14 DAY TRIAL // Today, October 11, 2016, GitHub officially announced the release of Atom 1.11, their popular open-source and cross-platform hackable text editor that you can use for programming and whatnot.
Atom 1.11 ships five weeks after the release of Atom 1.10 at the end of August, and it brings various improvements to the Image View package, such as support for confirming tabs that are in a pending state just by double-clicking on them, as well as the ability for the status bar to display the size of the image in bytes, along with its height and width.
Also, when opening an image in the same action, Image View will no longer report its dimensions as zero. Other interesting changes implemented in Atom 1.11 include a new option to display a custom title bar on macOS Sierra platforms, which will adapt to the system theme, new telemetry permissions before sending you data to improve the software, and working Split Pane menu items.
Atom 1.12 to feature international keyboard support
In the good tradition of the Atom release cycle, the next update has entered the Beta stages of development, and we can tell you right now that it should introduce Electron 1.3.6, various tweaks specific to the Windows platform, keybinding usability improvements, and last but not least international keyboard support.
"New APIs available in Chrome 52 allowed us to take on this long-requested feature. The new APIs turned out to be less important than we originally thought but we’re nonetheless happy to report Atom users in all locales now get typical keyboard behavior in Atom’s default installation," says Ian Olsen in today's announcement.
Atom 1.12 will be released in the first week of November, but until then we invite you today to download the stable Atom 1.11 release for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via our website, from where you can also grab the Beta of Atom 1.12. Also, you should check out the full release notes for other technical details on the new changes.