• JarMaker 0.2: initial Plugin Central release; the JarMaker Plugin adds a simple interface for creating a JAR file; removed FileWalker class with incompatible copyright; requires jEdit 4.0final and JDK 1.3
  
  
• SourceControl 0.1: initial Plugin Central release; the SourceControl plugin provides integration with source control systems; currently only MS Visual Source Safe, but other systems can be supported by implementing the SourceControlInterface and adding an option pane; requires jEdit 4.0final and JDK 1.3
  
  
• Templates 3.0.0: includes contibutions from Calvin Yu; now uses Apache Velocity as the templating engine; supports standard Velocity directives; supports jEdit specific directives for: i) prompting for user input, ii) setting cursor location, iii) setting buffer mode, iv) including the current date (any format), and v) evaluating BeanShell snippets during template processing; dockable template selection window; template accelerators (similar to jEdit abbreviations); fixed JDK 1.3 incompatibility; requires jEdit 4.0pre4 and JDK 1.3; includes Apache Velocity 1.3 and Jakarta-Commons Collections

The newly-released MacroManager plugin by Carmine Lucarelli enables you to download macros from the jEdit community site. This should make it much easier to customize and extend jEdit using the macros provided by the community.

• AntVizPlugin 1.0: initial Plugin Central release; visualizes
  Ant-script dependencies; step-through debugging of targets; (Ant-)property inspector; requires jEdit 4.1pre2, AntFarm 1.1, Console 3.1, XML 0.8.1, and JDK 1.4; includes JGraph 1.0.5 and dom4j 1.3
  
  
• DragAndDrop 0.2.7: fixed bug that would cause jEdit to lock up if a dropped file caused a dialog to pop up; used Java 1.3 methods for text drops; requires jEdit 3.2.2 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• GruntspudPlugin 0.0.9-alpha: initial Plugin Central release; requires jEdit 4.0final, Console 3.1, JDiffPlugin 1.3, and JDK 1.3; includes Netbeans' cvslib.jar and Jakarta's NetComponents.jar

• jEditCvs 0.4: initial Plugin Central release; requires jEdit 4.0final, Console 3.1, and JDK 1.3
  
• MementoPlugin 0.5.3: Version 0.5.2 changes: added an up/down arrow to the column that the memos are sorted by; added ability to
  sort groups; fixed some null pointer exceptions with the option menu; rearranged UI to make better use of space; fixed the way the
  calendar looks as a plugin; addressed some initialization/context switching issues with the memo list; Version 0.5.3 changes: fixed data
  initialization bug (when there weren't any .xml files in the "memodb" directory, Memento threw an exception); fixed problem with

This release containes fixes for the :pserver problems, new actions such as Log (with a useful report dialog), Import, History, Erase. There are some extras such as a 'New Folder' action that creates a folder then adds it to CVS and a simple .cvsignore front end (although the filter is still rubbish). There is a 'Explorer' style view that can be used instead of the Files / Folders tab when there is more space available.

The toolbar is getting quite large now, so an 'All tools' button hasbeen added to help when docked in jEdit, but I'm not 100% happy with. Suggestions are welco

To make things easier for those on dialup, I have uploaded 2 unified diffs, one to patch the jEdit 4.0 source to 4.0.2, and the other to patch the 4.0.2 source to 4.0.3. They are only 10 Kb or so, so this beats having to download the whole package for each bug fix release, assuming you don't mind compiling from source, and using the appropriate tools to apply the patches.

• CheckStylePlugin 0.1: initial Plugin Central release; CheckStylePlugin is a wrapper around the CheckStyle program that allows you to check your code for adherence of deviation from a Coding Standard; requires jEdit 4.0, ErrorList 1.2, and JDK 1.3; includes CheckStyle 2.2 and ANTLR (checkstyle-all-2.2.jar)
  
  
• JavaRefactor 0.0.3: added the ExtractMethod refactoring; updated for jEdit 4.0; requires jEdit 4.0pre1 and JDK 1.3; includes RECODER
  
  
• JSwatPlugin 1.2.0: updated for JSwat 2.4 and JPDA; requires jEdit 4.0pre7, CommonControls 0.2, and JDK 1.4; includes JSwat 2.4

Sun has released Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.0_01. You can find a list of bug fixes here.
Post any comments you have about this release (good or bad) below.

• FastOpen 0.4.1: initial Plugin Central release; FastOpen is a plugin designed to quickly open any file in the currect project by just typing in the first few characters of the filename you want to open; added ProjectSwitcher to allow switching ProjectViewer projects from FastOpen (Warren Nicholls); added Current Project to window title; FastOpen window is no longer modal (Ken Wootton); ProjectViewer is now kept open if it is already open (Ken Wootton); invalid filenames are now highlighted in red; use with multiple views is now supported; requires jEdit 4.0pre1, ProjectViewer 1.0.2, and JDK 1.3

• Console 3.3: file name completion when Tab key is pressed (Alexander Maryanovsky); error patterns can now specify a file name value of "$f", in which case the current buffer's path will be substituted; fixed generic error pattern for g++; fixed another possible problem if a program outputs an invalid line number in an error message; removed -encoding setting from the Jikes commando; requires jEdit 4.0final and JDK 1.3
  
