• Convention changes
• Dotspacemacs changes
• Core changes
• Distribution layer changes
• Layer changes
  • Ansible
  • Auto-completion
  • Better defaults
  • Chinese
  • Chrome
  • Clojure
  • Common Lisp
  • CSharp
  • Elixir
  • Emacs Lisp
  • Extra-langs
  • Finance
  • Games
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • Html
  • IBuffer
  • IPthon-notebook
  • Ivy
  • Javascript
  • LaTeX
  • Markdown
  • Org
  • Prodigy
  • Python
  • Restclient
  • Ruby-On-Rails
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Scheme
  • Semantic
  • Shaders
  • Spell-checking
  • Themes
  • Typescript
  • Version control
  • Ymcd
• Improvements

Convention changes

• Update debug conventions
  • Step in and Step out are now, i and o respectively
  • Inspect a value is now v
  • Next step is now s

Dotspacemacs changes

• Improve variable dotspacemacs-line-numbers. The variable can now take a property list with the following keywords supported: :relative t to turn on relative lines, :disabled-for-modes mode1 mode2 ... to disable line numbers in specific major modes and :size-limit-kb n to disable line numbers when the size of the buffer is greater than n (thanks to deb0ch)

Core changes

• Import quela, package-build, ido-vertical-mode and spacemacs-theme in core/libs
• Speedup SPC h SPC loading.
• Force installation of org-contrib-plus instead of org effectively avoiding to install Org twice.
• Display some additional information message in mode-line at startup.
• Throw an error instead of a warning if emacs version is too old (thanks to deb0ch)
• Refactor rotate-windows (thanks to bmag)
• Don’t toggle maximized window at startup if already maximized (thanks to TheBB)
• Set default value of dotspacemacs-enable-paste-transient-state to nil to reflect its value in the doftile template (tanks to toupeira)
• which-key: Update usage of replacement alists (thanks to justbur)
• which-key: Fix transient state descriptions (thanks to justbur)
• which-key: Implement combined select window keys (thanks to justbur)
• Maximize frame earlier in the startup process (thanks to deb0ch)
• Fix unbound holy-mode error (thanks to TheBB)
• Fix error on footer insertion when window is narrow (thanks to deb0ch)
• Fix encoding of ; in issue report body (thanks to d12frosted)
• Fix variable is void: system-info in spacemacs/report-issue
• Fix delayed warning display in emacs 25.5
• Fix computation of package installation lazyness
• Fix false warning about duplicate layers at startup. (thanks to puzl)
• Fix indentation rules for declare-prefix functions
• Add support for interpreter-mode-alist to layer lazy installation
• Add support for local elpa repositories
• Always return `t` from use-package pre/post hooks. (thanks to Stebalien)
• Jump-handers :async keyword can now take a predicate function
• home buffer: update quickhelp.txt in [?] (thanks to kccai)
• Filter out private vars in dotspacemacs/get-variable-string-list
• Add support for go to definition in other window with SPC m g G
• Scope minor-mode specific key bindings under major-mode leader

Distribution layer changes

• New key binding SPC w + to toggle between vertical and horizontal windows layout (thanks to nixmaniack, bmag)
• New key binding SPC w TAB to go to last selected window (thanks to adelq)
• New key binding gf in compilation mode to find file at point (thanks to FrancescElies)
• New key binding gD to jump to definition in another window (thanks to quicknir)
• New key binding SPC x l S to reverse sort lines (duianto)
• New key bindings SPC x l c and SPC x l C to sort lines by column (duianto)
• New key binding SPC f T to jump to currently opened file in neotree (thanks to arjun-urs)
• New key binding ' in neotree to take a quick look at the currently selected file (thanks to sdwolf)
• Overhaul the buffer transient state on SPC b . (thanks to quicknir)
• Improve spacemacs/count-word-analysis by including information from count-words function
• Use use winum.el instead of window-numbering.el for window numbers (thanks to deb0ch)
• Add copy key to neotree under C (thanks to lanejo01)
• Move generation of tags from SPC p C-g to easier SPC p G (thanks to TheBB)
• Add duplicate-line-or-region on SPC x l d (thanks to deb0ch)
• Integrate auto-highlight-symbol with evil as well as isearch (thanks to TheBB)
• Change default fringe color for centered-buffer-mode.
• Use helm or ivy as completion framework for dumb-jump (thanks to deuill)
• Hide PROPERTIES drawers in space-doc-mode (thanks to nikolaiam)
• Disable auto-revert of buffer-menu-mode (thanks to bgamari)
• Fix spacemacs/rename-current-buffer-file on non-file buffers (thanks to lislon)

Layer changes

Ansible

• Add support for ansible-vault (auto-de/encryption of files)
• Add support for company with company-ansible package

Auto-completion

• Add new package fuzzy for auto-complete.

Better defaults

• Add new package unfill (thanks to d12frosted)

Chinese

• Move pyim into the .cache directory (thanks to DCPRevere)

Chrome

• Add package flymd. Flymd is a realtime markdown preview (hodge)

Clojure

• Update debugger key bindings to meet new conventions
• Add new key bindings to convert collections (thanks to benedekfazekas)
• Fix calls to cider-test-xxxx functions (thanks to mahinshaw)

Common Lisp

• Add neew key binding SPC m h i to inspect a definition
• Set jump handler to slime-edit-definition (thanks to phoe)

CSharp

• Fix Omnisharp jump handler by marking it async (thanks to razzmatazz)

Elixir

• Add support for credo (denin)
• Prevent from inserting too many "end"s in Elixir (thanks to michalmuskala)

Emacs Lisp

• Fix cursor position for eval-last-sexp.
• Add SPC m e c to evaluate current sexp. Evaluation of current setq or defun form is under SPC m e C.
• Add support for debugger and edebug, see tutorial in README.org file.

