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What's new in this version:

New git integration:
- Files and folders in the sidebar will now display badges to indicate Git status
- Ignored files and folders are visually de-emphasized
- The current Git branch and number of modifications is displayed in the status bar
- Commands have been added to open a repository, see file or folder history, or blame a file in Sublime Merge
- Themes may customize the display of sidebar badges and status bar information
- The setting show_git_status allows disabling Git integration
- All file reads are done through a custom, high-performance Git library written for Sublime Merge

New incremental diff:
- All changes to a document are now represented by dedicated markers in the gutter
- Diff markers show added, modified and deleted lines
- The setting mini_diff controls incremental diff behavior
- In coordination with the new Git functionality, diffs can be calculated against HEAD or the index
- The git_diff_target setting controls base document source
- API methods View.set_reference_document() and View.reset_reference_document() allow controlling the diff
- Full inline diffs of each change can be displayed via the right-click context menu, or keyboard shortcuts
- Inline diff presentation can be changed by customizing a color scheme
- The following diff-related commands were added:
- Next Modification
- Previous Modification
- Revert Modification

Editor control:
- Added block_caret setting
- Improve positioning and sizing of gutter icons in some situations
- Fixed draw_minimap_border setting not working
- Linux: Improved input method (IM) support - fcitx, ibus, etc
- Linux: Fixed a crash when using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
- Linux: Tweaked behavior of up/down when on the first and last lines of a file to better match platform conventions
- Windows: Improved IME support

Themes/UI:
- Improved performance with large numbers of rules in a .sublime-theme
- Linux: Moved to GTK3
- Linux: Various high DPI fixes
- Mac: Added Mojave support
- Mac: Add full support for macOS native tabs
- Mac: Ensure context menus are shown without scrolling
- Mac: Error message dialogs can now be closed with the escape key
- Mac: Improved window placement
- Mac: Improved resize performance
- Windows: Fixed minimized and maximized state not restoring
- Windows: Fixed a bug where auto complete entries would contain an ellipsis when not required
- Enhanced the .sublime-theme format:
- Added variables support and associated revised JSON format with variables key
- Added extends keyword to have one theme derive from another
- Colors may be specified via CSS syntax

Text rendering:
- Support for Unicode 11.0
- Improved rendering of combining characters
- Fixed a caret positioning bug when non-trivial graphemes are present
- Fixed some cases of incorrect glyph positions on Windows and Mac
- Linux: Color glyphs are now drawn properly on light backgrounds
- Windows: Fixed a rendering issue with certain combining characters
- Windows: Fixed some fonts having an incorrect baseline

Color schemes:
-Added block_caret key to use in conjunction with block carets
-caret values now respect alpha as expected, rather than pre-blending against the background color
Added the foreground_adjust property to rules with a background. Accepts CSS color mod adjusters to manipulate the saturation, lightness or opacity of the foreground color.
-Fixed a crash that could occur when nesting embed patterns in .sublime-syntax files
-Syntax Tests: Allow syntax test files to have a UTF-8 BOM

Syntax highlighting:
- Fixed a crash that could occur when nesting embed patterns in .sublime-syntax files
- Syntax Tests: Allow syntax test files to have a UTF-8 BOM
- Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
- Clojure, with thanks to Nelo Mitranim
- Go, with thanks to Nelo Mitranim
- Lua, with thanks to Thomas Smith

Files and folders:
- Improve performance of file watching for ignored paths on Windows and Mac
- Windows: Fixed Open File treating paths as case-sensitive
- Windows: Properly unlock directories after contained files are closed

API:
- Added View.set_reference_document() and View.reset_reference_document() to control diff generation
- Phantoms are now drawn correctly in conjunction with draw_centered
- Various minor improvements related to plugin module loading and unloading
- Added support for hwb() colors to minihtml
- Added a custom min-contrast() adjuster for the CSS color mod function in minihtml
- Mac: Fixed a plugin_host crash when running a process that itself crashes

Miscellaneous:
- Fixed a Goto Symbol in Project performance regression
- F21..F24 keys can now be bound
- Assorted minor fixes and stability improvements
- Linux: Improved behavior of --wait command line argument when Sublime Text isn't currently running