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Release Notes: 1.4

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What's New in Release 1.4

  • Instant Search in Files: Searching across files is faster than ever. Results are now displayed incrementally and updated as you type.

  • Easier Preferences Editing: All preferences are now available as code hints while editing the brackets.json preferences file. Opening a preferences file (Debug-> Open Preferences file) will also open the default preferences in a second pane in split mode. This default preferences file will give hand on to user about the preferences and how to use and set values.

  • Disable Extensions Individually: Extensions can now be individually enabled/disabled from the Extension Manager. Here each extension which has been used will be provided with an option to enable, disable and remove extension from the Extension Manager.

  • Improved Text Rendering on Mac: Crisp text rendering on Mac with subpixel antialiasing enabled by default. You can use the older text rendering by setting the fonts.fontSmoothing preference to antialiased.

  • Greek and Cyrillic Character support: Updated editor font (Source Code Pro) with improved support for Greek and Cyrillic character sets.

  • Traverse files in List Order: Files opened in the working set can be traversed in the list order with CTRL+PageUp and CTRL+PageDown.

  • Localization

    • Translation updates for: Czech, German, Finnish, French, Japanese, Italian, Swedish

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

To Traverse working set files in List order, two new options are added to Navigate menu :

  • Navigate-> Next Document in List
  • Navigate-> Previous Document in List

API Changes

PreferencesManager.definePreference was modified to support code hints.

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

  • PreferencesManager.getAllPreferences returns a clone of all the preferences defined.
  • CodeInspection.getProviderIDsForLanguage(languageId) returns names of linters registered for languageId.

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.
  • 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

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 1.4

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 1.4 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.