41.3.0 (April 10, 2024)

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v41.3.0.

Release highlights

Multi-level lists ⭐️

CKEditor 5's latest update brings a new premium feature: the Multi-level lists feature. It allows for easy creation and modification of numbered lists with counters (1., 1.1., 1.1.1.), crucial for clear referencing and hierarchical organization in complex documents. The feature ensures compatibility with Microsoft Word. When lists with such formatting are pasted to the editor, the numbering format and counters are retained.

Paste from Office improvements for lists

No more breaking numbering of lists when they are pasted from Office. Previously whenever a list were split by paragraphs, the counter started again from 1. With our latest improvement, the counter is correctly preserved. Moreover, if you use Paste from Office Enhanced ⭐️, the paragraphs will be merged into list items, to ensure proper, semantic content.

⚠️ If you use the LegacyList plugin to prolong the migration to the new list implementation, bear in mind that from this release Paste from Office stops working for the lists' implementation you are using. Migrate to List to maintain pasting lists functionality.

Menu bar

The menu bar is a user interface component popular in large editing desktop and online packages. It gives you access to all features provided by the editor, organized in menus and categories and improves usability of the editor, keeping the toolbar can be simple and tidy. This is especially welcome in heavily-featured editor integrations.

Current release brings this battle-hardened solution to CKEditor 5! The menu bar can easily be enabled in selected editor types, comes with a handy features preset and is also highly configurable.

Updated keyboard navigation

This release brings in a fix for keyboard navigation with the <kbd>Tab</kbd> key. Before, it followed the default browser behavior, which could produce somewhat random effects. For example, when the cursor was positioned at the end of the end of the editable, the <kbd>Tab</kbd> keystroke could navigate you to the image caption on the top.

We changed it to an approach in which the <kbd>Tab</kbd> (and <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Tab</kbd>), navigate to the next focusable field or an element outside the editor, so that the users can quickly navigate fields or links on the page. The navigation in the editor itself should be done by arrows, rather.

There is one exception to the <kbd>Tab</kbd> behavior. When a widget is selected, the <kbd>Tab</kbd> key will move the selection to the first nested editable, such as a caption of an image. Pressing the <kbd>Esc</kbd> key, while inside a nested editable, will move the selection to the closest ancestor widget, for example: moving from an image caption to selecting the whole image widget.