v1.127.1

Pulsar v1.127.1 (Hotfix Release)

Here's a quick hotfix release, reverting a change that caused an issue for Linux users.

(For all other changes since v1.126.0, please see the release notes for v1.127.0.)

As always, a huge thank you to our community, contributors, and donations.
Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars!
- The Pulsar Team

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• Hotfix: Reverted a Wayland-related change that Linux users reported issues with on Electron 12.

Pulsar

• Revert "Wayland pulsar script" @mauricioszabo

v1.127.0

Pulsar v1.127.0: Marching to the beat of our own drum

Another release to round out this month. Enjoy.

As always, a huge thank you to our community, contributors, and donations.
Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars!
- The Pulsar Team

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• Added a Jasmine 2-based test runner, migrated core editor tests to use it. Packages bundled into the core editor can migrate their tests to use this as well, over time. The Jasmine 1 test runner remains available.
• Added --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform and --ozone-platform=wayland as parameters when running under Wayland on Linux (avoids using xwayland, which causes rendering problems on some systems, especially with NVidia)
• Many Tree-sitter/parser/grammar improvements.
  • Updated to web-tree-sitter version 0.25.3.
  • Fixed a bug preventing folds from updating after code changes in some scenarios.
  • Better folding behavior in Python.
  • Better folding and syntax highlighting in Ruby of case/in statements.
  • Better syntax highlighting of private members in JavScript.
  • Better folding of multiline comments in PHP.
• Updated the read dependency in ppm

Pulsar

• ppm: Update ppm to commit a6f843f0381f64cb5865efc7 @DeeDeeG
• Tree-sitter rolling fixes, 1.127 edition @savetheclocktower
• Wayland pulsar script @mauricioszabo
• Update jasmine to 2.x @kiskoza

ppm

• Update to read v3 @2colours

v1.126.0

Pulsar v1.126.0: Still Marching On

This release may be delayed from our usual, but here it finally is!

(Enjoy folding your arrays, PHP-ists!)

As always, a huge thank you to our community, contributors, and donations.
Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars!
- The Pulsar Team

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• Python 3.12+ compatibility in ppm (installing packages with native C/C++ modules with Python 3.12+ on your system should Just Work™). (Python 3.7 and older no-longer supported for installing Pulsar packages with native C/C++ modules with ppm. Does not affect anything other than installing certain Pulsar packages.)
• PHP arrays spanning multiple lines are now foldable, as they always should have been.
• Various dependency updates for ppm.
• core.allowWindowTransparency setting is now hidden from the UI, as it has many limits and can cause unexpected issues, a situation which we inherit from the upstream Electron project. (Power-users who understand the drawbacks and still wish to enable transparency can add it to their user config files manually.)

Pulsar

• CI: Compile newer Python for Cirrus ARM Linux @DeeDeeG
• CI: Update Rolling token for Cirrus CI @DeeDeeG
• ppm: Bump ppm to commit 6981ce79e0efdd9bae1fac9bd1 @DeeDeeG
• Tree-sitter fixes, 1.126.0 edition @savetheclocktower
• CI: Specify a PYTHON env var on Windows so it doesn't get confused @savetheclocktower
• CI: Run apt-get update before installing Pulsar (for package tests) @DeeDeeG
• Remove core.allowWindowTransparency from the config schema @savetheclocktower

ppm

• Remove dependency on "request" package @2colours
• deps: Bump node-gyp to latest ^10.2.0 for Python 3.12 compat @DeeDeeG
• Eliminate trivial underscore @2colours
• chore(deps): update dependency express to v4.20.0 [security] @renovate

v1.125.0

Pulsar v1.125.0: Happy New Years!

The Pulsar team is happy to welcome everyone to the new year on our 2025th regular release.

We've gone back on our last update's decision to add source comment to the spell-check.grammar setting by default, as it had a greater performance impact than anticipated. This does mean that by default comments in code are no longer spell-checked — but if you liked the feature, you can add that setting back in! Just re-add source comment to the list of scopes under "Settings > Packages > spell-check > Grammars."

We've also restored an internal API that was changed a while back, after we learned the change affected the project-plus community package.

