Release 7.15.0: Chinese translation of settings, use standard and custom properties in Query files, Roadmap updated and 2 million downloads · obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks

What's Changed

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This release celebrates Tasks reaching Two Million downloads!
Tasks now requires Obsidian 1.4.0 or newer.
Translations:
- Add Chinese translation of Settings, Editing a Status and Check your Statuses.
- To help with translation, visit discussion #3321 on GitHub and subscribe.
Use standardised properties in Query files to customise your searches:
- New Query File Defaults facility can quickly customise all Tasks searches in a file.
- New 'Add all Query File Defaults properties' command
- Use the Meta Bind plugin to make a query user interface.
Use custom properties in Query files to customise your searches:
- Add query.file.hasProperty() and query.file.property() in custom filters
- Add {{query.file.hasProperty()}} and {{query.file.property()}} in placeholders - see Using Query Properties in Placeholders.
Placeholders can now contain functions and contain expressions.
Roadmap reviewed and updated.
- See items we have prioritised as being of most value to users, and to reduce our user-support workload.
- It is just a rough guideline, mainly to convey the size of the backlog.
- The volume of requests on the Tasks project is so large that it is impossible to say with any confident if or when any item might be done.

Two million downloads...:

Chinese translation of settings:

Quickly customise Tasks searches using Query File Defaults:

Quickly customise Tasks searches using the Meta Bind plugin:

Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

feat: 'explain' shows effect of Line Continuations & Placeholders by @claremacrae in #3221
feat: partial support for query.file.property() and query.file.hasProperty() by @claremacrae in #3242
feat: Placeholders can now contain expressions by @claremacrae in #3292
feat: Add "Query File Defaults" facility by @claremacrae in #3300
feat: Simplify explain text by @claremacrae in #3301
feat: add new command Add all Query File Defaults properties by @claremacrae in #3317
feat: Teach File Properties to recognise Tasks properties by @claremacrae in #3318
i18n: Chinese translation of Settings and related areas by @claremacrae in #3285
i18n: Enhance Chinese Translation by @dangehub in #3288

💪 Fixes

fix: Allow spaces after show and hide - and improve error message by @claremacrae in #3213
fix: Allow multi-line properties in {{query.file.property('...')}} by @claremacrae in #3245
fix: Remove console error when line is deleted by 'Toggle task done' command by @claremacrae in #3257
fix: date picker in Reading mode & searches honours first day of week by @esm7 in #3259
fix: detect changes in query file path and query properties by @claremacrae in #3281
fix: Handle Enter key event for IME inputs by @ryotatake in #3272
fix: render non-task list items in tree by @ilandikov and @claremacrae in #3291

📖 Documentation

docs: Fix URL in the help message for unexpanded template text by @claremacrae in #3226
docs: Update snippets and examples in markdown by @github-actions in #3246
docs: Major enhancements to Query File Defaults docs by @claremacrae in #3320

🛠️ Dependencies

build(deps): bump @floating-ui/dom from 1.5.3 to 1.6.12 by @dependabot in #3182
build(deps): bump svelte-eslint-parser from 0.33.1 to 0.43.0 by @dependabot in #3183
build(deps-dev): bump obsidian API from 1.1.1 to 1.4.0 by @claremacrae in #3268

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Other changes:

chore: Enable viewing Tasks source code with typedoc tool by @claremacrae in #3229
chore(deps-dev): bump madge from 6.1.0 to 8.0.0 by @dependabot in #3254
chore: Add development dependency on Fevol's obsidian-typings by @claremacrae in #3269
refactor: Reduce repetition of parsing of show/hide options by @claremacrae in #3214
refactor: Introduce FileParser class by @claremacrae in #3224
refactor: Add ListItem methods findClosestParentTask() and isTask() by @claremacrae in #3228
refactor: Improve QueryFileDefaults data maintainability by @claremacrae in #3315
refactor: Rename 'tasks_query_*' properties to 'TQ_*' by @claremacrae in #3316

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

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