system requirements: macOS 15 and later
New Features
- Add a feature to export and import settings to transfer them to another Mac.
- Allow opening alias and symlink documents from the file browser.
- Request file access permission from the user by the “Open in New Window” command instead of simply presenting an error when CotEditor doesn’t have permission.
- Display the original path for alias and symlink files in file preview views.
Improvements
- Syntax highlighting now takes nesting into account when highlighting symbol pairs.
- Update the Lua syntax to support nested string delimiters.
- Update the contents and layout of the user guide.
- [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 26.2 beta 2.
Known issues
- The text added to CotEditor 6.2.0 are not yet localized to Czech and Portuguese.
Full Changelog: 6.1.2...6.2.0-beta