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Trilium Notes

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Velocity0.0

Hierarchical note-taking application for building personal knowledge bases.

The TriliumNext fork spent its early betas making the app trustworthy to install

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Current state
Three beta releases from early 2025. The work is dominated by distribution and access concerns: signed Windows binaries obtained through a donated EV certificate, signed macOS builds, multi-factor authentication that required a database version bump, basic right-to-left content support, and repaired migration paths from the original Trilium. Nothing has been published to this feed since March 2025.
Where it's heading
These are the problems a fork inherits rather than chooses. Before adding features, the project had to make installs pass platform trust checks, let users migrate off the predecessor without an intermediate upgrade, and add authentication a self-hosted note store is expected to have. It is groundwork, done in the open, with contributors credited by name.
Prediction
There is not enough recent activity to predict the next release. The feed has been silent for over a year, so whether the beta line continued elsewhere is the open question.

Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Multi-factor authentication and signed Windows binaries

    Adds MFA, which forces a database version bump requiring desktop and server to upgrade together, and ships signed Windows builds that remove the untrusted-application warning. Both are trust prerequisites rather than features.

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  2. 1y ago

    Signed macOS builds and right-to-left content support

    Adds macOS code signing and basic right-to-left content handling, and repairs migrations so users can move from older Trilium versions directly. The migration fix matters most for anyone still on the original project.

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  3. 1y ago

    Fixes missing Windows ZIP artifacts

    A single build fix restoring missing Windows ZIP artifacts. Release plumbing during the fork's early beta run.

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