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Your Builder development team has been working hard to build on the
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tremendous momentum of the last few months. 3.16.3 is like each of it's
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predecessors, packed with new features and bug fixes.
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I'd like to personally thank everyone who contributed bugs during the cycle.
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You keep us on our toes.
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This release shows a sharp spike in contributions from new and existing
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GNOME community members. I'm very happy to see this happening and look
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forward to building Builder together.
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Of note in this release:
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• A new source code minimap, recently pushed upstream into GtkSourceView.
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• A new greeter based on recent design work.
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• A new XML highlighter to highlight matching XML elements.
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• Support for ctags-based auto-completion.
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• High-performance, mutli-threaded counters that can be enabled with
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--enable-rdtscp. These are disabled by default as they require newer
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Intel Core i[357] features. ide-list-counters can be used to extract
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them from a running or crashed process.
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• The preferences interface has been vastly improved.
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• Search improvements.
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• A strftime format completion provider for Python.
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• Additional emacs, vim, and default keybindings.
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• Experimental support for building autotools projects with mingw.
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• Python auto-indenter improvements.
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• Many CSS style improvements on Adwaita.
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• Additional support for recursive-automake-based projects.
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• Some features have made configurable with gsettings.
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• Layered settings support for project vs global settings.
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• Improved modelines support.
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• Support for parsing DOAP files.
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• Various memory leaks were plugged.
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• Incremental highlighting has more aggressive invalidation.
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• Various race conditions in autotools support were fixes.
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• OpenBSD and FreeBSD build system fixes.
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• Many translation improvements.
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• libide-1.0.so and Ide-1.0.typelib are now installed to a private
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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
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• Erick Pérez Castellanos
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Based on early feedback from 3.16.1, I'm announcing a followup release.
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This is primarily a bug-fix release.
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• Fix double free in dummy vcs.
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• Fix project tree loading in dummy vcs.
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• Fix workbench action names in emacs mode.
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• Improve sorting of filenames in project tree.
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• Ensure loading of files matching content types supported by
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• Enable project tree by default.
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• Enable project tree icons by default.
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• Add rename file in project tree.
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• Add move to trash in project tree.
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• Sort previously opened projects before projects discovered by miners.
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• Use sysconf() for page size (fixes building on OpenBSD).
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• Various clang build fixes.
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• Use arrow down instead of hamburger for search bar.
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• Fix unicode in markdown live preview.
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Thanks to everyone that tested 3.16.1 and provided feedback!
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GNOME 3.16.1 is here, and so is a new release of Builder!
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While most projects are focused on improving stability for 3.16.1, Builder is
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quickly adding the features you need. This is only possible because we are
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still an early preview application.
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Some highlights of the over 300 new commits in this release:
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• Improved project tree including support for creating files and folders,
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opening with external programs based on content-type, and file-manager
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integration. (Christian Hergert, Garrett Regier)
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• A new incremental semantic syntax highlighting engine.
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• Semantic highlighting for C and C++ using Clang AST.
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• Document selection popover to ease switching between documents.
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• Symbols navigator for C and C++ files.
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• Apply "Fix-It" for C and C++ as provided by Clang.
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• Highlight build warnings in squiggly yellow lines.
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• Improvements to dark theme.
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• Improvements to Builder's style scheme for C and C++ languages.
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• "Jump to definition" support for C and C++ languages.
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Ctrl+] or gd in vim mode, <alt>period in emacs mode.
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• A new project selection and creation dialog on startup.
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• Git clone support from new project dialog.
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• "Find other file" similar to emacs to switch between source and header
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• Improvements to scroll-offset which allows you to keep a given number
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of lines above and below the cursor. (Carlos Soriano, Christian Hergert)
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• Respect Gtk's "sort-directories-first" GSetting. (Garrett Regier)
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• Improvements to VIM mode including support for :bnext, :bprevious,
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:buffers and :ls (Alexandre Franke, Sebastien Lafargue)
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• Split support for HTML view (Sebastien Lafargue)
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• Build fixes for FreeBSD (Ting-Wei Lan)
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• Build fixes for OpenBSD (Antoine Jacoutot)
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• Support for editing "application/x-php" files.
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• Support extraction of CFLAGS from out-of-tree, non-recursive automake.
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(Christian Hergert, Giovanni Campagna)
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• A new symbolic icon (Jakub Steiner)
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• Improvements to handling of drafts (Paolo Borelli)
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• Improvements to autotools builders (Paolo Borelli)
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• Many translation updates including Czech, Polish, and Hebrew.
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(Marek Černocký, Piotr Drąg, and Yosef Or Boczko)
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I'd like to thank everyone that filed bugs, submitted patches, translated,
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tested, or plans to test Builder.
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Together, great things are possible.
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It is my distinct pleasure to announce the first preview release of
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GNOME Builder is a new development environment being developed in
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conjunction with the GNOME desktop. While Builder is an alpha product,
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it is under heavy development. We look forward to early testers and
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encourage everyone to try things out and file bugs and feature requests.
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I'd like to thank the Gedit and GtkSourceView team for all of their hard
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work integrating features from Builder upstream as well as adding
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features we needed. Additionally the GLib and Gtk+ teams were incredibly
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helpful to keep us moving.
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Builder is built in conjunction with LibIDE. This new shared library
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provides the necessary abstractions to build a modern IDE. It includes
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auto-completion, auto-indenters, buffer management, a source editor,
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abstractions for build systems, version control, file settings,
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translation units, diagnostics, symbols, search engines, snippets, local
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and external devices, documentation, animations, and more.
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Some highlights of this release are:
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· A beautiful new GtkSourceView theme influenced by design grid paper.
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· Integrated source editor based on GtkSourceView.
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· Live diagnostics as you type for C, C++ via Clang.
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· Live diagnostics as you type for Python, Ruby, CSS, JavaScript, JSON,
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Vala, Go, and others via gnome-code-assistance.
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· Highlighting of added/changed lines within the source editor.
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· Robust Vim and Emacs emulation.
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· Multiple views into single file. Both horizontal and vertical splits
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· Navigation history to jump back and forward within modified files.
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· Robust snippet engine including support for GLib 2.44 style GObjects.
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· Quick search to locate files within your project as well as
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documentation in devhelp.
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· Smart backspace to simplify using spaces instead of tabs.
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· A command bar to execute internal GActions and Vim style commands
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· An implementation of Vim's scrolloffset.
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· Restoration of insertion cursor when reloading a file.
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· Autocompletion based on current words in loaded buffers.
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· Experimental support for autocompletion based on clang.
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· Support for vim, emacs, and kate style modelines.
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· Editorconfig support.
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· Experimental read-only support for autoconf/automake based build
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· Robust auto-indenters for GNU C89, Python, and XML.
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· Experimental project tree (available via F9).
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· Experimental support for building automake based projects.
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· Keybinding replay for command repeat in Vim emulation.
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· Autosaving of modified buffers, never lose a change.
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· Scripting via Python (CPython) or JavaScript (Gjs) and GObject
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· Dynamic power management when running on laptop battery.
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· HTML and Markdown live preview.
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· Autocompletion of g_date_time_format() format parameters.
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· Type ahead search with rubberbanding.
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We wont be slowing down any time soon. Thanks to everyone for your
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support, I cannot wait for what is ahead.
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This is the first preview release of Builder as we continue our journey to
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Being that this is such an early release, we'd really appreciate it if you
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took the time to file bugs as you find them.
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You can report bugs using bugzilla at the following URL:
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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-builder
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