Release Notes: 1.8

What's New in Release 1.8

• Update shell node version to 6.3.1 by zaggino : Brackets 1.8 ships with Node 6.3.1. With this upgrade, extension developers can take advantage of all the latest node modules to develop extensions for Brackets.

• Cut/Copy/Paste Context menu items by ficristo : Cut, Copy and Paste operations are now available in the context menu.

• Code folding support for handlebar template files by thehogfather : Code-folding has now been enabled for blocks and helpers in handlebar template files.

• ARIA code hints by Coder206: Brackets 1.8 now supports 'ARIA' attributes for html attribute code hints.

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

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

• Moved client_switches files under a new common folder by ficristo
• VS2015: add link libraries by ficristo
• Removed string_util since is unused by ficristo
• Replaced util macros in favour of cef_helpers|cef_logging ones by ficristo
• VS2015: fix some warnings by ficristo
• Updated gyp by ficristo
• Update strings.js by Kruno H
• Pull latest changes from release branch by Marcel Gerber
• Replace the URL in URLCodeHints even if it is the current content of … by Marcel Gerber
• Close CSS Code Hints after inputting property value by Marcel Gerber
• Add new pref: lineWiseCopyCut by Marcel Gerber
• Show "Confirm Delete" dialog for files, too by Marcel Gerber
• fix some pt-br words by jorgelealbr
• Fix failing tests by Marcel Gerber
• Update CodeMirror by Marcel Gerber
• Improve search tick mark positioning by Marcel Gerber
• CSS: remove unneeded prefixes, add standard properties, remove px from 0s by valtlai
• Compress all .png files using Zopfli by Marcel Gerber
• Addresses #12456 by Patrick Oladimeji
• Use opn instead of open. by ficristo
• Change path of xdg-open to match opn (for linux-1547) by ficristo
• Change path of xdg-open to match opn by ficristo
• Move most inline jslint directives to config files by ficristo
• Avoid the edit icon to move in the file exclusion set by ficristo
• Fix crawlComplete exception when running tests by Marcel Gerber
• Update compatibility.manifest for Windows 10 by ficristo
• Add another assertion to be on the safe side by Amin Ullah Khan
• Fix to prevent moving files by renaming files using FileTreeView by tallandroid
• Remove code-padding from Codemirror pre's. Fixes #12630 by petetnt
• Rework how file selection is shown by Marcel Gerber
• get latest codemirror fixes by Martin Zagora
• do nothing when trying to reset with the same content which is already present by Martin Zagora
• Removed unnecessary prefixed property by AllThingsSmitty
• Fix the grayscale animation in our samples by Marcel Gerber
• Update .gitignore by ficristo
• Rework a bit appshell gyp files by ficristo
• Only add padding-left to main tree UL. Fix padding-bottom assignment since React was introduced by Matt Stow
• Enable "Click Through" for the file tree shadow by Marcel Gerber
• Move resource(_util*) under a new browser folder by ficristo
• Reuse parseQueryInfo defined in FindUtils for the FindReplace feature. by ficristo
• Attach editor to LiveCSSDocument by Sebastian Salvucci (Intel Corp)
• Rename CONFIRM_FOLDER_DELETE_TITLE -> CONFIRM_DELETE_TITLE by Marcel Gerber
• Remove basePadding from indentwrap hack by petetnt
• Simulate indentation of the project tree using some divs by ficristo
• Use the global RequireJS config for ExtensionLoader. Fixes #1087 by petetnt
• Update tests after #12047 by ficristo
• Fix the bug where errors during installation of a local .zip file wer… by Marcel Gerber
• Add client_types.h, match gtk gyp inclusion of cefclient by ficristo
• Make file watching compatible with node version 6.x (runs on 0.10 too) by Martin Zagora
• Compress .png files using Zopfli by Marcel Gerber
• Switched from JSHint to ESLint by ficristo
• ESLint: enable strict rule by ficristo
• Copy npm-shrinkwrap in dist folder and cleanup the file a bit by ficristo
• MultiBrowser Live Preview: Fix cases where url()s in CSS weren't resolved correctly by Marcel Gerber
• Fix Inline Editor file name underline by Marcel Gerber
• Fix for issue #8142: "Ctrl + Space" should move to the next entry when the code hint menu is open by bmax
• Update Tern & Acorn by Marcel Gerber
• ESLint: enable no-bitwise rule by ficristo
• Fix: Find in Files results don't update to reflect external changes unless file is open by amrelnaggar
• Ensures fold-gutter is always inserted after the line-number gutter (if it exists) by Patrick Oladimeji
• release to master by Martin Zagora
• Revert "Ensures fold-gutter is always inserted after the line-number gutter (if it exists)" by petetnt
• fix invalid filename by Martin Zagora
• Rename ecma5 to ecmascript by ficristo
• Resequence autosuggestions for CSS 'list-style' by albell
• Monkeypatch ternServer.normalizeFilename so it doesn't break Mac/Linu… by Marcel Gerber
• Add cut/copy/paste to the context menu by ficristo
• Enable paste command by ficristo
• update shell node version to 6.3.1 by Martin Zagora
• node 6.3.1 for linux by Martin Zagora
• Support initialDirectory and title in Linux' showOpenDialog by Marcel Gerber
• update CM before release by Martin Zagora
• Travis: test against node 6 by ficristo
• Add an ISSUE_TEMPLATE by ficristo
• Created a Guide for Common Linux Issues by NathanJPlummer
• Fixed leak in menu.js file. Fixes #12765 by daytonallen
• set eslints max-len to 120 by Martin Zagora
• Some cleanup by ficristo
• Remove define OS_* by ficristo
• Add missing include and fix path libcef.so by ficristo
• Adds autofill detail tokens to the autocomplete attribute by Dandandans
• add font-display property by samuelcarreira
• Italian translation, correct sintax by dennybiasiolli
• Ignore only toplevel folder and add out folder too by ficristo
• Caching $(".modal-body", $dlg) in to its own variable by mansimarkaur
• Don't let ESC key bubble in CodeHintList. Fixes #12799 by petetnt
• Fix MacOS folder icon handling. Fixes #12789 by petetnt
• Move AppShellExtensionHandler and StContextScope out of client_app by ficristo
• Move fixupKey where it is used and fix headers inclusion by ficristo
• Add ARIA Code Hints by Coder206
• Import cefclient-2623 code and include it on Linux build only by ficristo
• Adds code folding support for handlebars template files by Patrick Oladimeji
• Appshell helpers by ficristo
• Init command_line directly in cefclient_ by ficristo
• Move more things from cefclient_gtk to appshell_helpers by ficristo
• Update CSSProperties.json by Ollie-w
• Dialog returns focus to previous element after closing by Jerhamre

Pulling source code from Git

TODO: any brackets-shell updates? which of the below messages are applicable?

• A new brackets-shell build is required for this sprint. Be sure to rerun grunt setup before building.
• Recommended: rebuild or reinstall an updated brackets-shell (no critical updates, but there are bugfixes).
• Rebuilding/updating brackets-shell is optional for this release.
• Rebuilding/updating brackets-shell is not required for this release.
• brackets-shell's Node dependencies have changed. Run npm install before rebuilding brackets-shell.
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.
• 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 1.8

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 1.8 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.