Version 2.0.2, Build 2221

• Sublime Text 3 beta is now available from http://www.sublimetext.com/3
• Removed expiry date
• Backported various fixed from Sublime Text 3
• Improved minimap click behavior. The old behavior is available via the minimap_scroll_to_clicked_text setting
• Added copy_with_empty_selection setting, to control the behavior of the copy and cut commands when no text is selected

Version 2.0.1, Build 2217

• Keyboard input while dragging a selection will cancel the drag
• Improved backspace behavior when use_tab_stops and translate_tabs_to_spaces are true
• Improved shift+drag behavior
• Improved double click drag select behavior
• About Window shows the license key details
• Fixed a Goto Anything issue where pressing backspace could scroll the overlay incorrectly
• Fixed a crash triggered by double clicking in the Goto Anything overlay
• Fixed incorrect window position when dragging a tab in some scenarios
• Added missing toggle_preserve_case command
• word_wrap setting accepts "true" and "false" as synonyms to true and false
• OSX: Fixed System Preferences menu not working
• Linux: Added support for mice with more than 5 buttons
• Linux: Fixed an occasional graphical glitch when running under Unity

Version 2.0, Build 2210

• Sublime Text 2.0 has been released!
• OSX: Added Retina display support
• Added "Quick Skip Next", on Command+K,Command+D / Ctrl+K,Ctrl+D
• Added text drag and drop
• Reloading a file maintains the selection
• OSX: Find uses the system find pasteboard
• OSX: Added support for the ODB Editor Suite
• Theme: Added support for the highlight_modified_tabs setting
• Added setting show_full_path, to control if the full path is shown in the window title
• Added setting bold_folder_labels
• OSX: Bundle is signed in preparation for Mountain Lion
• OSX: Added scroll bar support for the "Jump to the spot that's clicked" system preference
• OSX: Added create_window_at_startup setting
• OSX: Folders accessed via symlinks are monitored for changes
• OSX: Fixed Lion press-and-hold inserting two characters
• Windows: Installer is signed
• Windows: Directory scanning makes use of inodes where available
• Windows: Files are opened with the FILE_SHARE_DELETE share mode
• Windows: Fixed a regression in command line handling with network paths
• Windows and Linux: Tweaked command line handling when Sublime Text isn't already running
• Linux: Tweaked handling of the Primary selection
• Linux: GTK is loaded at runtime, removing any dependency on specific libpng versions
• Linux: Fixed occasional jittering with the auto complete window
• Linux: Fixed a directory watching issue
• Linux: Sub-folders within the syntax menu on the status bar work as expected
• Linux: Show Completions has changed from ctrl+space to alt+/, to not interfere with IMEs
• Reworked CSS completions
• Improved Toggle Comment for HTML and CSS
• Added Open in Browser context menu for HTML files
• Saving a file now calls fsync to ensure the data is written to disk
• Added support for file_include_patterns and folder_include_patterns in projects
• Find in Files can exclude directories using "-some_path/" syntax
• Added BOM variants to the Save with Encoding menu
• Added setting preview_on_click
• Improved Indentation Detection
• ASCII control codes are rendered in a different style
• Auto complete and tool tips say within the screen boundaries
• Double clicking in the tab header area will create a new tab
• Delete Folder will prompt before moving the folder to the trash
• Double clicking on whitespace will select only whitespace
• Theme: Added 'expandable' attribute to tree_rows, enabling folders to be styled differently
• Theme: Tweaked quick panel to better indicate the selected item
• Disabling find result highlighting will also disable find-as-you-type in the Find panel
• Pressing escape in the incremental find panel will set the selection to the search start point
• Extended behavior of home and end keys on word wrapped lines
• Changes in file name case are detected in the side bar
• Fixed save_on_focus_lost causing Goto Anything to not show if the current file has unsaved changes
• Fixed folders not being added to the recent folders list
• Fixed rendering of active indent guides
• Fixed pasting file:line expressions into the Goto Anything panel
• Invalid key names in keymap files will are logged to the console
• Build Systems: Added variants
• Build Systems: Improved debug output of the exec command when the target isn't found
• Build Systems: Added show_panel_on_build setting
• Build Systems: Build times are reported
• Build Systems: Exit code is reported, if it's non-zero
• Build Systems: Improved output panel height serialization
• Build Systems: Canceling a build will terminate rather than kill the process
• Vintage: Added backspace motion (thanks mrannanj)
• Vintage: Improved quote text object (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Added Ctrl+U and Ctrl+D (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: 'vintage_use_clipboard' forces pasting from system clipboard too (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Fixed motions with "0" in them for actions (thanks bengolds)
• Vintage: Visual mode I and A (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added vintage_use_clipboard setting to yank to the system clipboard (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Tweaked behavior of cw and cW when the caret is in whitespace (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added bindings for moving the group focus up, down, left, right (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Paste accepts a repeat count (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added bindings for u and U in visual mode, to change the case of the selection and exit visual mode (thanks quarnster)
• Vintage: Macro replay accepts a repeat count (thanks zbuc)
• Vintage: r<char> processes lines individually (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Tweaked % behavior (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Fix bug that caused deletes to erroneously left_delete (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Fix EOF behavior with linewise changes (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Ignoring a and i when in visual mode (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: cc and S take counts (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Correctly shrink selections when reversed (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added vap (thanks behrends)
• API: Added sublime.message_dialog()
• API: Added sublime.ok_cancel_dialog()
• API: Added Command.is_checked() to support checkbox menu items
• API: Added sublime.log_result_regex()

