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The current version of Sublime Text 2 is 2.0.2.

Sublime Text 3 is currently in beta, and contains many improvements over Sublime Text 2.

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• Windows - also available as a portable version
• Windows 64 bit - also available as a portable version
• Linux 32 bit
• Linux 64 bit

Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.

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Version 2.0.2

• Sublime Text 3 beta is now available from www.sublimetext.com/3
• Removed expiry date
• Backported various fixes from Sublime Text 3
• Improved minimap click behavior. The old behavior is available via the minimap_scroll_to_clicked_text setting
• Added copy_with_empty_selection setting, to control the behavior of the copy and cut commands when no text is selected

Version 2.0.1

• Keyboard input while dragging a selection will cancel the drag
• Improved backspace behavior when use_tab_stops and translate_tabs_to_spaces are true
• Improved shift+drag behavior
• Improved double click drag select behavior
• About Window shows the license key details
• Fixed a Goto Anything issue where pressing backspace could scroll the overlay incorrectly
• Fixed a crash triggered by double clicking in the Goto Anything overlay
• Fixed incorrect window position when dragging a tab in some scenarios
• Added missing toggle_preserve_case command
• word_wrap setting accepts "true" and "false" as synonyms to true and false
• OSX: Fixed System Preferences menu not working
• Linux: Added support for mice with more than 5 buttons
• Linux: Fixed an occasional graphical glitch when running under Unity

Version 2.0

• See the blog post for a summary.
• OSX: Added Retina display support
• Added "Quick Skip Next", on Command+K,Command+D / Ctrl+K,Ctrl+D
• Added text drag and drop
• Reloading a file maintains the selection
• OSX: Find uses the system find pasteboard
• OSX: Added support for the ODB Editor Suite
• Theme: Added support for the highlight_modified_tabs setting
• Added setting show_full_path, to control if the full path is shown in the window title
• Added setting bold_folder_labels
• OSX: Bundle is signed in preparation for Mountain Lion
• OSX: Added scroll bar support for the "Jump to the spot that's clicked" system preference
• OSX: Added create_window_at_startup setting
• OSX: Folders accessed via symlinks are monitored for changes
• OSX: Fixed Lion press-and-hold inserting two characters
• Windows: Installer is signed
• Windows: Directory scanning makes use of inodes where available
• Windows: Files are opened with the FILE_SHARE_DELETE share mode
• Windows: Fixed a regression in command line handling with network paths
• Windows and Linux: Tweaked command line handling when Sublime Text isn't already running
• Linux: Tweaked handling of the Primary selection
• Linux: GTK is loaded at runtime, removing any dependency on specific libpng versions
• Linux: Fixed occasional jittering with the auto complete window
• Linux: Fixed a directory watching issue
• Linux: Sub-folders within the syntax menu on the status bar work as expected
• Linux: Show Completions has changed from ctrl+space to alt+/, to not interfere with IMEs
• Reworked CSS completions
• Improved Toggle Comment for HTML and CSS
• Added Open in Browser context menu for HTML files
• Saving a file now calls fsync to ensure the data is written to disk
• Added support for file_include_patterns and folder_include_patterns in projects
• Find in Files can exclude directories using "-some_path/" syntax
• Added BOM variants to the Save with Encoding menu
• Added setting preview_on_click
• Improved Indentation Detection
• ASCII control codes are rendered in a different style
• Auto complete and tool tips say within the screen boundaries
• Double clicking in the tab header area will create a new tab
• Delete Folder will prompt before moving the folder to the trash
• Double clicking on whitespace will select only whitespace
• Theme: Added 'expandable' attribute to tree_rows, enabling folders to be styled differently
• Theme: Tweaked quick panel to better indicate the selected item
• Disabling find result highlighting will also disable find-as-you-type in the Find panel
• Pressing escape in the incremental find panel will set the selection to the search start point
• Extended behavior of home and end keys on word wrapped lines
• Changes in file name case are detected in the side bar
• Fixed save_on_focus_lost causing Goto Anything to not show if the current file has unsaved changes
• Fixed folders not being added to the recent folders list
• Fixed rendering of active indent guides
• Fixed pasting file:line expressions into the Goto Anything panel
• Invalid key names in keymap files will are logged to the console
• Build Systems: Added variants
• Build Systems: Improved debug output of the exec command when the target isn't found
• Build Systems: Added show_panel_on_build setting
• Build Systems: Build times are reported
• Build Systems: Exit code is reported, if it's non-zero
• Build Systems: Improved output panel height serialization
• Build Systems: Canceling a build will terminate rather than kill the process
• Vintage: Added backspace motion (thanks mrannanj)
• Vintage: Improved quote text object (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Added Ctrl+U and Ctrl+D (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: 'vintage_use_clipboard' forces pasting from system clipboard too (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Fixed motions with "0" in them for actions (thanks bengolds)
• Vintage: Visual mode I and A (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added vintage_use_clipboard setting to yank to the system clipboard (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Tweaked behavior of cw and cW when the caret is in whitespace (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added bindings for moving the group focus up, down, left, right (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Paste accepts a repeat count (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added bindings for u and U in visual mode, to change the case of the selection and exit visual mode (thanks quarnster)
• Vintage: Macro replay accepts a repeat count (thanks zbuc)
• Vintage: r<char> processes lines individually (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: Tweaked % behavior (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Fix bug that caused deletes to erroneously left_delete (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Fix EOF behavior with linewise changes (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Ignoring a and i when in visual mode (thanks Guillermo)
• Vintage: cc and S take counts (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Correctly shrink selections when reversed (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added vap (thanks behrends)
• API: Added sublime.message_dialog()
• API: Added sublime.ok_cancel_dialog()
• API: Added Command.is_checked() to support checkbox menu items
• API: Added sublime.log_result_regex()

