Release Notes: 0.43

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Release 0.43 -- approximately September 3rd.

What's New in Release 0.43

• SCSS/LESS Editing
  • Quick Edit, Quick Find Definition, & Live Preview Highlight support: All these features now work the same for SCSS & LESS as they do for plain CSS.
  • Live Preview supports SCSS & LESS editing if you use a third-party "file watcher" to automatically recompile your CSS on save. Brackets notices the changed CSS file and updates the page (without reloading). You can also use a Brackets extension such as Brackets SASS or LESS AutoCompile for this.
• Themes
  • Improved 'dark mode': Dark themes now cause the overall Brackets UI to become darker, not just the editor area.
  • Separate Extension Manager tab: Themes are listed separately in Extension Manager so they're easier to find, and the list of extensions stays cleaner.
• Search
  • Find/Replace: indicate current match index: The Find/Replace bar now shows "3 of 28" instead of just "28."
• File Types
  • Change file extension -> language/syntax mode mapping: After changing a file's language using the status bar switcher, you can save the change for all files with that extension by choosing "Set as Default" from the same dropdown. (This was previously accessible only by manually editing preferences).
• Live Preview
  • Support for .xhtml files.
  • Improved reliability when using iframes or files not listed in "Working Files".
• Ongoing Research (not available yet)
  • Split view (early implementation on branch)

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Keyboard shortcut changes

• Replace in Files changed to Ctrl-Shift-H (Win) or Cmd-Alt-Shift-F (Mac), to parallel the single-file Replace shortcut better.
• Show/Hide Sidebar changed to Ctrl-Alt-H (Win) or Cmd-Shift-H (Mac).

Linux: Edit menu - The Edit > Cut/Copy/Paste menu items are removed on Linux, because they did not work. These menu items will be restored once a native menu bar is implemented. Keyboard shortcuts for cut/copy/paste still work.

API Changes

Theme authoring - Simplified how Find/Replace highlight colors are set. Read more...

window.open() - Only permits 'file://' URLs and 'about:blank', since brackets-shell is not a secure general-purpose web browser. Use NativeApp.openURLInDefaultBrowser() to open webpages in the user's regular browser.

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

TBA

Pulling source code from Git

• TODO - brackets-shell required?
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.

Bugs fixed in Release 0.43

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 0.43 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.