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Moebius Beyond Ultimate Edition Changelog

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Added

  • Added support for different brush shapes. Currently "Square" and "Round" are supported with the intention to add more brushes in the future.
  • Grayscale mode now also applies to the reference picture.

Changed

  • Grayscale mode now uses CSS filters instead of manual color conversion.

Fixed

  • Allow dragging selection outside of top/left of canvas to clip when pasting.
  • Fixed preview panel width not matching zoom level after collapsing and expanding the panel.
  • Fixed focus shifting to reference window when closing the attribute picker modal.
  • Fixed brush outline causing scrollbars to appear when moving cursor to the bottom of the viewport.
  • Improved image rendering of characters in the charlist selector and toolbar.

v3.7.0 (2026-02-10)

Added

  • Added a new "Grayscale Mode" which will toggle visualizing all of the ANSI colors using their corresponding grayscale values. This setting can be accessed from the "Color" submenu.
  • Added a "Preview Zoom" submenu with zoom levels from 100% to 400% (100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%).

Changed

  • Improved the range slider for the reference window drawing grid.

Fixed

  • Fixed alt+mouse wheel to only adjust the drawing grid opacity without scrolling vertically.
  • Fixed scrolling off the bottom of the canvas when zoomed out in a tall picture.
  • Fixed zoom sometimes breaking after resizing the canvas.

v3.6.0 (2025-11-28)

Added

  • Improved the cropping tool to preserve undo/redo history.
  • Added a preference to override the default font for new documents.
  • Added click-and-drag UX for moving selections without keyboard shortcuts.
  • Added support for WebP, GIF, and SVG reference images.
  • Improved the reference image window to support zooming and drawing grids.

Fixed

  • Fixed shift+mouse wheel to only adjust the reference image opacity without scrolling horizontally.
  • Fixed reference image dragging to respect the current zoom level.

v3.5.0 (2025-10-21)

This release includes significant internal code refactoring to lay the groundwork for future changes. As such, there is a higher than usual risk of regressions across the entire application. Please be aware and report any issues you see.

Changed

  • The canvas is now centered horizontally/vertically in the UI when there is enough space available.
  • Removed the "zoom snapping" feature, after trying it out for a while I found it more annoying than helpful.

Fixed

  • Fixed the animated border when selecting and dragging content.

v3.4.1 (2025-08-29)

Fixed

  • Fixed a regression that broke the color picker when electron was updated. The color picker is now part of the app rather than opening the operating system's color utility.
  • Fixed a regression in the default file extension when performing "save as...".

v3.4.0 (2025-08-20)

Added

  • The character palette is now a floating window that can be dragged and repositioned within the application.
  • Added a new sidebar with buttons to show/hide various UI elements.

Changed

  • The rectangle and ellipse tools now toggle between outline and filled modes when clicked repeatedly, replacing the previous split-button behavior.
  • Clicking inside of the character palette now automatically activates the custom block brush tool with the given character selected.

Removed

  • Removed double click on the custom block tool to set the character.

v3.3.0 (2025-08-07)

The project/installer has been renamed to "MoebiusBeyond" to distinguish from the upstream project and allow installing both versions of the fork side-by-side

This release also adds a native file format for saving ASCII/ANSI art files. The "Moebius Beyond Document" (.mbd) stores all of the document data as a gzip-compressed JSON structure that mirrors the internal format used by Moebius. See the reference document for more information:

MBD - Moebius Beyond Doument Format.md

Added

  • Added a preference to skip the slash screen at startup.
  • Clicking the canvas size display in the bottom status bar now opens the dialog to resize the canvas.
  • Added "Open Reference in Window" option to the drag-and-drop dialog for image files.

Changed

  • Updated Electron to 37.2.5 (latest stable version).
  • Lots of internal project maintenance including setting up a unit testing framework with playrwight and linting/code formatting.

Removed

  • Removed support for the touchbar on macOS. I don't have any way to test this feature, and Apple has discontinued it on new models.

v3.2.1 (2025-07-23)

Fixed

  • Fixed the new zoom system to better support trackpads.
    • Two-finger pinch on trackpad will zoom the canvas.
    • Two-finger touch on trackpad will pan the canvas.
    • Added magnetic snapping at 10% zoom intervals.
    • Added sensitivity threshold to prevent accidental panning.
    • Added a velocity curve to the zooming to make it more consistent at different scales.

v3.2.0 (2025-07-22)

Added

  • Added a hotkey SHIFT+ALT+Left Click to grab the character under the cursor and load it into the custom block.

Changed

  • Overhauled the zooming system for the main canvas.
    • The canvas now zooms independently from other elements in the UI.
    • Mousewheel zooming is smoother and more responsive.
    • Mousewheel zooming is anchored to the mouse pointer position.
    • Added more zoom menu items with preset levels from 10% to 500%.
    • Added middle mouse button click-and-drag to pan the canvas.
    • Added middle mouse button double-click to reset zoom to 100%.
    • Fixed window scrolling when moving the cursor while zoomed in.

Fixed

  • Fixed X-flipping for characters 184 (╕) and 213 (╒).
  • Fixed "Save as..." resetting the editor state and clearing the undo/redo history for the current document.

v3.2.0 (2025-04-05)

Added

  • Added a new menu option "Reset to Default Palette" to reset the color palette to standard ANSI.

Fixed

  • Fixed broken links in the Help menu and removed outdated URLs.
  • Fixed GSJCI fonts not loading correctly.
  • Fixed "Share Online" menu option to upload .ans files to 16colors.
  • Fixed "Load Custom Font" menu option to work again.
  • Fixed "Open Reference Image" menu option & hotkey to work again.
  • Fixed the debug menu showing even if it had not been enabled.
  • Fixed "Open In Current Window" causing every subsequent file to be opened in the current window.

Removed

  • Removed miscellaneous server/client code. The server feature of moebius does not work with this fork, and I have no intention of supporting it going forward.
  • Removed the discord rich presence feature.
  • Removed several unused dependencies.

v3.0.1 (2025-04-04)

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug preventing Shift+Mouse Wheel Up from changing the reference image opacity.
  • Right-justifying a line will no longer reset the background color.
  • Remapped the hotkeys for Insert/Delete Row/Column to avoid conflicting with the hotkeys for moving the cursor inside the character palette.

v3.0.0 (2025-03-11)

This is the initial release for this fork.

Added

  • Added a new sidebar tool for fine-tuning the size/position of the reference image.
  • Added the ability to open a reference image in a separate, always-on-top window.
  • Added support for drag-and-drop files from the desktop.
  • Added an outline to the cursor when using the brush tool.
  • Added a visual grid to the character palette.
  • Added a toggle for zooming the character palette to 200%.

Fixed

  • Misc bug fixes.
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