CHANGELOG.md

Paid features

• Dart Rainbow Variables support
• Support Scope Highlighting for Python/XML/HTML/Vue etc.
• Jinja2 Template support
• Highlighting indent guide-lines for YAML
• Option to adjust the effect of scope/border/restrain highlighting
• Current Block Highlighting(experimental)
• Rainbowify YAML tags
• Color generator for rainbow variables
• Show and save generated colors
• Highlighting indent guide-lines advanced options
• Highlighting indent guide-lines for Python
• Highlighting indent guide-lines for Pug/Jade
• Color generator advanced options
• Config up to 10 colors in config panel
• C# support(Rainbow Brackets and variables)
• F# support(Rainbow Brackets and variables, requires Rider 2023.2 or above)
• C++ support in Rider IDE

Screenshots

Please check the latest screenshots here.

Change log

2024.2.6

• Compatible with 2024.2 Beta
• Fix Class initialization must not depend on services
• Fix Migrate to ProjectActivity

2024.2.5

• Compatible with 2024.2 Beta
• Fix requests com.intellij.codeInsight.highlighting.FileTypeBraceMatcher instance
• [paid feature] IDEA-328501 Support semantic highlighting for Dart / Dart Rainbow Variables supported.
• [paid feature] Compatible with semantic highlighting for C# after Rider 2024.2
• [paid feature] Add new option to adjust the indent guideline's highlighting strength

2024.2.4

• Compatible with 2024.2
• Failed to rainbowify tag name in .tsx files.

2024.2.3

• Compatible with 2024.1
• Add 30 seconds delay for enable Rainbow Variables and Scope Highlighting after the IDE startup to avoid IDE license module not initialized issue.
• Scope highlighting does not work with Python decorated functions.
• Regarding the "Do not ask" option for the register form pop-up

2024.2.2

• 🎉Fleet Support
• Compatible with 2024.1 EAP 6
• Make this plugin in-compatible with JetBrains Client / JetBrains Gateway(you only need this plugin installed on the HOST!)
• Fix check logic of Scope Highlighting

2024.2.1

• Fix an issue in the community version of intellij

2024.2.0

• Fix an issue when the IDE is installed using Flatpak
• Fix Jinja2 Mis-Paired Template Blocks
• Feature Advanced Scope Highlighting support for XML/HTML/Vue lang

2024.1.0

• Compatible with 2024.1 EAP
• Fix Jinja support in Rider 2024.1 EAP
• Support Disable "What's new in Rainbow Brackets" via IDE configuration

2023.3.9

• Add Clang/CPP/Objective-C related files support in Clion(Nova) 2023.3 EAP
• Fix Clang/CPP/Objective-C related files support in Rider
• Fix C# support in Rider 2023.3 EAP
• Fix Jinja support in PyCharm/Python plugin 2023.3 EAP

2023.3.7

• Jinja2 Template support
• Fix rainbow indent disappeared after editing code

2023.3.6

• Compatible with 2023.3: SlowOperation assertion in paintCustomRenderers
• Fix color generator in some cases.

2023.3.5

• Automatically re-generate colors when Scheme changed and Color Generator enabled
• Show generated rainbow variables colors in the color scheme page
• Option to re-generate colors for the Color Generator without restart the IDE.
• Fix Cannot disable rainbowify for pug files
• Fix YAML tags don't get rainbowified
• Fix IDE freezes caused by color generator

2023.3.4

• support rainbow indent at yaml file
• Add match-case highlighting for Python
• Fix issue when switch highlighting current block options.
• Option to adjust effect of restrain highlighting.
• Option to keep code original colors in restrain highlighting.