We have our usual improvements to the Tree-sitter grammars — such as language-css's parser being updated to the latest, and language-python getting improved indentation hinting for some unusual code constructs.

We've fixed an issue that would cause pulsar and ppm to be removed from the user's PATH on Windows during an upgrade, to ensure the choices you select during installation are respected.

We've also engaged in some maintenance and updates to our CI operations, to ensure we can keep things working on all of our supported platforms.

As always, a huge thank you to our community, contributors, and donations.
Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars!
- The Pulsar Team

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• The Windows installer no longer removes pulsar and ppm from your path when you update Pulsar to a newer version.
• [spell-check] Removed source comment from the list of automatically checked scopes because of reports of high CPU usage. This means that Pulsar will no longer automatically perform spell-checking for all code comments in all source files. (If you liked the behavior, you can add it back to the list in the spell-check.grammars config setting.)
• [language-python] Improved indentation hinting in some unusual scenarios like on one-line blocks and after code comments.
• [language-css] Updated tree-sitter-css to latest. Selector handling is now much better when typing incomplete selectors in a brand-new CSS file or at the bottom of an existing file.
• Restored functionality of project-plus via exposing previously removed internal APIs.

Pulsar

• Tree-sitter rolling fixes, 1.125 (or 1.124.1) edition @savetheclocktower
• Windows: Only remove Pulsar/PPM from PATH during uninstall @confused-Techie
• CI: Retry on timeout when building macOS bins @DeeDeeG
• Install dependencies for CI documentation job @savetheclocktower
• Attempt to install dependency on new Ubuntu CI images @savetheclocktower
• CI: No dpkg shenanigans for package tests workflow @DeeDeeG
• Expose dbPromise in StateStore @confused-Techie

pulsar-updater

• Don't prompt to update on non-default release channels @savetheclocktower

spell-check

• Fixes for a possible patch release @savetheclocktower

v1.124.0

Pulsar v1.124.0: Happy Year-End Festivities!

We hope you're having a relaxing and wholesome holiday season! We've been kicking back a bit ourselves, but that doesn't mean we don't have any new updates to share with you!

Whether you're celebrating end-of-year holidays in the cold of Winter, or the heat of Summer (depending on what hemisphere you live in!) Pulsar is here to warm your heart with another Regular release.

We've made it possible for spellcheck to activate in more fine-grained scopes, and turned it on for code comments by default. (Now with fewer typos in comments!) If you'd like to disable spell checking in comments, navigate to Settings > spell-check > grammars and remove source comment, or delete source comment from spell-check.grammars in your config file.

We've tweaked and refined some aspects of our Tree-sitter usage, as usual. With a fix for C++, and another under-the-hood fix as well.

We've ensured that keybinds should show for every package in settings-view, fixing a bug that prevented any keybinds from showing when keybinds were available for OSes/platforms other than the one currently in use.

We've cleaned up an outdated error message that you might see when moving items to the trash on Linux.

And we've engaged in a bit of maintenance around our CI operations as usual, and made building Pulsar a bit faster by skipping generation of blockmap files that we currently don't make use of.

As always, a huge thank you to our community, contributors, and donations.
Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars.
- The Pulsar Team

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• Enhanced spellcheck to allow spellchecking on sections of a buffer. Making it possible to spellcheck comments within code, which has been enabled by default.
• Tree-sitter fixes and enhancements for language-c.
• Updated error message received when deleting a file in Linux to be more accurate.
• Fixed error that could cause some keymaps to not appear under a package in settings-view.

Pulsar

• CI: Add build dependencies for Linux 'test bins' job @DeeDeeG
• Tree-sitter rolling fixes, 1.124 edition @savetheclocktower
• Fix Linux trash error message @mauricioszabo
• electron-builder: Don't create differential update blockmaps @DeeDeeG
• CI: Update Cirrus Rolling release upload token @DeeDeeG

spell-check

• [spell-check] Allow the user to whitelist sections of a buffer for spellchecking on a per-language basis. @savetheclocktower

settings-view

• [settings-view] Fix Package keymap compatibility check @confused-Techie

v1.123.0

Pulsar 1.123.0: Is It Winter Yet?!

