# Mermaid 12 Support for Bear

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/mermaid-12-support-for-bear/19930>\
**Category:** Bear feedback\
**Created:** [October 2, 2026, 6:46am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/mermaid-12-support-for-bear/19930 "2026-10-02T06:46:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BrendanThompson](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/brendanthompson/32/4364_2.png) [@BrendanThompson](https://community.bear.app/u/BrendanThompson)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 6:46am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/mermaid-12-support-for-bear/19930/1 "2026-10-02T06:46:22Z")

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Hey Team,

The MermaidJS team released v12 a few weeks ago. Is this something that you’ll be bringing into Bear? A highlight of the release is change of the layout engine to be ELK. Gives significantly nicer diagrams. As well as a new default theme.

As far as I’ve been able to determine with the current implementation we can’t set either themes or layout engines.

> **[98a0945 - Releases · mermaid-js/mermaid](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/releases#release-mermaid%4012.0.0)**
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> Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown - mermaid-js/mermaid

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**Author:** ![rexikan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/rexikan/32/4117_2.png) [@rexikan](https://community.bear.app/u/rexikan)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/mermaid-12-support-for-bear/19930/2 "2026-10-02T06:58:19Z")

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Thanks for nudge. It is not a top priority, but I will add it to the list.

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**Author:** ![BrendanThompson](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/brendanthompson/32/4364_2.png) [@BrendanThompson](https://community.bear.app/u/BrendanThompson)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 7:41am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/mermaid-12-support-for-bear/19930/3 "2026-10-02T07:41:35Z")

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Hopefully the change is pretty easy to implement. Has a significantly better layout mechanism now!

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**Author:** ![JTMG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@JTMG](https://community.bear.app/u/JTMG)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/mermaid-12-support-for-bear/19930/4 "2026-10-05T09:58:36Z")

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second that! ELK as the new engine make everything so nice 🙂