December 14th, 2024 — v5.23.0
Added a pair of forward and back buttons to the control bar at the top of the app for the purpose navigating between previously viewed items and workspaces.
Added a feature for tracking the locations of any item in the app.
Added location info/link to the metadata section of each item's menu.
Added a filter dropdown to the pages section of the library, allowing you to filter by page titles or page content.
Updated search by consolidating all the search capability, including page content search, into the library panel.
Updated the library panel so that the "new" buttons for each item type are more subtle.
Updated the library panel so that the filter field is auto-focused when navigating between item types in the library.
Fixed a bug that caused the library panel to fly in and out unexpectedly.
Removed the redundant search popup and associated search popup editor.
November 26th, 2024 — v5.22.1
Updated the location of the "New page" button in the sidebar by moving it to the left hand side. Also gave the button a label so that it's purpose is more clear and stands out to new users.
Removed the "Landing Zone" subheading in sidebar.
Updated "Workspace Bin" subheading in the sidebar to simply read "Workspace".
Updated language mentioning the sidebar, throughout the app, to reflect the changes.
November 25th, 2024 — v5.22.0
Added a new feature that allows a user to compile pages into a stack directly from a database.
Added the ability to drag and drop a resource to a new location from the title header of the resource when it's open.
October 24th, 2024 — v5.21.1
Fixed a bug that prevented page-history and delete-confirmation modals from appearing on mobile app.
June 4th, 2024 — v5.21.0
Updated the sign in process so that it takes less time to log in.
Updated the page-loading process so that it takes less time to load pages.
May 7th, 2024 — v5.20.1
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the Library panel to close unexpectedly when searching via the filter.
May 1st, 2024 — v5.20.0
Added a page history feature to the app and the ability to restore a page to a previous version.
April 30th, 2024 — v5.19.0
Added word count, read time, create date, and last edited date info to the page and stack menus.
April 22nd, 2024 — v5.18.3
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the page to jump unexpectedly when clicking on a checkbox or an expand-collapse toggle switch.
April 18th, 2024 — v5.18.2
Fixed a split screen bug that sometimes caused a split screen to be created with the wrong resources.
April 16th, 2024 — v5.18.1
Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash when adding a new option to a single or multiple-select column while the row was in a subgroup.
Fixed a bug that caused split screens to remain in the sidebar even when its contents were deleted.
Fixed the placement of the landing zone empty state message.
April 15th, 2024 — v5.18.0
Added the ability to duplicate a database, excluding its records.
Added the ability to do a deep copy of a stack, duplicating both the stack structure and all of the pages that it references.
Added the ability to duplicate a stack as a page.
Updated the name of the Home panel. It's now called the “Library.”
April 8th, 2024 — v5.17.0
Added the ability sort single-select field types in a database.
Added a confirmation dialog that appears when deleting the contents of a text cell.
Updated how groups are sorted. When grouping based off of a “single select” field type, groups are now sorted according to the order of the “single select” options in the field settings. Multiple select sorting for groups is not supported yet.
Updated the database text cell so that an additional focus ring appears around the cell when in “text editing” mode to disambiguate from "normal" focus.
Fixed text cell behavior for Escape, Tab, and Enter.
Fixed a bug that prevented the user from making text selections and changing the position of the cursor within a text cell via the mouse.
Fixed a bug that prevented the user from naming a new column while a table cell had focus.
Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash when deleting the current workspace.
April 2nd, 2024 — v5.16.0
Added the ability to filter rows in a database by one or more conditions.
Fixed a bug that prevented you from being able to delete a row in a database.
March 18th, 2024 — v5.15.0
Added missing record IDs to database table records.
Added the ability to rearrange rows in a table by drag and drop.
Updated the database "resource" field type. It's now called the "page" field and the icon for that field type has been changed to a page icon.
February 29th, 2024 — v5.14.0
Added support for our new payment processor Paddle.
Added new and improved checkout experience.
February 28th, 2024 — v5.13.1
Fixed a bug where the modal for deleting a board would appear when attempting to delete a database from the home panel.
February 27th, 2024 — v5.13.0
Added the ability to delete pages.