  
• JcrontabPlugin 0.6: initial Plugin Central release; added properties pane and documentation; requires jEdit 4.0final and JDK 1.3; includes jcrontab 1.0 (jcrontab.sf.net)

• FTP 0.3.4: hidden files were not listed, even if "Show Hidden Files" was selected in the file system browser; "Open from FTP Server" and "Save to FTP Server" commands opened the wrong directory on the remote server; the directory cache would sometimes only be invalidated after the file system browser reloaded the directory, resulting in an outdated directory listing; requires jEdit 4.0pre3 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• Lazy8Ledger 1.2: distribution updated to include database drivers previously missing due to a packaging error; requires jEdit 4.0pre8, BufferTabs 0.7.6, InfoViewer 1.1, and JDK 1.4

Version 1.3.1 of this Java code documentation tool now shows which methods override a method and supports the new "assert" keyword. Several other minor enhancements and bugfixes were also applied, and the documentation was revised.

• IRC 1.8.1: updated by Lionel Fiol; added some new commands (/CLEAR, /ECHO, /JOIN, /NICK, /QUIT, /QUOTE, and /WHOWAS); added new parameters to the /CONNECT command to allow specifying a different server, port, channel, or nick than those set through the option pane; fixed exceptions when using /CONNECT under JDK 1.3; requires jEdit 4.0final and JDK 1.3
  
  
• Lazy8Ledger 1.1: initial Plugin Central release; Lazy8Ledger is a full-featured accounting application implemented as a jEdit plugin; experience in double-entry accounting is necessary to ensure correct use; requires jEdit 4.0pre8, BufferTabs 0.7.6, InfoViewer 1.1, JDK 1.3

• LineGuides 0.5.3: fixed problems with split views (bugs #529823 and #539117); requires jEdit 4.0pre4 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• TextTools 1.8: added "Columnar Insert" command (Nathan Tenney); requires jEdit 4.0pre1 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• TomcatSwitch 0.5.2: fixed a bug introduced with version 0.5.1 that prevented execution under systems different from Windows; requires jEdit 4.0pre2, Console 3.1, and JDK 1.3; works with Jakarta Tomcat 3.2.x, 3.3.x or 4.x
  
  
• VSSPlugin 0.1.1: fixed class name bug in actions.xml; requires jEdit 4.0final and JDK 1.3

jEdit 4.0 is now available for download from the jEdit web site.
Come join #jedit on irc.openprojects.net to chat about this release!

• AntFarm 1.1: jEdit 4.0 compatible (John Gellene); Sun JDK 1.4 compatible (Rob Wilson); ability to add to the class path when running Ant inside the jEdit VM (this provides for easier access to custom tasks or third party libraries required by Ant); ability to specify global properties; ability to specify runtime properties; various bug fixes and enhancements; option to save all buffers before running targets; updated help; requires jEdit 4.0pre4, CommonControls 0.2, Console 3.1, ErrorList 1.2, XML 0.7, and JDK 1.3
  
  
• Archive 0.3.3: switched to Ant and Docbook; moved classes to the archive package; the external libraries (tar and bzip2) are no longer necessary; requires jEdit 4.0pre1 and JDK 1.3

• BufferSelector 1.0.5: updated for the jEdit 4.0 Toolbar API; requires jEdit 4.0pre7 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• ErrorList 1.2.2: fixed possible NullPointerException under Java 2 version 1.4; error highlight didn't work properly when soft wrap was enabled; if the "show on error" feature is enabled, the error list will now open in the currently focused view, not the most recently opened view as before; requires jEdit 4.0pre4 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• LookAndFeel 0.8: option pane to switch between Skin, Oyoaha, and Kunststoff look and feel implementations; attempts to install look and feel without restart; updated documentation to use DocBook; added help for new look and feels implementations; requires jEdit 3.1 and JDK 1.2

Today, I uploaded a new version of Ken Drew's Tags plugin to Plugin Central. This release has a few bug fixes and is for jEdit 4.0 only.

• Tags 1.0.6: fixed a bug where the character escape character '' was in the user visible search string; fixed a bug where the tag collision popup would show up in the wrong place when folding or wrapping text; requires jEdit 4.0pre1 and JDK 1.3

• Background 0.2: new plugin by Andr Kaplan; Background lets you configure a background image for the main jEdit text area; Background also features some basic blend options ("tinted glass" effect); requires jEdit 4.0pre4 and JDK 1.3



• ClassWizard 0.5: licenses now stored outside classwizard.properties in their own files; can configure items to show in the extends combo; fixed jEdit4 compatibility problem; requires jEdit 4.0pre1 and JDK 1.3



• Debugger 0.6.1: initial Plugin Central release; requires jEdit 4.0pre6, Console 3.0, and JDK 1.3 (not a JRE)

• JythonInterpreter 0.8: updated to jEdit 4.0.6 and uses the new Macro Handler API (Mike Dillon); removed custom namespace to ensure macro compability; added option to autoload all plugins' jars; added export session; added the BufferList class to make a jEdit Buffer act like a Python list; removed deprecated functions; requires jEdit 4.0pre6 and JDK 1.3; includes Jython 2.1



• Templates 2.0.0: compatible with jEdit 4.0 API's; selection of Templates menu items can now be recorded in macros (as requested by Richard Wan); requires jEdit 4.0pre4 and JDK 1.3