Fixes and improvements

We’ve released many new features recently, but we’ve also made minor enhancements and bug fixes to improve your Stately experience.

Bug fixes

The fork machine button is now hidden for empty projects.
The generate flow button is now shown on empty projects or read-only machines.

Improvements to descriptions and annotations

Descriptions and annotations have had an upgrade. You can now add a description to states and events from the edit menu edit (right-click on the state or event) and edit descriptions by double-clicking them.

We also made the following improvements to both descriptions and annotations:

URLs will be detected as links automatically.
Paste a URL onto selected text to turn it into a link.
Add task lists by using
[ ]
at the beginning of each line.
Add code fences using triple backticks.

Improvements

Action blocks are now multiline and show more information about the action.
Assign actions now show the keys and values that are being assigned.
Send to actions now show the event object when you hover over the event.
You can now drag an event or state when holding down on an image inside the description.
Extra parentheses are no longer added around XState V4 exported code. And it's now less sensitive toward whitespaces.
Assign actions now have a better color in light mode.
Auto-layout is now allowed when previewing machine versions.
You will now be redirected to your projects if you try to open an empty project you can't edit.
Users on the community plan can now see the Pro lock machine features and learn about them.
A medley of internal fixes and improvements.