BriskEdit 0.5.0

0.5.0 - Movable tabs, smarter setup, optional source control

BriskEdit 0.5.0 makes the window your own and smooths first-run setup.

⛔️ It remains an unsigned developer preview; on first launch, right-click BriskEdit.app,
choose Open, and confirm.

Added ✅

• Drag tabs anywhere. Reorder tabs within the strip, tear one off onto the
  desktop to open it in a new window, or drop it on another window to move it
  there — keeping unsaved edits and the language server intact. Dropping onto a
  specific tab inserts it at that position.
• Keyboard and overflow tab controls. Move the active tab with ⌃⌘← / ⌃⌘→
  (also in the File menu), and jump to any open tab from the overflow menu that
  appears when the strip is full.
• Onboarding that sets up your tools. The first-run flow now detects the
  compilers, language servers, and formatters already on your Mac and offers to
  install the missing ones — Xcode Command Line Tools, Homebrew packages, and
  more — with one click. It also previews your theme live, installs the optional
  command-line launcher, and can open your first folder.
• An About page in Settings with the version, license, and project links.

Improved 🔆

• Smoother tab reordering. Tabs glide into place with a spring and a clear
  drop indicator.
• Optional source control. A single switch turns the Source Control sidebar,
  gutter change bars, and inline blame on or off — for when you're not working in
  a repository. Available in onboarding and Settings.
• Tidier Settings and welcome screen. All preference tabs fit on one row
  without an overflow menu, and the welcome header shows the author and version.

Fixed ❗️

• The Recent folders list no longer keeps temporary or deleted directories.

Compatibility

• macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple silicon.

BriskEdit 0.4.0

0.4.0 - Faster editing, richer source control, and safer releases

BriskEdit 0.4.0 is a larger editor and tooling release. It remains an unsigned
developer preview; on first launch, right-click BriskEdit.app, choose Open,
and confirm.

Added

• Tree-sitter highlighting for Swift and JSON. Compiled grammar
  configurations are cached, with instant fallback highlighting while a grammar
  warms up.
• Low Power, Adaptive, and Power modes. Background work responds to system
  power and thermal state; Power mode can prepare grammars ahead of first use.
• A guided first-run experience. Onboarding configures performance, theme,
  editor basics, and source control. A new welcome screen surfaces recent folders
  and common actions.
• Richer source control context. Inline blame, file-tree status badges,
  colored file icons, an activity-bar sidebar, and clickable breadcrumbs keep
  repository state visible without leaving the editor.
• The briskedit command-line launcher. An optional shorter brisk alias is
  installed only when that name is available.
• An in-app What's New page shown after updates.

Improved

• Large-file editing. Expensive editor features ease off automatically above
  4 MB, with accurate line numbers and file-size reporting preserved.
• Git refresh behavior. Status scans are coalesced, paths with Unicode,
  newlines, and renames are parsed safely, and decorations refresh after saves.
• Resource safety. Formatter requests, subprocesses, watchers, debounce
  tasks, and per-tab LSP state are bounded and released predictably.
• Reproducible builds. Swift packages are locked to committed revisions and
  package updates are disabled during CI and release builds.

Release Engineering

• CI now runs warnings-as-errors tests, a real DMG smoke build, shell and workflow
  linting, dependency review, Gitleaks history scanning, promo-tooling audit and
  type checks, and CodeQL analysis.
• Release jobs require a verified signed annotated tag reachable from main,
  retest the tagged source, validate DMG/ZIP/appcast metadata and signatures,
  publish SHA-256 checksums, and attach GitHub provenance attestations.
• Third-party GitHub Actions are pinned to immutable commits. Dependabot security
  updates, dependency review, secret scanning, and push protection are enabled.

Compatibility

• macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple silicon.

BriskEdit 0.3.6

Release Notes

0.3.6 — Terminal scroll in TUIs, Option-as-Meta, and editor indentation fixes

Builds on 0.3.5. Still an unsigned developer preview — on first launch, right-click
BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

Added

• Scroll wheel now works inside full-screen terminal apps. The wheel and
  trackpad now scroll full-screen TUIs (Claude Code, htop, less) that run on the
  alternate screen. Mouse-reporting apps receive proper wheel events; others get
  cursor up/down. Normal-screen scrollback is unchanged.
• Optional "Use Option as Meta key" for the terminal. A new terminal setting
  (off by default) makes ⌥ act as the Meta modifier for Emacs-style shortcuts.
  Left off, ⌥ keeps producing layout characters — needed for @, {, }, |,
  ~ on international keyboards (e.g. German ⌥L = @).

