Change log

4.6.0

March 4, 2026

Added: Find & Replace plugin — enables precise text search and replacement across the document, streamlining editing and ensuring consistent terminology.
Added: Sentence Length plugin — highlights sentences by length directly in the text using color coding to reveal rhythm, balance, and readability at a glance.
Added: Text Stats plugin — displays document metrics such as reading time, speaking time, word and character count, and structural elements for quick content evaluation.
Added: Mini Map plugin — provides a compact visual overview of the entire document, enabling fast navigation and instant insight into content structure.
Improved: AI plugin ai.insert event now returns the response as param.
Improved: Email plugin - table rendering across email clients.
Fixed: Email plugin - Generated emails were not centered in some email clients.
Fixed: Email plugin - iframe mode issues when adding blocks.
Fixed: Email plugin - Image borders were not generated in the final email output.
Fixed: Email plugin - configs could be lost when undoing text after adding an email config.
Fixed: Regex issue causing incorrect insertion of elements with data-* attributes in breakline mode.
Fixed: Issues when pasting lists into To-do lists.
Fixed: Copy/paste issues when inserting a list inside another list.
Fixed: After inserting a link, the caret remains inside the link in some cases.
Fixed: Block border color was not applied correctly in iframe mode.
Fixed: Inserting images as Base64 could trigger Maximum call stack size exceeded in some cases.

4.5.3

January 26, 2026

Improved: editor.insertContent API enhancements (see documentation for details).
Improved: New control icon.
Improved: Image pasting from Microsoft Word.
Changed: block.outline is now set to false by default. The focus outline no longer appears when the cursor is inside a text block. It now shows only when selecting images or embed content by default.
Fixed: Images pasted from Word are incorrectly wrapped in links when pasted together with text.
Added: Email plugin method getEmailText to retrieve the plain-text version of an email.
Improved: Email plugin support for iframe mode to isolate it from page styles.

4.5.2

January 13, 2026

Added: New editor.getEmailContent() method that returns only the email content wrapped in the body tag.
Fixed: Table duplication did not work.
Fixed: “Select parent” action in the control bar did not work correctly in some cases.
Fixed: Empty table cells no longer generate unnecessary p tags.
Fixed: command false setting was not applied correctly.
Fixed: Command Palette position is incorrect in iframe mode.
Fixed: destroy() method did not always fully destroy the editor instance.
Fixed: Link insertion issues in Microsoft Edge.
Fixed: When pasting paragraphs in breakline mode, they are now inserted as lines instead of blocks.
Added: Option to specify the image type when inserting images as Base64 (see documentation for details).

4.5.1

November 26, 2025

Added: Option to customize the List dropdown via settings in ListManager, allowing to disable To-do. Please see Customize buttons.
Added: editor.blur event now fires when exiting the editor via the Tab key.
Added: Option to show Add or Delete as direct buttons inside the Control bar for quicker access. Please see Control bar settings.
Added: RTL support in the Email Preview plugin — plugin update required; use the dir setting.
Added: New triggerEvents parameter for insert operations to skip editor.change and editor.before.change events. Please see Editor setContent API.
Improved: Support for editable-but-not-deletable blocks; noneditable and nondeletable logic has been significantly enhanced. Please see How noneditable works.
Fixed: Content inside Accordion blocks was not editable — plugin update required.
Fixed: Passing an array of images directly to the image selector did not work.
Fixed: Pressing Backspace while a table cell is selected now deletes its content as expected.
Fixed: In breakline mode, inserting a variable placed it on a new line instead of inline.
Fixed: When a single figure or p tag contains multiple img, only one image was rendered in the final email HTML.
Fixed: Font and block color pickers applied the color without requiring a click.
Fixed: Control menu positioning in fullscreen mode — dropdown is now fully visible even near the bottom of the page.
Fixed: Email plugin did not initialize correctly in iframe mode in some cases — plugin update required.
Fixed: Link insertion failed in specific scenarios.
Fixed: Link removal did not always work correctly.
Fixed: Reorder functionality failed under certain conditions, especially on laptops with touch screens.
Fixed: Applying Bold formatting sometimes resulted in strikethrough text due to inline style conflicts.

4.5.0

October 7, 2025

Added: Advanced table management features — merge cells, split cell into rows or columns, add caption, and support for vertical headers.
Added: name argument for form-related events, accessible via event.get('name').
Fixed: Error with an extra callback variable when specifying selectable images.
Fixed: Input class throws an error when typing letters into a non-editable block.
Fixed: In breakline mode, an extra br is added at the end of content when switching to source mode.
Fixed: HTML comments at the beginning of content are removed during processing.
Fixed: Dollar signs ($) inside HTML comments are incorrectly replaced with entities.
Fixed: Lists inside the editor inherit unwanted margin when the editor is placed within another list.
Fixed: Filelink plugin dropdown may throw an error on close in certain cases.
Fixed: Command panel appears in the wrong position in iframe mode.
Fixed: Template syntax does not work correctly inside tables.

