0.4.5

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Most options below can be changed in the Settings UI - run Open Settings from the command palette (Ctrl+P).

Terminal input parsing was rewritten

Keyboard and mouse input is now parsed by our own fresh-input-parser crate instead of crossterm, to work around crossterm limitations that caused real bugs: dropped modified F1-F4 keys (Shift+F3 did nothing, #699), unchecked mouse-coordinate math (a crash, #2732), and desyncing on input split across reads (mouse sequences leaking into terminals, #2745). This touches core input handling broadly, so if anything feels off with keyboard or mouse input, please report it.

Features

• Option for in-editor self-update - update Fresh from the status-bar indicator, or via fresh --cmd update. Detects your install method and runs the appropriate, platform specific, update command.
• Syntax highlighting inside embedded code blocks - a fenced code block in a Markdown file (e.g. ```rust ) now highlights with that language's own grammar instead of one flat color; the same mechanism also fixes Vue's <script>/<style> blocks (#2689, requested by @asukaminato0721).
• Better Bazel/Starlark highlighting - functions, operators, punctuation, and built-ins are now highlighted, and .bazel/MODULE.bazel files are recognized (contributed by @asukaminato0721).
• Orchestrator: agents & workspaces
  • Run Agent… command launches a terminal or a coding agent (claude, codex, opencode, aider) in your current workspace or a new one, without the full New Workspace dialog.
  • Non-blocking workspace creation - creating a workspace no longer freezes the editor; choose Create & Visit or Create in Background and keep working while it comes up.
• Classic Mac (CR) line endings are now fully supported (#2736, requested by @720720).
• .editorconfig support - indent_style/indent_size/tab_width are picked up automatically (#959, requested by @nyurik).
• Save All - save every modified buffer at once from the File menu (#2289, requested by @alspaughb).

Bug Fixes

• Orchestrator & dock
  • Codex "Auto mode" works again (it was passing a flag recent Codex CLI rejects).
  • Dock rows are fully clickable in compact (list) view, ordered by recency, and auto-name themselves from their terminal.
  • Fixed a crash when navigating to an unreachable remote workspace.
• Terminal
  • Scrollback no longer loses output or gets stuck mid-scroll (#2649, reported by @dmknght).
• Tabs & splits
  • A long filename no longer hides other tabs, and per-split scrolling is fixed (#2650, reported by @dmknght).
  • Closing a split now asks for confirmation first.
  • Closing the last editor tab no longer swallows the Utility Dock into the main tab bar (#2283, reported by @lizdeika).
  • Plugin split APIs (setSplitRatio, openFileInSplit) no longer crash or silently no-op on an invalid split (#2769, #2770, #2783, reported by @RetributionByRevenue).
• LSP
  • Hover now merges results from every configured server instead of only the first (#2635, reported by @hkngoc).
  • Fixed hover occasionally showing another buffer's content (#2572, reported by @asukaminato0721).
  • Inlay hints now refresh after an edit instead of freezing (#2744, reported by @P1C4550).
• Misc
  • On-save actions no longer desync from disk on rapid saves (#2711, #2706, reported by @720720).
  • Settings' Theme dropdown lists every installed theme (#2738, reported by @720720).
  • Fixed a spurious devcontainer parse error on startup (#2709, reported by @720720).
  • The ruler now draws past the last written line (#2631, reported by @akarinotomoshibi).
  • Edit menu's "Replace..." is now correctly labeled "Query Replace..." (#2135).

Internals

• Split the monolithic plugin-dispatch and update/release-checking code into focused modules, alongside a round of flaky-e2e-test stabilization.

0.4.4

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Most options below can be changed in the Settings UI - run Open Settings from the command palette (Ctrl+P).

Features

• Terminal text selection with the mouse - dragging on a live integrated terminal now selects text: the view pauses in place (pixel-identical) while you drag, Ctrl+C copies, and copying or clicking away resumes the live grid; double/triple-click selects a word/line. Mouse events are forwarded to the program inside only when it actually asked for mouse reporting, and Shift+drag selects even from a mouse-hungry program (xterm convention).

If a new mouse behavior gets in your way, disable it in the Settings UI (Ctrl+P → Open Settings) - see Terminal > "Mouse Drag Selects" and Terminal > "Mouse Forwarding".

