New in Nova

New

• Added support for sub-word navigation (using Control) in the editor

Improved

• Improved performance of editor text rendering for particularly wide documents and viewports
• The CSS color picker now supports CSS 4- and 8-character hex colors with alpha
• Modified some colors in Panic Neon theme for better differentiation of elements
• Improved readability of arithmetic operators in Panic Neon theme

Fixed

• Resolved a potential parser crash when deleting matches near the start of a parent
• Fixed a possible parser crash when adjusting anchored matches
• Addressed a crash when performing a regular expression “Replace All” in the Find sidebar with multiple results per file
• Resolved a potential crash when animating matching brackets and showing the Code Actions indicator
• Clip key bindings should now properly support additional shift-modified chords, such as Command-+
• Fixed a potential crash when restoring open files in remote projects
• Cutting an entire line no longer leaves the newline behind
• Resolved a potential crash when laying out very long lines with Word Wrap disabled
• Fixed an issue with changes to the Ignored Files global setting not being immediately reflected in file browsers
• Corrected a regression in indexing speed caused by an overly aggressive regular expression in the JavaScript grammar
• Fixed a potential crash when reparsing HTML and PHP documents that contain complex script tags
• Resolved an issue where syntax highlighting appeared to shift several characters while typing rapidly in larger documents
• Ruby: Resolved an issue with symbolification of empty method bodies
• Ruby: Fixed an issue with function calls used within dictionary values
• PHP: Corrected a problem with comments used within property values
• PHP: Fixed an issue with using backticks within strings
• JSX: Addressed a problem with tag comments interfering with other highlighting
• Terminal: Fixed a problem with “Save in Keychain” not working as expected when connecting to servers stored in Nova
• File Browser: The “Open” contextual menu item now works as expected

Improved

• Added the ability to create new folders from “Open” panels (e.g. when choosing a publishing destination)

Fixed

• CSS: Completions are no longer displayed immediately after a ‘{’ bracket
• Terminal: Remote panes no longer fail to connect when an initial path is specified
• Fixed a potential problem with annotation issue tooltips disappearing unexpectedly in some circumstances
• Ctrl-A keybinding now works as expected when a text selection is present
• Git Sidebar: Multiple selected files can now be opened simultaneously
• PHP: Added support for parsing functions that return by reference
• JSX: Tag expressions within arrow function bodies should now parse properly
• CSS: Completion of custom property names within var() functions now work as expected
• YAML: Fixed an issue parsing items contained within lists
• LESS: !Important autocomplete no longer adds an extra ! character
• Ruby: Improved highlighting of certain function argument arrangements
• JavaScript: Parsing of regular expression literals as object fields now works as expected
• JavaScript: Symbolication of quoted object properties containing spaces should work properly
• JavaScript: Improved highlighting of arrow function expressions being used as arguments to a named function call
• TypeScript: Improved parsing of some complex object types and interface declarations
• Resolved an issue that caused delay of search results when using the command palette
• Remote Files Sidebar: Corrected an issue with opening or saving files in an external editor
• Addressed an issue with workspaces not restoring remote files that were opened using drag and drop
• Resolved an issue when moving selection by paragraph using Option+Shift+Up/DnArrow
• Launcher: Fixed the color swatch in quick edit panel from being clipped on macOS 10.15 and earlier

New

• Added a preference for adjusting letter spacing in the editor
• PHP: Highlighting of cURL environment variables in double-quoted strings
• PHP: Highlighting of SQL keywords in double-quoted strings
• PHP: Support for complex template string expressions
• PHP: Autocomplete support for PHP 8
• PHP: Support for Union Types
• JavaScript/TypeScript: Path autocompletion for ‘import’ statements

New for Extensions

• Grammars: Keywords may now be defined using multiple subcategories for better theming:
  • keyword.construct: Language construct keywords, such as function, class, interface
  • keyword.condition: Conditional keywords, such as
    if, for, and case
  • keyword.modifier: Modifier keywords, such as
    public, private, and async
  • keyword.statement: Statement keywords, such as
    return, throw, and eval
  • keyword.operator: Operator keywords, such as
    and, or, and not
  • keyword.self: Internal object reference keywords, such as
    self, this, and super
• Added WCAG rating support to the syntax inspector

Improved

• Greatly improved the speed of workspace Quick Open queries
• Toolbar activity indicator now displays operation type when active
• Adjusted vibrancy of certain built-in theme elements for better readability
• Adjusted brightness of some characters to better highlight their accompanying contents
• Stylesheet theming (CSS, SCSS, etc.) has been updated for visually consistency with other languages
• JSX/TSX: Component tag attributes are styled separately from DOM tag attributes
• PHP: Variable prefixes are now highlighted separately
• Git: The sidebar “Commit” field can be resized

