[ANN] BBEdit 16.0.2 (16A69) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

We're currently working on a maintenance update to BBEdit 16 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/16.0.2_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 previous 16.0.2 pre-release build:

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version 16.0.2 (16A69) (2026-06-23)

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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* [543789] Made a change to resolve a Shell Worksheet behavior
issue when sending very large command strings to the shell.

* [543709] Fixed regression in which the legacy "Keyword Pattern"
codeless language module key was not loaded or validated.

* [543523] Corrected title of the "Show in Finder" entry in the
Menus & Shortcuts settings.

The pre-release build can be downloaded from our web server: https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-16.0.2_16A69.dmg

It is also available via TestFlight, for Mac App Store users: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Q3zRHtfU

Enjoy,

R.

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Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc.
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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me.

[eu...@gmx.de]

Hi Rich,

thanks for this pre-release version. It solved the problem I was working on since installing BBEdit 16.

The Deploy-function is back working!

Since it’s non listed in the fixes, I didn’t install 16.0.2 until now, when I was totally desperate, because everything I did, nothing helped.
So I installed 16.0.2 without any hope, and see: Deployment-function is back working!

Thanks a lot!
Maybe other developer have the same problem and you can help the giving this information further and hopefully push the release of the 16.0.2 update to final.

Best wishes, Ulrich

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[GP]

Ulrich,

From the previous [ANN] BBEdit 16.0.2 (16A51) pre-release Fixes list:

* Fixed bug in which site deployment would silently do nothing if
the local content root wasn't in a Git repository.

Perhaps that was the source of your not working issue, and you missed that fixed announcement.