Build 2181

• See the blog post for a summary
• New Icon, by The Iconfactory
• File and Global settings have been combined into a single settings file
• Selecting a word will highlight other occurrences. This can be controlled with the match_selection setting
• Reworked text rendering for improved quality
• Improved automatic indentation. It now uses bracket matching to better determine indentation
• Added setting indent_to_bracket and smart_indent, to customize automatic indentation
• Auto Complete is less intrusive
• Renaming a file via the side bar will rename any open files
• Improved folder scanning performance on huge directory trees
• Untitled files have their name set automatically from the first line of the file. The can be controlled with the set_unsaved_view_name setting
• Ruby: #{} is expanded when # is entered in a string
• Folder names are shown in the window title if no project is open
• Folders in projects are stored with relative paths
• Added Save with Encoding
• Spelling errors are indicated with an underline only, the foreground color of the text is no longer changed
• Added no_bold and no_italic font options
• Added margin setting, to control the size of the gutter
• Key bindings for Goto Anything, Save, etc will work if a panel has input focus
• "Open all with current extension as" handles filenames without extensions
• Fixed an auto complete display issue
• Fixed find_under_expand not setting whole_word correctly
• Fixed Paste and Indent adding unwanted whitespace when pasting within a line
• Fixed a minor compatibility issue with .tmLanguage files
• Fixed a tab dragging issue on OS X and Windows
• OS X: Tweaked sub-pixel positioning to match TextEdit and Terminal. The previous behavior is available via the no_round font option.
• OS X: Open File and Open Folder have been combined into a single Open menu item
• OS X: Control+Option+Left/Right will move by sub words, in the same manner as Control+Left/Right
• Windows: Default font is now Consolas
• Windows: Improved text rendering quality when using Direct Write
• Windows: Added support for --wait
• Windows: Added support for drive letter relative paths passed on the command line
• Windows and Linux: Added key bindings for ctrl+shift+backspace/delete
• Linux: Added a workaround for a glibc bug when MALLOC_CHECK_ is defined
• Linux: Pango is used for font rendering, improving support for CJK text
• Vintage: Escape cancels current input (thanks fjl)
• Vintage: Pasting over visual mode selections works as expected (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Linewise changes set indentation (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Linewise motions work as expected (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: c, C, s and S update registers (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Tweaks to G and gg (thanks guillermooo)
• Vintage: Added zt and zb (thanks djjcast)
• Vintage: Added gq (thanks orutherfurd)
• Plugin initialization time is reported in the console at startup
• API: Tweaked module importing
• API: Added window.find_open_file(file_name)
• API: Added sublime.run_command()
• API: Added view.unfold([regions])
• API: Added view.folded_regions()

