Makagiga / 6.33-beta - Release Notes

See also: Previous releases

2025-12-21  6.33-beta

* CHANGED: Require OpenJDK 25 to compile and run
  (OpenJDK 25.0.1 included in Makagiga packages)

Language/Date settings:

* NEW: Added options to set Language Translation, locale, and date formats
  (see Settings → Language/Date)
  

* CHANGED: All calendar/date settings are now in this new settings page
* REMOVED: Support for the "MAKAGIGA_LANG" environment variable

Misc.:

* Notepad: Added HTML export options
* CHANGED: Allow a digit as the first hashtag character
* New Folder dialog: Auto remove leading and trailing spaces
* Tree: Allow BMP image as a custom icon
* Screenshot: Added option to save in JPEG format
* CHANGED: Tweak color contrast
* Tasks: Added support for bold and italic markdown syntax
* Updated the Polish translation
* Improved various "Preview" panels
* Improved AppImage support
* Minor UI cleanup

Look and Feel Settings:

* Click on the list to customize LAF
* Improve Nimbus custom color preview

Feeds:

* NEW: Added "Copy Image Link" action to the context menu
* NEW: Mark short youtube videos using the "Short" tag
  

* Show "Dead RSS" info after 2 years of RSS inactivity (instead of 1 year)

Month Calendar:

* Use larger tag/task icon if there is only a one item and enough space
* Improved UI layout

Source:

* Use the new "compact source files" Java feature
* Use the new java.lang.IO class
* Various small OpenJDK 25-related updates
* Highlight Java syntax in generated API docs
* Do not build obsolete "images.jar"
  - SDK: "makagiga-images" module moved to "makagiga-core"
* Re-added "ui/locale" icon
* New experimental launcher for Linux (currently unused; see tools/launcher)
* Reproducible builds of makagiga.jar
* Minor code cleanup