Upcoming 3.7.2

[Neil Hodgson]

A couple of bugs that cause crashes when destroying Scintilla objects on some versions of GTK+ and Cocoa have been fixed and I’d like to make a release containing these fixes soon. A new version, 3.7.2 should be released in around 3 days on December 30.

It is possible to trigger this with SciTE's About box on GTK+ but otherwise SciTE isn’t much affected. There will be a new release on GTK+ and Windows, but not on macOS.

Change list:
• Minimize redrawing for SCI_SETSELECTIONN* APIs. Bug #1888.
• Use more precision to allow selecting individual lines in files with more than 16.7 million lines.
• For Qt 5, define QT_WS_MAC or QT_WS_X11 on those platforms. Bug #1887.
• For Cocoa, fix crash on view destruction with macOS 10.12.2. Bug #1891.
• Fix crash on GTK+ <3.8 due to incorrect lifetime of accessibility object. More accurate reporting of attribute ranges and deletion lengths for accessibility.
• In SciTE, if a Lua script causes a Scintilla failure exception, display error message in output pane instead of exiting. Bug #1773.

Please report any new bugs.

Available from the Mercurial repositories:
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/code scintilla
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/scite
and from
http://www.scintilla.org/scite.zip Source
http://www.scintilla.org/wscite.zip Windows executable

Neil