0.24.4

Editor Core

• improve rendering speed when there are many highlighted text backgrounds
• add event for diagnostics update (#773, #781 by @dingyi222666)
• fix a problem that leads to selection can not be correctly placed when tab is in line (#786)
• fix wrong composing text state can be reported to IME (#782, #783)
• fix externally committed tab may remove active composing text (#784)
• fix multi-line indentation for tab-indented languages (#785)
• fix composing text underline becomes unexpectedly hidden when the composing text is partially invisible
• update snakeyaml-engine to v3

Editor LSP

• improve completion prefix computation (#763 by @dingyi222666)
• add language connection status change event (#778 by @KonerDev)

TreeSitter

• update android-tree-sitter to support 16KB page size for newer Android platform (thanks to @itsaky)

0.24.3

Editor Core

• add more line-break opportunities for better programming code reading
• select auto-completion item by Tab and Enter (#768)
• add border color customizations (#764)
• fix a potential problem in calculating horizontal scrolling range (#775)
• fix a problem in line width re-calculating when wordwrap is disabled
• fix wrong background for empty line in certain situation
• enhance the access range check in Content for better problem tracking

Oniguruma Native

• support 16KB page size for Android 15+ requirements (#770 by @itsvks19 )

Demo App

• add more bracket pair captures for tree-sitter Java

0.24.2

Editor Core

• Improve display correctness and speed for long lines
• Fix text advance calculating in wordwrap mode and bring faster wordwrap speed
• Add support for AltGr in physical keyboard (#384)
• Fix a problem in meta-key state tracking that can leads meta-key to sticky state
• Fix slow regex searching speed on high API device
• Add border for highlight delimiters and is enabled by default as a replacement for previous underline (#764)
• Fix magnifier background when viewport capture is not available yet (#765)
• Fix the problem that editor may draw a selection at multiple positions
• Add basic support for displaying RTL lines with right alignment in wordwrap mode
• Fix some problems in selection handle for bidirectional text

Editor LSP

• Support Markdown escape character (#762)

0.24.1

This release brings minor bug fixes and improvements.

Editor Core

• Fix magnifier content when the editor is in dialogs
• Fix text action window not showing up on long press if the text is empty (#757)
• Fix line-break indicator may not be drawn for empty line if hardware-acceleration is not available
• Fix line-break and soft-wrap indicators for inlay hint only rows
• Add select all to context menu

TextMate

• Add missing proguard rules for optional oniguruma-native components

Editor LSP

• Fix range problem when fetching inlay hints (#759 by @itsvks19 )
• Fix client capability declaration for markdown (#758 by @KonerDev )
• Support links and images in markdown (#756, #758 by @KonerDev )

0.24.0

Thanks to all the contributors, we are finally able to release this major update of sora-editor.

Editor Core

Improvements

• Refactored row rendering system, bringing:
  • LTR/RTL mixed text rendering (#732, #466)
  • Direction indicator of selection for bidirectional text
  • Inlay hint support (built-in: text/color hint) (#341, #351)
  • Improved wordwrap breaks using ICU (#704)
• Visual line based Home/End acttion
• Highlight matched items in completion window (#729)
• Show inserting direction for bidirectional lines
• Faster wordwrap analysis
• Show soft-wrap indicators
• Long-press and drag to select text (#738)
• Move selection to first completion item when phisical keyboard is connected (#746)
• Check thread on editor text changes (disabled by default)
• Add listener for layout init tasks (#742)
• Add lightweight span object to reduce memory usage
• Add shadow for sticky line region bottom
• Sticky lines can have a top offset to scroll with its end line
• Proper mouse pointer icon for sticky lines
• Support dead keys in physical keyboard

Bug Fixes

• Fix some editor windows not dismissed on editor release (#713)
• Fix layout reusing issues (#561, #562)
• Fix lag when editing in large text due to a long IPC length
• Fix dropped frame when scrolling in large text due to wrongly implementedly LRU cache
• Fix night color for line number panel text
• Fix underline visibility when hardware-accelerating is on
• Fix unexpected line background animation when editor is not editable
• Fix magnifier on low API devices and non-activity contexts
• Fix meta-key states when physical keyboard is connected

Removal of Feature

• basicDisplayMode is permanently removed from editor core to better support bidirectional text and inline elements

Editor LSP

• Supported connection using LocalSocket, fixed a bug in textDocument/diagnostic logic, and accelerated LSP server connection speed (#706)

• Optimized multiple null checks in the LSP module, improved thread safety, memory leak, security, and text synchronization #716 #718 #719 #726 #733 #739 by @KonerDev, @dingyi222666, @VincentLagerros

• Supported calling textDocument/rename and textDocument/prepareRename from requestManager (#721)

• When calling EventType.applyEdits, multiple edits will now be merged into a single edit to improve undo efficiency (#721)

• #731 Provided several major feature updates for the LSP module, including:

  • Improved and reimplemented signature help window.
  • Supported hover window, which displays help documentation for a symbol when the cursor hovers over it.
  • Supported codeAction window, which requires manual triggering by the caller.
  • A more aesthetically pleasing DiagnosticTooltipLayout, specially designed for LSP.
  • Fixed text matching issues in the completion window and supported highlighting of matching text.
  • Supported some workspace/ commands for language servers.
  • LSP-specific windows all support text scaling with the editor size, and provide simple markdown rendering for signature help and hover.

