[ jEdit-announce ] jEdit 5.6.0 is out!

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.6.0, the first stable release of the 5.6 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log attached in the end of this email, but here are some of the major features of this version:

    * Many bugfixes
    * A major performance improvement when displaying big files
      (do not ask why, but I needed to edit a 38 MiB one-line text file yesterday,
      with jEdit 5.5.0 it was not at all workable, with 5.6.0 it worked quite fine)
    * UI language changes are now applied without the need to restart
    * Windows launcher now considers JAVA_HOME environment variable
    * The tray icon does not look ugly anymore on Linux with a dark theme
    * Primary and Secondary fonts can now be selected for all Look and Feels
    * Some new and some updated edit modes (SIPp, WKT, RPM Spec, Java, PlantUML, HL7, drawj2d)



Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel


That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download


Have fun with the new release.

Best Regards
Björn "Vampire" Kautler



jEdit 5.6 version history
       (changes since jEdit 5.5.0)
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{{{ Version 5.6.0

Thanks to Björn "Vampire" Kautler, Matthieu Casanova, Hrotkó Gábor,
Alan Ezust, Makarius, and Dale Anson for contributing to this release.

{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fix MiscUtilities.isBackup() method when there is no suffix and prefix set
  (patch #4088 - Makarius)

- Do not loose the screen line count of lines that were not modified
  when inserting multiple lines (minor optimization)
  (#4091 - Matthieu Casanova)

- Fixed a NPE when trying to choose a non existing icon when adding a
  toolbar item (#3770 - Matthieu Casanova)

- When launching jEdit if a file named like the untitled buffer from
  perspective exists, then load it (#4087 - Matthieu Casanova)

- Do not only highlight the first match in hypersearch results
  (#4083 - Matthieu Casanova)

- Re-add missing help viewer back and forward icons (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Fix wrong behavior of input method framework support that returned wrong
  locations for offsets and wrong offsets for locations
  (#4082 - Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Upgrade OS X launcher stub to be compatible with newer Java versions
  (#4077 - Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Fix Untitled Issue with -background command line option
  (Patch #617 - Hrotkó Gábor)

- Handle case where user has not set either a backup prefix or suffix
  (#4069 - Dale Anson)

- Fix odd default colors for style editor (#4055 - Dale Anson)

- Fix NullPointerException in Preview Javadoc macro (#2412 - Dale Anson)

- Fix dockable buttons not wrapping correctly (#2626 - Dale Anson)

- Fix electric scroll not working with page up/down (#2719 - Dale Anson)

- Correct location of context menu popup (#4073 - Dale Anson)

- Fix file browser splitter buttons not working (#4081 - Dale Anson)

}}}
{{{ Miscellaneous

- Important improvement to Font substitution for documents that contains
  characters that are not supported by the default font (Matthieu Casanova)

- Major performance improvement at displaying big files by changing the
  call to Font.layoutGlyphVector()  (Matthieu Casanova)

- Made a larger plugin download dialog, patch submitted in bug #4050
  (Kalle Helminen)

- Store rules in an array instead of a Map avoiding computations
  (Matthieu Casanova)

- Store the glyph width in the GlyphCache to make token marking faster
  (Matthieu Casanova)

- New EditPaneManager, with convenient methods to get and iterate over
  EditPanes, get it by calling jEdit.getEditPaneManager() (Matthieu Casanova)

- New BufferManager, all you need to get loaded buffers from jEdit
  get it by calling jEdit.getBufferManager() (Matthieu Casanova)

- New ViewManager, all you need to get loaded existing views
  get it by calling jEdit.getViewManager() (Matthieu Casanova)

- Added new method JEditBuffer.hasProperty() (Matthieu Casanova)

- Apply UI language changes immediately without the need to restart.
  (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- The tray icon on Linux systems now by default tries to detect the proper
  background color and also lets the user either select a fixed color for
  the background or select some arbitrary rectangle as background for the
  tray icon, making the icon much less ugly on dark themes.
  (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- The Windows EXE launcher now considers JAVA_HOME environment variable if no
  matching Java is found in the registry (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- The Windows installer now uses modern and resizable style and allows
  installation without administrator privileges (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Chinese Taiwan localization from David Day (Patch #620 - Dale Anson)

- Fix all deprecation warnings produced when compiling with Java 9 (Dale Anson)

- Adjust Appearance option pane to allow setting "primary" and "secondary" fonts
  for all look and feels (Dale Anson)

- Improve Regular Expressions documentation (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- StringList.join() method is now deprecated as String.join()
  is now provided since Java 8 (Matthieu Casanova)

- TextUtilities.join() method is now deprecated as String.join()
  is now provided since Java 8 (Matthieu Casanova)

- Change BoyerMooreSearchMatcher to make it thread safe (Matthieu Casanova)

- New methods IOUtilities.toString(InputStream) (Matthieu Casanova)

- New method IOUtilities.toByteArray(InputStream) (Matthieu Casanova)

- New UniqueActionDocumentListener class, a DocumentListener that does the same
  action for every event (Matthieu Casanova)

- New AbstractWidget class (Matthieu Casanova)

- GUIUtilities.showVFSFileDialog() methods now never returns null
  (Matthieu Casanova)

- New Method VFSManager.canReadFile(path) (Matthieu Casanova)

- New method IntegerArray.isEmpty() (Matthieu Casanova)

}}}
{{{ Editing

- Add SIPp edit mode (Matthieu Casanova)

- Add Well Known Text (WKT) edit mode (Matthieu Casanova)

- Update RPM Spec mode (bug #3880 Matthieu Casanova)

- Added openSIPS mode (Matthieu Casanova)

- Update Java mode to support Java 10 "var" type. (Dale Anson)

- Add PlantUML mode (Andreas Studer / Dale Anson)

- Add HL7 mode (Thiemo Kellner / Dale Anson)

- Update drawj2d mode (patch #622 A. Vontobel / Matthieu Casanova)

}}}

}}}

jEdit buffer local properties:
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:folding=explicit:collapseFolds=2: