New in Nova

New

• Extensions: Added the Clipboard API and corresponding entitlement for interacting with the user’s clipboard
• Extensions: Added support for the LSP Snippet format in completions
• Extensions: Added support for displaying color swatches to the CompletionItem API
• Added a “Report Abuse” link to extension details view

New for Extensions

• InsertTextFormat, an enumeration that contains values for supported text formats:
  • InsertTextFormat.PlainText: Plain text. It won’t be modified or tokenized
  • InsertTextFormat.Snippet: Completion text will be tokenized using the Clips / Snippet ${} format
• CompletionItem.insertTextFormat, which defines an enum value from the InsertTextFormat enumeration
• CompletionItem.tokenize has been deprecated in favor of the newer format property
  • Setting this value to true will set the format to a private (inaccessible) enum value InsertTextFormat.Placeholder which is present for backwards compatibility
• TextEditor.insert() has a new, optional second argument that takes an InsertTextFormat enum value to control the inserted text format in the same way as completion items
  • If this argument is undefined, the previous behavior (equivalent to InsertTextFormat.Placeholder) will be used

Improved

• Editor focus when opening documents in more than one tab
• Error messages of Extension Developer authentication failure alerts
• Error descriptions in Clone failure alert notification
• Extensions: Loosened restrictions on Tasks category validation
• “Show (Named) Sidebar” menu items now focus the opened sidebar for keyboard navigation, when supported
• Preferences: Added ‘Plain Text’ for custom file type associations
• Tasks: Non-transient tabs are now used when automatically opening a Report tab
• “Center Selection in Visible Area” shortcut (^L) now centers when the insertion point is visible
• Various localization improvements

Fixed

• Editor: Improved performance of text editing and scrolling when there are >100 folds
• Files Sidebar: Fixed an issue that could prevent the contextual menu from being opened with Ctrl-click
• Fixed an issue where the Extension Library sidebar could show a placeholder label or icon when installing an extension
• Spilt drop zone labels are no longer truncated
• Added mysqli_query() to PHP/MySQL autocomplete
• Editor: Fixed Shift-Option-Dragging to select multiple, non-contiguous regions
• Files Sidebar: Using Option-DnArrow to enter a folder now retains first responder status with “Show Navigation Controls” enabled
• Fixed a potential issue with key binding field changes not being saved when closing preferences
• LSP: Fixed Potential crash when using DocumentHighlight requests
• Extension-provided completions are no longer disabled when a language server is in use
• Fixed a hang when setting the editor Line Height to an empty value
• Fixed an issue with resolving environment variables for Tasks when using a Bash shell
• Servers: Prevent saving of New Servers with no address
• Editor Preferences: Updated “Custom File Type” labels to “Filename / Extension”
• SCSS: Fixed an issue causing autocompletion of variables in comments
• French: Fixed overlapping text in Editor Preferences
• Fixed a missing image in the Preferences > Keys detail sheet
• Resolved an issue that could cause gutter annotations expansions to flash when moving the cursor
• Extensions: Fixed an issue when using hex colors as part of a theme gradient
• Terminal: Resolved a potential issue with dropping characters when pasting
• Resolved an issue that could cause Extensions to fall back on the incorrect base localization

New

• Support for setting default syntax of dotfiles
• Files Sidebar: Custom file types now open with single click

Fixed

• Activation: Fixed an issue that could prevent unlocking Nova in certain locale configurations
• Files Sidebar: Fixed JSX files not opening with a single click
• Resolved a potential crash if SSH Key data is nil due to bad migration or Keychain failure
• Fixed custom file syntaxes not working for multi-part file extensions
• Fixed an issue where advanced server preferences were potentially not applied when connecting to a server in multiple windows or tabs
• Ruby: Resolved an issue that could cause the symbols list to be nested recursively
• CSS variables now autocomplete in SCSS files
• Editor: No longer show completions for subsyntax symbols unless they are declared as such
• Python: Fixed highlighting of triple-quoted f strings
• PHP: Fixed comments looking blurry when using the Neon theme
• Terminal: Fixed a potential crash around text selection while text is changing
• Terminal: Fixed the cursor jumping around in some non-US locales
• Behaviors: Fixed a crash when setting Publish behavior to show / hide a sidebar
• Ruby: Fixed an issue with Ruby end keyword detection
• Publishing: Duplicated files are now properly updated in the publishing queue after renaming
• Fixed a potential crash when closing tabs while using an LSP extension
• Extensions: Fixed improper handling of LSP MarkedString[] responses for Hover requests
• Extension: Resolved a potential hang when updating extensions
• Transfers: Fixed an issue that caused hidden files to be skipped by default