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Build 4106

19 May 2021

Preparation for public release

Build 4105

10 May 2021

Linux, Mac: Caches have been moved to their proper location (~/.cache and ~/Library/Caches respectively)
Windows: Fixed an auto complete crash when auto_hide_menu is enabled
Windows: Fix memory leak

Build 4104

3 May 2021

Fix crash with chain command
Fix regressions with Goto Anything in 4103
Windows: Fixed an OpenGL regression in 4103

Build 4103

30 April 2021

Further performance improvements for Goto Anything
Added Scroll Bar.sublime-mousemap to customize scrollbar interaction
Added the chain command, which accepts a list of commands to run in its "commands" argument. This allows binding a key to run multiple commands without having to use a macro
Various syntax definition updates
Add Report a Bug entry in the Help menu
open_files_in_new_window is now supported on all platforms
Fixed scroll jumping on swap up/down
Auto Complete: Fixed an infinite loop when the same folder is added to the sidebar twice
Linux: Use native dialogs functionality in GTK, enabling KDE dialogs when desired
Mac: Improved behavior of Open and Save dialogs
Windows: Fix scroll jumping when using auto_hide_menu with adaptive theme
Windows: Fix multiple application instances launching using "Open with Sublime Text"
API: Add missing sublime.selected_sheets() method for Python 3.3

Build 4102

9 April 2021

Mac: Fixed window title appearing in the wrong location in the Adaptive theme
Fixed a sidebar selection bug with the last file in a folder
Folders in the sidebar can be recursively expanded via alt+arrow key

Build 4101

6 April 2021

Windows: Fixed missing manifest

Build 4100

5 April 2021

Mac releases now include native Apple Silicon binaries
Switching files correctly updates the window title and status bar
Tab Multi-Select: in Goto File and Goto Symbol in Project, the ctrl/cmd modifier now opens the file to the right, replacing any existing tabs
Tab Multi-Select: in Goto File, Goto Symbol in Project and Definitions popup, the shift modifier appends the file to the far right
Goto Anything: pasting a file name and line number no longer changes the line in the previous file
Goto Anything: add missing ctrl+enter key binding for Windows and Linux
Goto Anything: correct flickering of first tab when filtering files
Auto Complete: fixed a regression with the Definition link
Sidebar: fixed keyboard navigation when the Open Files section is displayed
Code Folding: fixed some edge-case incorrect behaviors
Linux: recursively expanding and collapsing sidebar folders now works with alt or super
Various syntax definition updates
API: added Sheet.group()
API: added sublime.CLEAR_TO_RIGHT for use with Window.open_file()
API: fixed ViewEventListener.on_load_async() sometimes not being called
API: added missing Window.select_sheets() method to Python 3.3 plugin host
API: Syntax.name is now derived from the path if not present

Build 4099

15 March 2021

Auto Complete: added the auto_complete_when_likely setting
Auto Complete: when mini_auto_complete is enabled, a normal AC window will no longer appear
Auto Complete: fixed clipping of kind letters
Sidebar: keyboard navigation has been fixed
Sidebar: various file selection fixes, including paths passed to commands
switch_file now preserves the current tab multi-selection
delete_file now properly closes associated tabs
swap_line_down will no longer result in an invalid selection
Trimming modified white space works properly in more edge cases
trim_trailing_white_space_on_save set to not_on_caret will no longer remove file contents
Selection will no longer be reset after Find All is used when finding in selection
Find results are now properly highlighted on Find All when close_find_after_find_all is turned off
Unicode URLs are now properly handled in the editor context menu
Closing window right after creating it will no longer crash
Changing window layout will no longer crash
Tab selection changes will no longer crash
Mac: windows will now stay maximized when using Mac window tabs
Linux: drag and drop of files into the editor has been fixed
Windows: menu corruption when using dark menus has been fixed
Themes: the tree_row for the file with input focus now gets the attribute highlighted
Various syntax definition updates
Clicking the Definition popup side-by-side icon will now replace all the selected tabs on the right
Fixed reveal in side bar sometimes not scrolling far enough
API: Added logging status functions:
- sublime.get_log_commands()
- sublime.get_log_input()
- sublime.get_log_build_systems()
- sublime.get_log_result_regex()
- sublime.get_log_indexing()
- sublime.get_log_fps()
- sublime.get_log_control_tree()
API: Make the logging function toggle when no argument is passed:
- sublime.log_commands()
- sublime.log_input()
- sublime.log_build_systems()
- sublime.log_result_regex()
- sublime.log_indexing()
- sublime.log_fps()
- sublime.log_control_tree()
API: ok_cancel_dialog() and yes_no_cancel_dialog now accept an optional title parameter
API: popups will be properly positioned when displayed near the right-hand side of the editor
API: popups near the right-hand side of the editor with wrapped lines will now be properly sized
API: minihtml will now properly handle whitespace after br tags and at the beginning of li tags
API: minihtml now supports white-space: nowrap
API: Updated Python to 3.8.8 and OpenSSL to 1.1.1j

