diff --git a/lib/web/note/util.js b/lib/web/note/util.js
index 556460958..6842eebcf 100644
--- a/lib/web/note/util.js
+++ b/lib/web/note/util.js
@@ -90,8 +90,13 @@ exports.newNote = async function (req, res, body) {
 exports.getPublishData = function (req, res, note, callback) {
   const body = note.content
   const extracted = models.Note.extractMeta(body)
-  const markdown = extracted.markdown
+  let markdown = extracted.markdown
   const meta = models.Note.parseMeta(extracted.meta)
+  // extractMeta() will remove the meta part from markdown,
+  // so we need to re-add the `breaks` option for proper rendering
+  if (typeof extracted.meta.breaks === 'boolean') {
+    markdown = '---\nbreaks: ' + extracted.meta.breaks + '\n---\n' + markdown
+  }
   const createtime = note.createdAt
   const updatetime = note.lastchangeAt
   let title = models.Note.decodeTitle(note.title)
diff --git a/public/docs/release-notes.md b/public/docs/release-notes.md
index baea12718..68b214e47 100644
--- a/public/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/public/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 ### Bugfixes
 - Fix a crash when using LDAP authentication with custom search attributes (thanks to [@aboettger-tuhh](https://github.com/aboettger-tuhh) for reporting)
 - Fix crash caused by a long note history when the MySQL database is used
+- Fix `breaks` option not being respected in the publish-view
 
 ## <i class="fa fa-tag"></i> 1.9.4 <i class="fa fa-calendar-o"></i> 2022-07-10