Lite XL v2.1.2 Release Candidate 3

This release addresses some issues present in the previous release.

Notes

• macOS users no longer need to run xattr -cr /Applications/Lite\ XL.app before running Lite XL. Instead, locate Lite XL in Finder, right-click the application and select "Open".
• The Addons package is no longer the recommended way for extra plugins out-of-the-box. Users should use lpm to install and manage their plugins. lpm will be bundled in a future release of Lite XL.

New Features

• The context menu in TreeView is now navigable with a keyboard.
  (#1338)

• A universal build of Lite XL is now available for macOS.
  This build runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon macs.
  (#1458)

• Most Unicode characters should be displayed properly
  if your fonts support them.
  (#1524)

• LogView will no longer scroll automatically if the user had scrolled.
  The LogView will only scroll automatically when the user scrolls up
  to the last entry.
  (#1546)

• When using different fonts (especially fonts that render different scripts),
  the letters will be aligned vertically.
  (#1560)

• Unsaved named files are now saved in the workspace.
  (#1597)

• macOS builds are now signed with a developer certificate.
  This allows the user to right click the application in Finder and execute
  it directly.
  (#1656)

Backward Incompatible Changes

• The native plugin API is now usable on multiple source files,
  without causing any duplicated symbol errors during compilation.
  Plugins using the new plugin API header must define LITE_XL_PLUGIN_ENTRYPOINT
  before importing the header, in one of their source files.
  (#1335)

• The native plugin API header now follows the Lua 5.4 API.
  Previously, the plugin API header follows the Lua 5.2 API.
  (#1436)

• On Linux, process.start() will now throw an error if execv() fails.
  Previously, the function will return a valid Process object and the error message
  can be obtained by reading the standard output.
  (#1363)

• Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display
  scale detection. This may be fixed in a later version of Lite XL.

Performance Improvements

• Allow command buffer to be expanded.
  (#1297)

• Use table.move to implement common.splice.
  (#1324)

• Create renderer only when it doesn't exist.
  (#1315)

• Avoid drawing hidden text in DocView:draw_line_text.
  (#1298)

• Don't calculate widths per-uft8-char when not needed.
  (#1409)

• Allow tokenizer to pause and resume in the middle of a line.
  (#1444)

• Optimize CI build times on MSYS2.
  (#1435)

• Significant memory usage improvements when using huge fonts on Windows.
  (#1555)

• The program should be much more responsive when running background tasks.
  (#1601)

Fixes and other changes

Fixes

• Fix minor typos in user module
  (#1289)

• Do not allow users to create an empty font group
  (#1303)

• Fix a memory leak
  (#1305)

• Make dirwatch sorting compatible with what file_bisect expects
  (#1300)

• Handle readlink errors
  (#1292)

• Disable horizontal scrolling when linewrapping is enabled
  (#1309)

• Update widgets install location

• Add missing luaL_typeerror symbol to plugin API
  (#1313)

• Defer lua error until after cleanup
  (#1310)

• Make empty groups in regex.gmatch return their offset
  (#1325)

• Add missing header declaration

• Fix msys build now requiring ca-certificates
  (#1348)

• Fix path to macOS arm64 cross file in GItHub workflows

• Fix Doc contextmenu not registering commands if scale plugin is not found
  (#1338)

• Fix TreeView contextmenu commands not working if the mouse hovers DocView
  (#1338)

• Fix incorrect contextmenu predicate
  (#1338)

• Properly rescale NagView on scale change
  (#1379)

• Scale plugin also rescales style.expanded_scrollbar_size
  (#1380)

• Improve DocView:get_visible_line_range precision
  (#1382)

• Fix up some post 5.1/JIT Symbols
  (#1385)

• Fix incorrect x_offset if opened docs have different tab sizes
  (#1383)

• Use correct view for scrolling to find-replace:repeat-find results
  (#1400)

• Improve text width calculation precision
  (#1408)

• Add asynchronous process reaping
  (#1412)

• fix cursors positions when deleting multiple selections
  (#1393,
  #1463)

• Fix invalid EXEFILE and EXEDIR on Windows
  (#1396)

• Fix os.getenv() not supporting UTF-8 output
  (#1397)

• Fix differing stacktrace on stdout and file
  (#1404)

• Update api_require to expose more symbols
  (#1437)

• Make system.path_compare more case-aware
  (#1457)

• Fix for api_require wrong macro && conditions
  (#1465)

• Merge carets after doc:move-to-{previous,next}-char
  (#1462)

• Process API improvements (again)
  (#1370)

• Make system.path_compare more digit-aware
  (#1474)

