Good afternoon folks, We're currently working on an update to BBEdit 14 to add some new features and refinements, and address a few recently reported issues.
Note that this is a _pre-release_ version. The intent is to fix bugs and address areas of improvement based on what our customers have reported. However, since the software is at this point not fully tested, there _may_ be bugs and regressions. If this prospect makes you nervous, then sticking with the public release versions is your best course of action. Nobody will be offended if you choose to do so; you're under no obligation to install and use anything but a public release. :-) Complete change notes to date for all the pre-release builds in this cycle are available here: <https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/14.6_Notes.txt> The change notes are organized into additions, changes, and fixes, and are annotated where appropriate with case numbers. So if you recognize a number corresponding to a support case that was opened for you, you can now verify that it's been fixed correctly. Please take the time to review the changes before using the new build -- it'll be worth your time. One final note: If you run into a bug in a pre-release version, PLEASE DO NOT REPORT THE BUG TO THE LIST. This includes asking about whether others have seen the same problem. Instead, please send a bug report to <[email protected]> and we will deal with it there. This will help us keep the list discussion on topic and productive for all list members. Here is the list of changes made since the 14.5.2 public release: ============================================================================ version 14.6 (14D007) (09-06-2022) Additions --------- * [DOC] The bookmark menu in the FTP/SFTP connection panel gets "Add Bookmark" and "Manage Bookmarks" commands, so you can perform those operations before connecting, if desired. * [DOC] Added settings to the "Editing" preferences to specify alternative characters for Show Invisibles, for tabs and for line breaks. The arrows next to the respective edit fields will open the macOS character panel. There are some restrictions; you can't use letters and numbers, for example. You *should* use punctuation, since that is generally more readable. The factory defaults are "∆" (U+2206, "`INCREMENT`" option-J on US keyboards) for tabs, and "¬" (U+00AC, "`NOT SIGN`", option-L on US keyboards) for line breaks. Changes ------- * The low-level text rendering in BBEdit's editing engine has been reworked to improve performance and OS compatibility (including future macOS releases). This change also brings improvements to Unicode character rendering and application stability, and includes workarounds for longstanding macOS bugs and performance regressions (Radar 34909871, FB5433254, FB7654002, FB9979006, FB10429697, FB9971063) which manifested as a constellation of symptoms, including: * application hangs at startup (usually displaying "waiting for macOS…" in the startup progress panel); * application stalls when coming to the foreground after more than a minute of non-use in the background; * failure to render character glyphs in the editing area, such that windows appeared to be blank; * failure to display ligatures when supported by the font in use; * use of a (system-determined) display font instead of the one specified in the Editor Defaults preferences. * slower than expected application startup time; * Since (with the new text rendering) Unicode "private use area" characters are no longer quite so toxic, the `DisplayPrivateAreaGlyphs` expert preference is now on by default. * Made changes so that Open File by Name doesn't completely tie up the application in cases where building the search cache takes a very long time. In such situations it'll be the same amount of time before you get search results, but the application will remain responsive for other uses in the meantime. * When connected to an SFTP server, symlinks in the browser window's listing will be annotated with the target of the symlink. Fixes ----- * Made changes to reduce the amount of directory rescanning for the directory caching used in Open File by Name and some other places. * Made a change to conserve memory used by marker data and other structures. * Changing a setting in a project's Site Settings panel will clear the deployment state, so that you don't have to remember to use "Re-Deploy Entire Site". * [449991] Fixed bug in which completing a macOS system text replacement (if allowed in the Completion preferences) would not correctly replace any leading word-break characters in the replacement trigger. * Fixed error when opening files via a symlink on an SFTP server. * Improved performance when sorting a very large number of items in the FTP/SFTP browser window listing. * Made a change to multi-file search and Text Factory processing so that files are processed only once in cases where overlapping folders (or projects) are specified as search targets. * [450187] "`:`" is allowed as an identifier character in Unix shell scripts, which fixes function detection when a package-qualified function name follows Google's bash scripting style guide. * [434520] Fixed bug in which auto-pairing would behave strangely in certain cases (usually by advancing the insertion point past the next paired item rather than inserting a pair of the typed character). *fin* The package can be downloaded from our web server: <https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-14.6_14D007.dmg> Enjoy, R. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/85A3746B-084B-4D51-A1B0-2FCB0C592ADA%40barebones.com.
