jEdit Community - Resources for users of the jEdit Text Editor

jEdit 5.7.0 is out!

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:30:18 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.7.0, the first stable release of the 5.7 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES57.txt, but here are some of the major features of this version:

Many bugfixes,
among other things problems with plugin installation
and startup problems on recent macOS machines
Windows launcher now considers PATH environment variable
Some new and some updated edit modes (QDoc, Java, Dockerfile)

Binary downloads from the filestore work again properly

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:34:41 +0000

For some time binary downloads of files from the file store (http://community.jedit.org/?q=filestore) did not work properly.
This affects for example plugin beta versions, macros packaged in ZIP files and so on.

This problem was now fixed and all downloads should work properly again.
Uploads were not affected, so any upload that was done is still fine and working.
Only during downloading the files were corrupted and are not anymore.

jEdit 5.6.0 is out!

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:31:14 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.6.0, the first stable release of the 5.6 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES56.txt, but here are some of the major features of this version:

Many bugfixes
A major performance improvement when displaying big files
(do not ask why, but I needed to edit a 38 MiB one-line text file yesterday,
with jEdit 5.5.0 it was not at all workable, with 5.6.0 it worked quite fine)
UI language changes are now applied without the need to restart
Windows launcher now considers JAVA_HOME environment variable
The tray icon does not look ugly anymore on Linux with a dark theme
Primary and Secondary fonts can now be selected for all Look and Feels
Some new and some updated edit modes (SIPp, WKT, RPM Spec, Java, PlantUML, HL7, drawj2d)

jEdit 5.4.0 is out!

Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:22:02 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.4.0, the first stable release of the 5.4 series of jEdit.

This is mostly a bugfixing and stabilizing release. Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES54.txt, but here are some of the major changes of this version:

Use of Java 1.8
Use of a new XML format for Plugin Manager, and proper following of redirects, resulting in a much improved plugin install experience
New Printing, updated for current versions of Java

jEdit 5.2.0 is out!

Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:19:49 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.2.0, the first stable release of the 5.2 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES52.txt

Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 5.2 series (fix done, but waiting for a review) can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/merge-requests/milestone/for%205.2.x/

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 5.2pre1 is out!

Tue, 27 May 2014 17:08:43 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.2pre1, the first preview development release of the 5.2 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES52.txt, but here are some of the major features of this version:

This is a time-based release, scheduled to come out about 1 year after jEdit 5.1, and is a collection of enhancements, bug fixes and patches submitted by the community. Detailed changes can be found in the Detailed Change Log.
There are no major new features in this release. You can think of it mostly as a bugfix release, although there are quite a lot of UI enhancements also.
With continued support from the community, we will keep releasing a newer version each year that can accurately bring together the fruits of everyone's labor. Thank you to each and every one of the contributors who helped make 5.2 the best version of jEdit ever.

Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 5.2 series (fix done, but waiting for a review) can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/merge-requests/milestone/for%205.2.x/

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 5.1.0 is out!

Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:31:07 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.1.0, the first stable release of the 5.1 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES51.txt, but here are some of the major features of this version:

VFS WorkThreads have been rewritten into Tasks, making it possible to completely remove the old "I/O Progress Monitor" and the wasteful space it took up in the Task Monitor. Old deprecated classes related to WorkThread and WorkThreadPool have been removed.
New Plugin Manager option to check for and disable obsolete plugins. Enabled by default, this will ensure that old unsupported plugins do not interfere with the running operation of jEdit.
Added another language to our list of translated languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Czech, Russian, and now Chinese! We are always looking for volunteers to help translate jEdit into Hindi, Korean, or Spanish, or any other language, really! It is fairly easy to add a new translation to jEdit or the plugins.
There is now a new encoding Native2ASCII which collapses unicode escapes in ISO-8859-1 files on read and expands characters that cannot be encoded with ASCII as unicode escapes on write. This encoding is the one Java properties should be in.

Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 5.1 series (fix done, but waiting for a review) can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=6846241

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 5.1pre1 is out!

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:45:53 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.1pre1, the first preview development release of the 5.1 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES51.txt, but here are some of the major features of this version:

WorkThreads have been rewritten into Tasks, making it possible to completely remove the old "I/O Progress Monitor" and the wasteful space it took up in the Task Monitor. Old deprecated classes related to WorkThread and WorkThreadPool have been removed.
New Plugin Manager option to check for and disable obsolete plugins. Enabled by default, this will ensure that old unsupported plugins do not interfere with the running operation of jEdit.

