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New ST version planned for 2026?

#1

Hello,
thinking about renew ST, is there a new version plan since the last build 4200 from may 2025 ?
Regards
Eric

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#2

https://www.sublimetext.com/dev

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#3

There is a “Dev Build” 4205 available to licensed users only. There is no mention of if or when it will be released for production. The Dev Builds are the in-progress versions, and are updated more frequently. Feel free to use them, but keep in mind you will be running less tested code, and you’ll be seeing many more update notification prompts. Issues can be posted on the public issue tracker.

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#4

Lately I’ve been using Visual Studio Code which was heavily inspired by Sublime Text. (And which is very actively developed, by the way).
There is one small thing that makes VS Code significantly more useful in my eyes:

The Ctrl+Tab popup window that shows the MRU-ordered tab names of the current view.

How I miss it it Sublime Text!
Oh my God, how I miss it in Sublime Text!!!
VS Code, similarly to Sublime Text, also has the Ctrl+P go-to-anywhere overlay, but in addition to that it has the Ctrl+Tab popup window which is the standard approach used in many text editors and IDEs, and which is not entirely covered by the go-to-anywhere overlay.
I don’t understand why the Sublime Text team insists of not having this popup window in otherwise a brilliant editor.

The following keymap configuration looks close to the Ctrl+Tab popup window:

{
	"keys": ["ctrl+tab"],
	"command": "chain",
	"args": {
		"commands": [
			["show_overlay", {"overlay": "goto", "show_files": true}],
			["move", {"by": "lines", "forward": true}]
		]
	},
	"context": [
		{ "key": "overlay_has_focus", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }
	]
}

except for these 4 points:

  1. The Ctrl+Tab popup window includes only already opened files;
  2. The Ctrl+Tab popup window does not immediately activate a selected file - the file is activated when this popup window is closed;
  3. The Ctrl+Tab popup window does not require you to press Enter to confirm your choice;
  4. The Ctrl+Tab popup window is automatically hidden once you release the Ctrl key (the selected file is activated at that moment).
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#5

But it shows some progress, but there is no visibility on what’s being added. Before the latest build (4205), the only available version in public is 4199, which was released on 13-May-2025.

I have concerns about the plugin and themes, it seems most of the popular ones are abandoned (or at least the latest update was a few years back). I think some of the plugin should be on the core like SideBarEnhancements, A File Icon and ColorHighlighter.

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#6

FWIW, everything under https://github.com/SublimeText is also maintained by volunteers in their spare time as any package in any repository is (or has been).

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