Build 2165

• See the blog post for a summary
• Theme: New UI theme, by Mike Rundle
• Added support for bold and italic font styles
• Speed: Improved startup time
• Speed: Optimized memory usage
• Speed: Improved font glyph rasterization speed
• Rearranged the menu, making important features are easier to locate
• Auto complete: Completion menu is shown automatically. This is configurable with the auto_complete file setting
• Auto complete: Tab can be used instead of enter to accept the current completion, by using the auto_complete_commit_on_tab file setting
• Auto complete: Many quality improvements
• Tab Completion: Pressing tab multiple times will cycle through the available completions
• Added reopen_last_file command, bound to Command+Shift+T / Ctrl+Shift+T
• Deleting files via the side bar will send them to the trash, rather than deleting them outright
• Improved behavior when hot_exit and remember_open_files are false
• Color schemes and syntax definitions are reloaded on the fly
• Paste and Indent will now do the right thing in more circumstances
• save_on_focus_lost won't save if the underlying file has been deleted
• Added key binding for replace_next
• slurp_find_string will set the whole_word flag based on if the selection is empty
• Added file setting move_to_limit_on_up_down. This is enabled by default on OS X.
• Shift+Drag will set the active end of the selection as expected
• Clicking on a tab will always give the relevant sheet input focus
• Simplified indent guide settings, and disabled active indent guide drawing by default. The indent_guide_options file setting can be used to change this
• Improved minimap dragging
• increase_font_size command will allow sizes up to 128pt
• Changed how the toggle argument to show_panel is handled
• Files with colons in their names may be opened from the command line
• Fixed handling of selectors with extraneous '.' characters
• File Encoding: Added default_encoding setting
• File Encoding: Added Hexadecimal encoding, for basic editing of binary files. This is controlled with the enable_hexadecimal_encoding global setting
• Projects: Folders may be given a name attribute, to change how they're displayed
• Projects: Exclude patterns may include paths, for example: file_exclude_patterns: ["tmp/*.cc"]
• Projects: .sublime-project files passed on the command line will be opened as projects, without --project being required
• Projects: Folder paths with trailing slashes are supported
• Projects: Fixed folder_exclude_patterns not being serialized correctly in project files
• OS X: Prompting for elevated privileges when saving protected files
• OS X: Double clicking on a .sublime-project file in Finder will open it in Sublime Text
• OS X: Control clicking on a tab will show the context menu
• OS X: Increased default font size
• OS X: Fixed an issue that opened additional empty windows when using the command line helper
• Linux: Fixed an issue with tab dragging
• Vintage: Column is maintained when moving between lines
• Vintage: == reindents current line (thanks Gordin)
• Vintage: Added ZZ (thanks Guillermooo)
• Vintage: Added X command (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added _ command (thanks redjohn)
• Vintage: Added ~ (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: r,enter is supported (thanks misfo)
• Vintage: Added various Ctrl+W,<x> bindings for layout control (thanks Gordin)
• Vintage: Added various z,<x> bindings for folding (thanks Gordin)
• Vintage: _ accepts a count (thanks guillermooo)
• Vintage: Ctrl+C is a synonym for escape on OS X(thanks sugarcoded)
• Vintage: dw works as expected at EOL
• Vintage: Fixed an issue with the zz key binding (thanks Bradley Priest)
• API: Plugins have a finite time to respond to events before users will be issued a s where there should be none
• Fixed issue when using Find/Replace with back references and a reversed search direction
• JavaScript: Added support for node.js shebangs
• Improved the HTML completions for link and style
• Shell Script: Fixed file type associations
• Added Toggle Comment support for YAML
• Fixed shutdown not proceeding while folders are being scanned
• Fixed spell checking for words with non-ascii prefixes or suffixes
• Fixed a quirk when using Goto Anything, typing, and then clearing the text box
• Fixed the minimap initially showing at the wrong size on new files
• Fixed a scenario where the label and close button on a tab would be in the wrong spot
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur after closing a file, then changing layout
• Windows: Improved support for menu hiding
• OSX: Changed the color space used for rendering
• Linux: Fixed an issue that could cause the status bar not to show at startup
• Linux: Changed Python compiler settings, to enable loading of compiled python extensions, and importing the hashlib module
• Build Systems: Current directory when building will default to the file's directory if none is specified in the build system
• Build Systems: result_line_regex may specify a column and message (using the 2ed and 3rd capture groups)
• insert_snippet command: extra arguments passed to the command will be forwarded onto the snippet
• The auto_complete command now takes an optional disable_auto_insert argument
• API: Added window.show_quick_panel()
• API: Added sublime.platform() and sublime.arch()
• API: Added window.focus_view()
• API: Improved the behavior of tab completion in conjunction with on_query_completions returning non-word triggers
• API: Calling run_command() from Python will no longer bypass is_enabled() checks
• API: Fixed view.replace() scrolling the view

Build 2065

• Improved cold startup time
• Added key bindings to toggle find options, which are shown in the tool tips
• Find: The number of matching occurrences is indicated in the status bar
• Find: Found text is highlighted in a separate color
• Added "Reopen with Encoding" menu
• Updated Scala package
• Added Clojure syntax highlighting
• Added Haml syntax highlighting
• Added reStructuredText syntax highlighting
• Syntax menu is now organized by package
• Improved .tmLanguage file compatibility with regards to 0 length matches in rules
• Added 'theme' global setting
• Themes are automatically reloaded
• Theme selectors are more powerful, and can now select based on the classes and attributes of parents
• Color Schemes: Added inactiveSelection and inactiveSelectionForeground keys
• Added Solarized color schemes
• OSX: Using a white ibeam cursor on dark backgrounds
• OSX: Added key binding for Wrap Paragraph at Ruler (Command+Option+Q)
• OSX: Added document icons
• OSX: Fixed a scenario that could result in the save panel double adding an extension
• API: Added Window.num_groups(), Window.active_group(), and Window.focus_group(group)
• API: Added Window.folders(), to access the currently opened folders
• API: Region rendering will use the foreground and background colors for a given scope if both are specified in the tmTheme file
• Fixed UI glitch with the replace panel and empty replacement strings
• Fixed a crash with very large or very small font sizes

