Release Notes: Sprint 37

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Sprint 37 -- approximately February 27.

What's New in Sprint 37

• Installation
  • Code-signed builds (Mac & Win): Eliminates some warnings on launch and install. Gatekeeper no longer prevents launching Brackets by default on Mac.
• Find
  • Configurable exclusions from Find in Files: Choose file names, paths, or wildcards to exclude from Find in Files search.
• Preferences
  • Revamped preferences APIs ready for use: TODO
  • Migrate view state to new preference storage format: TODO
• Ongoing Research (not enabled yet)
  • Multiple cursor/selection support: Initial implementation on a branch, not exposed in this release of Brackets yet.
  • Research JS Code Hints Cleanup: Investigate how to simplify the code, improve performance & maintainability, and unify with new preferences system.

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

No major changes to existing features.

API Changes

Preferences - TODO

File System - Paths with unsupported Windows-style separators ("" instead of "/") are now explicitly rejected immediately; previously they were accepted by FileSystem but behaved brokenly in various ways.

Editor - The optionChange event now uses the Brackets names for the options, rather than the CodeMirror names (for example "wordWrap" rather than "lineWrapping"). See Editor.js for the complete list.

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Optional requirejs-config.json - Allows extensions to define their own RequireJS configuration file requirejs-config.json before the main.js entry point loads. File format must follow http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#config. Read more...

Known Issues

• #2272: Windows Vista may not allow the Brackets installer to run (you may not see any error message). To work around this, right-click the installer file, choose Properties, and click the Unblock button.
• #4362: Slow startup of Brackets and Live Preview on Windows due to Chrome proxy settings. See workaround.
• Debug > Run Tests is disabled in the installer/DMG distributions of Brackets, because the unit test code is not included. To run unit tests, pull Brackets from GitHub instead.

Community contributions to Brackets

TODO

Pulling source code from Git

TODO

Bugs fixed in Sprint 37

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 37 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.