# BBEdit changelog

> The Mac text and code editor that doesn't suck, since 1992.

- Vendor: Bare Bones Software
- Category: Developer Tools
- Platforms: macOS
- Official site: https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/
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## Releases

### 16.0.3

- Date: 2026-08-25
- Version: 16.0.3
- Original notes: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bbedit/id404009241?mt=12&uo=4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bbedit/releases/16.0.3
- Labels: Platforms: macOS

- **added** — Expanded support for macOS Shortcuts, including one-shot text transformations for extracting or deleting matching lines, sorting lines, and text replacement
- **added** — Text search in image files using macOS image text recognition, available from Find and Multi-File Search, with recognized text also shown in the image inspector
- **added** — Search field for notebook sidebars to find matches in note names and contents
- **added** — Project-, instaproject-, and notebook-specific color scheme settings, plus separate color scheme choices for printing
- **added** — Expanded web site deployment settings, including separate Testing and Production deployment destinations
- **added** — Optional vi keyboard emulation, with mode and command status shown in the editor
- **added** — Easier installation of language modules directly from the Languages preferences
- **added** — Standard macOS sharing for selected text
- **added** — New commands for gathering untitled documents and moving documents between windows
- **added** — Process Duplicate Lines option to include duplicate counts
- **changed** — Improved HTML5 syntax checking using the W3C HTML checker service, with options for project-specific, language-specific, remote, or local checking
- **changed** — Expanded Language Server Protocol support, including semantic token coloring when provided by the language server
- **changed** — More flexible hidden-item and file-type filtering in projects, disk browsers, and the Open panel
- **changed** — Enhancements to the Character Inspector, Minimap, Git revision lists, and image inspector
- **changed** — Markdown improvements, including Pandoc/R-Markdown style citation coloring and improved CommonMark emphasis handling
- **fixed** — Performance improvements for SFTP operations, large-file parsing and scanning, case-insensitive search, columnar selections, archive filtering, shell worksheet idle behavior, built-in language modules, and other large-scale text operations

BBEdit 16 is a major upgrade which brings new automation, search, editing, project, and performance improvements.

This update includes changes to address reported symptoms, and includes improvements to performance and stability as well as improvements in the Mac App Store purchasing experience. Complete details are available in the change notes, via the Help menu.

Highlights of the 16.0 release  include:

- Expanded support for macOS Shortcuts, including one-shot text transformations for extracting or deleting matching lines, sorting lines, and text replacement.

- Improved HTML5 syntax checking using the W3C HTML checker service, with options for project-specific, language-specific, remote, or local checking.

- Text search in image files using macOS image text recognition, available from Find and Multi-File Search, with recognized text also shown in the image inspector.

- A new search field for notebook sidebars, for finding matches in note names and contents.

- Project-, instaproject-, and notebook-specific color scheme settings, plus separate color scheme choices for printing.

- Expanded web site deployment settings, including separate Testing and Production deployment destinations.

- Optional vi keyboard emulation, with mode and command status shown in the editor.

- Easier installation of language modules directly from the Languages preferences.

- Expanded Language Server Protocol support, including semantic token coloring when provided by the language server.

- Standard macOS sharing for selected text.

- New commands for gathering untitled documents and moving documents between windows.

- More flexible hidden-item and file-type filtering in projects, disk browsers, and the Open panel.

- Enhancements to the Character Inspector, Minimap, Git revision lists, and image inspector.

- Markdown improvements, including Pandoc/R-Markdown style citation coloring and improved CommonMark emphasis handling.

- A new Process Duplicate Lines option to include duplicate counts.

BBEdit 16.0 also includes significant performance improvements, especially for SFTP operations, large-file parsing and scanning, case-insensitive search, columnar selections, archive filtering, shell worksheet idle behavior, built-in language modules, and other large-scale text operations.