Bare Bones Software Releases BBEdit 8.2.5

March 8, 2006; 02:38 PM

Bare Bones Software, developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit® 8.2.5. BBEdit 8.2.5 is a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds minor refinements to this award-winning HTML and text editor.

The BBEdit 8.2.5 update package is available free of charge to all registered BBEdit 8 customers from the Bare Bones Software web site:

http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml

BBEdit: Power Tool for Text
BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit reliably transforms text with high performance.

An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit's best of class features including grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Perl and Mac OS X Unix scripting support, glossary support, intra-application automation, and a complete set of HTML tools.

BBEdit 8 introduced over one hundred new features and improvements, including a new Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar interface for working with multiple documents in one window, new Text Factories for intra-application text processing automation, numerous enhancements to the product's signature HTML markup tools, improved Unicode support, integrated support for Perforce and Subversion, integrated support for Automator, and much more.

BBEdit 8 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later. For more information on BBEdit, or to download a fully functional demo version, visit the company's web site:

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml

Pricing and Availability
BBEdit 8 is available at a suggested retail price of US$199. A crossgrade price of US$99 is available to any registered TextWrangler user, and to owners of Mailsmith, Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver. BBEdit 8 may be purchased directly from Bare Bones Software, the retail and online Apple Stores, and numerous major Macintosh software resellers. For a partial listing of domestic and international resellers, visit:

http://www.barebones.com/store/resellers.shtml

All registered owners of BBEdit version 2.5 and later are eligible for upgrade discounts by ordering directly from Bare Bones Software. Educational discounts and site license pricing are also available. For details please visit the company's web site at http://www.barebones.com/store/index.shtml
send email to [email protected] or call (781) 687-0700.