[ANN] BBEdit 13.5.2 (415055) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon,

We're currently working on a maintenance update to BBEdit 13.5 to
address a few recently reported issues.

Note that this is a _pre-release_ version. The intent is to fix bugs and
address areas of improvement based on what our customers have reported.
However, since the software is at this point not fully tested, there
_may_ be bugs and regressions.

If this prospect makes you nervous, then sticking with the public
release versions is your best course of action. Nobody will be offended
if you choose to do so; you're under no obligation to install and use
anything but a public release. :-)

Complete change notes to date for all the pre-release builds in this
cycle are available here:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/13.5.2_Notes.txt>

The change notes are organized into additions, changes, and fixes, and
are annotated where appropriate with case numbers. So if you recognize a
number corresponding to a support case that was opened for you, you can
now verify that it's been fixed correctly. Please take the time to
review the changes before using the new build -- it'll be worth your
time.

One final note: If you run into a bug in a pre-release version, PLEASE
DO NOT REPORT THE BUG TO THE LIST. This includes asking about whether
others have seen the same problem. Instead, please send a bug report to
<sup...@barebones.com> and we will deal with it there. This will help
us keep the list discussion on topic and productive for all list
members.

Here is the list of changes made since the 13.5 public release:

============================================================================

version 13.5.2 (415055) (2020-11-07)

Additions
---------

* (none in this build)

Changes
-------

* (none in this build)

Fixes
-----

* Fixed bug in which pseudo-definitions in built-in tags files
were inappropriately included in the results of "Find Definition"
(both the direct command and on the contextual menu).

* Adjusted the HTML/XML function/fold scanner so that fold stack
overflows (which can happen in hideously malformed documents)
will now only cause fold generation to cease, rather than
abandoning the entire function scanning process.

* Fixed bug in which a fold range was not generated for foldable
constructs at the end of Python files in some circumstances.

* Made a change to guard against a crash while examining error
output from `ssh` during SFTP connection attempts.

* When saving a document opened by the built-in FTP/SFTP support,
BBEdit will now "block" the window with a small progress panel.
This eliminates an opportunity in which it was possible to close
the document while communications with the server were in
progress, but before the file had been saved.

* AppleScript shutdown items that tell the application to quit
will no longer crash the application. (Note: the application is
already quitting; shutdown items do not need to tell the
application to do so.)

* Fixed crash which would occur when comparing two files, and
either of them got deleted before the Differences window
appeared. This usually happened as the result of using `bbdiff`
as a helper tool without specifying the `-w` option.

* Fixed bug in which it was possible for the application to load
an ancient Sleep State file if a current one is unavailable.

* Fixed a crash which might occur when clicks were sent to a text
view which was in the process of going away. (It's still not
clear how this is even possible, but the crash log never lies...
OR DOES IT?)

* Fixed bug in which "Find & Select All" did not properly unwind
character escapes in the search string when doing a literal
search; so if the search string contained any escaped special
characters, no matches were found.

* Corrected the appearance of the Setup window toolbar when
running on macOS 11.0.

* Worked around a bug in macOS (FB8554298) in which a certain
sequence of events beginning with choosing the "Open" command
with a file active, followed by trying to use "Save" or "Save As"
to save a file into the same directory, would cause the Save
panel to malfunction and render the application unusable.

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-13.5.2_415055.dmg>

Enjoy,

R.