Pulsar v1.125.0: Happy New Years!

Pulsar 1.125.0 is available now!

Pulsar v1.125.0: Happy New Years!

The Pulsar team is happy to welcome everyone to the new year on our 2025th regular release.

We've gone back on our last update's decision to add source comment to the spell-check.grammar setting by default, as it had a greater performance impact than anticipated. This does mean that by default comments in code are no longer spell-checked — but if you liked the feature, you can add that setting back in! Just re-add source comment to the list of scopes under "Settings > Packages > spell-check > Grammars."

We've also restored an internal API that was changed a while back, after we learned the change affected the project-plus community package.

We have our usual improvements to the Tree-sitter grammars — such as language-css's parser being updated to the latest, and language-python getting improved indentation hinting for some unusual code constructs.

We've fixed an issue that would cause pulsar and ppm to be removed from the user's PATH on Windows during an upgrade, to ensure the choices you select during installation are respected.

We've also engaged in some maintenance and updates to our CI operations, to ensure we can keep things working on all of our supported platforms.

As always, a huge thank you to our community, contributors, and donations. Happy coding, and see you amongst the stars! - The Pulsar Team

• The Windows installer no longer removes pulsar and ppm from your path when you update Pulsar to a newer version.
• [spell-check] Removed source comment from the list of automatically checked scopes because of reports of high CPU usage. This means that Pulsar will no longer automatically perform spell-checking for all code comments in all source files. (If you liked the behavior, you can add it back to the list in the spell-check.grammars config setting.)
• [language-python] Improved indentation hinting in some unusual scenarios like on one-line blocks and after code comments.
• [language-css] Updated tree-sitter-css to latest. Selector handling is now much better when typing incomplete selectors in a brand-new CSS file or at the bottom of an existing file.
• Restored functionality of project-plus via exposing previously removed internal APIs.

Pulsar

• Tree-sitter rolling fixes, 1.125 (or 1.124.1) edition @savetheclocktower
• Windows: Only remove Pulsar/PPM from PATH during uninstall @confused-Techie
• CI: Retry on timeout when building macOS bins @DeeDeeG
• Install dependencies for CI documentation job @savetheclocktower
• Attempt to install dependency on new Ubuntu CI images @savetheclocktower
• CI: No dpkg shenanigans for package tests workflow @DeeDeeG
• Expose dbPromise in StateStore @confused-Techie

pulsar-updater

• Don't prompt to update on non-default release channels @savetheclocktower

spell-check

• Fixes for a possible patch release @savetheclocktower