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Portable EditRocket Changelog

What's new in Portable EditRocket 5.0.1

Jul 15, 2022
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Mac: When find dialog is visible, auto complete returns focus to the find dialog instead of the editor
  • FTP Client: Initial file names may get cut off if over a certain length if using a font other than the default
  • Windows: When scaling is turned on, clicking the mouse may put the cursor position left or right of the mouse pointer location on the screen

New in Portable EditRocket 5.0.0 (May 9, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Enhanced the dark mode. Dark mode can be selected via the View -> Dark Mode menu option. Previous dark mode can now be selected via the View -> Legacy Dark Mode menu option.
  • Added a Light Mode look and feel that can be selected via the View -> Light Mode menu option
  • Windows / Linux: Changed the default user interface look and feel. The previous look and feel can be selected via the View -> Legacy UI Mode menu.
  • Mac: Dark mode / Light mode is now detected automatically by default. This setting can be changed in the View menu
  • Syntax Highlighting Colors: Added the ability to set different syntax highlighting colors for dark vs non-dark user interfaces
  • Colors: Added the ability to set different foreground and background colors for dark vs non-dark user interfaces
  • Reduced startup time by approximately 10%
  • Improved user interface scaling on Windows systems that use scaling over 100%
  • Linux: EditRocket will automatically scale display on some Linux systems
  • Mac: Improved performance of using the arrow keys to select next or previous lines or characters
  • Changes:
  • Added ability to reset colors to their defaults (Preferences -> Editor -> Reset Colors to Defaults)
  • Auto lookup / auto completion window font now set relative to the size of the editor font
  • Auto lookup / auto completion window location better adjusts to the position of EditRocket on the screen
  • View Open Editors window/tab uses the same font as the file system browser
  • Windows: Added an editrocket_noaccel.exe file to the installation folder for launching EditRocket with no hardware acceleration
  • Windows: Default fixed-width font is Consolas if found (previously Courier New)
  • Windows: Default non-fixed width font is Segoe UI if found
  • Unicode characters are now displayable even if the user selects a custom font
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Auto lookup / auto completion window may display offscreen if EditRocket is partially off the screen

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.12 (Feb 10, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a new build for Apple Silicon processors
  • Changes:
  • Upgraded Java runtime on Mac, Linux, and Windows builds to 11.0.13
  • Bugs:
  • FTP / SFTP Transfer: Deadlock can occur when uploading files in certain situations

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.11 (Nov 3, 2021)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a Tools -> Base64 Encoder tool
  • Added a Tools -> Base64 Decoder tool

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.10 (Dec 12, 2020)

  • Bugs:
  • When pasting data into the editor an extra line break may be inserted at the end

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.9 (Dec 11, 2020)

  • Changes:
  • Editor: When pasting data, editor tries to convert data to plain text
  • Bugs:
  • macOS: EditRocket may crash if switching keyboard input

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.8 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • MacOS Big Sur: Graphic settings updates

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.7 (Nov 19, 2020)

  • CHG: Added the following system property options. If opening new dialog windows on macOS Big Sur is causing issues, do the following: Help - Set System Property
  • Put D_OWNER in the Name
  • Put NULLWINDOWAT in the Value
  • If still issues, put NULLWINDOW in the Value
  • Upgraded bundled Linux 64-bit JRE

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.6 (Apr 24, 2020)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a Tools -> URL Encoder tool
  • Added a Tools -> URL Decoder tool
  • Bugs:
  • JavaScript Validator on macOs Catalina may return validation errors if first line of file is a line break

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.5 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added the following Preference: Editor: Auto Convert Files to UTF-8 if Unencodable Chars. If the editor contents contain characters that are not encodable by the default encoding, the contents are saved in UTF-8 format if this preference is selected
  • Changes:
  • UI: Better support for displaying unicode data in labels and drop-downs

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.4 (Oct 25, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added Auto Save functionality and Auto Save frequency in Edit -> Preferences on Backup / Auto Save tab
  • : Added an Edit -> Copy History menu
  • Added an Edit -> Paste History menu
  • Added an Edit -> Restore User Data menu option for restoring from an EditRocket user data backup
  • Changes:
  • FTPS Client: Connections to servers with expired certificates is now possible
  • Increased the max number of files in the recent files menu
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Javascript Validator: macOS Catalina: Javascript Validator not working on macOS Catalina

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.3 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • FTP Client: Added support for explicit FTPS connections
  • Bug Fixes:
  • XML Validator: schemas with maxOccurs values of more than 5000 throwing validation errors

