What's New in Release 1.7

• CEF shell upgrade to 2623: Brackets app shell is now upgraded to CEF 2623. The long standing issue with mouse scroll being too fast on Windows is now fixed with the CEF upgrade.

• Recent Files Navigation dialog: Ctrl + Tab is now going to bring up the new \"Recent Files\" navigation dialog showing a history of all opened files and allowing one to switch to a file visually. The new dialog also tracks opened files that are not in the working set.

• 64 bit on MAC: Brackets on MAC is now 64 bit!

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

TODO - list notable changes in existing features ...or: No major changes to existing features.

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

• Fixed htmlmixed highlighting. by ficristo
• Added unit testing for issue #8208 by PatrickDallarosa
• Fix of not picking file modifications. by mfatekho
• Wrap indent-key to parentheses in .eslintrc by petetnt
• Update license year range to latest release by pra85
• Update year to 2016 in LICENSE and about-dialog.html by pra85
• Korean translation update by naradesign
• jasmine.sh: add some log to say which platforms are support by ficristo
• Use SVG on image preview backgrounds by valtlait
• Update finnish translation for 1.7 release by petetnt
• Czech translation for v1.6 by Pavel Dvořák
• Add period on line 741 by jshen212
• Few Portuguese update, spelling and punctuation correction by MauricioCarmelo
• Line comment bug fix by borax12
• Update React to 0.14.7 and Immutable to 3.7.6. by petetnt
• [HOTFIX] Only update stat and clear contents when old stat is newer than current stat. by petetnt
• Rename .eslintrc to .eslintrc.json by ficristo
• Add gyp and gypi file extensions to python language by ficristo
• [HOTFIX] Only update stat and clear contents when old stat is newer than current stat. by petetnt
• Update German translation by Marcel Gerber
• Add @mfatekho to CLA exceptions. by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Add "gradle" to Groovy file extensions by petetnt
• Show an error message when trying to rename a file outside of the project by Marcel Gerber
• Italian strings.js for 1.7 by Denisov21
• Optimize and clean up SVG icons by valtlait
• Updated first steps in portuguese language (pt-br) by nbfontana
• Linted CSS by AllThingsSmitty
• Remove dropshadow from flip-view-buttons by petetnt
• Update index.html by JoshLWScott
• Update CodeMirror by Marcel Gerber
• Remove a number of unnecessary file associations by Triangle717
• Update Polish translation (checked and tested) by jurkian
• Fix the misaligned selection extension when creating a folder by Marcel Gerber
• Fix for #3296: add deprecation warning for global Mustache by ficristo
• Remove a warning when reloading the app by ficristo
• Require PathUtils instead of using the global one by ficristo
• Fix CSSUtils detection of @import urls by Marcel Gerber
• Added Bulgarian translation. by lyubomirv
• Set Bash files syntax highlighting by Amin Ullah Khan
• In CSSUtils, detect when in an @ rule correctly by Marcel Gerber
• Remove .jsx from Javascript file extensions and create an jsx-mode by petetnt
• Some unit test fixes by Marcel Gerber
• Refactoring QuickOpenHTML, CSS, and JavaScript extensions by jacobsone
• Update a couple of dependencies in package.json at the root by ficristo

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 1.7

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 1.7 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.