• Indent rainbow - color indentation guides by indent level via Editor > "Rainbow Indentation" and a six-color indent_rainbow_1-indent_rainbow_6 theme palette; also fixes a literal {level} placeholder leaking into translated locale strings (#2632, requested by @akarinotomoshibi, by @asukaminato0721).
• Virtual space - the cursor can move past a line's end, like Visual Studio or Vim's virtualedit. Enable with Editor > "Virtual Space" (on or block), toggle per buffer via Toggle Virtual Space (Current Buffer).
• Theme text attributes - syntax colors can now carry bold/italic/underlined/dim/reversed modifiers (#2638, by @asukaminato0721).
• More languages highlighted - new grammars for gettext PO, m4, Xcode pbxproj, Metal, CUDA, HIP, Fortran, LLVM IR, and MLIR (#2593), plus fixed GLSL/HLSL/WGSL highlighting (#2553); both by @asukaminato0721.
• NextPane / PrevPane - cycle through every split+tab pane as one flat list, distinct from NextSplit/PrevSplit and NextWindow/PrevWindow; landing on a terminal now also switches it into terminal mode (#2562, by @masmu).
• Orchestrator dock: organize workspaces into custom folders - create/rename/delete folders and move workspaces between them ("Move to Folder…" via the context menu, F2, right-click, or the palette); the layout survives a crash. The toolbar is condensed to a "New Task…" dropdown and a search field, with other filters in a collapsible section (#2703).
• Search in Project: file filter - a new Files field limits project search & replace to comma-separated globs like *.rs or src/** (#2699, by @asukaminato0721).

Bug Fixes

• LSP diagnostic fixes: the gutter marker, F8 target, hover, and panel now shift with inserted/deleted lines instead of freezing at the pre-edit position until the next save (#2602); and dismissing a hover popup no longer drops an unrelated error from the status bar, gutter, and F8 navigation (#2601).
• LSP Rename keeps focus - a cross-file F2 rename no longer jumps you to the definition's file at a stale cursor position (#2599).
• LSP now pulls diagnostics from every server configured for a language, not just the first - e.g. both ruff and ty for Python now stay live (#2615, reported by @ak24watch).
• Format Buffer respects the selection - with an active selection and a server that supports range formatting, only the selected range is formatted instead of silently reformatting the whole file (#2605).
• Monorepo workspaces - a workspace whose root is not itself a git repo now gets full git support for its nested sub-projects: file-explorer git decorations, status-bar branch, and git blame / grep / find-file (#2369, by @can2049); Git Log and Git Grep were also fixed for monorepo layouts.
• Search & Replace fixes: match stepping (Ctrl+Alt+→/←, Enter-open) now follows live edits instead of landing on a stale position (#2583); clicking a Search & Replace or Settings text field now positions the caret at the clicked column, and Settings fields also gained Home/End, word motion, and Shift-selection (#2573, reported by @asukaminato0721); and Search and Replace in Project's results panel now keeps exactly one focused element, so Tab/Down/Up reach and highlight the results list correctly (#2664).
• Vi mode fixes: >>/<< indent operators now work, including visual/visual-line/visual-block and . repeat (#2438, #2606); i"/a" now search forward on the line instead of requiring the cursor already inside the quotes (#2439); a" includes trailing whitespace, matching Vim's :help aquote (#2604); j/k clamp to the line's last character on shorter lines instead of overshooting by one (#2442); cw stops at word end instead of eating the trailing whitespace like dw (#2437); and the f/t/F/T find-char motions now work with operators (df, ct, …) instead of hanging in operator-pending mode or deleting the wrong span (#2441).
• Virtual space status bar tracks the cursor into virtual space instead of freezing at the last real position (#2577).
• Indentation guide staircase gap fixed when a block's opener is scrolled off-screen (#2679).
• Large file fixes: the :N line jump now offers a scan prompt instead of jumping to line 1 (#2597), the line-count scan no longer undercounts on the first pass (#2596), and editing a large line-wrapped file no longer stalls for ~1 second per keystroke (#2610).
• Remote fixes: the integrated terminal now works when the remote's login shell is fish or any non-POSIX shell, instead of failing on = syntax (#2584, reported by @demin-dmitriy); switching to a workspace on a stalled SSH link no longer freezes the editor, since a dead connection now fails at connect time instead of hanging during workspace restore; and diving into a disconnected SSH workspace from the dock now lands in that workspace's empty "Disconnected" shell with the failure reason and a retry, instead of the dock claiming a switch that never happened - dormant remote rows also show a backend badge and user@host detail (#2570).
• Terminal scrolling no longer pins a CPU core - auto-revert is now per-buffer (off for terminals), and terminal buffers never line-wrap (#2608, #2609).
• Per-split terminal scrollback - a terminal shown in two splits can now read scrollback in one split while the other keeps following live output (#2595).
• Tab bar scrolling now reveals the active tab with minimal movement instead of re-centering it on every switch (#2675).
• Bracketed paste now respects read-only buffers, matching typing and Ctrl+V (#2674).
• Whitespace indicator fixes: the master toggle now restores your configured indicators, not just tabs, when turned back on (#2579); and indicators now show in new/unsaved buffers and re-resolve after Set Language (#2580, reported by @braindevices).
• File Explorer fixes: the context menu now grabs the keyboard while open, so keys no longer leak into the tree underneath (#2587); and git decorations now cover nested sub-repos even when the workspace root is itself a git repo (#2592).
• Git Grep no-match is reported as "No matches", not an error (#2591).
• Orchestrator remembers workspaces after a crash and shows "Cancel" instead of "Quit" on the trust prompt (#2658).
• Command palette names no longer truncate at the start - the name column sizes to the longest visible name; only an overlong name is trimmed, at its tail (#2703).
• Compose mode: cursor movement no longer lags in large files - arrow keys used to re-run wrapping and concealment over the whole buffer on every keypress.
• Per-language settings now apply everywhere - language-dependent buffer settings (tab size, auto-close, whitespace indicators, word characters, etc.) were applied inconsistently depending on how a buffer was created, and didn't refresh when a buffer's language changed. They now resolve uniformly and re-apply on any language change.
• Wheel-scrolled tree views no longer snap back to the selected row when a plugin refreshes the tree; scrollbar drags on trees also work now.