Build 2181

• New Icon, by The Iconfactory
• File and Global settings have been combined into a single settings file
• Selecting a word will highlight other occurrences. This can be controlled with the match_selection setting
• Reworked text rendering for improved quality
• Improved automatic indentation. It now uses bracket matching to better determine indentation
• Added setting indent_to_bracket and smart_indent, to customize automatic indentation
• Auto Complete is less intrusive
• Renaming a file via the side bar will rename any open files
• Improved folder scanning performance on huge directory trees
• Untitled files have their name set automatically from the first line of the file. The can be controlled with the set_unsaved_view_name setting
• Ruby: #{} is expanded when # is entered in a string
• Folder names are shown in the window title if no project is open
• Folders in projects are stored with relative paths
• Added Save with Encoding
• Spelling errors are indicated with an underline only, the foreground color of the text is no longer changed
• Added no_bold and no_italic font options
• Added margin setting, to control the size of the gutter
• Key bindings for Goto Anything, Save, etc will work if a panel has input focus
• "Open all with current extension as" handles filenames without extensions
• Fixed an auto complete display issue
• Fixed find_under_expand not setting whole_word correctly
• Fixed Paste and Indent adding unwanted whitespace when pasting within a line
• Fixed a minor compatibility issue with .tmLanguage files
• Fixed a tab dragging issue on OS X and Windows
• OS X: Tweaked sub-pixel positioning to match TextEdit and Terminal. The previous behavior is available via the no_round font option.
• OS X: Open File and Open Folder have been combined into a single Open menu item
• OS X: Control+Option+Left/Right will move by sub words, in the same manner as Control+Left/Right
• Windows: Default font is now Consolas
• Windows: Improved text rendering quality when using Direct Write
• Windows: Added support for --wait
• Windows: Added support for drive letter relative paths passed on the command line
• Windows and Linux: Added key bindings for ctrl+shift+backspace/delete
• Linux: Added a workaround for a glibc bug when MALLOC_CHECK_ is defined
• Linux: Pango is used for font rendering, improving support for CJK text
• Vintage: Escape cancels current input (thanks fjl)
• Vintage: Pasting over visual mode selections works as expected (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Linewise changes set indentation (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Linewise motions work as expected (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: c, C, s and S update registers (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Tweaks to G and gg (thanks guillermooo)
• Vintage: Added zt and zb (thanks djjcast)
• Vintage: Added gq (thanks orutherfurd)
• Plugin initialization time is reported in the console at startup
• API: Tweaked module importing
• API: Added window.find_open_file(file_name)
• API: Added sublime.run_command()
• API: Added view.unfold([regions])
• API: Added view.folded_regions()

