Outline v1.8.0

What's changed

Highlights

• Members can now request access to documents they don't have permission to view – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/10825
• Comments are now available in the image lightbox, making it easier to discuss visuals in context – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12335

MCP

• Inline comments can now be created and managed through the API and MCP – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12322
• The fetch tool can now access signed attachment URLs, allowing MCP clients to read images and files – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12315
• Added a fullWidth parameter to create_document and update_document, by @toralux – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12338
• Document responses now include a commentCount field – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12355
• MCP Responses now return full URLs instead of relative paths – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12255
• Optional MCP fields now accept empty strings without erroring – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12310
• Fixed an issue where updating a collection description via MCP wouldn't persist – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12410
• Aligned permission checks between the API and MCP when creating documents – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12517

Other Improvements

• Code blocks are now supported inside comments – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12480
• Added a system preference to open the desktop app automatically on startup – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12279
• Viewers can now create and use API keys – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12278
• Mentioned users are now automatically subscribed to the document – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12235
• The command menu now shows breadcrumbs alongside documents to make results easier to disambiguate – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12403
• You can now format the word at the cursor with the associated shortcut without needing to select it first – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12492
• Self-hosted instances can now use HTTP webhook URLs – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12499
• Delete confirmation dialogs now use a segmented-style input – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12495
• Images pasted as data URIs are now supported – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12294
• The icon picker is now responsive and easier to use on mobile – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12275
• Notifications now open in a mobile drawer on small screens – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12276
• Reduced minimum table column width to 25px for tighter layouts – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12269
• Hyphenated words are now treated as a single unit when diffing changes – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/11272
• Hover previews now trigger while the editor is focused – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12545
• The settings sidebar is no longer collapsible – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12460
• Hardened OAuth scope validation – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12490
• Added Catalan as a language option – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12454
• Thousands of new community translations

Performance

• Cached decorations across three editor plugins for smoother editing – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12030
• Virtualized the main sidebar and reduced unnecessary re-renders – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12443
• Added missing indexes on foreign keys referencing documents – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12473
• Replaced a correlated subquery in Slack hooks user lookup – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12432
• Removed an N+1 query in documents.search – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12540
• Reduced batch size when deleting documents – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12474
• Avoided a redundant import lookup when presenting documents – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12529
• Mammoth is now lazy-loaded to reduce startup memory – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12538
• Unused services are no longer loaded at boot – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12537
• Importers now stream from the zip archive instead of loading it fully – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12372 https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12380
• Popularity scoring now reads from the document_insights table for faster results – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12103

Fixes

• Document text can now be selected in version history – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12268
• Fixed search highlights not rendering in Firefox – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12273
• Resolved console warnings for the rtl DOM attribute and an untracked MobX read – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12284
• Outline now only preconnects to S3 when it's actually in use, by @marksteward – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12298
• Improved handling of additional client-aborted error types – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12303
• Short-circuited common scanner and crawler routes – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12306
• Fixed a crash when file storage environment variables are misconfigured – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12325
• Printing no longer includes an extra blank page – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12326
• Document deletes are now batched when emptying trash – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12328
• Upgraded Mermaid to 11.15.0 – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12331
• Table cell selection no longer appears in print output – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12334
• Fixed Mermaid diagrams not rendering correctly inside toggle blocks – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12343
• Code blocks now automatically expand when a find result is inside – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12346
• Mermaid diagrams now appear correctly in light theme when printing from dark theme – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12342
• Fixed authorization providers not being correctly disabled via environment variables – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12349
• Improved the resilience of the Markdown importer – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12357
• Fixed a bug with multi-tab logout for OIDC providers – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12333
• Fixed text selection insights initialization, by @mturac – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12366
• Position submenu is now hidden when a collection is sorted alphabetically – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12377
• No more "Imported from undefined" entries in document insights – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12378
• Failed and canceled imports can now be deleted – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12379
• Code blocks at the beginning of a document can now be collapsed – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12381
• Fixed an infinite loop with the document restore action, by @Ali-ovo – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12395
• Exported filenames are now sanitized of Windows-invalid characters, previously invalid characters would make the Zip file hard to open – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12407
• Slack notifications no longer show "Untitled" for documents without titles – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12406
• The mention menu now appears when pasting a link followed by a newline – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12402
• Non-empty untitled drafts are no longer unintentionally trashed on editor unmount – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12418
• "Premature close" stream errors are no longer reported to error tracking – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12424
• Database query statement_timeout is now applied on request-handling processes – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12422
• Fixed a crash when importing Notion pages containing empty tables – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12421
• Upstream OAuth provider errors are no longer reported to error tracking – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12425
• Double-clicking actions in DocumentExplorer no longer submits twice – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12417
• Fixed a race condition causing undo/redo errors when the editor transitions from readonly – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12427
• Removed unnecessary package resolutions – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12442
• Fixed a sporadic infinite loop when rendering documents with code blocks – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12444
• Updated Node.js to 24.16.0 – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12448
• Fixed Safari heading widget handling for the Chinese IME, by @Wars – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12453
• Fixed a database error from documents.list when filtering by Draft status – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12426
• Internal links are now correctly remapped during JSON import – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12461
• Fixed a TypeError when document.collaboratorIds is null – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12471
• Skipped exporting attachments with malformed keys instead of failing the export – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12470
• Prevented an internal error when a tsquery tail interleaves operator and escape characters – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12475
• Removed a stray URL fragment from AuthenticationHelper – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12477
• Guarded against table content changing mid-drag – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12476
• Stopped logging an error when a team isn't found during apex auth redirect – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12478
• Rate limiter errors are now distinguished from other errors – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12479
• Notion API 5xx errors are now retried with exponential backoff – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12481
• Search highlight chips are now clickable in the desktop app – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12482
• Guarded against out-of-range positions in scrollToAnchor – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12489
• Expected websocket "No access token" errors are no longer sent to error tracking – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12487
• Imports can now target documents that the user can write to – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12485
• Upload progress is now shown on the import dialog button – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12488
• Fixed indent/outdent on Android mobile – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12496
• Subdocuments can now be reordered with document-only access – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12493
• Image and video dimension promises now reject with proper Error objects – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12498
• Imports now exit gracefully when canceled mid-task – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12497
• IP addresses are now normalized to avoid validation errors – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12500
• Koa middleware spans are no longer reported to DataDog – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12501
• Disabled floating toolbar interaction during the open animation – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12508
• Avoided a team invariant violation on OAuth authorize errors – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12506
• Shift-tab now outdents correctly inside code blocks – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12514
• The block menu no longer triggers when the slash is marked – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12515
• Webhooks are now disabled when their associated user is deleted – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12524
• Prevented a crash when inserting files into a document with no attachment node in its schema – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12526
• Fixed duplicate undo/redo events – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12525
• Removed the resize grid-snap behavior in the editor, images and videos now resize smoothly – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12528
• Pressing Enter on an image now adds a new paragraph below – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12530
• Linear unfurl errors no longer bubble up to error tracking – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12532
• Toggle blocks inside collapsed headings are now correctly hidden – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12536
• Fixed Mermaid diagrams being mis-sized on high-DPI and RDP displays – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12531
• Restored missing text color on search highlights – https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12547
• Many dependency updates

New Contributors

• @marksteward made their first contribution in https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12298
• @toralux made their first contribution in https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12338
• @mturac made their first contribution in https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12366
• @Wars made their first contribution in https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/12453

Full Changelog: https://github.com/outline/outline/compare/v1.7.1...v1.8.0