Release Notes: 1.1

What's New in Release 1.1

• Early Access
  • Cross-browser Live Preview with Dev Tools: Although disabled by default, you can try out this brand-new version of Live Preview by enabling the livedev.multibrowser preference. The new Live Preview opens in your default browser, but you can paste the URL into other browsers and they'll all update at the same time. And you can use the browser's dev tools without interrupting Live Preview. Does not currently support pages that use your own custom server.
  • Windows High DPI support: To enable, right-click the app icon and select "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" in the Compatibility tab. (The window controls in the upper right do not rescale yet, however).
• Localization
  • Allow typing accent characters with AltGr: Brackets shortcuts that use Ctrl+Alt no longer supercede typing letter keys via AltGr.
  • Translation updates for: Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Korean, Persian-Farsi, Spanish, Ukrainian
• Preferences
  • Select enabled code linters via preferences: For example, different projects can use a different set of linters.
  • Programming language-specific preferences: Use the new "language" layer to set preferences based on file type, in addition to the path-specific or global preferences possible previously. Read more.
• Quick Docs
  • Update to latest Web Platform Docs content
• Stability & Performance
  • New event dispatching system: Brackets core objects use a new event-listener API that protects against misbehaved extensions. See below for details.
  • Improved typing performance while code hints open: Brackets limits the displayed list of code hints to 50 entries to improve performance. To override this limit, set the "maxCodeHints" preference.
  • Improved performance when lots of files are changing in the background, such as large source-control checkouts or complex Grunt build scripts.
  • Fixed issue that caused changes inside <style> blocks in PHP files to be lost in some cases.
  • Fixed two issues that caused Quick Edit to miss some CSS rules.

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Brackets now shows the project name in the title bar after the current filename (inside parentheses).

The menu item Navigate > Go to First Error/Warning has been renamed to Go to First Problem.

API Changes

Event listeners - Instead of using jQuery events, Brackets core modules and model objects now provide their own simpler on()/off() event listener API. (For DOM objects, continue to use jQuery events). When the legacy $().on()/off() APIs are used on objects that support the new API, they automatically call the new API instead. The new API is more robust to listeners that throw exceptions, uses less memory, and is easier to debug.

Related changes:

• Editor's "keyEvent" event is deprecated. Use the more specific events "keyup", "keypress", or "keydown" instead. (However, in most cases you should use Document's "change" event instead of any of the Editor events).
• NodeConnection events now only use : separators - the deprecated . separators (which conflict with the more standard use of . as an event-listener namespace) are no longer supported.

Chromium version - Updated from Chromium 29 to 39, except on Linux which still uses Chromium 29 for now (help needed for Linux build - see here for details).

Developer tools - Debug > Show Developer Tools now opens a Brackets window instead of a tab in your browser. If Brackets gets badly hosed, you can still open dev tools in Chrome browser by manually visiting http://localhost:9234/.

jQuery - Upgraded from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1
Lodash - Upgraded from 2.2.0 to 2.4.1
LESS - Upgraded from 1.7.0 to 1.7.5
RequireJS - Upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.1.15

SVG language - SVG files are now reported by LanguageManager as "svg" instead of "xml" as before.

Markdown language - Markdown files may now be reported by LanguageManager as "gfm" in addition to the "markdown" language reported before. This lets users distinguish GitHub-flavored Markdown files from "classic" Markdown.

File tree icon providers - Providers can now return falsy to add no icon to an item, consistent with working set icon providers. Clarified documentation for all provider hooks. Also, the large negative margin + large positive padding hack used in tree items' CSS has been removed.

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Themes - specify "addModeClass": true in the theme info JSON to enable using language-specific CSS selectors (e.g. use different colors for the same token name, depending on file type). This causes a slight performance hit, so please only enable if you're using it.

Known Issues

• 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

• New Live Preview implementation (+ part 2, part 3) (disabled by default for now) by Sebastian Salvucci (Intel Corp) & Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Show current project name in titlebar by Triangle717
• Select enabled code linters via preferences (+ part 2) by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Update Web Platform Docs content; new script for easier updating by Marcel Gerber
• Programming language-specific preferences via "language" layer by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Limit code hint list length to improve typing performance (+ part 2) by Marcel Gerber
• Separate GitHub Flavored Markdown from regular Markdown mode; recognize .mdown/.mkdn as Markdown by Marcel Gerber
• Add theme option "addModeClass" (for language-aware themes) by Marcel Gerber
• Update to latest dot releases of jQuery, LESS, Lodash, RequireJS by Marcel Gerber
• Expose internal linting API to get list of providers (+ part 2) by Mark Simulacrum
• Fix: No image preview if filename contains "%" or "#" by Mark Simulacrum
• Fix Quick Docs links that point to currently viewed page by Marcel Gerber
• Fix: Find In Files result disappear after saving file with prefix of other filename by Marcel Gerber
• Fix: Warnings logged with async linters when launching Brackets (+ part 2) by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Fix freeze in new Live Preview implementation by Scott Wadden
• Fix new event API .off() chaining by Marcel Gerber
• Allow focusing all types of <input> fields in dialogs by Eliezer Bernart
• Rename "Go to First Error/Warning" -> "Go to First Problem" for consistency by Jacob Lauritzen
• Ensure preferences error dialog gets focus by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Fix error message wording when unable to read directory by Kevin Mo
• In About Dialog, don't show "{0}" when running from git source with detached head by Marcel Gerber
• Add performance measurement for indexing project files by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Chinese (Simplified) translation update by Michael J.
• Dutch translation fix by Pieter Willekens
• Finnish translation update by valtlait
• German translation update by Marcel Gerber
• Italian translation update by Christopher Pecoraro
• Italian translation fixes by Elia Cereda
• Korean translation update by Taegon Kim
• Persian-Farsi translation update by Pooya Parsa Dadashi
• Spanish translation update by Tomás Malbrán
• Ukrainian translation update by Maks Lyashuk
• Cleanup: Fix some @link / @see tags in docs by Chema Balsas
• Cleanup: Remove some whitespace by Pavel Dvořák

Pulling source code from Git

• A new brackets-shell build is required for this sprint.
  • If you build brackets-shell yourself, you must re-run grunt setup before building (due to the CEF update).
• A submodule URL was changed this sprint. Run git submodule sync and then git submodule update --init --recursive to ensure your local source tree reflects the update.

Bugs fixed in Release 1.1

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 1.1 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.