Build 2165

• See the blog post for a summary
• Theme: New UI theme, by Mike Rundle
• Added support for bold and italic font styles
• Speed: Improved startup time
• Speed: Optimized memory usage
• Speed: Improved font glyph rasterization speed
• Rearranged the menu, making important features are easier to locate
• Auto complete: Completion menu is shown automatically. This is configurable with the auto_complete file setting
• Auto complete: Tab can be used instead of enter to accept the current completion, by using the auto_complete_commit_on_tab file setting
• Auto complete: Many quality improvements
• Tab Completion: Pressing tab multiple times will cycle through the available completions
• Added reopen_last_file command, bound to Command+Shift+T / Ctrl+Shift+T
• Deleting files via the side bar will send them to the trash, rather than deleting them outright
• Improved behavior when hot_exit and remember_open_files are false
• Color schemes and syntax definitions are reloaded on the fly
• Paste and Indent will now do the right thing in more circumstances
• save_on_focus_lost won't save if the underlying file has been deleted
• Added key binding for replace_next
• slurp_find_string will set the whole_word flag based on if the selection is empty
• Added file setting move_to_limit_on_up_down. This is enabled by default on OS X.
• Shift+Drag will set the active end of the selection as expected
• Clicking on a tab will always give the relevant sheet input focus
• Simplified indent guide settings, and disabled active indent guide drawing by default. The indent_guide_options file setting can be used to change this
• Improved minimap dragging
• increase_font_size command will allow sizes up to 128pt
• Changed how the toggle argument to show_panel is handled
• Files with colons in their names may be opened from the command line
• Fixed handling of selectors with extraneous '.' characters
• File Encoding: Added default_encoding setting
• File Encoding: Added Hexadecimal encoding, for basic editing of binary files. This is controlled with the enable_hexadecimal_encoding global setting
• Projects: Folders may be given a name attribute, to change how they're displayed
• Projects: Exclude patterns may include paths, for example: file_exclude_patterns: ["tmp/*.cc"]
• Projects: .sublime-project files passed on the command line will be opened as projects, without --project being required
• Projects: Folder paths with trailing slashes are supported
• Projects: Fixed folder_exclude_patterns not being serialized correctly in project files
• OS X: Prompting for elevated privileges when saving protected files
• OS X: Double clicking on a .sublime-project file in Finder will open it in Sublime Text
• OS X: Control clicking on a tab will show the context menu
• OS X: Increased default font size
• OS X: Fixed an issue that opened additional empty windows when using the command line helper
• Linux: Fixed an issue with tab dragging
• Vintage: Column is maintained when moving between lines
• Vintage: == reindents current line (thanks Gordin)
• Vintage: Added ZZ (thanks Guillermooo)
• Vintage: Added X command (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added _ command (thanks redjohn)
• Vintage: Added ~ (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: r,enter is supported (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added various Ctrl+W,<x> bindings for layout control (thanks Gordin)
• Vintage: Added various z,<x> bindings for folding (thanks Gordin)
• Vintage: _ accepts a count (thanks guillermooo)
• Vintage: Ctrl+C is a synonym for escape on OS X(thanks sugarcoded)
• Vintage: dw works as expected at EOL
• Vintage: Fixed an issue with the zz key binding (thanks Bradley Priest)
• API: Plugins have a finite time to respond to events before users will be issued a warning indicating the slow plugin
• API: Added sublime.log_input()
• API: Added view.encoding() and view.set_encoding()
• API: Added view.line_endings() and view.set_line_endings()
• API: Added view.viewport_position() and view.set_viewport_position()
• API: Added view.viewport_extent() and view.layout_extent()
• API: Added view.text_to_layout() and view.layout_to_text()
• API: Added view.line_height() and view.em_width()
• API: Added window.active_view_in_group(group)
• API: Added window.views_in_group(group)
• API: Added window.get_layout() and window.set_layout()
• API: Added window.get_view_index() and window.set_view_index()
• API: settings.has() now works as expected
• API: on_query_completions results may have a tab embedded in their descriptions, to delimit help text

Build 2139

• Added Replace in Files functionality to the Find in Files panel
• Find in Files panel now has a single "Where" field, combining the previous "In Files" and "In Location" fields
• Added fold buttons to the gutter. They can be customized with the fold_buttons and fade_fold_buttons file settings
• Added keyboard navigation to the side bar
• Re-added and improved side bar expand / collapse animations. This can be controlled with the tree_animation_enabled global setting
• Alt clicking a folder in the side bar will expand it and all its children
• The reindent command can be used to reformat selected lines, via the Edit/Line/Reindent menu item
• Improved startup time in some scenarios
• OSX: Menu items flash when triggered with a key binding
• OSX: Improved open file behavior when no windows are currently open
• OSX: Command+Right Delete will delete to EOL
• OSX: Tweaked click-through behavior
• OSX: Fixed opening an already open file from Finder with open_files_in_new_window enabled creating a new window
• Windows and Linux: Ctrl+Scroll Wheel will change the font size
• Ctrl+F will select the find pattern when the find panel is already open
• The show_panel command now accepts a toggle parameter, which is false by default. The previous behavior was to always toggle
• Pressing escape while dragging a scroll bar will cancel the scroll
• Fixed a Ctrl+D/Super+D regression, where wrapping at EOF wasn't handled correctly
• Fixed a Find in Files regression where unsaved files couldn't be opened from the Find Results buffer
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to drag a closed panel
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur after moving a file between windows
• Vintage: Added '=' action to reindent
• Vintage: 'o' in visual mode will reverse the selection direction (by Guillermo)
• Vintage: Added support for the "'" key to go to bookmarks (by Guillermo)
• Vintage: Escape will exit visual line mode, instead of changing to visual mode
• Vintage: Added gf (by Guillermo)
• Vintage: Added z. and z,enter (by Guillermo)
• Vintage: Added zz (by Johnfn)
• Vintage: Added "{" and "}" motions (by Johnfn)
• Vintage: Fixed a regression with escape in 2126, causing it not to exit from visual mode
• API: window.run_command() will run text commands, dispatching them via input focus
• API: hide_auto_complete is safe to call from on_modified