Internals

• A round of flaky-e2e-test stabilization replaced fixed-delay waits with semantic waits across the vi-mode, LSP, review-diff, search-replace, and orchestrator-dock suites.

0.4.3

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Most options below can be changed in the Settings UI — run Open Settings from the command palette (Ctrl+P).

Features

• Slang shader support - syntax highlighting and slangd LSP integration, with Go to Definition into read-only builtin modules (#2536, #2539, requested by @batoripX in #2517).
• NetBSD builds - Fresh now compiles on NetBSD (#2534, by @ci4ic4).

Bug Fixes

• Cursor column is preserved on vertical moves that used to drift it - indented soft-wrapped lines, off-screen up/down over short lines (#2565), and blank lines with indentation guides (#2564).
• LSP args - an empty args list now overrides a built-in server's defaults, so you can use one that takes no arguments (e.g. markdown-oxide for marksman) (#2549, reported by @alex-ball).
• Settings icons now render on all terminals by default - standard Unicode symbols replace the Nerd Font glyphs that showed as ?; opt back in with editor.nerd_font_icons (#2032).
• Markdown tables no longer corrupt under rapid edits (#2479, #2484).
• Orchestrator - clicking a dock row focuses the activated window (#2521).
• Wave animation is now dismissable in daemon mode (#2530, reported by @muesli).
• Build - no more spurious failed to parse serde attribute warnings on cargo install / cargo build (#2519, reported by @puphubv).
• Large files - modestly-sized files (e.g. a ~2 MB file, or jumping into slangd's builtin module) no longer wrongly enter large-file mode, where the gutter/status showed byte offsets instead of line numbers and LSP was disabled; the threshold is now a single 10 MB setting instead of several overlapping ones (#2540).
• Remote workspaces (SSH) (#2525) - file explorer appears immediately when toggled (#2522), a boot hang is fixed with idle-based read timeouts, and per-keystroke lag on very long lines is gone (#2529).
• Indentation guides continue through soft-wrapped rows (#2538), respect per-buffer overrides and buffer kind (#2523), and stay visible when opening a file at a commit from Git Log.
• Settings fields - language-entry edits (incl. Tab Size) keep their committed value, with Esc to cancel and Enter/Tab to commit (#2537, #2515); the search filter gains full cursor editing and ignores Ctrl/Alt chords; the Env list labels rows by name instead of (no action).

Internals

• Internal architecture docs were replaced with a leaner, code-verified set, new contributing guidelines were added, and a broad clippy / compiler-warning cleanup and function-decomposition pass landed across rendering, settings, and the plugin runtime.

0.4.2

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Most options below can be changed in the Settings UI — run Open Settings from the command palette (Ctrl+P). Hand-editing config files is rarely necessary.

Features

• Indentation guides — optional vertical guides for leading whitespace (off, all levels, or just the active block), with a customizable glyph and theme color. Enable and tune them in Settings (#2388, by @maupin).
• Persistable, editable macros — recorded macros can now leave the in-memory register: Macro: Save to init.ts writes an editable block, and Macro: Promote to command turns a macro into a real command you can extend with code (#2487).
• JSONC config files — config files now accept comments and trailing commas, a stray syntax slip no longer silently resets you to defaults, and saves never clobber an unparseable file (the error is surfaced instead) (#2497).
• Per-buffer view toggles — Toggle Line Numbers (Current Buffer) and Toggle Line Wrap (Current Buffer) scope to the active buffer and persist across restarts.
• LSP Go to Implementation (textDocument/implementation) (#2384, by @Crocmagnon).

Improvements

• Open Terminal to the Right / Below — open a new terminal in a fresh split beside or below the active pane.
• File Open: reveal hidden files when the filter starts with . (#2407, requested by @dragonfyre13).
• Vim compatibility options for vi mode — extra compatibility motions and word search (#2398, by @NihilDigit).
• Read-only [RO] indicator now actually renders in the status bar, and is clickable (#2309).
• Terminal mode hides the unused scrollbar and reclaims its column for the live grid.
• Copy strips ANSI escape codes, so text yanked from terminal output pastes clean (#2408).
• Settings UI: smoother mouse interaction and clearer dirty-state markers (#2395, by @NihilDigit).
• Remote workspaces (SSH / Kubernetes):
  • A dropped connection offers Reconnect from the status indicator, and reconnecting respawns the workspace's embedded terminals (#2413, #2482).
  • Remote sessions stay in the Orchestrator dock across restarts, and reconnect failures surface on the status line (#2412).
  • Agents (e.g. claude) launched in a remote workspace now run on the remote host / in the pod, not silently on the local machine (#2409).

Bug Fixes

• Regex search: ^ / $ now anchor per line in multi-line Ctrl+F search (#2495).
• Splits: closing a buffer shown in two splits no longer desyncs the surviving cursor (#2496).
• Terminal: a terminal restores its live/scrollback mode on refocus, and the last split is no longer left read-only after closing a second terminal (#2485).
• Per-language indentation rules are now actually applied — previously custom patterns were ignored (#2314).
• Brackets are no longer highlighted inside comments and strings (#2405, reported by @TakemiSora).
• Quick-open # buffer switcher now lists virtual buffers (#2373).
• Review Diff: line-level visual stage/unstage/discard (v then s/u/d) works, and discard shows a localized message (#2317, #2420).
• Project search & replace: plugin edits no longer leave phantom match highlights (#2414, reported by @mandolyte).
• Keybindings: switching keybinding maps no longer hides plugin bindings until restart (#2307); Shift+letter bindings match even when the terminal omits the SHIFT modifier (#1899, reported by @RandomGHUser).
• Git Blame lands on the user's current source line, including files with multi-byte characters (#1957).
• Mark mode: movement commands (bracket jump, Home) extend the selection instead of dropping it (#2489).
• File explorer: a deliberately-closed explorer no longer reopens on relaunch (#2476); configured ignore patterns are applied to the tree (#2404, by @sfjohansson).
• Switch Project re-roots the active window in place instead of restarting the editor (#2472).
• New Workspace (Local) seeds its path from a local root even when the active window is remote (#2480).
• Markdown compose: table cells are measured by display width (fixing emoji-row border flicker), and table borders clear when compose mode is disabled (#2475, #2478, thanks @Agrejus).
• Terminal scrollback: ANSI colors survive soft-wrapped rows (#2449); the backing file stays local in remote mode, fixing a hang when toggling scrollback over SSH (#2424).
• Shebang language detection now covers interpreters with no first-line regex (Fish, Lua, PowerShell, Tcl, Elixir, R, Julia, …), handling env indirection and versioned names; an existing extension match still wins (#2357, reported by @shemgp).
• The asm-lsp "no .asm-lsp.toml" offer is scoped to its triggering buffer instead of floating over every buffer.
• The tab bar's "+" popup and tab context menu grab the keyboard while open, so keys no longer leak into the buffer underneath.

Internals

• Plugin API: core unicode display-width is exposed to plugins (charWidth/stringWidth) (#2401, by @Agrejus), and conceal ranges can be cleared by namespace (#2399, by @Agrejus).
• A large refactor decomposed many oversized functions across rendering, settings, the plugin runtime, and terminals, and reworked the UI rendering pipeline.
• fresh-gui now uses the published ratatui-wgpu from crates.io, making it publishable (#2488).
• Docs: dropped remaining "experimental" disclaimers, added the 0.4.0 "What's New" blog post, and documented the SSH "jump box" pattern (#2377, by @Monear).

0.4.1

This is mostly a bug-fix release.

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Renamed features and clarified docs

This releases introduces new names (in docs, cli, etc) to clarify the ambiguously used word: "session". The new vocabulary:

• daemon — the persistent background process you attach to and detach from.
• workspace — the editor's per-project unit. Multiple workspaces are managed by the Orchestrator.
• backend — where a workspace runs (local / SSH / dev container / Kubernetes).

The cli now supports --cmd daemon, but still accepts the now-deprecated --cmd session as an alias. The new vocabulary also reaches the user-facing surfaces of the editor: the Orchestrator now lists, dives into, and manages workspaces (commands, dialogs, dock chrome, and status messages), and the replace-in-project confirmation refers to files open "in this workspace". Localized strings were updated to match in every supported locale.

Features

• New language support:
  • Assembly via asm-lsp (opt-in) — GAS and NASM/Intel across x86/x86_64/ARM/RISC-V, with an offer to generate .asm-lsp.toml from the detected dialect (#1964, requested by @viti95).
  • Fish highlighting and auto-indentation (#2272), by @asukaminato0721.
  • Smali highlighting (#2265), by @asukaminato0721.
  • yarn.lock and other well-known lock/config files now highlight by their real format (#2326, reported by @asukaminato0721).
• Windows on ARM release artifacts (#784, requested by @teobugslayer; by @NihilDigit).
• CancelMark / ClearMark actions for fine-grained selection-anchor management (#2371, by @masmu).
• Git Log (Current File) command, plus concurrent git-blame buffers.

