What's new

NewSecurity: Password pages are encrypted in Roam before they're published, title included. roam.pub only gets the encrypted page and never sees its text or title, not even while publishing; it calls it "Encrypted page", and readers' browsers decrypt it with the password. Needs a Roam (browser or desktop app) recent enough to have X25519 encryption; on an older one, pages are published as before and roam.pub encrypts them, and the publish message says so.

ImprovedPublishing: The extension uses roam.pub's words for a page's visibility. The buttons are Make public, Put on Discover and Make unlisted (they were Make listed and Make discoverable), and the status says "Public page" or "Page on Discover".

NewPublishing: Publish with encryption. The status pop-up for a page or block that isn't published yet has a Publish with encryption button next to Publish, and the command palette has Roam Publish: Publish current page with encryption and Publish focused block with encryption. It publishes to your graph as a Password page, encrypted in Roam with your graph password, whatever new pages usually start as. If your graph has no password that can encrypt yet, nothing is published and the message says how to set one on roam.pub.

NewPublishing: Pages with collapsed blocks are published with those blocks collapsed, as you have them in Roam. To publish them expanded instead, set Collapsed blocks to Expanded in the extension settings. Readers can open and close blocks either way.

NewPublishing: Republishing keeps the published page's open and collapsed blocks. Collapsing or expanding blocks in Roam alone doesn't make a page show as changed; instead the status toast offers Sync open/collapsed blocks. roam.pub remembers which blocks it has collapsed, so this works from any computer.

ImprovedPublishing: The status toast offers one action: Republish when the page changed, Sync open/collapsed blocks when only collapsed blocks differ, or none when it's up to date, then Add to collection… and Unpublish. Visibility is changed on roam.pub, from the page Open goes to; the toast after a first publish still offers Make public and Put on Discover.

FixedPublishing: For a page that's only in collections, the status toast offered Make listed and Make unlisted, which did nothing, and called it unlisted. It now says the page is only in collections.

ImprovedPublishing: The status toast is shorter and says when a page is encrypted, for example "Encrypted unlisted page, up to date. Last published Oct 8, 2026, 1:14 PM."

NewPublishing: Add to collection… works for encrypted pages too, with no password to type. Roam Publish adds the page and republishes it, so it opens in the collection with the collection's password. If the page changed in Roam since you last published it, it asks first. Collections without a password that can encrypt are greyed out.

NewSetup and settings: Collapsed blocks setting: As in Roam (the default) or Expanded, for how blocks collapsed in Roam start out the first time you publish.

ImprovedSetup and settings: The extension's description lists roam.pub's main features, including end-to-end encryption and Download as PDF, in fewer words.

NewSetup and settings: When roam.pub changes in a way that needs a newer Roam Publish, the extension says so and tells you where to update it, instead of failing with a confusing error.

ImprovedSetup and settings: Fewer settings. Change log, Sync published list, Status link text, Server URL and Reset Roam Publish block settings are gone. The change log is managed from Open dashboard, the Page… and Block… menus already sync, and the status link always reads "Roam Publish Status" (a link with other text gets it the next time you publish that page). Your other choices carry over.

NewSetup and settings: Pasting an API key checks it at once: the extension says which graph it works for, or what's wrong.

ImprovedSetup and settings: Roam Publish block is one setting: Pages, Pages and blocks, Blocks only or Off. It replaces the two switches. Block position reads First or Last.

FixedPublishing: Publishing and syncing no longer fail with "transaction failed: Data returned contains undefined" when a page has no author name saved with it.

NewPublishing: Publish, republish or unpublish a page or block from its right-click menu: Roam Publish: Page… and Roam Publish: Block… say whether it's not published, published and up to date, or changed since you last published it, with buttons for what you can do (Publish, Republish, Make listed / discoverable / unlisted, Unpublish). They check the server for the latest state first.

NewPublishing: Command palette: Publish, Unpublish and status for the current page or the focused block. Publishing the current page publishes the page even when you're zoomed into one of its blocks.

