[ANN] BBEdit 13.5.7 (415123) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon,

We're currently working on a maintenance update to BBEdit 13.5 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/13.5.7_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 13.5.6 public release:

============================================================================

version 13.5.7 (415123) (2021-06-08)

Additions
---------

* (none in this build)

Changes
-------

* (none in this build)

Fixes
-----

* [375075, 417164, 421242] Made changes to work around a weird
intersection of font metrics and floating-point math which would
sometimes cause printed text to fail to indent after the first
tab.

* Fixed bug in which changing a document-specific print setting in
the print panel would fail to take effect immediately, in
situations where the setting was being changed to match the
global preference.

* [424333] Made a change so that the Open Recent submenu doesn't
try to repopulate itself in response to a simple keyboard
equivalent match (since the menu itself doesn't have any keyboard
assignments possible). This will help when there are a large
number of recent items stored on slow remote file servers.

* Fixed bug in which `Esc` didn't work to dismiss sheets in
certain situations when "Enable meta sequences" was turned on in
the Keyboard preferences.

* Fixed a case in which closing a results or Disk Browser window
with an unsaved document would inappropriately prompt to save
changes to the document in cases where the document was open in
(at least) one other window.

* [421517] Made a change so that file changes in `node_modules` or
directories hidden by `.gitignore` no longer invalidate the Open
File by Name window cache.

* [421722] Fixed a typo in the "hex digit" character class example
in the Grep cheat sheet.

* [423305] Fixed crash which could occur when trying to dismiss
the Multi-File Search window (via Esc or Cmd-W) immediately after
opening it.

* [423679] Fixed hang which would occur when using Cmd-left-arrow
(and probably other cursor movements) more than 2GB into a file.

* [424009] Added some armor plating to prevent an reported
event-handling crash that we can't reproduce.

* [303051/303246, 424210] Updated the HTML5 syntax tables to allow
attributes and values that were previously reported as errors.

* The HTML5 syntax check will no longer complain about the `value`
attribute missing a value in the `input` element.

* [419897, 420437, 421052, 421723] Fixed crash which would occur when
clicking in the text of a file being displayed in a Differences
window, when the underlying file had been deleted *and* the file
had been in /tmp on macOS 10.15 and later.

* Fixed a few memory leaks.

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-13.5.7_415123.dmg>

Enjoy,

R.