Improvements

• Workspace trust & environments:
  • A single trust prompt for every project — folders with a shell environment (.envrc / mise / .tool-versions) no longer get the env-manager plugin's separate popup; the one prompt names the detected markers and activates on trust.
  • Environment detection is defined once in core and user-extensible (env.detectors, now also covering pipenv and poetry); the activated environment applies uniformly across every backend — integrated terminal, Docker, Kubernetes, SSH.
  • Hardening: plugins can request but never grant trust; a lone .venv no longer silently auto-trusts; venv activation uses a relative source .venv/bin/activate snippet to avoid shell injection (cf. CVE-2024-9287).
• Settings: distinct, keyboard-reachable [Inherit] / [Reset] / [Clear] per field; the language entry dialog no longer clobbers inherited fields (#2345, reported by @ren-lv).
• Orchestrator localization: the Orchestrator plugin is now fully internationalized — all 225 user-facing strings go through the editor's i18n mechanism, with translations for the 14 supported locales (cs, de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pt-BR, ru, th, uk, vi, zh-CN, and en).
• The Orchestrator New Workspace dialog has a clearer, keyboard-linear focus model (Tab accepts the highlighted completion).

Bug Fixes

• vi-mode: delete/change/yank update the unnamed register (#2368, by @NihilDigit); the cursor moves one column left on leaving insert mode (#2349, by @ianyepan); % jumps to the matching bracket (#2346, by @ianyepan).
• Theme inspector & plugin panels (#2321):
  • Opening the theme editor no longer breaks Orchestrator dock clicks/scrolling — plugin panels are scoped to their owning plugin.
  • Ctrl+Right-Click reports accurate theme keys for the status bar, tab bar, scrollbar, file explorer, menus, and dock, drawing above the dock.
  • The plugin bridge no longer corrupts integers larger than 32 bits (timestamps, byte offsets).
• Java (jdtls) and other Eclipse LSP4J servers: features registered via client/registerCapability now work — their string JSON-RPC ids were misparsed as notifications and dropped (#2340, reported by @maxandersen).
• LSP/plugin popups follow the active theme's popup_* colors instead of a hard-wired dark background (#2379, by @peanball).
• Paste falls back to the internal clipboard and works again on Termux (#2343, reported by @nightshade427).
• npm .cmd/.bat shims resolve on Windows, so npm-installed language servers spawn (#2324, reported by @SupertigerDev).
• Occurrence highlighting uses a theme-appropriate background in every shipped theme (#2312).
• Review Diff lists files inside untracked directories (#2315).
• The embedded terminal forwards the wheel as a mouse report to mouse-tracking programs, so scrolling no longer cycles their history (#2366).
• Replace toolbar: checked search options are visible in every theme (#2363).
• Alt+W and other search toggles no longer leak into the close prompt (#2359).
• Fixed a crash on a stale soft-wrap position in multi-byte text (#2320).
• Trusting a workspace with a shell or virtualenv environment (.envrc / mise / .venv) no longer restarts the whole editor: other windows keep their running terminals, language servers, and Orchestrator dock; only the active window refreshes to pick up the new environment.
• A file opened while a split is maximized — for example via an embedded fresh <file> forwarded from a maximized terminal dock — is now revealed instead of rendering hidden behind the maximized split (which previously looked like the terminal had hung).

Internals

• Refactored the UI element rendering pipeline to make it easier to introduce alternative rendering frontends.

0.4.0

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Features

• Review Diff, reworked: a file sidebar with per-file status, change counts, and comment badges, grouped by directory; an in-panel side-by-side view that keeps the sidebar; a multi-line comments panel, with commenting available anywhere in the diff; a watch mode (W) that reloads the diff on save; reviewing a git stash; split/stack/auto layout toggles, a / file filter, and reworked keyboard navigation (Tab focus model, cross-file n/p).
• Workspace trust & environments: a first-class, clickable {trust} element now leads the status bar; virtualenvs activate without a prompt, shell envs get a single combined trust-and-activate prompt, and env pills in the status bar are clickable. Changing the trust level resets only the active session instead of the whole editor.
• Per-session backends: each session now owns its environment, trust level, and backend (local / SSH / Kubernetes / devcontainer). Remote sessions survive a restart and reconnect when activated; restored agent sessions re-run their agent instead of coming back as a blank terminal, and the New Session dialog gained an agent-command dropdown.
• Terminal: send the selection (or current line) to the terminal (#1871, requested by @aquasync); Ctrl+Click or Ctrl+hover opens file paths from terminal output, including scrollback; the shell working directory is tracked via OSC 7.
• Configurable indentation rules per language via [languages.<id>.indent], including VS Code-style regex rules. 14 indent-only tree-sitter grammars were replaced by these rules, shrinking the binary by ~18 MB.
• GDScript language support (#2238, by @richiehowelll).
• lsp_enabled master switch to disable all LSP features globally (#1770, requested by @XhstormR).
• auto_read_only option to turn off automatic read-only mode for foreign files (#2048).
• Occurrence highlighting toggle with configuration (#2154, by @masmu), and the current-line highlight now hides while text is selected (#2153, by @masmu).
• Clear Search action and a plugin API exposing the active search state (#2152, by @masmu).
• File Explorer slot override API for plugins: icons, status, and name color (#2241, by @Agrejus).
• '+' new-tab button in the tab bar, with a New Terminal / New File popup.
• A color-transition animation on theme switch, and a wave animation — available as a command and as an optional idle screensaver.