Build 4098

12 February 2021

Windows will remember their Virtual Desktop/Space/Workspace, controlled by the remember_workspace setting
Tab Multi-Select: added commands to change tab focus left and right
Tab Multi-Select: improved Selection > Tab Selection menu
Tab Multi-Select: the Alt modifier now works in the Side Bar
Tab Multi-Select: the Alt and Ctrl/Cmd modifiers now work with the tab dropdown
Find highlights are no longer shown for files over 1MB
Side bar row highlights now properly reflect the selected tabs
Fixed a regression that would leave open files after being deleted from the side bar
Reveal in Side Bar now works consistently
Goto Symbol in Project now properly behaves with the Ctrl/Cmd modifier
Fixed the tree_animation_enabled setting to work properly
Prevent a crash when opening a file while two or more tabs are selected
Fixed a bug with Goto Anything when combining a file name and line number
Themes: Fix a regression that could cause folder icons in the side bar to be rendered incorrectly
Linux: Resolved menu performance issues when using Wayland
Linux: Fixed a crash on some non-Gnome desktop environments
Linux: Prevent carets from getting stuck due to text drags
API: Added modifier_keys to event dicts when commands are invoked via a menu
API: Tooltips from minihtml title attributes are now positioned properly
API: Additional fix for CommandInputHandler() objects for Python 3.3
API: Updated Python to 3.8.7 and OpenSSL to 1.1.1i

Build 4097

3 February 2021

Key Bindings: Join Lines is now on Ctrl+Shift+J / Cmd+Shift+J
Key Bindings: Expand Selection to Indentation is no longer bound by default
Key Bindings: Ctrl+J / Cmd+J is now used as a prefix for sequential key bindings, similar to Ctrl+K / Cmd+K
Improved symbol popup navigation to default to replacing the focused sheet
Append Tab icon in symbol popup now always opens a new tab to the right
Added Selection/Tab Selection menu
Find: Find in Selection now highlights the area that will be searched
Find: Added find_only and replace_only options to auto_find_in_selection
Find: Fixed adjacent matches being skipped when find in selection is in use
Find: Fixed find in selection option not being cleared when changing tabs
Find: Find commands can now be run without the find panel having input focus
Linux: Disable custom title-bar on non-gnome desktop environments
Linux: Fix popups having a titlebar or not showing
API: Fix CommandInputHandler objects for Python 3.3

Build 4096

29 January 2021

Linux: Added support for custom title bars
Goto File, Goto Symbol in Project, Goto Definition and the Definitions popup now support the ctrl/cmd modifier to open the file in addition to the current file
Tabs, Open Files entries, Goto File, Goto Symbol in Project, Goto Definition and the Definitions popup now support using the alt modifier to replace the current file with the selected file
Added support for previewing TGA and PSD images
Command Palette entry UI: Customize Color scheme now supports in .tmTheme files
Find in Files: Fix not recursing into directories on networked file systems
Find in Files: Hide rulers by default in find results
Themes: Improved appearance of highlight_modified_tabs with square and rounded tabs
Themes: Fix background color of Adaptive theme tabset when a sheet has a color scheme override
Themes: tabset_control and tab_control now get a tint of the sheet after background_modifier is applied
Windows: Fix display of color emoji when using subpixel_antialiasing
Windows: Work around OpenGL artifacts in text controls
Windows: Fix flashing when using OpenGL and resizing a window
Fixed an regression in Auto Complete window positioning
API: Backwards Compatibility Break: sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION_SEMI_TRANSIENT was removed, should use sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION | sublime.SEMI_TRANSIENT in place
API: Added the flag sublime.SEMI_TRANSIENT for use with window.open_file()
API: Added the flag sublime.REPLACE_MRU for use with window.open_file(). When multiple sheets are selected, this flag will cause the opened file to replace the most recently used sheet with the file being opened.
API: Backwards Compatibility Break: The event parameter passed to commands when a minihtml link is clicked changed from a two-element list to a dict with the keys x and y
API: Added the flag sublime.WANT_EVENT for use with window.show_quick_panel(). This will pass an event dict to the on_select callback. The dict will contain the key modifier_keys, which will be a dict that may contain zero or more of the keys: primary, ctrl, super, alt, altgr.
API: The TextInputHandler and ListInputHandler classes may define a method want_event() that returns True to receive an extra parameter, an event dict, when the validate() and confirm() methods are called. The dict will contain the key modifier_keys, which will be a dict that may contain zero or more of the keys: primary, ctrl, super, alt, altgr.
API: Add sublime.ui_info() for high-level information about the UI
API: Fix display of the annotation field of ListInputItem()

