As you can see the link contains & amp ; instead if the &.

Same if I replace the ampersand by the related HTML entity

http://www.example.com?test=test&test3=4

which should be the correct way according to Markdown specs.

Is there any chance of getting this fixed in the foreseeable future?

@c_schmitz this is quite complicated and I unfortunately do not have the enough spare time to spend on this.

You can have a look if the problem is addressed by work-in-progress PR https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/pull/1332 but I'm not sure it is because IIRC I was stuck with fixing URLs when I stopped working on that.

there is alternative markdown plugin now: https://github.com/Imatic-IT/imatic-mantis-formatting

@nenadalm, thanks for proposing a plugin.

It relies on the PHP League's CommonMark library, which I actually considered switching to as an alternative to Parsedown, but unfortunately it requires PHP 7.2.5 and MantisBT still has a minimum of 5.5.0 (note that is planned to change, see 0025956) so we can't use it at the moment.

You should therefore advertise that the plugin has higher requirements than Core MantisBT.

I have a related issue: Markdown code blocks show HTML entities instead of the characters. For example:

This should be a less-than sign: <
And a double quote: "

As you can see, instead of displaying the characters it shows the HTML entity, which makes code blocks mostly unusable.

This issue also affects me, we use mantis for dev work and code is unreadable

Any news on this issue? It's been open forever and is really affecting our use of MantisHub

This would indeed still make our lives a little easier if it was fixed.
We're unable to use markdown now.

Yes, I had to switch off the Markdown setting. It is a shame and quite an obstruction.
@atrol @dregad What would it take to fix this for good?

Any news on this? It's really sad that a bug tracking system can't be used to display formatted code.

printf("hello world");

...

What would it take to fix this for good?

More free time for me to spend on Mantis... ;-)

I meant more like paid work. Obviously, your free time is limited and I totally understand that.
So, please let me know how we can get this sorted - feel free to contact me directly by email.

Any feedback?

0022315 is also related to this

Hello Carsten, sorry for the silence. I have a few loose ends I need to tie, and I'm planning to start looking at this next. I'll get back to you.