Build 2126

• Hot Exit is now the default, and configurable via the hot_exit global setting
• Added Code Folding, see the Edit/Coding Folding menu for details. More folding options will be added in the future.
• Find in Files results are in color for better visibility
• Matching tags are highlighted
• Improved word wrapping of source code: extra indentation is now added on wrapped lines
• Added global setting highlight_modified_tabs to better indicate tabs with unsaved changes
• Goto Anything: Improved ranking accuracy on repetitive file paths
• Goto Anything: Files are now displayed in most recently used order, and shown by default
• Side Bar: The side bar will auto hide if open files aren't shown, and there are no open folders
• Side Bar: Disabled animation on expand/collapse
• Side Bar: Headings are no longer indented
• Side Bar: Clicking on a folder will expand or collapse it, rather than selecting it
• Side Bar: Open files are now hidden by default
• Side Bar: The current file is highlighted in both the Open Files and Open Folders sections, if present
• Side Bar: Folders will be expanded by default
• The find highlight outline color now has a better default, and is configurable via the highlight key in the color scheme
• Ctrl+F3 (Option+Command+G on OS X) will search by whole words if the selection is empty
• Ctrl+D (Command+D on OS X) will search by whole words if the selection is initially empty
• Find All no longer disables the "In selection" flag
• Find Preview will not be shown if finding for "." in regex mode
• Find Next Using Selection unsets the reverse flag
• Find in Files accepts relative paths
• Projects: File names in workspaces are stored with relative paths
• Projects: Fixed project specific settings persisting when the project is closed
• Indent Guides: Fixed solid indent guides not rendering crisply with sub-pixel glyph positioning
• Indent Guides: Fixed indent guide rendering and word wrapping in conjunction with Perl syntax highlighting
• Ctrl+Tab will only cycle between files in the current group
• Improved undo grouping logic, so the amount of typing undone is more predictable
• Added Expand Selection to Indentation (Command+Shift+J on OS X, and Ctrl+Shift+J on Windows and Linux)
• Expand Selection to Tag will handle unclosed tags
• OSX: Clicking on a background window will bring it to the front only, and not change the selection
• OSX: Sequential key bindings are displayed in the menu
• OSX: Ctrl+Delete will delete by sub words
• OSX: Added workaround for Core Text crashing on invalid unicode code points
• OSX: Killing the subl process while waiting for files to be closed no longer causes problems for the application
• OSX: Fixed dictionary lookups being offset
• Linux: Ctrl+Q is bound to quit
• Fixed rot13 tripping up on non-ascii characters
• Vintage: Find no longer selects the found text
• Vintage: Arrow keys, page up/down and home/end act as motions
• Vintage: All Ctrl key bindings are now enabled only if the vintage_ctrl_keys setting is true, which is the default for OS X, but not Windows and Linux.
• Vintage: Ctrl+[ is now an alias for escape (if vintage_ctrl_keys is enabled)
• Vintage: Added Ctrl+E and Ctrl+Y, to scroll up/down by lines, if vintage_ctrl_keys is enabled.
• Vintage: I will insert at the first non-whitespace character on the line (thanks Trent)
• Vintage: Added ga (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Improved H, L and M motions (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: 1G and G are distinguished
• Theme: Tabs with modified files now have a "dirty" attributes that can be used in selectors
• Theme: Added key indent_top_level for the sidebar_tree class
• API: Added view.fold() and view.unfold()

Build 2111

• See the blog post for summary
• Added indentation guides. These may be disabled with the draw_indent_guides setting
• Added syntax, indentation, and spell checking information to the status bar
• Added Vintage mode, for vi key bindings in Sublime Text 2
• Added Expand Selection to Tag (Command+Shift+A on OS X, and Ctrl+Shift+A on Windows and Linux)
• Added Close Tag (Command+Alt+. on OS X, and Alt+. on Windows and Linux)
• Projects are now stored in two files: .sublime-project (user editable, can be checked into version control) and .sublime-workspace (containing the session state). Existing project files will be converted on load.
• Projects: Folders in projects may be given file_exclude_patterns and folder_exclude_patterns
• Projects: Per-project file settings may be specified in the .sublime-project files
• Projects: Build systems may be specified within .sublime-project files
• Projects: Open Project and Recent Projects open the project in a new window
• Added File/Open Folder, to open a folder in a new window. These entries will appear in the Open Recent list.
• Passing folders on the command line will open them in a new window by default
• Shift+Tab will always unindent when the caret is at the beginning of the line
• Tweaked Delete Word
• Tweaked behavior of up/down with non-empty selections
• Build is now bound to Ctrl+B Windows and Linux (Command+B on OS X, as it was previously). F7 is also bound to build on all platforms.
• Toggle Side Bar is now bound to Command+K, Command+B on OS X, and Ctrl+K, Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux
• Added the ability to hide the open files section on the side bar, via the View/Side Bar menu
• Added global setting close_windows_when_empty, to close windows as soon as the last file is closed. This is enabled by default on OS X
• Find and replace panels operate via commands, and indicate the relevant key bindings on the buttons
• Updated C syntax highlighting
• Updated Bash highlighting
• fallback_encoding is respected by Find in Files
• The copy command is now recorded in macros
• Resolved a syntax highlighting issue in contentName handling
• Fixed a crash that could occur with replace in selection
• Fixed an issue that could result in an incorrect scroll range when scroll_past_end is enabled
• Fixed incorrect tab positions in some circumstances
• Fixed an issue that could erroneous carets in the replace panel
• Middle clicking on tab close buttons is no longer ignored
• OS X: Fixed Quit not quitting until the next input event
• Windows: Fixed delay when opening multiple files from Explorer
• Windows: Fixed Open Containing Folder for files in root directories
• Linux: Hid the window resize grip on Ubuntu
• API: Added Command.description()
• API: Added sublime.score_selector(scope, selector)
• API: Added view.score_selector(point, selector)
• API: Added view.find_by_selector(selector)
• API: view.scope_name() now returns scope components in the expected order. view.syntax_name() is still available for compatibility.
• API: Added sublime.get_macro()
• API: Added sublime.MONOSPACE_FONT option for the quick panel
• API: If a plugin module has a top level function called unload_handler, it'll be called when the plugin is reloaded or unloaded.
• API: Fixed a crash when reloading plugins while threads are active
• API: API functions better handle null windows

