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Obsidian 1.14.0 released for Desktop and Mobile (September 2, 2026) with new features including color highlights, kanban layouts, and improved RTL support; no breaking changes, deprecations, or API changes detected.

August 20, 2026 1.13.8 Mobile public
September 2, 2026 1.14.0 Mobile catalyst ... September 2, 2026 1.14.0 Desktop catalyst ... August 20, 2026 1.13.8 Mobile public
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+September 2, 2026
+1.14.0 Mobile
+catalyst
+ * Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.14.0.
+
+IMPROVEMENTS
+
+ * Settings are now shown in a dismissable sheet over the app. Swipe anywhere to dismiss.
+
+IOS
+
+ * Native Quick Capture on iOS 26. Capture notes from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or Shortcuts without waiting for your vault to load. While editing, your capture also remains accessible through a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
+ * Quick Capture: Create Locations to capture to a new note, today's daily note, a bookmarked note, or any note you choose.
+ * Quick Capture: Templates support variables such as {{latitude}} and {{longitude}} for your current position.
+ * Share Sheet now uses the vault accent color.
+
+ANDROID
+
+ * Open Note widget displays the name of the note in the Widget.
+ * The "Insert attachment" mobile toolbar button now allows taking a photo directly.
+
+NO LONGER BROKEN
+
+ * The Configure toolbar button now takes you directly to the mobile toolbar settings page (previously it took you to "Interface").
+ * Fixed Hotkeys settings overflowing and causing the page to scroll horizontally.
+ * Fixed missing close animation when tapping the "x" button in the command palette.
+
+RIGHT-TO-LEFT LANAGUAGES (RTL)
+
+ * Settings: The swipe-back gesture is now flipped.
+ * Page animations are now flipped.
+
+September 2, 2026
+1.14.0 Desktop
+catalyst
+
+NEW
+
+EDITOR
+
+ * Added color highlights. Add a color emoji (🔴, 🟠, 🟢, 🔵, 🟣) to the start of a highlight to change its color, or pick a color from the new formatting submenu.
+ * Typing == in the editor now suggests highlight colors.
+ * Live Preview: When the cursor overlaps a highlight, an inline swatch now appears. Click it to quickly change the highlight color.
+
+BASES
+
+ * Added a new kanban layout to display files in ordered columns. Use Group by to define the columns, then drag and drop to reorder them.
+ * Groups are now collapsible in the table, cards, and list layouts.
+
+IMPROVEMENTS
+
+ * The entire workspace, including the sidebars, now flips when Obsidian is set to a right-to-left (RTL) language. Commands stay the same, so "Toggle left sidebar" now refers to the visual left sidebar, even when the interface is flipped.
+ * Closing popout windows (such as Settings) is now much faster.
+ * Editor: Pasting a list item onto a line that already contains a list marker (e.g. - [ ] ) no longer duplicates the marker.
+ * Editor: Improved the inline formatting commands. For example, "Toggle bold" on this line:
+   
+   some **bold |text** on the line|
+   
+   
+   now results in:
+   
+   some **bold text on the line**
+   
+
+NO LONGER BROKEN
+
+ * Fixed periodic input lag in large vaults caused by properties getting recomputed in the background.
+ * Fixed copy and paste not working correctly in popout windows, including copying and pasting notes in Canvas.
+ * Web viewer: Fixed Google sign-in failing.
+ * Bases: Fixed the "+" button not generating correct frontmatter for unresolved links, e.g. file.hasLink("[[unresolved]]").
+ * Editor: Fixed OptionShift↑ and OptionShift↓ not working consistently on macOS in long paragraphs, where the scroll position would sometimes reset and the text selection would be incorrect.
+ * Editor: Fixed a parser issue where ![]( caused all following text in the document to be treated as part of the image.
+ * Editor: Fixed incorrect cursor placement when moving the cursor to the end of the line with multiple formatting markers (e.g. **__text__**).
+ * Editor: Fixed ↑ not moving from the editor to the inline title when there are no properties.
+ * Note composer: Fixed "Extract this heading" not preserving the newline when there is only one newline between the section and the next heading.
