CotEditor

Highlights on CotEditor 6.0

Liquid Glass Look
Experience the refreshed interface with the new Liquid Glass style in macOS Tahoe 26.

CotEditor 6.0.2

release:

Fixes

  • Fix an issue on macOS 26 where the application crashes by opening the Donation settings pane while a system theme color other than Multicolor is selected in the System Settings > Appearance.
  • Fix an issue where the theme setting changes unexpectedly when opening the Appearance settings pane after switching the system appearance mode.
  • Fix an issue where the indentation style detection doesn’t work.

CotEditor 6.0.1

release:

Improvements

  • Avoid assigning the Shift+Return shortcut key for a snippet.
  • trivial: Update find result messages.
  • dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 26.0.
  • non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.8.0-beta.3 to 2.8.0.

Fixes

  • Fix an issue where the file browser doesn't show the entire filenames when the scroller slot is shown.
  • Fix an issue where the “Convert Indentation” commands don’t convert if no characters are selected.
  • Fix an issue where the input fields in the Find window accept rich text.
  • Fix an issue where folder documents can open multiple windows for the same folder.
  • Address a potential crash that occurs when performing a keyboard shortcut.
  • Address a potential crash that can occur when opening a document on an Intel-based Mac.
  • trivial: Fix an issue where the default encoding pop-up button in the Format settings pane is positioned incorrectly.

CotEditor 6.0.0

release:

New Features

  • Support macOS Tahoe 26.

Improvements

  • Change the system requirement to macOS Sequoia 15 and later.
  • Update the user interface on macOS 26 to the Liquid Glass style.
  • Update the application icon to the Liquid Glass style.
  • The options to highlight matching braces have been removed and they are now always highlighted.
  • Apply the text find highlighting to all split editors.
  • Move selected items to the Trash by the Delete action in the file browser.
  • Show also the file size of the previewed document in the status bar.
  • Display the numbers of registered items below the lists in the syntax editor.
  • Deprecate the feature to change the editor opacity per window.
  • Deprecate the feature of installing a custom theme by simply opening the file in CotEditor.
  • Deprecate the “Make Snake Case,” “Make Camel Case,” “Make Pascal Case,” “Hiragana to Katakana,” and “Katakana to Hiragana” commands in the Text > Transformations menu.
  • Deprecate the “Draw separator” option for the line number view on macOS 26.
  • trivial: Rename the “Half-width to Full-width” and “Full-width to Half-width” commands to “Convert to Full Width” and “Convert to Half Width”, respectively.
  • trivial: Improve the behavior of Add/Remove buttons.
  • trivial: Update the layout of the “What’s New” window.
  • dev: Migrate the theme list and syntax list in the Settings, and the input fields in the Find window to SwiftUI.
  • dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 26.0 (Swift 6.2, macOS 26 SDK).
  • non-AppStore ver.: Add an update badge to the “Check for Update” menu item if an update is available.
  • non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.7.1 to 2.8.0.

Fixes

  • Fix an issue where the “Convert Indentation” commands don’t convert indentation to the indent style that’s not the default.
  • Fix an issue where the Syntax toolbar menu is disabled when the toolbar is shown afterward.
  • Fix an issue where the size of the Multiple Replace window is not stored.
  • Fix an issue in the Dutch localization where the number of found items isn’t displayed in the Find window.

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