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3.2.2 (Build 3211)

1 October 2019

• Mac: Added Notarization
• Fixed a performance regression when moving the caret upwards in large files
• Fixed a memory leak
• Fixed not being able to swap lines down with the last line if it was empty
• Git: Fixed includeIf handling in git config files not interpreting ~ relative paths correctly

3.2.1 (Build 3207)

6 April 2019

• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Git: Git repositories at the top level of a users home directory are ignored for performance reasons. This can be changed via the allow_git_home_dir setting.
• Git: Improved performance with a large number of git repositories in the side bar
• Git: Fixed UTF8 BOMs not being handled correctly in .gitignore files
• Fixed a crash in the Git repository handling
• Improved file indexing behavior in some scenarios
• Improved scrolling logic in some scenarios
• Fixed block carets changing the way text selection works
• Fixed swap_line_up and swap_line_down transforming tabs into spaces
• Mac: Added a workaround for a MacOS issue with DisplayLink adapters
• Linux: Fixed compatibility with old Linux distributions
• Linux: Improved high dpi handling under KDE
• Linux: Tweaked the way text scaling is handled
• Linux: Fixed incorrect file ownership in the deb packages
• API: Fixed an incompatibility with SublimeREPL
• API: Fixed regression with phantoms interfering with home/end behavior

3.2 (Build 3200)

13 March 2019

NEW: Git Integration

• Files and folders in the sidebar will now display badges to indicate Git status
• Ignored files and folders are visually de-emphasized
• The current Git branch and number of modifications is displayed in the status bar
• Commands have been added to open a repository, see file or folder history, or blame a file in Sublime Merge
• Themes may customize the display of sidebar badges and status bar information
• The setting show_git_status allows disabling Git integration
• All file reads are done through a custom, high-performance Git library written for Sublime Merge
• Read the documentation

NEW: Incremental Diff

• All changes to a document are now represented by dedicated markers in the gutter
• Diff markers show added, modified and deleted lines
• The setting mini_diff controls incremental diff behavior
• In coordination with the new Git functionality, diffs can be calculated against HEAD or the index
• The git_diff_target setting controls base document source
• API methods View.set_reference_document() and View.reset_reference_document() allow controlling the diff
• The following diff-related commands were added:
  • Next Modification
  • Previous Modification
  • Revert Modification
• Full inline diffs of each change can be displayed via the right-click context menu, or keyboard shortcuts
• Inline diff presentation can be changed by customizing a color scheme
• Read the documentation

Editor Control

• Added block_caret setting
• Improve positioning and sizing of gutter icons in some situations
• Fixed draw_minimap_border setting not working
• Linux: Improved input method (IM) support — fcitx, ibus, etc
• Linux: Fixed a crash when using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
• Linux: Tweaked behavior of up/down when on the first and last lines of a file to better match platform conventions
• Windows: Improved IME support

Themes/UI

• Enhanced the .sublime-theme format:
  • Added variables support and associated revised JSON format with variables key
  • Added extends keyword to have one theme derive from another
  • Colors may be specified via CSS syntax
• Improved performance with large numbers of rules in a .sublime-theme
• Linux: Moved to GTK3
• Linux: Various high DPI fixes
• Mac: Added Mojave support
• Mac: Add full support for macOS native tabs
• Mac: Ensure context menus are shown without scrolling
• Mac: Error message dialogs can now be closed with the escape key
• Mac: Improved window placement
• Mac: Improved resize performance
• Windows: Fixed minimized and maximized state not restoring
• Windows: Fixed a bug where auto complete entries would contain an ellipsis when not required

Text Rendering

• Support for Unicode 11.0
• Improved rendering of combining characters
• Fixed a caret positioning bug when non-trivial graphemes are present
• Fixed some cases of incorrect glyph positions on Windows and Mac
• Linux: Color glyphs are now drawn properly on light backgrounds
• Windows: Fixed a rendering issue with certain combining characters
• Windows: Fixed some fonts having an incorrect baseline

Color Schemes

• Added block_caret key to use in conjunction with block carets
• caret values now respect alpha as expected, rather than pre-blending against the background color
• Added the foreground_adjust property to rules with a background. Accepts CSS color mod adjusters to manipulate the saturation, lightness or opacity of the foreground color.

Syntax Highlighting

• Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
  • Clojure, with thanks to Nelo Mitranim
  • D
  • Go, with thanks to Nelo Mitranim
  • Lua, with thanks to Thomas Smith
• Fixed a crash that could occur when nesting embed patterns in .sublime-syntax files
• Syntax Tests: Allow syntax test files to have a UTF-8 BOM

Files and Folders

• Improve performance of file watching for ignored paths on Windows and Mac
• Windows: Fixed Open File treating paths as case-sensitive
• Windows: Properly unlock directories after contained files are closed

API

• Added View.set_reference_document() and View.reset_reference_document() to control diff generation
• Phantoms are now drawn correctly in conjunction with draw_centered
• Various minor improvements related to plugin module loading and unloading
• Added support for hwb() colors to minihtml
• Added a custom min-contrast() adjuster for the CSS color mod function in minihtml
• Mac: Fixed a plugin_host crash when running a process that itself crashes

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a Goto Symbol in Project performance regression
• F21..F24 keys can now be bound
• Assorted minor fixes and stability improvements
• Linux: Improved behavior of —wait command line argument when Sublime Text isn’t currently running

3.1.1 (Build 3176)

14 May 2018

• Various fixes from 3.1
• Added ui_scale setting to scale the entire UI, dpi_scale is now Linux-only
• Linux: Added workaround for a display driver issue, giving significant scrolling improvements for some environments
• Indexing: Added more information in the Indexing Status window, and reduced CPU utilization in some scenarios

3.1 (Build 3170)

7 May 2018

Themes/UI

• Windows: Added support for Windows 10 (and 8.1) per-monitor DPI scaling
• Improved overall High DPI support
• Added support for 8k monitors and 300% DPI scale
• Themes can now provide @3x versions of images for very high DPI monitors
• Improved indent guide positions when using line padding
• Rulers are drawn with stippled lines
• Linux/Windows: Improved High DPI minimap rendering
• Mac: Fixed occasional yellow or black windows when using a theme with a colored title bar
• Mac: Double-clicking a themed title bar now performs the default system action
• Mac: Fixed sizing of some dialog windows when a theme uses a themed title bar
• Mac: Fixed gutter icons sometimes not drawing

Text Rendering

• Added ligature support for symbols
• Added font_options for controlling ligatures and stylistic sets
• Improved rendering and selection of emojis
• Tab width is now properly measured for proportional fonts
• Windows: DirectWrite is now used by default for all fonts
• Windows: Support gray_antialias in conjunction with DirectWrite
• Windows: improved DirectWrite anti-aliasing, adding support for system ClearType tuning

Goto Definition

• Added Goto References when hovering over a symbol
• Added goto_reference command to the Goto menu

Color Schemes

• Added new color scheme format, .sublime-color-scheme
• Add Hashed Syntax Highlighting
• Added the Celeste color scheme to showcase hashed syntax highlighting
• Selections now render by default with true rounded corners
• Added color scheme settings for selection border width, corner style and radius
• Selection background and border now support alpha channels
• Improved color scheme reloading
• Added Convert Color Scheme command
• Added support for the invisibles key in color schemes
• selection_foreground can now be specified on a per-scope basis
• Color Schemes can specify bold and italic in the brackets_options key
• Improved handling of invalid.deprecated scopes in default color schemes

Syntax Highlighting

• Add embed action to .sublime-syntax files for improved syntax nesting
• Added Git Formats package for Git config files and use as core.editor, with thanks to Ryan Boehning and deathaxe
• Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
  • JavaScript, with thanks to Thomas Smith
  • ShellScript, with thanks to Raoul Wols
  • Makefiles, with thanks to Raoul Wols
  • Java, with thanks to lastsecondsave
  • C#, with thanks to keith-hall
  • Markdown, with thanks to keith-hall
  • Python, with thanks to FichteFoll
• Added stand alone syntax test runner for Linux, allowing for CI testing
• Various syntax definition errors now include the file name in the message

Command Palette

• New Command Palette implementation that can accept text input from users
• Fuzzy matching can match terms out of order by space separating them
• Added new commands Arithmetic, Rename File and View Package File to showcase new features
• Keyboard shortcut hints are no longer cut off at 15 characters

Build Systems

• Improve cancellation handling
• Use /usr/bin/env to locate bash
• Fix multi-byte encodings sometimes triggering decoding errors
• Improved exec build target handling of killing child processes

