Release Notes: Nova 13

Version 13

July 9, 2025

Nova 13 brings workspace improvements, built-in text manipulation tools, and a brand new help library where you can learn more about Nova's powerful features.

Open Quickly in Projects

Access to all of your projects is at your fingertips, whether they're saved in Nova's launcher or specific folders you define in Workspace settings.

Case Preserving Replace

Ever tried to replace a word, but it's cased differently throughout your file? Just toggle “Preserve Case”, and Presto! Now your lowercase stays lowercase, camel-case can keep its humps, and uppercase is just as loud.

Text Actions

One of our most requested quick features, Nova now has built-in tools for sorting, joining, and uniquing lines, transforming between letter cases, and more—all without having to move your hands away from your keyboard.

New

Debugging: Stepping by instruction can now be done by holding Control, when using adapters which support it
Debugging: Watchpoints are now supported by right-clicking a variable in the Variables list and choosing “Watch”, with adapters which support them
Documents: Tabs now show an indicator when the underlying file has been modified externally, deleted from disk, or moved to the Trash
Editor: New text manipulation actions: Sort Lines, Reverse Lines, Join Lines, Unique Lines, Zap Gremlins
Editor: New letter case actions: Transform between lowerCamelCase, UpperCamelCase, kebab-case, and snake_case
Editor: Quickly copy both the current file path and line number in one action
Editor: Issues which provide a reference to another file now include a “Show” button to jump directly there
Editor: SVG files are now previewable side-by-side with their code, in the same manner as HTML files
Languages: Jinja and TOML have been added as built-in language modes
Tasks: Support for stopping the current step and continuing on to the next without ending the overall pipeline
Workspace: “Open Quickly in Projects” gives you quick and simple access to all of your projects

Improved

Debugging: The JS/TS debug adapter has been enhanced with better variable display and modulemap resolution
Debugging: Threads and frames now show richer detail from adapters that provide it, including the built-in JS/TS adapter and Icarus
Editor: Code hovers have improved styling and richer support for Markdown-formatted help text from language servers
Editor: The macOS “Look Up” action is now accessible from the contextual menu
Files Sidebar: Invoking “New File” now automatically pre-fills the most common file extension from that folder
Files Sidebar: After naming a newly created text file, it now automatically opens in an editor
Files Sidebar: Cancelling the naming of a new file now moves that empty file to the Trash automatically
Find: The editor’s find bar has been refined, with cleaner UI and speed improved in large documents
Find: Using “Search in Selection” now highlights which regions are being searched, even if the editor’s selection changes
JSX / TSX: Added support for the “Wrap Selection In Tag” action from HTML
Languages: SCSS parsing support has been updated to use a new, custom Tree-sitter grammar
Languages: Refined syntax highlighting and completions in Bash, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, Lua, Markdown, SQL, TypeScript, TSX
Languages: Synchronized built-in language grammars with their respective upstream grammars
Languages: Removed leftover built-in regex definitions which had already moved to Tree-sitter, but remained so extensions had time to migrate
Language Servers: Improved support for file system change notifications
Workspace: In-workspace notifications have improved styling, animation, and support for stacking related notifications
Workspace: File browser tabs are now styled using the workspace theme colors

Fixed

Debugging: Fixed an issue that prevented breakpoints from triggering reliably when using Chrome debugging
Debugging: The JS/TS debug adapter has been updated to support changes in Chrome’s security model, present in Chrome 136 onward
Editor: .mts and .cts files now use the TypeScript syntax by default
Editor: Closing an unsaved document tab that is also open in another split no longer prompts to save changes
Editor: HTML entities are now highlighted in Markdown documents
Editor: Resolved a possible crash when moving up or down with multiple cursors in Vim mode
File Browser: Fixed a crash when dragging remote files between Nova and Transmit
Key Bindings: Resolved an issue preventing the binding of menu items to Control-Shift-Command-Space
Servers: Updated the DreamObjects endpoint
Servers: Addressed an issue with authentication with Mega S4
Servers: Resolved a crash when using ed25519-sk resident SSH keys with the verify-required and application options
Servers: Fixed a potential issue connecting to FastMail-hosted WebDAV servers
Shell Syntax: Autocompletion of variables no longer inserts a duplicate $ character in some circumstances
Theming: Condition keywords (if, while, etc.) now use keyword.condition selector once more, instead of just keyword
Theming: Addressed an issue with the style.selector.pseudoelement selector being overridden by .element in CSS
Terminal: CSI Parsing now processes parameter characters, fixing rendering issues in the fish shell
Terminal: Fixed an error when running lnav
Terminal: Resolved a potential crash when retrying a remote connection when using a jump host
Terminal: Remote connections which use the 1Password SSH agent with IdentitiesOnly and public IdentityFile should no longer fail unexpectedly
Terminal: Addressed a case where invalid UTF-8 sequences could result in data being lost
Terminal: reset now makes the cursor visible if it was previously hidden
Workspace: The sidebar now remains visible after a relaunch if it was shown by invoking “Show in Files Sidebar”