[ANN] BBEdit 14.6.4 (14D55) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon folks,

We're currently working on a maintenance update to BBEdit 14 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/14.6.4_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 14.6.3 public release:

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version 14.6.4 (14D55) (2023-02-03)

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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* [455820] Fixed crash which would occur on macOS 13.x when trying
to truncate a note's title for display in the navigation bar, and
the title looked enough like an URL to trigger a bug in the OS.

* [455847, 455908] Fixed regression in which opening the
completion panel (or one of its cousins) would cause a space
switch.

* [455937] Improved accuracy of the "looks like HTML" test, which
in turn improves correctness of fold generation when processing
incomplete and unqualified snippets of HTML code.

* [455975] Fixed regression in which Extract would not find all
occurrences of very short patterns which occurred multiple times
on the same line, e.g. "`.`".

* [455933] Fixed crash which would occur when navigating
differences after having made certain specific edits in one of
the files being compared.

* [455514] Updated the list of ISO language codes used by the "New
Document" command and HTML syntax checker.

* [454256] Corrected some omissions from the global attribute list
which were causing incorrect error reports from the HTML5 syntax
checker.

* [453748] Fixed crash which would occur when closing a document
while its selection (or contents) were being recited by the
speech system, and then subsequently quitting the application
while waiting for speech to finish.

* [454273] "Open File by Name" will not search files/folders listed in the
"Open Recent" history. If you would prefer that it do so, turn on the
appropriate expert preference:

`defaults write com.barebones.bbedit OFBNIncludesRecentItems -bool YES`

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-14.6.4_14D55.dmg>

Enjoy,

R.