New in Nova

New

• Preview: Light / Dark appearance can now be overridden on demand per-preview for easier CSS testing
• Extensions: Library search results can now be sorted by “Recently Updated”
• A sampling dropper has been added to Color Pops
• Atomic saving of files can be controlled using a new preference
• Added support for the following Git hooks: pre-commit, commit-msg, post-commit, and post-checkout
• Added a preference for controlling whether Language Servers may define additional characters which accept the selected completion
• Terminal: Added an option to use GPU rendering on supported hardware, which can be turned on in the advanced Terminal preferences
• Terminal: Added support for the OSC 8 hyperlink escape sequence

New for Extensions

• Extension API: A new TaskDebugAdapterAction to run debuggers supporting the Debug Adapter Protocol
• Extension API: A new DebugSession class and Workspace methods to observe and respond to custom Debug Adapter events
• Extension API: Exposed the project’s preview configuration via the Workspace object
• Extension API: Added fs.chmod() to set file permissions on the FileSystem object

Improved

• Content tabs now size themselves to their filename dynamically, greatly improving the readability of longer file names
• The Files sidebar now automatically select files as they gain focus from an editor, and this behavior can be turned off in the Files preferences
• Tab bars now show a visual indicator when there are tabs beyond the visible region
• Moving the editor cursor now updates the focus of macOS Accessibility Zoom
• Initializing a new Git repository now respects the init.defaultBranch configuration option
• The “blip” animation shown when crossing over a bracket character now appears while in Vim mode
• Opening files via the CLI will no longer show the launcher momentarily before files are opened
• “Show Invisibles” now differentiates between normal spaces and other standard (non-control) whitespace characters
• Git accounts can now be added for hosting services that use self-signed SSL certificates
• Several new neutral color choices are available for project folders
• Preview tabs now display the favicon of the current page
• Rendering of underlined text is improved
• Text layout now centers runs vertically in their line fragment instead of using a multiple of the font descent
• The completions list now more intelligently sizes its width

Fixed

• Inserting complement characters for brackets and quotes should now work in more cases
• Pasting large blocks of text now autoscrolls the editor to the cursor insertion point
• Transforming short hex colors in the CSS color picker should now maintain that format
• Typing certain multi-part character combinations now works properly when using some non-ASCII keyboard layouts
• Projects closed while in fullscreen will now reopen in fullscreen
• Added file type declarations for the webmanifest JSON format and the woff / woff2 font types
• The completions list no longer truncates items vertically at larger font sizes
• Resolved an issue where tab tooltips could be displayed partially off screen in some circumstances
• Selected ranges are now displayed properly in the Minimap
• Lua: Block commenting now works properly
• PHP: Validation now enforces error reporting even when display_errors is disabled in php.ini
• Preview: Using a custom URL without a scheme now falls back to http
• Preview: Files outside of the preview root now display as expected when using an external browser
• CSS Colors: Swatches for color(srgb…) colors will now appear in the gutter
• CSS Colors: Mixing non-opaque colors now defaults to rgba() format for sRGB, as color() is only supported by Safari
• Vim mode: Invoking ci and ca with brackets now properly balances counterparts
• Vim mode: Scroll motions now move the cursor as expected
• Vim mode: Invoking an operator with w or W on the last word of a line no longer includes whitespace from the next line
• Git Sidebar: Adding a tag with no message now properly creates a lightweight tag
• Git Sidebar: Staging renamed files now properly adds the rename to the index instead of only a delete
• Git Sidebar: Prefilled commit messages due to a merge conflict will now have the correct text color in Dark mode
• Git Sidebar: Fixed an issue that prevented Gravatar images from being shown in the History view
• Find Sidebar: The “Project” scope should no longer be incorrectly enabled for remote projects
• Find Sidebar: Clicking a result now properly centers the editor’s viewport if the match is not already visible
• File Transfer: Resolved an issue with changing permissions and advanced settings while a connection is open
• File Transfer: Added an advanced setting to disable file editing conflict checking when using an external editor
• Launcher: Dragging and dropping a new project to a disclosed group now works as expected
• Launcher: Opening the project artwork image chooser on lower resolution displays now works as expected
• Launcher: Deleting a project when using list view will no longer potentially rename existing projects
• Launcher: Adjusting the color or image for a missing project will no longer throw unhelpful errors
• Launcher: Item content is now focused after showing the window when using keyboard navigation
• Launcher: Choosing “Server Settings…” from the contextual menu now works as expected
• Terminal: Minor improvements to terminal emulation
• Terminal: Fixed a potential hang when opening a Local Terminal due to accessibility API deadlock
• Terminal: Addressed a potential crash when rapidly changing font
• Resolved a potential crash when displaying language server hovers
• Addressed a crash when restoring a window with a remote connection that was authenticated using a Yubikey
• Addressed a potential hang when language servers request updates during in-flight edits
• When “Prefer Commenting By-Line” is enabled, invoking “Toggle Comment” now properly respects indentation for HTML and CSS comments
• Invoking “Toggle Comment” from within a string that contains comment characters no longer attempts to uncomment within the string
• Fixed two cases where “Toggle Comment by Block” would improperly double-comment an existing comment
• Commenting code after a folded region now works as expected
• Pasting multiple lines at the first column of a blank line should more reliably reindent the block
• Pasting a block of text containing a blank line after the insertion point now more accurately adjusts indentation
• The “Paste and Preserve Formatting” menu item will no longer adjust indentation of pasted text, regardless of preferences
• Syntax highlighting of bold and italic text with certain fonts (such as Operator Mono and Cascadea Code) now works properly
• Addressed an issue with tag / link creation when dropping files into an HTML or CSS document and certain extensions are installed
• Deleting large blocks of text at the end of a file should no longer fail to resize the editor in some circumstances
• Resolved a potential issue with the Themes preferences carousel not properly resizing in when installing themes
• Opening an already-open document outside of a project via a symlink should no longer duplicate its tab
• Invoking “Find” from the preferences now focuses the Search field
• Updated the UniversalDetector library to improve detection of text encodings
• Switching to a File Browser tab will now set focus to the pane
• The editor’s horizontal scroll bar is no longer obscured by the footer status view when word wrapping is off
• Invoking “Shift Right” on an empty line now works as expected
• Addressed some minor cosmetic issues