Build 4095

22 January 2021

Changed file tab style, adding file_tab_style setting
Added Default Dark theme
Added automatic dark/light theme and color scheme switching, based on OS theme changes
Sheets without input focus are now dimmed when using included themes
Included themes have a tab connector joining the active sheet and tab when using sheet multi-select
Improved the theme and color scheme selection commands
Added commands to simplify customizing the active theme or color scheme
Added a New Tab button in the tab bar, and hide_new_tab_button setting
Various syntax highlighting improvements
Added Preserve Case to Find in Files
Definitions popups now include the symbol name
Improved handling of newlines in exported HTML
When renaming a file, the extension is now excluded from the initial selection
switch_file command now handles filenames with compound extensions
The scroll_past_end setting now supports customizing the scroll distance using numbers from 0.0 to 1.0
Double-clicking a semi-transient sheet's tab will now fully open the sheet
Invalid Python version files are now correctly displayed in the Console
Fix a regression with side bar input focus
Resolve some bugs with syntax definitions that use branching
Fix a bug with Jump Back saving multiple jump points when drag-selecting text
Fixed a bug with Find where the most recent history item was sometimes overwritten
Fixed image sheets to properly follow the theme scroll bar colors
Fixed a bug with scroll position jumping around where certain commands were executed
Color Schemes: Slightly darkened the background of Mariana
Color Schemes: .hidden-tmTheme files are now supported by the .sublime-color-scheme convertor
Themes: Included themes use variables extensively, making customization simpler
Themes: The settings key now supports objects, with keys being settings and values being a boolean, string or array of strings
Themes: Added sheet_contents class to text, image and HTML sheets
Themes: Added the background_modifier property for sheet_contents
Themes: Added a number of new attributes to tab_control for richer tab theming
Themes: The highlighted attribute is only applied to the most recently active sheet, rather that the most recently active sheet in each group
Themes: tab_control and sheet_contents classes now synchronize their highlighted and hover attributes
Themes: tooltip controls now support animations to their opacity
Linux: Fix bug with the caret not moving after performing a text drag
Linux: Fix key bindings containing the - key when using a French AZERTY keyboard
Linux: Fix a bug with context menus sometimes getting incorrect variables
Mac: Updated icon to follow macOS 11 style
Mac: Added a workaround for Apple M1 OpenGL graphics driver bug that caused text to be rendered incorrectly
Mac: Fix title bar flickering after switching between themes using light and dark menus
Mac: Fix a bug with "preview_on_click": "left_only" when the option key was used with the left mouse button
Mac/Windows: Added document icons and file associations for all Sublime file formats
Windows: Added support for dark mode title bars and menus
Windows: Correct some font rendering glitches
Windows: Fix bug causing menu to appear when using key binding using alt
Windows: Fix a crash when starting after closing with a window fullscreen
Windows: Fix issue with properly sizing maximized windows when using custom title bars
Windows: Added a workaround for Intel OpenGL graphics driver bug that caused black bars at the top of some windows
API: Added ListInputItem so that ListInputHandler objects can provide kind info, annotations and details
API: Added color-based kind IDs for ListInputItem and QuickPanelItem to allow plugins to provide semantic colors
API: Improved sys.stdout to extend io.TextIOBase
API: Fix a bug with popup being stuck open when a popup is shown in the hide event handler of another popup

Build 4094

30 November 2020

Added additional menu items to the command palette
Auto save is now asynchronous
Added themed_title_bar setting
Added control_character_style setting
Copy as HTML will now set the clipboard MIME type
Fixed block carets not aligning with pixel boundaries on screens with fractional DPI scales
Windows: Fixed regression that disabled sub-pixel anti-aliasing
Mac: Improved OpenGL performance on Intel GPUs
API: .sublime-commands files now support filtering commands via the "platform" key

Build 4093

18 November 2020

Windows: Various fixes for custom title bars
Printing: Added support for hashed color schemes
Printing: Fixed non-ascii characters rendering incorrectly on Mac
Fixed warning about incorrect menu mnemonic
Mac: Fix subl not bringing the running application to the foreground

Build 4092

16 November 2020

Various syntax highlighting improvements
Windows: Added support for custom title bars
Added File/Print, which prints via a browser
Added Edit/Copy as HTML
Added Project/Recent/Remove Deleted
Added wrap_width_style preference
Added close_find_after_find_all preference
Added close_find_after_replace_all preference
Improved performance with large session files
Fixed an issue with undo stack serialization in the session
Fixed dragging tabs to non-visible windows
Build Systems: Any currently running process will be killed immediately when a new build is started
Mac: Added workaround for the command line helper when app translocation is in effect
Mac: Added workaround for macOS file dialogs not supporting file extensions containing periods
API: Added View.export_to_html()
API: sublime.select_folder_dialog() now supports multiselect on Windows

Build 4090

21 October 2020

Fixed a selection rendering regression

Build 4089

20 October 2020

Fixed a selection rendering regression in 4088
Fixed a Goto Anything regression in 4088
Indexing: index_workers is now applied exactly, rather than approximately, which improves behavior when re-indexing a large number of windows
Mac: Quick Switch Project now works without any windows open
Linux: Fixed a compatibility regression in 4088 when GTK is built without Wayland support
Windows: Fixed a case where the mouse cursor could remain unexpectedly hidden
Windows: Fixed a compatibility issue with non-ascii user names

Build 4088

12 October 2020

Fixed a syntax highlighting backtracking crash
Fixed incorrect popup window sizes in some circumstances
Improved performance with a large number of selections
Added console_max_history_lines
Tweaked jump history behavior
Tweaked block caret size
Quick Switch Project will open the selected project in a new window if Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) is held down
Fixed regression where all but the first open file was being skipped in find in files
Mac: Added a workaround for an Nvidia OpenGL driver issue
API: Added Sheet.close()

Build 4087

25 September 2020

Various syntax highlighting improvements
OpenGL rendering performance improvements
Syntax Definitions: Added symbol indexing tests
Syntax Definitions: Added more information to the Show Scope Name popup
Syntax Definitions: Renamed TypeScript to TSX, and added a new vanilla TypeScript syntax
Syntax Definitions: Fixed an infinite loop that could occur with branch points
API: Fixed on_pre_close() being called after the view had been removed from the window
API: Updated Python to 3.8.6

