Geany Files

General

• Include themes from geany-themes (Issue#4035, PR#4044, Issue#4340, PR#4354).
• Fix silently truncating files containing NUL bytes (PR#3716).
• Improve compatibility focusing the editor window when opening a file externally (Kondor Dániel, Issue#3531, PR#4071).
• Require GLib 2.56 (PR#4199).
• Update placeholders for external printing command to use the same ones as build commands (Pynckels, PR#4250).

Bug Fixes

• Improve corner-case encoding detection and conversion (PR#3716).
• Fix losing session after opening several projects (Issue#3897, PR#3898).
• Fix emission of the "document-activate" signal, leading to glitches in UI and plugins (Issue#3684, PR#3891).
• Fix spurious CPU load after running a build command (PR#3902).
• Use a more reliable method for saving preferences and other auxiliary files (Issue#3946, PR#3950).
• Fix focusing the symbol list through key binding (Pascal Baillehache, Issue#3678, PR#3681).
• Fix search entry after editing the toolbar (Issue#3831, PR#3838).
• Fix non-deterministic anonymous symbol names (Issue#3717, PR#3785).
• Fix displaying symbols declared out of order (Issue#4060, PR#4063).
• Fix possible invalid memory access when generating user initials on first startup (Issue#3844, PR#3846).
• Fix Meson build when either fnmatch() or regcomp() is missing on the system (Issue#3618).
• Fix replacing placeholders in filenames in build commands (PR#4318).

Interface

• Add support for searching the Messages and Compiler output (PR#3823).
• Add support for modern platform-native file selection dialogs (Issue#1310, Issue#2794, Issue#3458, Issue#3868, Issue#4220, Issue#4259, PR#3861).
• Regroup filetypes by letter (PR#3977).
• Add filter for open documents sidebar (PR#4210).
• Add filter for keybindings preferences (Issue#2848, PR#4192).
• Add various pref to skip "replace in session" confirmation dialog (Issue#3702, PR#3851).
• Make it easier to wrap search when the confirmation dialog is shown (Issue#1192, PR#4042).
• Fix spurious selection when clicking an externally-modified file (Issue#3906, PR#3909).
• Fix translation of the Various preferences tab (Issue#3628, PR#3634).
• Do not show redundant None encoding (Issue#3624, PR#3640).
• Do not display encodings not supported on the system (PR#3720).
• Move "Virtual Spaces" preference to "Editor -> Features" (Issue#3605).
• Various UI tweaks (PR#3560, Issue#3630, PR#3637, PR#4098, PR#4149).

Editor

• Update Scintilla to 5.5.4 and Lexilla to 5.4.2 (PR#4168).
• Allow pasting and autocompletion for multiple carets (Issue#625, Issue#2328, PR#4278).
• Increase minimal number margin width (Issue#4332, PR#4334).

Filetypes

• Update parsers to Universal Ctags p6.1.20240519.0, which leads to many updated symbol parsers (PR#3859, PR#3877).
• Add CIL filetype (Christian Schrötter, PR#3480).
• Add Dart filetype (Issue#371, PR#3973).
• Add Dockerfile filetype (andy5995, Issue#3752, PR#3757).
• Add LESS and SCSS filetypes (Kirill Zhumarin & Jiří Techet, PR#4095).
• Add Nix filetype (PR#3954).
• Add Prolog filetype (PR#3171).
• Add Raku (Perl 6) filetype (PR#3169).
• Add SystemVerilog filetype (Javier Mora, PR#4039).
• Add Terraform HCL filetype (PR#4246).
• Add TOML filetype (PR#3934).
• Add Zig filetype (Issue#3724, PR#3974).
• Update R filetype (hieeupomalrf, Issue#3376, PR#3607).
• Update Fortran keywords (cx384, PR#3656).
• Update Pascal filetype (rdipardo, PR#3694).
• Update Java keywords (PR#4014).
• Update JavaScript keywords (Azq2, PR#3440).
• Update PowerShell keywords (PR#3886).
• Update Verilog keywords (Javier Mora, PR#4037).
• Improve support for mixed PHP/HTML/JavaScript symbols (PR#4335).
• Improve Shell highlighting inside strings (Issue#1754, Issue#1821, PR#4081).
• Improve Erlang symbols (Issue#2650, PR#3837).
• Improve Nim highlighting (Issue#3520, PR#3648).
• Add symbols support for Ocaml, Meson and Forth filetypes (PR#3163, PR#4013).
• Support triple-quoted strings in Java (Issue#3995, PR#4000).
• Improve Groovy comments support (Issue#3761, PR#4015).
• Fix highlighting of COBOL keywords (PR#4337).
• Recognize shell scripts when using busybox (Issue#3884, PR#4016).
• Recognize .lpr as Pascal (rdipardo, PR#3694).
• Recognize .mjs, .cjs and .jsx as JavaScript (Damon Harris, PR#3698, Chocobo1, PR#3866, ajpf44, PR#3892).
• Recognize .mts, .cts and .tsx as TypeScript (Chocobo1, PR#3867, ajpf44, PR#3892).
• Recognize .pyi as Python (Issue#3873, PR#3976).
• Recognize .tmpl and .vue as HTML (Azq2, PR#3440).

Plugins

• FileBrowser: Use xdg-open to open external files by default on Linux and others (PR#3815).
• SaveActions: Add support for "persistent untitled documents" (LiquidCake, PR#3911, PR#4077).

Windows

• Add installer signing using SignPath.io (Giuseppe Penone, PR#4223).
• Use Consolas as the default monospaced font (PR#4326).
• Improve Meson support (Biswapriyo Nath, PR#3811, PR#3812, PR#4236).
• Use themed title bar (GabrielFrigo & Jiří Techet, Issue#4200, PR#4205).
• Use smaller toolbar icons by default (PR#4197).
• Fix opening some help URIs (PR#4322).

API

• Add Plugin Extension API allowing plugins to take over some features for selected documents, including autocompletion, symbol goto, symbol highlighting and calltip display (PR#3849).
• Add symbols_get_icon_pixbuf() (PR#3916).
• Add "document-before-save-as" signal (PR#3572).
• Add "geany-before-quit" signal (PR#4069).
• Adjust the internal state when emitting the "document-new" signal to be closer to the one when emitting the "document-open" one. This should not affect most users, but it fixes a crash in the Overview plugin (geany/geany-plugins#1354, PR#4348).

Internationalization

• Updated translations: cs, da, de, es, fr, nl, pt, pt_br, ru, sk, zh_TW
• Added translation: ltg, ta

Full Changelog: https://github.com/geany/geany/compare/2.0.0...2.1.0