New in v1.8.0:
- Realtime collaboration over a self-hosted relay — E2E encrypted private rooms, live cursors, and connection health monitoring.
- One-click room creation from the editor toolbar.
- Session persistence — reconnect and resume after browser restarts.
- Offline edits auto-merge on reconnect, with notifications for unresolvable conflicts.

Plus various UI polish and bug fixes.

New in v1.7.7:
- Agent bridge is ON by default for new installs (existing users keep their setting).
- Can't enable the bridge while the AI button is hidden — prompts you to unhide it first.
- Agent toggle labels now reflect live state.
- Fixed an editor crash when the AI button was hidden then shown again.
- New Chinese (zh-CN) README + zh-CN versions of the Agent Bridge and Known Limitations guides.

Excali Local is a local-first, offline Excalidraw app that lives entirely in your browser. Capture a page or select an area and annotate it, use the complete
Excalidraw editor with no internet connection, keep every drawing in a private local gallery, turn drawings into presentations, and customize fonts with your own
.ttf/.woff/.woff2 files. Nothing leaves your device — no backend, no account, no uploads.

What you can do:
- Screenshot annotation: capture a full page or select an area, then annotate in Excalidraw.
- Offline editor: the complete Excalidraw experience, no connection required.
- Gallery & collections: save, organize, search, export, and import drawings — all stored locally in your browser.
- Presentation mode: turn any drawing into a slide-based presentation.
- Custom fonts: upload your own fonts or use system fonts on a fully offline build of Excalidraw 0.18.
- Direct .excalidraw opening: recognized files get an instant "Open with Excali Local" action.

New in v1.7.0:
- Import your gallery from a ZIP archive, including archives edited outside the app.
- Drive the active canvas from a CLI tool or an AI agent over a connection that stays on your local machine.

Your drawings stay private — Excali Local works fully offline with no account and no servers.

Fixed a scene-update crash during agent-driven drawing — invalid element data is now sanitized automatically, keeping the editor stable and the agent connection alive.

Fixed:
- Restored "scroll to fit" viewport navigation in the editor (canvas fit, slide
navigation, and screenshot import) — this had been broken by the excalidraw
library upgrade.
- Improved the agent-bridge connection stability: the editor now sends regular
keepalives and automatically reconnects when a connection goes stale; the
background daemon now logs the reason when a connection drops.
- Developer tooling and documentation updates (no user-visible changes).

All existing data and drawings are preserved — no upgrade steps needed.

Optimise user experience, One-click agent onboarding get paired and actived on current canvas.

v1.7.0 — Import a gallery from a ZIP archive, and drive the active canvas from a CLI or AI agent via the excali-draw Skill.

✨ New features

Sidebar Empty Component: Added a unified sidebar empty state component. (248e185 feat)

4 Marker Sidebar UI Enhancements: Added fine-grained controls for stroke width, rounded corners, arrow type, font, font size, and opacity. (2da1a80 feat)

🚀 Optimization
Mobile Toolbar Optimization: Improved the layout and interactive experience of the mobile toolbar. (25f5946 feat)
Toolbar Reconstruction: Refactor and unify the toolbar in the top right corner of the editor. (29bbfd5 refactor)

🐞 Fix

JSON Parsing Fix: Fixed an issue where only body objects were processed during JSON parsing. (6174c92 fix

New Features

- Directly open .excalidraw files from the web or local disk.

Custom Font Upload

enhancement: Refactored CustomFontUpload to use this helper for font‑face naming.
enhancement: Success/failure toast messages now appear in both English and Chinese.
fixed: Prevented parent‑component event bubbling when clearing an uploaded file.

Slide Navigation Bar – fixed: improved close button visibility with a white background.

Custom Binary Font Support

You can now upload and use your own font files directly within Excalidraw!
- Local Persistence: Upload .ttf, .woff, or .woff2 files in the options page. They are stored securely in your browser's IndexedDB.
- Dynamic Injection: Fonts are automatically injected into Excalidraw pages using the Web FontFace API.
- Multiple Slots: Support for multiple custom font slots with easy management UI.
- Related Issue: #2

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Options Page: Fixed an issue where local font replacements were not correctly reflected in the preview or applied consistently in the options UI.
• Related Issue: #2

🎨 Gallery Export Functionality

• Export Gallery to ZIP: New batch export feature that allows exporting all drawings to a ZIP archive with a single click
• Added "Export Gallery" option to the gallery page dropdown menu
• Detailed documentation updated in README

🐛 Bug Fixes

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcut Fix

• Fixed quick editor keybind: Resolved the issue where openQuickEditor keyboard shortcut was not triggering properly

Changes
fix: protect current working canvas files during cleanup
feat: add quick editor entry and shortcut

🎨 New Features

🗂️ Personal Drawing Library

Never worry about losing your work again. You can now save multiple drawings directly in your browser and reload them with a single click. Every drawing automatically generates a visual thumbnail, helping you find exactly what you need at a glance.

📁 Organize with Collections

Keep your projects tidy by grouping related work. Use the new sidebar to create custom collections—like "UI Mockups" or "Brainstorming"—and move drawings between them effortlessly. It's the perfect way to manage a growing library without the clutter.

update excalidraw dependencies and remove some feature of it. to keep plugin offline usage.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed screenshot area coordinate calculation, resolving issues with scrolling and device pixel ratio.

Default Keymap
change to to open local editor

Fixed
make slide order persist in excalidraw file, not just on current opened whiteboard

Misc
Remove unused locale file to reduce bundle size

add options page

For local Usage

update message
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Add a sidebar to quick mark somethings on whiteboard

Popup Menu Support Dark Theme
add Keymap to open Local Editor

Follower Halo: Users can now see a halo around the cursor, making it easier to track its location in collaborative environments.
Selection Cancellation: Implemented the ability to cancel selections, enhancing user flexibility while interacting with the UI.
Automated Packaging: A new GitHub workflow has been added to automate packaging, streamlining the release process.
Updated Demo Video: The demo video has been updated to reflect the new changes and improvements.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed various type issues to improve code reliability and stability.
Presentation mode now remains active when the space key is triggered, ensuring uninterrupted presentations.

fix some slide navbar bugs in local editor

remove embedded tool to fulfillment the requirement of not include the remote hosted code policy

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/Refined Presentation Experience:/
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