CKEditor 5 Files

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v46.1.0.

Release highlights

Smoother drag & drop of widgets on iOS

We updated the implementation for more reliable drag-and-drop on iOS touch devices. The behavior on the desktop devices remains unchanged.

Pagination improvements

We reverted a low-level change to improve stability in pagination, especially in scenarios including long tables.

Hide a user in the Server-side editing API

The Server-side editor API now supports a hidden_in_presence_list user flag. You can use this mechanism to prevent automation script users from appearing in the editor’s presence list while scripts run.

Comments’ markers clean up

We provided a better handling of edge cases where a marker points to a non-existing comment thread (for example, due to integrator mistakes). Such markers are now removed automatically to keep the editor stable.

MINOR BREAKING CHANGES ℹ️

• real-time-collaboration: CloudServicesCommentsAdapter#getCommentThread no longer throws an error when a comment thread does not exist. Instead, it now returns null.

Features

• real-time-collaboration: The user will not be displayed in the Presence List when a server-side editor API script is executed with the hidden_in_presence_list parameter.
• table: The table caption feature now has a configuration option table.tableCaption.useCaptionElement that changes the HTML for table captions. With this option set to true the output HTML for table caption changes from figure.table > figcaption to figure.table > table > caption. Closes #18988.

Bug fixes

• clipboard, engine, widget: Improved drag & drop of widgets with selection handle on iOS devices. Closes #16335.
• engine: Spaces at the end of list items are correctly preserved when saving and loading data. Closes #18960.
• engine: Fixed an issue where the editor could crash if the selection was moved to a non-existent node during the blur event. Closes #18744.
• merge-fields: Editor no longer incorrectly adds an empty paragraph (that does not exist in data) when loaded data contains a block merge field with a marker (such as comment) on it.
• pagination: Adjusted theme for <caption> vs <figcaption> element in tables. See [#18988].
• paste-from-office: Ensure consistent formatting of content pasted from Google Docs by replacing tab characters with spaces in preformatted text blocks. Closes #18995.
• revision-history: Fixed an error that prevented previewing a revision that included a removed block merge field.
• uploadcare: Fixed an issue where the Uploadcare image uploader and editor did not work correctly with custom upload URLs or custom CDN canonical names.
• watchdog: Fixed an issue where Watchdog incorrectly restored collaboration data (comment threads and suggestions) after a crash in load and save integrations. Closes #19033.
• widget: Read-only mode no longer focuses the editor and displays UI when selecting nested editables. Closes #18965.

Other changes

• comments, real-time-collaboration: Comment markers linked to non-existing threads are now removed automatically (instead of throwing an error) in real-time collaboration, ensuring the editor remains fully functional.
• track-changes: Error track-changes-user-not-found will now be thrown with additional data to help with debugging: authorId (the ID of the missing user) and suggestionId (the ID of the suggestion for which the error was thrown).

Released packages

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