Files and Folders

• Improved handling of symlinks in the sidebar, including additions and removals
• Symlinks no longer have an expand arrow in the sidebar, but have a Reveal Link Source context menu entry
• Add support for binary_file_patterns, index_exclude_patterns and index_include_patterns to .sublime-project files
• index_exclude_patterns and index_include_patterns can now match full paths instead of just filename
• Linux/Windows: File system notifications now account for symlinks (and Windows junctions)
• Linux: file system notification now only requires a single inotify instance
• Linux: Improved behavior when fs.inotify.max_user_watches is too low
• Mac: Reduced the number of file stats operations
• Mac: Added support for case-sensitive file systems

Input

• Fixed popup and auto complete windows not showing when the caret is at the leftmost position of a widget
• Fix left arrow not working in the side bar
• Fixed not being able to grab the scrollbar by clicking on the rightmost pixels of the window
• Fix double clicking on the selection not setting input focus when drag_drop is enabled
• Linux: Context menus no longer cause the editor control to be focused when closed
• Windows: Fix pen input

Performance

• Significantly reduced memory usage related to syntax definitions — using up to 30% less total program memory
• Improve idle CPU usage
• Fix a bug where theme animations may continue even after a layer has been hidden, causing excessive CPU usage
• Mac: Solved increased CPU usage on Macs when a GPU switch occurs while using a theme with a colored title bar

API

• Added TextInputHandler and ListInputHandler to interact with new Command Palette functionality
• Added View.style() and View.style_for_scope()
• Added automatically generated scope names for use with the regions API: region.redish, region.orangish, region.yellowish, region.greenish, region.bluish, region.purplish and region.pinkish
• Improve View.find() and View.find_all() performance when doing literal matches
• Expanded ViewEventListener API
• Fix EventListener.on_activated_async() not being called for views when the editor starts
• Add ViewEventListener.on_activated() and ViewEventListener.on_activated_async() to be called for views when the editor starts
• Improve tracebacks for Python in .sublime-package files
• shell_environment is now ensured to be loaded before plugin_loaded() is called on plugins
• Plugin commands are now created before plugin_loaded() is run
• Loaded plugins are now stored in __plugins__ rather than plugins
• The Python ssl module will now negotiate TLS 1.2, 1.1 or 1.0 with the PROTOCOL_TLSv1 constant
• Updated Python environment with SQLite 3.22.0, and OpenSSL 1.0.2n

Miscellaneous

• Fixed being unable to load dictionary files larger than 16mb
• Fixed an issue where out of memory conditions would trigger a buffer overflow instead of a clean crash
• Word wrap is turned on by default for the console
• Added Regex Replace Widget.sublime-settings and Console Input Widget.sublime-settings
• Fixed a number of bugs that would cause crashes

3.0 (Build 3143)

13 September 2017

• Refreshed UI theme, including full high DPI support
• New icon
• Added alternate theme, Adaptive, that inherits colors from the color scheme
• Added new color schemes Breakers, Mariana and Sixteen, derived from the excellent work of Chris Kempson and Dmitri Voronianski
• Added color scheme and theme switchers with live preview via the command palette
• Windows: Added touch input
• Linux: Added repositories for apt, yum and pacman
• Mac: Added Touch Bar support
• Mac: Support for custom color window title bars on OS X 10.10+
• Many additions and bug fixes to the theme engine, plus full documentation
• Significant improvements to Markdown syntax highlighting, with thanks to keith-hall
• Significant improvements to C# syntax highlighting, with thanks to gwenzek
• Significant improvements to Java syntax highlighting, with thanks to djspiewak
• Significant improvements to Python syntax highlighting, with thanks to FichteFoll
• Significant improvements for R syntax highlighting, with thanks to randy3k
• Markdown: Improved symbol handling
• C#: Improved symbol handling
• Many other syntax highlighting improvements
• Various bugs with the syntax highlighting engine have been resolved
• Fixed several crash issues
• Improved responsiveness when the system is under high CPU load
• High DPI textures are used on Windows and Linux when the DPI scale is greater than 1.0
• Improved font selection on all platforms, allowing selection of different weights by name
• Added setting theme_font_options to control font rendering of UI elements
• Improved auto indent rules for HTML and PHP
• Font geometry issues that prevent bold or italics are now printed in the console
• Fixed flash-of-white that could occur when the auto complete window is closed
• Disable scroll animation when animation_enabled is false in settings
• Files can now be renamed when only the case has changed
• New windows start with an empty find history
• Find in Files panel now responds to find_all and replace_all commands
• Various regex handling improvements in the Find panel
• Fixed text widgets cutting off the bottom pixel of their selection border
• Fixed an issue with close_windows_when_empty in empty session
• Fixed empty panes on startup when hot_exit was set to false
• Fix Open Containing Folder on Windows with a folder containing a comma
• Fix multi-cursor pasting when clipboard contains one or more full lines
• Prevent UNC paths from being mangled by edit_settings
• Prevent a crash when a malformed regex is used in indentation settings
• Improved rendering performance with a large number of gutter icons
• Gutter icons are now sized properly on Windows and Linux high DPI screens
• Improved sidebar performance when folders contain many thousands of files
• Improved inline error message style
• Fixed an issue where multiple indexing status windows could be shown
• Windows: Font rendering defaults to DirectWrite unless using Consolas or Courier New
• Windows: Added support for no_antialias font option when using DirectWrite
• Windows: Improved touch pad scrolling
• Windows: Improved file change detection robustness
• Windows: Improved font selection logic
• Windows: Fix ctrl+` shortcut for UK (ISO) keyboards
• Windows: Improved fallback font handling in UI elements
• Windows: The subl executable on OS X and plugin_host.exe on Windows are now signed
• Windows: sublime_text.exe now has CompanyName set in VERSIONINFO
• Mac: Handle layout changes due to macOS Sierra tabs
• Mac: Improved default web browser detection
• Mac: OS X 10.11 and macOS 10.12+ default to using San Francisco for the UI font
• Mac: Fixed file change notifications from freezing UI on macOS Sierra
• Mac: the user’s default shell is executed and environmental variables are set in the plugin Python environment
• Linux: Update X11 selection on clipboard every time selection changes
• Linux: Improved MOD3 modifier key handling
• minihtml: Added support for borders
• minihtml: Respects font_options from the settings
• minihtml: Fixed layout of html popups on Windows and Linux under High DPI
• minihtml: Fixed crash when doctype is present
• minihtml: Fixed a crash from non-existent CSS vars
• minihtml: Fixed a crash triggered by bad image paths
• API: Add View.text_to_window() and View.layout_to_window()
• API: All API functions now accept and return device-independent-pixels
• API: Fixed input panel not running on_cancel when re-showing the input panel
• API: Fixed selector scoring with the & operator
• API: Fixed a bug causing incorrect phantom contents
• API: Fixed crash in Window.set_view_index()
• API: Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2k, SQLite to 3.16.02

Build 3126

23 September 2016

• Added Indexing Status to the Help menu to give more information about what the indexer is doing
• Fixed a compatibility issue with some third party syntax definitions that include JavaScript.sublime-syntax
• Reduced the default number of worker processes used for indexing. This can be manually controlled via the index_workers setting
• API: Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2i

Build 3124

22 September 2016

• Settings now open in a new window, with the default and user settings side-by-side
• Hovering over a symbol will show a popup indicating where it’s defined. This is controlled with the show_definitions setting.
• Build errors are now shown inline at the location where they occurred. This is controlled with the show_errors_inline setting.
• Added a menu item and command palette entry to install Package Control
• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Significant improvements to the Scala syntax definition, with thanks to djspiewak and gwenzek
• Significant improvements to the LaTeX syntax definition, with thanks to randy3k
• Improved Goto Definition performance when a large number of files are open
• Minor improvements to file load times
• Linux and OSX: Improved memory usage
• Fixed Replace not working as expected in conjunction with regex look behinds
• Fixed build systems being unable to use «file_patterns» with the exec command
• Corrected tab overlap on High DPI Windows and Linux configurations
• OSX: Fixed a graphical glitch when switching tabs
• OSX: Fixed crash when entering a surrogate pair via hex input
• Linux: Improved rendering performance for some systems
• File encoding of open files is now stored in the session
• Build Systems may define a cancel command using the «cancel» key
• Syntax: Added clear_scopes directive, to give more control over the generated scopes
• Color Schemes: Added popupCss key, for defining default popup style sheets
• Color Schemes: Added phantomCss key, for defining default phantom style sheets
• minihtml: High DPI support was added for Windows and Linux
• minihtml: Windows style line endings and single quoted attributes are now supported
• minihtml: Child selectors may now be used in style sheets
• minihtml: The inherit CSS value has been implemented
• minihtml: font-family stacks may now be used
• minihtml: Support for the line-height CSS property was added
• minihtml: Elements may now be relatively positioned
• minihtml: Inline elements support padding and background-color set
• minihtml: CSS variables and the var() function are now supported
• minihtml: Added the CSS color functions color() (partial), rgb(), rgba(), hsl() and hsla()
• minihtml: Fixed a stack overflow on Windows with too many unclosed tags
• API: Added Phantom and PhantomSet
• API: Added ViewEventListener
• API: Added View.is_primary()
• API: Added EventListener.on_hover(view, point, hover_zone)
• API: Added functions to get and set visibility of the minimap, status bar, tabs and menu
• API: Modifications to a selection are now constrained to the valid range
• API: Updated Python 3.3 to commit 8e3b9bf917a7, and SQLite to 3.14.1
• Packages: Loading packages will no longer abort if a .sublime-package is corrupt
• Packages: Fixed an edge case when loading third party packages from unicode paths on Windows

