Scintillua 6.7 (01 May 2026)

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• Scintillua 6.7

Bugfixes:

• Fixed PKGBUILD lexer to not tag keywords after '.' and numbers that are parts of words.

Changes:

• Updated RouterOS lexer keywords.
• Updated PKGBUILD lexer keywords, functions, and constants.
• Added Swift lexer.
• Added Arduino lexer.
• Updated Go lexer with new functions.
• Various Perl lexer improvements.
• Recognize more extensions for C++, diff, Javascript, Makefile, Powershell, and Python lexers.
• Added lexer.ignore_extensions and lexer.ignore_patterns for ignoring extensions
  and filename parts, respectively, in lexer.detect().
• Added more LaTeX math environment keywords.
• Updated Lua lexer to reflect changes in Lua 5.5.
• Dart lexer recognizes capitalized words as types.

Scintillua 6.6 (30 Sep 2025)

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• Scintillua 6.6

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Pascal numeric literals.
• Fixed folding of HTML/XML comments and XML processing instructions.
• Fixed incorrectly highlighting '..' range operators between numbers.

Changes:

• Added Janet and todo.txt lexers.
• Updated Python lexer to recognize t-strings.
• Migrated ini and Dart lexers.
• Updated org lexer word lists.

Scintillua 6.5 (25 May 2025)

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• Scintillua 6.5

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Nix lexer recognition in SciTE.
• Fixed Markdown lexer to allow indented code fence blocks and not lex some indented continuation
  lines as code.
• Fixed SciTE not using Scintillua's Markdown lexer.
• Fixed SciTE not recognizing CMakeLists.txt.

Changes:

• Added org lexer.
• Switch to building with CMake.
• Revamped website, manual, and API documentation.
• Migrated systemd, rpmspec, and reST lexers.
• Updated Lisp lexer to highlight character escapes.
• Updated Markdown lexer to just tag the beginning of a blockquote.
• The output lexer can highlight terminal CSI color sequences.
• Allow lexers to define their own fold functions.
• Updated Markdown lexer to fold headers.
• Added lexer.line_start, lexer.line_end, and lexer.text_range().

Scintillua 6.4 (31 Jan 2025)

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• Scintillua 6.4

Bugfixes:

• Initialize fold constants when Scintillua is used as a standalone library.
• Fixed performance issues of the text lexer.
• Fixed LPeg stack size issues in complex grammars.
• Output lexer matches absolute program paths instead of just names.
• Fixed errors with folding in reST lexer.

Changes:

• Updated Hare, C, asm, and Makefile lexers with small improvements.
• Renamed 'ansi_c', 'dmd', and 'rstats' lexers to 'c', 'd', and 'r', respectively.
• Added Factor and Nix lexers.

Scintillua 6.3 (29 Apr 2024)

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• Scintillua 6.3

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Julia lexer incorrectly highlighting some multi-byte characters as operators.
• Fixed legacy support for lexer.fold_consecutive_lines().
• Fixed Bash lexer highlighting related to '${}' variables and '#' in variables and escape sequences.
• Fixed some instances of proxy lexers not having an initial rule.
• Avoid accidental changes to legacy lexer.styles table.
• Fixed Perl lexer errors for some operators that occur at the end of input.

Changes:

• Updated Hare lexer with various improvements.
• Updated Markdown lexer to recognize ~~~ code blocks.
• Migrated fstab, Matlab, and Meson lexers.
• Disabled conditional and arithmetic operator highlighting in Bash, improving performance.
• Updated the Perl lexer highlight the y operator like tr.
• Updated the AutoHotkey lexer with more keywords and fold points.
• Updated the Rust lexer to simplify number highlighting.

Scintillua 6.2 (27 Jul 2023)

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• Scintillua 6.2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed user-specified first line pattern detection.

Changes:

• Updated Bash lexer to no highlight escaped quote characters as strings.
• Added "scintillua.word.chars" property for use with Scintilla-based editors.
• Added lexer.names() for determining known lexer names if LuaFileSystem is available.
• Improvements to allow using Scintillua as a Lua library in a Scintilla environment.
• Updated Pascal keywords.
• Added Objeck lexer.
• Replaced Man lexer with Troff lexer.
• Define _G.lpeg for lexers if it does not already exist.
• Updated Python lexer to support soft keywords, but not highlight them by default.
• Only highlight stand-alone numbers in YAML.
• Updated to LPeg 1.1.0.

