Release Notes: 1.3

This is a draft!

This page will not be finalized until the end of Release 1.3 -- approximately April 23.

What's New in Release 1.3

• Code Editing
  • Expand/collapse blocks of code (aka code folding): Click the indicators next to the line numbers, or use the shortcuts in the View menu.
• Brackets Health Report
  • Anonymous data to help improve Brackets: You can preview the data that will be sent, and opt-out if desired. We've gone to great lengths to protect your privacy and maintain transparency about what data is sent - please read our blog post for details.
• Search
  • Quick Open: many small bug fixes
• Command Line Integration
  • Launch Brackets from command line: On Windows & Mac, you can open files and folders in Brackets by typing brackets myFile.txt or brackets myFolder on the command line. On Windows, you can also launch Brackets from Run Command or open a file or a folder right from the explorer just by choosing "Open With Brackets" from it's context menu.
• Localization
  • Translation updates for: (TODO - updated locales in alphabetical order)

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Quick Open - The first item is automatically highlighted, making it more clear that you can press Enter immediately to jump to the top item (Down arrow not required). Pressing the Down arrow once highlights the 2nd item in the result (previously required two presses). Quick Find Definition no longer changes the scroll position before you start typing.

Command Line Tool (Mac only) - The new menu, accessible from Debug->Add Brackets Command Line menu, installs command line tool at /usr/local/bin required for launching Brackets from command line. This menu entry is present only on MAC.

API Changes

TODO

Themes - Themes should include appropriate color styles for the new code folding UI: .CodeMirror-foldgutter-open:after, .CodeMirror-foldgutter-folded:after, .CodeMirror.over-gutter .CodeMirror-foldgutter-open:after, .CodeMirror-activeline .CodeMirror-foldgutter-open:after, and .CodeMirror-foldmarker. All these elements appear overlaid on top of the theme's editor (or editor gutter) background color.

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

TODO

Known Issues

• Debug > Run Tests is disabled in the installer/DMG distributions of Brackets, because the unit test code is not included. To run unit tests, pull Brackets from GitHub instead.

Community contributions to Brackets

• Special thanks to Patrick Oladimeji for his major effort contributing the code folding feature.

TODO

• integration of code-folding extension into brackets by Patrick Oladimeji
• Use CMs electric chars by Marcel Gerber
• Use cm.findWordAt() in selectWordAt() by Marcel Gerber
• Disable Spell Checking by Marcel Gerber
• Render file tree without a delay on scroll to fix selection extension issues by Marcel Gerber
• Exclude more unneeded files in dist builds by Marcel Gerber
• Change 'split selection into lines' shortcut on Linux by Projjol
• Add @sourceFontFamily LESS variable and use instead of SourceCodePro font-family by David Humphrey
• Remove some circular dependencies by Triangle717
• FR typo fix by pantkowiak
• Fix #10229. Add executable bit to Linux launcher. by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• [#10228] Cmd+Delete now triggers Don't Save in Save Changes dialog by lucaslouca
• Fix Korean translation of split-view menu items by mixed
• Update README.md by coliff
• Update README.md by coliff
• #10574 Adjust file tree click behavior, don't collapse parent folder by mellolikejello
• Fixed Bug #10632 by PlanetVaster
• Don't cut off parts of the new name when renaming by Marcel Gerber
• Don't wrap file names in working set by Marcel Gerber
• [#10166] Highlight 'text/ng-template' (Angular) in script tags as HTML by munxtwo
• Make LiveDevMultiBrowser's Launcher instance configurable via public set Launcher() method by David Humphrey
• std::auto_ptr will leak for array, using std::vector instead. by edwin0cheng
• Update strings.js for HR(croatian) by Kruno H
• Increase timeout for deleting temp directory by mdewangan
• Add pt-br translate (update) by Henrique Aparecido Lavezzo
• Indonesian translation updates by Resi Respati
• Brackets logo is now perfectly centered in all translations by Pavel Dvořák
• Brackets logo is now perfectly centered by electricduck
• Extended {APP_NAME} in root/strings.js by Pavel Dvořák
• Updated Indonesian translation for Getting Started page by Resi Respati
• Wordsmithing on Health Data strings by Marcel Gerber
• Making External changes Dialog Box clearer by rroshan1

Pulling source code from Git

TODO: any brackets-shell updates? which of the below messages are applicable?

• A new brackets-shell build is required for this sprint. Be sure to rerun grunt setup before building.
• Recommended: rebuild or reinstall an updated brackets-shell (no critical updates, but there are bugfixes).
• Rebuilding/updating brackets-shell is optional for this release.
• Rebuilding/updating brackets-shell is not required for this release.
• brackets-shell's Node dependencies have changed. Run npm install before rebuilding brackets-shell.
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.
• A submodule URL was changed this sprint. Run git submodule sync and then git submodule update --init --recursive to ensure your local source tree reflects the update.

Bugs fixed in Release 1.3

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 1.3 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.