Improvements

• Live Diff: word-level highlighting inside changed line pairs (#1949, requested by @masapu).
• Status bar: configurable separator with dedicated theme keys; the default separator is now padding-only and the default left side leads with {trust}.
• Orchestrator dock: seamless-tab look for the active session, a hover-only overlay scrollbar, a stable session order, keyboard-navigable project dropdown, and clicking an inactive worktree opens it without an extra confirmation.
• File Explorer: natural-order filename sorting (#2073, requested by @mandolyte).
• q closes the Keyboard Shortcuts and Fresh Manual viewers (#2165).
• Undoing a format-on-save or trim rewrite keeps the view in place (#2027, requested by @SolarLune).

Bug Fixes

• Windows: the TUI attaches to the parent process's stdio instead of failing in -gui builds (#2276, reported and fixed by @mokurin000 in #2277).
• Right-side status bar elements render with configurable separators (#2088, reported and fixed by @PavelLoparev), and cursor column numbers are grapheme-correct (#2090, reported and fixed by @PavelLoparev).
• Scroll panels compute focus offsets from the render width when a scrollbar is present (#2175, by @masmu).
• Restored windows no longer show a blank editor pane from an orphaned split leaf (#2267).
• Paste reaches Settings/dialog text fields instead of the buffer behind them, and buffer pastes work again after closing the dialog (#2246).
• Tab bar scroll re-anchors after closing many tabs, keeping the surviving tab visible (#2229, reported by @dmknght).
• LSP code actions now include diagnostics context, so diagnostic-based fixes appear (#2212).
• Devcontainer CLI detection works when the CLI is installed via Bun on Windows (#2201, reported by @steve-price-immybot).
• install.sh / AUR fresh-editor-bin packaging fixed (#2249, reported by @asukaminato0721; #2250, reported by @bandrefilipe).
• Focusing a restored terminal tab activates terminal mode.

0.3.12

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Features

• Orchestrator Dock: a persistent, non-modal left-column session switcher. Alt+O toggles focus; arrows live-switch the active session. Each row shows status (working/idle), project, branch, git summary, and a PR badge. Project dropdown, card/compact view toggle, and a Manage button for the Orchestrator dialog.

• Create SSH sessions from within the UI: You could already open a remote host from the cli, now you can do it via the Orchestrator: New dialog - it has a type selector (Local / SSH, and experimental Kubernetes / Devcontainer). Like the cli invocation - SSH attaches a full remote session:filesystem, LSP, process spawners, and a terminal on the remote host; switching retargets without a restart.

• Kubernetes sessions (initial, experimental): connect over kubectl exec to any cluster, with a keepalive heartbeat and reconnect.

• Go to LSP Symbol: a symbol finder with live preview, a precise jump to the symbol name (line and column), source-line snippets, and preselection of the symbol under the cursor (#1886, by @PavelLoparev).

• Terminal tab auto-naming: tabs follow the foreground process and OSC title. Setting editor.terminal_auto_title (on by default).

• Open file from a diff: in the side-by-side and review-diff views, Enter opens the working-tree file (NEW pane) or the read-only HEAD version (OLD pane) at that line.

• Rainbow bracket colorization for matching brackets across the viewport (#1088, by @asukaminato0721).

• Minimal static Linux binary release artifact (musl, x86_64 and aarch64) optimized for a small binary size.

Improvements

• variable.builtin syntax category for this / self / super (#2150, by @masmu).
• storage.type keywords highlight as keywords rather than types (#2151, by @masmu).
• Async clipboard paste: paste no longer blocks the editor, and a hung X11/Wayland clipboard owner should no longer freeze it (#2155, reported by @EtienneMaire37)
• Nested fresh launches ($EDITOR, git commit) inside Fresh's terminal open in the parent editor instead of a second editor; falls back to inline if the parent is unreachable.
• Python indentation: Enter after return / pass / raise / break / continue dedents out of the block, and an extra indent level after a statement inside a block is fixed (#2192, reported by @WorldChallenge1).
• Terminal scrollback survives resize, clear, and alternate-screen programs; the scroll-back view soft-wraps long lines.
• SSH remote editing is documented in fresh --help.

