Release Notes: 1.4

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

• Special thanks to Amin Ullah Khan and Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp) for their major effort contributing to Preferences Code Hints and Enable/Disable extensions individually features.

• Preferences Code Hints by Amin Ullah Khan

• Docs for PreferencesManager.definePreference by Amin Ullah Khan

• Define all preferences in core by Marcel Gerber

• Move descriptions to their preferences by Amin Ullah Khan

• Disable and enable extensions by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)

• Use Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown to traverse files in list order by Marcel Gerber

• Fix #10786 - Allow QuickView image preview for arbitrary URLs by David Humphrey

• Update CodeMirror by Marcel Gerber

• Update CodeMirror by Marcel Gerber

• Escape RegExp specials in _createSpecialLineExp by Marcel Gerber

• Clean-up servers when closing LiveDevelopment by Sebastian Salvucci (Intel Corp)

• Italian translation review by Fredev

• Clean up dependencies in brackets.js by Marcel Gerber

• Shim Error.prototype.stack for browsers that lack it. by David Humphrey

• added Slack channel and re-ordered contact order by Andrew MacKenzie

• Rename CodeMirror2 folder to CodeMirror by Marcel Gerber

• Sample projects: remove trailing whitespace on non-blank lines, fix arrow by valtlait

• Fix #10821. Allow page reloads, navigating away and back etc. by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)

• .t is the standard extension of test scripts in Perl by szabgab

• Make font settings react to pref changes by Marcel Gerber

• Fix horizontal scrolling of code hints by Amin Ullah Khan

• Revert "Fix horizontal scrolling of code hints" by Amin Ullah Khan

• Fix errors in src/utils/AppInit.js documentation by petetnt

• Enable stylus support by Amin Ullah Khan

• Allow JavaScript Code Hints in PHP Files by Amin Ullah Khan

• implement sendCommandProgress and progress callback by Martin Zagora

• Implement progress callback so node domains are able to notify the Brackets before they finish by Martin Zagora

• Korean translation update by Yongmin Hong

• Remove trailing whitespace in Korean translation by Marcel Gerber

• Fix unittests by Amin Ullah Khan

• Add CodeMirror simple-mode addon by Amin Ullah Khan

• Add deprecation warning for convertPreferences() by Triangle717

• Detect keyword 'linear' on lines containing word 'animation' too by petetnt

• Update Dutch translation by coreice

• Don't try to handle protocol-relative URLs from Tern by Marcel Gerber

• Allow JavaScript Code Hints only in its context by Amin Ullah Khan

• Fixed a few typos by Amin Ullah Khan

• Update strings.js by Pavel Dvořák

• QuickView for named colors in Stylus by Amin Ullah Khan

• US misspellings and typos by Pavel Dvořák

• style typo by Pavel Dvořák

• Update German translation by Marcel Gerber

• String change for "Next/Previous document" in list order by Marcel Gerber

• Czech translation for v1.4 by Pavel Dvořák

• Simplify PerfUtils.getValueAsString by Marcel Gerber

• German translation by Marcel Gerber

• Another load of typos by Pavel Dvořák

• Translate in Italian for Brackets 1.4 by Denisov21

• Fixes for German translation by Marcel Gerber

• Travis: Use container-based infrastructure by Marcel Gerber

• Update descriptions of preferences by Amin Ullah Khan

• German translation by Marcel Gerber

• Czech translation for 473f8f0 by Pavel Dvořák

• Czech translation of Getting Started project by Pavel Dvořák

• Spanish translation update for 1.4 by Tomás Malbrán

• Latest typos in root/strings.js by Pavel Dvořák

• Typo in path to correspond with src/nls/root/strings.js by Pavel Dvořák

• Update translations for zh_CN by Michael J.

• Czech translation for ed57a2c by Pavel Dvořák

• Update German translation by Marcel Gerber

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.