Scintillua 6.1 (22 Dec 2022)

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• Scintillua 6.1

Bugfixes:

• Fixed compile issues with MSVC.
• Fixed detection of filenames with extensions like "CMakeLists.txt".
• Do not highlight C struct members as builtin constants if names match.

Changes:

• Added AutoHotkey lexer.
• Updated Perl, Ada, Rust, AutoIt, and CMake lexers.

Scintillua 6.0 (27 Sep 2022)

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• Scintillua 6.0

Bugfixes:

• Updated Ruby, C++, D, Gleam, Nim, and Verilog lexers to fix binary number parsing.
• Fixed lexer.line_from_position() for start positions after 1.
• Fixed inability for standalone Lua library to use lexers that call lexer.line_from_position(),
  index lexer.indent_amount, or index lexer.line_state.
• Updated Bash lexer to improve heredoc handling.

Changes:

• Removed support for old legacy lexers.
• Rewrote Scintillua lexer to behave like a typical Scintilla lexer.

• Renamed to Scintillua from LexLPeg.
• Renamed lpeg.home library property to scintillua.lexers.
• Removed lpeg.color.theme library property
• CreateLexer() is the only way to load lexers now; no more private call API.
• Removed all styling capability. Applications are responsible for setting styles.
• Implemented ILexer5's NamedStyles() and NameOfStyles() so editors can construct style map.
• Replaced Lua theme files with SciTE properties files in themes/ for demonstration.
• Renamed fold.* properties to fold.scintillua.*.
• Added GetCreateLexerError() function for fetching CreateLexer() errors.

• Replaced "token" concept with "tags".
• Deprecated lexer.token() in favor of lexer.tag() and made it an instance method.
• Dropped 32-bit Windows DLL support.
• Removed lexer.property_expanded.
• Compile a very minimal subset of Lua into Scintillua (no bit32, coroutine, debug, io, package,
  or os libraries).
• Applications can use their own keyword lists for lexers that support it.
• More restricted sandbox environment for lexers.
• All lexers created with lexer.new() have a default whitespace rule; deprecated
  lexer.WHITESPACE.
• Child lexers can extend their parent's keyword lists.
• Added more builtin tag/token names.
• Updated Perl lexer to recognize more numbers.
• Updated Fennel lexer.
• Updated Python lexer to highlight class definitions.
• Updated Makefile, R, Fortran, and Go lexers.
• Added Hare and RPM spec lexers.
• Updated a number of lexers to use the new lexer format.
• Added allow_indent option to lexer.starts_line().
• Deprecated lexer.last_char_includes() in favor of lexer.after_set().
• Removed lexer.NOTHING tag/token in favor of the existing lexer.DEFAULT.
• Removed start_pos argument to lexer.fold().
• lexer.word_match() can be used as an instance method for enabling users to set, replace, or
  extend word lists.
• Added lexer.number_() and friends for creating patterns that match numbers separated
  by arbitrary characters.
• Allow prefix to be optional in lexer.to_eol().
• Added "output" lexer for recognizing tool errors and warnings, similar to Lexilla's errorlist
  lexer.
• Added Gemini, git-rebase, and strace lexers.
• Added "scintillua.comment" property for lexers with comments so applications can use them.
• Updated lexer template.
• Refreshed light and dark color themes.
• Added lexer detection via SCI_PRIVATELEXERCALL or lexer.detect() to help clients
  determine which lexers are associated with which filenames and content line patterns.
• Updated AWK and Django lexers with updated keywords and functions/filters.
• Removed fold.line.groups property and lexer.fold_consecutive_lines().

Scintillua 5.3 (03 Nov 2021)

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• Scintillua 5.3

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug looking up custom styles introduced in 5.1.

Changes:

• None.

Scintillua 5.2 (18 Sep 2021)

Download:

• Scintillua 5.2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crashing/lack of styling in some 64-bit drop-in installations (e.g. SciTE).

Changes:

• None.