What's new in version 2015?

Overview

Version 2015 is the best code editor we have ever made.

• Built upon the most successful predecessor
• Up to date with latest standards - HTML5, CSS3, Web 2.0 philosophy.
• Address many of the best suggestions from our customers accumulated over the past 2 years.

Better HTML and CSS support

• Updated HTML5 language specification
• Updated CSS syntax highlighting
• Updated CSS definitions according to latest standards and drafts
• Updated CSS compatibility info
  
• Updated CSS compressor for better CSS3 support
• Updated CSS3 gradient generator
• Updated LESS and SASS syntax highlighting
  
• Added code collapse for CSS
  

Better JavaScript support

• Improved JavaScript language definitions
• Improved JavaScript auto complete
  
• Improved JavaScript syntax highlighting
• Improved jQuery support
  
• Updated jQuery framework

Better PHP support

• Updated PHP function list
• phpDocumentor support
  
• Updated PHP syntax highlighting – support for namespaces and new keywords as well as multiple bug-fixes
• PHP variable highlighting in strings
  
• Improved Find Declaration feature
• TWIG highlighting
  

Heavily improved PHP auto complete

• Chained calls are now supported for unlimited depth
• phpDocumentor info is now used to show result type in auto complete where available for user functions, methods and properties for auto-complete
• Improved lookup for local variables
• Constants now show up in PHP auto complete
  

Improved text editor

• Indent lines / guides
  
• Quick color preview in the editor via mouse hover
  
• 25 new syntax highlighting color schemes
  
• Improved comment toggling
• Cool DejaVu Sans Mono font is now bundled with the editor
  

Improved preview

• Updated built-in Chrome preview
• Address bar and refresh button added to full-screen preview
• Improved cursor/preview synchronization with Chrome support

Improved FTP/SFTP/FTPS

• Tree-view for FTP/SFTP browsing
• Drag and drop files to/from FTP tree
• Details view in FTP/SFTP sidebar
  
• Upload whole directories to FTP
• Recursive CHMOD for whole directories
  

Improved framework support

• Wordpress
• CakePHP
• Laravel
• Zend Framework
• Updated some existing frameworks
  
• Open-source JavaScript-based framework scraper plugin for adding new frameworks

Improved tools

• Updated Language Browser - now you can browse all installed frameworks
  
• Asset dialog windows (for image, script, CSS etc. insertion) now remember last directory on a per project basis
• User libraries for auto complete are now updated more dynamically
• Faster find and replace in files

Plugins

• Easy plugin installation from web-based repository
  
• Proper Emmet (ZEN-Coding) plugin with all the awesome features
  
• DevDocs.io plugin
  
• Improved plugin engine

Many other fixes and smaller updates

• Improved: Accessibility and support for high DPI settings
• Improved: Paste works when auto complete popup is open
• Improved: Added SVG file format
• Improved: Added JSON file format
• Improved: Select Tag command now works better
• Improved: Find All now always uses entire scope
• Improved: Built-in web server now supports UTF-8
• Improved: <?php is now used instead of <? as default setting
• Improved: Localization in all languages
• Improved: Multi-monitor support
• Improved: SQL window
• Improved: AltGr key behavior is now more consistent with other software
• Fixed: Problem with Preview scrolling
• Fixed: UTF-8 support in SQL browser
• Fixed: Templates can now be saved easily in the template folder
• Fixed: Copy with highlighting feature
• Fixed: Open from web now supports Unicode
• Fixed: Bug with mysqli auto complete
• Fixed: Bugs with saving FTP and SQL settings in portable mode

Upgrade is easy and your old settings are saved

German, Russian, French, Hungarian, Dutch versions are available

Roadmap for 2015 - 2016

While we have implemented over 100 new features and fixes, we still have a lot of work to do to perfect and improve our code editor, so here is what we have in mind:

• Introduce all-mighty search box that searches everything (it was planned for 2015, but we did not manage)
• Add more powerful support for more programming languages and frameworks
• Maybe: Introduce more powerful SQL features
• Maybe: Create some sort of online/cloud-based code snippet library
• Maybe: Introduce visual code navigator