Sublime Package Control Changelog

What's new in Sublime Package Control 3.0.0

• Backwards Compatibility Breaks:
• For users who have a custom SSL CA certs, please note that any custom certs must now be stored in Packages/User/Package Control.user-ca-bundle. This mechanism replaces the old certs setting. In general this should not be necessary since Package Control now utilizes OS certificate stores for CA certs.
• The Create Binary Package File command was removed, but replaced with the package_profiles setting which allows for any number of different package creation configurations. See Creating Package Files for more details.
• Dependencies:
• Package Control now supports package dependencies for the sake of shipping non-user-facing binary files that are needed by packages. These will commonly include compiled Python modules and executables. To learn more, read the Dependencies documentation.
• A package loader that is run before any other non-default packages. This adds dependency folders to sys.path and makes the package_control Python module always available, instead of waiting until Sublime Text loads up all packages that are alphabetically before Package Control.
• Upgrades:
• Improved handling of package upgrades involving editor customizations. Theme, Color Scheme and Syntax upgrades will no longer cause Sublime Text error messages. If a package containing one of these is being upgraded, Package Control will change the setting back to the default just before starting. Once complete, the customized settings will be restored.
• In-use file upgrades improved. Package Control performs extra steps on Windows to allow upgrades to occur for packages that use various binary files such as DLLs and executables.
• A package event API was added to allow packages to know if they were just installed, are about to be upgraded, were just upgraded, or are about to be removed. See the Events documentation for more details.
• Package upgrades that are interupted by Sublime Text being closed or restarted will no longer result in packages being left in the ignored_packages setting.
• Commands:
• Advanced Install Package install packages via a comma-separated list
• List Unmanaged Packages list packages not controlled via Package Control
• Remove Channel helper to remove a channel
• Remove Repository helper to remove a repository
• Syncing:
• Package Control will now remove packages, upon start, that have been deleted from the installed_packages list. This improves the recommended configuration of just syncing the Packages/User/ folder.
• Incorrect syncing of packages will now be detected and users will be notified of the issue. Sync warnings will only be raised when a package for a specific platform or version of Sublime Text is copied to an incompatible machine.
• Python Patches:
• Upgraded SSL support for Sublime Text 2 on Windows. _ssl.pyd files are installed for ST2 on Windows that are compiled against the latest version of OpenSSL. This allows secure connections to validate modern SSL certificates that use SHA-2 signatures.
• Package Control now patches the Python select module for Sublime Text 2 on Windows. This patch will make the select module available for use by all packages.
• Security:
• All repositories and packages are now required to use SSL for improved security.
• SSL support for Linux. Package Control now ships _ssl.so files that are compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.x (both libssl-1.0.0 and libssl-10). Thanks to the new package loader, these are injected before any other packages are loaded. Gone are the days of package developers having to bundle them individually, or using curl/wget.
• SSL CA certificates are now 100% sourced from the OS. Previously Package Control included functionality to distribute SSL CA certificates to allow validation of SSL certs on OS X and Windows. With version 3.0, Package Control can now explort SSL CA certs from the Windows trust store into the format necessary for OpenSSL. This allows PC to no longer be responsible for distributing SSL CA certs in a secure way.
• Added a parser that allows Package Control to validate SSL certificates using SubjectAltName fields for certs that are valid for multiple hostnames. Previously such certificates were only supported in Sublime Text 3.
• HTTP:
• A revised Urllib-based downloader for Windows. In version 2.0, Package Control switched from using urllib for downloads to using the WinINet API on Windows. This allowed PC to delegate all of the work of proxy auto-detection and SSL verification to the OS. Unfortunately some users are unable to connect to the internet using WinINet due to local policies. Other users experienced issues with SSL connectivity through the WinINet API. As of version 3.0, Package Control will automatically fall back to the urllib downloader if WinINet is unable to connect.
• HTTP compression based on bzip2 is now used for the channel file to reduce bandwidth usage. Every Sublime Text install will now have the bz2 module available for use by other packages.
• Repositories and Channels:
• A new schema_version of the channel and repository JSON files was released that supports using prefixed tags to allow for semantic versions with separate code-bases for different versions of Sublime Text. See the example-repository.json for details.
• A new package, ChannelRepositoryTools, was released that provides commands for package developers to upgrade their older repository JSON files to the newest standard. Read Channels and Repositories for more information.
• Documentation:
• Various documentation on the website has been added, or improved, including:
• Dependencies
• Events
• Troubleshooting
• Renaming a Package
• Creating Package Files