Build 3114

12 May 2016

• New C++, JavaScript and Rust syntax definitions with improved accuracy and performance
• Many other syntax highlighting improvements
• OSX: Improved rendering performance, especially on high resolution screens
• Improved word wrap behavior
• Improved spell check behavior
• Improved file indexing behavior with multiple windows open
• Themes may now be switched on the fly without artifacts
• HTML: Pressing enter when between a tag pair will increase indentation
• Some snippets have have been moved into a sub-directories, so custom overrides and key bindings that reference them will need to be updated
• show_scope_name command shows the scope in a popup
• Package Development: Added ‘Syntax Tests — Regex Compatibility’ build variant for evaluating syntax definition performance
• Package Development: Expanded the set of regexes the new regex engine is able to handle
• Syntax Definitions: Fixed some cases where pop matches with back references weren’t working correctly
• Fixed some Unicode handling issues in Goto Anything
• Fixed a scenario where changes to .tmPreferences files weren’t being picked up
• Fixed a 3096 rendering performance regression
• Fixed a 3096 regression in regular expressions when using x{nnnn} escapes
• Fixed a crash that could occur with an invalid result_file_regex settings
• API: Added Window.status_message()
• API: Changes to how plugins are loaded. This should be transparent, but resolves a number of corner cases
• API: Updated to Python 3.3.6, and now includes the _ssl module on Linux, plus sqlite3 and bz2 on all platforms
• API: Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2h

Build 3103

9 February 2016

• Added new Syntax Definition file format, .sublime-syntax
• Added a custom regex engine that matches multiple regexps in parallel, for faster file loading and indexing
• Improved Unicode support, including combining character rendering, character classification in regex searches, and case insensitivity in Goto Anything matching
• Packages are now on GitHub
• Incorporates many community provided improvements to the above packages, with significant improvements to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, D and SQL
• Added Panel Switcher to status bar
• Better handling of troublesome files during indexing
• Improved file change detection
• Added «Profile Events» to the Command Palette, to help identify slow plugins
• Build Systems may now define a list of file name wildcard patterns to trigger on, via the file_patterns key
• prompt_open_file and related commands now accept an initial_directory argument
• Improved indenting behavior when indent_to_bracket is enabled
• Spell Checker now reads from manually edited user preferences on the fly
• Stability improvements for Find in Files when using regular expressions that result in significant backtracking
• Fixed file truncation when using hexadecimal encoding
• Fixed brackets in strings influencing auto indent
• Fixed inconsistencies in Goto Anything when selecting symbols
• Fixed tab completion regression in 3081, where h1..h6 HTML completions were not triggering
• Fixed Goto Definition command not working when placed in a submenu
• OSX: Fixed Emoji & Symbols popup failing to insert text in some cases
• Windows: Added support for inserting characters from outside of the BMP
• Windows: ctrl+alt+p is no longer bound by default, due to compatibility issues with some keyboard layouts
• Windows: Updated code signing certificate to no longer use SHA1
• Linux: Fixed a file permission issue when running without —wait
• Linux: crash_reporter is statically linked, improving system compatibility
• API: Added Window.is_sidebar_visible() and Window.set_sidebar_visible()
• API: Added View.is_auto_complete_visible()
• API: Added Window.find_output_panel(), Window.destroy_output_panel(), Window.active_panel() and Window.panels()
• API: Added Window.create_output_panel() now accepts an optional parameter, «unlisted»

Build 3083

26 March 2015

• Fixed high CPU usage caused by a corrupt index. This was occuring for some users upgrading from 3065
• Added setting index_workers to control the number of threads used for file indexing. By default the number of threads is based on the number of CPU cores. By setting index_workers to 1 or 2, indexing will be slower, but less intrusive
• Fixed a crash when showing the Command Palette with an empty .sublime-build file
• Tab completion no longer completes numbers. Edit/Show Completions can still be used for this

Build 3080

24 March 2015

• Fixed Redo sometimes restoring the selection to the incorrect location
• Reworked how Build Systems are selected (More Information)
• Build Systems may now declare «keyfiles» (e.g., ‘Makefile’ for the Make build system) to better auto detect which build system to use
• Improved handling of build systems that generate lots of output
• New windows always use the automatic build system, rather than the build system of the last used window
• Command Palette now remembers the last entered string
• Improved change detection for files that disappear and reappear, as happens with disconnected network drives
• atomic_save is disabled by default
• Right clicking on a URL will show an «Open URL» menu item
• Added Goto Definition to the context menu
• Improved behavior of Goto Definition when using multiple panes
• Misspelled words can now be added to the dictionary, in addition to being ignored
• Fixed Ignored Words not persisting after exiting
• Fixed a long standing issue with spell checking and non-ascii characters
• Added spelling_selector setting, to control what text is checked for misspellings
• Tweaked handling of syntax definitions and unused captures, resolving an issue with spell checking in Markdown links.
• Goto Anything supports :line:col syntax in addition to :line
• Added Edit Project to the Command palette
• Improved quote auto pairing logic
• Added <current file> option to Find in Files
• Improved Console Panel scrolling behavior
• .tmLanguage files may contain a hidden setting, to indicate they shouldn’t be displayed to the user
• Improved some error messages when parsing .tmLanguage files
• remember_open_files setting is now defaults to false. Note that this change will have no effect if the hot_exit setting is left at its default value of true
• Added auto_complete_cycle setting
• Fixed Minimap refusing to draw on very large windows
• Fixed not being able to click on the selected row of the auto complete popup
• Fixed sidebar icons sometimes being invisible on startup
• Transient sheets (e.g., as created by Goto Anything when previewing files) are no longer added to the Recently Closed list
• Improved scrolling behavior when line_padding_top is > 0
• Fixed a bug with scrolling tabs, where a 1 pixel line would occasionally appear underneath them
• Fixed tabset background being set to the wrong color on startup if different colored tabs are used
• Updated to a never version of leveldb, fixing constant low level CPU usage if the index becomes corrupted
• Fixed a crash that could occur when directories are being rapidly deleted and recreated
• Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging rows scrolled out of view in the side bar
• Fixed a long standing plugin_host crash triggered via modal dialogs
• Fixed a typo in the «Save Workspace As» dialog
• Fixed incorrect menu mnemonics
• Linux: Added sudo save
• Windows: Popup windows are able to receive scroll wheel input
• Windows: subl.exe command line helper accepts wildcards
• Windows: Fixed access denied errors that could occur when saving with atomic_save disabled
• Windows: Added workaround for broken std::condition_variable in MSVC 2012, fixing a crash in plugin_host
• Windows: Added more descriptive errors when the Update Installer fails to rename a folder
• Windows: Fixed incorrect window sizing after making a maximised window full screen
• OSX: Added work around for performActionForItemAtIndex: taking an excessively long time in Yosemite. This affected any commands that had a corresponding menu item.
• OSX: Workaround for an OS issue with zero size windows and OpenGL views
• OSX: subl command line tool no longer uses Distributed Objects, resolving some intermittent failures
• Posix: Fixed new files not respecting the umask permission flags
• API: Added View.show_popup() and related functions
• API: Added sublime.yes_no_cancel_dialog()
• API: Added sublime.expand_variables()
• API: Added Window.extract_variables()
• API: Added Sheet.view()
• API: Window.show_quick_panel() now accepts the flag sublime.KEEP_OPEN_ON_FOCUS_LOST
• API: Window.show_quick_panel() will now scroll to the selected item when shown
• API: Fixed EventListener.on_post_window_command() not getting called

Build 3065

27 August 2014

• Added sidebar icons
• Added sidebar loading indicators
• Sidebar remembers which folders are expanded
• Tweaked window closing behavior when pressing ctrl+w / cmd+w
• Improved quote auto pairing logic
• Selected group is now stored in the session
• Added remember_full_screen setting
• Fixed a lockup when transitioning from a blinking to a solid caret
• Fixed a crash in plugin_host
• Fixed a crash triggered by Goto Anything cloning views
• Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe
• OSX: Added ‘New Window’ entry to dock menu
• Posix: Using correct permissions for newly created files and folders
• API: Updated to Python 3.3.3