Build 4086

14 September 2020

Tweaks to block caret rendering
Fixed glow font rendering regression in 4085
Fixed incorrect line highlight rendering
Fixed an issue restoring undo history
Syntax definitions can now use multiple inheritance, provided all parents have the same base syntax
Linux: Added support for extra keys on Sun Type 7 keyboards
Windows: Fixed a Korean IME compatibility issue
Mac: Fixed a rendering glitch when moving windows between low dpi and high dpi monitors
API: Fixed an issue when using sublime.COMPLETION_FLAG_KEEP_PREFIX in conjunction with sublime.DYNAMIC_COMPLETIONS

Build 4085

4 September 2020

Definitions hover popup shows more information about symbols
Goto Symbol shows more information about symbols
trim_trailing_white_space_on_save can now be set to "not_on_caret"
Improved behavior of scroll_context_lines in conjunction with mouse selection
Fixed rendering of large ligature symbols
minihtml: Added support for display: inline-block and text-align
minihtml: Added support for title attribute tool tips
API: Added sublime.SymbolRegion and sublime.SymbolLocation with corresponding methods on View and Window

Build 4084

21 August 2020

Fixed a crash regression in 4083
Fixed new windows not having input focus set correctly
API: Added on_associate_buffer() callback
API: Python 3.3 plugins trying to import Default/history_list.py will no longer fail, however these plugins must still be moved to 3.8 to work as expected

Build 4083

19 August 2020

Improved Jump Back and Jump Forward commands
Added advanced options to the draw_white_space setting
Auto Complete: no longer triggers at . or -> when there is an identifier to the right
Auto Complete: auto_complete_trailing_symbols is now disabled by default
Auto Complete: cancelCompletion will no longer prevent manual invocation
Files with the same filename, but in different groups, will now show path info in tab to disambiguate
Resolved bugs when two views of the same buffer had different color schemes
Relative line numbers are now correct when using a block caret
Fix closing read-only files when save_on_focus_lost is true
Popups now better constrain themselves to the available window space
Corrected OpenGL rendering to not accidentally reuse textures in certain circumstances
Various crash fixes
Various syntax highlighting improvements
Syntax Definitions: prevent a crash when "extends" was combined with a context containing no patterns
API: added sublime.QuickPanelItem() with support for kind info, annotations and basic minihtml
API: plugins may now add selections to the Jump Back history list via the add_jump_record command
API: plugins may suppress selections from the Jump Back history list via the jump_ignore_selection region
API: plugins may now disable the default HTML and CSS completions
API: Renamed TextChangeListener.remove() to TextChangeListener.detach()
API: Fixed a crash with TextChangeListener
API: Added Buffer.id() and Buffer.file_name()
API: Added View.sheet() and View.sheet_id()
API: Added Window.selected_sheets(), Window.selected_sheets_in_group() and Window.select_sheets()
API: EventListener.on_selection_modified() is no longer fired on non-selection state changes
Linux: added handling for GTK touch events
Mac: editor context menu now shows the correct cursor
Mac: cursor is no longer set when Sublime Text is not the foreground window
Mac: macOS 10.14+ no longer uses custom IBeam cursor for dark editor panes
Windows: corrected display of new windows to prevent flashes
Windows: fixed hang when the compositor is disabled, removed setting to disable vsync

Build 4081

7 August 2020

Changed default color scheme to Mariana
Various syntax highlighting improvements
Improved popup window behavior
Improved performance when loading files with very long lines
Improved quick panel sizing logic
Improved behavior of find_under_expand
Improved snippet behavior
Improved subl behavior when choosing which window to open a file in
Improved undo history serialization performance
Added highlight_find_results_in_scrollbar setting
set_file_type command now accepts "scope:" prefixed syntax names
Fixed white flashes that could occur in some circumstances
API: Added sublime.TextChangeListener, replacing the now removed on_text_changed()
API: show_quick_panel now accepts placeholder text, via the placeholder argument
API: Added sublime.syntax_from_path(), sublime.find_syntax_by_name(), sublime.find_syntax_by_scope(), and sublime.find_syntax_for_file()
API: Removed sublime.find_syntax()
API: Added View.clones()
API: Added Sheet.is_semi_transient() and Sheet.is_transient
API: CommandInputHandler now has an initial_selection() method
API: sublime.executable_path(), sublime.packages_path(), sublime.installed_packages_path() and sublime.cache_path() may now be called at import time
Windows: added setting to disable vsync

Build 4079

17 July 2020

Fixed a crash regression in 4078
Mac: Fix Adaptive theme title bar color regression in 4078

Build 4078

17 July 2020

Improved find history behavior
Linux and Mac: Adaptive theme will set the menu color to follow the color scheme
Fixed scrolling in popup windows when using fractional scaling
Fixed links in annotations not working
Fixed close button position when show_tab_close_buttons_on_left is used
Fix keypad enter not working in find panel
Windows: Improved menu toggling behavior
Windows: Fixed IME caret position when inserting code points outside of the BMP
API: Replaced Settings iteration with Settings.to_dict() (3.8 only)