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.2 (Apr 25, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Mac: Added a dark mode option in the View menu
  • Added a Backup User Data option to the Edit menu for backing up preferences, favorites, etc.
  • Changes:
  • Java Compiler: Added 10 and 11 as java target versions
  • File System Browser: Compress Files: symbolic links no longer followed to add files from sym links
  • The following files are not handled as zip files when opening: .odb, .odf, and .odt
  • Mac Editor: For keyboards with HOME and END keys, Shift + Home and Shift + End now select to begin or end of line

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.1 (Sep 7, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • File System Browser and FTP / SFTP Browser: Added ability to sort by file type
  • Changes:
  • Mac: Editor: Decreased mouse drag sensitivity to allow double and triple clicks to highlight words and lines appropriately
  • Bugs:
  • FTP / SFTP Browser: Long file names getting cut off

New in Portable EditRocket 4.5.0 (Jul 19, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added preference to File System Browser preferences tab for automatically updating the file system browser path to the path of the current file when switching tabs in the editor
  • Added preference for switching the caret to a block instead of a line
  • Added preference to turn on / off the blinking caret
  • Changes:
  • Updated runtimes for Mac, Windows, and Linux versions
  • Bugs:
  • Windows: If trying to delete a file via the open or save file dialog, EditRocket hangs

New in Portable EditRocket 4.4.2 (Jan 22, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added ability to create and open file sets (File -> Open File Set) menu option for opening a set of files with one operation
  • Added ability to drag and drop files to editor for opening
  • Changes:
  • Uncomment Tool: If multiple lines in the editor are selected, will remove comments from individual lines if they start and end with multi-line comment indicators
  • Direct3d graphics now enabled by default on Windows
  • Bugs:
  • High Resolution Monitors: Close icon on tabs right-edge not completely straight
  • Multiple monitors with vertical orientation or 3 plus monitors with mix of vertical and horizontal orientation, windows not always displaying on the correct monitor

New in Portable EditRocket 4.4.1 (Nov 28, 2017)

  • Bugs:
  • Single and double quote characters not usuable when keyboard input type is set to US International

New in Portable EditRocket 4.4.0 (Nov 16, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a Dark Mode look and feel theme to the View -> Change Look and Feel menu for Windows and Linux
  • Find in Files: For finds occuring over a network drive, added logic to retry file access if network drive access is temporarily unavailable during find operation
  • Increased the maximum number of files displayed in the recent files, recent directories, and file system browser goto directory menus
  • Added a Document End Line Break option to the Edit menu for taking the cursor to the end of the editor and inserting a line break to put the cursor at the front of the newly created last line
  • Changes:
  • Set the file system browser path field font to the same font as the file system browser tree
  • High Resolution Display Changes: Added higher resolution desktop and taskbar icons, additional window sizing adjustments for better display
  • Bugs:
  • If screen resolution is changed while EditRocket is running, main window can't be expanded past maximum size of original resolution

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.13 (Sep 27, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Windows: Added Windows Default Look and Feel option to the View -> Look and Feel menu. This option sets the look and feel to match the Windows default look and feel for the version of Windows being used
  • Changes:
  • Windows: Upgraded to latest version of editor font to support additional unicode characters
  • Range comment option adds a space at the after the beginning comment characters and before the ending comment characters. Using the Uncomment option does not remove the extra spaces
  • Windows: Direct3d graphics pipeline is now disabled by default. To enable, select the View -> Enable Advanced Graphics menu option
  • Bugs:
  • Font changes not staying in effect on high-resolution monitors
  • When manual text size scaling was set via the View menu, Menu font was not correct system font on Windows and Linux
  • Multiple Monitors: FTP Browser window always showing on main monitor

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.11 (Jul 18, 2017)

  • Bugs:
  • FTP Browser: Overwrite prompt getting hidden behind another window on certain systems

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.10 (Jun 13, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added tooltip text to the file names in the FTP browser
  • Changes:
  • Trying to enter column selection mode in a file with potentially misaligned tabs gives warning with an option to create a new editor tab with tabs converted to spaces
  • Bugs:
  • Dragging from 4k display to non-4k display causes window to turn black.
  • FTP Browser: File name width not getting calculated correctly leading to long file names getting cut off

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.9 (May 8, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Automatic application of Windows scaling percentage for text and icons when text and icon size are set to the defaults of Auto-Detect
  • Enhancements to make fonts, icons, etc. look better on 4k displays

