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The bug

Editing "Version 2" in the suggestion gallery's versioning mode silently stopped updating the Diff pane whenever the rendered diff contained a moved block — broken since the versioning mode shipped, and invisible because the failure was swallowed (see "Observability" below).

Root cause: removeAndInsertBlocks re-resolved target ids via getNodeId(node, tr.doc) while deleting. A suggested-deletion copy's id is positional (middle-1 = "the deletion-marked node with 1 same-id node before it"), so deleting the live block shifted the copy's index mid-walk and ids captured from editor.document no longer matched (Blocks with the following IDs could not be found: middle-1). This fired on every preview re-entry (clearDocumentForConfigureremoveBlocks(editor.document)) — no user editing required.

Fixes

  • removeAndInsertBlocks resolves ids against the doc the ids came from (the pre-removal snapshot). Unit test + e2e coverage: the versioning e2e now re-enters the preview after a follow-up edit for every scenario — the exact operation that broke (red before the fix on both move scenarios, all 3 browsers).
  • Change tracking (getBlocksChangedByTransaction) excludes suggested-deletion subtrees from its snapshots: they duplicate a live block's id and are positional render artifacts, so diffing them across before/after docs emitted phantom delete+insert pairs for untouched copies.
  • PDF exporter React keys: styled-text runs were keyed by their text and block fragments by block.id — same-text/empty runs and empty ids aliased siblings to one key. Positional keys are correct here (single-pass transform). Found by the new console guard.

Known limitation, documented instead of fixed

The editor's blockCache (keyed by node object) can serve stale/aliased ids for suggested-deletion blocks — only reachable while editing suggestion-mode docs, which is experimental and whose fake-id scheme is slated for rework. A NOTE at the cache and two it.fails tests pin the contract that rework must satisfy.

Observability (why this stayed invisible for two months)

The gallery re-rendered the diff synchronously inside the Yjs update observer — i.e. inside the typing editor's transaction commit — so the throw unwound into that editor's y-prosemirror last-resort catch and became a console.warn, misattributed and invisible to tests. Three layers address the class:

  • @y/prosemirror 2.0.0-7 ships an onInternalError hook (upstreamed via feat: onInternalError option to observe recovered sync errors yjs/y-prosemirror#273); the pnpm patch shrinks to: threading the option through syncPlugin, the pre-existing type/export fixes, and the ported drop-invalid-nodes hunks (Handle invalid schemas due to concurrent changes yjs/y-prosemirror#258) that 2.0.0-7 doesn't include.
  • onYSyncInternalError (new, @blocknote/core/y): module-scoped observer registry fed by that hook, so harnesses can watch every editor.
  • e2e console guard (vitestSetup.browser.ts): any test now fails on console.error, on known swallowed-error warn patterns, or on an observed internal error (with the original stack). Validated by forcing applyDelta to throw in a mounted editor.
  • The gallery (and the comments thread store, which had the same shape: whole-doc mark updates inside observeDeep) now defer their heavy work out of the observer chain via coalesced microtasks — failures surface as real uncaught errors and CRDT forwarding is never interrupted.

Validation

  • Core unit suite fully green (748 passed; 2 it.fails documenting the blockCache limitation).
  • Full y-prosemirror e2e folder: 128 passed, identical to pre-change baseline; versioning suite green on chromium/webkit/firefox.
  • Failure-mode check: with the fix temporarily reverted, the gallery now surfaces the original error loudly (uncaught, correct stack) instead of a silent stale pane.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved collaboration versioning with more reliable block identification and accurate change tracking.
    • Fixed large-diff scenarios that could crash during block insertion or deletion.
    • Prevented rendering artifacts from appearing as duplicate changes.
    • Improved PDF exports by preventing duplicate element-key issues.
  • New Features

    • Added a way to observe recovered synchronization errors.
    • Deferred and coalesced collaboration updates for smoother rendering and safer cleanup.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for version previews, follow-up edits, block changes, and synchronization errors.

removeAndInsertBlocks re-resolved ids via getNodeId(node, tr.doc) while
deleting, but a suggested-deletion copy's id is positional — deleting the
live block shifted the copy's index mid-walk, so ids captured from
editor.document no longer matched ("Blocks with the following IDs could not
be found: middle-1"). This silently broke re-entering a versioning diff
preview whose rendered doc contained a moved block (the gallery's Diff pane
stopped updating). Resolve against the doc the ids came from instead.