+
+DEVELOPERS
+
+ * Replaced MathJax with Temml for rendering math in Live Preview and Reading mode.
+ * Editor: Each line of a math block ($$) now has the .HyperMD-math class.
+ * Settings: Added optional SettingDefinitionItem#id for setting a unique ID on individual settings. Think of it like <div key={key} /> in React. Use it to differentiate between sibling settings that share a name, or to keep a stable reference when a setting or setting page is renamed.
+
 August 20, 2026
 1.13.8 Mobile
 public
 
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  * Settings: Updated the size of toggles inside settings.
  * Settings: Fixed the display of settings with validation errors.
  * iOS: Fixed scrolling stopping abruptly when scrolling quickly in a large document.
- * Android: Fixed "Select all" not selecting everything in long documents.
-
-July 14, 2026
-1.13.2 Desktop
-catalyst
-
-NEW
-
- * New image lightbox for viewing images fullscreen. Click the image in reading mode to open it. Or in live preview, with an image selected, click or press Space to open it in the lightbox. Use arrow keys to navigate between all the images embedded in the current file.
- * Live Preview: Added keyboard interactions when an image is selected. Press + or - to resize the selected image, and 0 to reset the image size. Press Enter to edit the image, or Tab to manually edit the image size.
- * Vim: Added a new :image Ex command to interact with the selected image. Use :image grow and :image shrink to resize the image, and :image reset to reset the image size. It also supports a count, so :5image grow will grow the image 5 times.
-
-IMPROVEMENTS
-
- * Live Preview: Clicking outside a selected image now deselects it.
- * Reading mode now supports external images with an image size and no alt text (e.g. ![200](https://www.path.to/image.png)).
- * File Explorer: Added support for dragging links from a Base into the File Explorer to move the file to a new location.
-
-SYNC
-
- * Added file-level context menu items to the Sync view.
- * The Sync view now supports multi-selection with the keyboard (Shift-arrow keys) or the mouse (Alt-click).
- * The Sync view now supports deleting files with the Delete or Backspace key.
-
-NO LONGER BROKEN
-
- * Editor: Fixed regression where "Toggle bold" would not remove the bold (**) markers when the cursor was inside bold text.
- * Live Preview: Fixed inline formatting not expanding properly when math or images are inside. For example, **e $e$ e** would not expand properly when the cursor moved within the bold formatting.
- * Reading mode no longer interprets %%%% as a non-terminated comment. Comments are always fenced with exactly two % characters.
- * Fixed the "Copy" button not appearing on very large code blocks.
- * Properties: Fixed an error when rendering []() inside a list property.
- * Bookmarks: Fixed keyboard navigation in the Bookmarks view sometimes getting stuck due to missing bookmarked files.
- * Bookmarks: Fixed middle-click inside the Bookmarks view activating AutoScroll on Windows.
- * Bases: Fixed the formula editor not working for Bases in pop-out windows.
- * Bases: Fixed sort filters showing an incorrect background color.
- * Bases: "File links" no longer show the image size as the image display name.
- * Sync: Fixed a bug where clicking the status bar icon would not always open the menu.
- * Settings: Fixed page preview settings not saving.
- * Settings: Fixed pinned commands not showing commands from community plugins.
- * Settings: Fixed a minor memory leak with "action" buttons in settings.
- * Vim: A white "ghost" character no longer appears when the Vim cursor overlaps with a widget in the editor.
-
-DEVELOPERS
-
- * Fixed how SettingGroup renders when used outside of a SettingTab.
-
-June 9, 2026
-1.13.1 Mobile
-catalyst
- * Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.13.1.
-
-IMPROVEMENTS
-
- * Settings pages now have enough padding to scroll fully into view when the onscreen keyboard is showing.
-
-NO LONGER BROKEN
-
- * iOS: Fixed app crashing when sharing screenshots via the Share Sheet.
- * Live Preview: Fixed "Enter" from the iOS keyboard not working as expected inside Markdown lists.
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+ * Android: Fixed "Select all" not selecting everything in long documents.
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