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.8 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added support for mouse-based horizontal scrolling on the Mac
  • Bugs:
  • Icons and Text not getting scaled enough for Windows scaling above 150%

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.7 (Feb 8, 2017)

  • BUGS:
  • FTP Client: Percentages not visible on progress bar

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.6 (Feb 8, 2017)

  • ENHANCEMENTS:
  • Better support for windows display scaling
  • Added a View -> Font -> Reset Fonts to Default menu option and adding a reset fonts to default option in the preferences
  • CHANGES:
  • Changed default icon and text size to auto detect. If detected windows scaling, changed font and icon sizes accordingly
  • Changed default editor font from 11 pt to 12pt
  • BUGS:
  • If screen resolution is made larger while EditRocket is running, unable to resize window past original screen size
  • FTP client. Right-clicking on Mac with control plus click deselects the currently highlighted item

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.5 (Dec 21, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a Tools -> International Editor option for more easily typing languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.4 (Dec 5, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added View -> Disable / Enabled Advanced Graphics
  • Changes:
  • SFTP Client - set max authentication tries to 1
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed kerberos issue with ssh servers
  • File System Browser and FTP client icons not displaying correctly when View - Icon Size menu option set to larger than normal
  • When large icon size is selected, icons are too big for the toolbar

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.3 (Dec 5, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added Java decompiler to the Tools - Java menu
  • Windows: Upgraded graphics libraries and runtime
  • Mac 64-bit: Upgraded graphics libraries and runtime
  • Linux: Upgraded graphics libraries and runtime
  • Bugs:
  • Mac Zip Utility: Extract All option selecting the parent directory instead of the current directory of the zip file
  • Mac Zip Utility: Zip file not getting closed correctly after zip utility is closed

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.2 (Sep 27, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Code builder files are now editable by end-users
  • Added clear entries option to recent directories menu
  • Added clear entries option to recent files menu
  • Changes:
  • Increased default max memory on Windows and Mac 64-bit versions
  • Ignore case when sorting the recent files menu items
  • Ignore case when sorting the recent directories menu items
  • Bugs:
  • Pasting does not always work when pasting from certain programs / text types
  • Full-screen support not working on macOS Sierra

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.1 (Sep 18, 2016)

  • Bugs:
  • HTML tag tree functionality not working
  • Plugins unable to be imported

New in Portable EditRocket 4.3.0 (Sep 18, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Updated graphics libraries on Mac and Windows
  • Bugs:
  • FTP client throwing error when no files / directories contained in initial directory

New in Portable EditRocket 4.2.4 (Jun 17, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added better support for hi-res monitors
  • Added a preference for only displaying file modified warnings when file size changes
  • Added support for more encryption ciphers for SFTP
  • Changes:
  • COBOL syntax highligher only displays line as a comment if asterisk is in column 7
  • Upgraded SSH library
  • Search now scrolls viewable area 3 lines past the line the search result is on for better readability

New in Portable EditRocket 4.2.3 (Feb 11, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Add Reload option to right-click menu on tab
  • Changes:
  • Upgraded SSH library - supports more ciphers and fixed bugs with connecting to SSH over non-standard ports

New in Portable EditRocket 4.2.2 (Feb 11, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Update css keywords to include css3
  • FTP Window needs to remember its size
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Register Later button on trial version not closing window

New in Portable EditRocket 4.2.1 (Aug 27, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • FTP Transfer window not showing file sizes correctly for very large files

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.12 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added option to define vertical column guides - vertical lines displaying at user-supplied column numbers configurable via the Editor tab on the preferences window
  • Added an Edit -> Delete Lines Containing option
  • Changes:
  • FTP / SFTP Connection Window - mouse click no longer needed to connect

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.11 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Updated SSH library - added support for new encryption algorithms
  • Select to Begin of Line, Select to Begin of Paragraph, and Select to Begin of Document options not setting cursor position to the beginning of the selection
  • Bug Fixes:
  • For certain multi-monitor display configurations, the max window size of EditRocket is getting set to the primary display maximum resolution

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.10 (Aug 7, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added HTML 5 doc type to HTML inserts
  • Added HTML 5 template
  • Added installation of Desktop shortcut to Linux distributions that support it
  • Changes:
  • Changed GUI to be more responsive during local or network file system waits
  • Added column selection mode indicator to editor status panel
  • Changed included JRE on Mac 64-bit version
  • Bug Fixes:
  • The Insert Text At Column dialog does not allow you to insert only spaces

