Deckset Release Notes

A complete history of features, fixes, and updates across all macOS versions

03 January 2025 Latest Version

2.0.37

  • New: Ability to control caplitalization style
  • Fixed: Slides not always being visible after opening multiple presentations at once
  • Fixed: Rare crash when quickly opening and closing presentation window (the same one as last time, but this time - for real!)
  • Fixed: Crash when opening missing fonts window (also the UI there was slightly revamped)
  • Fixed: Various minor fixes/improvements around local video loading - presentations with videos should run much smoother now
  • Fixed: Presentation front matter not being parsed correctly if Windows style line ending is used
  • Fixed: Corner radius command not working for inline images
  • Last but not least - some minor improvements to Library window to make it run a bit smoother

05 November 2024

2.0.36

  • New: Slightly refreshed library view
  • Fixed: Rare crash when quickly opening and closing presentation window
  • Fixed: Deckset sometimes not being able to open .md files
  • Fixed: Incorrect alignments with footers starting with strong or emphasis

23 October 2024

2.0.35

  • New: 16:10 aspect ratio
  • Fixed: Link tooltips not working for all cases
  • Fixed: Rare crash when rendering images on slides

08 October 2024

2.0.34

  • New: Markdown level Mermaid Graph customization (see docs)
  • New: Rounded corners support for images (see docs)
  • New: Custom letter spacing (currently only available from Markdown level, see docs for kern attribute)
  • New: Ability to define presentation-level code language (see docs)
  • New: Tooltip for links (see Markdown documentation for exact syntax)
  • Improved: Mermaid graph rendering - graphs should now scale up if there’s available space and the image quality of graphs should be better (macOS 11 and above only)
  • Fixed: Issues with build-ins of content when presenter notes contained a list
  • Fixed: Build-ins of lists that contain identical bullet points
  • Fixed: Crash when presenter notes contained a graph

Note: Deckset 2.0.34 is the last release supporting macOS 10.13 and 10.14.

26 June 2024 Mermaid Graphs Support

2.0.33

  • New: mermaid.js graph support 🎉 Deckset now supports graphs that are rendered using Mermaid.js. Be sure to check out our new help section on how to use these!
  • New: We have a new theme joining in this release: Fraunces! Be sure to play with header line height in this one, you can get some gorgeous results!
  • New: Introducing 4:5 and 1:1 aspect ratios. These match aspect ratios recommended by social networks like Instagram or LinkedIn
  • Fixed: Incorrect styling in code blocks containing emojis
  • Fixed: Incorrect content centering in new themes when slide containing math element

05 June 2024 Pixel, Rakkas and Warsaw themes

2.0.32

  • New: Not one, not two but… three new themes! Say hello to Rakkas, Warsaw and Pixel!
  • New: Template picker when creating new presentation - you can now choose to either use one of our example presentations, templates or just a blank file (note: this is only available for macOS 13.0 and later)
  • Fixed: Media files linking to Firebase should now correctly load
  • Fixed: Delicious and Inter 2.0 theme identifiers not working when defined in Markdown file
  • Fixed: Thumbnails of some themes should now look substantially better

08 May 2024 Space Theme

2.0.31

  • New: Space theme has landed! 🧑‍🚀
  • Fixed: Delicious theme eating characters when diacritic symbols were used
  • Fixed: Incorrect encoding for code blocks breaking non-ASCII characters

29 April 2024

2.0.30

  • Fixed presenter notes not working if a newline was placed after ^ character
  • Renamed New Inter to Inter 2.0
  • Added two new color variants to Inter 2.0

22 April 2024 Code Block Background

2.0.29

  • New: Code Block background has finally arrived 🎉 You can now specify custom code block backgrounds with delightful syntax highlight! Check it out in Code customization.
  • Fixed: Crash when specifying web image with incorrect data
  • Fixed: YouTube playback controls should be working

04 January 2024

2.0.28

  • New: You can now include highlighted code in presenter notes (and code in presenter notes should generally work much better)
  • New: Higher resolution export options for PNG and JPEG exports
  • New: Inline code customization (currently only from Markdown level)
  • A couple of smaller bug fixes

09 November 2023

2.0.27

  • Fixed: Potential crash when creating a new presentation before application setup is complete
  • Fixed: Potential crash when a complex unicode character was placed at the end of presentation