Bug Fixes

• Inlay hints participate in line wrapping and horizontal scroll (#2190, reported by @TakemiSora).
• LSP capabilities: dynamic client/registerCapability is now applied, and workspace/configuration and the diagnostic / inlay-hint / semantic-token refresh capabilities are advertised, so more servers pull config and re-pull stale results.
• No crash on a malformed mouse input sequence (#2234).
• Failed SSH/Kubernetes connects show their error instead of corrupting the screen.
• Fixed stuck keyboard input after using a session terminal and then opening a file (#2237, #2234).
• Fixed a client/server freeze when copying a large terminal-scrollback selection.
• File Explorer no longer re-roots the wrong window when previewing a restored session.
• Every session is archivable and deletable, including the launch session and the last window.
• The dock's working/idle indicator tracks the right session and idles when output stops.
• A worktree session in a repo with no commits reports git's real error.
• Text-input fields in dialogs focus on click (#2234).
• Diff "removed" lines no longer wrap one character per row at narrow widths, or when a language overrides the wrap column to 0 (#2177, reported by @biscuitvicious).
• LSP hover popups no longer appear while the LSP status popup is open (#2244, reported by @biscuitvicious).
• editor.scroll_offset is respected (#2162, reported and fixed by @PavelLoparev).
• Windows: long paths middle-truncate, and short-name / \\?\ path differences no longer reorder the dock.
• Fixed a marker-tree corruption that could drop edits to markers and highlights.

0.3.10

A lot of work on bug fixes and polish in this release.

Improvements

• Live Grep: previews highlight all matches and center on the match in wrapped documents; keyboard nav re-reveals the selection after a wheel scroll; prompt text is readable on all themes (new suggestion_fg theme key) and toolbar labels readable on light themes.
• The Workspace Trust prompt and the env-manager plugin's commands and status messages are now localized across all 14 supported languages (#2158).
• Session model reworked: one session per directory, windows.json dropped (sessions are discovered from the per-dir workspace cache), only the foreground window is materialized at startup with the rest lazy-restored, and the base session is no longer magic — it can be deleted like any other.
• Orchestrator picker hides empty / single-file sessions by default, with a toggle to show them (#2137).
• The Live Grep => Quickfix (persisted) list is now a Finder dock panel instead of a bespoke buffer: Enter navigates to the match, the dock stays open when jumping, and live_grep_export_quickfix is bound by default (#2124).

Bug Fixes

• Mouse-wheel scrolling fixed in File Explorer, Live Grep, and Git Log panels (#2119, reported by @brunnerh in #2107).
• Search highlights no longer grow over adjacent typing (#2053, reported by @mandolyte) and stale matches now clear after edits inside a match (#2133).
• Search / Replace: panel no longer gets stuck on "Searching…" with zero matches; Search and Replace in Current File now works for unnamed buffers and for files outside the workspace root (#2112).
• LSP: diagnostics now display in Markdown compose/preview mode (#2146); workspace/configuration is answered per-server instead of with a fixed rust-analyzer blob; newly configured servers default to auto_start = true.
• Diagnostics panel q / a / r shortcuts work again instead of tripping "Editing disabled" (#2125).
• Review Diff: Discard hunk now succeeds for files with an unterminated final line (#2117).
• Macro replay is now a single undo unit instead of per-char (#2062).
• Submenus align so the first item is inline with the selected parent item (#2118, reported by @RandomGHUser).
• File Explorer: Ctrl+O works and keeps focus on the opened buffer.
• Settings: text fields commit and advance focus on Enter; Ctrl+U clears the prompt.
• Gutter no longer eats text width in non-compose mode when line numbers are off.
• Windows: the Microsoft Store pwsh App Execution Alias is skipped when opening a terminal (#2077, reported by @ket000), with an opt-out flag.
• Session working trees stored under the data dir are now editable.

0.3.9

Features

Universal Search (multi-scope Live Grep)

Live Grep grows into a universal search overlay: search across multiple scopes — project files, open Buffers, and Terminals scrollback — with Word and Regex search modes (each keybindable). The overlay gets a clickable widget toolbar (focusable provider button, toggle controls), a full-width header band, and inline status shown in the overlay itself. Closed-terminal scrollback is retained so it stays searchable (#2099).

Orchestrator & git worktrees

• Attach sessions to existing git worktrees and discover them automatically (#2095).
• Multi-select bulk actions, worktree ordering, and a Show all worktrees filter toggle.
• Draggable scrollbars on the picker lists, with bulk-pane reorder.

Editor

• Move to Next / Previous Paragraph actions, including translations (#2084, contributed by @PavelLoparev; requested in #2083).

Language Support

• C3 (.c3) syntax highlighting and LSP (#2101, requested by @data-man).