2023.3.3

• Re-designed setting page, now options are well categorized and easy to find.
• Option to adjust effect of scope and border highlighting
• Fix Could not type Chinese in comments after set Current scope highlight option as Border
• Add option to disable the Reader Mode(from IDE 231, the implementation from JB is weird and buggy and lacks of compatibility considerations.
• Add more options to the setting page: Rainbowify JSX/Rainbowify Kotlin label/Rainbowify Kotlin function literal's braces and arrow

2023.3.2

• New option for Current Block Highlighting: Border Highlighting
• Fix scope highlighting logic when click empty lines out of scope.
• Fix Settings don't persist across IDE restarts

2023.3.1

• Support Scope Highlighting for Python
• Current Block Highlighting(experimental)
• Fix Consistency issue between xml `<>` and tag name

2023.2.11

• Rainbowify YAML tags
• Performance improvements
• Add option to disable rainbowify YAML tags
• Fix error when the YAML plugin disabled

2023.2.8

• F# support(Rainbow Brackets and variables, requires Rider 2023.2 or above)
• View and save generated colors
• New Focus mode for highighting Indent guide-lines
• Support config black list for color generator: Editor -> Color Scheme -> Rainbow Brackets -> Color generator black list
• Now rainbow options are searchable in config panel and SearchEverywhere
• Enhance the random color generator, now colors have a higher degree of differentiation from each other(Could be a new config in the future)
• Now you could check your license status here

2023.2.7

• Adjustment colors in both the light and dark themes, enhancing the contrast when selecting brackets.
• Adjustment icons in suggestion banner.
• Fix #2612: Fix rainbow variables support for C# not working in some case.

2023.2.6

• Fix #2597: Indent Guide highlighting options: selection doesn't persist between restarts.

2023.2.5

• Add changelog page on plugin update
• Add suggestion banner for JSX/XML/HTML
• Fix suggestion banner for Jade/Python
• Advanced indent guides line highlighting for Python with-out highlight keywords

2023.1.3

• #2583 #2339: Better Indent guides for Python
• #943: Better Indent guides for Pug/Jade
• Support intellij platform 2023.1.*

2023.1.1

• #424: Support C++ in Rider IDE.
• #478: Support for files with .shader .cginc .hlsl extensions in Rider IDE.
• Fix #2579: Rainbow Variables code coloring reappears after uninstalling/disabling plugin.
• #2576: Add Rainbow Variables option to Editor -> Color Scheme -> Rainbow Brackets.
• #2576: Add Indent Guides option to Editor -> Color Scheme -> Rainbow Brackets.
• Fix #2578: Rainbow Variables for C Sharp.
• No "Enable rainbow variables?" popup for default.
• Fix #2582: can't enable color generator option for rainbw variables.
• Fix #248: Put Twig to blacklist, so we could ignore twig brackets.

2023.1.0

• #2570: [Rainbow variables] Rainbow variables support for C# lang.
• Fix #2563: Incompatibility with Semantic highlighting.

2022.3.5

• Fix #2548: [Rainbow variables] Rainbow variables settings are not reflected.
• Fix #2555: [Rainbow variables] Variables colors contrast too low for light theme.
• Add new options for color generator
• Color config panel support up to 10 colors

2022.3.4

• Fix #2551: [Rainbow variables] rainbow variable does not take effect after IDEA is restarted.
• Fix #2549: Make 'enable rainbow variables' and 'rainbowify python keywords' can be checked both.

2022.3.3

• Fix #2541: [Rainbow variables] Ask to enable rainbow variables before turn it on.

2022.3.2

• Fix #380: [paid][feature] Highlighted current rainbow indent guide lines.
• Fix #2536: [paid][feature] Highlighted current rainbow indent guide lines.
• Feature: enable rainbow variables by default(Config the colors here: Editor -> Scheme -> Language Defaults -> Semantic Highlighting)

2022.3.1

• Fix #2529: [paid][C#] fix: compatibility issues with Rider 2022.3.
• Fix #2533: [paid][C#] fix: colours incorrect when using "Cycle count on all brackets".
• Fix #2354: [paid][C#] fix: colours incorrect when using "Cycle count on all brackets".
• Fix many compatibility issues with IntelliJ platform 2022.3.

6.26

• Bump dependencies.

6.25

• #2484 Add configurable threshold for number of lines for big files.

6.24

• #2478 Scope highlighting not working with Hiberbee Theme(and other themes).

6.23

• #2465 Improved performance of `annotateUtil`.

