[ANN] BBEdit 15.1 (15B9) pre-release
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Rich Siegel
Apr 25, 2024, 11:43:13 AMApr 25
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Good afternoon,
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/15.1_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 15.0.3 public release:
================================================================================
version 15.1 (15B9) 2024-04-25
Additions
---------
+ [DOC] "ChatGPT Worksheets" are branching out; the renamed "AI
Chat Worksheet" preferences provide settings to select
alternative services. Included with the application are service
models for ChatGPT, [Claude](https://claude.ai/), and
[Ollama](https://www.ollama.com).
You can also add your own services and endpoints, as long as they
use an API that is compatible with OpenAI's (or close enough that
BBEdit can't tell the difference).
The status bar item for AI worksheets shows the service name along
with the model name. You can switch services in an AI chat
worksheet, and also clear the chat/response history if desired.
(This may be necessary in cases where enough history accumulates
that the service rejects or limits request lengths.)
Changing services requires clearing the history.
[NFR] Documentation and examples are forthcoming; if this is
something you want to do right now, please write to support.
* [DOC] Added a "Decompose Unicode" transformation.
+ [DOC] Added a setting to the "Expert" settings panel list so
that it only shows values that have been changed from their
factory defaults.
* Added binding points for the remaining dynamic commands on the
"Insert" submenu to the Menus & Shortcuts preferences.
Changes
-------
* [DOC] Rearranged the Languages preferences panel to make more
room for custom language settings as well as for customized
filename extension mappings.
* Improved soft wrapping behavior when wrapping to the Page Guide
and a variable-pitch font is in use. (Note that when using such a
font, the notion of wrapping to a fixed number of characters
doesn't apply, so the actual position of the page guide is
approximated.)
* BBEdit will now try to automatically guess JSON, so that if you
paste some into an untitled document, you won't have to remember
to manually set the language if you want to use "Reformat
Document" to pretty-print it.
* Reworked the default placement and size of new document windows;
they are now centered in the main display and occupy a
less-than-total fraction of the available display height.
* If a file is opened from inside of the Xcode platform/SDK tree,
the document path in the navigation bar will be condensed to
elide irrelevant path elements, in order to save space.
* When the mouse is over an area where single-clicking selects a
line, BBEdit will change the cursor to a reversed arrow. (This
restores an old feature that went out with the bathwater a long
time ago.)
* Assigned keyboard equivalents (as configured in the Menus &
Shortcuts preferences) are stored now as a JSON file, which
should work around macOS APIs crashing if the old binary plist
format gets corrupted or conflicted.
Fixes
-----
* [NFR] This build includes several internal fixes intended to
address lurking code correctness issues. These changes should be
invisible, but please report any unexpected behavior changes
immediately to Tech Support (sup...@barebones.com).
* [477600] Fixed bug in which "Update Site" on a project might
generate incorrect results for site-relative placeholders (such
as `REAL_URL`) when multiple projects were open and the affected
files were present in more than one of the open projects.
* Fixed misfeature in which PHP superglobal references were
colored as predefined symbols, which prevented double-click
variable selection from working for them.
* [479230] Fixed crash at startup which would occur with certain
malformations in `~/.zshrc`.
* Fixed misplacement of the key binding points for the legacy
"Insert" menu commands in the Menus & Shortcuts preferences.
(They're under "Miscellaneous" but were buried under an
irrelevant heading.)
* Changes to improve performance when iterating large directories
in disk browsers and project window folder listings.
* Made some performance improvements to the "is a Zip archive" and
"is a tarball" tests.
* Prompts sent to the chat API are now stored in the history only
*after* the API responds affirmatively. This ensures API behavior
correctness in the wake of errors (timeouts, account limits, or
otherwise) and fixes a problem in which Claude worksheets would
become inoperative after errors.
* Restored the ability to configure keyboard equivalents for
Insert Time Stamp (short and long) and Insert Page Break that was
lost in rearchitecture with 15.0.
* Fixed a typo in an error message that might occur while trying
to install the command line tools.
