Release Notes: 0.42

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Release 0.42 -- approximately July 31.

What's New in Release 0.42

• Themes
  • Editor color schemes: Find themes in Extension Manager, and instantly switch between them using View > Themes. Learn how to create a theme.
  • Built-in dark mode: Choose the built-in "Brackets Dark" theme for easy access to a nighttime color palette. Third-party themes can also trigger "dark mode," dimming many parts of the Brackets automatically without needing to style everything manually.
  • Configure font settings: Use View > Themes to set a custom font and font size (the font must be installed in your OS).
• File Types
  • Switch language/syntax mode of a single file: Use the language indicator in the status bar as a dropdown to override the language Brackets chose to treat a file as. (These changes are not saved when you close the file; use preferences to permanently treat all files with a certain extension as a different language).
• Replace in Files
  • Check/uncheck all matches for a file: The headings for each file include a checkbox for quickly including or excluding all matches in the file.
• Extension Management
  • Show supported translations in Extension Manager: Extension listings indicate which languages each extension has been translated for (at bottom).
  • Install extension from local .zip file: Drag a .zip file onto the drop zone in Extension Manager's lower-left corner to install.
• Localization
  • Traditional Chinese translation added
  • Galician translation added
• Preferences
  • New Preference: Hide hints from each provider: For example, setting "codehint.UrlCodeHints": false will hide the hints that appear when you're typing <img src=".... Read more...
• Ongoing Research (not implemented yet)
  • Research: CSS Live Preview new implementation

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Brackets's default appearance should be unchanged, but you can now use themes to customize your color scheme & editor font (see above).

API Changes

Extension descriptions - Extension descriptions beyond 200 characters are now hidden with "..." by default. Users can click to expand and see the full description. The extension's keywords metadata is no longer shown in Extension Manager (but still used when searching/filtering the listing).

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Themes - Themes are a special type of extension that contains a LESS file instead of any JavaScript code. Learn how to create a theme.

Extension localization - Extensions can now indicate which languages they are localized for by including an i18n field in package.json. The supported languages are indicated in Extension Manager below the extension's description.

Known Issues

• Activity Monitor in Mavericks (OS X 10.9) says the Brackets Helper process is "Not Responding" even when it's working normally (#5794). You can safely ignore this unless Brackets is actually failing to respond when you click or type text.
• #2272: Windows Vista may not allow the Brackets installer to run (you may not see any error message). To work around this, right-click the installer file, choose Properties, and click the Unblock button.
• 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 Miguel Castillo for his major effort contributing the Themes functionality
  • Pull requests: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
• Create Traditional Chinese translation by Pei-Tang Huang
• Create Galician translation by Iván Barcia
• Show supported translations of each extension in Extension Manager by Marcel Gerber
• Collapse long extension descriptions by Triangle717
• Fix Live Preview Highlight when Live Preview started on a CSS file by Marcel Gerber
• Don't leave trailing whitespace after auto-indenting a close brace by Andrew MacKenzie
• Fix "sortDirectoriesFirst": true setting with numbered folder names by Tomás Malbrán
• Add background-blend-mode to CSS code hints by coliff
• Add text-rendering to CSS code hints by Steffen Bruchmann
• Add more values to cursor CSS code hints by Amin Ullah Khan
• Hide .sass-cache folder from view by Andrew MacKenzie
• Highlight .bash files as Bash, and .ino files as C++ by Ty-Lucas Kelley
• Highlight .xaml files as XML by Triangle717
• Correct error message when renaming/deleting folder fails by Marcel Gerber
• Themes: Fix tab order in Themes dialog by Marcel Gerber
• Themes: Dark theme fixes by Tomás Malbrán
• Add info to Getting Started docs: What is a project, how to switch projects) by Marcel Gerber
• Cleanup: Remove unused strings by Marcel Gerber
• Themes: Fix menu label string by Triangle717
• Fix missing space in string by Marcel Gerber
• Simplified Chinese translation update by fengdi
• Croatian translation update by Kruno H
• Czech translation update (and) by kvarel
• Dutch translation update by githrdw
• Finnish translation update (and) by valtlait
• German translation update by Marcel Gerber
• Italian translation update (and) by Denisov21
• Korean translation update by Yongmin Hong
• Persian translation update by Mohammad Yaghobi
• Romanian translation update by Micleusanu Nicu
• Russian translation update by Maxim Khlobystov
• Swedish translation update by Mikael Jorhult

Pulling source code from Git

• Rebuilding brackets-shell is not required for this sprint.
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.

Bugs fixed in Release 0.42

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 0.42 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.