⚠️ This is a pre-release version.

Highlights on CotEditor 7.1

Find it in the folder: Search text across files in an opened folder right from the sidebar.
Ready for macOS 27: CotEditor now supports macOS 27 Golden Gate, including refreshed appearance for the latest system.
Back and forward in folders: Use the toolbar to move back and forward through recently viewed documents in a folder document.
Let the document name itself: On macOS 27, untitled documents automatically get a draft name suggested from their content.
Indentation that fits each syntax: Use Mode settings to customize the indentation style for individual syntaxes as you like.

CotEditor 7.1.0-rc

release: 2026-09-10

beta: Improve the performance of the folder find pane.
beta: Limit folder find results to 5,000 matches per file and 500,000 matches in total, and indicate when the limit is reached.
dev: Tweak What’s New window.

beta: Fix an issue where long matches were not highlighted in folder search results.
beta: Fix an issue where binary files, such as executables without a filename extension, were searched in the folder find.
beta: Fix an issue where the folder find could follow symbolic links to files.

In some cases, a sandboxed URL is passed when folder search results are dropped onto another app (FB23578716).
In full-screen mode, an unnecessary separator appears above the pane switcher in the Inspector (FB24552348).

release: 2026-09-05

Apply the current theme’s text color to the text restored by undo even when the theme has changed since the deletion.
Remove the Bulgarian localization.
beta: Reflect all changes in CotEditor 7.0.9.

release: 2026-08-29

Avoid unnecessary scroll after inserting a snippet when the range is already visible.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.9.5 to 2.9.6.
beta: Refine overall appearance details.
beta dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 27 Beta 6.

beta: Fix an issue where the app crashed repeatedly on launch when restoring documents with unsaved changes.
beta: Fix focus in the syntax editor on macOS 27.

release: 2026-08-16

release: 2026-08-11

Fix an issue in the regular expression replacement with the “Unescape replacement text” option where escaped backslashes in the replacement text were unexpectedly removed.
beta: Fix an issue where Bulgarian localizations were missing in the Window settings.
beta: Fix an issue where some labels in the Settings were truncated when they were too long.

release: 2026-08-02

beta: Fix an issue where the app became unresponsive when opening a document taller than the window (FB23993752).
beta: Fix an issue where the editor could slightly scroll on typing.
beta: Fix an issue where some labels in the Settings window were not localized properly.
beta: Fix an issue on macOS 27 where the app icons did not appear in the Open in External Editor button in the file preview view.

release: 2026-07-26

Support macOS 27 Golden Gate.
Add folder search to the sidebar for searching for text across files in an open folder.
Add document history navigation to the toolbar for folder documents.
Automatically generate and apply a draft document name from the document’s content on macOS 27.
Allow the indentation style (spaces or tabs) and width to be set for each Mode.
Add the Customize Syntax Menu command to the More menu in the “Available syntaxes” section of the Format settings pane, allowing specific syntaxes to be hidden from syntax menus.
Add the “Status bar” option to the Appearance settings pane.

Make some settings dialogs resizable.
Allow custom syntaxes to be deleted by dragging them to the Trash.
Allow CotEditor Syntax files and multiple replacement definitions to be imported by dropping them onto their respective lists.
Add a context menu to the list in the Mode settings pane.
Display the number of definition errors as a badge in the sidebar of the syntax editor.
Automatically apply the JSON syntax to documents whose file type is a kind of JSON, such as GeoJSON files.
Update the JSON syntax to simplify the file mapping settings.
Improve overall stability and performance.
dev: Tweak the accent color.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 27 Beta 4 (Swift 6.4, macOS 27 SDK).

This version also includes some changes planned for the upcoming CotEditor 7.0.8 release.