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What’s new in 1.12.4

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What’s new in 1.12

Released on February 27, 2026

New

Obsidian CLI

This release introduces the Obsidian CLI, a command line interface that lets you control Obsidian from your terminal for scripting, automation, and integration with external tools.

For installation help, check the troubleshooting section for the platform-specific information.

Image resizing

Images in Live Preview can now be resized by dragging from the corner. Double-click the corner to reset the image size.

Automatic attachment cleanup

When deleting a file, a prompt will ask if you would also like to delete its attachments. A new setting in Files & Links allows you to configure this behavior (choose “Always”, “Ask every time”, or “Never”).

Improvements

Bases

  • Added a search toolbar button to filter query results.
  • Added the ability to import files into Bases via drag and drop.
  • Right-clicking on a single row in table view now shows context menu items related to that file.

File Explorer

  • Copy and paste operations are now supported using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V (Cmd-C/Cmd-V on macOS).

Editor

  • Added new menu items when you right-click in the empty space next to the editor:
    • Toggle line numbers
    • Toggle inline title
  • Fixed missing space after blockquotes.
  • Fixed styling of bold links.
  • Image size is no longer treated as display text when dragging a link.

Other

  • Added detection for backlinks in Canvas files. They now appear in the Backlinks view, and count as links in the Graph view.
  • “Change vault…” has been renamed to “Manage vaults”.
  • Added a new “Change vault…” command to quickly switch between vaults via the keyboard.
  • Added a new “Open vault…” command to open an existing vault via the keyboard and keep the current vault open.
  • Alt-clicking a file in the File Explorer now adds the previous active item to the selection.
  • Quick switcher: Dragging results is now supported.
  • Added new “Copy image” menu item when right-clicking on an image.
  • Copying text from the editor now includes HTML formatting, making it easier to paste into apps like Google Docs.
  • Obsidian Sync now logs when files were skipped for being too large.
  • Improved fuzzy search results when the query contains spaces.
  • Opening files in an external application now shows a confirmation dialog for added safety.
  • Added a warning when attempting to open an executable file.
  • Added new app translations.

No longer broken

Other

  • Keychain: Added handling for when encryption is unavailable on some Linux machines.
  • Fixed issue where layout was not always saved when the app is closed.
  • Fixed issue where selecting text near a link or tag would incorrectly trigger the link or tag token.
  • Fixed issue where closing a pop-out window with active notices would cause them to move to the main window and never disappear.
  • Added a new unique URI action.
  • Fixed the outline view flickering while typing.
  • Fixed scroll position not updating after changing the row height in Bases table view.
  • Fixed “More options” menu not closing when clicking the ”…” button in a pop-out window.
  • Fixed list properties not showing edit and remove options in the context menu when right-clicking a link inside a list item.
  • File Explorer: Fixed “Duplicate” menu item generating an incomplete folder name when duplicating a folder that includes ”.” in the name.

Developers

  • The installer has been updated to use Electron v39.7.0 (requires downloading the latest installer).
  • We’ve updated how our translation files are created and bundled with the app. For translators, see the updated instructions on our translations repository.
  • Added theming support for corner shapes using corner-shape CSS property. Replaced -electron-corner-smoothing. Requires Chromium 139 and Obsidian 1.11+.
  • macOS: New traffic-lights-offset-x and --traffic-lights-offset-y CSS variables to configure where the traffic lights appear in the window frame. These offsets are now applied immediately when the app loads.
  • We’ve introduced a breaking API change to BaseOption#shouldHide. This function no longer receives the config as an argument. Options should be accessed from BasesViewRegistration.options instead.
registerView('my-view-id', {
		name: 'View Name',
		icon: 'my-icon',
		factory: () => new MyView(),
		options: (config: BasesViewConfig) => ({
			// Here ^
		})
});
  • Added appendBinary method to the vault and adapter API.

A complete list of previous changes can be found on our changelog.

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