Build 3059

17 December 2013

• Added tab scrolling, controlled by the enable_tab_scrolling setting
• Added image preview when opening images
• Encoding and line endings can be displayed in the status bar with the show_encoding and show_line_endings settings
• Added settings caret_extra_top, caret_extra_bottom and caret_extra_width to control the caret size
• Added index_exclude_patterns setting to control which files get indexed
• Automatically closing windows when the last tab is dragged out
• Changed tab close behavior: the neighboring tab is now always selected
• When the last file is closed, a new transient file is created automatically
• Ctrl+Tab ordering is stored in the session
• Added minimap_scroll_to_clicked_text setting
• Improved error messages when unable to save files
• Auto complete now works as expected in macros
• Minor improvements to Python syntax highlighting
• Vintage: A block caret is now used
• Vintage: Improved behavior of visual line mode with word wrapped lines
• Find in Files will no longer block when FIFOs are encountered
• Linux: Added menu hiding
• Linux: Fixed incorrect handling of double clicks in the Find panel
• Linux: Fixed incorrect underscore display in some menus
• Posix: Fixed new files being created with unexpected permissions
• Windows: SSE support is no longer required for 32 bit builds
• API: Window.open_file() now accepts an optional group parameter
• API: Plugins may now call Settings.clear_on_change() within a callback from Settings.add_on_change()
• API: Calling Settings.add_on_change() from within a settings change callback won’t cause the added callback to be run

Build 3047

27 June 2013

• Beta is now open to non-registered users
• Windows and Linux: Added High DPI support
• Improved file change detection
• Improved rendering performance
• HTML tag auto completion is better behaved in script tags
• Fixed a crash on exit that could occur when hot_exit is disabled
• Linux and OSX: atomic_save is adaptively disabled when it’s not possible to preserve file permissions
• OSX: Fixed context menus not working when the application is in the background
• Windows: Auto updater supports updating from unicode paths
• API: Plugins in zip files are able to be overridden via files on disk
• API: Added support for the termios module on Linux and OS X
• API: Fixed Selection.contains()
• API: Fixed settings objects getting invalidated too early with cloned views

Build 3033

7 May 2013

• New auto update system for Windows and OS X
• Previewing a file from the side bar will no longer add an entry to the OPEN FILES section of the side bar
• Added Paste from History
• Added setting auto_find_in_selection, for S2 style Find in Selection logic
• Find panel has a drop down arrow to select previous items
• Pressing right in the Goto Anything overlay will open the selected file without closing the overlay
• Fixed several crash bugs
• Further startup time improvements
• Improved HTML completions when typing outside of tags
• Fixed Close Tag not respecting self closing tags
• PHP: Improved auto indenting for the alternative control syntax
• Added setting always_prompt_for_file_reload
• Improved handling of deleted files when restoring sessions
• Deleting a file via the side bar will first close the corresponding view, if any
• «Remove all Folders from Project» now prompts to confirm
• Added telemetry. Telemetry is disabled by default, but can be turned on with the enable_telemetry setting
• Using Google Breakpad to automatically report crashes
• Updated syntax highlighting for PHP, Haskell and Pascal
• Symlinks are followed by default in folders added to the side bar
• Windows: Fixed erroneous entries in system menu
• Windows: New style Open Folder dialogs are used on Vista and later
• API: Significantly improved communication speed with plugin_host
• API: Added View.close()
• API: Added View.show_popup_menu()
• API: Added is_valid() method to View and Window, to determine if the handle has been invalidated
• API: Added EventListener.on_post_text_command() and EventListener.on_post_window_command()
• API: EventListener.on_text_command() and EventListener.on_window_command() are now called when the menu is used
• API: Added sublime.get_macro()
• API: View.substr(point) now has the same semantics as S2 for out of bounds addresses
• API: View.command_history(0, True) now returns the last modifying command, as expected

Build 3021

14 March 2013

• Linux: Fixed atomic_save working incorrectly with symlinks
• Windows: Fixed a crash under Windows 7 x64
• Fixed a crash that could occur on file open

Build 3019

12 March 2013

• Added Jump Back and Jump Forward commands, available from the Goto menu
• HTML: Improved completions and auto indent
• HTML: Tags are closed when </ is entered. This is controlled by the auto_close_tags setting
• Smarter word navigation
• File saves are atomic. This can be disabled with the atomic_save setting
• Find and Replace panels automatically resize when multi line strings are entered
• Faster loading of large, plain text files
• Improved console scrolling performance on high resolution displays
• Improved handling of files with extremely long lines
• Minimap view rectangle auto hides (controlled by the always_show_minimap_viewport setting)
• Indexing: Added detection of stuck workers
• Updated C# package
• Added invert_selection command
• CSS: Completions will not be offered when typing in selectors
• Fixed Reveal in Side Bar
• Fixed C++ syntax highlighting for nested class forward declarations
• Exec panel scrolls again
• OSX: Added support for line numbers sent via apple events
• Windows: ok_cancel_dialog uses new visual styles
• Linux: Using the correct version number for the deb files
• API: Added EventListener.on_text_command() and EventListener.on_window_command()
• API: Added sublime.load_resource(), sublime.load_binary_resource() and sublime.find_resources()
• API: Added sublime.encode_value() and sublime.decode_value()
• API: View.sel() supports negative indices
• API: Implemented Settings.add_on_change() and Settings.clear_on_change()
• API: View.add_regions() will accept package relative paths for the icon
• API: View.add_regions() can show underlines
• API: Added EventListener.on_pre_close() callback
• API: View.window() will now work even if the view isn’t frontmost

Build 3012

10 February 2013

• Fixed a syntax highlighting regression in 3011

Build 3011

9 February 2013

• Improved protection against degenerate syntax definitions
• Linux: Fixed version incompatibilities with libffi
• OSX: Fixed exec command on 10.7
• OSX: Fixed incompatibility between Dictionary lookup and gpu_window_buffer
• Objective-C: Improved symbol indexing
• API: Plugins may import modules from plugin_loaded()
• API: sublime.version(), sublime.platform(), sublime.architecture(), and sublime.channel() may now be used before plugin_loaded() is called
• API: Added View.command_history()

Build 3010

3 February 2013

• OSX: Buttery smooth scrolling on Retina displays
• Symbol Indexing: fixed degenerate behavior that could cause an explosion in the number of worker processes
• Symbol Indexing: less worker processes are used, to be more unobtrusive
• Symbol Indexing: better handling of binary files
• OSX: Control+C will cancel the current build
• API: View.insert() returns the number of characters inserted

Build 3009

1 February 2013

• Improved symbol indexing for Ruby
• OSX: Reduced CPU usage when gpu_window_buffer is enabled
• Symbol Indexing works on Windows XP
• Can monitor indexing behavior by entering sublime.log_indexing(True) in the console
• Tweaked brace matching logic
• Removed undesirable animation during startup
• API: Added _ssl module on OS X and Windows
• API: Fixed ctypes regression in 3008 on OS X
• API: Plugins can define plugin_loaded() and plugin_unloaded() module functions. plugin_loaded() will be called when the API is ready to use.
• API: Added View.find_by_class()
• API: Added View.expand_by_class()
• API: Fixed EventListener.on_new_async()
• API: Tweaking handling of show_quick_panel when items is a mixed list of strings and sequences

Build 3008

30 January 2013

• Fixed Open all with current extension as
• Fixed the Tools/Macros menu
• Linux: Restored compatibility with older glibc versions
• Linux: Added Installed-Size field to the .deb
• API: urllib.request can be imported on OS X
• API: Fixed missing _socket module on 32 bit Windows

Build 3007

30 January 2013

• OSX: Fixed extraneous dock icons
• Added Symbol Indexing support for Scala
• Fixed crash that could occur when using Goto Anything
• Fixed the ignored_packages setting not working correctly with zipped packages
• Vintage: Fixed ‘o’ and ‘O’
• API: Fixed on_query_completions not working correctly in some circumstance
• API: Re-added view.score_selector()
• API: Selection.add() no longer ignores the xpos

Build 3006

29 January 2013

• Added Goto Definition, and Goto Symbol in Project
• Significantly improved startup time
• Significantly improved Replace All performance
• Improved matching algorithm used for Goto Anything and Autocomplete, now accepts transposed characters
• UI: Enhanced pane management
• UI: Previewing files from the sidebar creates a preview tab
• UI: Improved animation in the side bar
• Projects: Multiple workspaces can be created for a single project
• Projects: When adding folders to the sidebar, symlinks are not followed by default. This can be changed by enabling follow_symlinks in the project.
• Build Systems: Added ‘shell_cmd’, which supersedes ‘cmd’, with more intuitive syntax
• Build Systems: Better PATH handling behavior on OS X when using shell_cmd.
• Build Systems: ‘Make’ build system has an improved error message regex
• Build Systems: Syntax file can be specified for the output
• Build Systems: Word wrap is enabled by default
• Find in Files: Improved handling of binary files
• Find in Files: Line numbers are hidden in the output
• Find: Find in Selection will no longer be automatically selected
• Find: Removed Reverse option
• OSX: Improved performance on Retina displays
• OSX: 10.7 or later is required
• OSX: 64 bit only
• OSX: System version of Python is no longer a dependency
• OSX: Italic fonts are synthesized when not available in the typeface
• Linux: .deb files are provided
• Linux: Starting from the command line will daemonize the process by default
• API: Upgraded from Python 2.6 to Python 3.3
• API: Plugins run out-of-process
• API: Plugin API is now threadsafe
• API: Some API events are now run asynchronously
• API: View.begin_edit() / View.end_edit() are no longer accessible
• API: Projects are exposed to the API
• API: Added Window.settings() and Window.template_settings()
• API: show_quick_panel accepts an on_highlighted callback