NewPublishing: The public link is copied to your clipboard; publishing again updates the live page, or says nothing changed. Publish always checks with roam.pub, so a page unpublished or removed on the website is published again or says why not.

NewPublishing: Pages use the website's words for where they're listed: Unlisted, Listed and Discoverable. New pages and blocks are published unlisted: only people with the link can see them. Make listed and Make discoverable are right in the toast; Discoverable puts a page on your graph's front page and on Discover.

NewPublishing: When a page can't be Discoverable (for example, it has a password or search engines are off), the status toast says why.

NewPublishing: Making a Discoverable page listed or unlisted asks first, as the website does, so a page isn't taken off Discover by a stray click.

NewPublishing: Unpublish asks first, and says what's deleted on roam.pub with the page (access settings, passwords, views, upvotes, places in collections). Confirm toasts have a Cancel button.

NewPublishing: Unpublish from the command palette checks the page first: one that isn't published, or that another member published, says so instead of asking you to confirm something that can't happen.

NewPublishing: Every Roam Publish toast has a Close button, and toasts stay open while your pointer or keyboard focus is in them.

NewPublishing: Add to collection… on the publish and status toasts puts a page in one of your collections, from a dropdown that says how it starts out in each one (listed, on Discover, password-protected or members only). When the collection is locked and your graph isn't, the page moves out of your graph so its graph link can't get around the lock.

NewPublishing: Make listed says what lists the page. When your graph's front page is turned off, it says nothing lists the page yet, and the status toast says so too.

NewPublishing: Embeds (every one, when a block has several), view types (numbered, document), text alignment and heading levels are sent. Block references are inlined, and references inside code and block-ref aliases are left as written.

NewPublishing: Server moderation messages and reasons are shown when a publish is refused, and the Roam Publish block written for it is taken back out of your page.

NewPublishing: Toast links only open web (http/https) addresses, whatever the server returns. Toasts are announced by screen readers.

NewStatus link and change log: Publishing a page adds a [[Roam Publish]] block with the page's permanent Roam Publish Status link, and roam.pub writes a change log of what happens to the page directly under it (needs an append-only token). The link is for you and your graph's members, not for sharing; the block itself is never published. A status link you paste under an ordinary block leaves out only the link, and is never mistaken for the page's own block.

NewStatus link and change log: Settings: Add Roam Publish block when publishing pages (on) and when publishing blocks (off), Block tag, Status link text (blank for the bare link) and Block position. Changes apply to existing blocks the next time you publish them. Reset Roam Publish block settings restores the defaults, since Roam keeps an extension's settings after it's uninstalled.

NewStatus link and change log: Change log → Open settings opens the graph's change log settings on roam.pub, where its owner can check it works, manage the token, and turn it off or back on. The extension warns once per session if Roam stopped accepting the token.

NewStatus link and change log: While Roam is open, the extension confirms every few minutes that those blocks still exist (uids only), so roam.pub never writes to a deleted block, however many pages you've published.

NewStatus link and change log: Open in a page's status toast goes to its status link when it's published in more than one place (its graph and collections), where you can copy each link and manage each place.

NewSetup and settings: Dashboard opens roam.pub at your API keys until you've added one, then at the dashboard. Paste the key into API key; the extension doesn't read your daily notes.

NewSetup and settings: Author name, shown as the byline where the graph or collection shows authors.

NewSetup and settings: Sync published list refreshes what the extension knows you've published, if a status looks wrong.

NewSetup and settings: The extension tells roam.pub which graph it's in, so an API key from another graph can't publish this graph's pages under the other graph's name. Publishing says which graph the key is for and how to get the right one.

NewSetup and settings: Encrypted graphs are supported. On a shared graph, pages another member published show their status only.

NewSetup and settings: Defaults to the https://roam.pub server (changeable under Server URL, which must use https://, so the key is never sent unencrypted).

NewSetup and settings: Reset Roam Publish block settings asks before replacing your tag, link text and position.

NewSetup and settings: Without an API key, the Page… and Block… menus say to add one, instead of showing an old status with buttons that can't work.

NewDocs: README covers setup, usage, settings and what the extension reads, sends and stores.