MarkText v0.17.2-ea1 — Electron 41, Mermaid 11.13, New Themes

What's New

• Electron 18 → 41.0.2 — latest stable Chromium, improved performance and security
• Mermaid 11.13 — all 16 diagram types supported with automatic WCAG contrast enforcement
• 4 new themes: Neon Editorial (light/dark), Ashley (light/dark) with background accent picker
• PDF/HTML export — all mermaid diagrams render correctly in exports
• Playwright e2e tests — 8 automated tests covering rendering, export, and security

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
macOS Apple Silicon	marktext-arm64.dmg	For M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs
macOS Apple Silicon (zip)	marktext-arm64-mac.zip	For M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs

macOS Apple Silicon

Download the .dmg, open it, drag MarkText to Applications. On first launch you may need to right-click > Open to bypass Gatekeeper (the app is ad-hoc signed, not notarised).

macOS Intel / Linux / Windows

These platforms require building from source because native modules must be compiled on the target platform:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/EastAgile/marktext.git
cd marktext && git checkout develop

Install build prerequisites:

macOS: Xcode command line tools

Ubuntu: sudo apt install -y build-essential python3 libsecret-1-dev libx11-dev libxkbfile-dev libfontconfig1-dev

Windows: Visual Studio Build Tools with C++ workload

yarn install # installs deps and compiles native modules
yarn run build:bin # builds unpacked app in build/
```

Full Changelog

See PR #1 and PR #2 for details.