Build 4077

11 July 2020

Fixed a crash in 4075 that could occur when closing the preferences window

Build 4076

10 July 2020

Fixed a crash regression in 4075 with missing embeds

Build 4075

10 July 2020

Added out of the box support for TypeScript and JSX
Undo information is preserved in the session
Renamed File/New View into File into File/Split View
Goto Anything can multi-select files by selecting a file while holding down Ctrl (Command on Mac)
Find in Files: Added Find/Cancel Find in Files menu item
Find in Files: Improved performance with large numbers of matches
Added various performance improvements with large files and graceful find degradation
Popup windows now use virtual windows for improved performance
Added setting scroll_context_lines
Added preview_on_click setting to support only previewing files on left click
Added selection_description_column_type setting to control how the column in the status bar is calculated
Added close_deleted_files setting to control behavior of session restoration when files have been deleted on disk
Added show_tab_close_buttons_on_left setting
Added Central European (Mac) encoding support
Macros now record Find commands
Added support for stippled_underline and squiggly_underline in color schemes
Fixed several OpenGL related rendering issues
Fixed white flashes in text views
Fixed over/underscroll not providing any context
Fixed annotations being oversized without overlay scrollbars
Fixed phantoms sometimes leaking
A cold exit will now update the recently opened files list
Improve file deletion when there is no trash folder
Session is now saved when application is notified of system shutdown
Syntax Definitions: "extends" keyword in .sublime-syntax
Syntax Definitions: "version: 2" in .sublime-syntax to fix edge cases while retaining backwards compatibility
Syntax Definitions: lazy loading of external "embed" actions
Syntax Definitions: reduced cache size on disk
Syntax Definitions: prevent infinite include loops via with_prototype
Syntax Definitions: improved matching performance and memory usage
Syntax Definitions: "hidden_extensions" in .sublime-syntax
Syntax Definitions: allow combining "pop" with "push"/"set"/"embed"/"branch"
Syntax Definitions: fixed a number of scope related bugs
Syntax Definitions: fixed some regex capture related bugs
Windows: Added drop shadows to popup windows. These can be disabled via the popup_shadows setting
Windows: Added support for color emoji
Windows: Various IME improvements
Windows: Safe Mode is now activated via shift+alt
Mac: Improved key translation fallback for non-pure-ascii keyboards
Mac: Fix single instance id not taking into account the current user
minihtml: Improved support for HTML entities
minihtml: Added support for self-closed tags
API: Updated Python to 3.8.3, and OpenSSL to 1.1.1g
API: TextChange objects now include the number of UTF16 and UTF8 code units
API: Window.open_file now accepts sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION_SEMI_TRANSIENT in addition to sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION as flags
API: View.show() now takes keep_to_left and animate parameters
API: Added sublime.open_dialog, sublime.save_dialog and sublime.select_folder_dialog
API: Settings objects can now be iterated over (3.8 only)
API: View.text_point() and related functions now accept a clamp_column parameter
API: Ensure on_text_changed() is called before on_query_completions() when sublime.DYNAMIC_COMPLETIONS has been specified
API: Region.__hash__ and Phantom.__hash__ have been replaced with to_tuple
API: repr now works as expected

Build 4074

28 April 2020

Auto Complete: Ranking quality improvements
Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_use_history setting to control if previous choices are automatically selected
Added additional settings to control the status bar: show_sidebar_button, show_indentation and show_syntax
Added relative line numbers, controlled by the relative_line_numbers setting
Color Schemes: Added support for the underline font style
Color Schemes: Added new property, inactive_selection_border
Added setting hide_pointer_while_typing
Console now uses Python syntax highlighting by default
Windows, Linux: Added Shift+F10 key binding to open the context menu
Fixed folder dragging in the sidebar
Further improvements in layout preservation when programmatically editing preferences
API: View.add_regions() calls that add an underline now have that underline applied to whitespace characters
API: Added sublime.INHIBIT_REORDER
API: Window.new_html_sheet() now accepts the sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION flag
API: Window.new_html_sheet() no longer accepts cmd and args parameters
API: Fixed a regression in View.split_by_newlines()

Build 4073

8 April 2020

Reworked Auto Complete UI
Fixed a Find in Files crash regression in 4072
Improved layout preservation when programmatically editing preferences
.sublime-completion files can now specify annotation, kind and details
API: CompletionItem now accepts a details parameter, which can include basic HTML
API: minihtml now processes subl: links, running them as commands

Build 4072

8 April 2020

Find in Files can now filter by .gitignore
Fixed a path wildcard matching regression in 4070
Auto Complete: auto_complete_selector now applies to the position before the just-typed in character, matching auto_complete_triggers
Linux: Added Ctrl+Space to trigger Auto Complete
Linux, Windows: Added Alt+Shift+Left Mouse Button as an alternative column selection binding
Fixed a file encoding regression
Fixed a syntax highlighting backtracking edge case
API: Fixed on_selection_modified() being called with the wrong view when using cloned views

Build 4070

1 April 2020

Spell Checking: Updated dictionaries
Spell Checking: Added support for non-utf8 dictionaries
Spell Checking: System dictionaries are now available on Linux
Spell Checking: Dictionaries in ~/Library/Spelling are now available on Mac
Fixed ignored_packages setting causing sub-directories to be ignored
Fixed inline diffs not rendering an expected when draw centered is enabled
Linux: Fixed a regression in key bindings for the space bar
Windows: Fixed IME crash
API: Fixed View.text_point_utf8() and View.text_point_utf16() not working as expected