Extra-langs

• Add extension .wl for wolfram-mode (kenkangxgwe)

Finance

• Add new key bindings for ledger account reconciliation (thanks to timjaeger)

Games

• Add sudoku game. (thanks to et2010)

Go

• Fix void reference to go--position-bytes (thanks to db47h)

Haskell

• Update debugger key bindings to meet new conventions

Html

• Defer company-web loading (ralesi)

IBuffer

• New key bindings g r to update buffer, g j to move to next filter group and g k to move to previous filter group (thanks to donm)

IPthon-notebook

• Fix axes.color_cycle warning in matplotlibrc (thanks to Retorz)

Ivy

• Rebind SPC f b to counsel-bookmark (thanks to gilbertw1)
• Add confirmation between deleting a file with d (thanks to d12frosted)
• Add C-c C-e to edit counsel-ag search results (thanks to aaronjensen)
• Correctly close ivy layout transient state when pressing b (thanks to gilbertw1)

Javascript

• Fix jump handler using tern by marking it async (thanks to coreygrunewald)

LaTeX

• Add new key bindings for folding functions (thanks to nashamri)

Markdown

• Add new key binding SPC m i t to insert a Table of Contents
• Fix activation of mmm-mode
• Add support for ini files
• Hide MMM linter in mode-line

Org

• New key binding , for org-edit-src-exit (thanks to david-sawatzke)
• New key binding SPC m i a for org-attach (thanks to smile12341234)
• Move SPC m e to SPC m e e for org-export-dispatch
• Fix o on folded headings (thanks to dschoepe)

Prodigy

• Add new key binding R to refresh buffer (thanks to FrancescElies)
• Add new key binding gf to go to file at point (thanks to FrancescElies)

Python

• New layer variable python-auto-set-local-pyvenv-virtualenv to autoload a virtual env with a .venv file (thanks to korayal)
• Simplify python test runner setup (thanks to TheBB)
• Fix debug string for python3 (thanks to yangguang760)
• Fix python path with virtualenv on Windows in Python nose package (thanks to brenttaylor)
• Fix python-enable-yapf-format-on-save (thanks to magia)

Restclient

• Add package ob-restclient to add org-babel support to restclient
• Add helm support to jump to variable or request with SPC m j (thanks to tko)
• Add autocompletion for methods and headers (thanks to tko)
• Add key bindings for jump to next / previous query with SPC m n and SPC m p (thanks to tko)

Ruby-On-Rails

• Use projectile-rails-global-mode if available (thanks to asok)

Rust

• Add binding for describing symbol at point under SPC m h h (thanks to NJBS)
• Add key binding to run current Rust file under SPC m q (thanks to swaroopch)
• Make Racer respect help-window-select (thanks to bmag)

Scala

• Update debugger key bindings to meet new conventions
• Update deprecated ensime variable name user-emacs-ensime-directory (thanks to brakhane)
• Remove sbt-hydra rename wrapper (thanks to jdnavarro)

Scheme

• Fix void-variable company-backends-scheme-mode (thanks to pnagy)

Semantic

• Make Semantic fast (thanks to tudho)

Shaders

• Add support for company with glsl-company package (thanks to d12frosted)

Spell-checking

• Defer loading of flyspell-correct-helm and flyspell-correct (thanks to ralesi and d12frosted)

Themes

• Add sourcerer theme to themes-megapack (thanks to gilbertw1)
• Added new base16 themes (thanks to bezhermoso and metamode)
• Add madhat2r theme to megapack (thanks to madhat2r)

Typescript

• Fix eldoc initialization in typescript layer. (thanks to Stebalien)

Version control

• New layer variable version-control-diff-side to set the fringe side where to display version control info (thanks to emmanueltouzery)
• Add a transient state for smerge-mode on SPC g r (thanks to perfectayush)

Ymcd

• Add ycmd-eldoc to ycmd layer (thanks to quicknir)

Improvements

• Improve home buffer responsiveness, add centering for release notes and lists (thanks to deb0ch)
• Add keybindings to move buffers by window number with SPC b # where # is a number between 0 and 9 (thanks to quicknir)
• Add toggle to display time in modeline on SPC t m t. Toggle of the modeline is now in SPC t m T. (thanks to jupl)
• Add toggle for syntax highlighting on SPC t h s (thanks to jupl)
• Message instead of warn on failed auto-evilify (thanks to TheBB)
• Warn if both helm and ivy are enabled (thanks to TheBB)
• Add new documentation file doc/BEGINNERS_TUTORIAL.org (nikolaiam)
• Various documentation improvements (thanks to antonshwab, benbotwin, bmag, cyberxndr, d12frosted, duianto, erictapen, FrancescElies, idoo, jr0cket, jgertm, jumarko, jwintz, LemmingAvalanche, lpenz, Melon-Bread, mineo, nightuser, nikolaiam, primeos, rodonn, roryokane, rski, skade, smile12341234, stratosgear, Trevoke, xiaohanyu, Wiliamvdv, zetok, zhexuany)