Release notes: Sprint 14

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Sprint 14 -- September 14.

What's New in Sprint 14

• New Help menu AppMenuBar.HELP_MENU
• Moved "Show Extensions" and "Check for Updates" from Debug to Help menu
• "Next Document" Ctrl+Tab and "Previous Document" Ctrl+Shift+Tab working set navigation commands are now visible in the Navigate menu.

UI Changes

• Editor now uses the open source, monowidth Source Code Pro OpenType font from Adobe.

API Changes

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

• A new src/package.json file was introduced to capture metadata in a format compatible with NPM.
  • package.json data can be accessed at runtime via brackets.metadata
  • name field is copied to the strings module as APP_NAME
    • APP_NAME string is substituted throughout the code base
  • package.json config object allows forks of Brackets to customize some options including:
    • about_icon - Change the src relative path to the about icon
    • show_debug_menu - Show/Hide the "Debug" menu
    • enable_jslint - Enable/Disable JSLint by default
    • forum_url - Specifies a URL in the Help menu

Known Issues

• Due to bug #1512, if you install Sprint 14 after having run Sprint 13 (and don't delete your prefs), the old Sprint 13 "Getting Started" project will show in your recent projects list (and will open by default if you left it open last time you quit Brackets). This has been fixed for upgrades post-Sprint 14.
• 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.
• Debug > Show Developer Tools now opens in a new tab in Chrome, rather than a new windows in Brackets. This is a temporary(ish) change due to CEF3. But on the upside, CEF3's developer tools include many updated features!
• #1283: Text selection highlight sometimes jiggles when horizontally resizing window.
• #1473: Uninstalling on Windows sometimes does not remove the Start menu shortcut for Brackets.
• Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) by default will not allow Brackets to run since it's not being 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.

Community contributions to Brackets

• Persist "Use Tab Characters" setting across launches by Dennis Kehrig
• Support escaped characters in CSS selectors (bug #391) by Chema Balsas
• Norwegian translation by Thomas Andersen
• Spanish translation by Chema Balsas

Contributions from Brackets

Bugs fixed in Sprint 14

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 14 bugs. A few of the fixed bugs might not be caught by this search query, however.