6.22

• #2408 Support Code With Me client(Doesn't even need to be installed on the client side)

6.21

• Handle exceptions in `RainbowHighlightVisitor.analyze()`
• Cleanup 201.* stuff
• Refactoring
• Mirror changes from https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
• Using textMatches instead of text to avoid expensive traverses the whole PSI tree & format code
• Add support for rainbowify Python keywords
• Compatible with DataSpell

6.20

• Handle exceptions in `RainbowHighlightVisitor.analyze()`
• Cleanup 201.* stuff
• Refactoring
• Mirror changes from https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
• Using textMatches instead of text to avoid expensive traverses the whole PSI tree & format code
• Add support for rainbowify Python keywords
• Compatible with DataSpell

6.19

• Fix #2280: [SQL] the END keyword is improperly detected as closing a BEGIN scope when the END actually closes a CASE.
• Fix #1993: Change the default color schema in light theme.
• Nashorn Engine removed, compatible with JDK15+, tested with OpenJDK 17-ea+24 on MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) & IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2 Build #IU-212.4638.7
• Compatible with HUAWEI DevEco Studio

6.18

• Fix #2037: Wrong coloring in generic `<` after comparison operator `<`.
• Error report removed.

6.17

• Feature #1068: @keeganwitt Add language exclusions to settings (closes #1046) (#1068)
• Fix #1067: Don't rainbowify big files notification annoying
• Fix #1057: Wrong coloring in lambda expressions with braces
• Fix #497: Add `<` & `>` support for C#
• Fix #191: C# Razor Pages (.cshtml) Support
• Deprecated API usage removed.

6.16

• Feature #458: Color Parentheses In Go Template
• Fix #988: (@Grandmother) minor: fix mispell in notification message
• Fix #973: File text mismatch
• Fix #497: C# in Rider - only squiggly brackets are rainbowified

6.15

• Feature #897: Initial support for Pug/Jade Language
• Feature #830: New option "Do NOT rainbowify template string"
• Feature #784: Disable rainbowify on big files(>1000 lines for now)
• Fix #851: Rainbowify tag name doesn't works in JSX
• Fix #875: cannot create configurable component
• Fix #799 #817: Wrong element created by ASTFactory

6.13

• Make as a non-dynamic plugin, so it now requires restart.

6.12.1

• Fix #516: Add option to raibowify tag name of XML/HTML(disabled by default)
• Fix #279: Hide update notification on any click & Disable update notification support
• Feature: Rainbowify XML/HTML tag name.
• Feature: Upgrade to kotlin 1.4.10.

6.12

• Fix #279: Hide update notification on any click & Disable update notification support
• Feature: Rainbowify XML/HTML tag name.
• Feature: Upgrade to kotlin 1.4.10.

6.11

• Fix #481: rainbow-brackets does not support bash shell properly(for BashSupport Pro and Shell Script)
• Fix #485: Incorrect coloriziong after lambda in C#
• Fix #242: Colorization is applied only to left parenthesis in for loop(C#)
• Feature: C# support switch to new implementation.
• Fix #476: Cannot create class com.github.izhangzhihao.rainbow.brackets.provider.SqlProvider

6.10

• Fix #480: Plugin Incompatibility: Android Studio 4.2 Alpha 8

6.9.1

• Fix #445: No working on Android Studio canary 4.2
• Some bug fixs and code refactorings

6.7

• Fix NPE

6.6

• Fix #436: Duplicated indent guides in 2020.2 EAP

6.5

• Fix #410: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
• Fix #429: NullPointerException
• Feature #427: Colorizing angle brackets for Typescript generics
• Some refactoring!

6.4

• Fix #420: Exceptions in random color generator
• Fix #423: Don't rainbow php and echo tag
• Fix anonymous feedback
• Some refactoring!

