[ANN] BBEdit 13.5.5 (4150103) 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/13.5.5_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 version:

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version 13.5.5 (415103) (2021-02-17)

Additions
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* (none in this build)

Changes
-------

* (none in this build)

Fixes
-----

* Fixed bug in which the "Product Info" button was inappropriately
hidden in the license panel.

* Fixed bug in which using `bbedit -w /path/to/some/file` to start
the application would result in the command-line invocation
returning prematurely (before the document in question had been
closed).

* [418245] Fixed bug in which the placement of tick marks in the
vertical scrollbar didn't take the overscroll ("extra vertical
space") preference into account.

* [418617] Fixed performance bug in which resizing the sidebar in
windows containing a large number of documents which in turn had
Soft Wrap Text turned on *and* were set to wrap to the window
width would (_inhales deeply_) stall the application and
frequently fail to resize the sidebar.

* Using the "`PreferredFilenameExtension`" expert preference set
to an empty string will now suppress addition of a default
filename extension when saving a new file (that being the
originally intended behavior). We recommend that you avoid this
unless absolutely necessary, since macOS relies heavily on
filename extensions to determine file types and application
associations.

*fin*

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-13.5.5_415103.dmg>

Enjoy,

R.