Changelog — what changed in the online document editor

User-facing changes to the document editor (edit.chaxus.com). Format loosely follows Keep a Changelog; this file is the single source for the site changelog page and GitHub release notes. Entries describe what users experience, not internal refactors.

[Unreleased]

Known issues

• A report of "An error occurred during the work with the document" while editing a complex real-world PPTX could not be reproduced on the current build (the same deck opens, edits and saves cleanly in the automated real-document matrix); the likely cause is a browser still running a cached older build. If you see it, hard-refresh (or unregister the site's service worker) and try again; a full regression campaign against real-world documents runs nightly and gates the next release announcement.

Changed

• The homepage is now a plain landing page and the editor lives at /editor (/editor?new=docx, /editor?file=<url>, /editor?embed=1). The homepage no longer downloads the editor at all, so it loads faster; old links to /?src=, /?file=, /?new= and /?embed=1 keep working (they redirect).
• The iframe embedding demo (/embed-demo.html) now uses the same design system as the rest of the site (ranui components and tokens, dark mode, shared top bar) instead of its own ad-hoc styling; the demo's postMessage behaviour is unchanged.
• The editor interface now defaults to the classic Office theme (theme-classic-light, coloured per-app toolbar header) instead of the flat white theme; a theme you pick inside the editor is still remembered.
• The editor engine was upgraded to an OnlyOffice 9.3-based build: new rendering engine and font pipeline, sharp toolbar icons on 2k/4k displays, fonts loaded on demand instead of up front.

Added

• The editor's own interface (menus, ribbon, dialogs) now follows your browser language for all 45 languages the engine ships (Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, ...), not just English and Chinese; ?locale=<tag> still overrides it.
• The bottom-right Menu now has a light / dark / system switch, so the theme can be changed while a document is open (the editor follows it).
• A help center (/help, /zh-CN/help) answering the practical questions: formats, saving and converting, CSV encodings, what the PDF viewer can do, read-only and embedding, offline use, privacy boundaries, error codes, self-hosting; the Embed API reference (/help/embed-api) and this changelog (/changelog) are published on the site from the same markdown.
• The editor now follows the site's light/dark theme: a dark site opens a dark editor and switches live with the theme toggle; a theme you pick inside the editor's own settings still wins.
• New "Open PDF" pages (/open/pdf, /zh-CN/open/pdf) explaining what the PDF viewer can and cannot do (read, comment and annotate, save back as PDF; no free-text rewriting of an existing PDF), linked from both homepages.
• PDF files now open in a dedicated PDF viewer/editor.
• Legacy Word 97 binary .doc files now open correctly.
• Read-only mode can be toggled at runtime (embed API document:set-readonly works in both directions without reloading the document).
• Comments work in the Word editor, including add/update/delete lifecycle callbacks for integrators.
• Editor errors now surface as a visible notification with the error code instead of failing silently.
• CSV files in legacy encodings (GBK/GB18030, e.g. Chinese "ANSI" exports from Excel) are detected and decoded correctly instead of showing mojibake.

Fixed

• The homepage no longer blocks its first paint on the editor's API loader script (about half a second of LCP); the loader is fetched when you open or create a document.

• The Chinese landing pages' "open your XLSX / PPTX / CSV" buttons no longer drop you into a blank new Word document; they go to the Chinese homepage where you can pick the file.

• Opening a document that uses many fonts (typical for Chinese decks) no longer sits on "Loading presentation" for minutes on the hosted site: the editor's font files and the conversion engine are now cached long-term by the browser, document fonts are downloaded in parallel instead of one family at a time, and the unused "default font" preload is skipped. On a real 35-slide deck the first open went from never finishing to about 45 s on a cold connection, and a repeat open takes about 3 s.

• Words carrying a phonetic guide (Japanese furigana / Chinese pinyin "ruby" annotations) no longer disappear from a Word document on open and save; the base word is kept. The guide text itself is still dropped (engine limitation).

• PDF files now actually load in the PDF editor: previously the editor mounted but the document stayed on its loading placeholder (the PDF app expects the page to hand the file over, unlike the other editors), and on the live site the "is this a form?" pre-loader additionally got stuck behind a folder redirect. PDFs open, take annotations and save back.

• On slow connections the first save no longer fails with "timed out" while the file was still on its way: the editor must first download its ~10 MB conversion engine, which could take longer than the old 60 s limit; the save now waits up to 3 minutes and still fails fast when the document genuinely could not be opened.

• A new release deployed while you have a document open no longer swaps parts of the editor underneath it: the update now waits until nothing is open (or the next visit), then takes over and refreshes once. Previously the old page could lazy-load pieces of the new build into the running session, a plausible cause of sporadic "An error occurred during the work with the document" dialogs right after deploys.

• "Excel" files that are really an HTML table (the usual export of web systems, saved as .xls/.xlsx) now open and save as a real workbook instead of failing to load.

• Firefox: the page no longer raises an unhandled promise rejection from the service-worker update check on load.

• Presentations no longer log a script error on every open (the editor asked for a theme catalog file the offline package never shipped).

• Embed API: document:save without targetExt now exports in the open document's own format instead of always XLSX (a bare save on a .docx or .pptx used to fail with a timeout).

• A file the editor cannot import (corrupted bytes, an unsupported format behind a familiar extension) now shows an error dialog and a notification and stops the loading spinner, instead of loading forever; a pending save fails immediately with the reason instead of after a 60 s timeout.

• Saving a document that contains an inserted image no longer freezes the page; the image bytes are correctly included in the saved file.

• Excel: right-aligned text no longer disappears after editing another cell.

• Excel: the caret now moves visibly while editing inside a cell.

• Word: the caret renders exactly at the insertion point (no more offset caret on some documents).

• Save-as-PDF produces a complete document instead of empty output.

• Multi-sheet workbooks opened via the embed API save back with all sheets intact.

[0.0.5] - 2026-07-12

Last release of the previous (v7) engine line. See the GitHub release.