Build 4143

11 November 2022

• Fixed a performance regression in 4142 on color schemes with very complex selectors
• Folded regions no longer include the trailing newline by default
• Fixed selection jumping when clicking on a fold marker

Build 4142

10 November 2022

• Added syntax-based code folding
• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Newly rewritten Haskell syntax highlighting thanks to deathaxe
• The recent file list is now global instead of per window
• Files opened in Sublime Text are now added to the system recent file list (See the «update_system_recent_files» setting)
• Added commands for converting between common identifier cases (See Edit > Convert Case)
• Added «hot_exit_projects» setting to control what data gets saved in workspace files
• Added «minimap_horizontal_scrolling» setting
• Added «open_tabs_after_current» setting for controlling where tabs are opened
• Added «show_spelling_errors» and «show_line_column» settings
• Added «goto_anything_exclude_gitignore» setting
• Added «ruler_style» setting
• Reworked comment toggling to better handle embedded languages
• Sub-word separators are now configurable using the «sub_word_separators» setting
• Added support for Nordic (Windows 865) encoding
• Reopening a file now asks for confirmation when there are unsaved changes
• Improved filesystem symbolic link detection
• Improved performance while open folders are scanned for the side-bar
• Improved regex performance for syntax highlighting
• Find: Patterns taken from an open file are now escaped for regex searches
• Find in Files: Improved binary file detection for find-in-files
• Find in Files: Find-in-files now supports project-relative patterns starting with //
• Find in Files: Added the «find_in_files_max_file_size» setting
• Syntax Highlighting: Context backtraces now link to their origin in sublime-syntax files
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed crash caused by starting a branch point at the end of a line
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed various syntax highlighting bugs related to backtracking
• Rendering: Improved performance with large folded regions
• Rendering: Fixed OpenGL issue related to the wrong context being active
• Rendering: Fixed shadow related OpenGL rendering bug
• Rendering: Fixed region rendering edge case
• Rendering: Improved performance in files with large diffs
• Rendering: Fixed various issues with faded labels in the sidebar
• Rendering: Fixed text annotation underlines not drawing when combined with other font styles
• Sort Lines no longer includes the newline at EOF when nothing is selected
• Fixed very large unsaved files being lost on hot exit; a prompt is now shown to save them
• Fixed extraneous window getting created at startup with hot exit disabled
• Fixed case where multiple reload prompts could show simultaneously
• Drag operations are no longer interrupted when reloading a file
• Fixed case where text in command palette was incorrectly colored
• Fixed side bar button theming issue in the Default theme
• Fixed sometimes not being able to type a space after completing a snippet
• Fixed wrong default extension being used in open file dialog
• Fixed centered views jumping in some cases when whole content is replaced
• Fixed scroll jumping when folding
• Fixed Reveal in Side Bar not working in some cases
• Fixed scroll bar sometimes showing when text is wrapped
• Fixed sheets not being added to the current selection in some cases
• Added missing theming attributes to update dialog
• Linux: System scroll bar overlay settings are now followed
• Linux: Fixed various issues caused by the C locale
• Linux: Added safeguard around nested GTK main loops possibly causing data loss
• Linux: Fixed case where dragging a tab to a window wasn’t working
• Linux: Fixed crash on startup for some desktop environments
• Linux: Fixed not being able to grab the scrollbar in a maximized window when at the right edge of the screen
• Windows: Adjusted for the new Windows 11 window border
• Windows: Open Containing Folder and similar now respect file explorer replacements
• Windows: Fixed GDI font glow glyph positioning
• Mac: Fixed license being removed due to network MAC address changing
• Mac: Fixed cursor getting stuck as a resize handle on Ventura
• Mac: Recent files are now available without having a window open
• Mac: Fixed various issues with the quick switch project dialog
• Mac: Fixed issue where dialogs could be triggered during dialogs
• Mac: Fixed case when opening an already open file would jump to the start
• Mac: Added work around for broken modal loops
• Mac: Fixed case where settings window couldn’t be closed
• Mac: Fixed open file dialog crash with some syntaxes
• Mac: Fixed scrolling when command modifier key is pressed
• Mac: Fixed Window/New Tab not working with the Adaptive theme
• API: Added buffer variable to the console
• API: A noop command can now be used for keybindings to block default behavior
• API: «encoded_position»: true may be passed to open_file command for the same behavior as sublime.ENCODED_POSITION
• API: View.context_backtrace can be used to get a stack trace from syntax highlighting
• API: View.expand_to_scope now returns None when the text point doesn’t match the selector
• API: Added View.expand_to_scope
• API: Added Window.promote_sheet
• API: Fixed crash when running hide_panel command from EventListener.on_deactivated
• API: The toggle_comment command can now take a variant argument for languages with multiple comment variants

Build 4126

21 December 2021

• Improved OpenGL rendering performance by automatically batching together controls
• Added support for Chinese standard GB18030 file encoding
• Added support for CP862 file encoding
• Resolved various issues tracking symlinks in the side-bar
• Avoid session data corruption if a crash happens while saving the session
• subl -n will reuse an existing empty window if the application isn’t running
• Binary files now show as «Binary» syntax instead of «Plain Text» in the status bar
• Fixed wildcards incorrectly matching subpaths (For settings like «folder_exclude_patterns»)
• Made «find_in_files_max_result_size» not apply when replacing
• Fixed crash when loading invalid grid layout from session
• Fixed spell checker incorrectly marking some words as correct if they can’t be encoded
• Fixed rendering order of successive popups
• Fixed package subfolders sometimes not being loaded when matching the «ignored_packages» setting
• Fixed layout instability in side bar causing things to occasionally be rendered 1 pixel off
• Added some missing glyphs to «draw_unicode_white_space»: «all»
• Added «draw_unicode_bidi» setting for drawing unicode bidi characters
• Added «select_across_groups» setting for opting into the old side bar selection behavior when selecting a single file
• Fixed «close_windows_when_empty» setting not working
• Fixed goto-definition preview not closing on escape
• Fixed quick panel closing on enter when there are no matching entries
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed backtracking breaking when creating phantoms or doing a context backtrace
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed regression with some syntax definitions introduced in 4115
• Linux: Added missing libcurl dependency for package managers
• Linux: Fixed GTK overriding LC_NUMERIC environment variable breaking serialization
• Windows: Fixed command line not taking focus after closing a waited on file
• Windows: Fixed crash when OpenGL initialization fails
• Mac: Aliases are now resolved when using drag and drop
• Mac: Fixed window sometimes being restored on startup when «create_window_at_startup» is disabled
• Mac: Fixed native tabs restoration resulting in odd behavior
• Mac: Fixed subl -b not working
• Mac: Fixed terminal not being focused after waiting on file
• Mac: Fixed Window > Merge All Windows merging minimized windows
• Mac: Fixed various inconsistencies when opening files from finder
• API: The show_panel command for the find and find in files panels can now take «pattern» and «replace_pattern» arguments
• API: ListInputHandler.preview is now called with None when no items match the current filter
• API: Fixed case where Window.project_data() could return an invalid value
• API: Opening a new pane moves currently selected sheets
• API: Added Window.move_sheets_to_group
• API: The commands move_to and move_to_neighbouring now move currently selected sheets

