Release History

MarkShup 1.5.4 (2026-08-25)

Lists with a little more backbone

What's been fixed?

• Headings in list items now render correctly.

What's been improved?

• List items now correctly support thematic breaks and nested block quotes.

MarkShup 1.5.3 (2026-08-25)

Heading in the right direction

What's been improved?

• Adjusted heading sizes in the default stylesheet for a more balanced hierarchy.

MarkShup 1.5.2 (2026-08-18)

Time for styles to get in-line

What's been fixed?

• Bold and italic text can contain inline code without rendering emphasis markers literally.

What's been improved?

• Added mixed-style list examples to the showcase for inline code within emphasis.

MarkShup 1.5.1 (2026-08-15)

More switches, more control

What's new?

• --copy-files and --no-copy-files control whether referenced local files are copied to the output.
• --detect-img and --no-detect-img control Smart Image Bundle detection.
• --default-css and --no-default-css control the built-in stylesheet.

What's been improved?

• The new options can be overridden and restored in descendant template directories.

MarkShup 1.5 (2026-08-11)

The right image for every display and browser

What's new?

• Smart Image Bundles support neutral variants alongside light and dark variants.
• Smart dashes convert -- to en dashes and --- to em dashes (markshup style only).

What's been improved?

• Improved selection of color schemes, resolutions, and image formats.

MarkShup 1.4 (2026-08-08)

Keep MarkShup up to date the easy way

What's new?

• Installed MarkShup copies can update within or across major release lines.
• overrides.txt can replace selected command-line options in template folders.
• --strip-fragment can remove an exact fragment from HTTP(S) links.
• --js-helper-mode can select local Mermaid helpers or a pinned CDN bundle.

What's been fixed?

• References outside the source and output directories are no longer copied.
• Broken references are reported after every page has been generated.

MarkShup 1.3.1 (2026-08-03)

A more comfortable reading experience

What's been improved?

• Added high-contrast mode support for light and dark themes.
• Tweaked the default light and dark mode foreground and background colors.
• Prevented the default stylesheet from changing image backgrounds.

MarkShup 1.3 (2026-07-30)

Images for every display

What's new?

• Smart Image Bundles for light and dark .img directory variants.
• Support for image variants at 1x, 2x, and 3x resolutions.
• Support for multiple image formats with automatic format selection.
• Optional alt.txt files for image alternative text.
• --disable-img option to disable automatic image detection.

MarkShup 1.2 (2026-07-22)

Embedded HTML may also reference files

What's new?

• Copies and mangles files referenced by inline HTML.

What's been fixed?

• Numbered headers being mistaken for lists.

MarkShup 1.1 (2026-07-22)

Keep your links intact

What's new?

• Copies local files referenced by Markdown documents to the generated output.
• --recursive option to convert Markdown files in input subdirectories.

What's been improved?

• Applies name mangling to copied files and folders.
• Rewrites links to copied files, including links with query strings and fragments.

What's been fixed?

• Prevents copied files from being written outside the output directory.

MarkShup 1.0 (2026-07-22)

Ready for Prime Time

What's new?

• Footnotes.
• Common GitHub-style emoji shortcodes.
• Mermaid diagram code blocks, rendered offline with the optional --js-helper option.

What's been improved?

• Fenced code blocks carry their language classes, allowing syntax highlighting.

What's been fixed?

• CommonMark parsing of nested, mixed, and word-internal emphasis delimiters.
• Code spans containing backticks.
• Link and image titles, nested parentheses in destinations, and rich alt text.
• Fenced-code indentation and length.
• Ordered-list start numbers and marker-width nesting.
• Nested block constructs in list items.
• Backslash escaping for all ASCII Markdown punctuation.
• Tag-specific HTML block termination.

MarkShup 0.9.3 (2026-07-20)

Choose your dialect

What's new?

• --flavor option to choose Common Markdown, common extensions, extended features, or all MarkShup features.
• -- option to end option processing, allowing input paths that begin with a hyphen.
• Support for automatic links, heading links and explicit heading identifiers.
• Support for nested block quotes, task lists, definition lists, and image titles.
• Support for inline and indented code blocks, including tilde-fenced code blocks.
• Support for highlighting, single-, double-, and triple-tilde strikethrough, subscript, and superscript.
• Support for GitHub-style note boxes.

What's been improved?

• Rendering of inline HTML, block quotes, hard breaks, closing ATX headings, and escaped table pipes.
• Default Markdown stylesheet, including heading sizes, task lists, note boxes, and table styling.

What's been fixed?

• Malformed UTF8 doesn't cause a parse fail, it's just copied byte-for-byte into the output file.

MarkShup 0.9.2 (2026-07-18)

Sometimes you just want embedded HTML

What's new?

• Added support for embedded HTML in Markdown documents.

What's been improved?

• Versioned release archives with the MarkShup version number.

MarkShup 0.9.1 (2026-07-17)

Making template customization more flexible

What's new?

• Added --meta NAME VALUE for adding metadata tags to generated documents.
• Added meta.txt template support with inheritance.
• Added --, +, and --+ markers for combining template and command-line assets.

What's been improved?

• Improved inheritance for headers, footers, stylesheets, favicons, and JavaScript.
• Prevented duplicate command-line links when templates inherit assets.
• Improved documentation, release history, and download pages.

MarkShup 0.9 (2026-07-16)

Preview Release

This is the first, fully functional release but it may still contain some minor bugs, so use with care.