SciTE 5.6.5 released

[Neil Hodgson]

SciTE 5.6.5 is now available from the scintilla.org web site. It uses Lexilla 5.5.2 and Scintilla 5.6.5.

This is a security and performance release.

Windows on ARM executables are now available as SciTEArm.EXE or ScArm_565.EXE.

File names and paths that contain characters that are significant to the shell stop SciTE from running commands on those files. This prevents unintentionally running commands from compromised repositories. This is mostly of concern on Unix where the shell has more special cases than on Windows. It is controlled with the unsafe.path.characters property so can be made more or less rigorous.

On Linux, Find in Files should work for more cases where the search string includes shell-significant characters like '$' and '`'.

On Windows, the SciTE taskbar icon can change appearance while a command is executing by setting icon.busy=1.

The distributed property files quote variables in command properties to allow more characters such as ' ' to work in file names.

There were improvements for JavaScript.

A C++20 compiler is needed to build SciTE.

A detailed list of changes is available on the history page.
https://www.scintilla.org/SciTEHistory.html

SciTE uses Mercurial (Hg) and Git for source code control. The repositories can be cloned with
git clone https://github.com/ScintillaOrg/lexilla
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/code
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/scite

Downloads:
https://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDownload.html

There will be a commercial macOS release of SciTE shortly.

Thanks to the contributors of code and documentation and to the testers.

Neil