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Release Notes: Sprint 34

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Peter Flynn edited this page Nov 18, 2013 · 21 revisions

What's New in Sprint 34

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, 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 - Sprint 34 introduces a new FileSystem API that replaces NativeFileSystem and FileIndexManager. Some of the old APIs are removed immediately; others are deprecated and will be removed later. See the API migration guide and discussion thread for details.

FileUtils.getFilenameExtension(), which was already deprecated, is now removed. Use getFileExtension() instead (note that it excludes the leading ".").

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Documents - New DocumentManager.getDocumentText() API can be significantly faster than using getDocumentForPath() if all you need to do is call getText() on it. Especially beneficial for bulk operations such as Find in Files.

Quick Open - QuickOpen providers can now specify a label property that is shown in the search bar when that provider is active. Also, some previously required properties are now optional.

CodeMirror modes - Brackets can now load CodeMirror modes that use the multiplex or overlay addon utilities.

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

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.

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