The versioning e2e now re-enters the preview after a follow-up edit for
every scenario — the exact operation that failed.
Deleted copies rendered by suggestion / version-diff mode duplicate a live
block's id and are only disambiguated positionally, so diffing them across
the before/after docs misreported unchanged copies as delete+insert pairs
whenever their position shifted. They are rendering artifacts, not document
blocks — skip their subtrees in the snapshots.
The cache is keyed by node object, but a deletion-marked node's positional
id can change while the node object stays identical — so cache hits can
serve stale or aliased ids. Accepted for now (suggestion rendering is
experimental and the fake-id scheme is slated for rework); the it.fails
tests pin the behavior that rework must satisfy.
Styled-text runs were keyed by their text (two same-text or empty runs
collided) and block fragments by block id (documents built outside the
editor can leave ids empty, aliasing every sibling to the key "").
The transform builds the tree in a single pass, so positional keys are
correct. Found by the new e2e console guard via React's duplicate-key
error during PDF export.
2.0.0-7 ships the onInternalError debugging hook natively (upstreamed via
yjs/y-prosemirror#273), so the patch no longer needs to modify the sync
catch. The 2.0.0-7 patch carries: threading onInternalError through
syncPlugin (upstream only wires it on YSyncRdt), the sync-utils/index
export-list and pauseSync type fixes, and the ported drop-invalid-nodes
hunks (yjs/y-prosemirror#258) that 2.0.0-7 does not include upstream.
When the Y-side apply throws mid-sync, y-prosemirror reverts the
unappliable part and logs a console warning — the editor keeps working but
the cause is easy to miss (this hid a broken versioning re-render for two
months). Feed syncPlugin's onInternalError into a module-scoped observer
registry (onYSyncInternalError) so diagnostics harnesses can observe every
editor without threading an option through each construction.
…hain

observeDeep fires inside the transaction that changed the threads, and the
comments extension's subscriber walks the whole doc and dispatches mark
updates — running that synchronously inside the commit misattributes
subscriber failures to the sync machinery and blocks the committing
transaction on getThreads(). A coalesced microtask defers it.
Some dependencies deliberately reduce hard failures to console output —
most importantly y-prosemirror's last-resort sync catch, which is exactly
how the versioning re-render bug stayed invisible. Fail any test that
produces a console.error (allowlist-able), a console.warn matching known
swallowed-error patterns, or an internal error observed via
onYSyncInternalError (which carries the original stack).
…chain

Rendering the Diff synchronously inside the afterDoc update handler ran
enterPreview within the typing editor's Y transaction commit — a failure
there was swallowed by that editor's sync catch and interrupted the
remaining observers mid-forward. A coalesced microtask lets the CRDT
forwarding complete untouched and makes a render failure surface as a real
uncaught error.
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The PR updates @y/prosemirror to 2.0.0-7, fixes suggested-deletion block handling, defers collaboration callbacks, improves internal-error reporting, updates versioning scenarios, strengthens browser test diagnostics, and prevents duplicate PDF element keys.

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Yjs versioning and synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
y-prosemirror 2.0.0-7 integration
patches/@y__prosemirror@2.0.0-7.patch, pnpm-workspace.yaml, packages/core/package.json, examples/.../package.json
Workspace and example packages use @y/prosemirror 2.0.0-7. The patch adds internal-error forwarding and nullable node conversion.
Suggested-deletion block handling
packages/core/src/api/blockManipulation/..., packages/core/src/api/getBlocksChangedByTransaction.*, packages/core/src/api/nodeConversions/...
Snapshot collection excludes suggested-deletion subtrees. Block removal uses a stable document snapshot. Regression and expected-failure tests cover duplicate IDs.
Deferred collaboration callbacks
examples/07-collaboration/14-suggestion-gallery/src/App.tsx, packages/core/src/y/comments/YjsThreadStoreBase.ts, packages/core/src/y/extensions/YSync.ts
Rendering and thread callbacks use coalesced microtasks. Cleanup prevents callbacks after disposal. YSync exposes recovered internal errors.
Versioning scenarios and test diagnostics
examples/07-collaboration/14-suggestion-gallery/src/scenarios.ts, tests/src/end-to-end/y-prosemirror/versioning.test.tsx, tests/vitestSetup.browser.ts
Large-diff fixtures receive block IDs. Versioning tests perform follow-up edits and preview re-entry. Browser tests capture disallowed console output and YSync errors.