07 November 2023

2.0.26

  • New: Slighly revamped UI style
  • New: Revamped color picker UI
  • New: Allow empty bullet point character when configuring them from slide theme override
  • New: Allow bullet point character color customization
  • New: Substantially improve speed of opening presentation and responsiveness of UI after modifying theme
  • Theme Update: Sketchnote theme has been replaced with new Delicious theme (existing custom themes based on Sketchnote will use Delicious theme as baseline since this version)
  • Theme Update: Poster and Olive Green themes were slightly refreshed
  • Fixed: Rare Paddle crash when verifying activation
  • Fixed: Merriweather and Titillium use correct font for code blocks
  • Fixed: Rare scenario where slide would not reload after media file was downloaded
  • Fixed: Rare crash when slides were reload and selected slide was offscreen
  • Fixed: Deckset should no longer sometimes fail to restore Menu Bar after exiting presentation (if you encounter this again please contact support@deckset.com)

27 October 2023

2.0.25

  • Fixed: Crash when exporting presentations containing tables

14 May 2023

2.0.24

  • Fixed: One more crash when exporting slides with media elements (if you now encounter empty content in exported files instead of a crash - please do let us know at support@deckset.com!)
  • Fixed: Random crash when changing underlying md file
  • Fixed: Application hang when the underlying md file changed

04 March 2023

2.0.23

  • Fixed: Another crash when exporting presentations with media elements
  • Fixed: Export panel sometimes misbehaving with incorrect destination error

04 January 2023

2.0.22

  • Fixed: Crash when exporting presentations with media elements
  • Fixed: Crash when exporting presentations with specific gif images
  • Fixed: Crash when rendering Business Class separators

04 January 2023

2.0.21

  • New: Updated look and feel of the app
  • New: You can now reset license activations from within the app (once you hit the limit)
  • Fixed: Low quality of exported PDFs on macOS 13
  • And as always - minor bug fixes and performance improvements 🎉

30 March 2021

2.0.20

  • Fixed: Menu bar icons did not show in older macOS versions.

03 December 2020

2.0.19

  • Updated design and icon for macOS Big Sur
  • Fixed: Links in exported PDFs were not clickable in some cases

24 June 2020

2.0.18

  • Fixed: Crash when attempting to export presentation to PDF

17 June 2020

2.0.17

  • Fixed: Crash when removing default theme from Markdown file
  • Fixed: Hang in Library window when opening certain Recent files
  • Fixed: Low quality photos on first slide when starting windowed presentation
  • Fixed: Deckset not starting windowed presentation in certain scenarios
  • Fixed: Missing Libre theme thumbnails
  • Fixed: Rare crash when parsing SVG files

13 May 2020

2.0.16

  • Fixed: Crash that could occur when text formatting was used in presenter notes

12 May 2020

2.0.15

  • Improved: For files with the same name, Deckset will now display the name of the folder containing the file next to the file name
  • Fixed: Crash when opening links
  • Fixed: Crash when placing a YouTube video on a slide

11 May 2020 Present in Window

2.0.14

  • New: You can now present in a window, instead of presenter mode taking over the entire screen. This is useful when you’re presenting remotely, as you’ll be able to share your presentation and see the other participants in a video call at the same time.
  • Improved: Generating thumbnails for slides containing images is much faster now.
  • Fixed: Fixed an issue with font loading on macOS Catalina.

27 November 2019 Columns

2.0.13

  • New: Support for columns. Use [.column] above the content you want to layout in a new column.
  • Improved: Better error handling when reaching license activation limit.
  • Fixed: When PNGs are exported at reduced size, their alpha channel is now kept intact.
  • Fixed: Deckset no longer halts when displaying certain types of SVG.

25 September 2019

2.0.12

  • Fixed: Stability issues on macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • Fixed: Further stability improvements
  • Fixed: Tables now correctly handle links (in both presentation and exported slides)
  • Fixed: Hidden video/audio files no longer affect slide layout when placed in background
  • Fixed: Incorrect bottom footnote padding in Titillium theme
  • Fixed: Autoplay videos wouldn’t always start autoplaying
  • Fixed: Broken AppleScript error messaging (Deckset didn’t report any issues even if some happened)

01 August 2019

2.0.11

  • Fixed: Presenters display was not updated when a different slide was selected

31 July 2019

2.0.10

  • New: Four more slide transition styles: push, move, reveal and fadeThroughColor. (See docs for usage options.)
  • New: On slides with build steps for code highlights or list items, going back now steps through the animation in reverse instead of going back to the previous slide.
  • New: Footnotes are now working with buildable lists.
  • New: Presenter notes can now be displayed in Deckset’s main window.
  • Fixed: Added missing link styles in Plex and Inter themes.
  • Fixed: It’s now possible to use HTML tags in footer slide command.

