Anki 26.08 Beta 1

Anki Beta Testing
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Hi all,

A new beta is now available:

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Thanks for the beta! I am looking forward to testing the new Set Due Date behavior.

Windows 11: it seems that tags are not saved? Steps to reproduce: go to the Add window, add a note with 1+ tags, then open it in the Browser → no tags. Or, in the Card Browser: select a note with 1+ tags, de-select it, then select it again → all tags will have “disappeared” (and the tag bar becomes temporarily unusable).
Calling mw.reset() appears to have the same effect.

It also seems that Anki says “Changes will take effect after you restart Anki” every time I close the Preferences screen, even if no setting was changed.

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Sent in a fix for this

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I would appreciate if people reported how long FSRS parameter optimization took before and after the update :folded_hands:
I estimate that it should be ~9 times faster, but I’d like to see real numbers

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The Svelte-editor toggle in the Experiments section of the preferences seems to be bugged?

  1. The toggle seems to have no effect at all (even after restarting Anki).
  2. The only way to “trigger” the new Editor appears to be by holding Shift when clicking the Add/Edit buttons, regardless of the state of the toggle.
    (pressing Shift+A or Shift+E doesn’t seem to work)

Also, I can’t seem to exit Anki (e.g. via Ctrl+Q) as long as a Svelte Edit/Add window is open.

EDIT: for some reason, the “Changes will take effect after you restart Anki” issue I reported earlier, and the “toggle has no effect” one I’m describing here only seem to occur if I start Anki while holding the Shift key (add-ons disabled).

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  • Anki 26.05: ~ 140 s
  • Anki 26.08b1: ~ 8 s

The difference appears to be impressive. For reference, I am currently using only 1 preset for my entire collection with around 1.5 million reviews.

(Interestingly, while optimizing almost never results in new parameters, this “new optimizer” found what it deems to be better parameters on the first run.)

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The optimization took about 1.17 seconds in 26.05 and 0.7 seconds in this beta. This is on ~13,000 reviews, not my phone collection.

New note editor
  • The buttons at the bottom are slightly cut off.
  • The note type & deck selectors:
    • Are not rounded.
    • Their font size is bigger than before and there’s no padding so with long deck names it looks odd.
    • The modal dialog snaps upwards if the editer window is short.
    • The modal window’s title, “Search” and note type/deck names are selectable.
    • There’s too much padding and wasted space.
    • The “x” button becomes invisible on hover (dark theme).
    • There can be two scroll bars: one in the modal window and one outside it if the editor window is short.
    • The search bar’s “x” button could have better highlighting on hover (currently it’s a black border which shifts the “x” to the left, and the color changes to white).
  • The items in the toolbar dropdowns have background colors and shake when hovered on.
Set due date behavior

If you set the due date of a new card to, say, 100 days, it will:

  • Have a 0 seconds interval. This doesn’t sound like the PR description.
  • Its card info will show an ease of 250% despite FSRS being ON.
  • It’s treated as a young review card in the browser search and stats.
  • When it shows up in the study screen, it doesn’t follow learning steps.
  • Its FSRS-determined first interval would be normal (e.g. 2 days), which is great. [Before it’d be huge as if it were overdue by 100 days.]
  • I don’t know whether using SDD on new cards still excludes them from optimization.
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Big difference. For 33.000 reviews 26.06 took 3.6 seconds, 26.08b1 was instant. Very good job!

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The font size in the experimental tab is smaller than the font size of the other tabs. And it is also smaller than all other font sizes.

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EDIT: for some reason, the “Changes will take effect after you restart Anki” issue I reported earlier, and the “toggle has no effect” one I’m describing here only seem to occur if I start Anki while holding the Shift key (add-ons disabled)

Experiments are intentionally disabled when you start Anki while holding shift.

Thanks for the beta! I am looking forward to testing the new Set Due Date behavior.

Unfortunately, some changes had to be reverted so the functionality might not have changed as much as you might think.

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@A_Blokee can you please check this out and match the sizes from the other tabs?
@Anon_0000 thanks for reporting!

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Drag-and-drop of audio files doesn’t seem to be working with the Svelte editor enabled in Anki 26.08b1 on my Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.5.2.

  • With the Svelte editor enabled, when I drag an audio file from a Finder window into the Anki Add or Browse window and try to drop it into a field, nothing happens.
  • However, drag-and-drop of image files works just fine.
  • Drag-and-drop of selected text also works fine.
  • If I disable the Svelte editor, then audio file drag-and-drop works.
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Could you send a screenshot. To me the font size looks a little larger in the experiments tab. Maybe its something to do with the operating system?

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Sure. I tested on debian linux in a vm.

Debug info 
Anki 26.08b1 (ddf0a0e7)
Python 3.13.13 Qt 6.11.0 PyQt 6.11.0
Platform: Linux-6.12.19-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.42

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It is not affected by gnomes font-size settings (tweaks app). If you change the user interface size in Anki, you can see that the experiment tabs font size does increase. But it’s still smaller than the font sizes of the other tabs or webviews.

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@A_Blokee @brenolab

FYI, there was a hard coded font size value. I opened a PR:

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Logged some issues related to the experimental editor.

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