Lite XL v2.1.8 released (SDL 3, LTO)

This is the first Lite XL release to use SDL3 and LTO, which fixes some platform-specific issues and improves overall editor performance. Other than that, the release includes several quality-of-life improvements.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads such as ZIP files for Windows and lightweight releases are available below.

For OS requirements, please refer to the relevant section in the README.

New Features

• Port to SDL3 (#1756)
• Warn against malformed patterns and disable them (#2029)
• Update Windows setup files (#1988)
• add LTO support (#2049)
• Make font loading function return proper error messages (#1919)

Fixes

• Update CSS plugin to support more units (#2010)
• Add __tostring method to all objects (#1534)
• Use current char to determine col in DocView:get_x_offset_col (#1946)
• Allow / and \ as PATHSEP on Windows when fuzzy matching files (#1992)
• Use correct charmap and glyphmap sizes (#1999)
• Add digit separators for C++ syntax highlighting (#2026)
• Prevent enumerating the directory tree in system.list_dir (#2059)
• Fixed dirmonitor excessively high CPU usage on Linux (#2044)
• Use correct charmap and glyphmap sizes (#1999)
• Make project folder detection more robust against unexpected errors (b5317c5)

Other Changes

• Replace memory functions with SDL equivalent (#2067)
• Add postrelease workflow to update docs and release winget packages (#1983)
• Move dependency resolving into source file (#1937)
• Improve WASM support (#1779)
• Update CI Script to fix MSYS2 (#2028)
• Fix missing includes (#2017)
• Add manifest file to allow installing Lite XL with lpm (#2043)

Please go to changelog.md for detailed description of all the changes.

Commits since last version: v2.1.7...v2.1.8