Deckset Release Notes
A complete history of features, fixes, and updates across all macOS versions
- 03 January 2025 Latest Version
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- 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
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- 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
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- New: 16:10 aspect ratio
- Fixed: Link tooltips not working for all cases
- Fixed: Rare crash when rendering images on slides
- 08 October 2024
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Fixed: Crash when exporting presentations containing tables
- 14 May 2023
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- 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
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- Fixed: Another crash when exporting presentations with media elements
- Fixed: Export panel sometimes misbehaving with incorrect destination error
- 04 January 2023
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- 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
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- 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
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- Fixed: Menu bar icons did not show in older macOS versions.
- 03 December 2020
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- Updated design and icon for macOS Big Sur
- Fixed: Links in exported PDFs were not clickable in some cases
- 24 June 2020
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- Fixed: Crash when attempting to export presentation to PDF
- 17 June 2020
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- 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
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- Fixed: Crash that could occur when text formatting was used in presenter notes
- 12 May 2020
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Fixed: Presenters display was not updated when a different slide was selected
- 31 July 2019
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- New: Four more slide transition styles:
push
,move
,reveal
andfadeThroughColor
. (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.
- New: Four more slide transition styles:
- 14 May 2019 Slide Transition Animations
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- 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.
- New: Use slide transitions when presenting! To enable them, place
- 16 October 2018
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Fixed issue with lists not being displayed if build lists were not enabled
- 26 March 2018
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- 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
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- 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