This release addresses issues with multicursor text editing, the autoreload plugin and several platform-specific issues that are fixed upstream. Besides that, this release also improves Python, C and C++ syntax highlighting and the user experience on macOS.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads, such as ZIP files for Windows and lightweight releases, are available below.

Please refer to the relevant section in the README for OS requirements.

New Features

• The macOS DMG images have a new look. (#1816)

• The number and static constexpr highlighting for C and C++ is improved. (#1752, #1818, #1819)

• The Python syntax highlighting is improved, including highlighting for f-strings, type annotations and negative numbers. (#1723)

• In macOS, you can drag and drop files and folders onto Lite XL in the Dock to open them.
  You can also open them with the Right-click → "Open with" menu and set Lite XL to open different file types by default. (#1822, #1828)

• Various upstream dependencies are updated, which may fix platform-specific issues such as CTRL+V paste in Windows and cursor issues on Linux. (#1812)

Fixes

• Fix removing threads when iterating over core.threads (#1794)

• Fix dirmonitor backend selection (#1790)

• Fix clipboard removing newlines on Windows (#1788)

• Change co_wait to co_await in language_cpp (#1800)

• Fix font scale on monitor change when RENDERER backend is used (#1650)

• Avoid calling the change callback multiple times in the same notification (#1824)

• Fix autoreload reloading file too soon and misses some updates (#1823)

• Fix multicursor mangling lines on text insertion due to wrong selection index in Doc:merge_cursors() (#1833, #1834)

Other Changes

• Add functionality to generate release notes (#1774)

• Update action dependencies (#1724)

• Update macOS runner images (#1804)

• Update macOS copyright notice (#1815)

• Update SDL2 and PCRE2 (#1812)

Please go to changelog.md for a detailed description of all the changes.

Commits since the last version: v2.1.4...v2.1.5