Build 2059

• Added smooth scrolling
• Added spell checking
• Tab Completion is enabled by default. Shift+Tab can be used to insert a literal tab
• Pressing Ctrl+Space after a tab completion will adjust the last completion, rather than starting a new one
• Tab completion is smarter about when to insert a completion, and when to insert a tab
• Auto complete is now case insensitive
• Added global setting, remember_open_files
• Disclosure buttons on the tree control have a larger target area
• Tweaked tab header background for improved contrast
• Status bar column display correctly accounts for tabs
• Fixed an issue with scrollbars on small files
• Shift+Mouse wheel scrolls horizontally
• Recent files no longer appear in the Goto Anything list
• Improved startup time
• Updated HTML completions
• Updated path handling in exec.py
• OSX: Added support for Help/Search
• OSX: Activating the application when no windows are open creates a new window
• Linux: Fixed a crash that could occur in Save All

Build 2051

• Bracket matching is smarter, and will ignore brackets in comments and strings
• OSX and Linux: Fixed a bug that could result in spiraling CPU usage
• Added ":;" pairing in CSS
• Reworked Layout menu
• Scroll bar pucks are rendered with subpixel precision
• Windows and Linux: Moving to the right by words will stop at the end of words, rather than the beginning
• OSX: Improved minimap rendering quality
• OSX: Fixed a regression in 2046 with some keyboard layouts, such as Japanese and Chinese
• OSX: Changed mouse button bindings. Ctrl+Left Mouse will now open a context menu
• Linux: Current window is brought to front when opening a file from the command line
• Linux: Context menu is shown on button press, instead of button release
• "Remove Folder" is now "Remove Folder from Project"
• Fixed ordering of the Default package
• Fixed Wrap Paragraph not correctly accounting for leading whitespace
• API: Added sublime.version() and sublime.channel()
• API: Fixed view.set_status() and view.erase_status() not refreshing the status bar

Build 2047

• Fixed mouse input regression in the license window and the select project window
• OSX: Changed how the project is displayed in the title bar

Build 2046

• Added a side bar menu, with the ability to do basic file manipulation
• Snippets with punctuation triggers are supported again
• Improved automatic snippet field cancellation
• Added Show Unsaved Changes context menu item
• Reworked keyboard input
• Mouse buttons can be configured via the new *.sublime-mousemap files
• Windows and Linux: Right mouse + scroll wheel will change files
• Mouse buttons 4 and 5 will change files
• Rotating the mouse wheel in the tab header area will change tabs
• Linux: Window position and state are recorded in the session
• Ctrl+W (Command+W on OSX) will close the window if no files are open
• Ctrl+Shift+W (Command+Shift+W on OSX) will close the window
• Quote auto-pairing is smarter, and will do the intended thing more often
• Added find_selected_text file setting
• Packages may add items to menus, including the main menu, context menu, and side bar menu
• Main.sublime-menu is automatically reloaded when changed
• Added New Plugin and New Build System menu items
• Build files may specify environment variables, using the env key
• Added build_env file preference, which will be picked up by the build system
• Add Line Before will insert the correct amount of indentation
• Tweaked status message display
• Tweaked switch_file
• Disabled typing while dragging
• Added diff syntax highlighting
• Fixed regression in 2036 that caused unsaved file indicators to not show in the title bar
• Linux: Fixed locale related bug that could cause multi-pane layouts to not work
• OSX: Fixed Command+{X,C,V,Z,Y,A} not working in save and open panels
• API: Added Command.is_visible(args)

Build 2039

• Fixed an issue with Linux font rendering
• Show minimap setting is respected when cloning
• Fixed flicker that could occur when showing the auto complete window

Build 2036

• Tab completion is now off by default, but can be turned back on with the new tab_completion setting
• Added File/Clone File menu item
• Showing the project in the title bar
• Populating file types in Open and Save dialogs
• Ctrl+Shift+K will delete the current line (all platforms)
• Improved delete_word command, it will now delete a word and a neighboring space when it makes sense to do so
• Added Wrap Paragraph command (Alt+Q on Windows and Linux)
• Updated PHP completions, with thanks to vostok4
• Linux: Added support for global menus, as used by Ubuntu 11.04
• Linux: Using XDG_CONFIG_HOME if set
• Windows and Linux: F