This time around there's been a big focus on bug fixes and compatibility:
ensuring Linux users are able to load the new SQL State Storage when starting Pulsar from a self-contained binary, and fixing a regression with Electron 12 compatibility for moving items to the trash.
But don't fret, there's still a healthy mix of new features, such as the symbols-view package allowing project-wide symbol search from multiple providers, as well as our consistent improvements to the new Tree-sitter implementation.

All-in-all we hope there's something for everyone this release.
As always, a huge thank you to our community, contributors, and donations.
Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars.

• The Pulsar Team

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• Fixed SQL State Storage not loading when starting Pulsar from a self-contained binary like appImage, tar.gz, etc.
• [symbols-view] Allow project-wide symbol search to consider results from more than one provider.
• Tree-sitter fixes and enhancements for hyperlinks, C, and shell scripts.
• Restore use of shell.moveItemToTrash API in tree-view, for Electron 12 compatibility.

Pulsar

• Tree-sitter rolling fixes, 1.123 edition @savetheclocktower
• [symbols-view] Allow project-wide symbol searches to consider multiple providers @savetheclocktower
• electron-builder: Fix race condition when preparing to copy binaries @DeeDeeG
• [ci] Update GitHub Token in CirrusCI config @confused-Techie
• Fixing requiring of better-sqlite3 @mauricioszabo
• Revert removal of shell.moveItemToTrash @savetheclocktower
• CI: Bump macOS runner images from macos-12 to macos-13 @DeeDeeG

v1.122.0

Pulsar 1.122.0: Frightfully Good

Greetings! In today's Pulsar release, we have:

• Bug-fixes, refactors and enhancements for Tree-sitter, mostly focused on C and PHP. (shout out to @savetheclocktower for these monthly enhancements!)
• Launcher improvements:
  • A fix for the pulsar and ppm bins being removed without being replaced upon upgrading via the .rpm package (shout out to @am97, thank you for this fix!)
  • The AppImage now supports more launch flags, such as --wait, and -p --version also works to print the ppm version info (shout out to @savetheclocktower for multiple PRs leading up to this, and this PR itself.)
• A bug involving an error in autocomplete-plus is avoided (shout out to @Digitalone1)
• SQL state storage implementation for the app is available by opt-in (shout out to @mauricioszabo)
• Replacing a deprecated Electron API call shell.moveItemToTrash (shout out to @savetheclocktower once again!)

Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars.
- Pulsar team

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• Added a SQL State Storage alternative to IndexedDB (opt-in, off by default).
• Repackaged the AppImage so it uses our launcher script internally (supports more CLI/launch flags).
• [language-php] Highlighted “null-safe” property access correctly.
• [language-c] Scoped template delimiters properly in C++.
• [language-c] Consolidated common highlighting queries between the C and C++ grammars for more consistency in syntax highlighting.
• Fixed incorrect behavior in certain scenarios for “Fold at Indent Level X” commands.
• Fixed exception when resolving divided folds (e.g., #ifdefs in C/C++).
• Avoided "length of null" error in autocomplete-plus for the PHP Tree-sitter grammar.
• Preserved /usr/bin/pulsar and /usr/bin/ppm on RPM updates.
• [tree-view] Moved to a more modern API for file removal in preparation for an Electron upgrade.

Pulsar

• Added: Adding a SQL State Storage instead of IndexedDB @mauricioszabo
• Fixed: Fix AppImage executable @savetheclocktower
• Fixed: Tree-sitter rolling fixes, 1.122 edition @savetheclocktower
• Fixed: Fix reading error of length property on null @Digitalone1
• Fixed: Preserve /usr/bin/pulsar and /usr/bin/ppm on RPM updates @am97
• Updated: [tree-view] Remove deprecated usage of shell.moveItemToTrash @savetheclocktower

v1.121.0

Pulsar v1.121.0: CLI improvements? Now you're speaking my language.

For this edition of Pulsar, along with the usual bug fixes, we've particularly focused on CLI usage and up-to-date language support.

On Linux and macOS, the pulsar -p command (via the pulsar.sh launcher script) will now invoke ppm directly without having to launch Pulsar first. (We shipped the equivalent enhancement for Windows in the last release.)

