Releases: coteditor/CotEditor
Releases · coteditor/CotEditor
5.0.0-beta
system requirements: macOS 14 and later
New Features
- Support macOS 15 Sequoia.
- Open folders in CotEditor and browse the folder contents from the new sidebar to switch documents.
- [AppStore ver.] Now, the user can donate to the CotEditor project via in-app purchase in the new Donate settings pane.
- Add new “Select Enclosing Symbols” and “Split Selection by Lines” commands to the Edit > Select menu.
- Add new “Show in Finder” command to the File menu.
- Add new “Create Document in CotEditor” shortcut action.
- Add the “Highlight” color to the CotEditor theme format.
- Support the alpha channel for the current line in theme settings.
- Add Korean localization (Thanks to Minseok Choe!).
- Add Assembly syntax.
- Add new “Resinifictrix (Dark)” theme.
Improvements
- Change the system requirement to macOS 14 Sonoma and later.
- Add “Select Column Up/Down“ commands to the Edit > Select menu.
- Change the unit of character ranges handled in CotEditor Scripting for AppleScript from UTF-16 based to the Unicode grapheme cluster-based (This is to follow the specification change in AppleScript 2.0 introduced in Mac OS X 10.5).
- Improve VoiceOver support in the Quick Action bar.
- Update all the bundled themes to have the custom highlight color and a 70% opacity in the current line highlight.
- Improve the performance of counting values in the editor for the status bar and the document inspector to avoid flicking of the display.
- Set the editor's kerning to zero when a monospaced font is set via the font panel.
- Update the
cot
command to ignore piped text if a file to open is specified. - Rename the “New CotEditor Document with Selection” service with “New CotEditor Window Containing Selection”.
- Ignore empty outline items.
- Avoid the theme loading error when a value is missing.
- Make more table columns sortable.
- Update the Swift syntax.
- Improve the User Guide contents.
- Remove Solarized themes from the bundle.
- [trivial] Organize the structure of the Edit menu.
- [trivial] Suppress display of the “Extracting” message on the navigation bar in instantaneous parsing.
- [trivial] Make names of code contributors in the About window selectable.
- [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 16 (Swift 6, macOS 15 SDK).
- [dev] Migrate all unit tests to Swift Testing.
- [dev] Migrate the navigation bar and the Snippets settings view to SwiftUI.
- [dev] Update Yams from 5.1.2 to 5.1.3.
Fixes
- Fix an issue that the rectangular selection cannot stop the selection just until the second line from the end.
Known Issues
- Some strings added are not localized yet.
Full Changelog: 4.8.7...5.0.0-beta
4.8.7
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
Improvements
- Change to disable the smart quotes option in the Mode settings by default.
- Draw invisible operators (U+2061, U+2062, U+2063, and U+2064) as invisible control symbols.
- Update the Lisp, Lua, Scheme, and Tcl syntaxes to update interpreters (thanks to Renfei!).
- [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4.
Fixes
- Fix an issue that a document kept in the Dock was not brought to the front on the reopen event even though no documents were displayed.
- Fix an issue that the line number view went under the toolbar when the text orientation was vertical and the navigation bar was hidden.
- Fix the view layout in the Quick Action bar.
- Fix a potential memory leak.
Full Changelog: 4.8.6...4.8.7
4.8.6
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
Implements
- Update the Markdown syntax to fix highlighting strikethrough.
- Disable color wells in the theme editor when they use the system color.
- Improve the User Guide contents.
- [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3.
Fixes
- Fix an issue that a saved document could not revert to the horizontal text orientation when it was saved once as a vertical text document.
- Fix a trivial memory leak in the line ending menu (thanks to Yoshimasa Niwa).
Full Changelog: 4.8.5...4.8.6
4.8.5
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
New Features
- Add jq Syntax.
Improvements
- Improve the file path display in the document inspector.
Fixes
- Fix an issue that the application crashed by opening the Appearance settings pane when the font the user set did not exist.
- Fix an issue in the syntax editor that the Values pane was missing in the highlighting list in the sidebar.
- Fix an issue in the Save dialog that the file extension disappeared when the user selected the Hide Extension option.
- Fix an issue that the font fields in the Appearance settings pane could unnecessarily shrunk with specific fonts.
Full Changelog: 4.8.4...4.8.5
4.8.4
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
Improvements
- Revert the “Do Nothing” option, which was once deprecated on CotEditor 4.6.0, for the “When nothing else is open” setting.
- Enable toolbar/menu items for the document editor even when the focus is on the inspector.
- Display a warning on setting renaming if the name contains “:”.
- [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 15.4.
Fixes
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.3 that The Open dialog always shows up on launch despite the setting when the “Reopen windows from last session” option is disabled.
- Fix an issue on the version browsing that document windows could become occasionally transparent.
- Fix a typo in the Czech localization.