Fixed

• Smart backspace in indented code. In spaces mode, pressing Backspace inside
  a line's leading whitespace now removes a whole indent level back to the
  previous tab stop in one keystroke instead of one space at a time.
• No more phantom indentation on blank lines. Pressing Return while leaving a
  whitespace-only line trims its indentation, so blank lines no longer keep
  trailing spaces or copy a stale indent downward.

Compatibility

• macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple silicon.

BriskEdit 0.3.5

Release Notes

0.3.5 — Signature help, inline diagnostics, and a silent-crash fix

Builds on 0.3.4. Still an unsigned developer preview — on first launch, right-click
BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

Added

• Signature help. Typing inside a call shows a floating parameter-hint panel
  with the active argument highlighted, driven by the language server and a
  buffer-local fallback when the server is still recovering from broken code.
• Inline diagnostics. Errors and warnings are underlined with wavy squiggles
  that track the text as you type, with details on hover.

Fixed

• Fixed the editor silently quitting while typing in C files. Writing to a
  language server (clangd) that had already closed its pipe raised SIGPIPE,
  which terminates the whole app with no crash report — so the window just
  vanished. SIGPIPE is now ignored from process start, before any pipe exists,
  so a dead subprocess can never take the app down.
• Hardened the LSP client against half-started and dead servers: concurrent cold
  starts now share one start task, and writes to a failed server fail gracefully
  instead of crashing.

Compatibility

• macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple silicon.

0.3.4 — Formatter memory safety hardening

A critical stability release on top of 0.3.3. Still an unsigned developer preview — on
first launch, right-click BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

Fixed

• Fixed the remaining Format Document memory runaway. Clang-format project
  configuration discovery now uses a bounded, cycle-safe lexical parent walk
  instead of an unbounded Foundation URL loop.
• All formatter entry points now share one global single-flight gate, including
  manual formatting and format-on-save.
• Formatter processes now have strict input, output, and execution-time limits;
  stdout and stderr are drained concurrently to prevent pipe deadlocks.
• Stale format-on-save results are discarded when the document changes before
  formatting completes.

Improved

• Git, diagnostics, tool discovery, and installer processes now use bounded
  output capture and timeouts.
• Oversized editor files, LSP messages, Discord IPC frames, Markdown previews,
  and search buffers are capped to keep memory use predictable under malformed
  or unexpectedly large input.
• Formatter telemetry now records duration, input size, and suppressed duplicate
  requests for future incident diagnosis.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 26 or newer. Xcode 26+ to build from source.

BriskEdit 0.3.4

Release Notes

0.3.4 — ⛔️ Critical Fix: Formatter memory safety hardening

A critical stability release on top of 0.3.3. Still an unsigned developer preview — on
first launch, right-click BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

Fixed

• Fixed the remaining Format Document memory runaway. Clang-format project
  configuration discovery now uses a bounded, cycle-safe lexical parent walk
  instead of an unbounded Foundation URL loop.
• All formatter entry points now share one global single-flight gate, including
  manual formatting and format-on-save.
• Formatter processes now have strict input, output, and execution-time limits;
  stdout and stderr are drained concurrently to prevent pipe deadlocks.
• Stale format-on-save results are discarded when the document changes before
  formatting completes.

Improved

• Git, diagnostics, tool discovery, and installer processes now use bounded
  output capture and timeouts.
• Oversized editor files, LSP messages, Discord IPC frames, Markdown previews,
  and search buffers are capped to keep memory use predictable under malformed
  or unexpectedly large input.
• Formatter telemetry now records duration, input size, and suppressed duplicate
  requests for future incident diagnosis.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 26 or newer. Xcode 26+ to build from source.

BriskEdit 0.3.3

Release Notes

0.3.3 —⚠️ Emergency formatter memory fix ⚠️

A critical fix release on top of 0.3.2. Still an unsigned developer preview — on
first launch, right-click BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

Fixed

• Format Document can no longer exhaust system memory. Repeated formatter
  requests are now single-flight instead of launching unbounded concurrent
  tasks and retaining full buffer copies.
• Formatter shortcut key-repeat events are ignored, and stale results are
  discarded when the document changes while formatting is in progress.

Improved

• Formatter tool and project-config discovery now runs away from the main thread,
  keeping the editor responsive during formatting.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 26 or newer. Xcode 26+ to build from source.

BriskEdit 0.3.2

Release Notes

0.3.2 — Editor fixes, Format Document & Discord presence

A focused fix release on top of 0.3.1. Still an unsigned developer preview — on
first launch, right-click BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

Added

• Format Document for supported languages, right from the editor: right-click
  → Format Document or press ⇧⌥F. It honours a project .clang-format (and
  falls back to your editor indent width), and a format is a single ⌘Z undo.
• Discord Rich Presence (experimental, opt-in under Settings → Experimental):
  show the file, language and workspace you're working on, with per-field privacy
  toggles. Off by default.
• BriskEdit now registers as an editor for common code files, so they can open
  in it directly from Finder.

