseline functionality. Once these are addressed, the Stacks Editor should be ready for a network-wide deployment (though we don’t currently have any plans to do that; more on that below). There isn’t a timeline for addressing these issues, and the team will tackle them as their bandwidth permits. Highlights for this release include:

  • adding the ability to change the code block language in Rich Text mode;

  • using a different resize anchor;

  • and some issues with line breaks in tables, that occur when switching from Markdown to Rich Text and back.

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• Alpha 2: This is what the team's been silently building and shipping since the original Alpha release of the editor. The editors used on network sites were updated to include this release on June 21, 2022. The team’s worked to fix many of the issues reported by you, including:

  • some issues caused by flipping from the Markdown mode (MD) to the Rich Text (RT) mode, and back (examples here, here, and here);

  • issues with tooltips obscuring the editor area on mobile;

  • and Enter key oddities in Firefox.

• Beta 1: This was released on July 5, 2022 and is in production as of July 12. Full release notes are available. The main accomplishment of this release is to ensure the back-end library is feature-complete as compared to the old editor — meaning the Stacks team laid the groundwork that’ll allow the dev teams responsible for the Public Q&A sites to work on Stack Exchange-specific functionality. With this, the latter teams will be able in the future to build plugins into the editor, with the goal of reaching feature-parity (for all sites) to the old editor available on the network. Some of the issues addressed on this release were:

  • adding initial support for a Markdown preview pane — we know this was a big pain point for many of our power users. Some integration work with the product still remains to be done before this is usable on the sites — we will post a separate update detailing this when it’s ready;

  • enhancements to link insertion and editing, as per the issues reported here and here;

  • triple-clicking selecting the whole text in Markdown mode;

  • and adding official external plugin support, which will be required for supporting various extra editor features across the Stack Exchange network, such as poker, go, chess, code snippets, and MathJax.

• Beta 2: This was released on July 28, 2022, with the editor will be available sometime on August 8, 2022 (will update here when it is up). For this release, we identified some issues we feel should be addressed before launching the Ask Wizard and Staging Ground projects. This release also included some issues that were reported in answers to this post. Some of the highlights for this release are (full release notes also available):

  • Improvements to code block indentations;

  • An overhaul to the code highlighting system that addresses a number of issues reported with highlights to Markdown mode when text isn’t CommonMark compliant, as reported here, here, and here.

  • A change in the toggle between Rich Text and MarkDown modes - the toggle is now icon-based, instead of the on-off switch that had been in place up until now.

  • Bug fixes with image-uploads (here and here), code block serialization.

  • Block elements are now allowed inside list items.

  • Note: while the preview pane plugin is working in the editor code, some work remains with integrating this into the site. We'll post a separate update detailing this when it’s ready.

• Beta 3: These are issues that would be beneficial to address, but not required for baseline functionality. Once these are addressed, the Stacks Editor should be ready for a network-wide deployment (though we don’t currently have any plans to do that; more on that below). There isn’t a timeline for addressing these issues, and the team will tackle them as their bandwidth permits. Highlights for this release include:

  • adding the ability to change the code block language in Rich Text mode;

  • using a different resize anchor;

  • and some issues with line breaks in tables, that occur when switching from Markdown to Rich Text and back.

• Alpha 2: This is what the team's been silently building and shipping since the original Alpha release of the editor. The editors used on network sites were updated to include this release on June 21, 2022. The team’s worked to fix many of the issues reported by you, including:

  • some issues caused by flipping from the Markdown mode (MD) to the Rich Text (RT) mode, and back (examples here, here, and here);

  • issues with tooltips obscuring the editor area on mobile;

  • and Enter key oddities in Firefox.

• Beta 1: This was released on July 5, 2022 and is in production as of July 12. Full release notes are available. The main accomplishment of this release is to ensure the back-end library is feature-complete as compared to the old editor — meaning the Stacks team laid the groundwork that’ll allow the dev teams responsible for the Public Q&A sites to work on Stack Exchange-specific functionality. With this, the latter teams will be able in the future to build plugins into the editor, with the goal of reaching feature-parity (for all sites) to the old editor available on the network. Some of the issues addressed on this release were:

  • adding initial support for a Markdown preview pane — we know this was a big pain point for many of our power users. Some integration work with the product still remains to be done before this is usable on the sites — we will post a separate update detailing this when it’s ready;

  • enhancements to link insertion and editing, as per the issues reported here and here;

  • triple-clicking selecting the whole text in Markdown mode;

  • and adding official external plugin support, which will be required for supporting various extra editor features across the Stack Exchange network, such as poker, go, chess, code snippets, and MathJax.

• Beta 2: This was released on July 28, 2022, and the editor was released on participating sites on August 8, 2022. For this release, we identified some issues we feel should be addressed before launching the Ask Wizard and Staging Ground projects. This release also included some issues that were reported in answers to this post. Some of the highlights for this release are (full release notes also available):

  • Improvements to code block indentations;

  • An overhaul to the code highlighting system that addresses a number of issues reported with highlights to Markdown mode when text isn’t CommonMark compliant, as reported here, here, and here.

  • A change in the toggle between Rich Text and MarkDown modes - the toggle is now icon-based, instead of the on-off switch that had been in place up until now.

  • Bug fixes with image-uploads (here and here), code block serialization.

  • Block elements are now allowed inside list items.

  • Note: while the preview pane plugin is working in the editor code, some work remains with integrating this into the site. We'll post a separate update detailing this when it’s ready.

• Beta 3: These are issues that would be beneficial to address, but not required for baseline functionality. Once these are addressed, the Stacks Editor should be ready for a network-wide deployment (though we don’t currently have any plans to do that; more on that below). There isn’t a timeline for addressing these issues, and the team will tackle them as their bandwidth permits. Highlights for this release include:

  • adding the ability to change the code block language in Rich Text mode;

  • using a different resize anchor;

  • and some issues with line breaks in tables, that occur when switching from Markdown to Rich Text and back.