4.4.7

September 1, 2025

Added: Support for custom shortcuts/hotkeys while in source view mode.
Fixed: Clicking “Add” in the control bar opens the toolbar menu instead of the control menu.
Fixed: Control bar positioning is inaccurate when editing list items.
Fixed: Attribute filtering failed when attributes had invalid formats.
Fixed: colspan is not preserved when pasting a table.
Fixed: In some cases, getJson() returns image height as a number instead of a string.
Fixed: Command panel dropdown (triggered by /) did not have a max-height, causing it to overflow beyond the page.
Fixed: Table of Contents plugin was missing the data-block attribute when inserted via HTML — plugin update required.
Fixed: In Firefox iframe mode, pressing Enter after creating a new list item caused an error.

4.4.6

July 28, 2025

Added: Insert button in the image-by-URL dropdown for easier insertion.
Added: Ability to edit the image URL after it has been inserted as a URL.
Fixed: Pasting plain text into a list did not work.
Fixed: HTML comments appear in incorrect positions when switching to source view.
Fixed: Various issues with copy and paste behavior.
Fixed: Bug with footer tag causing extra p tags when toggling between code and visual modes.
Fixed: Deleting a table column sometimes removes the wrong column.
Fixed: Formatting issues with links in specific scenarios.
Fixed: Pasting content with angle bracket cases caused incorrect behavior.
Fixed: Selected text sometimes gets inserted as a new paragraph instead of inline within the same paragraph.
Fixed: Indent functionality for lists did not work correctly in iframe mode in some cases.

4.4.5

July 11, 2025

Fixed: target attribute is not applied when pasting links directly into the editor.
Fixed: Unable to remove font color from selected text.
Fixed: Content paste fails from Word on Windows if the pasted HTML contains images.
Fixed: Pasting content with angle brackets does not work.
Fixed: When removing underline from text containing a hyperlink, underline is inconsistently removed before and after the link.
Fixed: Redactor.getContent() does not return the updated value when in source mode.
Fixed: Error triggered by Tab key inside content in specific situations.
Fixed: Line break issues when placing the cursor after a link inside a b tag.
Fixed: Dropdown positioning issues inside scrollable containers (ScrollTarget).
Fixed: Various formatting and insertion issues related to to-do lists.
Added: image.before.change event to track the previous state of an image.
Added: syncDelay setting to control timeout for sync operations.
Added: Events form.before.create and form.create for form lifecycle tracking.
Added: Optional title for dropdowns to support custom drag-and-drop event handling.
Improved: Color and Spacing options are now ignored for pre blocks where they are not applicable.
Improved: Icon support added in Mention plugin.

4.4.4

June 17, 2025

Fixed: Inserted content does not appear in the output code in certain cases.
Fixed: When a paragraph contains only an empty inline tag, a link is inserted at the start of the paragraph instead of inside the tag.
Fixed: Content insertion fails when a table cell is selected.
Fixed: PHP code rendering issues inside pre blocks.
Fixed: Dropdowns are not hidden after exiting fullscreen mode.
Fixed: Dropdown position remains incorrect after exiting fullscreen.
Fixed: The "Image" button in the control bar is not hidden using control.hide.
Fixed: Border radius is not applied correctly to images.
Fixed: Images wrapped in span tags are sometimes removed when pasting from Word.
Fixed: Issues with pasting Merge Tags into the editor.

4.4.3

June 9, 2025

Added: New option control.hide to allow hiding specific control bar items.
Fixed: PHP tags still render incorrectly inside pre tags in some cases.
Fixed: Cursor position issues when creating a list.
Fixed: Pressing Enter after typing in a list creates a new paragraph instead of a new list item.
Fixed: Dropdowns in fullscreen mode had incorrect z-index.
Fixed: Dropdown positioning corrected in fullscreen mode.
Fixed: Table control items in the dropdown are now disabled when a table is selected.
Fixed: Empty lines inside pre blocks are removed when switching to source view.
Fixed: Font Color plugin - color not applied correctly on click and reset issues on hover.
Fixed: Anchor plugin did not retrieve the id value from the element.
Fixed: Backspace behavior in lists did not work correctly in some scenarios.
Fixed: HTML entities are incorrectly replaced when copying from pre blocks.