Full Changelog: 4.8.3...4.8.4
4.8.3
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
New Features
- Add the “Show in Finder” button next to the file path in the document inspector.
Improvements
- Display the current editor mode in the document inspector.
- Use more appropriate system color for the selection background when dark mode or not differs between the editor and theme.
- Improve VoiceOver support.
- Deprecate exact recalculation of insertion points when documents are updated by external processes to improve application stability.
- Improve stability of application launch behavior.
- Update the Markdown syntax to distinguish strong emphases (
strong
) from normal emphases (em
). - [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2 (security update).
Fixes
- Fix an issue that the application could not respond to by updating a relatively large document from external processes.
- Fix an issue that the application unwontedly copied the bundled theme setting files to the user domain.
- Fix an issue that the Share command was not available in the theme setting list.
- Fix the layout of the Go To Line dialog.
- Fix an incorrect label in the theme editor in the Appearance settings.
Full Changelog: 4.8.2...4.8.3
4.8.2
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
Improvements
- Disable smart dash for the General mode by default.
- Update the JavaScript, Swift, and TOML syntaxes.
Fixes
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.1 that opening some kinds of documents took a long time.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that the editor displayed nothing when the mode setting is empty.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that custom syntaxes could be ignored when it contains ill-formed file mapping definitions.
- Fix syntax highlighting for simple words.
Full Changelog: 4.8.1...4.8.2
4.8.1
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
Improvements
- Add context menus for text size change to the tables in the outline inspector and find the result view.
- Improve the algorithm to parse syntax highlighting with simple words.
- Improve error message when failing to load setting files.
- Improve general stability.
Fixes
- Address an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that the application could crash while updating the editor counts.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that custom syntaxes could be empty when it contains ill-formed definitions.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that the editor's kerning did not set to zero despite the font type being monospaced.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that some steppers in the Settings window were placed on the opposite side.
- Fix an issue that the application crashed when the sort key in the Sort by Pattern contains only whitespace.
- Fix an issue that the current line highlight did not appear when the insertion point was located at the last empty line.
- Fix an issue that the same instance highlight remains under specific conditions.
Full Changelog: 4.8.0...4.8.1
4.8.0
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
New Features
- Add the Mode feature that enables altering the editor’s behavior depending on the document’s syntax (Go Settings > Mode settings pane to set).
- Add the Restore Defaults button to the File Drop settings.
- Add Dutch localization (thanks to Yasin Gunaydin!).
Improvements
- Improve the look and feel of the syntax editor.
- Renew the “About CotEditor” window.
- Change the line count behavior to ignore the new line character at the end of the last line.
- Improve selected line number emphasis in the line number view by the vertical text orientation.
- Change the filter field for the outline inspector to apply the selection of the filter history immediately.
- Make the encoding priority view undoable.
- Disable the pane transition animation in the Settings window when the user sets to reduce motion in the system Accessibility settings.
- Deprecate “Append a space to comment delimiter” option.
- Remove wrapped line marks in the line number view.
- Update the Makefile syntax to add “GNUmakefile” to the filename mapping.
- [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.5.2 to 2.6.0.
- [trivial] Enable delete selected separators in the encoding priority view with the Delete key.
- [trivial] Avoid users using reserved syntax names.
- [trivial] Remove the dialog urging to restart the application by changing the “Reopen windows from last session” option in the General settings pane.
- [dev] Migrate the settings window, syntax editor, and status bar to SwiftUI.
- [dev] Migrate all localizable strings to String Catalog.
- [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 15.3 (Swift 5.10).
- [dev] Update Yams from 5.0.6 to 5.1.2.
Fixes
- Fix an issue that the application crashed when trying to share a custom syntax.
- Fix an issue on the filter field for the outline inspector that the filter history was initially empty.
- Fix an issue on macOS 14 that multiple cursors in editors remained when they are inactive.
- Fix missing localizations.
Full Changelog: 4.7.4...4.8.0
4.7.4
system requirements: macOS 13 and later
New Features
- Support the alpha channel in theme settings (Custom themes using alpha channel are not compatible with CotEditor prior to version 4.7.4).
- Make sections in the document inspector collapsable.
- Add “Hexadecimal with Alpha” format to the Color Code panel.
- Add Czech localization (Thanks to Martin Růžička!).
Improvements
- Tweak the background color of the “Anura (Dark)” theme.
- [dev] Migrate all the inspector panes to SwiftUI.
Fixes
- Fix an issue on macOS 13 that the stepper in the custom tab width view worked only once.
- Fix an issue that the character code point displayed in the document inspector could be broken when the application is localized.
- Fix an issue that the custom font size for the outline inspector was not fully applied.
- Fix an issue that the menu of the Syntax toolbar item could also check the previous one.
- Fix an issue that a part of the Portuguese localization was not applied.
- Fix Italian localization (Thanks to Roccobot and DAnn2012!).