[ANN] BBEdit 15.5.5 (15C119) Pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon,

We're currently working on a maintenance update to BBEdit 15 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/15.5.5_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 pre-release build:

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version 15.5.5 (15C119) (2026-02-03)

Additions
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o (none in this build)

Changes
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* [529532] Added an option to `bbdiff(1)`: `--ignore-case`, also
usable as `-i`. This parallels the corresponding setting in
`diff(1)`, and provides a solution for performing
case-insensitive diffs. (The old `--case-sensitive` option is
supported for existing scripts, but because the default behavior
of the tool has always been to perform case-sensitive diffs in
the absence of the option, specifying it had no effect and there
was no way to request a case-insensitive diff.)

Fixes
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* [520790] The link checker will no longer report an error when
the empty fragment ("#") is used as a link target.

*fin*

The pre-release build can be downloaded from our web server: https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-15.5.5_15C119.dmg

If you are using BBEdit from the Mac App Store, you can obtain the pre-release version using TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Q3zRHtfU

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.