10.5.0 - Holiday Cheer Edition

What's New

Build:

• Add Subresource Integrity digest lists to cdn-assets Josh Goebel
• R and VB.net grammars now ship in our default build (:common) Josh Goebel

Parser:

• add match as sugar for simple begin only matches (#2834) Josh Goebel
• allow illegal to also be an array of regex (#2834) Josh Goebel
• add compilerExtensions allows grammers to influence mode compilation (#2834) Josh Goebel
  • some internal pieces are now simple compiler extensions

New Languages:

• Added 3rd party Red & Rebol grammar to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES (#2872) Oldes Huhuman

Language grammar improvements:

• enh(cpp): Support C++ pack expansion in function arguments Martin Dørum
• enh(makefile): Add make as an alias (#2883) tripleee
• enh(swift) Improved grammar for strings (#2819) Steven Van Impe
• enh(swift) Grammar improvements (#2908) Steven Van Impe
  • New grammar for keywords and built-ins
  • Added support for operator highlighting
  • New grammar for attributes
  • Added support for quoted identifiers, implicit parameters, and property wrapper projections
  • Support for more complex expressions in string interpolation
• enh(swift) Improved highlighting for types and generic arguments (#2920) Steven Van Impe
• fix(http) avoid recursive sublanguage and tighten rules (#2893) Josh Goebel
• fix(asciidoc): Handle section titles level 5 (#2868) Vaibhav Chanana
• fix(asciidoc): Support unconstrained emphasis syntax (#2869) Guillaume Grossetie
• enh(scheme) Allow [] for argument lists (#2913) Josh Goebel
• enh(vb) Large rework of VB.net grammar (#2808) Jan Pilzer
  • Adds support for Date data types, see (#2775)
  • Adds support for REM comments and fixes ''' doctags (#2875) (#2851)
    • Custom number mode to support VB.net specific number flags
    • Hex (&H), Oct (&O), and binary (&B) prefixes
    • Separating digits with underscores: 90_946
  • Type suffixes: 123UI (unsigned integer)
  • Improves directives detection and adds support for Enable, Disable, and Then keywords
  • Adds more markup tests
• fix(javascript) Empty block-comments break highlighting (#2896) Jan Pilzer
• enh(dart) Fix empty block-comments from breaking highlighting (#2898) Jan Pilzer
• enh(dart) Fix empty doc-comment eating next line Jan Pilzer
• enh(asciidoc) Adds support for unconstrained bold syntax (#2869) Guillaume Grossetie
• enh(c-like) Incorrect highlighting for interger suffix (#2919) Vaibhav Chanana
• enh(properties) Correctly handle trailing backslash (#2922) Vaibhav Chanana

Recent Deprecations:

• HTML "merging" is deprecated. (#2873) Josh Goebel
  • HTML inside <pre> blocks will no longer be magically merged back into the
    highlighted code's HTML result - it will instead be silently removed.
  • Consider using a plugin if you truly need this functionality
  • Deprecated as of 10.5.0 - will be removed in v11.
• tabReplace option deprecated. (#2873) Josh Goebel
  • Consider: Use the CSS tab-size property, or simply pre-process the
    text yourself before rendering the initial HTML
  • otherwise, use a plugin
  • Deprecated as of 10.5.0 - will be removed in v11.
• useBR option deprecated. (#2559) Josh Goebel
  • Recommended: You really should just use the HTML <pre> tag
  • or perhaps try CSS white-space: pre;
  • otherwise, use a plugin
  • Deprecated as of 10.3.0 - will be removed in v11.
• requireLanguage API is deprecated, will be removed in v11.0.
  • Consider: Use getLanguage (with custom error handling) or built-time dependencies.
  • See Library API for more information.
  • Deprecated as of 10.4.0 - will be removed in v11.