[ANN] BBEdit 14.6.8

[Rich Siegel]

Good { morning, afternoon, evening },

We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 
14.6.8. This is a free and recommended update for anyone using BBEdit 14 
(please check your macOS version before updating, macOS 10.15.7 or later is 
required), and includes a number of fixes for reported issues, as well as all 
the new features and refinements previously released as part of the BBEdit 14.x 
upgrade cycle.

A complete digest of the changes is available here:

 

If you're already using BBEdit 14 (outside of the Mac App Store), you can 
choose "Check for Updates" from the BBEdit menu, or get the update from the 
BBEdit updates page:

 

Mac App Store customers of BBEdit will get the update automatically, and if you 
have an active subscription, all of the new advanced features are immediately 
available to you.

For those using an older version: if you would like to upgrade your paid BBEdit 
license, you are welcome to do so, starting here:

 .

If you purchased a BBEdit 13 license directly from us (or using our FastSpring 
web store) on or after January 1, 2021, you have been sent a free license 
upgrade, to the email address you used when purchasing. If you did not receive 
this, please check your spam traps.

Meanwhile, BBEdit offers a 30-day evaluation period. During that period, all of 
BBEdit’s features are available. When it ends, you can still use BBEdit — with 
no nag screens or unsolicited interruptions, for free, forever.

After the evaluation period, you may re-enable all of BBEdit’s exclusive 
features at any time by purchasing a license (at a discount, if you have a paid 
license for a previous version).

 

Enjoy,

R.

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[ANN] BBEdit 14.6.8 (14D93) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon folks,

We're currently working on a maintenance update to BBEdit 14 to 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:

  

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  
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 previous 14.6.8 pre-release build:



version 14.6.8 (14D93)  (2023-10-10)

Additions
-

o   (none in this build)

Changes
---

o   (none in this build)

Fixes
-

*   [470216] Restore the pre-14.6 behavior of unconditionally
displaying `U+00AD (SOFT HYPHEN)` characters. While not
technically correct, it's (at the moment) better than the
alternatives currently available.

*   Added default settings to work around the failure of `ruby-lsp`
and `deno` language servers to quit correctly when asked.

*   [470576] Fixed bug in which some project-specific commands were
inappropriately added to the contextual menu for instaprojects.

*   [470563] Fixed bug in which trying to create a new note from the
selection in a text document would report a -50 error if the
default notebook didn't exist (or was in use by another
computer).

*   [470736] Worked around macOS 14 bug (FB13224680) which caused
tick marks to be drawn in the wrong place in scrollbars.

*   Made changes to work around FB13219490, a regression in macOS 14
which adversely affects application performance by incorrectly
reporting which areas of a document window need redrawing.

*   [471167] Fixed bug in which the last item in the Grep cheat
sheet was present in the Find window, but absent everywhere else
(such as the Pattern Playground window).

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:



Enjoy,

R.

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[ANN] BBEdit 14.6.8 (14D87) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon folks,

We're currently working on a maintenance update to BBEdit 14 to 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:

  

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  
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 14.6.7 public release:



version 14.6.8 (14D87)  (2023-09-20)

Additions
-

o   (none in this build)

Changes
---

o   (none in this build)

Fixes
-

*   Fixed a bug in which using "Preview in BBEdit" on a document
which didn't support syntax coloring (such as "Text File" or
"(none)") would generate an empty preview.

*   [464282] Fixed bug in which backspacing over certain zero-width
characters which were displayed as gremlins would not work
correctly, when "Show Invisibles" was turned off.

*   [469384] For SSH connections, suppress any `LocalCommand` config
directives, which will cause a login failure because sftp does
not like things on standard output which are not protocol data.

*   [468514] Changed "a warning" to "an error" at an important point
in the `bbresults(1)` man page.

*   [468613] Fixed bug in which the "Forget Item" button in the
alert presented for a missing item chosen from the "Open Recent"
menu would not always forget. ("Pepperidge Farm remembers...")

*   [470054, 470115] Fixed bug in which a couple of Search menu
commands would behave strangely when applied to an editing window
that was in full-screen mode with the Find window in front of it
(but without focus, due to having clicked in the editing window).

*   Worked around a regression in macOS 14 which prevented the About
window credits from displaying until the mouse passed over the
text area.

*   [470216] Unicode "soft hyphens" do not ordinarily display, but
if you turn on "Show Invisibles", BBEdit will present them using
an em-dash in the all-purpose invisibles color.

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:



Enjoy,

R.

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