Build 2095

• Improved labeling in Preferences menu
• Added context menu key support (alt+F2 in OS X)
• Files opened from the command line use the last active window on any virtual desktop, rather than only looking on the current virtual desktop
• OSX: Sub-pixel glyph placement is disabled when rendering without anti-aliasing
• Windows without open files now display the project name
• Fixed a scenario where tabs would be incorrectly positioned
• Fixed a scenario where Jump to Matching Bracket could cause the carets to not update
• Changed Preferences menu mnemonic from 'r' to 'n', to remove a conflict with the find panel
• Dialogs now accept both the normal enter/return key and the one one the keypad
• OSX: Fixed a crash when closing a window in full screen mode
• OSX: Fixed a scenario that could result in carets not blinking after toggling full screen
• OSX: Fixed multi-character key bindings that don't use modifiers
• OSX: Updated keyboard handling to support the 'Dvorak - Qwerty Command' keyboard layout
• OSX: Fixed a rare crash bug crash when redrawing the minimap
• OSX: Updated .dmg file with a symlink to /Applications
• API: Fixed a crash when calling view.run_command("save") on a background view
• API: Added view.command_history()
• API: Added Settings.add_on_change() and Settings.clear_on_change()

Build 2091

• OSX: Text layout uses sub-pixel positions
• OSX: Added support for OS X 10.7 style scroll bars (over-bounce is not yet implemented)
• OSX: Added support for Lion style full screen
• Linux: Sub-pixel anti-aliasing is enabled by default
• Carets blink by default (can be changed with the caret_style file setting).
• Files with the same name, but different directories, now have unambiguous labels in the side bar and tabs
• New windows are created with the settings and size of the previous window. This supersedes the new_window_settings.
• duplicate_line will operate on non-empty selections, duplicating the selection
• Added global setting show_tab_close_buttons
• Added Reveal in Side Bar context menu item
• Added Tools/New Snippet menu item
• Added menu items for syntax specific settings and distraction free settings
• Fixed performance issues with SQL and JavaScript syntax highlighting on files with long lines
• shellVariables values specified in .tmPreferences files are available to snippets, fixing many Rails snippets.
• OSX: Changed key bindings for Find, Replace and Full Screen to match Lion defaults
• OSX: Files and folders dropped onto the dock icon will be opened in a new window by default
• OSX: Command+Alt+O will toggle overwrite mode
• OSX: Command+, will open the user file settings
• OSX: Initial support for input methods
• Dropped files will be opened in the pane they're dropped on
• Added global setting binary_file_patterns, to exclude files from Goto Anything and Find in Files
• Commands may be passed as arguments via --command
• Enabling scroll_past_end in Distraction Free.sublime-settings
• Line highlights are disabled by default
• Improved scrolling logic when working with cloned files, and resizing word wrapped files
• Improved behavior of page up / page down
• Improved Toggle Comment behavior on empty selections for languages without line comments
• Find in Files: 'Use Buffer' is now selected by default
• "New Folder" menu item can create multiple folders at once
• Panel heights are stored in the session
• Goto Symbol is able to display symbols with forward slashes
• Fixed scenario where characters with a background color could be drawn clipped
• Fixed a scenario that could result in Goto Anything rows appearing in the wrong location
• OSX and Linux: Fixed reading and writing of UTF-16 encoded files
• OSX and Linux: Select Folder dialogs allow multiple selection
• OSX: Fixed not being able to click on the auto complete window
• Fixed Goto Line not updating the status bar
• Fixed Goto Symbol not updating the status bar
• Linux: Improved redraw performance
• Windows: Save As dialog will prompt to overwrite files
• Windows: Fixed a scenario where the update notification dialog could be missed
• Using a bullet, rather than an asterisk, to indicate dirty files
• Theme: Tab labels fade rather than elide, and are better positioned to make use of available space
• Theme: Images are reloaded on the fly
• Theme: Added a 1px border to the right of the side bar
• Theme: Added new classes sidebar_container, overlay_control and sheet_container_control
• Theme: Minimap viewport color is themeable, via the minimap_control class
• Theme: Theme specific widget settings are now used, via Widget - <theme name>.sublime-settings
• Theme: Buttons now use standard label controls for their text
• Theme: Label controls now have properties font.face, font.size, font.bold, font.italic, shadow_color and shadow_offset
• Theme: Layers now have a repeat property
• Theme: Controls that used to use 'background_color' now use layers instead
• API: Added window.views()
• API: More strictly enforcing the main thread only usage restriction
• API: show_input_panel() will run its callbacks at a time when they're able to show panels and overlays
• API: Changed handling of on_query_completion results with an empty trigger
• API: Added window.hwnd() (Windows only)

