We are happy to announce the Beta release of our brand new Markdown editor, which brings the following fixes and improvements:

• Faster performance and beautiful new design
• Real-time syntax highlighting
• Advanced text editing tools
• Support for the extended GitHub flavored Markdown specification
• Support for Markdown tables
• Ability to embed social media elements
• Ability to render safe HTML elements
• Ability to use the editor in full-screen "Zen" mode with live preview

To try it out, please update your content type to use the “New Markdown editor” field appearance on long-text fields. You can freely switch back and forth between the old and the new Markdown editor.