Bluefish

This release features major performance improvements and several new features. Both the start-time of bluefish and the performance while running have been improved. New features include visible spacing (which shows tabs, spaces, non-breaking spaces, etc.) and an optional character map plugin based on libgucharmap. Some serious issues in glib-2.16 were discovered when working with remote files, which may impact Bluefish stability.

The previous released featured a new editor widget, which was a bit unpolished. Now this widget is much more polished, is faster, and supports more languages. There are many bugs fixed and other improvements implemented. This release is much more suitable for day-to-day use. However, it is still an unstable release, so there are many unfinished features and missing translations.

A new development release, and the first release in the 1.3.* branch. The 1.3 branch will lead the development to the 2.0 release of Bluefish. The 1.3 branch has the new (faster) editor widget with auto-completion, integrated reference help, and much more. It no longer requires GnomeVFS, since all (remote) file code has been ported to GIO/GVFS.

This development snapshot has many performance improvements in the syntax scanning engine, more auto-completion strings, and many minor bugfixes. The development tree can be installed side-by-side with the stable releases.

Updated French and Japanese translations. The application/bluefish-project MIME type icon name, the default highlighting patterns for Tcl, a crash in new installations when trying to save (or save as), a crash when deleting multiple bookmarks, and a memory leak in the bookmark functionality have been fixed.