• Provided inlayHint support (experimental) for the LSP module. (#743)

• Provided better markdown rendering for PopupWindow in the LSP module, support syntax highlighting (#744)

• Fixed text editing issues in the LSP module (#747)

• Provided documentColor support for the LSP module. When the connected LSP server supports it, this will display a color block left to the color code. (#749)

• Fixed multiple memory leak issues in the LSP module (#751)

TextMate

Improvements

• JSON parsing is now lenient
• Add oniguruma support to provider faster and memory-friendly tokenization (see oniguruma-native module below)

Bug Fixes

• Fix some concurrent issues (#736)
• Fix token colors after theme change

TreeSitter

Bug Fixes

• Allow querying changed node and synchronize the access to the backing tree
• Cache not update when spans are requested in full line

Oniguruma

oniguruma-native is added for matching regexps in native oniguruma implementation.

By including this module to your app, language-textmate will use it to match regexps faster and support more VSCode TextMate bundles.
In a production build, the highlight time is roughly 60% less than the older one.

0.23.7

Bugs Fixed

• empty text committed by IME is unexpectedly ignored
• missing some communication method implementations in input connection (fix GBoard undo/redo support)
• missing highlighted delimiter foreground color in some built-in color schemes

Notice

Since v0.23.7 (inclusive):

• the group namespace is migrated to io.github.rosemoe instead of io.github.Rosemoe.sora-editor
• bom module is renamed to editor-bom

Due to the migration to Central Portal, the old namespace can not be used anymore.
This won't affect any previously published version.

0.23.6

Enhancements

• improve character deleting on Android P and above
• disable desugaring in textmate to let app developer choose whether desugaring is enabled (#641 by @MohammedKHC )
• LSP improvements (#635, #681 by @dingyi222666 )
• add monarch support for editor (#580 by @dingyi222666 )
• add regex back-reference in regex search-replace (#639)
• add default night colors for editor text action window (#644)
• do not stroke matching delimeters (#663 by @massivemadness )
• allow to control current line background overlapping behavior (#679 by @itsaky )
• allow to intercept SideIconClickEvent (#680 by @itsaky )
• provide motion region and bounds info in EditorMotionEvent (#682 by @itsaky )

Bugs Fixed

• clipboard content is sometimes pasted like ClipData.Item {...}
• text position error when tab width is not 4
• mess text display after font change
• fix unexpectedly thrown exception in Java tokenizer that leads to syntax-highlight crash
• conflict between symbol completion and search-replace (#638)
• possible concurrent modification to tree-sitter AST
• negative Y offset leads to crash if overscroll is enabled (#655)
• editor.foreground not working for textmate color scheme (#656)
• fix measure size when wrap_content is used on editor (#658 by @StarkZhidian )
• fix magnifier in sticky text selection mode (#659 by @massivemadness )
• current line is highlighted when it is supposed to be disabled (#662 by @massivemadness )
• rounded selection region not applied for empty line (#667 by @massivemadness )

0.23.5

Fixes and Enhancements

• fix some compatibility issues in textmate and Language interface
• fix crash in finding word boundary (#618)
• add Ctrl+DEL and Ctrl+Backspace keybindings (#625)
• fix a display issue between character TAB and :. in some fonts
• add workaround for unsupported regular expressions in textmate grammars
• fix some issues in symbol pairs (#602, #609, #610, #611, #612)
• fix possible crash during setText (#561, #562)
• fix selection handle can easily set wrong selection position when text size is small (#554)
• fix possible NPE in SearchThread (#568)
• show scrollbars when mouse inside
• add ripple background for action window buttons
• some memory usage enhancement

0.23.4

Fixes and Enhancements

• add logic for typing dead chars and avoid crashing for some keyboard (#547)
• cancel selection handle animation when mouse is connected
• fix view scrolling not being cancelled after mouse button is released
• fix input sometimes unexpectedly entering inactive mode
• fix inconsistent scroll position after scaling in wordwrap mode
• fix a compatibility issue in textmate after upstream sync (devices under API 34 are affected)
• update dependencies

Documentation Site

Previous pages in sora-editor main repository are removed and unpublished.
Introduction part of sora-editor is available at here, including a brief overview of editor and basic usage/knowledge for getting started.

0.23.3

Fixes

• add static APIs in Span to SpanFactory to avoid NoSuchMethodError when app minSdk < 24
  Migrate to SpanFactory recommended.

Documentation

We are adding documentation for sora-editor now!
Currently, you can visit here to explore the documentation, though it's incomplete.