14 May 2019 Slide Transition Animations

2.0.9

  • New: Use slide transitions when presenting! To enable them, place slide-transition: true at the top of your Markdown file. We’re currently supporting a simple fade transition, more to come. You can control the duration of the transition by passing in the value in seconds: slide-transition: fade(0.3). As per usual, these commands can also be overridden on a per slide level, e.g. [.slide-transition: fade(0.3)]. See docs for usage options.
  • New: Added the option to export a reduced file size PDF (this feature substantially decreases the exported presentation file size by using compression on large image embeds)
  • New: Two new themes: Plex and Inter.
  • New: Define the start time for native videos, similarly to how YouTube videos are already handled, e.g. [](video.mp4?t=24s)
  • New: Filters can now be applied to GIFs too. To apply a filter to an inline image, use the filtered attribute: e.g. [filtered](image.gif)
  • New: Customize the appearance of presenter notes in presentation mode and export by using the presenter-notes command, e.g. presenter-notes: text-scale(2.0)
  • New: Slide-level commands will now only override the specified attributes. Attributes that are defined on the presentation level (read: at the top of your Markdown file) will be inherited.
  • Fixed: Slightly incorrect color representation when applying colors from the customization UI.
  • Fixed: The mute attribute for local video and audio files was broken - this now works again! 😅
  • Fixed: The table separator color override from Markdown wasn’t applied but is now.
  • Fixed: A couple of minor memory leaks here and there.

16 October 2018

2.0.8

  • New: Expanded AppleScript support, see here for examples and documentation.
  • New: Hide media elements with the new hide attribute. Useful if you would like to play audio on a slide but don’t want any visual representation.
  • Fixed: Dragging image files on the Deckset would no longer create the corresponding Markdown, this is restored!
  • Fixed: Deckset no longer crashes when a code block without build steps was preceded by a list with build steps.
  • Fixed: Non-buildable lists were displayed incorrectly when the slide also contained a buildable code block. No more!

05 October 2018 Dark Mode

2.0.7

  • New: Mojave Dark Mode support
  • New: Support for playing audio files
  • Improved: Video files now play on both presenter and presentation screen in sync
  • Fixed: When a slide contained a code block and another code block or list, Deckset would crash when using build steps. This is fixed now.

08 September 2018

2.0.6

  • New: Step through highlighted lines of code incrementally
  • New: Customize the appearance of formulas
  • New: Basic support for SVG images
  • Fixed: No longer crashes on startup on the macOS Mojave beta
  • Fixed: Referencing a web page instead of a remote image no longer causes Deckset to crash
  • Fixed: Changes to image attributes would sometimes not be reflected in the slide preview, this has been fixed
  • Fixed: Fixed a bug that would cause extensive memory usage under certain conditions

17 May 2018

2.0.5

  • New: Quote appearance can now be customized
  • New: Deckset now remembers which screen was used for presenter screen and defaults to internal screen as presenter display
  • Fixed: A rare crash on startup that affected a small fraction of our users
  • Fixed: Slide thumbnails no longer look pixelated on non-retina screens
  • Fixed: When exporting each stage of build steps, slides without lists wouldn’t end up in the export, this is now fixed
  • Improved: The selected slide is now centered in the Touch Bar so that you can see both previous and upcoming slides

16 May 2018

2.0.4

  • Fixed an issue where “Headers as Slide Dividers” setting produced an empty initial slide
  • Fixed an issue with slides containting code blocks sometimes requiring two clicks to move to the next slide
  • Updated the Help section

10 May 2018

2.0.3

  • Fixed issue with lists not being displayed if build lists were not enabled

26 March 2018

2.0.2

  • New: Footer appearance can now be customized
  • New: The “Headers as Slide Dividers” setting is now accessible from the Markdown file. Simply add the following to the top of your document: slide-dividers: #, ##, ###, ####
  • Improved: The “build-lists” command now also works with nested lists
  • Fixed an issue with text customization breaking slide numbers
  • Fixed an issue where code font customization would fail when no text styles were defined

20 March 2018

2.0.1

  • New: Slide number appearance can now be customized
  • New: Link appearance can now be customized
  • Updated Help section in the app
  • Fixed footer customization from Markdown file
  • Fixed crash when adding customizations on macOS 10.11
  • Fixed crash when referencing non-existing image files in Markdown
  • Removed duplicate slides from the Tables example presentation
  • Added nvalt to the list of compatible Markdown editors