What's new in Bluefish 2.2.10
Jun 13, 2017
- Various language files have been improved, most notably languages that include CSS. There are also various fixes for newer gtk versions and for gtk on wayland (which is now the default on Fedora Linux). A new feature in the 2.2.10 release is the possibility to import/export syntax color styles, included are styles for a light and a dark theme. Last there have been fixes for a few rare crashes.
New in Bluefish 2.2.9 (Jun 13, 2017)
- Maintenance release that most importantly fixes incompatibility with Gtk 3.20. Next to that some small dialogs have been improved, and some user interface parts have been polished.
New in Bluefish 2.2.8 (Jan 25, 2016)
- Bluefish 2.2.8 is a bug fix release with some small improvements and more polished existing features.
- It fixes a few serious but rarely occurring bugs.
- Options defined in the language definition files are now translated.
- Various default settings have been improved, most notably the command to launch Firefox for preview.
- The looks on newer gtk versions have been restored.
- CSS can now be compressed and decompressed.
- The installers for Windows and OS X have improvements, and there have been some OS X and Windows specific fixes.
- Character encoding detection has been improved. Auto-completion for HTML attributes has been improved.
New in Bluefish 2.2.7 (Jul 28, 2015)
- Mostly a bug fix release.
- It fixes rare crashes in the autocompletion, the filebrowser, the htmlbar plugin preferences, and in file-load-cancel, fixes a rare case of broken syntax highlighting after multiple search/replace actions.
- It furthermore displays better error/warning output when parsing language files.
- It also finally fixes javascript regex syntax highlighting.
- The loading of files with corrupt encoding has been improved, and project loading over sftp has been improved.
- Various HTML5 tags have been added, and HTML5 is the default now for php, cfml and other languages that can include html syntax.
- Saving and loading of UTF-16 encoded files was broken and has been fixes.
- Various languages have better support, such as javascript, css, html, pascal/deplhi, and html has improved autocompletion.
- On OSX the keys for tab switching no longer confict with some keyboard layouts, and behavior at shutdown was improved.
- The upload/download feature has a new option to ignore backup files.
- The home/end keys now work better on wrapped tekst.
- And finally the search and replace dialog correctly shows the number of results when searching in files on disk.
New in Bluefish 2.2.6 (Apr 25, 2014)
- This release fixes a critical bug (segfault) in filebrowser that could be triggered if the root directory was set as basedir. It also has a fix for a specific CSS-in-HTML-tag highlighting issue. The filter code furthermore caused a segfault if the command did not exist. Next to these bugs many small issues have been resolved. Development checks are now only enabled if Bluefish is compiled from svn, not if compiled from tarball. Various language files have small improvements, most notably C, Javascript and CSS. Several translations have been updated. A corner case for a new document from a template that does not exist was fixed. The "open" submenu now opens SVG files from the filebrowser instead of inserting an image tag. The included cssmin and jsbeatify have been updated. A syntax scanning issue when replacing large chunks of text was fixed, he "Report bug" link was broken, a new "conditional" option to the language file that makes re-using certain blocks of language files easier was added, and error reporting in outputbox was improved. On OSX filebrowser icons and the "open file" dialog size have been improved.
New in Bluefish 2.2.3 (Jun 30, 2012)
- Bluefish 2.2.3 has mostly many minor bugfixes and many minor enhancements. There are only few major changes: a corrupted state in the syntax scanner that could lead to a segfault was fixed, code folding had major fixes and improvements, search had major fixes, and a lorem ipsum generator was added. The GUI was restructured in some areas, and some shortcut key combinations were added. Some visibility features were added such as a bigger cursor and cursor highlighting, and some options were improved such as zoom and the custom colors. External commands had some changes such as better cursor positioning after a filter has been used, user supplied arguments for external commands, and an option to restore the default settings. On the multiplatform front: the broken shortcut key S was fixed on OSX, and file recovery was fixed on Windows. On the web front some dialogs were added for HTML5, the thumbnail generator was fixed, and insert color, path and relative path have been added. Many language files were improved, and more user configurable options have been added to most language files. You can now select a block of text by dragging the mouse in the margin, and move the selected block with and .
New in Bluefish 2.2.1 (Dec 27, 2011)
- Mostly a bug fix release, but it has one major new feature: Zencoding support (requires python). The bug fixes include a fix to build on Gtk+-2.22, many translations are better up-to-date, a fix for PCRE regular expression searching, several layout fixes for Gtk+-3.2, several obscure segfault fixes, a fix for autocompletion of variables in PHP, dialog fixes, and some memory-leak fixes.
New in Bluefish 2.2.0 (Nov 28, 2011)
- Massive number of changes: Bluefish now works with gtk-3 (gtk-2 is still supported), and the syntax scanner had a major overhaul to make it faster, which is especially noticeable when working on large files.
- Another big change in Bluefish 2.2.0 is the new search and replace function. It has been completely redesigned: the simple search function is now integrated in the main window, and the new function supports both search and replace in files on disk (next to already opened documents). Other new features include a toggle comment function that is context-aware (add comments in html code, use // comments in javascript code, etc.) and a select block feature that automatically selects the current context block and can be used multiple times to select the parent blocks. Another new feature of the syntax recognition is the autocompletion of user-defined functions, and a jump function that will bring you immediately the the definition of a function.
- Next to all the new features many existing features have been improved and polished. Support for new languages has been added, such as Google Go, Vala and Ada.
New in Bluefish 2.0.2 (Feb 21, 2011)
- Minor bugfix and minor feature enhancement release. Most notably two crashes have been resolved, and a "jump to reference" feature has been added to quickly open a referenced filename. Next to the code the translations have been improved, the Danish and Russian translations are fully up to date now.
New in Bluefish 1.3.6 Dev (Aug 17, 2009)
- add initial ChangeLog to CVS to keep track of changes