ethanolivertroy_obsidian-markitdown/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

2.0.0

Ground-up rewrite addressing security, architecture, and feature gaps.

Security

• Eliminated shell injection vulnerabilities — replaced exec() with spawn() using argument arrays and shell: false
• Bundled Python wrapper scripts use argparse with no string interpolation of user input
• Path traversal prevention in output folder, image directory, and image format handling
• Prototype pollution protection in plugin arguments
• Error messages sanitized to strip absolute paths before display

Added

• Image extraction from PDFs and EPUBs — base64 data URIs decoded to {filename}-images/ subfolder
• Plugin arguments editor — key-value pair UI in settings for third-party Markitdown plugins
• Context menu — right-click "Convert to Markdown" on supported file types in the file explorer
• Setup wizard — guided modal for Python detection and Markitdown installation
• Batch progress bar — visual progress indicator for folder conversions
• Python path fallback — automatic python3 detection on macOS/Linux when python is unavailable
• Live settings refresh — changing Python path immediately re-checks dependencies

Changed

• Decomposed monolithic main.ts (735 lines) into 12 focused modules under src/ and python/
• Unicode support via PYTHONUTF8=1 environment variable
• Async file I/O in modals (replaced writeFileSync/unlinkSync with fs.promises)
• Updated build target to ES2020, TypeScript 5.x strict mode
• Minimum Obsidian version remains 0.15.0

Removed

• Docling converter (deferred to a separate plugin)
• child_process.exec() — zero imports remaining in codebase

1.0.1

• Fix diacritics/Unicode support
• UI text updates to follow Obsidian conventions

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Convert files to Markdown using Microsoft's Markitdown
• Support for PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images, audio, and more
• Single file and batch folder conversion
• Azure Document Intelligence integration