6.3

• Feature #417: Disable Rainbow Indents in Zen mode
• Feature #227: Coloring for angle bracket for C++ code
• Fix some exceptions and refactoring!
• Feature #214: New color generator to generate your color schema

6.2

• Fix #410: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when number of colors to less than 5

6.1

• First release of 2020.1 and Java 11!
• Feature #235: support SQL begin end colorization
• Notification improved
• Error report improved
• Deprecated API usage removed
• Initial support for dynamic plugin

6.0

• First release of 2020.1 and Java 11!
• Feature #235: support SQL begin end colorization
• Notification improved
• Error report improved
• Deprecated API usage removed
• Initial support for dynamic plugin

5.35

• Final release of 2017.2 and Java 8! start from the next release, we will build against with 2020.1 and Java 11

5.34

• Compatible with Material Theme UI Plugin
• Fix typo

5.33

• Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

5.32

• Feature #391: Support cycle color on all bracket types(new option `Cycle count on all bracket types`)
• Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

5.31

• #187 Feature: Ability to increase the number of colours in the IDE
• #247 Feature: Add a button to apply the color code to all kind of brackets
• #374 Feature: Add support for IntelliJ-Haskell
• Fix #54: Disable rainbow for mxml files
• Fix typo

5.30

• Rollback indent guides

5.29

• Compatible color schema with the latest version of material-theme-jetbrains
• Fix some errors

5.28

• Improve error report
• Fix some errors with Nginx plugin

5.27

• Improve rainbow indent guide lines

5.26

• Improve error report.

5.25

• Fix #259 Runtime error in rainbow indent guide lines.

5.24

• Fix #252 Runtime error in rainbow indent guide lines.
• Fix #254 Nginx support is been disabled from now on.
• Re-enable anonymous feedback

5.23

• #164 #251 New feature: Rainbow indent guide lines(experimental), Thanks https://github.com/YiiGuxing !

5.22

• Fix #243 #180, allow users custom matched brace by setting `overrideMatchedBraceAttributes = false`

5.21

• #65 [Scope Highlighting] now the effects will not been removed after shortcut released, users could press the key `ESC` to do this. There also have an option `Press any key to remove the highlighting effects`
• Refactoring & Remove dead code

5.20

• #233 Option to not rainbowify brackets of the first level
• #234 Color is displayed with wrong order in C# code

5.19

• Fix notification.

5.18

• Add notification for custom your own rainbow colors.

5.17

• More color options for squiggly brackets before cycle(#215).
• NullPointerException in while analyse code(#216).

5.16

• Add shiny new icon.

5.15

• Fix support for kotlin scheme attribute "KOTLIN_FUNCTION_LITERAL_BRACES_AND_ARROW".

5.14

• Remove deprecated API usages.
• Refactoring.
• Added Dart to the supported languages list(#205).

5.13

• Fix macro support of Clang(#198)
• Remove red-variation colors from default configuration(#192)

5.12

• Intellij-rainbow-brackets now support C# language(#6)!

5.11

• Now you could disable rainbow brackets for specific languages, see more info here.

5.10

• New color settings page!!! Thanks this PR(#179) from https://github.com/YiiGuxing.
• See the new settings page in Settings/Preferences > Editor > Color Scheme > Rainbow Brackets.

5.9.1

• Fix wrong background color on a light theme of "MATCHED_BRACE_ATTRIBUTES"(#155).

5.9

• Rainbow Kotlin lambda expression arrow(#142).
• Experimental feature: Highlight Kotlin label(#143).
• Override "MATCHED_BRACE_ATTRIBUTES".
• Improve configs & docs.
• Cleanup temp code & deprecated code.
• Remove anonymous feedback.

5.8.3

• Improve anonymous feedback

5.8.2

• Override kotlin plugin setting `KOTLIN_FUNCTION_LITERAL_BRACES_AND_ARROW` to empty so that we could rainbowify multiple level lambda expressions.

5.8.1

• Fix #67: Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key version
• Improve anonymous feedback

5.8

• Feature #52 Flat out all text other than brackets on key (Alt + Button3) press. (via pull request#63)
• Feature #61 Change Highlight Current Scope Keymap to Ctrl + Button3 (Windows & Linux) or Meta+ Button3 (Mac) (via pull request#63)
• Add anonymous feedback support

5.7.1

• Fix #60 :Exception in v5.7
• Experimental feature: Highlight current scope when Ctrl(Windows & Linux)/Meta(Mac) key pressed (feature #37 / pull request#59)

5.7

• Experimental feature: Highlight current scope when Ctrl(Windows & Linux)/Meta(Mac) key pressed (feature #37 / pull request#59)

5.6

• Performance improvement

5.5

• Fix #53 The closing brackets or keywords are not highlighted (Ruby & PHP)

5.4

• Fix #53 The closing brackets or keywords are not highlighted (Ruby & PHP)

5.3

• Improve angle bracket support for Groovy

5.2

• #48 Performance improvement
• #49 Fix images size

5.1

• #39 Enable rainbow html in js

5.0

• Finally, intellij-rainbow-brackets released version 5.0 with all RC features & bug fix
• Thanks for https://github.com/YiiGuxing, which helps move this plugin from `Annotator` to `HighlightVisitor`!
• Check more info at here
• From 5.x series we didn't need specific implementations like java/scala/kotlin specific implementations in 3.x series anymore!


