Release Notes: Sprint 35

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Sprint 35 -- approximately December 7.

What's New in Sprint 35

• Find/Replace
  • Major Find/Replace UI overhaul: Streamlined, condensed Replace command with the same incremental search and highlighting previously available only for Find. In both Find and Replace, new toggle buttons make case-sensitive and regexp searches easier to access (replacing the additional, often confusing, heuristics that automatically set these options based on the search text).
• Live Development
  • Mac: No browser restart needed: Launching Live Preview no longer requires closing and reopening Chrome on Mac. (This was already true on Windows).
• Preferences
  • Project- and file-specific editor settings: Use JSON configuration files to specify different indentation, word wrap, etc. settings for different folders or different file types. (TODO: link to detailed how-to)
• Performance
  • Faster Brackets launch: Brackets now loads up to 50% faster thanks to minified JS and pre-compiled LESS.
• CSS Animation
  • Visually edit CSS transition step timing functions: Invoke Quick Edit when your cursor is on any step() function in a CSS rule to edit it (building on top of the existing visual cubic-bezier() editor).
• Linting
  • Multiple linting providers per Language: If multiple providers are registered, they will all be run and the results consolidated.
• Build Process
  • Use release branches: Branching a few days in advance of Brackets releases gives more 'stabilization time' to find bugs before releasing, and also allows work for the next sprint's features to start sooner.
  • Optimized builds: See notes below on new build step for minifying JS and precompiling LESS.

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

TODO: link to info on preferences JSON file format

API Changes

TODO: document debugging workflow for minified installed builds

TODO: linting API change for overriding built-in JSLint provider

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

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Known Issues

• Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) by default will not allow Brackets to run since it's not digitally signed yet. To work around this, right click the Brackets app and choose Open. You only need to do that once -- afterward, launching Brackets the normal way will work also.
• #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: brackets-shell
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.

Bugs fixed in Sprint 35

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 35 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.