Build 4069

27 March 2020

Comments and layout are preserved when programmatically editing preferences
Holding down Shift on Windows, or Option on macOS, will start Sublime Text in Safe Mode
Auto Complete: Typing the full tab trigger of a snippet will move it to the top of the results
Auto Complete: Fixed some scenarios when auto complete would incorrectly trigger
Linux: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts
Mac: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts
Windows: Improved IME support
Syntax tests can now assert that reindent is working as expected
Fixed popups not scrolling
Fixed incorrect scrolling in Find Results after startup
Windows: Fixed some Safe Mode inconsistencies
minihtml: Fix HSL color blending
minihtml: Fix handling of CSS comments
API: Updated Python to 3.8.2
API: Added View.rowcol_utf8(), View.rowcol_utf16(), View.text_point_utf8() and View.text_point_utf16()
API: sublime.HistoricPosition now supplies utf8 and utf16 offsets
API: More detailed output when using sublime.log_control_tree()

Build 4068

28 February 2020

Fixed Auto Complete unexpectedly showing after the first edit on a newly opened file
Fixed a crash that could occur with syntax definition branch points
Fixed the Console not scrolling to the end at startup
Fixed syntax definitions not reloading
Windows: Fixed subl not making Sublime Text the foreground window
Windows: Fixed a crash that could occur on startup

Build 4067

14 February 2020

Auto Hide: Text now never jumps around when hiding tabs, even for short files
Find in Files: Binary file patterns are applied when an explicit folder is given
Find in Files: Using "Find in Folder…" from the sidebar context menu will apply project file filters
folder_exclude_patterns and folder_include_patterns now support project-relative paths, by starting the path with //
Improved performance when adding directories with extreme amounts of files to the side bar
Fixed a race condition when using Build, with Save All on Build enabled and async file saving
Improved menu auto hide behavior on Linux and Windows
Fixed a case where Jump Back didn't behave as expected
Linux: Removed dependency on glibc 2.18
Linux: Better support for copy+paste with other applications that don't support utf8 text
API: Added Window.bring_to_front()

Build 4065

29 January 2020

API: Added HTML sheets, which can be created via window.new_html_sheet()
Command Line: Fixed subl only working intermittently on Windows
Scrolling: Actually fixed newly opened files on Mac not scrolling to the expected position

Build 4064

28 January 2020

Command Line: Fixed regressions in 4063
API: Added sublime.log_control_tree(bool). When enabled, clicking with ctrl+alt will log the control tree under the mouse to the console

Build 4063

27 January 2020

Command Line: subl - can now be used to read from stdin on all platforms
Fixed a regression in 4062 that could cause syntax definitions to not load correctly
Fixed Wrap Selection With Tag not working
Scrolling: Fixed newly opened files on Mac not scrolling to the expected position
Scrolling: Fixed scroll position not being restored at start for non-selected tabs
Scrolling: Fixed revert on non-selected tabs not keeping the scroll position
Auto Complete: AC won't be triggered when replacing selected text
Fixed revert_hunk not showing in the context menu within inline diffs
Linux: Fixed text drag and drop not working correctly with unicode text
Mac: Fixed tooltip rendering issue on external low DPI monitors
Mac: Fixed Undo always being enabled, even if there's nothing to undo
API: Added "glow" to view.style_for_scope()
API: Fixed newly created views not having a valid viewport before being returned to the API

Build 4062

14 January 2020

Improved syntax definition load time
Fixed a crash that could occur with syntax definition branch points
Auto Complete: Several small fixes
minihtml: Fixed incorrect layout when using a non-default ui_scale

Build 4061

11 December 2019

Auto Complete: Fixed cancelCompletions being ignored
Auto Complete: Fixed inserting a newline character not hiding the AC dialog

Build 4060

6 December 2019

Mac: Fixed New Window not working
Auto Complete: Fixed a regression causing auto complete to be case sensitive
OpenGL: Added support for repeated textures
Fixed a 4059 regression in Jump Back

Build 4059

5 December 2019

Reworked Jump Back and Jump Forward commands
Auto Complete: Added Sublime Text 3 style selection history
Auto Complete: Fixed a scenario where auto complete could insert nothing after selecting a completion already present at the insert location
Fixed Join Lines not working as expected with multiple selections
Fixed transient files not being created at startup when Hot Exit is disabled
OpenGL: Fixed a rendering regression in 4058

Build 4058

4 December 2019

Auto Complete: Rework how punctuation triggers are handled
Auto Complete: Pressing tab when there are no available completions will insert a tab
OpenGL: Improve minimap rendering quality
OpenGL: Improve performance with many spelling errors

Build 4057

1 December 2019

Fixed incorrect minimap rendering when using OpenGL
Auto Complete: Completions are not as dependent on the syntax tokenisation rules
Auto Complete: Various changes to how completions with punctuation are handled
API: Added sublime.DYNAMIC_COMPLETIONS. on_query_completions() can return this flag to indicate that completion results should be re-queried as the user types
API: Added sublime.KEEP_ON_SELECTION_MODIFIED, which can be passed to View.show_popup()

