Jira to Markdown Exporter

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# Jira to Markdown Exporter - v1.0.1 Release Notes

## Release Date
February 11, 2026

## What's New

### 🎯 Enhanced Markdown Table Support
- **Improved HTML-to-Markdown conversion** for Jira table structures
- Properly handles nested `<p>` tags within table cells
- Extracts table content while preserving cell structure
- Tables now render correctly in Markdown preview and external converters

### 💻 Optimized Code Block Formatting
- **Enhanced code block preservation** with proper line breaks and indentation
- Language detection for syntax highlighting in exported Markdown
- Improved handling of inline code elements within text
- Code blocks maintain formatting integrity when converted to Markdown

### 👁️ Improved Live Preview Display
- **Better preview rendering** for Markdown headers (`#`, `##`, `###`)
- Eliminated unnecessary blank lines after headers
- More accurate representation of exported content
- Real-time visual feedback matches final Markdown output

### 🧹 General Improvements
- Better handling of Jira emoji (preserved with text representation)
- Cleaner whitespace management in converted content
- Removed excessive blank lines while maintaining proper Markdown structure
- More robust HTML cleanup process

## Technical Details

**Key Changes:**
- Manual table conversion rules for better Jira HTML compatibility
- Enhanced `<pre>` and `<code>` element processing
- Improved regex-based whitespace cleanup
- Better `<br>` tag handling in table cells and content

## Compatibility
- Chrome/Chromium-based browsers (v90+)
- Jira Cloud instances (atlassian.net domain)
- Works with Manifest V3

## Known Limitations
- Table content in cells with multiple lines displays as space-separated text (not formatted as sub-lines in preview)
- Some complex nested structures may render as plain text

## Future Improvements
- Support for recursive subtask extraction with tab UI
- Enhanced table cell content formatting
- Better syntax highlighting detection for code blocks