Monday 2nd February 2026
Fedora Project
Updated bluefish to 2.4.0 in Rawhide:
- Bluefish 2.4.0 has some new features and many small improvements; it is no longer a 2.2 release because backwards compatibility with the 2.0 series of Bluefish has been removed
- If you upgrade from 2.0 straight to 2.4, your config files and project files are no longer 100% correctly loaded
Starting from 2.4, Bluefish will no longer place config files in ~/.bluefish
On Linux it will be ~/.config and ~/.local/
On Windows it will be LocalAppData and RoamingAppData
On OSX it will be ~/Library/Application Support
- The biggest new feature, still experimental, is that you can edit two documents side-by-side
You can change opening and ending tags in XML or HTML simultaneously if you hit [ctrl][t]
- You can more easily save the current contents to a template
- For new users, and also active in new projects, is a UI selection dialog, where you can choose between a UI optimised for web development, programming or just have everything enabled or disabled; this will help new Bluefish users to customize Bluefish in an easier way
- There are a few fixes as well:
- Selecting lines by dragging in the margin works more reliably
- Paste special works more reliably
- Line comments in Python are better detected, which is visible in the syntax highlighting
- The toggle comment function is improved
- The Windows build has better error messages when starting external commands fails
Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.217 in Rawhide:
Delete XZ environment variable before running interop tests
- Rework workflow to automatically detect and use all the versions of perl available
Local Packages
Updated bluefish to 2.4.0 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.67 (no functional changes)
Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.217 as per the Fedora version