PDF export key generation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unique PDF element keys
packages/xl-pdf-exporter/src/pdf/pdfExporter.tsx
Styled text and PDF fragments use counters or positions instead of repeated text or block IDs.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 29049

Editing suggestion-mode documents may still produce stale or duplicate block IDs, which can affect block-based operations in that experimental mode; the limitation is documented and requires explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant VersioningTest
  participant YDoc
  participant PreviewRenderer
  User->>VersioningTest: Apply follow-up edit
  VersioningTest->>YDoc: Wait for and merge update
  VersioningTest->>PreviewRenderer: Re-enter version preview
  PreviewRenderer-->>VersioningTest: Render updated diff
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The shared testDocument is a snapshot fixture whose blocks deliberately
carry empty-string ids (real ids would be minted at module load and make
exporter snapshots non-deterministic). Empty ids violate the editor's id
contract — getNodeId throws on them — which crashed the large-diff
scenarios' apply calls ("Node blockContainer does not have an ID"), the
last known versioning crasher. Follow the conversion-test convention and
assign ids consumer-side via addIdsToBlocks, on a clone so the shared
fixture stays untouched.

The large-diff-delete-all scenario passes the versioning e2e now, so the
VERSIONING_CRASHES skip is gone: all 66 scenarios run, none skipped.
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# Conflicts:
#	packages/core/src/api/getBlocksChangedByTransaction.test.ts
#	packages/core/src/api/getBlocksChangedByTransaction.ts
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// Deferred out of the Yjs observer chain: `observeDeep` fires inside the
// transaction that changed the threads (a local comment edit, or a remote
// update mid-apply on the provider's chain). Subscribers do real work —
// the comments extension walks the whole doc and dispatches mark updates —
// and running that synchronously inside the commit means a subscriber
// failure unwinds into the sync machinery and gets misattributed there
// (see the suggestion gallery's deferred `renderDiff` for the same
// pattern). The microtask also coalesces observer bursts into a single
// callback and moves the `getThreads()` materialization out of the
// committing transaction.

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was this observed or speculative?

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It was observed in the gallery (see the other comment thread).

Question is whether we want to guard this handler as well (and if so, how).

Errors in this.getThreads() would currently not surface, (or just as a console.warn)

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setup.afterDoc.on("update", scheduleRenderDiff);

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If we really do need this (which I do question design-wise if we should), then we should at least extract this to a separate utility that is a thunk, taking in the callback to execute, and returns a function which will defer the execution of that function until the next microtask.

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I do think it's an issue that the error of 1 editor breaks the other (because the error is triggered in the listener).

I'd say we either need:

  • a try / catch around the handler, and log + rethrow errors there manually (and / or call reportError?)
  • the current solution (a microtask to decouple them)
  • have this handled at y-prosemirror level

Without any of these, we don't notice the error, but just get broken behavior (a stale diff editor that's not updated anymore).

fyi, The way to reproduce this issue is shown in the video at Move paragraph up in this doc

Preferred solution?

Missed alongside the xl-pdf-exporter key change — math-block's own pdf
snapshot embeds the fragment keys, which are positional now.
'ResizeObserver loop completed with undelivered notifications' is a
benign, browser-generated layout notice (a frame's observations were
superseded before delivery). It fires under CI load — WebKit and Firefox
especially — and vitest surfaces it as a console error, which the guard
then treated as a swallowed failure.
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In `@packages/core/src/api/nodeConversions/nodeToBlock.ts`:
- Around line 409-414: Update nodeToBlock’s cache handling to bypass both cache
reads and writes whenever isSuggestedDeletionNode(node) is true, ensuring
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