The Linux CLI has some further enhancements. It’s now much better at detecting where your Pulsar installation is on disk; this should help those who have extracted Pulsar from the .tar.gz tarball distribution. (Building on this, we hope we can make CLI usage easier for our AppImage users in the next release.)

Speaking of the CLI: we’ve fixed an issue with ppm that was affecting only users with Apple Silicon Macs. An old, hard-coded value in ppm, from before Apple Silicon existed, broke several community packages with native C/C++ module dependencies -- x-terminal-reloaded and autocomplete-paths, to name just two examples. Before now, these packages wouldn’t install correctly on Apple Silicon macs, and would need manual fixing from the terminal. But now, those packages will build and rebuild successfully on your ARM64 machine.

Meanwhile on Windows, the ability to add Pulsar to the PATH has been moved from the settings menu to the installer. This approach should work much more reliably, and is able to clean up the user's PATH during an uninstall.

Inside the editor we’ve got a number of improvements to language grammars. Our underlying web-tree-sitter library has been bumped to the latest stable version, as have our grammars for CSS, Markdown, JavaScript, TypeScript, and HTML.

Under the hood, there’s been a major refactor of how Tree-sitter indentation logic is organized in our codebase. This doesn’t have direct effects on the user, but should make it easier to iterate on indentation logic and deliver more features to the indentation hinting system.

In fact, there’s one new feature for indentation: a new @match.next capture. It’s not something that a grammar author would commonly need, but it allows them to do things that weren’t possible before — for instance, to move the indentation level to its proper place after a “hanging indent.”

In the coming releases, some built-in grammars may take advantage of this feature to deliver indentation hinting options that come closer to "reading your mind".

That's everything this time around, and as always a gracious thank you to our wonderful community, all those that contribute to issues, discussions and pull requests, and help make Pulsar possible through donations, bug reports, and helping to support other users.

Until next time, happy coding, and see you amongst the stars!
- The Pulsar team

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• Updated web-tree-sitter to version 0.23.0.
• [language-css] Updated tree-sitter-css to the latest version.
• [language-gfm] Updated tree-sitter-markdown to the latest version.
• [language-html] Updated tree-sitter-html and tree-sitter-embedded-template to their latest versions.
• [language-javascript] Updated tree-sitter-javascript to the latest version.
• [language-typescript] Updated tree-sitter-typescript to the latest version.
• Added a new @match.next capture for advanced control of how indentation should change from one line to the next.
• Added new indentation-specific query predicates indent.matchesComparisonRow and indent.matchesCurrentRow for comparing arbitrary positions in a Tree-sitter node tree to the operative rows in an indentation suggestion query. Makes it possible to say things like “decrease the indent on line 10 if a statement ends on line 9.”
• Renamed indentation directives indent.matchIndentOf and indent.offsetIndent to indent.match and indent.offset, respectively. The old names still work as aliases.
• Improved the command-line pulsar script’s ability to find the user’s Pulsar installation location on Linux.
• On macOS and Linux, pulsar -p now invokes ppm without having to launch Pulsar itself.
• Added options to the Windows installer to add Pulsar and PPM to the PATH
• Fixed ppm rebuild command on ARM (Apple Silicon) Macs

Pulsar

• Fixed: Tree-sitter rolling fixes: 1.121 edition @savetheclocktower
• Updated: Update ppm to commit 97f4d201be013157756a76008bf0cb55e6a1fe35 @savetheclocktower
• Fixed: Experiment: Redirect -p/--package to ppm via pulsar.sh… @savetheclocktower
• Added: [windows] Add PATH manipulation to Pulsar installer @confused-Techie
• Updated: CI: Update Cirrus Rolling upload token @DeeDeeG

PPM

• Fixed: Remove hard-coded architecture on Mac @savetheclocktower
• Updated: Begin less reliance on async package: Await as we go @confused-Techie

v1.120.0

Pulsar 1.120.0: Keeping it clean!

This release is fully of housekeeping, fixes, Tree-sitter improvements and more.