Fixed

• Code folding no longer glitches. Folding a block — or typing while a fold
  was active — could leave black lines and a jumping viewport. Folding now
  relayouts surgically and repaints cleanly.
• Dropping a file into an empty folder in the file tree now shows it
  immediately instead of leaving it invisible until a second drop.

Improved

• File-tree drag & drop: animated drop-target highlight, spring-loaded folder
  auto-expand on hover, and a clearer drag preview.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 26 or newer. Xcode 26+ to build from source.

BriskEdit 0.3.1

Release Notes

0.3.1 — UI polish & a product demo

A small, stable follow-up to 0.3.0. Still an unsigned developer preview — on
first launch, right-click BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

Improved

• Refreshed editor chrome: a native front-tab look, a calmer Run button,
  consistent design tokens, and a clearer status-bar type ramp.
• Settings now use translucent forms, gained a dedicated editor font picker,
  and show a last-update-check date that refreshes live after an update cycle.
• The whole tab chip is clickable, and the sidebar cross-fades between views.

Docs

• Added a 30-second product demo video to the README.

Internal

• Hardened the release pipeline: releases are serialized and the release notes
  are verified before a build starts.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 26 or newer. Xcode 26+ to build from source.

BriskEdit 0.3.0

Release Notes

0.3.0 — themes, search, code intelligence & polish

The first stable 0.3.0 build. Still an unsigned developer preview — on first
launch, right-click BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm.

New

• Color themes. Built-in palettes including System (VS Code), One Dark,
  Dracula, Nord, Solarized Dark, Monokai, and GitHub Light, switchable from the
  View menu.
• VS Code theme import. Import .json color themes, preview them in
  Settings, persist them, and remove them again when no longer needed.
• Find in Files. Project-wide search and replace with case / whole-word /
  regular-expression options.
• Markdown preview. Live split-screen preview with working in-page and
  relative links; toggle it from the View menu or close it inline.
• Image viewing. Open PNG, JPEG, GIF, and other common image formats,
  inline or in a split preview.
• Open Recent. The File menu lists recently opened folders for quick reopen.
• Terminal font picker. Choose any installed monospaced font for the
  integrated terminal from Settings.
• Tool Health. Inspect and install missing language tools with live install
  progress.
• Appearance & font-size commands. Editor font, minimap, and git gutter
  bars live in a dedicated Appearance tab; increase/decrease/reset font size
  from the View menu.

Improved

• Code folding collapses a block to a single clean header line and keeps gutter
  line numbers consistent.
• Windows open at the full visible size, and a cold start restores exactly one
  window.
• Running C and C++ files resolves system headers through the installed SDK.
• Folding controls only appear for languages where folding makes sense.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 26 or newer. Xcode 26+ to build from source.

BriskEdit 0.3.0-beta.2

Release Notes

0.3.0-beta.2 — search, code intelligence & folding

A beta build. Still an unsigned developer preview — on first launch, right-click
BriskEdit.app → Open → confirm. To receive further beta updates, set the
update channel to Beta in Settings — the beta channel now polls its own
update feed, so in-app updates work for beta testers.

New

• Find in Files. Project-wide search and replace with case / whole-word /
  regex toggles, results grouped by file. Uses ripgrep when installed (gitignore
  aware), with a pure-Swift fallback; searches dotfiles too (.env, .gitignore).
• Code folding. Expand/collapse blocks via chevrons in the gutter, with
  indentation-based fold regions.
• Symbol outline. A sidebar of the file's symbols from the language server;
  click to jump to a definition.
• Go to Definition. ⌘-click or F12 on a symbol.
• Hover tooltips. Rest the pointer on a symbol to see its type/docs from the
  language server.
• Minimap. A zoomed-out overview at the right edge; click or drag to scroll.
  Toggle from View ▸ Show Minimap or Settings.
• Multi-cursor. ⌘D selects the next occurrence as an additional cursor.
• More languages & a language picker. Dart, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Lua, SQL,
  Perl, SCSS/Less, TOML, INI and more, plus a clickable language selector in the
  status bar (with auto-detect).

Improved

• Flicker-free highlighting. Syntax colors are applied as TextKit 2 rendering
  attributes instead of text-storage edits, so the visible text no longer
  flashes or jumps while typing, and the whole document is colored correctly.
• Snappier editor. The minimap rebuilds on a debounce instead of rescanning
  the document on every keystroke; project-search numbers lines in a single pass.
• Accessibility labels for the sidebar section picker, terminal toggle, and the
  search controls.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 26 or newer. Xcode 26+ to build from source.