Release Notes: Sprint 38

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Sprint 38 -- approximately April 4.

What's New in Sprint 38

• Multiple Cursors
  • Multiple cursor / multiple selection support: Ctrl+click or drag to create multiple cursors/selections, Ctrl+B to select next occurrence of a word, and more. Read the full documentation for details.
• Live Preview
  • CSS Shapes visual editor: When using experimental Chrome features, you can edit CSS Shapes visually in the browser preview. The editor automatically appears in Chrome when you put your cursor on Brackets on a Shape definition.
• Linting
  • Support asynchronous linting: Linters that require reading extra files from disk or talking to network services can now integrate with the standard Brackets linting UI.
• Ongoing Research (not implemented yet)
  • Research: JS Code Hints Cleanup: Investigate how to simplify the code, improve performance & maintainability, and unify with new preferences system.
  • Research: Improved LESS support: Investigate support for Live Preview, Quick Edit, and Quick Find Definition with LESS code.

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

No major changes to existing features.

API Changes

CodeMirror v4 & multiple cursors/selections - See the Brackets CodeMirror v4 Migration Guide.

PHP files - Editor.getLanguageForSelection() will now return the correct "php" language (instead of the generic "clike").

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Inline Editors - When a provider has nothing to show for the current cursor position, it can return an explanation string instead of just null. If no providers respond, the explanation is shown in a popup. This can help make inline editing functionality more discoverable to users.

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.
• On Windows XP, Brackets will not detect external file changes instantly. It behaves similarly to Sprint 35 and earlier releases - changes are detected upon window activation, and the folder tree must be manually refreshed.
• #2272: Windows Vista may not allow the Brackets installer to run (you may not see any error message). To work around this, right-click the installer file, choose Properties, and click the Unblock button.
• #4362: Slow startup of Brackets and Live Preview on Windows due to Chrome proxy settings. See workaround.
• 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

TODO

Pulling source code from Git

TODO

Bugs fixed in Sprint 38

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 38 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.