Fixed

• Resolved a potential crash when re-parsing nested anchored subscopes
• Fixed a potential hang during Git enumeration of large projects
• Fixed a crash when lines containing more than 10,000 characters were drawn with invisibles
• Resolved a possible crash when deleting text that adjusts arguments of functions near the end of a document
• Fixed a potential issue that could cause considerable memory growth during long-running parsing or indexing operations
• Images dragged into the editor now add HTML/CSS tag instead of path
• Clips with trigger text containing periods now tab-complete as expected
• Files with SVG extension now open in XML syntax by default
• Fixed an issue with mapping keybindings to Shift+Space
• Double-clicking title bar now zooms window as expected
• Improved the ability to maintain cursor positions when an extension modifies the entire document
• After invoking “Wrap Selection in Tag” typing a space or manually moving out of the tag now removes the trailing cursor as expected
• Variables defined within non-contiguous contexts are now exported into the next context automatically
• Corrected a potential problem where having no SSH config file can cause host key validation to fail during task execution
• Corrected an issue where keys stored in Nova would not be used for SSH Agent Forwarding when enabled for a specific server
• When a selection ends in a newline pressing down arrow no longer positions the insertion point unexpectedly
• Unified selection of hyphenated text across all language syntaxes
• Resolved a potential issue with tab alignment during text changes
• Tabbing when using spaces for indentation now aligns to the next tab stop
• PHP: Removed outdated completions no longer present in the modern PHP standard library
• PHP: Added some missing functions from the MySQLi extension
• PHP: Highlighting of globally-namespaced types now works as expected
• PHP: Fixed some cases where comments would not be highlighted
• PHP: Control structures using the colon syntax now support auto-indentation when pressing Return
• YAML: Unquoted strings are now highlighted as expected
• YAML: Maps with unquoted values are now parsed properly
• YAML: Fixed a potential issue with highlighting of block scalars
• YAML: Keys with numbers or dashes are now parsed as expected
• Ruby: Added support for parsing endless methods
• Ruby: Lambda closures should now parse properly
• Ruby: Resolved an issue parsing some block expressions
• Ruby: Corrected a problem parsing regular expressions in dictionary literals or after certain keywords
• Markdown: Fenced code blocks support aliases to several languages
• Markdown: HTML tags within list items are now parsed as expected
• Markdown: Fixed an issue causing stand-alone < characters from being parsed as the start of an HTML tag
• Python: Syntax detection now works with version numbers
• Python: Multi-line strings using a u or b prefix should now parse correctly
• CSS: Completing a property name immediately after an opening bracket now works as expected
• JavaScript: Added .cjs and .mjs as recognized file extensions
• JavaScript: Parsing of async keywords in arrow function expressions
• JavaScript: Numbers using e (scientific) notation are properly parsed
• JavaScript: Support for parsing computed property and method names within classes and object literals
• JavaScript: Fixed parsing of methods defined within an object literal using ECMAScript 2017 syntax
• JavaScript: Arguments from anonymous functions should now be offered as auto-completions
• JavaScript/JSX: Corrected some issues parsing regular expression literals
• TypeScript: Resolved a potential issue with parsing generics
• TypeScript: Parsing and symbolicating of arrow function expressions
• TypeScript: Type expressions should now highlight more consistently, especially for object, array, and function types
• TypeScript: Classes, interfaces, and methods using generics now highlight their generic types correctly
• TypeScript: Type expressions which include raw values (such as strings) now highlight more consistently
• TypeScript: Properties in interfaces and classes should more consistently highlight their type information
• Symbols Sidebar: Fixed an issue parsing TypeScript getters and setters
• Terminal: Corrected a rendering issue with tmux multitail
• Terminal: Improved performance with URL and file path detection
• Terminal: Fixed a potential issue that could cause the view to autoscroll unexpectedly when viewing scrollback
• Terminal: Fixed a problem with “Save in Keychain” not working as expected when connecting to servers stored in Nova
• Terminal: Resolved a potential issue that could cause high CPU usage after using exit in terminal before URL detection had completed
• Git: Resolved issues with SSH configurations that alias the hostname
• Git: Sidebar now only reloads its contents if the branch or current HEAD commit of the repository changes
• Git: Resolved an issue where service account HTTPS authorization could be non-deterministic when multiple accounts exist for the same service
• Clips: Resolved an issue with the editor insertion point not being visible when using contrasting appearance themes
• Find: Queries for ß no longer match ss, and vice versa
• Extensions: Adjusted the behavior of the LanguageClient implementation to properly normalize the workspaceFolders property
• Extensions: Adjusted title bar theming in cases where the active window theme does not explicitly set an active state color or gradient
• Extensions: Improved error message when attempting to submit a non-extension project to the Extension Library
• Launcher: Fixed an issue where cloning a repo could create duplicate project listings in the Launcher
• Launcher: Resolved an issue with the title background of project groups not showing when scrolling via the keyboard