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Release Notes: 0.44

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peterflynn edited this page Oct 5, 2014 · 10 revisions

What's New in Release 0.44

  • Split View
    • Vertical & Horizontal Split View: View two files side by side or one above the other. Use the View menu or the Split View icon icon next to Working Files to arrange. (Note: it is not yet possible to view the same file in both panes).
  • Stylesheet Editing
    • Quick Docs support for vendor-prefixed CSS properties
    • Fix bug #9002 - Brackets freezes during Live Preview on a line within a CSS/SCSS/LESS block comment that contains nothing but "}" with no indent.
    • Fix bug #8966 - Inline editor is blank if your CSS rule contains a vendor-prefixed property that uses a rgb()-like color value.
  • Files and Folders
    • Project tree improvements: Many small bug fixes in the sidebar file tree. Notably, it's now possible to right-click files that Brackets cannot open (such as binary files and non-UTF8 text files).
  • Preferences
  • Localization

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Working Files - Image files can now appear in the "Working Files" list at top.

Project Tree - Folders can no longer appear selected in the tree - the project folder selection always reflects what's viewed in the editor. Right-clicking a file in the project tree no longer opens it. This means it's now possible to right-click files that can't be opened, such as binary files or non-UTF8 text files.

API Changes

Split View - Many APIs in DocumentManager, EditorManager and PanelManager are deprecated (though they continue to work for now). The newer replacement APIs may not behave exactly the same. Read SplitView Extension Migration Guide for more detail.

Coding Style - Brackets core code should no longer contain any unused variables. The Travis build will automatically fail for pull requests that don't adhere to this.

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

File list decorators - To modify the appearance of the Working Files list or the project tree below it, extensions can register decoration providers to add icons or arbitrary CSS. Use WorkingSetView.addIconProvider(), WorkingSetView.addClassProvider(), ProjectManager.addIconProvider(), or ProjectManager.addClassesProvider()`.

ProjectManager - Several API fixes/improvements, including:

  • ProjectManager.renameItemInline() now returns a Promise to track completion
  • ProjectManager.createNewItem() no longer ignores the baseDir argument

Known Issues

  • Activity Monitor in Mavericks (OS X 10.9) says the Brackets Helper process is "Not Responding" even when it's working normally (#5794). You can safely ignore this unless Brackets is actually failing to respond when you click or type text.
  • #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.
  • 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

Pulling source code from Git

  • Rebuilding/updating brackets-shell is optional for this release.
  • Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.

Bugs fixed in Release 0.44

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 0.44 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.

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