Build 4056

26 November 2019

Fixed a crash in 4055

Build 4055

25 November 2019

Fixed a rendering regression in 4053
Fixed saving files with hexadecimal encoding not working correctly when using non-canonical formatting
Auto Complete: Improved behavior of completions starting with non-word characters
Auto Complete: Running the auto_complete command when auto complete is already showing will re-query plugins for results
Auto Complete: Manually typing in the only available completion will hide the auto complete popup
Improved minihtml rendering performance
Linux: Fixed a wayland compatibility regression in 4054
Windows: Fixed file deletion
API: Fixed plugin profiling
API: Fixed several edge cases related to plugin loading and reloading
API: Auto Complete can be used in input panels again

Build 4054

20 November 2019

Improved Switch File behavior in conjunction with multiple tabs selected
Fixed a 4053 regression where draw_centered wasn't rendering correctly
Fixed a 4053 regression where up and down arrows weren't working as expected in Goto Anything
Fixed empty buffers not displaying Phantoms
Fixed using the Command Palette to automatically prompt for missing command arguments not working correctly
Linux: Fixed tearing in full screen when using OpenGL

Build 4053

19 November 2019

Added Revert Diff Hunk
Improved rendering performance on very long lines
Expanded draw_unicode_white_space setting
Fixed selection matching sometimes acting as if the find panel was open when it wasn't
Fixed open_project_or_workspace opening blank windows when the workspace is already open
Auto Complete: Fixed Auto Complete incorrectly showing in widget controls
Auto Complete: Re-added support for t characters in .sublime-completion triggers
Auto Complete: Added fallback theme rules for older themes
Auto Complete: Several minor behavior enhancements
Windows: Fixed subl --safe-mode not working as expected
Mac: Fixed an issue creating new windows when using the Adaptive theme in full screen mode
Mac: Fixed two cases where ctrl+click wasn't showing the context menu on MacOS
API: Added error reporting for invalid .python-version files
API: Fixed a backwards compatibility issue with window.get_view_index()
API: Packages shipped with Sublime Text, such as HTML, can now be imported by both 3.3 and 3.8 plugins

Build 4052

15 November 2019

Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_preserve_order setting
Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_include_snippets_when_typing setting
Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_use_index setting
Auto Complete: Fixed trailing punctuation being incorrectly added to API suggestions
Added back Expand Selection to Scope
OpenGL: Added support for selection_corner_style
OpenGL: Performance improvements
OpenGL: Fixed a crash related to missing textures
Fixed trim_only_modified_white_space not working as expected when using Save As
Fixed a crash with syntax highlighting back tracking
Fixed selecting past the last line in the Command Palette
API: Fixed compatibility with decorated EventListener methods
API: Simplified CompletionItem interface

Build 4051

14 November 2019

Fixed annotation close buttons not showing on custom themes
Fixed navigation to unsaved files via Find in Files not working correctly
Mac: Fixed slow Goto Anything in conjunction with OpenGL rendering in some circumstances
Mac: Fixed a touch bar related memory leak
Linux: Fixed menu drawing on old versions of GTK3
Various minor crash fixes

Build 4050

13 November 2019

GPU Rendering

New hardware_acceleration setting will composite the UI on the GPU
By default, GPU rendering is enabled on Mac, and disabled on Windows and Linux
Details about the active GPU will be displayed in the Console

Context-aware Auto Complete

The auto complete engine now suggests completions based on patterns in existing code
Uses the entire project as a source, instead of just the current view
Plugins may specify symbol kind info to be displayed in suggestions list

Tab Multi Select

When multiple tabs are selected, their contents will be shown side-by-side
Side-by-side view is also used when selecting multiple files in sidebar
Goto Definition popup allows opening the definition using side-by-side view

Python 3.8 API

Added a Python 3.8 API environment for plugins
Plugins can choose Python version via .python-version file in plugin folder
Existing plugins are fully supported via legacy Python 3.3 API
Many API improvements and additions - see API section for more details

Editor Control

Build systems now use new annotations functionality instead of phantoms, reducing re-flow
Caret blinking is disabled by default. Set caret_style setting to smooth for previous behavior.
Find results are highlighted on the scroll bar
Improved automatic indentation detection
trim_trailing_white_space_on_save now trims only newly inserted trailing whitespace by default. Controlled via trim_only_modified_white_space setting.
Expanded draw_white_space setting, supporting leading and trailing white space
Unicode white space characters, such as the zero width no-break space, are now drawn as hex values. Controlled via draw_unicode_white_space setting.
Fixed spelling correction to support languages with upper case characters after start of word
Linux: Text drag and drop is now supported
Linux: Added support for alternate font weight names
Linux: Selection is no longer cleared when another application makes a selection

Text Commands

Improved behavior of Wrap Paragraph
Improved behavior of Swap Lines
Added Selection/Expand Selection as a general mechanism to expand the selection
Selection/Split into Lines will now split a selection into words if the selection doesn't contain any newlines
Show a sum in the status bar when there are multiple selections and all of them are numbers
Fixed swap_line_down not being able to swap an empty line onto the last line of a file
Fixed sort_lines replacing unicode newlines with regular ones

