[ANN] BBEdit 15.5 (15C59) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good morning,

We're working on a feature update to BBEdit 15, and a pre-release version is now available.

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/15.5_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 previous 15.5 pre-release announcement:

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version 15.5 (15C59) (2025-05-05)

* BBEdit 15.5 requires macOS 12.0 or later.

Additions
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o (none in this build)

Changes
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o (none in this build)

Fixes
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* [NFR] [503884] Fixed regression in which "Balance" didn't
properly select the range of text in between balanced HTML/XML
tags.

* [NFR] [504010] Fixed erroneous warning when doing an Extract
operation with nothing in the Replace field.

* [NFR] [504073] Fixed regression in which "Run in Terminal" would
not work correctly if the application had been granted sandbox
access.

* [503819] Honor "Auto-expand tabs" for built-in formatting
implemented by the language module.

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-15.5_15C59.dmg

Enjoy,

R.

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Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc.
<sie...@barebones.com> <https://www.barebones.com/>

Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me.