system requirements: macOS 26 and later
Compatibility Changes
- Change the system requirement to macOS Tahoe 26 or later.
New Features
- Support macOS 27 Golden Gate.
- Add folder search to the sidebar for searching for text across files in an open folder.
- Add document history navigation to the toolbar for folder documents.
- Automatically generate and apply a draft document name from the document’s content on macOS 27.
- Allow the indentation style (spaces or tabs) and width to be set for each Mode.
- Add the Customize Syntax Menu command to the More menu in the “Available syntaxes” section of the Format settings pane, allowing specific syntaxes to be hidden from syntax menus.
- Add the “Status bar” option to the Appearance settings pane.
Improvements
- Make some settings dialogs resizable.
- Allow custom syntaxes to be deleted by dragging them to the Trash.
- Allow CotEditor Syntax files and multiple replacement definitions to be imported by dropping them onto their respective lists.
- Add a context menu to the list in the Mode settings pane.
- Display the number of definition errors as a badge in the sidebar of the syntax editor.
- Automatically apply the JSON syntax to documents whose file type is a kind of JSON, such as GeoJSON files.
- Update the JSON syntax to simplify the file mapping settings.
- Improve overall stability and performance.
- [dev] Tweak the accent color.
- [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 27 Beta 4 (Swift 6.4, macOS 27 SDK).
Known Issues
- The status bar text can appear with an unreadable color with certain combinations of the system appearance, window appearance, and theme on macOS 26 (FB23611796).
- In some cases, a sandboxed URL is passed when folder search results are dropped onto another app (FB23578716).
- Strings added in this release are not yet localized in Bulgarian, Czech, and Polish.
Changes in 7.0.8 (unreleased)
Improvements
- Prevent the file browser from opening UNIX executable files as plain text.
- Display more accurate error messages in dialogs.
- Updated the SON syntax to change the file mapping for
Package.resolvedfrom file extensions to filenames. - Improve cancellation handling for syntax highlighting with computationally intensive regular expressions.
- Improve overall stability.
- [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.9.3 to 2.9.4.
Fixes
- Fix an issue where the application could crash or freeze when undoing an edit that shortened the document, such as the trimming of trailing whitespace.
- Fix an issue where the tab width customized for a document was not applied when printing.
- Fix an issue where the insertion point could move to an incorrect column when extending a selection upward from the end of the document.
- Fix an issue where the Surround Selection With > Custom dialog did not show the last used strings.
- Fix an issue where the window size setting was not included in the exported settings archive (Thanks to offyotto!).
Full Changelog: 7.0.7...7.1.0-beta