Build 2076

• Relabeling from Alpha to Beta
• Added Command Palette (Windows and Linux: Ctrl+Shift+P, OSX: Command+Shift+P)
• Added Distraction Free mode (accessible via View/Enter Distraction Free Mode)
• Selected text is rendered with syntax highlighting, unless the color scheme specifies a selectionForeground key
• Added a progress bar when loading files
• OSX: Distributing as a universal binary, with 64 bit and 32 bit support
• Added a key binding to wrap the selection in a tag (Windows and Linux: Alt+Shift+W, OSX: Ctrl+Shift+W)
• Monokai is now the default color scheme, rather than Monokai Bright
• Added a File/Close All menu item
• Folders may now be dropped anywhere on the window, not just on the side bar
• Improved selection and line highlight rendering
• Selection border color can be customized in .tmTheme files with the selectionBorder key
• Find highlight color will default to yellow if a color scheme doesn't specify one
• Added encode_html_entities command (accessible via the Command Palette)
• Added rot13 command (accessible via the Command Palette)
• Added shift_tab_unindent setting, to force shift+tab to unindent even without a multi-line selection
• Added setting ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save
• Increased search limit for the Jump to Matching Bracket command
• Improved auto-indent behavior in the face of mixed indentation
• Improved toggle block comment on an empty selection
• Tweaked auto-pairing rules
• Fixed Add Line Before adding indentation on lines where there should be none
• Fixed issue when using Find/Replace with back references and a reversed search direction
• JavaScript: Added support for node.js shebangs
• Improved the HTML completions for link and style
• Shell Script: Fixed file type associations
• Added Toggle Comment support for YAML
• Fixed shutdown not proceeding while folders are being scanned
• Fixed spell checking for words with non-ascii prefixes or suffixes
• Fixed a quirk when using Goto Anything, typing, and then clearing the text box
• Fixed the minimap initially showing at the wrong size on new files
• Fixed a scenario where the label and close button on a tab would be in the wrong spot
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur after closing a file, then changing layout
• Windows: Improved support for menu hiding
• OSX: Changed the color space used for rendering
• Linux: Fixed an issue that could cause the status bar not to show at startup
• Linux: Changed Python compiler settings, to enable loading of compiled python extensions, and importing the hashlib module
• Build Systems: Current directory when building will default to the file's directory if none is specified in the build system
• Build Systems: result_line_regex may specify a column and message (using the 2ed and 3rd capture groups)
• insert_snippet command: extra arguments passed to the command will be forwarded onto the snippet
• The auto_complete command now takes an optional disable_auto_insert argument
• API: Added window.show_quick_panel()
• API: Added sublime.platform() and sublime.arch()
• API: Added window.focus_view()
• API: Improved the behavior of tab completion in conjunction with on_query_completions returning non-word triggers
• API: Calling run_command() from Python will no longer bypass is_enabled() checks
• API: Fixed view.replace() scrolling the view

Build 2065

• Improved cold startup time
• Added key bindings to toggle find options, which are shown in the tool tips
• Find: The number of matching occurrences is indicated in the status bar
• Find: Found text is highlighted in a separate color
• Added "Reopen with Encoding" menu
• Updated Scala package
• Added Clojure syntax highlighting
• Added Haml syntax highlighting
• Added reStructuredText syntax highlighting
• Syntax menu is now organized by package
• Improved .tmLanguage file compatibility with regards to 0 length matches in rules
• Added 'theme' global setting
• Themes are automatically reloaded
• Theme selectors are more powerful, and can now select based on the classes and attributes of parents
• Color Schemes: Added inactiveSelection and inactiveSelectionForeground keys
• Added Solarized color schemes
• OSX: Using a white ibeam cursor on dark backgrounds
• OSX: Added key binding for Wrap Paragraph at Ruler (Command+Option+Q)
• OSX: Added document icons
• OSX: Fixed a scenario that could result in the save panel double adding an extension
• API: Added Window.num_groups(), Window.active_group(), and Window.focus_group(group)
• API: Added Window.folders(), to access the currently opened folders
• API: Region rendering will use the foreground and background colors for a given scope if both are specified in the tmTheme file
• Fixed UI glitch with the replace panel and empty replacement strings
• Fixed crashes with very large or very small font sizes

Build 2059

• Added smooth scrolling
• Added spell checking
• Tab Completion is enabled by default. Shift+Tab can be used to insert a literal tab
• Pressing Ctrl+Space after a tab completion will adjust the last completion, rather than starting a new one
• Tab completion is smarter about when to insert a completion, and when to insert a tab
• Auto complete is now case insensitive
• Added global setting, remember_open_files
• Disclosure buttons on the tree control have a larger target area
• Tweaked tab header background for improved contrast
• Status bar column display correctly accounts for tabs
• Fixed an issue with scrollbars on small files
• Shift+Mouse wheel scrolls horizontally
• Recent files no longer appear in the Goto Anything list
• Improved startup time
• Updated HTML completions
• Updated path handling in exec.py
• OSX: Added support for Help/Search
• OSX: Activating the application when no windows are open creates a new window
• Linux: Fixed a crash that could occur in Save All
• Fixed a crash when quickly clicking on the side bar close buttons

