Release Notes: Sprint 34

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Sprint 34 -- approximately November 19.

What's New in Sprint 34

• Installation
  • Automatically replace older versions: The Brackets installer on Windows now automatically overwrites previous versions, with no need to manually uninstall them. On all platforms, the app name no longer contains the sprint number. If you have manually assigned Brackets to any file associations, they will no longer need to be reassigned for each new build. (Note: these changes will not be evident until the first update, i.e. next sprint - Sprint 35).
• Overall UI
  • Dark themed window chrome on Mac: Similar to the update on Windows in Sprint 31.
  • Notable bug fixed in Win dark-themed window chrome
• Image Preview
  • Pixel coordinates guide: When viewing an image file, a crosshair and tooltip indicate the pixel coordinates of your mouse cursor.
• Code Hints
  • Improved JavaScript code hints accuracy: More code hints provided for APIs in medium-sized files (500-2000 lines) and in cases where a module's exports have recently been updated.
• Files & Folders
  • Linux: Support for SSHFS and REISERFS file systems: Resolves issue where Brackets treated project as an empty folder
  • Mac: Any file can now be opened via drag/drop, regardless of file extension: Previously only certain file types were accepted.
• Extensions
  • Extension Manager indicates when updates are available via an icon overlaid on the "Installed" tab
• Under the hood
  • New file system API: Some API changes for extensions -- see below. Slightly improves performance of some features, like Find in Files (larger improvements to come later!).
• Localization
  • New translations added: Persian-Farsi, Dutch and Romanian
  • Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Dark-themed window chrome on Mac - the Mac shell now has a dark window chrome that visually complements the Brackets UI. (The Windows shell received a similar update in Sprint 31).

Installation - see above. Starting next sprint, newer versions of Brackets will overwrite previously installed versions.

You can preserve an already installed version of Brackets to keep multiple versions of Brackets on your system at once. Simply copy it to a different location before installing the new release. For example, on Mac, from the Application folder, just rename Brackets.app to Brackets Sprint 34.app, and then install the new release from the .dmg. On Windows, copy the \Program Files (x86)\Bracks folder Brackets Sprint 34, and then install the new release from the .msi. File associations will remain with the newer version that overwrites the original location.

Extensions - the Extension Manager 'Available' and 'Installed' tabs have switched places.

Search - Find in Files and Quick Open now include files you have opened that lie outside the root folder of your project.

API Changes

File APIs - TODO also, the already-deprecated FileUtils.getFilenameExtension() was removed

Closing Files - TODO: mention Commands.FILE_CLOSE_LIST once API cleaned up

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Quick Open - TODO: extensions can specify a label

Documents - TODO: new, faster getDocumentText() API

Known Issues

• Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) by default will not allow Brackets to run since it's not digitally signed yet. To work around this, right click the Brackets app and choose Open. You only need to do that once -- afterward, launching Brackets the normal way will work also.
• #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.
• #4362: Slow startup of Brackets and Live Preview on Windows due to Chrome proxy settings. See workaround.
• 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

• Add Romanian translation (and) by Micleusanu Nicu
• Add Persian-Farsi translation (and) by Mohammad Yaghobi
• Add Dutch translation by Wouter92
• Display normal filename in URL code hints list, insteaed of URL-encoded name by Lance Campbell
• Allow escaping "$" in regexp Replace mode by Marcel Gerber
• Enable Visual Basic syntax highlighting by Michael Cole
• Honorable mention: work on improving the Live Development experience on Mac (not enabled yet) by fungl164
  • Fix OpenLiveBrowser issue with Chrome ghost window by fungl164
  • Fix crash when closing Chrome without a callback function in place by fungl164
• Fix #5741: Unable to properly launch Live Preview when an image file is selected by Marcel Gerber
• Fix #5699: Re-invoking Find in Files while search bar open was unreliable by Marcel Gerber
• Fix #4768: CSS code hints were mising some values for display and transform by Ross Brunton
• Fix #5800: Nothing open in editor area after using Close Others by Sathyamoorthi
• Fix #5575: Rule list should hide when deleting a rule leaves only one result left by Marcel Gerber
• Fix #3063: Find doesn't scroll far enough to the right by Lance Campbell
• Fix layout jump when previewing image by Bartosz Kaszubowski
• Don't show .settings, .c9revisions, or BTSync-related files by Michael Cole
• Treat .css.erb files as CSS by filipemonteiroth
• Treat Gemfile and Rakefile filenames as Ruby by Clay Miller
• Treat .cshtml and .vbhtml files as HTML by Mickael Puyfages
• Cleanup: Remove deprecated FileUtils.getFilenameExtension() API by Robin Venneman
• Cleanup: Convert one more usage of CollectionUtils to Lo-Dash by Marcel Gerber
• Cleanup: Fix misuse of brackets.getModule() by Marcel Gerber
• Cleanup: Remove unneeded execute permissions by JohnnyT
• Spanish translation update by Chema Balsas
• Spanish translation fix by nikoskip
• German translation updates & improvements (part 2, part 3, part 4) by Marcel Gerber
• Swedish translation update (part 2) by Mikael Jorhult
• Brazilian Portuguese translation updates & fixes by Rodrigo Tavares
• Czech translation fixes (part 2) by martinstarman & kvarel
• Finnish translation update by valtlait
• Finnish translation fix by Jukka Hyytiälä
• Update list of translations in docs by Marcel Gerber

Pulling source code from Git

• A new brackets-shell build is required for this sprint. Be sure to rerun grunt setup before building.
• A submodule was added this sprint. Run git submodule update --init to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.
• A submodule was also deleted this sprint. You may delete the src/thirdparty/smart-auto-complete folder after syncing (Git will not automatically clean it up).

Bugs fixed in Sprint 34

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 34 bugs. A few of the fixed bugs might not be caught by this search query, however.