Release Notes: 0.40

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Release 0.40 -- approximately June 9.

Search
- Save multiple file exclusion filters: Instead of a single file/folder search filter, you can name and save multiple different filters for quick use.
Extension Development
- Online API documentation is now available - mirroring the JSDocs in the Brackets source code
Code Editing
- Toggle line/block comment for CoffeeScript & Lua (and other languages where the line-comment syntax is a prefix of the block-comment syntax, or the block-comment open & close tokens are identical)
Ongoing Research (not implemented yet)
- Split view (early implementation on branch)
- Research: Theming Support (pull request in progress)

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

No major changes to existing features.

LESS - Updated to 1.7.0 (from 1.4.2). No known compatibility issues in Brackets - see changelog.

None added this sprint.

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.
#2272: Windows Vista may not allow the Brackets installer to run (you may not see any error message). To work around this, right-click the installer file, choose Properties, and click the Unblock button.
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.

TODO

Some submodules were updated this sprint. Run git submodule update to ensure your source tree is fully up to date.
A new brackets-shell build is not required, but is recommended for Windows bug fixes.

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 40 bugs. Not all fixed bugs will be caught by this search query, however.