Build 4121

26 October 2021

• New update dialog that shows versions, license status and links to the changelog
• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Use goto-symbol to jump to specific files in find results
• Improved color scheme/theme selection UI
• Layout is no longer remembered when «hot_exit» is disabled. You can change this using «remember_layout»
• Right-delete now respects «use_tab_stops» setting
• Various improvements to behavior of moving sheets during window layout changes
• Improved mini-diff and white space rendering performance under OpenGL
• Improved performance when reading large files from stdin
• Fixed regex replace not working on last occurrence when using look-behind
• Fixed «save_on_focus_lost» not working as expected with the reload dialog
• Fixed open files not being added to recent file list when «hot_exit» is disabled
• Fixed snippet completions not respecting word boundaries
• Fixed extra blank window being opened at startup in some cases
• Fixed not properly exiting after a prompt when «hot_exit» is disabled
• Fixed window unexpectedly closing when project has no added folders and «close_windows_when_empty» is enabled
• Fixed tab selection stack not being updated as expected in some cases
• Fixed transient sheets persisting when exiting goto-anything
• Fixed squiggle underline width not scaling properly
• Fixed line highlighting not working when gutter is disabled
• Fixed case where folders were being added to existing windows instead of opening in a new window
• Fixed performance regression under Windows with non-integer DPI scaling
• Fixed syntax highlighting backtracking-related performance problem
• Undo stack is now cleared when reading from stdin
• Added Selection > Expand Selection to Block which has the same behavior as Expand Selection to Paragraph had previously
• «open_files_in_new_window» is now respected when reading from stdin
• Added «find_scroll_highlights_limit», «find_highlight_matches_max_size» and «find_regex_highlight_matches_max_size» settings to allow configuring find limits
• Added newline detection and normalization when changing settings programmatically
• Sublime Merge menu items are hidden when «sublime_merge_path» is set to null
• Fixed wrong path sometimes being used when viewing file history in Sublime Merge
• Fixed focus lost when selected group is closed whilst reducing the number of groups
• File-specific indentation settings are now persisted across restarts
• Fixed some edge cases related to «find_in_files_max_result_size»
• Fixed completions in input panel not utilizing available window space
• Fixed expand selection to tag not working in XML
• Fixed current transient sheet unexpectedly closing when using goto-anything
• Fixed crash related to syntax backtracking and phantoms
• Fixed being unable to open more than one new empty window
• Linux: Make selection after middle-click paste consistent with other applications
• Linux: Fixed race condition with multiple simultaneous command line invocations
• Linux: Fixed custom title bar label color for some GTK themes
• Windows: Fixed a case where session could be lost when upgrading
• Windows: Fixed NTFS alternate data streams being deleted on save
• Windows: Fixed slow window creation when using OpenGL
• Windows: Fixed incorrect case being used when opening files from find-in-files with gitignore enabled
• Windows: Fixed stdout/stderr output data race when building
• Windows: Fixed hang on modal dialogs when context menu is open
• Mac: Tweaked text drag-drop behavior to respect NSDragAndDropTextDelay
• Mac: The setting «use_find_clipboard» can be used to disable global find clipboard integration
• Mac: Fixed double click not working at the top of a window when in full screen with a custom title bar
• Mac: Fixed incorrectly reporting successful key event when no command was found
• Mac: Fixed windows not restoring properly with multi-monitor setups
• Mac: Fixed window layout issue with native tabs when exiting full screen
• Mac: Fixed title bar text not fading when out of focus
• Mac: Fixed reading stdin not working when no windows are open
• API: Fixed plugin popups sometimes having the wrong placement
• API: Fixed plugins not loading when a .python-version file is in the User package
• API: Added Buffer.clear_undo_stack()
• API: Fixed View.show and View.show_at_center not working from on_load callback

Build 4113

14 July 2021

• Improved performance when editing large files
• Improved OpenGL rendering performance
• Improved handling of deleted files
• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• subl can now be used to edit stdin, eg: echo test | subl | cat
• Syntax and indentation detection is now done when editing stdin
• Added syntax_detection_size_limit setting for controlling when syntax detection is skipped
• Theme: Improved scroll puck visibility
• Theme: Fixed adaptive theme not respecting themed_title_bar setting with light color schemes
• Middle clicking in the Open Files section of then sidebar will close the clicked on file
• Preserve Case now works with unicode characters
• Added reveal_menu setting for disabling revealing the menu when alt is pressed on Linux and Windows
• Safe Mode key binding can be disabled by creating a file named .Disable Safe Mode Shortcut in the data directory
• Fixed Ruby syntax highlighting in the Monokai color scheme
• Fixed a scenario where folders weren’t being watched for changes
• Fixed underlines being drawn behind line highlight
• Fixed an infinite loop that could occur during syntax highlighting
• Fixed the append command’s scroll_to_end parameter sometimes not working
• Fixed Goto Symbol sometimes being scrolled incorrectly
• Fixed multi-select file limit applying to sidebar
• Fixed auto-complete related hang in some large files
• Linux: Fixed print sometimes not working
• Linux: Fixed wrong order of yes/no buttons in GTK dialogs
• Linux: Fixed letters sometimes being cut off
• Windows: Always make a new window when launching main executable on Windows
• Windows: Fixed window icon not scaling properly on Windows
• Windows: Fixed globs not being expanded in some cases on Windows
• Mac: Fixed auto theme not changing with OS auto theme on macOS

4 (Build 4107)

20 May 2021

Release Highlights

• Multi-select tabs to view them side-by-side
• Context-aware auto complete by finding similar code elsewhere in the current project
• Symbols have kind information that is shown for completions and navigation
• Theme can follow system dark mode preference and title bars can be themed on all platforms
• Syntax highlighting now supports back-tracking and inheritance
• Many syntax highlighting improvements as well as builtin TypeScript, JSX and TSX support
• GPU rendering for improved performance. Enabled by default on macOS
• ARM64 support for Linux and macOS (Apple Silicon)
• Many plugin API additions particularly to better support plugins like LSP
• Python 3.8 support for plugins

GPU Rendering

• New hardware_acceleration setting will composite the UI on the GPU
• By default, GPU rendering is enabled on Mac, and disabled on Windows and Linux
• Details about the active GPU will be displayed in the Console

Context-aware Auto Complete

• The auto complete engine now suggests completions based on patterns in existing code
• Uses the entire project as a source, instead of just the current view
• Plugins may specify symbol kind info to be displayed in suggestions list

Tab Multi-Select

• Multiple tabs can be selected using ctrl/cmd, their contents will be shown side-by-side
• Selecting multiple files from the sidebar will also preview them simultaneously
• Included themes have a tab connector joining the active sheet and tab when using sheet multi-select
• The sidebar can now select multiple files using alt
• Goto Anything allows opening tabs side-by-side using ctrl/cmd
• The Definition popup has a dedicated button for opening files side-by-side
• Multiple tabs can also be selected from the tab dropdown
• The menu Selection/Tab Selection contains various options for manipulating tab multi-select
• File/New View into File has been replaced by File/Split View using multi-select

Python 3.8 API

• Added a Python 3.8 API environment for plugins
• Plugins can choose Python version via .python-version file in plugin folder
• Existing plugins are fully supported via legacy Python 3.3 API
• Many API improvements and additions — see API section for more details

Goto Symbol

• Goto Symbol in Project is now significantly faster on huge projects
• Icons are now shown next to symbols, indicating the symbol kind
• Symbols with 3 characters or less are now indexed

Syntax Definitions

• Added out of the box support for TypeScript, JSX and TSX — thanks to Thomas Smith
• Added ability to «branch» within syntax definitions, for non-deterministic or multi-line constructs
• Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
  • Erlang, with thanks to deathaxe
• Significantly improved load times, match times and reduced cache size on disk
• embed is now lazy loaded, resulting in much higher performance for syntaxes like markdown
• Added branch and fail for non-deterministic parsing
• Added version: 2 to fix edge cases while retaining backwards compatibility
• Added extends to inherit from another syntax definition. Multiple inheritance is supported, provided all parents have the same base syntax
• Added hidden_extensions
• Allow using pop alongside push/set/embed/branch
• Fixed a performance issue with bounded repeats in regular expressions
• Syntax tests can now assert that reindent is working as expected
• Syntax tests can now assert that symbols are indexed
• Prevent infinite include loops via with_prototype
• Fixed a number of scope related bugs
• Fixed some regex capture related bugs
• Added more information to the Show Scope Name popup

OS Compatibility

• The following operating systems are no longer supported as a result of adding Python 3.8:
  • OS X 10.7
  • OS X 10.8
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista

Platform Integration

• Added automatic dark/light theme and color scheme switching, based on OS theme changes
• subl — can now be used to read from stdin on all platforms
• Windows will remember their Virtual Desktop/Space/Workspace, controlled by the remember_workspace setting
• Scroll bars now follow platform conventions when clicking on them. Configurable using Scroll Bar.sublime-mousemap
• Mac: Releases use universal binaries with Apple Silicon support
• Mac: Updated icon to follow macOS 11 style
• Mac: Windows will now stay maximized when using Mac window tabs
• Mac: Fix various issues with the wrong cursor being used
• Linux: ARM64 builds are now available
• Linux: Text drag and drop is now supported
• Linux: Added proper support for Wayland
• Linux: Touch screen events are now handled
• Linux: Better support for copy+paste with other applications that don’t support utf8 text
• Linux: Native file dialogs like those for KDE will be used when configured
• Windows: IME preview and multi-select support
• Windows, Linux: Added support for custom title bars
• Windows, Linux: Use vsync for animations instead of a fixed 60hz
• Mac, Linux: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts

Application Behavior

• Added Safe Mode, to simulate a clean install. Enabled by passing —safe-mode on the command line or holding shift+alt/option at startup on Windows/macOS respectively
• Added Help/Report a Bug to link to our public issue tracker
• Added options to hot_exit setting to control behavior when the last window is closed
• Fixed a possible case where an update loses the current session
• Settings containing a UTF-8 BOM will no longer fail to load
• Added support for previewing TGA and PSD images
• Added close_deleted_files setting to control behavior of session restoration when files have been deleted on disk
• Popup windows now use virtual windows for improved performance
• Improved performance when loading files with very long lines
• Improved rendering performance on very long lines
• Improved performance with large session files
• Data directories have dropped the «3», though if a «3» directory still exists it will be used
• Mac: Quick Switch Project now works without any windows open
• Mac, Linux: The cache and index are now located in the proper location (~/.cache and ~/Library/Caches respectively)

Auto Complete

• Typing the full tab trigger of a snippet will move it to the top of the results
• Manually typing in the only available completion will hide the auto complete popup
• .sublime-completion files can now specify annotation, kind and details
• Ranking quality improvements
• Improved behavior of completions starting with non-word characters
• auto_complete_trailing_symbols is now disabled by default
• cancelCompletion will no longer prevent manual invocation
• Added the auto_complete_when_likely setting
• Added auto_complete_preserve_order setting
• Added auto_complete_include_snippets_when_typing setting
• Added auto_complete_use_index setting
• Added auto_complete_use_history setting to control if previous choices are automatically selected
• Running the auto_complete command when auto complete is already showing will re-query plugins for results
• auto_complete_selector now applies to the position before the just-typed in character, matching auto_complete_triggers

Input Handling

• Modifier key taps can now be used as part of a key binding. For example, [«ctrl», «ctrl»] will trigger when Ctrl is pressed twice without pressing any other keys in between
• Linux: AltGr can now be used in key bindings via altgr
• Linux: Added a workaround for a touchscreen driver bug, which would cause right click and mouse scrolling to stop working
• Linux: When the menu is hidden, pressing alt will show it
• Mac: Fix Pinyin input
• Mac: Keypad keys can now be bound to as expected
• Mac: Added key bindings for macOS application tabs
• Windows, Linux: Hide mouse cursor when typing. Controlled via hide_pointer_while_typing setting
• Windows, Linux: Fixed being unable to bind Ctrl+Break

Editor Control

• Added File/Print, which prints via a browser
• Added Edit/Copy as HTML
• Build systems now use new annotations functionality instead of phantoms, reducing re-flow
• Undo history is preserved in the session
• Comments and layout are preserved when programmatically editing preferences
• Caret blinking is disabled by default. Set caret_style setting to smooth for previous behavior
• Improved automatic indentation detection
• Added relative line numbers, controlled by the relative_line_numbers setting
• Added setting scroll_context_lines
• Added setting hide_pointer_while_typing
• Added setting control_character_style
• Added Project/Recent/Remove Deleted
• Added chain command to run multiple commands in series
• switch_file command now handles filenames with compound extensions
• The scroll_past_end setting now supports customizing the scroll distance using numbers from 0.0 to 1.0
• Double-clicking a semi-transient sheet’s tab will now fully open the sheet
• trim_trailing_white_space_on_save can now be set to «not_on_caret»
• trim_trailing_white_space_on_save now trims only newly inserted trailing whitespace by default. Controlled via trim_only_modified_white_space setting
• Expanded draw_white_space setting, supporting leading and trailing white space
• Unicode white space characters, such as the zero width no-break space, are now drawn as hex values. Controlled via draw_unicode_white_space setting
• Fixed spelling correction to support languages with upper case characters after start of word
• Added commands to simplify customizing the active theme or color scheme
• Quick Switch Project will open the selected project in a new window if Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) is held down
• Added wrap_width_style preference
• Added console_max_history_lines
• Added additional settings to control the status bar: show_sidebar_button, show_indentation and show_syntax
• Console now uses Python syntax highlighting by default
• Added Central European (Mac) encoding support
• Key Bindings: Join Lines is now on Ctrl+Shift+J / Cmd+Shift+J
• Key Bindings: Expand Selection to Indentation is no longer bound by default
• Key Bindings: Ctrl+J / Cmd+J is now used as a prefix for sequential key bindings, similar to Ctrl+K / Cmd+K
• Code Folding: fixed some edge-case incorrect behaviors
• Linux: Added support for alternate font weight names
• Linux: Selection is no longer cleared when another application makes a selection
• Linux: Added Ctrl+Space to trigger Auto Complete
• Linux, Windows: Added Alt+Shift+Left Mouse Button as an alternative column selection binding
• Linux, Windows: Added Shift+F10 key binding to open the context menu

Text Commands

• Macros now record Find commands
• Reworked Jump Back and Jump Forward commands
• Improved behavior of Wrap Paragraph
• Improved behavior of Swap Lines
• Added Revert Diff Hunk
• Added Selection/Expand Selection as a general mechanism to expand the selection
• Selection/Split into Lines will now split a selection into words if the selection doesn’t contain any newlines
• Show a sum in the status bar when there are multiple selections and all of them are numbers
• set_file_type command now accepts «scope:» prefixed syntax names
• Fixed sort_lines replacing unicode newlines with regular ones

Snippets

• Added auto_complete_include_snippets setting, for disabling auto complete integration
• Added ignored_snippets setting, for disabling default snippets

Indexing (Goto Definition)

• Files ignored by .gitignore are not indexed by default. Controlled via index_exclude_gitignore setting
• Files without known extensions are no longer indexed by default. Controlled via index_skip_unknown_extensions setting
• Improved behavior with constantly changing files
• Significantly improved load times

Files and Folders

• Saving files is now asynchronous
• Improved performance when adding directories with extreme amounts of files
• When save_on_focus_lost is enabled, closing an unsaved file will save and close it, instead of prompting to save
• Improved behavior of save_on_focus_lost in conjunction with administrator owned files
• Added reload_file_on_change setting to control if files are automatically reloaded or not
• folder_exclude_patterns and folder_include_patterns now support project-relative paths, by starting the path with //
• Folders in the sidebar can be recursively expanded via alt+arrow key
• Added preview_on_click setting to support only previewing files on left click
• Windows: Fixed Open Containing Folder for UNC paths
• Windows: Fixed Save dialog not showing for new files with control characters on the first line
• Windows: Fixed Ctrl+Backspace inserting a DEL character when a dialog is open in the background
• Linux: Fix recreated directories not working correctly with file change monitoring
• Linux: Recursively expanding and collapsing sidebar folders now works with alt or super

Find

• Find results are highlighted on the scroll bar, controlled by highlight_find_results_in_scrollbar
• Find in Selection now highlights the area that will be searched
• Commands can now be run without the find panel having input focus
• Fix keypad enter not working in find panel
• Improved find history behavior
• Find: Various performance improvements with large files using graceful degradation
• Find: Fixed adjacent matches being skipped when find in selection is in use
• Find: Fixed find in selection option not being cleared when changing tabs
• Find: Selection will no longer be reset after Find All is used when finding in selection
• Find: Results are now properly highlighted on Find All when close_find_after_find_all is turned off
• Find in Files: Improved performance with large numbers of matches
• Find in Files: Can now filter by .gitignore
• Find in Files: Added Preserve Case option for replacements
• Find in Files: Fix not recursing into directories on networked file systems
• Find in Files: Hide rulers by default in find results
• Find in Files: Added Find/Cancel Find in Files menu item
• Find in Files: Binary file patterns are applied when an explicit folder is given
• Find in Files: Using «Find in Folder…» from the sidebar context menu will apply project file filters
• Find in Files: Added close_find_after_find_all preference
• Find in Files: Added close_find_after_replace_all preference

UI

• Changed default color scheme to Mariana
• Added Default Dark theme
• Added themed_title_bar setting
• Changed file tab style, adding file_tab_style setting
• Goto Symbol shows more information about symbols
• Definitions hover popup shows more information about symbols
• Sheets without input focus are now dimmed when using included themes
• Added a New Tab button in the tab bar, and hide_new_tab_button setting
• Added show_tab_close_buttons_on_left setting
• Added highlight_gutter and highlight_line_number settings
• Added the ability to auto hide the menu, tabs, and status bar when typing. See auto_hide_menu and related settings
• Window title bar can be controlled by show_rel_path and show_project_first settings
• Tab context menu now includes Close Unmodified Files and Close Deleted Files entries
• Side bar row highlights now properly reflect the selected tabs
• Color Schemes: Added glow font option
• Color Schemes: Added support for the underline font style
• Color Schemes: Added new property, inactive_selection_border
• Color Schemes: Slightly darkened the background of Mariana
• Color Schemes: Added support for stippled_underline and squiggly_underline
• Color Schemes: .hidden-tmTheme files are now supported by the .sublime-color-scheme convertor
• Themes: Included themes use variables extensively, making customization simpler
• Themes: Added style property for title_bar element, for better integration with OS «dark modes»
• Themes: The tree_row for the file with input focus now gets the attribute highlighted
• Themes: The settings key now supports objects, with keys being settings and values being a boolean, string or array of strings
• Themes: Added sheet_contents class to text, image and HTML sheets
• Themes: Added the background_modifier property for sheet_contents
• Themes: Added a number of new attributes to tab_control for richer tab theming
• Themes: The highlighted attribute is only applied to the most recently active sheet, rather that the most recently active sheet in each group
• Themes: tab_control and sheet_contents classes now synchronize their highlighted and hover attributes
• Themes: tooltip controls now support animations to their opacity
• Linux: Show sequential key bindings in the menu
• Linux: Fixed context menu position being slightly offset