Too many spammers

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:45:19 +0000

Hello
we have too many spammers, until we find a solution, the user creation is deactivated
If you want to get an account, just drop an email with your desired username to community@jEdit.org

jEdit 5.0.0 is out!

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:19:18 +0000

Hello everyone,

I proudly present jEdit 5.0.0, the first stable release of the 5.0 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES50.txt, but here are some of the major features of this version:

Localization - jEdit now supports switching between default locale, French, German, Russian, Czech, and Japanese. Some translations for those locales are provided, containing common jEdit labels. It is also now possible to add new or contribute to existing translation property files for jEdit core as well as for plugins.
Keymaps - named collections of shortcuts. Example keymaps for Emacs, MacOS, German Keyboard, Intellij and classic jEdit are provided, and users can create or customize them.
New Editing options: Disable or simplified automatic indentation, and default response when opening a large file.
Updated html/css edit modes with HTML5/CSS3 keywords. Added a dozen new edit modes, updated a dozen more.
Scrolling - Many bugs (#2832769, #2998294, #3193168, possibly others), related to soft wrap, multiline delete/cut, undo, and folding, that could cause the text area to be confused about its location, are fixed. This greatly improves the stability of jEdit. Thank you, Thomas Meyer!

Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 5.0 series (fix done, but waiting for a review) can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=2546309

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 4.5.2 is out!

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:44:12 +0000

Hi all,

I proudly present jEdit 4.5.2, the latest stable release of the 4.5 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES45.txt
This release is a bugfix release.

Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 4.5 series (fix done, but waiting for a review) can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=2274635

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 5.0pre1 is out!

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:27:28 +0000

Hi all,

jEdit development team now presents jEdit 5.0pre1, the first preview
development release of the 5.0.x series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES50.txt

Here are some convenient links to see the live state of major problems:

- Bugs which are marked as "severe":
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=100588&status=1&artgroup=101607

- Bugs which are marked as "regressive":
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=100588&status=1&artgroup=619797

Volunteers are always welcome to fix bugs including the above:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 5.0.x series (fix done, but waiting for a review):
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=2546309

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 4.5.1 is out!

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:53:49 +0000

Hi all,

I proudly present jEdit 4.5.1, the latest stable release of the 4.5 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log at http://jedit.org/CHANGES45.txt
This release is a bugfix release.

Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 4.5 series (fix done, but waiting for a review) can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=2274635

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 4.5.0 is out!

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:58:19 +0000

Hi all,

I proudly present jEdit 4.5.0, the first stable release of the 4.5 series of jEdit.

Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log attached in the end of this email, but here are some of the major features of this version:

Performance improvements, as well as a "large file" mode for handling extra large files.
Edit using Elastic tabstops, set from Global Options - Editing, Buffer Options, or via buffer-local properties.
Lots of old deprecated APIs were removed. Some plugins may be broken as a result.
Choose color ordering for subpixel antialiasing (Global Options - Text Area - Anti-Aliased Smoothed Text) (Feature #2989209).
Desktop System Tray icon to indicate when jEdit is running (Feature #1657143).
It is now possible to switch look and feel without restarting jEdit.
It is possible to specify a FILE_NAME_GLOB for an edit mode based on the full path (see entry for apacheconf mode in modes/catalog for an example) (Feature #2557712).
File System Browser can now open files in desktop, using desktop filename associations to launch another program.
Plugin Manager Enhancements, filter field, bugs fixed.

Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 4.5 series (fix done, but waiting for a review) can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=2274635

Have fun with the new release.

jEdit 4.5pre1 is out!

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:20:54 +0000

Hi all,

I proudly present jEdit 4.5pre1, the first preview development release of the
4.5 series of jEdit.

Here are some convenient links to see the live state of major problems:

- Bugs which are marked as "severe":
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=100588&status=1&artgroup=101607

- Bugs which are marked as "regressive":
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=100588&status=1&artgroup=619797

Volunteers are always welcome to fix these bugs:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel

That being said, here is the download link:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

FYI, merge requests for the 4.5 series (fix done, but waiting for a review):
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=2274635

Have fun with the new release.