winget install --id LiteXLTeam.LiteXLAbout Lite XL
A lightweight text editor written in Lua, adapted from lite.
What's new in 2.1.8
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 MSYS...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.8 | Unknown | 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. Downlo... |
| 2.1.7 | Unknown | This release addresses a scaling issue on macOS from the previous release. Other than that, the release addresses a few bugs related to the comment line / block functionality and DocView scrolling, as well as improvement... |
| 2.1.6 | Unknown | This releases contains general Quality-of-Life improvements to the editor, including a new icon tailored for macOS, support for highlighting CUDA files and improvements to projectsearch (e.g. search status is shown on to... |
| 2.1.1 | Unknown | No notes |