*fin*
The package can be downloaded from our web server:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-15.1_15B9.dmg
Enjoy,
R.
--
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.
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/15.1_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 15.0.3 public release:
================================================================================
version 15.1 (15B9) 2024-04-25
Additions
---------
+ [DOC] "ChatGPT Worksheets" are branching out; the renamed "AI
Chat Worksheet" preferences provide settings to select
alternative services. Included with the application are service
models for ChatGPT, [Claude](https://claude.ai/), and
[Ollama](https://www.ollama.com).
You can also add your own services and endpoints, as long as they
use an API that is compatible with OpenAI's (or close enough that
BBEdit can't tell the difference).
The status bar item for AI worksheets shows the service name along
with the model name. You can switch services in an AI chat
worksheet, and also clear the chat/response history if desired.
(This may be necessary in cases where enough history accumulates
that the service rejects or limits request lengths.)
Changing services requires clearing the history.
[NFR] Documentation and examples are forthcoming; if this is
something you want to do right now, please write to support.
* [DOC] Added a "Decompose Unicode" transformation.
+ [DOC] Added a setting to the "Expert" settings panel list so
that it only shows values that have been changed from their
factory defaults.
* Added binding points for the remaining dynamic commands on the
"Insert" submenu to the Menus & Shortcuts preferences.
Changes
-------
* [DOC] Rearranged the Languages preferences panel to make more
room for custom language settings as well as for customized
filename extension mappings.
* Improved soft wrapping behavior when wrapping to the Page Guide
and a variable-pitch font is in use. (Note that when using such a
font, the notion of wrapping to a fixed number of characters
doesn't apply, so the actual position of the page guide is
approximated.)
* BBEdit will now try to automatically guess JSON, so that if you
paste some into an untitled document, you won't have to remember
to manually set the language if you want to use "Reformat
Document" to pretty-print it.
* Reworked the default placement and size of new document windows;
they are now centered in the main display and occupy a
less-than-total fraction of the available display height.
* If a file is opened from inside of the Xcode platform/SDK tree,
the document path in the navigation bar will be condensed to
elide irrelevant path elements, in order to save space.
* When the mouse is over an area where single-clicking selects a
line, BBEdit will change the cursor to a reversed arrow. (This
restores an old feature that went out with the bathwater a long
time ago.)
* Assigned keyboard equivalents (as configured in the Menus &
Shortcuts preferences) are stored now as a JSON file, which
should work around macOS APIs crashing if the old binary plist
format gets corrupted or conflicted.
Fixes
-----
* [NFR] This build includes several internal fixes intended to
address lurking code correctness issues. These changes should be
invisible, but please report any unexpected behavior changes
immediately to Tech Support (sup...@barebones.com).
* [477600] Fixed bug in which "Update Site" on a project might
generate incorrect results for site-relative placeholders (such
as `REAL_URL`) when multiple projects were open and the affected
files were present in more than one of the open projects.
* Fixed misfeature in which PHP superglobal references were
colored as predefined symbols, which prevented double-click
variable selection from working for them.
* [479230] Fixed crash at startup which would occur with certain
malformations in `~/.zshrc`.
* Fixed misplacement of the key binding points for the legacy
"Insert" menu commands in the Menus & Shortcuts preferences.
(They're under "Miscellaneous" but were buried under an
irrelevant heading.)
* Changes to improve performance when iterating large directories
in disk browsers and project window folder listings.
* Made some performance improvements to the "is a Zip archive" and
"is a tarball" tests.
* Prompts sent to the chat API are now stored in the history only
*after* the API responds affirmatively. This ensures API behavior
correctness in the wake of errors (timeouts, account limits, or
otherwise) and fixes a problem in which Claude worksheets would
become inoperative after errors.
* Restored the ability to configure keyboard equivalents for
Insert Time Stamp (short and long) and Insert Page Break that was
lost in rearchitecture with 15.0.
* Fixed a typo in an error message that might occur while trying
to install the command line tools.
*fin*
The package can be downloaded from our web server:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-15.1_15B9.dmg
Enjoy,
R.
--
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.
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