In the upcoming 2.0 release, Quill has been significantly modernized. Leveraging the latest browser-supported APIs, Quill now delivers a more efficient and reliable editing experience.

Major Improvements

• Nested Quill support #3590
• Improved IME and spell corrector support #3807
• Semantic cleanups for TEXT_CHANGE event #3778
• History: Record selection in history module #3823
• Auto detect scrolling container #3840

Performance Improvements

Quill 2.0 includes many performance optimizations, the most important of which is the improved rendering speed for large content.

• Improve inserting performance #3815
• Avoid fetching selections when possible #3538
• No need to setContents when container is empty #3539

Code Modernization

• Migrated to TypeScript
• Provided official TypeScript declarations
• Migrated to Vitest for unit testing
• Migrated to Playwright for E2E testing
• Migrated website to Gatsby

All Changes

• Fix UI node interactions with line-level navigation shortcuts #3898
• Use <strike> instead of <s> for Strike format Commit
• Keyboard: Backspace will keep the format when previous line is empty #3013
• Keyboard: Discontinue inline formats on enter #3428
• Fix length mismatch when copying code #3028
• Keep list numbers continuous when separated by certain elements #3086
• Header/paragraph doesn't reset list numbering in Firefox #3272
• Fix Quill#setContents() on block embed ending Commit
• Track all implicit newline indexes and shift for delete Commit
• Clipboard: Fix pasting in checklist does not preserve indentation #3064
• Clipboard: Prefer file over html when uploading Commit
• Clipboard: Keep newlines in pre tag #3687
• Clipboard: Cut across lines shouldn't affect the formatting of the line above #3286
• getLeaf() should ignore non-leaf blots #3489
• Selection: Fix getBounds of empty text nodes #3491
• Keep cursor unlinked to avoid elements being pushed down inside #3534
• Fix combineFormats with multiple values repeated #3336
• Fix selection-change not firing on DOM mutations #3591
• Improve Tab handling in code block #3593
• Add SMS to link protocol whitelist #2851
• Fix embed inherits formats unexpectedly #3783
• Fix HTML and Delta not matching #3784
• Fix inline embed insertions with applyDelta() #3793
• Fix inserting newlines into formatted text #3582
• History: Pass source for history actions #3514
• History: Handle native undo/redo #3115
• Fix block embed attributor errors #3825
• Clipboard: getHTML() should include outer tag when range is entire line #3850

New Contributors

• @parthdesai93 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2073
• @fengyuanchen made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2087
• @MicahLyle made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2122
• @bflatmajor made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2143
• @1c7 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2219
• @vojtechsebo made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2223
• @RyanV made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2226
• @dgreensp made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2252
• @leandrogaspar made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2269
• @lixiaoyan made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2278
• @jbbakst made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2279
• @sisidovski made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2301
• @jfix made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2327
• @jonathanlloyd made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2439
• @philraj made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2452
• @bjenkins24 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2457
• @Percipient24 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2491
• @alecgibson made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2581
• @tboevil made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2569
• @unitehenry made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2675
• @DillonBroadus made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2710
• @edhowler made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2682
• @d4l-w4r made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2674
• @A-gambit made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3005
• @timgates42 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3003
• @haqer1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3043
• @mashuDuek made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3221
• @ndNovaDev made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3295
• @gan-h made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3314
• @tzyl made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2882
• @Dora1604 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3337
• @joelcarrier made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3581
• @derrickreimer made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3477
• @SCG82 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3656
• @diegohaz made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3426
• @eltociear made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3400
• @anish2690 made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/2851
• @xavivars made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3755
• @kalys made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3514
• @taozhou-glean made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3780
• @cmrd-senya made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3615
• @bmakuh made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3845
• @fstrelczuk made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3609
• @dlitsman made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3877
• @fnlctrl made their first contribution in https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/3899

Full Changelog: https://github.com/quilljs/quill/compare/v1.3.6...v2.0.0-beta.0