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@1024jp 1024jp released this 31 Aug 02:58
· 133 commits to main since this release

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