Release Notes: Sprint 31

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Sprint 31 -- approximately September 18.

What's New in Sprint 31

• Live Preview
  • Live Preview HTML changes: Live Preview updates in real time as you type in HTML files. Updates pause whenever the HTML is not syntactically valid.
• Overall UI
  • Dark titlebar on Windows: A similar change will be coming soon for Mac too.
  • Keyboard shortcut to switch between recent projects: Press Ctrl+Alt+R (⌥⌘R) to open the "recent projects" dropdown, use the up/down arrow keys to navigate the list, Enter key to select project, and Esc key to cancel.
• CSS Code Hints in SCSS
  • Code hints for CSS property names & values: The same code hints you see in CSS files will now also appear in SCSS files.
  • Quick Docs for CSS properties: Ditto – just like in CSS.
• HTML Matching Tag Highlighting
  • Highlight matching open/close tag
• Search
  • Search result tickmarks: Find results are visually mapped out as yellow tickmarks along the scroll bar track.
  • Find in Files results auto-update while typing
• Linting
  • Extensibility for linting tools
• Arch Linux Support
  • Brackets is now available for Arch Linux on the Arch User Repository (AUR).

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Dark Titlebar on Windows - the Windows shell now has a dark titlebar that visually complements the Brackets UI.

Live HTML UI for Invalid State - during Live HTML Development, Brackets indicates when code isn't updating due to being in an invalid state by changing the background color of the line number where the error occurs to red. The color of the Live Development icon is also changed to red and the tooltip indicates "not updating due to syntax error".

API Changes

KeyBindingManager now supports platform: "all" on key bindings for clearer semantics.

TODO: CodeHintManager hint provider callback getHints() return object added query property used for preventing a race condition as described in issue #5003.

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

• Linting - Use CodeInspection.register() to provide linting/inspection for a given Language. Just like the built-in JSLint functionality, the provider is invoked whenever a file is opened or saved, and its results are displayed in a panel below the editor (providers may be run more frequently in the future, however). Currently, only one provider is accepted per language, although extensions can replace the default JSLint provider for JavaScript.

• Code Hints - The behavior of the CodeHintList on tab key events is now configurable on a global and per-CodeHintProvider basis. The CodeHintManager provider registration API has been generalized with an additional optional property, insertHintOnTab, that indicates whether the CodeHintManager should request that the provider of the current session insert the currently selected hint on tab key events, or if instead a tab character should be inserted into the editor. See #5084 for more details.

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 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/106010?hl=en.
• 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

• Failing with useful message on mac build step by jsoverson.
• Support for chromium browser in linux by macie.
• Update swedish translation by mikaeljorhult.
• Update Russian index.html by morozd.
• [UX] Issue #4174 - Add find next / previous buttons for easy navigation by rajeshsegu.
• Working set context menu pops closed when right-clicking file that hasn't been opened yet by lkcampbell.
• Added .ASP files highlighting by Fr3nzzy.
• Update strings.js, and again by SAPlayer.
• .idea added to gitignore by Fr3nzzy.
• Tree context menu behaves unpredictably while naming new file by lkcampbell.
• Unit Test Failing: ExtensionManager by TomMalbran.
• Renewed German translation by SAPlayer.
• Update German translation by SAPlayer.
• Change: UNKOWN -> UNKNOWN by SAPlayer.
• Update Japanese translation by kanreisa.
• Update 'de' locale for HTML preview, more minor changes by mynetx.
• Document file and handler function for each command by lkcampbell.
• Update strings.js, merge new translates strings for latest version by michaeljayt.
• HTML tag highlight added by sathyamoorthi.
• Followup updates to #4581 and #4598 by TomMalbran.
• Added projectRefresh event when project tree is refreshed but project root has not changed by zaggino.
• Tab and modality fixes for the modal dialogs by TomMalbran.
• Update to Finnish localization by ghost.
• Do not show Active Line Highlight when editor has selection by lkcampbell.
• File Rename should complete when clicking anywhere in project panel by vladnicula, lkcampbell.
• Implementation of Navigate Recent Projects by TomMalbran.
• Updated the flex property for the latest chrome version to fix #4602 and #4870 by TomMalbran.
• [ARCH] Image preview draft by warabe.
• Fix issue #3556: Consolidate link handling code by TomMalbran.
• Updated documentation on sidebar view events by lkcampbell.
• Remove strings for commands that are not user facing by WebsiteDeveloper.
• Slovak language support by erichstark.
• Clean up _getFileExtension() method and fix all its callers by megatolya.
• Update Less to 1.4.2 by WebsiteDeveloper.
• Update 'de' locale for HTML preview, more minor changes by mynetx.
• Find in Files Improvements (Part 3: Auto-update) by TomMalbran.
• Spanish strings and sample translations by TomMalbran.
• Adding Menus.removeMenu() and Menus.getAllMenus() by lkcampbell.
• Show more info about failure in console by zaggino.

Bugs fixed in Sprint 31

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 31 bugs. A few of the fixed bugs might not be caught by this search query, however.