# Nova Nova 13 - Product: Nova (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/nova) - Vendor: Panic - Date: 2025-07-09 - Original notes: https://nova.app/releases/13/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/nova/releases/2025-07-09-nova-13 - Labels: Platforms: macOS What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- Nova 13 brings workspace improvements, built-in text manipulation tools, and a brand new help library where you can learn more about Nova's powerful features. Featuring... Open Quickly in Projects Acc… - **added** — Open Quickly in Projects gives quick and simple access to all projects - **added** — Case Preserving Replace toggles to preserve case formatting when replacing words - **added** — Text manipulation actions: Sort Lines, Reverse Lines, Join Lines, Unique Lines, and Zap Gremlins - **added** — Letter case transformation actions between lowerCamelCase, UpperCamelCase, kebab-case, and snake_case - **added** — Quick action to copy both current file path and line number - **added** — Editor issues with file references now include a Show button to jump directly to the referenced file - **added** — SVG files are now previewable side-by-side with their code - **added** — Jinja and TOML added as built-in language modes - **added** — Support for stopping the current task step and continuing to the next without ending the pipeline - **added** — Debugging instruction stepping by holding Control when using supported adapters - **added** — Watchpoints supported by right-clicking variables and choosing Watch in supported adapters - **added** — Document tabs show indicators when underlying files are modified externally, deleted, or moved to Trash - **changed** — JS/TS debug adapter enhanced with better variable display and modulemap resolution - **changed** — Threads and frames display richer detail from adapters including built-in JS/TS adapter and Icarus - **changed** — Code hovers improved with refined styling and richer Markdown-formatted help text support - **changed** — macOS Look Up action now accessible from contextual menu - **changed** — New File action in Files Sidebar automatically pre-fills the most common file extension - **changed** — Find bar refined with cleaner UI and improved speed in large documents - **changed** — Search in Selection now highlights searched regions even if selection changes - **changed** — JSX and TSX support added for Wrap Selection In Tag action from HTML - **changed** — SCSS parsing updated to use new custom Tree-sitter grammar - **changed** — Refined syntax highlighting and completions in Bash, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, Lua, Markdown, SQL, TypeScript, and TSX Nova 13 brings workspace improvements, built-in text manipulation tools, and a [brand new help library](https://help.nova.app) where you can learn more about Nova's powerful features. Featuring... - Open Quickly in Projects Access to all of your projects is at your fingertips, whether they're saved in Nova's launcher or specific folders you define in Workspace settings. - Case Preserving Replace Ever tried to replace a word, but it's cased differently throughout your file? Just toggle “Preserve Case”, and Presto! Now your lowercase stays lowercase, camel-case can keep its humps, and uppercase is just as loud. - Text Actions One of our most requested quick features, Nova now has built-in tools for sorting, joining, and uniquing lines, transforming between letter cases, and more—all without having to move your hands away from your keyboard. New - Debugging: Stepping by instruction can now be done by holding Control, when using adapters which support it - Debugging: Watchpoints are now supported by right-clicking a variable in the Variables list and choosing “Watch”, with adapters which support them - Documents: Tabs now show an indicator when the underlying file has been modified externally, deleted from disk, or moved to the Trash - Editor: New text manipulation actions: Sort Lines, Reverse Lines, Join Lines, Unique Lines, Zap Gremlins - Editor: New letter case actions: Transform between lowerCamelCase, UpperCamelCase, kebab-case, and snake_case - Editor: Quickly copy both the current file path and line number in one action - Editor: Issues which provide a reference to another file now include a “Show” button to jump directly there - Editor: SVG files are now previewable side-by-side with their code, in the same manner as HTML files - Languages: Jinja and TOML have been added as built-in language modes - Tasks: Support for stopping the current step and continuing on to the next without ending the overall pipeline - Workspace: “Open Quickly in Projects” gives you quick and simple access to all of your projects Improved - Debugging: The JS/TS debug adapter has been enhanced with better variable display and modulemap resolution - Debugging: Threads and frames now show richer detail from adapters that provide it, including the built-in JS/TS adapter and Icarus - Editor: Code hovers have improved styling and richer support for Markdown-formatted help text from language servers - Editor: The macOS “Look Up” action is now accessible from the contextual menu - Files Sidebar: Invoking “New File” now automatically pre-fills the most common file extension from that folder - Files Sidebar: After naming a newly created text file, it now automatically opens in an editor - Files Sidebar: Cancelling the naming of a new file now moves that empty file to the Trash automatically - Find: The editor’s find bar has been refined, with cleaner UI and speed improved in large documents - Find: Using “Search in Selection” now highlights which regions are being searched, even if the editor’s selection changes - JSX / TSX: Added support for the “Wrap Selection In Tag” action from HTML - Languages: SCSS parsing support has been updated to use a new, custom Tree-sitter grammar - Languages: Refined syntax highlighting and completions in Bash, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, Lua, Markdown, SQL, TypeScript, TSX - Languages: Synchronized built-in language grammars with their respective upstream grammars - Languages: Removed leftover built-in regex definitions which had already moved to Tree-sitter, but remained so extensions had time to migrate - Language Servers: Improved support for file system change notifications - Workspace: In-workspace notifications have improved styling, animation, and support for stacking related notifications - Workspace: File browser tabs are now styled using the workspace theme colors Fixed - Debugging: Fixed an issue that prevented breakpoints from triggering reliably when using Chrome debugging - Debugging: The JS/TS debug adapter has _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://nova.app/releases/13/]_