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.9 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added ability to change look and feel on Windows via the View - Change Look and Feel menu option
  • Added a Reset Preferences option to reset preferences to their defaults
  • Added a View - Reset Display Sizes to Defaults option
  • Changes:
  • Updated SFTP / SSH library - includes support for more encryption options
  • Bug Fixes:
  • With dual monitors, Find dialog window sometimes not showing on the correct monitor
  • Windows 7 and newer taskbar pinning behavior now adheres to Windows standards

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.8 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a 64-bit Windows version
  • Added option to start EditRocket without acclerated graphics
  • Changes:
  • Find / Replace Tool: Remember match case setting
  • Updated Windows graphics runtime environment

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.7 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a run on local server option for HTML files
  • Added grxml as a recognized syntax type

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.6 (Feb 23, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added ability to connect via private key files for the SFTP client
  • Added full screen mode on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion
  • When doing a search / replace all in editor, try to go back to the original cursor position or cursor line when complete
  • Sped up Java auto lookup process
  • Added Remove line breaks option to Text menu
  • Changes:
  • Ant Build - remember the last java location
  • HTML - if enter a greather than sign, need to hide the auto-lookup / complete window
  • Bug:
  • FTP download/upload progress not shown correctly when transferring large amounts of data
  • FTP client sites list does not scroll or get larger

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.5 (Jul 16, 2012)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added the ability to view images - open an image file and display the image
  • Added support for Mac retina displays
  • Changes:
  • Added Gatekeeper signing for Mac OS X Lion
  • Changed javascript validator so that undeclared identifier warnings are no longer displayed

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.4 (Jan 17, 2012)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added Search -> Goto Column option
  • Added Insert - Insert from File option to the Inserts menu
  • Bug Fixes:
  • PHP classes syntax highlighting issue

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.2 (Oct 29, 2011)

  • Changes:
  • Soft tab option now factors in next tab stop when determining number of spaces to insert
  • Remember location of Function / Method Navigator
  • Remember location of Sidekicks
  • Add sleep as keyword for .sh
  • Bug Fixes:
  • In a java class, clicking on api reference button takes you to javascript reference

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.1 (Jun 23, 2011)

  • Enhancements:
  • Load time improvements
  • Added initial directory option to the FTP / SFTP client connection process
  • Changes:
  • Search tool on file system browser remembers preferences and is no longer modal
  • Limit the number of records that display on the FTP right-click menu
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Prepend and Append text to lines options do not allow spaces
  • Java method lookup not being run in a new thread
  • If more than a certain amount of templates, all items not displaying in the template menu
  • Control-Click does not bring up context menu on Mac for file system browser
  • Windows context-menu keyboard shortcut not working

New in Portable EditRocket 4.1.0 (Mar 18, 2011)

  • Added a Find File option in the search menu and file system browser for searching for a file on the system
  • Added HTML Tag Tree view in the Tools - HTML - Tag Tree option
  • Added HTML Form Wizard for inserting HTML forms
  • Added HTML Table Wizard for inserting HTML tables
  • Added HTML Ordered List Wizard for inserting ordered lists
  • Added HTML Unordered List Wizard for inserting unordered lists
  • Added HTML Link Wizard for inserting links
  • Added HTML Image Wizard for inserting images
  • Added HTML Text Area wizard for inserting text areas
  • Added HTML Checkbox Wizard for inserting HTML check boxes
  • Added HTML File Select Wizard for inserting file input types
  • Added HTML Text Input Wizard for generating text based form input types
  • Added HTML Select Box Wizard for inserting select boxes
  • Added HTML Radio Button wizard
  • Added HTML Button wizard
  • Added HTML Tag Tree to HTML Sidekick
  • Enhanced Java method navigator parser
  • Added FTP button to toolbar
  • Added inserts to right-click menu
  • Added related language inserts to inserts selector for certain languages
  • Added bottom toolbar
  • Added Open Files tab to left-hand side file system browser panel
  • Added sidekicks tab to file system browser panel
  • Added a "create new site" button to the Save and Open to ftp menu options
  • Added more lanugages support for API reference links
  • Added Preview / Show in Browser option to HTML, PHP, JSP right-click menu
  • Added JavaScript templates
  • Added PHP templates
  • Added JavaScript inserts
  • Added Text to HTML converter
  • Added a current directory link to the tab menu
  • Expanded syntax type auto detection to the use of EditRocket inserts and tools

