Outline v1.8.0 release notes

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