Build 2051

• Bracket matching is smarter, and will ignore brackets in comments and strings
• OSX and Linux: Fixed a bug that could result in spiraling CPU usage
• Added ":;" pairing in CSS
• Reworked Layout menu
• Scroll bar pucks are rendered with subpixel precision
• Windows and Linux: Moving to the right by words will stop at the end of words, rather than the beginning
• OSX: Improved minimap rendering quality
• OSX: Fixed a regression in 2046 with some keyboard layouts, such as Japanese and Chinese
• OSX: Changed mouse button bindings. Ctrl+Left Mouse will now open a context menu
• Linux: Current window is brought to front when opening a file from the command line
• Linux: Context menu is shown on button press, instead of button release
• "Remove Folder" is now "Remove Folder from Project"
• Fixed ordering of the Default package
• Fixed Wrap Paragraph not correctly accounting for leading whitespace
• API: Added sublime.version() and sublime.channel()
• API: Fixed view.set_status() and view.erase_status() not refreshing the status bar

Build 2047

• Fixed mouse input regression in the license window and the select project window
• OSX: Changed how the project is displayed in the title bar

Build 2046

• Added a side bar menu, with the ability to do basic file manipulation
• Snippets with punctuation triggers are supported again
• Improved automatic snippet field cancellation
• Added Show Unsaved Changes context menu item
• Reworked keyboard input
• Mouse buttons can be configured via the new *.sublime-mousemap files
• Windows and Linux: Right mouse + scroll wheel will change files
• Mouse buttons 4 and 5 will change files
• Rotating the mouse wheel in the tab header area will change tabs
• Linux: Window position and state are recorded in the session
• Ctrl+W (Command+W on OSX) will close the window if no files are open
• Ctrl+Shift+W (Command+Shift+W on OSX) will close the window
• Quote auto-pairing is smarter, and will do the intended thing more often
• Added find_selected_text file setting
• Packages may add items to menus, including the main menu, context menu, and side bar menu
• Main.sublime-menu is automatically reloaded when changed
• Added New Plugin and New Build System menu items
• Build files may specify environment variables, using the env key
• Added build_env file preference, which will be picked up by the build system
• Add Line Before will insert the correct amount of indentation
• Tweaked status message display
• Tweaked switch_file
• Disabled typing while dragging
• Added diff syntax highlighting
• Fixed regression in 2036 that caused unsaved file indicators to not show in the title bar
• Linux: Fixed locale related bug that could cause multi-pane layouts to not work
• OSX: Fixed Command+{X,C,V,Z,Y,A} not working in save and open panels
• API: Added Command.is_visible(args)

Build 2039

• Fixed an issue with Linux font rendering
• Show minimap setting is respected when cloning
• Fixed flicker that could occur when showing the auto complete window

Build 2036

• Tab completion is now off by default, but can be turned back on with the new tab_completion setting
• Added File/Clone File menu item
• Showing the project in the title bar
• Populating file types in Open and Save dialogs
• Ctrl+Shift+K will delete the current line (all platforms)
• Improved delete_word command, it will now delete a word and a neighboring space when it makes sense to do so
• Added Wrap Paragraph command (Alt+Q on Windows and Linux)
• Updated PHP completions, with thanks to vostok4
• Linux: Added support for global menus, as used by Ubuntu 11.04
• Linux: Using XDG_CONFIG_HOME if set
• Windows and Linux: Fixed slow startup when large folders are open
• OSX: Option+Arrows will stop at the beginning of words when moving left, and the end of words when moving right
• OSX: Drawing shadows on popup windows
• OSX: Fixed mouse over highlights sometimes remaining on when the mouse leaves the window
• Build systems support a key containing platform specific settings ("windows", "osx" or "linux")
• Build systems support an optional "target" setting, which defaults to "exec". This specifies the command that will be run when the build system is triggered
• Fixed the selector field in .sublime-build files not being interpreted correctly
• Corrected the file_regex in Make.sublime-build
• Fixed a crash bug that could occur when using Ctrl+P with save_on_focus_lost enabled
• Fixed serialization of large numbers in settings files
• Documentation: Added API Reference

