Pre-release (v1.9) Documentation: Download v1.9, Current Release Docs

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Highlights

Quarto 1.9 includes the following new features:

  • Privacy-first 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.

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

Release Notes

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Highlights

Quarto 1.8 includes the following new features:

  • Improvements to brand support:

    • Light and dark colors: Specify light and dark for any color in a brand specification.
    • Light and dark logos: Specify light and dark versions of logos in a brand specification.
    • Brand extensions: Share brand definitions and assets across Quarto projects.
    • Dark brand for format: revealjs: Specify brand-mode: dark to apply your dark brand to your presentation.
  • HTML Accessibility Checks: Add the axe option to HTML formats to perform accessibility checks with the Axe-core engine.

  • Access execution settings from code cells: Read the QUARTO_EXECUTE_INFO environment variable to access information about execution context.

  • Access metadata and variables in filters and shortcodes: Use the new quarto.variables.get() and quarto.metadata.get() APIs.

  • The default LaTeX engine is now lualatex.

Dependency updates:

  • mermaidjs updated to 11.6.0.
  • Bootstrap icons updated to v1.13.1
  • QuartoNotebookRunner in julia engine updated to 0.17.3

Release Notes

Pages containing all installers for the most recent releases of older versions of Quarto are linked below.

Version Release Notes Date URL
1.7.34 Release Notes Aug 29, 2025 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.7.34
1.6.43 Release Notes Apr 4, 2025 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.6.43
1.5.57 Release Notes Aug 29, 2024 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.5.57
1.4.557 Release Notes Jun 27, 2024 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.4.557
1.3.450 Release Notes Aug 23, 2023 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.3.450
1.2.475 Release Notes Mar 22, 2023 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.2.475
1.1.189 Release Notes Sep 4, 2022 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.1.189
1.0.38   Aug 4, 2022 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.38
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