CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[Unreleased]

Added

Changed

Deprecated

Removed

Fixed

Security

[1.5.1] - 2026-09-18

Fixed

• expand tables to fill the width of landscape sections
• fix macros for paths containing UTF-8 characters
• switch Word to Print Layout view before processing pagination

[1.5.0] - 2026-09-11

Added

• support docx/pdf file drop into editor (editor.dropIntoEditor.enabled user setting must be set to true)
• table editor: add new row when "tab" in last cell
• auto-replace hyphens with Unicode non-breaking hyphens (\u2011) to prevent mid-word text wrapping between letters and numbers.
• CLI options for configuring or disabling the file boundary check (--check-files-inside <path> and -x, --allow-files-outside)

Changed

• Replaced the allowExternalFiles API option with checkFilesIsInsidePath, added symlink-safe path containment.

Fixed

• table editor: fix `code` blocks chars replacment

[1.4.1] - 2026-09-07

Fixed

• fix bug with image size (rem dev code from prev release)

[1.4.0] - 2026-09-06

Added

• totalPagesOffset property of Doc to modify TOTAL_PAGES field value (!!rule isn't implemented yet)
• make render process cancellable
• add userInput error code to MDRenderError
• add abortSignal property to MDRenderConfig
• add allowExternalFiles property to MDRenderConfig
• support page orientation (landscape/portrait) and disable numbering (unpaged) in !!section directive

Changed

• !!section directive now accepts multiple optional parameters in any order (orientation and numbering)

Fixed

• fix typos in readme
• fix <br> display in image title in preview

[1.3.2] - 2026-07-12

Added

• Directory Output Support: renderMarkdown now accepts directory paths for config.output, auto-generating the filename from the input file with the correct extension (.pdf/.docx).

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where intermediate .docx path was returned even when removeIntermediateDocx was active.

[1.3.1] - 2026-07-09

Fixed

• assert that macros are enabled for pdf output format
• fix import in CLI

[1.3.0] - 2026-07-09

Added

• NPM package support alongside the existing VS Code extension (dual distribution).
• Command Line Interface (CLI) powered by commander.

[1.2.2] - 2026-05-27

Changed

• allow simple list in "СПИСОК ИСПОЛЬЗОВАННЫХ ИСТОЧНИКОВ"

Fixed

• fix macros on non-Russian system locales
• add count of appendices in "РЕФЕРАТ"

[1.2.1] - 2026-05-23

Fixed

• fix link parsing
• fix sources list parsing
• fix macros for large docs
• fix AutoListingContinuation
• fix count of elements in "РЕФЕРАТ"
• keep table and code caption styles in continuations

[1.2.0] - 2026-05-21

Added

• support Appendix section
• new rules to configure styles
• support multiline markdown comments
• md2gost.completion.tableSeparator and md2gost.completion.listItem options to toggle text suggestions
• md2gost.render.removeIntermediateDocx option to clean up temporary DOCX file after PDF generation

Changed

• rename option md2gost.ui.enhancedMarkdownPreview to md2gost.ui.enhancedPreview
• rename option md2gost.ui.disableHighlighting to md2gost.ui.enhancedHighlighting

Fixed

• support for triple-backtick (```) blocks in paragraph text
• AutoTableContinuation: dont left single row at page
• fix formatter: skip text inside triple-backtick (```) blocks
• fix formatter: keep em dashes inside "СПИСОК ИСПОЛЬЗОВАННЫХ ИСТОЧНИКОВ"
• fix list formatting
• fix json parsing in rendering to PDF
• fix macros on non-Russian system locales
• fix custom md syntax highlighting

[1.1.1] - 2026-05-10

Fixed

• fix titles in Markdown preview

[1.1.0] - 2026-05-09

Added

• new rules to configure styles
• echance Markdown preview to support custom syntax
• show warnings for uncorrect rules
• add "open readme" button

Fixed

• fix render of section without page numbers
• enable table editor for all md files

[1.0.3] - 2026-04-26

Added

• html codes: « » ‹ › for « » ‹ ›

Fixed

• fix quote replacement for non‑ASCII characters and punctuation after closing quotes
• add missing intellisense
• fix AutoListingContinuation

