Release 5.4.0: Better statuses on Recurring tasks - and 'explain' improvements · obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks

What's Changed

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Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

Show non-standard recurrence transitions in Mermaid diagrams by @claremacrae in #2528
Update "Check your Statuses" text for new behaviour by @claremacrae in #2530
Add full mode instruction, to negate short mode by @claremacrae in #2535
- See 📖 Full Mode
Make explain show group by commands by @claremacrae in #2536
Make explain show sort by commands by @claremacrae in #2539
Make explain use indentation to separate global & code block query explanation by @claremacrae in #2538

💪 Fixes

Prevent default action when clicking the postpone button by @Cito in #2513
Cycle through statuses until TODO is found when marking recurring tasks as DONE by @asokawotulo in #2516
- See 📖 When DONE is not followed by TODO or IN_PROGRESS
Next recurrent of recurring tasks is now always TODO, IN_PROGRESS or space by @claremacrae in #2527
Tidy up blank lines in 'explain' output by @claremacrae in #2537

📖 Documentation

docs: Updates for recent fixes of statuses with recurrence by @claremacrae in #2534

🛠️ Behind the scenes

refactor: extract QueryLayoutOptions from LayoutOptions by @ilandikov in #2521
refactor: Move new status calculation for recurring tasks to StatusRegistry by @claremacrae in #2526
test: improve testLayoutOptions() test function to have the expected description in one parameter with other expected components by @ilandikov in #2515
test: test adding data attributes with only name & only value by @ilandikov in #2518
test: use the toHaveDataAttributes() matcher in TaskFieldRenderer tests by @ilandikov in #2523

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

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