What changed, and when

Submitted and waiting on Apple, so this is not the version you can download yet.

Added

• Progressive highlighting. Long documents paint the visible screen first and finish the rest in the background, so a big file is ready to type in straight away instead of after a pause.
• Folder access for documents kept on external volumes.

Changed

• Spell check now starts off. Markdown carries code, identifiers, and URLs that draw noisy squiggles out of the box, and it stays a toggle in Settings for anyone who wants it back.
• Wikilinks resolve off the typing path, so a large folder of notes never stalls a keystroke, and open documents recolor as soon as the index refreshes.

Fixed

• Links and image paths containing parentheses no longer truncate at the first one. A Wikipedia style URL now opens in full, and an image whose path has parentheses previews properly.
• Ordered task lists draw their checkbox and keep the number, and Return continues the list with the next number and an empty box.
• Two block formulas on the same line no longer merge into one and swallow the text between them.
• Headings inside a code block fenced with tildes no longer appear in the outline, and a short fence no longer closes a longer one early.
• The placeholder for a missing image is sized to the message it shows, so a long path no longer overflows onto the line below.
• Wikilink aliases containing wide characters no longer shift the label you see.

The first public release, and the version currently on the Mac App Store.

Everything on the features page ships in this one: live formatting that hides the markers where your caret is not, editable tables, clickable checkboxes, LaTeX math, syntax highlighted code blocks with a copy button, callouts, wikilinks, image previews you can resize by dragging, an outline sidebar, native window tabs, a command palette, and reassignable shortcuts. About 8 MB, sandboxed, no accounts and no telemetry.

Not in it: Mermaid diagrams, footnotes, reference style links, and a dedicated HTML export. PDF works today through the macOS print panel.