Plugins & API

• New getWorkingDataDir() (per-working-dir data root) and getTerminalDir() plugin APIs.
• Overlay toolbar widget APIs — clickable Toggle/Button controls, toggleOverlayToolbarWidget, and a Row { wrap } layout that reflows toolbars across lines.

Improvements

• The dashboard no longer opens automatically on startup by default. To re-enable it, open Settings, select Plugin: dashboard, and turn on AutoOpen ("Show the dashboard automatically when Fresh starts with no real files open."). The dashboard remains available any time via the Show Dashboard command.
• Homebrew install simplified now that fresh-editor is in homebrew-core — brew install fresh-editor, no tap step.

Bug Fixes

• Plugin getCursorLine() now returns the real cursor line instead of 0 (#2076, reported by @pmburov).
• Reduced serial-console lag by not repainting on non-visual plugin async events (#2100, reported by @jetpax).
• Custom theme colours no longer silently ignored for many UI fields (#2080, contributed by @flexiondotorg; reported in #2079).
• PageDown/PageUp no longer overshoot on a single soft-wrapped line (#2085).
• Workspace restore no longer mixes tabs from multiple projects in one window (#2056, reported by @mandolyte).
• Live Grep: Resume keeps the query and opens the selected result; overlay preview and input-box undo/redo corrected; Buffers scope finds unmodified open buffers; non-file-scope previews and read-only data-dir files fixed.
• getKeybindingLabel resolves correctly for bound plugin actions.

Internal

• Major window refactor: window-scoped save/restore (Window::from_workspace), WindowId-parameterized persistence, working_dir derived from the active window, and open_file/LSP/watch helpers moved onto Window.
• Orchestrator bring-up characterization tests and fixtures across persistence layouts.
• Serial-console lag benchmark/diagnostic scripts; theme-key resolver schema-drift guard.
• Internal docs excluded from the public docs build.

0.3.8

Features / Improvements

Remote Development

• LSP over SSH now runs the language server on the remote host

Orchestrator

• The Open dialog is now scoped to the current project by default, with a visible scope toggle to reach other projects, a tabular picker, and / to filter.
• New windows open atomically with their terminal (no [No Name] placeholder), and terminal output shows immediately.

Settings UI

A broad pass on the Settings editor: number fields now accept direct typing instead of [-]/[+] spinners; list editing gets inline [+] Add new / [x] rows, mouse support, and Del to remove; Ctrl+R resets a field to its default; the focused field's description is shown above the dialog buttons; and confirmations are required before deleting or discarding dirty edits.

Editor

• Next / Previous Window commands to cycle open windows without the Switch-Project picker (#2031).
• Move File Explorer to Other Side command, persisted to config (#1468, requested by @asukaminato0721).
• Templ (.templ) syntax highlighting (#463, requested by @TS22082).
• New editor.confirm_quit setting (default off) to prompt before quitting a clean session.

Plugins & API

• Built-in editor.httpFetch(url, path) for downloading files — curl is no longer bundled.
• "Install from URL" accepts direct file:// URLs.

Bug Fixes

• Quit binding overrides honored (#2030): binding Ctrl+Q to noop/none now actually disables it in every context.
• Terminals: line-number gutter and current-line highlight no longer leak on terminal exit; scroll-back viewport anchors correctly; Shift+Tab is forwarded to the child as ESC[Z (#2029).
• File explorer keeps keyboard focus when leaving a live terminal (#2029).
• Closed terminals no longer reappear, and buffer groups stay visible when a split closes (#2027, reported by @SolarLune).
• Git Log: selected commit stays aligned with the cursor; selection follows scrolling and row clicks.
• Adjacent tab indicators no longer double up (#1997, reported by @brunnerh).
• Theming / Live Diff: light-theme dim fixes, markdown popup body text inherits the terminal fg, and diff lines preserve syntax foreground.
• Tree-sitter .scm query files are included in the Nix source filter, fixing a source-build failure (#2055, reported by @melekbadreddine).

Preview work (will be enabled in next release)

Environment Managers (venv / direnv / mise)

New built-in environment-manager plugin: it detects a project's environment manager — .venv/venv, .envrc (direnv), or mise.toml/.tool-versions — and, via Env: Activate, injects that environment into every editor-spawned process (LSP, formatters, terminals, spawnProcess). Env: Use System (Deactivate) restores the system environment, and Env: Show Status reports the current state. Activation is on-demand (not automatic) and respects Workspace Trust. Adds an opt-in env status-bar element.

Workspace Trust (groundwork)

Foundational Workspace Trust support — a per-project trust level (persisted in the project state dir), a Set Workspace Trust Level command-palette control, and a workspaceTrustLevel() plugin API. The enforcement gate is off by default this release (no prompt on open; undecided folders are treated as Trusted) while the trust UX is reworked around sandboxed execution — so there is no behavior change unless you set a trust level yourself.