3.6.2

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.6.2).

Highlights

🎁 Added PowerShell Syntax Highlighting by @Var7600 in #606

Syntax highlighting of PowerShell is now supported.

PowerShell

🎁 Syntax highlighting improvement for INI by @sesquialtera87 in #622

Issues around strings, comments, and square brackets in values were all fixed.

Before	After

🔧 Minor tweaks to TextEditorPane by @bobbylight in #648

• Calling reload() on a local, new/unsaved file is now a no-op, and doesn't throw an exception
• Calling load() now sets lastSaveOrLoadTime

🎁 Add fold indicator background by @DJ-Raven in #651

The editor now supports a background color for collapsed fold lines. Themes can define this property as well.

Collapsed fold line background

🔧 Fix FR encoding error in focusable tips by @bobbylight in #654

The accented character was incorrectly defined for focusable tooltips in French:

Before	After

New Contributors

• @scyt01 made their first contribution in #628
• @DJ-Raven made their first contribution in #651

Full Changelog: 3.6.0...3.6.2

3.6.1

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.6.1).

Highlights

No new features, this release is primarily to bump dependencies and get publishing to Maven Central working again.

What's Changed

• Fix #612: Fix license link in maven config by @bobbylight in #615
• Fix #613: Tweak language of BSD 3-clause license to match official ve… by @bobbylight in #616
• Bump actions/setup-java from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #630
• Bump gradle/actions from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #632
• Bump github/codeql-action from 3 to 4 by @dependabot[bot] in #633
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #635
• Security Fix: Potential XXE Vulnerability in load function by @scyt01 in #628
• Get publishing to gradle working with gradle-nexus/publish-plugin by @bobbylight in #638

New Contributors

• @scyt01 made their first contribution in #628

Full Changelog: 3.6.0...3.6.1

3.6.0

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.6.0).

Highlights

🎁 Added VHDL Syntax Highlighting (#505) (@Var7600)

Syntax highlighting of VHDL is now supported.

VHDL Syntax Highlighting

🎁 Added Add/Remove events for bookmarks in IconRowHeader (#600) (@roger1337)

Adding and removing bookmarks from IconRowHeader now fires events that applications can listen to.

🎁 Update Russian translation of the ClipboardHistory strings (#604) (@MeToDucT)

Clipboard history is now translated into Russian.

Russian Paste popup (Ctrl+Shift+V / Cmd+Shift+V)

See also tickets marked for this release.

3.5.4

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.5.4).

Highlights

🎁 Improved Toggle Comment behavior (#570, #589, #591)

The toggle comment action (mapped to Ctrl + / and Cmd + /) now behaves better for single-line comments.

Toggling line comments

🎁 Collapsed code fold's preview should honor default font color (#593, #598)

Hovering over a collapsed fold's icon shows a preview of the collapsed content. This preview could use the wrong "default" font color when the installed Theme or SyntaxScheme didn't define an explicit foreground color for a token type. This is now fixed to fall back to the text area's default foreground color, which matches the editor behavior.

Before	After

Other Notable Changes

• Fix #592: RTextArea.setUI() should not override non-UIResource fonts

See also tickets marked for this release.

3.5.3

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.5.3). This is primarily a bugfix release, but we also bump the minimum JDK version required to build to JDK 17. RSTA will continue to build targeting Java 8 until our upcoming 4.0 release.

Notable Changes

• RSTA now builds with Java 17. It still runs on Java 8 and later. The upcoming 4.0 release will target Java 11+
• #577 Avoid showing MatchedBracketPopup if RSTA instance isn't in focus (@ivanschehl)
• Fix #541: Line numbers resize when getting a new document
• Fix #581: Overzealous Mark Occurrences for single characters
• Fix #581: Periods and commas marked in "Marked Occurrences"
• Fix #585 FileTypeUtil should identify Rust files

See also tickets marked for this release.

3.5.2

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.5.2). This is a bugfix release.

Notable Changes

• #566 Remove System.out.println() call (again)
• #571 Updated Russian translation (@MeToDucT)
• #565 Add optional index parameter to appendFoldingMenu() (@Mino260806)

See also tickets marked for this release.

3.5.1

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.5.1). This is a bugfix release.

Notable Changes

• Fix #561 Remove System.out.println() call

See also tickets marked for this release.

3.5.0

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.5.0).

Highlights

🎁 Ligature support (#503, #554, #559)

Ligatures are now properly supported in the editor. Note this requires you to use a font that supports ligatures, which isn't always the case with OS default fonts. See this wiki article for an overview of this feature.

Other Notable Changes

• Fix #545 NPE in SyntaxView.viewToModel
• Fix #555 Marked Count is always zero if at end of file (@SamKry)

See also tickets marked for this release.

3.4.1

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central (com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.4.1). This is primarily a bugfix release, but includes some API improvements to facilitate custom rendering.

Highlights

🎁 Customizable Token Painting (#534, #106)

Token painting can now be programmatically customized. A primary use case here is overriding how whitespace tokens are rendered, from the default in VisibleWhitespaceTokenPainter. A rather unattractive example:

🎁 Customizable Error Strip Painting (#535)

Error strip painting is now also programmatically customizable. Another unattractive example:

Other Notable Changes

• Fix #539: InsertQuoteAction overwrites trailing character after token instead of closing double quote in Python
• Fix #542: XMLTokenMaker does not follow XML spec (it wants ASCII element names)
• Fix #543: Clojure syntax highlighting: char literal double quote is treated as opening string
• Fix #540: Dot character (.) recognized as ERROR_IDENTIFIER in C#
• Fix #536: No marking if cursor is at end of file

See also tickets marked for this release.

3.4.0

Precompiled jars are available in Maven Central(com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:3.4.0).

Highlights

🎁 Customizable line numbering

Line numbering can now be customized beyond just font and color (#517, #518):

🎁 Rust support

Added Rust syntax highlighting and code folding (#481):

See also tickets marked for this release.