Small and lightweight IDE

Geany 2.1.0 (July 06; 2025)$$$General$$$Include themes from geany-themes (Issue#4035; PR#4044; Issue#4340; PR#4354).$$$Fix silently truncating files containing NUL bytes (PR#3716).$$$Improve compatibility focusing the editor window when opening a file externally (Kondor Dániel; Issue#3531; PR#4071).$$$Require GLib 2.56 (PR#4199).$$$Update placeholders for external printing command to use the same ones as build commands (Pynckels; PR#4250).$$$Bug Fixes$$$Improve corner-case encoding detection and conversion (PR#3716).$$$Fix losing session after opening several projects (Issue#3897; PR#3898).$$$Fix emission of the document-activate signal; leading to glitches in UI and plugins (Issue#3684; PR#3891).$$$Fix spurious CPU load after running a build command (PR#3902).$$$Use a more reliable method for saving preferences and other auxiliary files (Issue#3946; PR#3950).$$$Fix focusing the symbol list through key binding (Pascal Baillehache; Issue#3678; PR#3681).$$$Fix search entry after editing the toolbar (Issue#3831; PR#3838).$$$Fix non-deterministic anonymous symbol names (Issue#3717; PR#3785).$$$Fix displaying symbols declared out of order (Issue#4060; PR#4063).$$$Fix possible invalid memory access when generating user initials on first startup (Issue#3844; PR#3846).$$$Fix Meson build when either fnmatch() or regcomp() is missing on the system (Issue#3618).$$$Fix replacing placeholders in filenames in build commands (PR#4318).

Small and lightweight IDE

Small and lightweight IDE

General$$$Split session data into session.conf; preferences are written to and read from geany.conf (PR#2776; PR#2779; PR#3014; PR#3125 and more).$$$Add new build system Meson (experimental) (PR#2761).$$$Require GTK 3.24 (#3580).$$$Bug fixes$$$(Re-)Add ability to scroll over document tabs (Luke Horwell; PR#3134).$$$Fix keyword colorization on filetype change (PR#3553).$$$Fix startup files order when placing tabs next to the current one (PR#3611).

General$$$Split session data into session.conf; preferences are written to and read from geany.conf (PR#2776; PR#2779; PR#3014; PR#3125 and more).$$$Add new build system Meson (experimental) (PR#2761).$$$Require GTK 3.24 (#3580).$$$Bug fixes$$$(Re-)Add ability to scroll over document tabs (Luke Horwell; PR#3134).$$$Fix keyword colorization on filetype change (PR#3553).$$$Fix startup files order when placing tabs next to the current one (PR#3611).

Geany 1.38.0 (October 09; 2021)$$$General$$$Increase speed when opening documents; especially on startup (Justin Blanchard; Issue#2883; Issue#2649; Issue#2791; PR#2884; PR#2747).$$$Synchronize Geanys Ctags implementation with Universal Ctags; this leads to updated symbol parsers (Jirí Techet; PR#2666).$$$Remove GTK+2 Support (PR#2602).$$$Geany needs a C++17 compiler to build (PR#2862).$$$Bug fixes$$$Workaround crashes when pasting into VTE without having focus (Issue#2813; PR#2843).$$$Interface$$$Add keybinding to reload all open documents (David Yang; PR#2859).$$$Filetypes$$$Add Julia filetype (getzze; Issue#434; PR#2584).$$$Add Meson filetype (Andy Alt; PR#2850).$$$Plugins$$$SaveActions: add configurable target directory for instantly saved files (Issue#640; PR#2769).$$$Windows$$$Fix message window height after restart (Issue#2591; PR#2892).$$$Switch Windows builds to GTK3 and x86_64 (PR#2590).$$$Internationalization$$$Updated translations: da; de; el; es; et; fr; it; ja; nl pt; pt BR; sk; tr; uk; zh_CN