The great release notes of BBEdit

I have to admit that when a reader wrote to me and said… Every point release of BBEdit delights me. I live in BBEdit. It’s one of the few packages for which I read through the release notes every time (they often have spots of hilarity). …I got a bit concerned. One thing that I hate more than wasted release notes (“Bug fixes and performance improvements”) is perhaps funny release notes – the ones where instead of actually conveying what changed, the text field is used for something, erm, “creative.” (Perhaps most infamously, Medium had had a spell of “fun” release notes about 10 years ago, to a mix of amusement and blowback). But I needn’t have worried. The release notes of BBEdit are just plain old solid good work, with only a sprinkle of humor: The “Zoom” command makes a triumphant return to the Window menu. Fixed crash which would occur when displaying completions from language servers which violate the published specification and provide something other than a string for the…