Quarto 1.4 Pre-Release

Published

January 5, 2026

Quarto 1.4 includes the following new features:

Quarto Manuscripts—A new project type for scholarly articles, where notebooks are both the source of the article, and part of the published record.
Quarto Dashboards–A new format for creating interactive dashboards.
Typst Format—Support for the typst output format. Typst is a new open-source markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.
Cross-reference changes:
- Adds a new Cross-Reference Div Syntax to more flexibly define cross-referenceable elements.
- Allows the definition of Custom Cross-Reference Types via document or project YAML.
- Adds lst-label and lst-cap code cell options to create Cross-referenceable Listings for Executable Code.
- Allows Cross-Referencing Callouts.
- Adds the prefixes rem- and sol- to cross-reference Remarks and Solutions in addition to the existing theorem types.
- Makes other behind the scenes changes.
Shiny for Python—Support for using Shiny for Python within Quarto documents.
Inline Execution for Jupyter—Support for executing inline expressions when using Jupyter kernels.
Script Rendering
- Jupyter—Support for rendering script files (e.g. .py, .jl, or .r) that are specially formatted as notebooks.
- Knitr—Support for rendering R script files (e.g. .r or .R) that are formatted for report using knitr::spin() syntax.
Easy Binder Configuration for Quarto Projects—Support for generating files required to deploy a Quarto project using Binder.
Connect Email Generation—Extends the html output format so that HTML/text emails can be created and selectively delivered through Posit Connect.
Publish to Posit Cloud—Adds posit-cloud as a venue for quarto publish.
Lightbox Treatment for Images and Figures—Support for zooming into images and figures using a lightbox. Includes support for grouping multiple images into a gallery.
Lua changes—Quarto v1.4 adds new features to writers of Lua filters.
AST processing changes—Quarto v1.4 improves on the HTML table processing added in v1.3 and adds a way for LaTeX raw blocks to include Quarto-compatible markdown for processing.

See the Pre-Release Download Page for a complete list of all the changes and bug fixes.