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2.2.2Go-Babel/babel_text ↗New releases in your daily digest, changelog included.

A easy and highly customizable "Text" and "SelectableText" component. Change dynamically styles, add intuitively onTap functions in texts, easily display tooltip messages and more!

Last release 1 months ago
16 Aug 2026
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 4 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 10 of 10 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
1 years old
10 releases · first in 2025

Release timeline

10 releases since 2025

20252026

One column per month.

Releases

2.2.216 Aug 2026
Fixed the vertical alignment of text wrapped with hover tooltips by preserving the surrounding alphabetic baseline.
Fixed the vertical alignment of text wrapped with hover tooltips by preserving the surrounding alphabetic baseline.

Added a regression test for tooltip-enabled inline text alignment.
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2.2.118 Mar 2026
Added BabelTextSettings.defaultTooltipWaitDuration(...) to configure a package-wide default hover delay before tooltips appear.
Added BabelTextSettings.defaultTooltipWaitDuration(...) to configure a package-wide default hover delay before tooltips appear.

Allowed BabelTooltipMessage.tooltipTheme.waitDuration to override the package-wide default for a single tooltip.

Updated the README to document tooltip hover delay configuration and precedence.
Open source →

Added per-tooltip TooltipThemeData overrides through BabelTooltipMessage.tooltipTheme.
Added BabelTooltipMessage.contentTextStyle to control the rich text style rendered inside a tooltip.
Added global tooltip text style configuration with BabelTextSettings.defaultTooltipTextStyleSource.
Added BabelTooltipTextStyleSource so tooltips can use Flutter's tooltip styling or the legacy trigger text styling.
Added tests covering tooltip styling behavior for both BabelText and BabelSelectableText.
Warning: tooltip text styling now defaults to Flutter's tooltip theme/default behavior. To keep the previous behavior, switch to BabelTooltipTextStyleSource.triggerTextStyle.

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2.1.218 Mar 2026

Fixed onTapMapping parsing for symbols that contain regex-special characters.

Fixed onTapMapping parsing for symbols that contain regex-special characters.
Fixed combined styleMapping and onTapMapping usage when both share the same marker.
Added interaction tests covering complex rich-text tap scenarios for BabelText and BabelSelectableText.

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2.1.029 Sept 2025

NEW: Added BabelSelectableText widget - a selectable text equivalent of BabelText with all the same customization features

NEW: Added BabelSelectableText widget - a selectable text equivalent of BabelText with all the same customization features
NEW: Added BabelSelectableInline widget - a widget that creates selectable inline text with babel formatting
Support for text selection, copying, and all SelectableText-specific parameters (cursorColor, selectionControls, onSelectionChanged, etc.)
Full compatibility with existing babel text features (styleMapping, onTapMapping, innerWidgetMapping, onHoverTooltipMapping)

Open source →

2.0.06 Jun 2025Breaking

BREAKING CHANGE: Changed innerWidgetMapping and defaultWidgetMapping to use BabelWidget Function(BuildContext context, TextStyle currentStyle) instead…

BREAKING CHANGE: Changed innerWidgetMapping and defaultWidgetMapping to use BabelWidget Function(BuildContext context, TextStyle currentStyle) instead of Widget Function(BuildContext context, TextStyle currentStyle). This allows for more control over widget alignment and baseline through the BabelWidget class.

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