4.4.2

June 5, 2025

Improved: To-do list option in the list menu.
Improved: Control bar now repositions correctly when table cell width changes during input.
Improved: HTML entities are now preserved during copy and paste.
Fixed: Scrolling jumps to the top when converting selected paragraphs near the bottom into a list.
Fixed: Formatting breaks when pasting a blockquote without a paragraph and applying a text style.
Fixed: Context bar jumps or mispositions when selecting all content.
Fixed: editor.before.paste event does not trigger when pasting an image only.
Fixed: AI-Tools plugin prompt input not showing.
Fixed: Error in console when typing a prompt in AI-Tools plugin.
Fixed: Dropdown does not close after clicking “Save” when editing a link.
Fixed: Shortcut Command+K throws an error when used without selected text.
Fixed: getJson() does not include block data-* attributes.
Fixed: Cursor position is sometimes lost after applying list formatting.
Fixed: When pasting emoji with line breaks into an empty editor, the first emoji gets replaced.
Fixed: Emoji insertion via Command Palette does not work properly.
Fixed: Error occurs in Firefox when editor is inside a hidden container.
Fixed: Accordion plugin had issues with content visibility due to incorrect display none usage.
Fixed: HTML comments at the beginning of the content are removed during processing.
Fixed: Dropdown positioning is incorrect in some cases when editor is running inside an iframe.
Fixed: Nested dropdowns are not hidden when clicking on editor content in iframe mode.

4.4.1

May 27, 2025

Fixed: Command Palette throws an error when triggering a command.
Fixed: rx-hidden class was missing in Dropdown; now correctly used instead of hidden.
Fixed: Link insertion did not work properly in some cases.
Fixed: Dropdown submenus do not work when the editor is running inside an iframe.
Fixed: Focus is not set when clicking another block after inserting a block in iframe mode.
Fixed: Pasted content from Google Docs is sometimes fully wrapped in a b tag.
Fixed: Formatting issues when selecting all content in certain scenarios.
Fixed: Formatting fails after deleting all content and typing new content in some cases.
Fixed: Cursor jumps to the beginning when formatting the second word after typing.
Fixed: Formatting cuts content when selecting a word in a new paragraph after "select all" and typing.
Fixed: Replacing a paragraph with a video tag in the Block Code plugin results in incorrect insertion.
Fixed: Error when pasting Word content that includes images.

4.4.0

May 19, 2025

Improved: Fully redesigned all modal windows for a cleaner, more accessible, and user-friendly experience. This update affects both the editor and all plugins — make sure to update any plugins you use.
Added: Configuration options for stripAttr to support allowed attribute lists.
Fixed: Inserting HTML into Code Snippet blocks did not work correctly.
Fixed: Control bar disappears after performing a cut action.
Fixed: Issues rendering PHP code examples inside pre tags.
Fixed: Setting height on selected images had no effect.

4.3.4

May 7, 2025

Added: Option paste.keepEmptyLines to preserve empty lines on paste.
Fixed: Issues with outdenting list items.
Fixed: Focus not set when selecting all content and pasting.
Fixed: Incorrect image attributes on paste when paste.stripAttr is enabled.
Fixed: Incorrect offset behavior in empty block after pressing Enter.
Fixed: Incorrect interpretation of picture tags containing source on paste.
Fixed: Blocks with a picture element were not defined as images.
Fixed: Handling of plain text pasting.
Fixed: Empty src attributes generated for images in some cases.
Fixed: Image upload by URL fails after pressing Enter.
Fixed: AI tools pending indicator remains black in dark mode.

4.3.3

April 24, 2025

Improved: New setting paste.stripAttr that removes all attributes from tags (except href for links and src, srcset, alt for images). Enabled by default.
Improved: Selection behavior for entire table cells and tables was enhanced.
Improved: When non-editable elements like images or tables are selected, typing now correctly deletes and replaces them with input.
Improved: Added a new setting paste.keepWordFormatting to keep MS Word-specific styles like colors or background.
Improved: Paste handling improved when the inserted content includes a startFragment.
Fixed: Clicking on an image selects it as text.
Fixed: Some images from Word documents were not inserted properly during paste.
Fixed: Increased font size in lists was not reflected in generated email content.
Fixed: Certain XSS vulnerabilities were resolved.
Fixed: Copy issues when the entire content is selected and multiple editors are present on the page.
Fixed: Inserting blocks didn’t work when a non-editable block or image was selected.
Fixed: Embed blocks were not inserted if CodeMirror mode was enabled.
Fixed: When pressing the down arrow key while focusing an embed or image at the end of content, focus wouldn’t move out of the block.
Fixed: Modal window didn’t close when clicking outside of it.
Fixed: Non-editable blocks should no longer be removed by pressing space.
Fixed: Outdent didn’t work properly in some list-related edge cases.
Fixed: Avoid inserting empty paragraphs when pasting from non-editor sources.

