Pilcrow releases

Pilcrow 1.0.5

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

No user-facing changes — the app behaves exactly as 1.0.4.

The complete corresponding source for this release is published.
The Gradle distribution is pinned by SHA-256 checksum, so the build verifies the contents of the toolchain it downloads and not only its URL — a prerequisite for reproducible builds.
Store listing metadata is now tracked in the repository alongside the source.

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Footnotes — [^1] references and [^1]: … definitions now render, with tap-to-jump and a link back to the reference. Definitions render in place; references renumber 1..n by first use.
Plain text files — .txt files open in the reader, with a per-file long-line overflow toggle.
Chemistry formulas — \ce{…} (mhchem) notation renders inside math.

A long-standing freeze when opening large files. Line-ending detection scanned the document twice with a regex on the main thread, which degraded quadratically — a 1.3 MB file could block the app for tens of seconds and a 3 MB file for minutes. Detection is now a single linear pass off the main thread. Present since 1.0.0.
A crash when entering the editor on some devices, caused by the shared editor view being re-attached while still parented.
Inline code and raw HTML were silently dropped inside table cells in every previous release. Table cell rendering now recurses into unrecognised nodes by default rather than discarding them.
Search match counts in documents containing math no longer over-count.

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Build metadata removed from the APK so F-Droid can reproduce the build byte-for-byte. No functional changes.

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

An unrenderable paragraph no longer takes the whole document down. One rendering path was missing the guard the others had, so a single paragraph that failed to render could bring down the reader instead of just itself. It now shows a short placeholder in place of that paragraph and the rest of the document renders normally.

Crash reports from the store now arrive with readable stack traces. Build-only change: the app’s behaviour, size and performance are unchanged.

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Inline math with single dollars — $…$ now renders inline LaTeX alongside the existing $$…$$ form (currency-aware, so $5 and $10 stays plain text).
Save As — save the open document to a new location, including brand-new documents that don’t have a file on disk yet.
Branded launch splash — a brand-dark splash screen in both light and dark appearances.
Pinch-to-zoom in the reader — live text reflow anchored at the gesture focal point, kept in sync with the Settings text size.
Clear-Recents confirmation — clearing the Recents list now asks first.
GitHub-integration teaser in Settings — a roadmap note with an email interest link. It only opens your email app; nothing is sent unless you tap send.
Crash-recovery escape hatch — if recovered unsaved changes can never be committed back to the original file, the app now offers a way out instead of blocking the document forever.

In-document search counts matches in the rendered text, and the reader makes room for the keyboard while searching.
The close-without-saving confirmation dialog now survives device rotation.
Back navigates within the app instead of exiting it.
The file picker soft-filters to Markdown files, and its Browse-all fallback makes every file selectable.
Status and navigation bars follow the app theme, so their icons stay legible in the light theme.
The active Reader/Editor mode is unmistakable in the toolbar (accent chip on the active side).

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The first release: the initial v1 feature set.

Native Markdown reader — GitHub-Flavored Markdown rendered to native Android views (no WebView): headings, lists, task lists, tables, blockquotes, code blocks with syntax highlighting, links, and images-as-alt-text on the offline path.
LaTeX math rendering (inline and block) and opt-in cloud Mermaid diagrams (off by default; degrades to a code block when disabled or unavailable).
YAML frontmatter shown as a metadata card rather than a raw code block.
Editor built on the Sora editor with Markdown syntax awareness.
PDF export of the rendered document, including long-line wrapping for code.
Table of contents drawer that jumps to headings.
Settings: font sets (Source Serif 4 / JetBrains Mono), separate reader/editor zoom, theme, and the optional Mermaid toggle.
Storage Access Framework integration for scoped, user-granted file access.
Dark and light themes driven entirely by a design-token layer.

Atomic saves — a failed save aborts cleanly and never leaves a truncated or corrupted file.
Round-trip fidelity — saving writes back exactly what you wrote; line endings (LF/CRLF) and frontmatter are preserved, with one documented bound: a file with mixed line endings is written back uniformly in its dominant style.
Crash-resistant rendering — unsupported or malformed syntax degrades gracefully instead of throwing or mangling surrounding content.

No accounts, analytics, ads, or telemetry. The reading path makes no network requests by default; cloud Mermaid rendering is the only optional networked feature and is off by default.