Release Notes: 1.2

Note: Linux builds of Brackets 1.2 will be delayed by 2 weeks.

What's New in Release 1.2

• Code Editing
  • Drag & drop to move selected text: After enabling the dragDropText preference, drag and drop any selected text to move to another location. Even works with multiple selections! (by Marcel Gerber)
  • CSS code hints for named colors, with color swatch preview. (by Marcel Gerber)
  • SVG code hints: For tags, attributes, and named colors. (by Amin Ullah Khan)
  • Dart syntax highlighting (by Marcel Gerber)
• Search
  • Highlight scrollbar tickmark for the current Find match
• UI Appearance
  • Windows High DPI support: Brackets automatically renders text, icons, and images more crisply on high-DPI displays (similar to the appearance on Mac Retina screens).
• Key Bindings
  • Use additional named keys in custom key bindings: PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, Insert, Delete. Can be used by extensions or in user custom key bindings.
• Stability
  • Windows: Multi-monitor window positioning: Brackets no longer starts up positioned off screen after a monitor is unplugged or screen resolution is changed.
• Linux
  • Remember last-opened file in File > Open dialog box: Now matches existing Mac & Windows behavior. (by Marcel Gerber)
• Localization
  • Translation updates for: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Romanian, Serbian. (by Hanhua Hong, Pavel Dvořák, valtlait, Marcel Gerber, Goran Vasić, Micleușanu Nicu)

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Split View - The editor pane that is inactive is no longer dimmed. To restore the dimming behavior, install the Zen Pane extension.

API Changes

jQuery - Upgraded from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3

Event listeners - Deprecation warnings occur when extensions use $().on()/off() on Brackets core modules and model objects. Call .on()/off() directly instead, as introduced in Brackets 1.1. (For DOM elements, continue to use jQuery events).

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Colors - Use ColorUtils.COLOR_NAMES for a list of standard CSS/SVG named colors.

Known Issues

• Activity Monitor in Mavericks (OS X 10.9) says the Brackets Helper process is "Not Responding" even when it's working normally (#5794). You can safely ignore this unless Brackets is actually failing to respond when you click or type text.
• 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

• SVG Code Hints (#10084) by Amin Ullah Khan
• Implement CM Drag & Drop by Marcel Gerber
• Add Dart mode by Marcel Gerber
• Improve TokenUtils performance through caching by Marcel Gerber
• Hint color names in CSS Code Hints by Marcel Gerber
• Update 'addBinding' documentation in KeyBindingManager. by Martin Zagora
• Don't throw an exception if currentTheme is undefined by Marcel Gerber
• Handle undefined theme the right way by Marcel Gerber
• Update URL to Jasmine (Fixes #10259) by Steffen Bruchmann
• Update index.html by Pooya Parsa Dadashi
• Update Copyright year to 2015 by Marcel Gerber
• Add -lpthread to LIBS (libraries). by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Support initialDirectory and title in Linux' showOpenDialog by Marcel Gerber
• Send the error over to the callback if decompress-zip fails by Marcel Gerber
• Fix #10142. LiveDev2: Firefox highlight does not have fade-away effect. by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Live Preview MultiBrowser improvements (#10206, #10239) by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Highlight matched hints by Amin Ullah Khan
• Use upper/lowercase colors in Inline Color Editor by Triangle717
• Put an array of all the color names in ColorUtils by Marcel Gerber
• SVG code hints cleanup by Amin Ullah Khan
• Romanian locale update by Micleusanu Nicu
• Multiple ColorEditor fixes by Marcel Gerber
• Smarter line clipping in Find in Files by Marcel Gerber
• Show colored swatch in CSS Code Hints by Marcel Gerber
• Fix memory leak in CSS & SVG Code Hints by Marcel Gerber
• For #5852: Clicking an Extension Manager tab while still loading will show it by Marcel Gerber
• Change font weight of menu items to 400 instead of 200, improves readability by Mark Simulacrum
• Fix for ImageView bug 5960 & 10180 by EJanuszewski
• Get rid of deprecation warnings in LiveDevMultiBrowser by Arzhan "kai" Kinzhalin (Intel Corp)
• Update translation. by mistyhua
• Update jQuery -> 2.1.3 by Marcel Gerber
• German Translation by Marcel Gerber
• Add missing attribute by Amin Ullah Khan
• Fixed typos in MainViewFactory docs by Amin Ullah Khan
• Fix memory leak in ExtensionManagerViewModel by Marcel Gerber
• Update for Serbian translation by goranvasic
• Finnish translation for 1.2 by valtlait
• Czech translation for v1.0 by Pavel Dvořák
• FR and JP translation fix for Getting Started index.html file by pantkowiak
• Czech translation for v1.1 by Pavel Dvořák

Pulling source code from Git

• Recommended: rebuild or reinstall an updated brackets-shell (no critical updates, but there are significant bugfixes).
• Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.

Bugs fixed in Release 1.2

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed Release 1.2 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.