Release Notes: 1.3

This is a draft!

This page will not be finalized until the end of Release 1.3 -- approximately April 15.

What's New in Release 1.3

• TODO: draft

• Code Editing

  • Expand/collapse blocks of code (aka code folding): Click the indicators next to the line numbers, or use the shortcuts in the View menu.

• Brackets Health Report

  • Anonymous data to help improve Brackets: You can preview the data that will be sent, and opt-out if desired. We've gone to great lengths to protect your privacy and maintain transparency about what data is sent - please read our blog post for details.

• Search

  • Quick Open: many small bug fixes

• Command Line Integration

  • Command Line tool integration on Windows and MAC: You can now open files and folders, in Brackets just by typing Brackets myFile.txt or Brackets myFolder from command line. Also on Windows, you can launch Brackets from Run Command or open a file or a folder right from the explorer just by choosing "Open With Brackets" from it's context menu.

• Localization

  • Translation updates for: (TODO - updated locales in alphabetical order)

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Quick Open - The first item is automatically highlighted, making it more clear that you can press Enter immediately to jump to the top item (Down arrow not required). Pressing the Down arrow once highlights the 2nd item in the result (previously required two presses). Quick Find Definition no longer changes the scroll position before you start typing.

API Changes

TODO

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

TODO

Known Issues

• 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

• Special thanks to Patrick Oladimeji for his major effort contributing the code folding feature.

TODO

• FR typo fix by pantkowiak
• Fix #10229. Add executable bit to Linux launcher. by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• [#10228] Cmd+Delete now triggers Don't Save in Save Changes dialog by lucaslouca
• Fix Korean translation of split-view menu items by mixed
• Update README.md by coliff
• Update README.md by coliff
• #10574 Adjust file tree click behavior, don't collapse parent folder by mellolikejello
• Fixed Bug #10632 by PlanetVaster
• Don't cut off parts of the new name when renaming by Marcel Gerber
• Remove some circular dependencies by Triangle717
• Don't wrap file names in working set by Marcel Gerber
• [#10166] Highlight 'text/ng-template' (Angular) in script tags as HTML by munxtwo
• Abose/win hi dpi hdc leak by abose
• Make LiveDevMultiBrowser's Launcher instance configurable via public set Launcher() method by David Humphrey
• Render file tree without a delay on scroll to fix selection extension issues by Marcel Gerber
• std::auto_ptr will leak for array, using std::vector instead. by edwin0cheng
• Update strings.js for HR(croatian) by Kruno H
• Add @sourceFontFamily LESS variable and use instead of SourceCodePro font-family by David Humphrey
• Exclude more unneeded files in dist builds by Marcel Gerber
• Increase timeout for deleting temp directory by mdewangan
• Add pt-br translate (update) by Henrique Aparecido Lavezzo
• Indonesian translation updates by Resi Respati
• Change 'split selection into lines' shortcut on Linux by Projjol

Pulling source code from Git

TODO: any brackets-shell updates? which of the below messages are applicable?

• A new brackets-shell build is required for this sprint. Be sure to rerun grunt setup before building.
• Recommended: rebuild or reinstall an updated brackets-shell (no critical updates, but there are bugfixes).
• Rebuilding/updating brackets-shell is optional for this release.
• Rebuilding/updating brackets-shell is not required for this release.
• brackets-shell's Node dependencies have changed. Run npm install before rebuilding brackets-shell.
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.
• A submodule URL was changed this sprint. Run git submodule sync and then git submodule update --init --recursive to ensure your local source tree reflects the update.

Bugs fixed in Release 1.3

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 1.3 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.