Spell Checking

• Updated dictionaries
• Added support for non-utf8 dictionaries
• Updated Hunspell for improved suggestions
• System dictionaries are now available on Linux
• Dictionaries in ~/Library/Spelling are now available on Mac

Rendering

• Properly query glyph extents in order to avoid cutting off large glyphs
• Windows, Linux: Added support for per-display subpixel ordering
• Mac: Improved window resize performance
• Windows: Fixed rendering bug where other applications could cause persistent artifacts via window animations
• Windows: Add support for color emoji

API

• Improved coverage of plugin profiling
• The cProfile module is now included on Linux
• Added HTML sheets, which can be created via window.new_html_sheet()
• repr now works as expected
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1j
• .sublime-commands files now support filtering commands via the «platform» key
• Minihtml now handles list-style-type CSS property — circle, square and disc
• Minihtml now processes subl: links, running them as commands
• Minihtml now supports white-space: nowrap
• Improved minihtml rendering performance
• EventListener has many new features and bug fixes
  • on_query_completions() can now
    • Return suggestions asynchronously
    • Return command completions
    • Include symbol kind information
  • New: on_init() is called once with list of views opened before plugin was loaded
  • New: on_exit() is called immediately before plugin_host exits, after API is shut down
  • New: on_text_changed() and on_text_changed_async() provide detailed modification info
  • New methods:
    • on_reload()
    • on_revert()
    • on_new_window()
    • on_new_window_async()
    • on_pre_close_window()
    • on_pre_move()
    • on_post_move()
    • on_post_move_async()
    • on_new_project()
    • on_new_project_async()
    • on_load_project()
    • on_load_project_async()
    • on_pre_save_project()
    • on_post_save_project()
    • on_post_save_project_async()
    • on_pre_close_project()
    • on_associate_buffer()
  • Fixed on_selection_modified() to not be called twice when left clicking
  • Fixed on_selection_modified() begin called on non-selection state changes
• New TextChangeListener for getting callbacks when a text buffer is changed
  • Can be dynamically bound to a Buffer using TextChangeListener.attach and TextChangeListener.detach
  • Methods:
    • on_text_changed()
    • on_text_changed_async()
    • on_revert()
    • on_revert_async()
    • on_reload()
    • on_reload_async()
• Sheet has some new methods:
  • file_name()
  • group()
  • close()
  • is_semi_transient()
  • Sheet.is_transient
• View has a number of changes and improvements
  • Fixed newly created views not having a valid viewport before being returned to the API
  • add_regions() now has an annotations parameter, to allow adding a per-region annotation to the buffer. The exec command uses this API for build errors
  • add_regions() calls that add an underline now have that underline applied to whitespace characters
  • show() now takes keep_to_left and animate parameters
  • text_point() and related functions now accept a clamp_column parameter
  • Added «glow» to style_for_scope()
  • Added View.rowcol_utf8(), View.rowcol_utf16(), View.text_point_utf8() and View.text_point_utf16()
  • Added sublime.KEEP_ON_SELECTION_MODIFIED, which can be passed to show_popup()
  • New: element() returns a string describing widget views (find input, quick panel input, etc)
  • New: assign_syntax() sets the syntax used in a view, supports Syntax objects, paths and scope selectors
  • New: syntax() returns the currently set Syntax
  • New: clones()
  • New: sheet() and sheet_id()
  • New: export_to_html()
• Window has some changes and improvements:
  • show_quick_panel now accepts placeholder text, via the placeholder argument
  • Added sublime.CLEAR_TO_RIGHT and sublime.SEMI_TRANSIENT for use with open_file()
  • Added the flag sublime.REPLACE_MRU for use with open_file(). When multiple sheets are selected, this flag will cause the opened file to replace the most recently used sheet with the file being opened
  • Added the flag sublime.WANT_EVENT for use with show_quick_panel(). This will pass an event dict to the on_select callback. The dict will contain the key modifier_keys, which will be a dict that may contain zero or more of the keys: primary, ctrl, super, alt, altgr
  • open_file now accepts sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION as a flag
  • New: selected_sheets(), selected_sheets_in_group() and select_sheets()
  • New: workspace_file_name()
  • New: bring_to_front()
• sublime.ok_cancel_dialog() and sublime.yes_no_cancel_dialog() now accept an optional title parameter
• Added sublime.open_dialog, sublime.save_dialog and sublime.select_folder_dialog
• Syntax definitions can be queried via sublime.list_syntaxes(), sublime.find_syntax(), sublime.syntax_from_path(), sublime.find_syntax_by_name(), sublime.find_syntax_by_scope(), and sublime.find_syntax_for_file(). They return Syntax objects
• Improved sys.stdout to extend io.TextIOBase
• sublime.executable_path(), sublime.packages_path(), sublime.installed_packages_path() and sublime.cache_path() may now be called at import time
• Added sublime.SymbolRegion and sublime.SymbolLocation with corresponding methods on View and Window
• Fix a bug with popup being stuck open when a popup is shown in the hide event handler of another popup
• Added open_project_or_workspace command
• append command has new, optional disable_tab_translation argument
• Added modifier_keys to event dicts when commands are invoked via a menu
• Added sublime.DYNAMIC_COMPLETIONS. on_query_completions() can return this flag to indicate that completion results should be re-queried as the user types
• Added sublime.INHIBIT_REORDER. Returned by on_query_competions()
• CompletionItem now accepts a details parameter, which can include basic HTML
• CommandInputHandler now has an initial_selection() method
• Added Region.to_tuple and Phantom.to_tuple
• Fixed ViewEventListener.on_load_async() sometimes not being called
• Added sublime.QuickPanelItem() with support for kind info, annotations and basic minihtml
• Plugins may now add selections to the Jump Back history list via the add_jump_record command
• Plugins may suppress selections from the Jump Back history list via the jump_ignore_selection region
• Plugins may now disable the default HTML and CSS completions
• Added Buffer.id() and Buffer.file_name()
• The TextInputHandler and ListInputHandler classes may define a method want_event() that returns True to receive an extra parameter, an event dict, when the validate() and confirm() methods are called. The dict will contain the key modifier_keys, which will be a dict that may contain zero or more of the keys: primary, ctrl, super, alt, altgr
• Add sublime.ui_info() for high-level information about the UI
• Popups will be properly positioned when displayed near the right-hand side of the editor
• Popups near the right-hand side of the editor with wrapped lines will now be properly sized
• Added ListInputItem so that ListInputHandler objects can provide kind info, annotations and details
• Improvements to the API, applied to the new Python 3.8 environment only:
  • bool(sublime.Selection()) will return False when len() == 0
  • sublime.load_binary_resource() now returns bytes instead of bytearray
  • Added Selection.__iter__()
  • Added Region.__iter__()
  • Added Region.__contains__()
  • Added Settings.to_dict()
  • Settings can now be treated like a dict
  • Plugins starting with _ will be ignored, __all__ global will be respected
  • Events won’t be reported until plugin_loaded() has been called
  • .pyc files can now be imported when contained within .sublime-package files, although they will not be scanned for plugins
• The certifi Python package is preinstalled
• Significant performance improvements when rapidly printing to the Console
• Added sublime.log_control_tree(). When enabled, clicking with ctrl+alt will log the control tree under the mouse to the console
• Added sublime.log_fps(). When enabled, the render times are tracked and logged
• Added logging status functions:
  • sublime.get_log_commands()
  • sublime.get_log_input()
  • sublime.get_log_build_systems()
  • sublime.get_log_result_regex()
  • sublime.get_log_indexing()
  • sublime.get_log_fps()
  • sublime.get_log_control_tree()
• Logging functions are now toggle when no argument is passed:
  • sublime.log_commands()
  • sublime.log_input()
  • sublime.log_build_systems()
  • sublime.log_result_regex()
  • sublime.log_indexing()
  • sublime.log_fps()
  • sublime.log_control_tree()
• Backwards Compatibility Break: The event parameter passed to commands when a minihtml link is clicked changed from a two-element list to a dict with the keys x and y