After 5 years hiatus, CodeBlocks IDE for C,C++, Fortran is back

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For the release 25.03, we provide a changelog hereby about what has changed since 20.03 (to download the change log, a link is provided at the bottom of this page):

General

Added active plugin information to the About dialog.
Added support for riscv64 build on Linux.
Added UI for automatic source folders aka project globs.
Allow managing Globs also via pop-up menu in project explorer.
Allow importing/exporting global variable sets.
Allow removal from project of multiple selected files.
Allow splash screen translation.
Make many strings translatable.
Fix detection of opened wxs and double saving query.
Add new wxArtProvider ID to wxSmith’s image picker dialog.
Don’t use deprecated gamin library.
Use wxColourPickerCtrl for colour selection in all settings.
Fixed C::B icon flash in taskbar.
Enhanced HI-DPI support.
Colour editor: Add “Reset all” button.
Make opening a file from the command line (–file) in an already running instance to work correctly.
Correct definition of DEFAULT_CONSOLE_SHELL for Mac.
Rework Drag and Drop: Complete rework of dnd in project tree and editor.
Support DnD of files to virtual folders.
Do not check compiler in skipped targets.
Do not select all files in “Remove files…” by default.
Editor: Allow customising changebar colours.
Editor: Fix popup font size when using Direct2D.
Enable app and debug log in batch build mode.
Find dialog: disable Find button if some input value is incorrect.
Fix change of encoding in already opened files when changing encoding settings.
Fix hangs when returning focus to C::B.
Fix missing target selection choice in compiler’s toolbar.
Fix renaming virtual folders.
Fix sorting of libraries and search paths in Build Options.
Ignore case when sorting plugins in the configuration dialog.
Lexer: add make_unique, make_unique_for_overwrite, make_pair, thread and mutex.
Lexer: Add enums to the list of keywords in the Squirrel lexer.
Lexer: Highlighting of fortran-77 columns in Editor.
Logger: Scroll to the end of log control if a new message is added.
Make DirectWrite the default value for editor technology in MSW.
Modernise/update crash handler dll (exchndl) from v0.9.9 to v0.9.11 (Windows only change).
Move crash report file if C::B folder is not writable.
Printing: Fix endless loop when printing without specifying page size.
Printing: Add support for printing multiple documents as a block.
Printing: Detect incorrect page range (start > end).
Project Menu: Do not show “Notes” and “Set programs' arguments” if no project is opened.
Total rework of global user variables. Added Exoirt/Import capability.
Make sure global variables can be used directly after they are defined.
Fix showing the default colour in Settings -> Environment -> Colours.
Syntax highlighting: fix default colour detection and restoration.
Add display info to the Help -> About -> Information dialog
Add option to display projects in alphabetical order in management panel.
Fixed opening more than one instance of CB (Windows).
Fix renaming of opened files.
Restore project manager tree position after deleting or renaming files.

Plugins

Added Jens Lody’s DisplayEvent core plugin.

AStyle

Updated to v3.2 which seems to be the latest as the project seems stalled.

BrowseTracker

Enable settings translation.

Code completion

Restored the Symbol Browser.
Fix adding parentheses and doc window not popping up on MSW.
Fix freeze when adding project files
Fix clobbered CB global settings changes when closing loaded projects.
Fix infinite loop when parsing files with illegal UTF8 chars.
Fixed and stress tested crashes caused by invalid pointers in CodeBrowser.

Compiler

Added MinGW64, MSYS2, MSVC17 and TDM compilers.
Added support for the c++ standards 23 and 26 (and their gnu extensions).
Added options -std=c23 and -std=gnu23 on GCC13 and newer.
Added response files for to long command lines on compiling and linking.
Use correct option for C++20 depending on version.
Disable the Run button if there is no project and there is no valid editor.
Disable the Run button if the executable does not exist.
Fix Cygwin detection.
Fix Intel compiler creation of static libraries.
Support SDCC 4.2.0 new options and other enhacements.
Sort compilers alphabetically, hide invalid compilers in project options.
Update AVR gcc compiler flags. Add missing uC and add some comments for better readability.
Update SDCC compiler toolchain executables.
Use the same shell for cleaning and compiling makefiles.
Enhanced MinGW compiler detection.
Sort compiler list in compiler detection dialog.

Debugger

CDB driver: Implement user arguments.
Add an option to disable the switching of the perspective when starting the debugger.
Add support for Examine memory dialog when using the CDB debugger.
Add support for newer versions of CDB.
Add support for Threads list and local variables for CDB debugger.
Fix for 64-bit addresses in CDB.
Fix support for debugging using Cygwin.

File manager

Prevent deletion of the system root folder.

Help

Fix access violation on MSW.
Remove memory leak.

LibFinder

Fix stack corruption when clicking on “Try to detect missing ones”.

ProjectsImporter

Fix import of MSVC++ 6 workspaces.

Regex Testbed

Add testing of std::regex.
Allow pasting C-escaped code.
General improvements.

ReopenEditor

Fix crash when changing window mode.

ScriptedWizard:

Remove stray bracket in SDL2 wizard script.
Allow resizing.
Fix DirectX, GTK, OpenCV and STLPort script syntax.
Fix SFML project script.
Fix support of Clang in wxWidgets' wizard.
Make new wxWidgets projects DPI-aware on MSW.
wizard: Update wxWidgets project wizard (thanks PB)
Add wx3.3 to wxWidgets wizard.
Allow translation.

SourceExporter

Updated wxPDFDoc library.

Spellchecker

Fix big memory leak.
Show flag for some generic dictionaries.

ThreadSearch

Add edit button in the directory select dialog
Add a “MatchInComments” option.
Better auto scroll.
Repeat the last search if the search text field is empty, and there was a last search found.

TODO

Fix panel not filling correctly.
Avoid invalid date assertion when sorting date column.

wxSmith

Added EVT_ICONIZE, EVT_ACTIVATE, EVT_MENU_OPEN, EVT_MENU_CLOSE and EVT_MENU_HIGHLIGHT_ALL to wxsFrame.
Fixed generated code for embedded panels that does not resize correctly.
Make disabling I18n in wxSmith really work.
Add flag wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE to wxAuiManager.
Add missing wxART_CLOSE to the bitmap editor.
Add missing wxYES for confirm dialogs, to overwrite existing files.
Add setting for using Bind() instead of Connect(), disabled by default.
Add support for stretchable separator.
Add wxDataViewCtrl, wxDataViewListCtrl and wxDataViewTreeCtrl widgets.
Add wxEditableListBox to the standard tab.
Allow change of I18N setting in existing resources.
allow specific and generic object event functions.
Allow use of the Validator property when creating Custom Widget code.
Added two properties to wxsGLCanvas. Update generated code.
Better UI for the Toolbar editor.
Fix code generation for wxsCustomControl when Style is empty.
Fix crash when deleting the last tool.
Fix EOL in generated code.
Fix widget order of Standard, Advanced and Contrib palettes.
Fix tab usage, currently the setting is inverted.
Generate code to destroy the common dialogs.
Make the OK button the default one in wxStdDlalogButtonSizer.
Make wxsCustomWidget create code for the common properties.
Remove duplicated style wxTAB_TRAVERSAL in dialogs and wxsFrame.
Remove duplicated wxSTAY_ON_TOP in wxsFrame.
Fix project corruption when renaming wxSmith-related files.
Replace long with wxWindowID in the generated code.
Support wxWindgets 3.2 font weights.
Do not call _() in the generated code for texts like “*” or “12”.