Gram 1.1.0 released

23 points by FedericoSchonborn 8 hours ago on lobsters | 2 comments

Today I'm happy to announce the release of Gram 1.1.0! A huge thanks to everyone who has contributed by raising issues, submitting patches and artwork and giving me feedback and comments, the response so far has blown me away.

Downloads are available from Codeberg and hopefully soon via Homebrew/AUR/other channels.

In particular, I want to thank

...not to forget the OG #gram testers, the Gleam Gathering folks who got an early look at the editor and anyone else I may have forgot to mention.

The new app icons for Gram in light and dark modes

New icon

One of the most visible changes with this release are new app icons by @kramo. I love them, thank you so much. The old hand-drawn grumpy toad will stay on the welcome page at least for now, and the happy toad by @bjoreman will stay on the website.

wgpu and Linux

The second big change is migrating GPUI from the old blade renderer to a new renderer based on wgpu. All credit for making this happen goes to contributor @selfisekai. This should hopefully improve stability and compatibility on Linux, but let me know if you encounter any issues.

Note: There is a known issue with running on some older Intel GPUs. To get Gram to run on these cards you can run through software emulation. It will be slow but will at least start. To do this, run the following from the terminal after installation:

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gram --foreground

Flatpak, Appimage, deb and rpm

On the topic of Linux, the support in general is now a lot better. We can now generate Flatpak, AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages, and I will take a stab at getting this version onto Flathub as soon as possible.

We already have the editor available in AUR for Arch and in Homebrew for Mac OS, and hopefully those channels will be updated with the new version soon.

Language support

There is built in support for more languages/formats in the editor:

OpenTofu / Terraform
Nix
XML
Bash language server

Better extension support

Using extensions should be more ergonomic now. The editor is clearer about the requirements (language extensions need a rustup toolchain to build) and gives better feedback if the installation fails. Oh, and the extensions won't disappear after a few days if installed from Git. (oops - download and install from local folder and they'll remain in 1.0.0 too) :D

The first release worked well for me, on Mac and without using extensions. This release should hopefully be usable for more people.

Supporting the Project

The best way to support Gram is by using it, contributing fixes, improving the documentation or spreading the word. If you do want to spend money to support free and open source projects that deserve your help, these are some projects that I like and want to help:

Another way to support Gram is by donating to Medecins Sans Frontiers.

Fix your hearts or die, friends.

krig

Changelog

Added

Add AUR installation instructions to README (#38) by @nerdyslacker
Add Gleam theme by Danielle Maywood
Add Minimal base keymap for use with vim/helix keys (#144) by @tjk
Add XML language server lemminx (#121) by @theDoctor
Add XML treesitter support (#116) by @theDoctor
Add appimage build option to bundle-linux (#114) by @theDoctor
Add bash LSP (#132) by @theDoctor
Add binary aur install instructions to README (#53) by @bananas
Add default empty rustfmt config (#92) by @fzzr
Add helix :reflow command to vim/helix modes
Add new app icons by @kramo (#49) (#134)
Add perl-Time-Piece to linux script (#1) by @LHolten
Add remove trailing whitespace action (#81)
Add subpixel text rendering, switch from blade to wgpu (#103) by @selfisekai
Add zlib-ng-compat-static as dependency for Fedora build (#62) by @voidedgin
Build and package for windows (#74) by @sparx
Built in language support for Nix (#59)
Built in language support for OpenTofu (#33) by @theDoctor
Improved feedback when extension installation fails (#37)
Options to adjust client side decoration rounding/shadow (#20)
Support /path/to/file.txt(ln, col) style paths in terminal (#75)

Fixed

Bind vim/helix keys even if base keymap is None (#117)
Cleanup remaining screen-capture code (#80) by @selfisekai
Don't install WASI SDK if compatible clang is found (#41)
Don't panic on failing to send an error notification (#136) by @selfisekai
Enable the uninstall extension button (#32)
Extend icon theme docs with enable settings (#6) by @Petrosz007
Fetch newest release automatically (#83) by @scadu
Fix LSP github download logic for pre-release (#67) by @Petrosz007
Fix Supertab not performing word completion
Fix block_comment and documentation_comment for Rust (#24) by @fzzr
Fix download of tofu-ls for opentofu lsp support (#122)
Fix empty project panel "or" divider (#109)
Fix extensions being installed to tmp dir (#26)
Fix menubar keyboard navigation (#119) by @aylamz
Fix superhtml LSP (#56) by @Petrosz007
Fix the lua-language-server asset name when downloading from github (#78)
Fixed package name for cmake for Gentoo packages (#28) by @stepanov
Fixes compilation issue on aarch64-linux (#61) by @voidedgin
Make UI and Buffer Font match. (#69) by @voidedgin
Modify single instance port numbers to not clash with Zed (#10)
Remove more old sign-in code (#123) by @tjk
Remove unused credentials code (#110)
Set correct target for extension grammar (#84) by @selfisekai
Use system clang, if it supports the wasm target (#64) by @selfisekai
docs: Documentation around installing extensions. (#23) by @edwardloveall
docs: Fix a few documentation links (#125) by @tjk
docs: Fixed typos in README (#19) by @GulfSugar
docs: Highlight that Rust in required to install some extensions (#34) by @ash-sykes
docs: Remove mention of old feedback window (#126) by @tjk
docs: Wasm is not an acronym

Changed

Move GLSL extension into separate repo
Move Protobuf extension into separate repo
Allow for CARGO_TARGET_DIR in install.sh (#118) by @tjk
Bump crash-handler to 0.7 (#39) by @selfisekai
Update wild to 0.8.0 (#63) by @voidedgin
(see codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram for complete list of changes)