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KaTeX · Version history

KaTeX changelog and version history

Latest version
2.2.5
Jul 21, 2025 (1 year ago)
Releases
18
since 2018
In the last year
0
Tested up to
WordPress 6.8.12
PHP 5.3 or later

Releases each year

  • 20181 release
  • 20195 releases
  • 20205 releases
  • 20214 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20252 releases

20252 releases

  1. KaTeX 2.2.5Latest

    • As per WordPress’s guidelines, remove the ability to fetch KaTeX resources through jsDelivr’s CDN.
    • Various internal improvements based on WordPress’s Plugin Check.

  2. KaTeX 2.2.4

    • Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.16.22.

20231 release

  1. KaTeX 2.2.3

    • More robustly render shortcodes (even more robustly than 2.2.2).

20214 releases

  1. KaTeX 2.2.2

    • More robustly render shortcodes.
    • Fix undefined variable notice.

  2. KaTeX 2.2.1

    • Trigger rendering of KaTeX in more cases when the DOM is mutated (in 2.2.0, accidentally only a limited set of cases was checked).

  3. KaTeX 2.2.0

    • Trigger rendering of KaTeX when the DOM is mutated by inserting a .katex-eq node. This allows rendering KaTeX markup that is not present when the page is loaded.
    • Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.13.13.

  4. KaTeX 2.1.2

    • Always load JavaScript and CSS assets by default. An option is introduced to switch to the old behavior of loading only when KaTeX is used on the page.
    • Make it easier for other code to manually trigger rendering of KaTeX.
    • Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.13.0.

20205 releases

  1. KaTeX 2.1.1

    • Remove <br> tags added by WordPress to shortcode output.

  2. KaTeX 2.1.0

    • Prevent WordPress from texturizing KaTeX (prior to this change, WordPress would sometimes change e.g. apostrophes to quotation marks).
    • Fix issue where custom class names on the KaTeX block sometimes broke editor rendering.
    • Add some keywords to allow searching for the KaTeX block in the editor’s block list.
    • Update KaTeX resources to v0.12.0.

  3. KaTeX 2.0.2

    • Fix block editor variable scoping.

  4. KaTeX 2.0.1

    • Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.11.1.

  5. KaTeX 2.0.0

    • Support adding CSS classes to KaTeX Gutenberg Blocks to help with styling. Backwards compatibility note: KaTeX Gutenberg Blocks are now rendered wrapped in a div element on which classes wp-block-katex-display-block and katex-eq are set. You can add more classes to this div through WordPress’s post…

20195 releases

  1. KaTeX 1.0.5

    • Fix 1.0.4 release issue: KaTeX resources were not committed correctly.

  2. KaTeX 1.0.4

    • Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.10.2.

  3. KaTeX 1.0.3

    • Fix warnings related to plugin options that occurred on PHP 5.
    • Clean up the plugin’s options on plugin deletion.

  4. KaTeX 1.0.2

    • Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.10.1.

  5. KaTeX 1.0.1

    • Fix issue where KaTeX resources would not be loaded on the admin pages.

20181 release

  1. KaTeX 1.0.0

    • Initial release.

Questions about KaTeX’s releases

What is the latest version of KaTeX?

2.2.5, released on Jul 21, 2025 (1 year ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.8.12 and needs PHP 5.3 or later.

How often is KaTeX updated?

It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 1 year ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2018.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in KaTeX’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.