4.5.0

New features:

• EOL management (see issue #110)
• New filter mode for code completion: subsequence
• Add support for stdeb (ppa packages available)

Fixed bugs:

• fix a bug with comment (see issue #109)

4.4.0

4.4.0

4.3.0

New features:

• experimental support for dbpre on Linux
• experimental support for using a custom GnuCobol compiler on Windows
• support for custom keywords convention (lower or upper case keyword suggestions)
• support for very small screens (10 inches)
• support for opening more than one file

Fixed bugs:

• improvements to the navigation panel: fix issues where exec statements were shown in the outline.
• fixed a bug where the linter mixed the code of two opened tabs
• fixed indentation bugs when indenting source that have characters before column 7 (non free format)
• fixed duplicate entires in the recent files list
• fixed a bug that prevent the IDE to remember the last open/save path
• fixed a bug where compilation/run actions were wrongly disabled

4.3.0b

Highlights

This the beta version for the next minor release. In addition to the usual bug fixes, we added support for dbpre on linux and for using a custom GnuCobol on Windows.

On OS X, the application has been recompiled with Qt 5.4, which fix a couple of styling issues. Now the application looks really good on Mac!

New features:

• experimental support for dbpre on Linux
• experimental support for using a custom GnuCobol compiler on Windows
• support for custom keywords convention (lower or upper case keyword suggestions)
• support for very small screens (10 inches)
• support for opening more than one file

Fixed bugs:

• improvements to the navigation panel: fix issues where exec statements were shown in the outline.
• fixed a bug where the linter mixed the code of two opened tabs
• fixed indentation bugs when indenting source that have characters before column 7 (non free format)
• fixed duplicate entires in the recent files list
• fixed a bug that prevent the IDE to remember the last open/save path
• fixed a bug where compilation/run actions were wrongly disabled

4.2.0

New features:

• splittable tab widget: you can now split and editor vertically or
  horizontally infinitely.
• a file system tree view that show the content of the directory of the current
  editor
• navigation panel (and file system tree view panel) can now be closed
• make the control panel (buttons in the editor in minimal view) look better
  on windows
• add file association to the windows installer
• allow to disable intelligent backspace (now disabled by default) (#78)
• add a path label to the status bar
• add support for pygments 2 (new color schemes)
• add "Report bug" menu action (clicking on this will open your browser to the
  github issue tracker with a pre-filled error report)

Fixed bugs:

• fix a line ending issue with the run console on windows (#77)
• fix a bug with navigation panel (#76)
• improve usage of rrt theme (#79)

Installers for OS X and Windows can be found on the download page: https://launchpad.net/cobcide/+download

v4.1.1

Bump pyqode.core required version to 2.3.2 to fix occasional crash when closing an editor tab (see #74)

v4.1

New features:

• add support for GnuCobol 2.0 on GNU/Linux
• add a way to specify global compiler switches (-g, -ftrace,...)
• improve detection of external terminal on GNU/Linux
• make use of pyqode-console to prompt for a key press at the end of the
  program when run in an external terminal (Windows + GNU/Linux)
• style improvement: the internal terminal will use the same colors as the
  cobol editor.
• performance improvement: avoid useless re-highlight on open
• update to pyqode 2.3 (add occurrences highlighting, global checker,
  better selections, smart backspace, auto complete of quotes and
  parentheses, ...)

4.0

The entire application has been rewritten.

The cobol code editor widget has been moved to the pyqode.cobol package.

New features:

• code folding
• improved auto indentation (after if/else/perform)
• reworked user interface: the default view (from v2) is back as the
  default view but you can switch to the minimal view (from v3) by double
  clicking an editor tab (see issue #47)
• navigation panel is now fully synced with code folding panel of the
  current editor
• you can now cancel a build/run action
• new syntax highlighter which is about 3 times faster than the previous
  highlighter
• more keywords in code completion
• ability to disable the linter (see issue #46)

4.0.0 Release Candidate 2

Fix for issue #62 and #63

4.0.0 Release Candidate

Fix all the bugs reported by @Astalaseven:

• #54
• #55
• #56
• #57
• #58

Also there is now a color scheme preview in the preferences settings (#59).

On GNU/Linux, you should upgrade pyqode.core and pyqode.cobol from their develop branch.