Added the ability to delete stacks.
Added the ability to delete databases.
Added the ability to delete boards.
Added the ability to delete workspaces.
Improved drag-and-drop in the sidebar, the table of contents panel for stacks, and the board content panel.
Updated the position of the "New field" database popup so that it appears below the "New field" button.
February 19th, 2024 — v5.12.1
Fixed a bug where payment details could not be updated for subscriptions with an overdue payment.
February 7th, 2024 — v5.12.0
Added the ability to group rows in a database by up to 3 fields.
Added the ability to reorder “single” and “multiple select” options by drag and drop in the field settings popup.
Updated the color of the sidebar resizing control.
Removed the ability to change a field from one type to another.
Fixed a bug that made it so that you could not deselect a cell in the database.
January 18th, 2024 — v5.11.1
Fixed: A bug where tabbing a block multiple times would cause the page to crash the next time it loaded.
January 18th, 2024 — v5.11.0
Added: The ability to duplicate pages from anywhere in the app
January 11th, 2024 — v5.10.3
Fixed: The app wasn't resizing with the browser window.
Fixed: A bug that was causing some legacy links to not load when visited.
Fixed: An issue where some blocks from the previous version of Speare were not being properly converted to the new version. For instance, a block with markdown indicating that the block was a list item would cause an error in the conversion process.
January 10th, 2024 — v5.10.2
Fixed: A bug that made it impossible to rearrange folders in the Workspace Bin.
Fixed: A bug that caused checklist items to not function properly when toggled.
January 9th, 2024 — v5.10.1
Fixed: An issue where page data sometimes was not being saved properly.
Fixed: An issue where the paragraph editor would break when trying to escape using
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December 29th, 2023 — v5.10.0
Added: The ability to add a YouTube video block to a page.
Updated: Pressing “backspace/delete” at the end of an inline link now causes the link to be deleted.
Fixed: A bug with the link popup that prevented you from being able to link to existing pages.
Fixed: An issue where the cursor did not consistently step over links properly.
Fixed: A minor styling issue with the legacy links.
December 27th, 2023 — v5.9.0
Added: The ability to create bi-directional links.
Added: The ability to create web links using the same method as bi-directional links.
Added: The ability to create page block links from the command menu.
Added: The ability to remove web links and bi-directional links from inline text.
Added: The ability to create boards from the landing zone of the sidebar.
Updated: The main app bar by swapping the menu icons around so that search and home are on the right.
Fixed: An issue with the side peek panel where it wasn't working for inline page links.
Fixed: An issue with inline links where the line height was unexpectedly taller than the default setting.
Fixed: An issue where the side peek width sometimes was not wide enough to accommodate content in the header.
December 6th, 2023 — v5.8.0
Added: New board feature.
Updated: Light and dark-mode colors.
Added: The ability to drag resources into a split screen or rearrange them inside the split screen via the sidebar.
Added: The ability to drag the split screen in the sidebar from a handle that appears when you hover over the dot-connector element.
Fixed: The duplicate resource bug that occurs when a new split screen is created.
Removed: The menu from the stack table of contents panel header.
Updated: All one-pixel lines throughout the app to use the same color.
Updated: Panel shadows.
Fixed: Home panel icon tooltips that were not working.
Fixed: After closing a split screen, the work area empty-state text was unexpectedly appearing at the top of the work area.
Fixed: Renaming of workspaces from the favorites list.
Fixed: Double drag and drop indicator bug.
November 16th, 2023 — v5.7.0
Fixed: A bug with pages that sometimes prevented you from being able to write or add anything to a page.
Fixed: Icon issue with the main menu bar of mobile web app.
Added: PWA (progressive web app) functionality.
Added: A “Changelog” menu item to the help menu on the app bar, allowing you to quickly access the changelog to read about the latest updates as they occur.
November 8th, 2023 — v5.6.2
Fixed: Numbered items that were displaying the incorrect counter for their outline level.
Fixed: Bullet items that were displaying the incorrect bullet for their outline level.
Fixed: Block-quotes that were not coming in properly.
Fixed: Legacy page-block links that were not rendering their display text.
Added: Support for legacy (version 4) doc links.