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 (code folding): Click the indicators next to the line numbers, or use the shortcuts in the View menu.
• 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. To enable this optional feature:
    • Mac: choose File > Install Command Line Shortcut
    • Windows: when installing, leave Add "brackets" launcher to PATH for command line use selected
  • On Windows, you can also opt to make Brackets accessible from the Explorer context menu for all files and folders - leave Add "Open with Brackets" to Explorer context menus for all files and folders selected when installing
• 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.
• Stability
  • Windows: Mouse wheel scrolls at normal speed: Restores scrolling speed to the behavior of Brackets 1.0.
  • Quick Open: many small bug fixes
• Localization
  • Translation updates for: (TODO - updated locales in alphabetical order)

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Code Folding - Expand/collapse indicators now appear in the gutter next to the line numbers. To remove these from the UI, change your preferences to set code-folding.enabled to false.

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.

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
  • Pull requests: 1

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

• Recommended: rebuild or reinstall an updated brackets-shell (no critical updates, but there are bugfixes).
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.

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.