New in Portable EditRocket 4.0.0 (Jan 3, 2011)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added an FTP and SFTP client available in the Tools menu
  • Added open from FTP / SFTP server option
  • Added save to FTP / SFTP server option
  • Show in Browser option now prompts for which browser to launch on Windows and Mac such as Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and Internet Explorer
  • Added JavaScript compressor
  • Added JavaScript validator
  • Added Column Selection Mode option (Edit - Column Selection Mode)
  • Added Bookmark found lines option to Find / Replace tool
  • Added Edit -> Text -> Insert International Chars option
  • Added standard C library function lookup to Objective-C
  • Added standard c library autocompletion to Objective-C
  • Added auto signature display on ( for Objective-C for standard c libraries
  • Added C-style bracket event closures to Objective-C
  • Added XMLHttpRequest object to JavaScript code builder
  • Added undock tab option to the Window menu
  • Added dock all windows option to Window menu
  • Added undock all windows option to Window menu
  • Added tile undocked windows vertically to Window menu
  • Added tile undocked windows horizontally to Window menu
  • Added side by side view - user selects the tabs / windows they want to view side by side
  • Added more how to guides
  • Changes:
  • Hitting shift end with selected text now keeps text selection accordingly
  • Hitting shift home with selected text now keeps text selection accordingly
  • The Show in Browser option for HTML files now only creates temp files if the currently active tab has not been saved to the file system and is not modified
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Normal single and double quote keys not working on certain international keyboard layouts
  • HTML Entities tool not working
  • JavaScript code builder not showing methods for DOM objects
  • JavaScript auto method lookup does not work if equals does not have spaces
  • If javascript var does not start with "var", auto lookup doesn't work
  • XML Validator does not show line number of error when validating against a file on the file system

New in Portable EditRocket 3.5.7 (Aug 27, 2010)

  • Enhancements
  • Added Tools -> Ant -> Execute Ant Build for integration with Ant builds
  • Added jump to compiler error line number option on java compiler
  • Added jump to compiler error line number option on Objective C compiler
  • Added jump to parse error line number option on PHP check syntax and execute program tools
  • Added HTML 5 tags to tag builder and auto lookup / auto complete
  • XML Validator remembers previously used schemas in a dropdown box
  • Added Execute Ant Build to the java sidekick and java popup menu
  • Changes:
  • Changed gcc syntax for objective-c compiler for newer versions of gcc
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Turning off open previously open files at startup preference has no effect
  • If too many open tabs, items in the Window menu scrolls off of the screen

New in Portable EditRocket 3.5.6 (Jun 29, 2010)

  • Enhancements
  • XML Validator: Errors are now clickable and take user directly to error location in file
  • XML Validator: Allow users to specify a schema file or URL for validation
  • XML Validator: Allow users to validate editor contents or a file
  • XML Validator: Auto populate schema location based if referenced in XML file
  • Changes
  • Find / Replace Tool: Added clear buttons to the find and replace fields
  • Find / Replace Tool: If doing a replace all in selected lines, after the replace is complete, the lines remain highlighted
  • Find / Replace Tool: If multiple lines are selected, the default scope is set to Selected Lines instead of All Lines
  • Java Compiler: Output path is now selectable and remembers output paths for previous compilations

New in Portable EditRocket 3.5.5 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added AJAX inserts to HTML inserts tool
  • Added AJAX example template
  • Updated Windows and Linux JREs
  • Bugs:
  • File System Browser context menu too large for small resolution screens

New in Portable EditRocket 3.5.4 (May 16, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Auto completion enhancements
  • Changes:
  • Added himem files for launching EditRocket with high memory settings
  • Added recognition for additional pl/sql file extensions
  • .cgi files now default to perl syntax
  • Launching improvements
  • Bugs:
  • Blurry icon problem on Windows 7
  • Zip utility display problems on low resolution displays

New in Portable EditRocket 3.5.3 (Apr 15, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added auto detection for UTF 8 and UTF 16 files
  • Added progress bar and ability to cancel Find in Files and Find / Replace in Files tools
  • Added methods and anonymous functions to the JavaScript function / method navigator
  • Clicking on a line number highlights the entire line
  • Added ability to change the editor caret color
  • Enabled support of $ and ^ regular expression symbols for the Find and Find / Replace tools
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Python syntax highlighting errors with certain text
  • When syntax highlighting is off, keywords are always showing as black, even when custom colors are set