[ANN] BBEdit 13.5.1 (415045) 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/13.5.1_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 13.5.1 (415045) (2020-10-22)

Additions
---------

* [409783] BBEdit offers a new item for the Services menu:
"Compare using BBEdit". For any two selected file items, this
will start a Find Differences operation. (The items must both be
files or both be folders, and when comparing files, both files
must be recognizable by BBEdit as text files.)

Changes
-------

* (none in this build)

Fixes
-----

* [409448] Fixed an error in the Markdown cheat sheet.

* Corrected sort ordering of the list in the Rescued Documents
window, so that the most recently created rescues come first.

* Fixed crash which would occur when trying to report "These files
are identical" using a sheet in the document's window.

* [409489] Fixed bug in which live highlighting of selected
matches would not start a new search in some situations
(involving clicking into a blank line and then back on to a match
for the most recently searched string).

* Added an entry to the Markdown cheat sheet for titled image
placement.

* [409522] If `bbedit --maketags` cannot locate a suitable
`ctags`, it will now report and exit rather than crashing.

* [409535] Fixed a crash which could occur during multi-file Find
Differences when attempting to identify identical files.

* [409475] Fixed bug in which untitled document rescue didn't take
place when "Make backup before saving" was turned on.

* [409687] Added some armorplating at the site of a
nonreproducible crash.

* Made a change so that PDFs are explicitly excluded from
consideration as possible text files, *unless* the
`OpenPDFsAsText` expert preference is explicitly turned on. This
improves file filtering performance in a variety of
circumstances.

* [409574, 409575] Fixed a bug in which significant latency in
saving FTP/SFTP documents via the built-in support would lead to
a subsequent (inaccurate) warning about the document having been
modified on the server. (This would occur upon a later attempt to
save.)

* [409762] Made a change to work around a macOS bug (FB8811175) in
which sandboxed processes were not allowed to send Apple Events
to BBEdit, because its application property list file exceeded
50KiB in size. This broke automation operations initiated by
Automator, MarsEdit, Keyboard Maestro, and probably others.

* [409508, 409690] Fixed crash which would occur when parsing
certain `.editorconfig` files.

* [409496] Unrecognized tags will no longer interfere with
"Balance Tags", as long as they are either properly balanced
container pairs or written using the self-closing XML syntax.

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-13.5.1_415045.dmg>

Enjoy,

R.