Martin Donath

Very proud of the team today: we’re launching @Zensical Studio. 👏 A lot of work went into making this fast, precise, and useful in real documentation projects. If you write docs with Zensical or MkDocs, we'd love your feedback!

Material for MkDocs 9.7.7 is out. It fixes a DOM-based XSS issue in the optional search.suggest feature, which was responsibly disclosed to us. Please update. Material for MkDocs will continue receiving security updates through November 5, 2026. github.com/squidfunk/mkdo…

@bonastreyair We'll expand to JetBrains IDEs, Neovim and Zed at some point, yes. Right now, VS Code + forks is our focus.

@squidfunk Will you also add support for PyCharm?

4 weeks after launching Zensical Studio, Markdown Preview is one of the most requested features – soon, you won't even need to leave the editor to get a truthful preview of your docs. Supports dark mode 🌗 If you haven't, check out Studio: zensical.org/studio/

We announced our new Rust-based Python Markdown parser in yesterday's issue of Zensical Monthly: mail.zensical.org/monthly/2026/0…

If you missed it: Python Markdown has documented all of its extensions as being in maintenance mode. Good timing: we just rewrote Python Markdown in Rust, and it already powers Zensical Studio. It’s 10-20x faster and will be Open Sourced later this year. github.com/Python-Markdow…

Zensical Studio is out, and the bigger picture is coming together. We're building the next-generation Docs-as-Code stack, end to end, and we're right on track. More in tomorrow's newsletter. zensical.org/about/newslett…

Now that Zensical Studio is out and humming, I'm picking up work on ZRX again, the heart of Zensical. Working hard on closing the remaining gap to MkDocs, so most projects can move to Zensical in the coming weeks/months ☺️ github.com/zensical/zrx/r…

Just shipped a massive new update for Zensical Studio! We’re pushing hard on docs-as-code: workspace intelligence for Markdown, transitive snippet awareness, anchor/link refactors, and much better navigation. Still early, but this is the direction. zensical.org/studio/

Sneak peek: Python Markdown snippets as first-class symbols in Zensical Studio. Rename a snippet – every inclusion site updates. Type-safe content reuse, finally. 🎯 ➡ zensical.org/studio/

Zensical Studio 0.1.2 adds syntax support for snippets, icons/emojis, smart symbols, keyboard keys, inline math, and lists, and improves nested highlighting, e.g., in link titles. It's now higher-fidelity than VS Code's Markdown extension. Release notes: github.com/zensical/studi…

Zensical v0.0.46 is out: search results now include excerpts, the UI was updated, and we also shipped several bug fixes. We now disabled some legacy reference checks by default while we move toward Zensical Studio's new Markdown parser. Release notes: github.com/zensical/zensi…

Zensical Studio v0.1.1 just dropped, and it brings a wide range of improvements for highlighting! Update your VS Code extension, or enable auto-update to immediately benefit from future improvements. github.com/zensical/studi…

Writing tests for our new Python Markdown TextMate grammar that we shipped as part of Zensical Studio - so much fun 😎 github.com/zensical/studi…

Writing Rust in Zed – boy, can it get any better than that?

Zensical 0.0.44 brings further improvements to link validation. You might have noticed we've been quieter than usual – we've been heads down on a major milestone for Zensical. We'll share everything in Zensical Monthly, our newsletter, on June 10! github.com/zensical/zensi…

I just finished migrating all the open source docs from MkDocs to @zensical 🚀 @FastAPI was the last one. The iteration (build) speed makes the developer / author experience so much nicer, so much more productive.

Zensical 0.0.42 improves stability and accuracy of link validation, and fixes some bugs related to file watching, abbreviations in the table of contents, and GLightbox. Release notes: github.com/zensical/zensi…

We got some heat for warning our users that MkDocs 2.0 won't have a plugin system in Material for MkDocs. The maintainer just confirmed it again and is actively working on MkDocs 2.0 – no plugins, by design. Markdown + templating only. #discussioncomment-16917686" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/…

Zensical Monthly 04/2026 AI agents don't stop when your docs have a gap. They guess – confidently, fluently, and wrongly. This month's Zensical Monthly is about what that means for technical writers, and what we're building about it. Web version: mail.zensical.org/monthly/2026/0…