Build 2032

• Opening files no longer does any blocking IO in the main thread; working with remote files is much better now
• Goto Anything gives file previews a short time to load before displaying them, reducing flicker from asynchronous loading
• Reworked snippets and auto complete into a unified system
• Word completions can be inserted by pressing tab
• Added .sublime-completions file format, for pre-defined completions
• Added completion entries for HTML and PHP
• Added new setting, save_on_focus_lost, to automatically save files when switching applications
• Improved font glpyh generation speed
• Folder scanning is faster
• Content based syntax detection now takes a lower precedence to the file extension based detection
• next_view / prev_view commands won't update the stack until the modifier keys are released
• In the replace panel, ctrl+alt+enter will perform a replace all
• OSX: Supporting "no_antialias" and "gray_antialias" font rendering settings
• OSX: Not showing the proxy icon when the Goto Anything panel is open, to prevent Cocoa from doing unwarranted blocking IO
• OSX: Restoring the window title when returning from full screen mode
• Windows: Hide Menu is now restored correctly on startup
• Fixed default_line_ending not being applied to empty files
• API: Added auto complete API, EventListener.on_query_completions()
• API: Added on_activated(view) and on_deactivated(view)
• API: save and prompt_save_as commands are accessible from the view

Build 2027

• Added bookmarks
• Opened folders are kept synchronized with the file system
• Individual folders can be removed via their context menu
• Folders are loaded incrementally. Refresh Folders also works incrementally, and will not reset the expanded/collapsed state of the folder tree
• Goto Anything: the ranking function will try harder to find the best match for each file
• Added for emacs style marks, via commands set_mark, select_to_mark, delete_to_mark and swap_with_mark. Marks interact well with multiple selections.
• Added an emacs style kill ring, and a corresponding yank command.
• Added command show_at_center, which scrolls the view to center on the selection. This is bound to Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C on Windows and Linux, or Ctrl+L on OSX.
• Added Word Wrap Column menu
• Added Ruler menu
• Linux: Single instance support. This will only be enabled if a recent version of GTK is installed.
• Linux: Support for the --wait command line parameter
• Linux: Keypad enter key will insert a newline
• Linux: WM_CLASS is set
• OSX: Ctrl+K now works as expected when the cursor is at the end of a line
• OSX: Ctrl+B is now unbound, so the default action of moving backwards by a character works
• OSX: Option+Shift+Up/Down will work as expected
• OSX: Implemented centerSelectionInVisibleArea (Ctrl+L), and yank (Ctrl+Y) messages
• Any keys bound to move by lines will take effect in Goto Anything and the filter window. Specifically, on OSX Ctrl+P and Ctrl+N can be used to select the next and previous items.
• Windows: Added fake scrollbars to the window, as required by some belligerent mouse drivers
• Stronger protection against infinitely recursive directory trees, especially for file systems that don't report inodes
• In Global Settings, file_exclude_patterns has been separated from folder_exclude_patterns
• Changes to folder_exclude_patterns and file_exclude_patterns are applied on the fly
• Fixed Find in Files not recursing in some scenarios
• command_mode now disables character input, as it should
• Automatic Build System selection now prefers Build Systems in the User folder
• Fixed an issue with curly bracket pairing
• Normalizing newlines emitted from exec'd programs
• delete_word no longer deletes punctuation and whitespace at the same time
• Fixed a crash when trying to focus a group that doesn't exist
• API: Added view.show_at_center(point)
• API: add_regions() can be given an icon name
• API: Added sublime.log_commands(bool), to log the commands that are being run

Build 2023

• Fixed a crash in Goto Anything introduced in the previous version
• Goto Anything file previewing is faster
• Windows: Can now hide the menu, revealing it when alt is pressed
• Multi-part extensions, such as "index.html.erb", work as expected
• Updated syntax highlighting for Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Syntaxes are always shown in the menu, even if they don't have any associated file types
• Added AppleScript syntax highlighting
• Linux: Tweaked ignored modifier keys
• Fixed window title being set incorrectly in some circumstances

Build 2020

• New version numbering scheme
• OSX: Using sparkle for automatic updates
• OSX: Added command line helper
• File syntax is detected by looking at the first line of the file
• Added shadows to the text area when the sides are clipped. These can be customized with the shadowWidth and shadow properties in .tmTheme files
• Adding folders is faster
• Added Copy File Path to the context menu
• OSX: Tweaked font rendering
• OSX: Open and save dialogs follow the current directory
• OSX: Improved startup time
• OSX: Command+Shift+S will Save As, Command+Alt+S will Save All
• OSX: Fixed a scenario where files passed to the application were ignored
• OSX: Fixed a crash when clicking on the select project window
• Find in Files: The global folder_exclude_patterns are respected
• Find in Files: Folder names may be used in the include / exclude patterns
• Linux / OSX: Adding folders with recursive symlinks are handled properly
• Fixed a rendering issue with extremely long tokens
• Fixed a crash bug if the folder list is cleared while it's still loading
• Fixed a crash when pressing Ctrl+Tab with no open files
• Added --project command line parameter
• Tweaked scrolling behavior of the exec command
• Improved symbol detection, especially for C++
• Added new key "gutterForeground" to color schemes
• Updated Haskell.tmLanguage
• Updated Python.tmLanguage
• Updated XML.tmLanguage
• Updated CSS.tmLanguage
• Lua: Highlighting the not keyword
• CSS: Fixed the '{' key binding not working as expected
• Fixed explicitly set file types not being restored correctly from the session
• Fixed Goto Anything displaying erratically when no files are open
• API: Added view.set_syntax_file(file_name)
• API: Implementing the on_close() callback