[ANN] BBEdit 16.0.1 (16A55) 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/16.0.1_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 previous pre-release notification:

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version 16.0.1 (16A55) (2026-06-01)

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] [540662] Fixed regression in shell worksheets when using
`bash` as the login shell.

* [NFR] [540491] Fixed regression in selection behavior via the
Hard Wrap dialog box.

* [540416] Fixed bug in which opening a single file from an FTP
browser window would sometimes open it again in cases where the
corresponding document was already open.

* [540550] Made a change so that commands sent in shell worksheets
no longer appear in the shell's own global history.

* If a service error is returned by the W3C validator during a
batch check (folder/site), the error is logged into the results
rather than being allowed to interrupt the batch operation.

* [538694] Made a change to fix reported symptoms in which the App
Store subscription status was not presented correctly at startup.

* [539630] Fixed bug in which changing W3C validator settings in
the HTML-specific language preferences didn't affect the behavior
as intended.

* [540909] Fixed bug in which the application would incorrectly
determine the download file size of a remote SFTP file, sometimes
leading to unexpected results if the file had been changed on the
server in between the local determination of the file size and
the actual download.

* Made changes to improve handling of W3C validator rate limits,
which show up as HTTP 503 ("service unavailable") errors during
batch checks.

The pre-release build can be downloaded from our web server: https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-16.0.1_16A55.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.