4.3.2

April 1, 2025

Fixed: Command palette not working
Fixed: “Unlink” not appearing in the context menu when a link is selected
Fixed: Cursor loses focus after cutting a fully selected paragraph
Fixed: Error when adding AI Tools via the command palette

4.3.1

March 26, 2025

Fixed: Custom SVG icons were not applied to toolbar buttons
Fixed: “Open in new tab” setting was not preserved for image links
Fixed: Error occurred when both toolbar and extrabar were disabled
Fixed: Error in Resize Image plugin on un-click
Fixed: AI dropdown commands did not trigger the ai.complete event
Fixed: “Unlink” button in Context Bar was always visible, even without a link
Fixed: Selection and content insertion issues on double and triple click
Fixed: Text could not be un-bolded in some cases
Fixed: Applying a link color removed the link if the entire link text was selected
Fixed: Text or block color could not be set in Safari

4.3.0

March 9, 2025

Added: Dynamic loading of links for the DefinedLinks plugin.
Added: New Accordion plugin.
Added: Typographer plugin for automatic text formatting.
Added: Code Highlighter plugin for syntax highlighting in <pre> tags.
Added: Table of Contents plugin for automatic heading navigation.
Added: Anchor plugin for creating direct links to specific sections.
Added: Collapse plugin for showing and hiding content under headings.
Added: New API and events for the Link feature.
Added: New API and events for the Image feature.
Added: New API and events for the Embed feature.
Added: API — Forced sync.invoke command for synchronization.
Added: Status bar — Option to display items on the right side.
Added: Sticky status bar — New setting (statusbar.sticky) to keep it fixed at the bottom.
Added: Autosave feature — Regular content saving with status updates in the status bar (autosave.interval setting).
Added: Setting for self-closing XML tags.
Added: List recognition — Detects list items starting with a dash (-) upon pasting.
Added: Enter key behavior setting (enterKey = br) — Pressing Enter inserts a <br> instead of creating a new paragraph.
Added: API — Ability to make specific blocks editable/non-editable.
Added: To-do blocks — Option to assign a special class to completed tasks for custom CSS styling (e.g., strikethrough).
Added: Structure mode — New setting (structure) for document organization.
Added: Image resizing — Allows height adjustment while maintaining aspect ratio. See example.
Added: Image replacement — Enables selecting from uploaded images when editing an image.
Fixed: Mention plugin — Links were not being removed properly, affecting regular links as well.
Fixed: Mention plugin — Issue where deleting a link before @ and inserting a new mention resulted in incorrect behavior.
Fixed: Source code mode — The <textarea> now automatically resizes while typing.
Fixed: Lists — Styling issues with nested numbered lists.

4.2.5

February 14, 2025

Improved: Image insertion in base64 see the new option upload-base64.
Fixed: Bug with link deletion when removing link text sequentially using backspace or delete; if the link content becomes empty, the link tag remains.
Fixed: Incorrect icon list display in the icons plugin.
Fixed: Figure tag without attributes is not removed for embedded content.
Fixed: Navigation through layout columns using the tab key does not work properly.
Fixed: Counter plugin throws an error when used with click-to-edit.
Fixed: Email plugin - margin issue with img elements.
Fixed: Math plugin incorrectly parses values when the editor is launched in click-to-edit mode.
Fixed: Issue with an undeletable block; formatting and image insertion should not occur.
Fixed: Empty links remain in the mention plugin when deleting an inserted link using backspace.
Fixed: Cursor issue with multiple editors.
Fixed: Incorrect behavior when deleting inserted icons through the Icons plugin.

4.2.4

January 12, 2025

Fixed: An error when duplicating blocks.
Fixed: Rendered emails in the Email plugin would fail in certain cases.
Fixed: Iframe height calculation when the editor is inside a hidden layer.
Fixed: AI-generated images not being parsed into figure tags by default.
Fixed: Clicking an item in the path bar while the editor is running inside an iframe failed to select the block and instead jumped back to the body.
Fixed: Incorrect rendering of email code when using layouts.
Fixed: In the AI plugin, prompt with the parameter empty = true was not sent.
Fixed: The merge tag context menu not displaying.
Improved: Initial textareas are now visually hidden instead of fully hidden to ensure the required option works properly. Important - Update the editor CSS (redactor.css or redactor.min.css) to apply this change.
Improved: Added the ability to disable or enable context menus for specific tags or blocks.
Improved: Introduced the paragraphizeLines setting to enable pasting plain text with automatic paragraph splitting.
Improved: Tab navigation between table cells is now supported.
Improved: Full compatibility for the Email plugin inside an iframe. Important - Update the Email plugin as well.

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