Snippets

Added auto_complete_include_snippets setting, for disabling auto complete integration
Added ignored_snippets setting, for disabling default snippets

Goto Symbol

Goto Symbol in Project is now significantly faster on huge projects
Icons are now shown next to symbols, indicating the symbol kind
Symbols with 3 characters or less are now indexed

Indexing (Goto Definition)

Files ignored by .gitignore are not indexed by default. Controlled via index_exclude_gitignore setting.
Files without known extensions are no longer indexed by default. Controlled via index_skip_unknown_extensions setting.
Improved behavior with constantly changing files

Input Handling

Modifier key taps can now be used as part of a key binding. For example, ["ctrl", "ctrl"] will trigger when Ctrl is pressed twice without pressing any other keys in between.
Linux: AltGr can now be used in key bindings via altgr
Linux: Added a workaround for a touchscreen driver bug, which would cause right click and mouse scrolling to stop working
Linux: When the menu is hidden, pressing alt will show it
Mac: Fix Pinyin input
Mac: Keypad keys can now be bound to as expected
Mac: Added key bindings for macOS application tabs
Windows, Linux: Hide mouse cursor when typing. Controlled via hide_pointer_while_typing setting.
Windows, Linux: Fixed being unable to bind Ctrl+Break

Files and Folders

Saving files is now asynchronous
When save_on_focus_lost is enabled, closing an unsaved file will save and close it, instead of prompting to save
Improved behavior of save_on_focus_lost in conjunction with administrator owned files
Added reload_file_on_change setting to control if files are automatically reloaded or not
Windows: Fixed Open Containing Folder for UNC paths
Windows: Fixed Save dialog not showing for new files with control characters on the first line
Windows: Fixed Ctrl+Backspace inserting a DEL character when a dialog is open in the background
Linux: Fix recreated directories not working correctly with file change monitoring

UI

Added highlight_gutter and highlight_line_number settings
Added the ability to auto hide the menu, tabs, and status bar when typing. See auto_hide_menu and related settings.
Window title bar can be controlled by show_rel_path and show_project_first settings
Tab context menu now includes Close Unmodified Files and Close Deleted Files entries
Themes now have a style property for title_bar element, for better integration with OS "dark modes"
Added glow font option to color schemes
Linux: Show sequential key bindings in the menu
Linux: Fixed context menu position being slightly offset

Rendering

Windows, Linux: Added support for per-display subpixel ordering
Mac: Improved window resize performance
Windows: Fixed rendering bug where other applications could cause persistent artifacts via window animations

Application Behavior

Added Safe Mode, to simulate a clean install. Enabled by passing --safe-mode on the command line.
Added options to hot_exit setting to control behavior when the last window is closed
Fixed a possible case where an update loses the current session
Settings containing a UTF-8 BOM will no longer fail to load

Syntax Definitions

Added ability to "branch" within syntax definitions, for non-deterministic or multi-line constructs
Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
- Erlang, with thanks to deathaxe
Fixed a performance issue with bounded repeats in regular expressions

API

minihtml now handles list-style-type CSS property - circle, square and disc
Improved coverage of plugin profiling
The cProfile module is now included on Linux
EventListener has many new features and bug fixes
- on_query_completions() can now
  - return suggestions asynchronously
  - return command completions
  - include symbol kind information
- New: on_init() is called once with list of views opened before plugin was loaded
- New: on_exit() is called immediately before plugin_host exits, after API is shut down
- New: on_text_changed() and on_text_changed_async() provide detailed modification info
- New methods:
  - on_reload()
  - on_revert()
  - on_new_window()
  - on_new_window_async()
  - on_pre_close_window()
  - on_pre_move()
  - on_post_move()
  - on_post_move_async()
  - on_new_project()
  - on_new_project_async()
  - on_load_project()
  - on_load_project_async()
  - on_pre_save_project()
  - on_post_save_project()
  - on_post_save_project_async()
  - on_pre_close_project()
- Fixed on_selection_modified() to not be called twice when left clicking
View.add_regions() now has an annotations parameter, to allow adding a per-region annotation to the buffer. The exec command now uses this API for build errors.
View.element() returns a string describing widget views (find input, quick panel input, etc)
Image filenames can be retrieved via Sheet.file_name()
Syntax definitions can be queried via sublime.list_syntaxes() and sublime.find_syntax()
View.assign_syntax() now fully supports scope names, e.g. "scope:source.c++"
Assigning a syntax no longer removes widget settings files from a widget view
Added Window.workspace_file_name()
Added open_project_or_workspace command
append command has new, optional disable_tab_translation argument
Improvements to the API, applied to the new Python 3.8 environment only:
- bool(sublime.Selection()) will return False when len() == 0
- sublime.load_binary_resource() now returns bytes instead of bytearray
- Added Selection.__iter__()
- Added Region.__iter__()
- Added Region.__contains__()
- Settings can now be treated like a dict
- Plugins starting with _ will be ignored, __all__ global will be respected
- Events won't be reported until plugin_loaded() has been called
- .pyc files can now be imported when contained within .sublime-package files, although they will not be scanned for plugins
The certifi Python package is preinstalled
Significant performance improvements when rapidly printing to the Console

OS Compatibility

The following operating systems are no longer supported as a result of adding Python 3.8:
- OS X 10.7
- OS X 10.8
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista

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