[1.0.1] - 2026-04-26

Fixed

• convert ⋆ to *

[1.0.0] - 2026-04-26

Added

• intellisense (CompletionItem, InlineCompletionItem, Hover, InlayHints)
• formatter
• table editor
• html codes for ~60 symbol (e.g. π to π)
• add AutoTableContinuation
• feature: sources list
• allow pdf in doc include

Changed

• rule backtick_mono: off - no style now, added italic option instead

Fixed

• fix one-column table parsing
• allow table title without newline
• signicantly speed up vba macros (up to 20 times)
• fix (allow) svg images
• fix metadata changes lost

[0.7.0] - 2026-04-07

Added

• convert ⋆ to *
• table columns alignment with colon
• parse `abc` as monotext, render as italic if backtick_mono is off (default)
• new rule: !!rule backtick_mono <off/on/outline>
• new rule: !!rule numbering lazy <off/on>

Fixed

• fix disappearing stars due to text style parsing
• fix list indent when >= 10 items
• fix quotes replacing ("a "b" c": «a »b« c» to «a «b» c»)
• fix docx include when not in the beginning
• fix <br> duplication

[0.6.1] - 2026-03-10

Added

• show what's new page on update

[0.6.0] - 2026-03-07

Added

• autonumbering by [#], [ref_id]
• refs by [ref_id] - allowed chars: a-z A-Z а-я А-Я ёЁ _ 0-9
• text vars [!pages] [!imgs] [!tables] [!codes] [!sources]
• new rules: !!rule numbering sections <on/off> !!rule numbering autoprefix <on/off>
• fast render without postprocessing (hold alt when click render button)

Fixed

• warn message if not win32 instead of error
• black background with !!rule rainbow
• fix img path from project root: treat /img.png as ./img.png
• correct work with img path in <> like <img.png>

[0.5.2] - 2026-02-27

Fixed

• detect ru/en language in text for correct markup
• better error messages
• stretch tables to full page width
• dont crash if cant run PS or on PS error

[0.5.1] - 2026-02-18

Added

• replacing --- with page break

Fixed

• fix using absolute path for images and external doc
• save .md file before rendering

[0.5.0] - 2026-02-18

Added

• insert non-breaking space by  
• insert tab by 	
• prevent text stretching due to line breaks
• new rule rainbow: !!rule rainbow
• set in doc: edit time (random in 30-120), creation time (as in .md), modification time (now)
• new rules: !!rule etime <int>, !!rule ctime <ISO 8601>, !!rule mtime <ISO 8601>

Fixed

• fix doc include parsing
• prevent empty image title

[0.4.0] - 2026-02-17

Added

• new rule to set title of document: !!rule title My great title
• new rule to set author of document: !!rule author My name

[0.3.1] - 2026-02-17

Fixed

• syntax highlighting: remove bold style

[0.3.0] - 2026-02-17

Added

• syntax highlighting in code blocks
  • is enabled by adding !!rule highlight code anywhere in file
  • suports: html, xml, css, js, ts, jsx, tsx, json, bash, powershell, python, java, c, cpp, csharp, go, rust, php, ruby, swift, kotlin, sql, yaml, markdown, docker, nginx

[0.2.1] - 2026-02-17

Added

• replacing quotes: "abc" to «abc»

[0.2.0] - 2026-02-17

Added

• break line by <br>
• text decorations parsing: bold, italic, links

Fixed

• disable row spliting in table

[0.1.7] - 2026-02-15

Fixed

• fix AutoListingContinuation

[0.1.6] - 2026-02-15

Fixed

• greatly fix PDF render

[0.1.5] - 2026-02-15

Fixed

• list: dont auto-lower first char

[0.1.4] - 2026-02-15

Fixed

• fix readme

[0.1.3] - 2026-02-15

Added

• replacing "ai" dashes with common dash

Fixed

• list: dont auto-lower first char if second is uppercase
• ToC title uppercase
• improve readme

[0.1.2] - 2026-02-13

Fixed

• Correct parsing of tables and lists

[0.1.0] - 2026-02-13

Added

• basic functionality