Your one-stop publication workbench
Zettlr brings simplicity back to your texts. Open-minded writing that adapts to your style. Fast information retrieval that finds what matters to you. Versatile exporting that enables you to adapt to whatever publication pipeline your employer or school uses.
Fixed Update-Failed Errors | Reference-Style Image Rendering | Quality of Life Improvements
This update is a small one that most notably fixes an annoyance many of you have reported to us: That after the 4.8.0 update, Zettlr would very often give you an annoying "Update failed" error. Nothing bad happened, and you could work perfectly fine thereafter, but it was indeed annoying. It took us a few days to find, fix, and test the issue, but we believe the error message should now be gone again.
Other than that, there are three additional notable changes in this release. First, Zettlr no longer supports macOS 12 and Ubuntu 17.04 (and below). These operating systems are no longer supported by their manufacturers, and so Zettlr follows Electron in dropping support for these. Second, this update fixes a security vulnerability, specifically the one caused by faulty eMudhra TLS certificates. Therefore, we recommend immediate update. And third, and last, we decided to drop in a small new feature: The image renderer can now not just render inline images (where the source of the image is defined alongside the image), but also refrence-style images, where the source of the image is defined somewhere else in the document. Note, however, that reference-style image captions cannot be edited in place, but must be edited in the reference itself.
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Changelog
Deprecation: macOS 12 and Ubuntu 17.04 no longer supported
This release updates Electron, Zettlr's underlying application framework, to
version 44. This means that Zettlr will no longer run on macOS 12 or Ubuntu
17.04 or earlier. If you run such a system, please consider updating your
computer to continue using Zettlr.
GUI and Functionality
- Feature: Zettlr now correctly renders images that have been defined using
the reference-style variant. So instead of only rendering images in the form
!alt text, it can now also render reference style images in the form
![alt text][reference], with the reference being defined elsewhere (#663).
- Fixed an issue where a URL in an image caption would be improperly treated as
the image source (#6594).
- Fixed an issue where toggling a task mark would scroll the viewport back to
the cursor position. …
| Publisher | Hendrik Erz |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.9.0 |
| Release date | 2026-10-25 |
| License | GPL-3.0 |
| Installer type | nullsoft |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Package ID | Zettlr.Zettlr |
Install Zettlr from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):
winget install --id=Zettlr.Zettlr -e
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