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Komodo 4.2.0 released!

Posted by jeffg on 2007-09-18 14:21
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Today we released Komodo 4.2.0 Final after a lengthy and productive Beta cycle. For those of you who just want a link, here it is:

http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo

What's new in Komodo 4.2

  • Auto update: no more checking for the latest features or need to reinstall Komodo to get the latest version
  • Soft characters: automatic insertion of closing brackets, braces and parentheses
  • Komodo Community site now hosts user-created extensions, and installed extensions can be auto-updated, just like in Firefox
  • A new spell checker: find tpyos before they go live
  • Upgraded Scintilla to version 1.74
  • Cursor shape is now configurable
  • Documentation improvements and new Creative Commons licensing to support translations contributed by users
  • Code Browser's filter now supports regular expressions (Python syntax)
  • Improved Vi emulation
  • Better Live Folders performance
  • New for Perl: debugger and autocomplete improvements
  • New for Python: code intelligence and code browser updates
  • New for PHP: better code intelligence and autocomplete performance
  • New for Ruby: improvements to the Rails project template and debugger
  • New for Tcl: bug fixes
  • New for JavaScript: code intelligence, autocomplete and debugger changes

Read more about Komodo 4.2 features:

http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/feature_list.plex

Good work!
cheesegrits | Tue, 2007-09-18 18:21

Great work, guys.

I'm particularly looking forward to the auto-update feature.

-- hugh

Congratulations! A new spell
iaihmb | Tue, 2007-09-18 19:11

Congratulations!

A new spell checker: find tpyos before they go live

:)

-David Sissitka

Looking good
Tom | Wed, 2007-09-19 16:53

I've just been playing around with Komodo 4.2 and it looks good so far - the soft characters in particular are a nice addition.

One question regarding the spell checking though: is it possible to change the dictionary to British English?

G'Bye Komodo 4.1!
hebetude | Fri, 2007-09-21 05:19

G'Bye Komodo 4.1!

Installing new dictionaries is now in the FAQ
ericp | Fri, 2007-09-21 11:38

See http://community.activestate.com/faq/how-do-i-install-new-dictionaries-s...

Thanks
Tom | Fri, 2007-09-21 11:56

Thanks Eric, that's a useful document. :-)

Incidentally I found that my dictionaries (i.e. the ones that I've installed myself) are stored in my Firefox profile, but that might be specific to Macs, I don't know?

Komodo's spellchecker is similar to Thunderbird's, and...
ericp | Fri, 2007-09-21 12:08

I was looking more at how Thunderbird handles dictionaries, and on the Mac they're stored in /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/dictionaries/

I don't know how Firefox is handling dictionaries, but the Komodo code uses the Mozilla spellchecker, which definitely looks in the application's install area, and not in the profile area.

jQuery.extend(true, Komodo, "Awesome!")
dblrbl | Fri, 2007-09-21 15:42

Ooh this release snuck up on me, can't wait to enjoy the auto-update. Also unmentioned here is true jQuery support! Will be awesome to have 1.2 support but I know we are all waiting on the XML API Docs translation. I'm also excited for the Open Komodo, thanks for all the hard work guys! WebDev is getting easier by the picosecond. I don't know how I ever did it before Komodo!!

Charles
Creative Director, Double Rebel
doublerebel.com

Upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2.
kimu | Mon, 2007-09-24 11:28

Upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2. All my preferences and settings lost.

Good Work! :-/

Re: preferences lost
ToddW | Mon, 2007-09-24 12:05

Kimu, can you please log a bug for this:
http://bugs.activestate.com/query.cgi?product=Komodo

Please include the product information (Edit/IDE) and version details so we can look into this.

Thanks,
Todd.