• Check for HANDLE_INVALID in Process API
  (#1475)

• Fix linewrapping bug to do with wordwrapping

• Fix compiler warning for printing size_t in rencache.c

• Return error string from C searcher

• Restore horizontal scroll position after scale change
  (#494)

• Fix memory leak in renderer.c when freeing glyphsets

• Move lineguide below blinking cursor
  (#1511)

• Close lua state when exiting on a runtime error
  (#1487)

• Mark linewrapping open_files table as weak

• Don't use core.status_view if not yet initialized when logging

• Revert "core syntax: strip the path from filename on syntax.get (#1168)"
  (#1322)

• Make Doc:sanitize_position return a more appropriate col
  (#1469)

• Skip checking files if no filename was provided to syntax.get

• Normalize stroke before adding keybind
  (#1334)

• Make DocView aware of scrollbars sizes
  (#1177)

• Normalize strokes in fixed order
  (#1572)

• Defer core:open-log until everything is loaded
  (#1585)

• Fix returned percent when clicking the Scrollbar track

• Fixed C++14 digit separators
  (#1593)

• Make linewrapping consider the expanded Scrollbar size

• Fix dimmed text when antialiasing is turned off
  (#1641)

• Mark unsaved named files as dirty
  (#1598)

• Make common.serialize() locale-independent and nan/inf compatible
  (#1640)

• Ignore keypresses during IME composition
  (#1573)

• Fix deadlock if error handler jumps somewhere else
  (#1647)

• Avoid considering single spaces in detectindent
  (#1595)

• Fix deleting indentation with multiple cursors
  (#1670)

• Fix `set_target_size`` passing the wrong value to plugins
  (#1657)

• Limit system.{sleep,wait_event} to timeouts >= 0
  (#1666)

• Fix running core.step when receiving an event while not waiting

• Fix dirmonitor sorting issues
  (#1599)

• Scale mouse coordinates by window scale
  (#1630)

• Made coroutines make more sense, and fixed a bug.
  (#1381)

• Fix selecting newlines with `find-replace:select-add-{next,all}``
  (#1608)

• Fix editing after undo not clearing the change id
  (#1574)

• Fix language_js regex constant detection
  (#1581)

• Fix patterns starting with ^ in tokenizer
  (#1645)

• Use x offset to define render command rect in rencache_draw_text
  (#1618)

• Improve font/color change detection in language_md
  (#1614)

• Allow long commands and envs on process_start
  (#1477)

Other Changes

• Make api_require's nodes const
  (#1296)

• Don't set a value twice
  (#1306)

• Center title and version in emptyview
  (#1311)

• Use master branch for packaging plugins for addons release

• Reorganize resources folder and add wasm target
  (#1244)

• Replace uses of SDL_Window with RenWindow
  (#1319)

• Update dummy dirmonitor method signature to match prototypes

• Remove static libgcc from meson
  (#1290)

• Pass RenWindow by argument
  (#1321)

• Get rid of annoying forward slash on windows
  (#1345)

• Improved plugins config table handling
  (#1356)

• Add manifest on Windows
  (#1405)

• Split Command struct into different structs for each command type
  (#1407)

• Move SetProcessDPIAware to manifests
  (#1413)

• Use clipping functions provided by SDL
  (#1426)

• Aggregate SDL_Surfaces and their scale in RenSurface
  (#1429)

• Disable trimwhitespace and drawwhitespace via their configs
  (#1446)

• Bump dependency versions
  (#1434)

• Improvements to cross-compilation
  (#1458)

• Move native plugin API header into include/
  (#1440)

• Build releases with Ubuntu 18.04 container
  (#1460)

• Update GitHub Actions dependencies

• Make all parameters for set_window_hit_test optional in documentation

• Attach command buffer to Renderer Window
  (#1472)

• Fix comment typo in object.lua
  (#1541)

• Allow setting custom glyphset size
  (#1542)

• Use FreeType header names in renderer.c
  (#1554)

• Add documentation for core.common
  (#1510)

• Document missing parameter for system.path_compare
  (#1566)

• Add documentation for core.command
  (#1564)

• Update the Installing prebuild section in README.md
  (#1548)

• Updated README.md to remove previously installed files
  prior to installing a new version

• Use lite-xl Build Box to build releases
  (#1571)

• Use Lua wrap by default
  (#1481)

• Add documentation for contextmenu
  (#1567)

• Use dmgbuild to create DMGs
  (#1664)

• Un-hardcode lua subproject detection and update dependencies
  (#1676)

• Make license time-independent
  (#1655)

Full Changelog: v2.1.1...v2.1.2-rc3