• #13 Add test for dart support & add `DartAngleBracketProvider` for support dart angle brackets
• #18 where to customize brackets color? See the config guide in here
• Add test for #39
• #38 Add support for JSX (React)
• Fix #27 Settings no longer works
• #30 Adjust color: remove red, purple from color palettes, add some material design color to color palettes.
• #32 Add version info in setting page
• #31 Fix 'Enablement of round brackets enables all but angle brackets'
• #10 #2 Add setting to disable rainbow-ify brackets without content
• Show update notification after plugin updated
• Add a lot of tests
• Convert all java code to kotlin


• And with much more features not documented in release notes.
• NOTE: this version are build against with IU-2017.2.7, but verified by IC-2017.2

5.0-RC4

• #10 #2 Add setting to disable rainbow-ify brackets without content
• Show update notification after plugin updated
• Add a lot of tests
• Convert all java code to kotlin
• NOTE: this version are build against with IU-2017.2.7, but verified by IC-2017.2

5.0-RC3

• #32 Add version info in setting page
• #31 Fix 'Enablement of round brackets enables all but angle brackets(#31)'

5.0-RC2

• #30 Adjust color: remove red, purple from color palettes, add some material design color to color palettes.

5.0-RC1

• Fix #27 Settings no longer works

5.0-RC0

• This is the first RC releases on 5.x series!
• Thanks for https://github.com/YiiGuxing, which helps move this plugin from `Annotator` to `HighlightVisitor`!
• Check more info at #25
• This RC release has fantastic compatibility with previous release(3.x series).
• From 5.x series we didn't need specific implementations like java/scala/kotlin specific implementations in 3.x series anymore!
• And with much more features not documented in release notes.

3.1

• Add a specific implementation for PHP language

3.0

• Version 3.0 has been released, with all RC features & bug fix
• Fix #23 Inconsistent colors
• Fix #21 Wrong bracket colorization based on spaces
• Fix #19 Kotlin expression inside string bug
• Fix #12 Symbol less ">" is considered as a bracket even without leading "<"< /li>
• Fix #11 Same level brackets should have same color
• And much more!
• Add specific implement for java/kotlin/scala/javascript
• Add example to help people add specific implementation for specific language!
• Check out README.md on github https://github.com/izhangzhihao/intellij-rainbow-brackets

3.0-RC5

• Adjust colors for default light theme. Thanks to https://github.com/YiiGuxing

3.0-RC4

• Add specific implement for java/kotlin/scala
• So now in java/kotlin/scala same level brackets should have same color.
• Fix: #19:Kotlin expression inside string bug

3.0-RC2

• Remove option for enable/disable rainbow for HTML/XML

3.0-RC1

• Add new setting page to control what/how to colorify:
• 1. Add option to Enable/disable rainbow
• 2. Add option to Enable rainbow for any unsupported languages
• 3. Add option to Enable/disable rainbow for HTML/XML
• 4. Add option to Enable/disable rainbow for round brackets
• 5. Add option to Enable/disable rainbow for squiggly brackets
• 6. Add option to Enable/disable rainbow for square brackets
• 7. Add option to Enable/disable rainbow for angle brackets

2.6

• Add support for salesforce apex language, thanks for https://github.com/onisuly

2.5

• Fix Rust support, thanks for https://github.com/fst3a

2.4

• Add support for SQL

2.3

• Add support for HTML/XML

2.2

• Add support for C#

2.1

• New identifiable colors

2.0

• Rainbowify brackets faster!

1.1

• Support IntelliJ IDEA based IDEs version 14 and above

1.0

• Initial release