Release Candidate Builds

Install a release candidate build of Quarto.

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Highlights

Quarto 1.9 includes the following new features:

  • Posit Connect Cloud Publishing: Publish documents and websites to Posit Connect Cloud using quarto publish posit-connect-cloud.

  • Output for LLMs: Generate llms.txt and .llms.md files for websites, making your content more accessible to large language models and AI-powered tools.

  • quarto use brand command: Add or update brand assets from an external source.

  • List Tables: Create complex tables with a list-like syntax. An easier-to-maintain alternative to grid tables, originally developed by Martin Fischer with contributions from Albert Krewinkel and William Lupton.

  • PDF Accessibility:

    • PDF Standards and Accessibility for LaTeX and Typst: New pdf-standard option enables PDF/A archival formats and PDF/UA accessibility compliance. Use quarto install verapdf to automatically validate compliance.

    • Image alt text for PDF accessibility: Alt text fig-alt attributes now passes through to PDF output for screen reader support in both LaTeX and Typst formats.

    • Alt text for cross-referenced equations in Typst: Provide descriptive text for equations using the alt attribute.

  • Improvements to Typst support:

    • Typst book projects: Book projects can now render to Typst via the bundled orange-book extension, providing chapter numbering, cross-references, and professional textbook styling.

    • Support for Article layout: Place content in the margins, create full-width figures, or add side notes.

    • New options:

      • mathfont, codefont, linestretch
      • linkcolor, citecolor, filecolor
      • thanks
      • abstract-title

    • Theorem styling: New theorem-appearance option with four styles: simple (classic LaTeX), fancy (colored boxes with brand colors), clouds (rounded backgrounds), or rainbow (colored borders and titles).

  • Privacy-focused features for websites:

    • A privacy-first default for cookie consent: The default for cookie consent has changed to type: express, providing opt-in consent that blocks cookies until users explicitly agree. This privacy-conscious default is designed with modern privacy regulations in mind.

    • Algolia Search Insights avoids cookies: Use Algolia Insights now uses persistent cookies only if cookie-consent is active, and the user has opted-in.

    • Use Plausible Analytics: Add privacy-friendly Plausible Analytics to websites via the plausible-analytics configuration option.

  • aria-label for videos: Improve accessibility of embedded videos by providing custom descriptive labels for screen readers instead of the default “Video Player” label.

  • New syntax-highlighting Option: Replaces the deprecated highlight-style (Pandoc 3.8). Supports style names, custom .theme files, none, or idiomatic for format-native highlighting.

  • Metadata and brand extensions now work without a _quarto.yml project. A temporary default project is created in memory.

  • Engine extensions allow replacement of the execution engine:

    • Julia is now a bundled extension instead of being built-in.
    • quarto-marimo will soon change from a filter extension to an engine extension.
    • New quarto create extension engine command.
    • New quarto call build-ts-extension command.
    • New Quarto API for engine extensions to use. (This is in flux and will not be documented for the next few releases, but there will be a dev blog post about it.)

Release Notes