Our icon on Windows got some TLC to look less crunchy! It should look better just about everywhere (on the taskbar, in the installer, Pulsar's window title bar, explorer context menu, you name it!)
There's our regular Tree-sitter improvements, like indentation improvements in JavaScript and Typescript, improved syntax highlighting in TypeScript, with general improvements to code folding, and new hackability on query files.
We've enhanced the functionality of the 'pulsar -p' switch for accessing 'ppm', and checked its correctness. No more printing the versions for Pulsar when you meant to print the version of 'ppm'! Arguments / subcommands should make it safely to 'ppm' as you intended. (On Windows -- enhancements will come to Linux and macOS soon™️!) Further with PPM stale dependencies have been removed and updated as needed.
We now handle indents/leading whitespace better for all the snippets users out there! Snippet fearlessly, now with proper indentation handling!
And, last but not least, we fixed a stray link in 'CONTRIBUTING.md'.

As always thanks a ton for all of the support for the project, and we look forward to seeing you amongst the stars.

- The Pulsar Team

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• Resolved some issues of using pulsar -p to access ppm in the command line on Windows.
• Added a new icon for Pulsar on Windows, increasing its visual fidelity in most locations.
• [snippets] Fixed an issue with expanding snippet variables in certain scenarios if the snippet inserted new lines into the buffer.
• Updated misconfigured links in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
• [ppm] Resolved an issue that could prevent renaming an existing package.
• Various Tree-sitter improvements (folds, indents, custom queries, grammar updates...)

Pulsar

• Fixed: Tree-sitter rolling fixes 1.120 edition @savetheclocktower
• Updated: ppm: Update ppm to commit d9bcff111146547e1f4dec63 @DeeDeeG
• Fixed: [snippets] Fix incorrect range traversal when resolving variables @savetheclocktower
• Added: [windows] Improve Icon @confused-Techie
• Added: Use a different strategy for pulsar -p on Windows... @savetheclocktower
• Fixed: CONTRIBUTING.MD link to section fixed @gsabatini2016

PPM

• Updated: Begin less reliance on async package: Await as we go @confused-Techie
• Fixed: Fix incorrect behavior on package rename @savetheclocktower
• Updated: Update many dependencies @DeeDeeG
• Revert: Revert "CI: Work around a weird bug in Yarn v1.x" @DeeDeeG

v1.119.0

Pulsar v1.119.0 is live!

While a smaller release this time around, v1.119.0 still manages to pack a punch.

For macOS, we've gone to great lengths to ensure Pulsar should build just fine on macOS 13+, while our Linux users get greater compatibility for DevTools on various platforms. For our programmers, there's been more of the constant incremental improvements to various languages' built-in syntax highlighting and code folding this time around, with a focus on PHP, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Shell script, and C.

As always thanks a ton to all of those that support the project and keep it moving forward, we appreciate you all, and look forward to seeing you amongst the stars.

- The Pulsar Team

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NOTICE

Originally, the binaries from our normal "Pull Request" CI build (which produces unsigned binaries) were accidentally uploaded to this release, instead of the binaries from the special "tag push" CI build (which signs the macOS binaries). In order to provide you with signed macOS binaries, we are re-uploading the Intel macOS binaries and updating SHA256SUMS.txt to reflect this. As such the following binaries have been swapped out for the correct versions, with the checksum being updated as well for the following files:

• Intel.Mac.Pulsar-1.119.0-mac.zip
• Intel.Mac.Pulsar-1.119.0.dmg

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• Changed language-php to continue syntax-highlighting even when encountering unbalanced PHP tags. (Avoid throwing a syntax error)
• Indentation, fold, and highlighting fixes in language-python, language-javascript, language-typescript, language-shell and language-c.
• Worked around API breakage (FreeBSD libiconv vs GNU libiconv) in the iconv library shipped in macOS 13+
• Fix --no-sandbox flag not being applied to the .desktop launcher on Linux (Fixes Dev Tools)

Pulsar

• Tree-sitter rolling fixes, 1.119.0 edition @savetheclocktower
• Rewrite tree-view.js @savetheclocktower
• Fix macOS binaries by vendorizing libiconv @savetheclocktower
• Link to Homebrew version of libiconv... @savetheclocktower
• Revert "Merge pull request #810 from pulsar-edit/fix-on-change-cursor-pos" @savetheclocktower
• electron-builder: Add '--no-sandbox' launch arg for Linux build targets @DeeDeeG

superstring

• Candidate for new master @savetheclocktower