============== Version 3.16.0 ============== It is my distinct pleasure to announce the first preview release of GNOME Builder! GNOME Builder is a new development environment being developed in conjunction with the GNOME desktop. While Builder is an alpha product, it is under heavy development. We look forward to early testers and encourage everyone to try things out and file bugs and feature requests. I'd like to thank the Gedit and GtkSourceView team for all of their hard work integrating features from Builder upstream as well as adding features we needed. Additionally the GLib and Gtk+ teams were incredibly helpful to keep us moving. Builder is built in conjunction with LibIDE. This new shared library provides the necessary abstractions to build a modern IDE. It includes auto-completion, auto-indenters, buffer management, a source editor, abstractions for build systems, version control, file settings, translation units, diagnostics, symbols, search engines, snippets, local and external devices, documentation, animations, and more. Some highlights of this release are: · A beautiful new GtkSourceView theme influenced by design grid paper. · Integrated source editor based on GtkSourceView. · Live diagnostics as you type for C, C++ via Clang. · Live diagnostics as you type for Python, Ruby, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, Vala, Go, and others via gnome-code-assistance. · Highlighting of added/changed lines within the source editor. · Robust Vim and Emacs emulation. · Multiple views into single file. Both horizontal and vertical splits are supported. · Navigation history to jump back and forward within modified files. · Robust snippet engine including support for GLib 2.44 style GObjects. · Quick search to locate files within your project as well as documentation in devhelp. · Smart backspace to simplify using spaces instead of tabs. · A command bar to execute internal GActions and Vim style commands with autocompletion. · An implementation of Vim's scrolloffset. · Restoration of insertion cursor when reloading a file. · Autocompletion based on current words in loaded buffers. · Experimental support for autocompletion based on clang. · Support for vim, emacs, and kate style modelines. · Editorconfig support. · Experimental read-only support for autoconf/automake based build systems. · Robust auto-indenters for GNU C89, Python, and XML. · Experimental project tree (available via F9). · Experimental support for building automake based projects. · Keybinding replay for command repeat in Vim emulation. · Autosaving of modified buffers, never lose a change. · Scripting via Python (CPython) or JavaScript (Gjs) and GObject Introspection. · Dynamic power management when running on laptop battery. · HTML and Markdown live preview. · Autocompletion of g_date_time_format() format parameters. · Type ahead search with rubberbanding. We wont be slowing down any time soon. Thanks to everyone for your support, I cannot wait for what is ahead. -- Christian Hergert