The following information details the development of the Diamond Editor.

2014

May 2014

• Initial release of Diamond Editor 1.0
• Diamond Installers available for X11, Windows, and OS X
• Diamond was complied using the CopperSpice 1.0.0 libraries

July 2014

• Updated documentation
• Improve view macro screen
• Diamond Editor 1.1.0 release

2015

March 2015

• Documentation generated using DoxyPress
• Updated syntax highlighting files

August 2015

• Diamond Editor 1.2.0 release

2016

March 2016

• Modify autoload system
• Cleaned up source code to utilize newer functionality in the GUI library
• Update documentation

April 2016

• Add more extensions for syntax highlighting
• Compile with newest version of CopperSpice
• Diamond Editor 1.2.1 release

November 2016

• Minor enhancement to go to line
• Minor enhancement to advanced search

2017

January 2017

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.4.0
• Diamond Editor 1.2.2 release

March 2017

• Fixed an issue when opening a file which is already open in another tab.

May 2017

• Update documentation
• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.4.1
• Diamond Editor 1.2.3 release

June 2017

• Add support for CMake syntax highlighting
• Added an option to automatically remove trailing white space when saving a file.
• Add license file and a readme.md file

August 2017

• Update C++ syntax file
• Add new option to re-wrap a paragraph
• Update build files

September 2017

• Minor update to the displayed messages
• Change name for hunspell on Mac OS X
• Add deployment for FreeBSD

• Diamond Editor 1.2.4 release

2018

May 2018

• Update syntax highlighting rules
• Add syntax highlighting for xml files
• Update image files
• Update UI files
• Add more special characters to symbol chart

June 2018

• Turn off reselecting a syntax highlight format when a file is reloaded
• Change split windows to preserve the cursor position
• Correct drive type for XP style dialog

September 2018

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.5.1
• Diamond Editor 1.3.0 release

2019

February 2019

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.5.2
• Diamond Editor 1.3.1 release

October 2019

• Drop support for Autotools build system with Diamond
• Modernize CMake build files for Diamond
• Move to C++17 on all platforms

November 2019

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.6.1
• Diamond Editor 1.3.2 release

December 2019

• Add information about the target platform to CMake configure
• Prevent user dictionary from overwriting during install
• Enhance CMake build files to copy the CopperSpice plugins during install

2020

January 2020

• Remove obsolete headers
• Change copyright

February 2020

• Update readme file to document Hunspell dependency
• Minor update to C++ syntax file

• Remove option to specify the location for the help files
• Remove documentation files from build system, display help files located on the CopperSpice website

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.6.2
• Diamond Editor 1.3.3 release

March 2020

• Add info.plist
• Improve bundle for Diamond on Mac OS X
• Update the About box
• Added support for newer versions of the Hunspell library

April 2020

• Update Hunspell from 1.3 to 1.7 on Windows
• Add #define in spell checking to test for versions greater than 1.5
• For newer versions of Hunspell, uses updated functions in lieu of deprecated functions

• Documentation updated

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.6.3
• Diamond Editor 1.3.4 release

September 2020

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.7.0
• Diamond Editor 1.3.5 release

October 2020

• Improve syntax highlighting when editing CMake files

2021

January 2021

• Change copyright
• Correct UTF-8 string encoding to improve the spell check system

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.7.1
• Diamond Editor 1.3.6 release

December 2021

• Add new feature to save a list of only the open files, located under the Tools menu
• Under the Edit Menu, Insert Symbol a new entry for a pound symbol added
• Change file Dialog options to match CopperSpice enum name
• Improve user interface dialogs
• Move from CMake 3.8 to CMake 3.16

2022

January 2022

• Change copyright

• Compiled with CopperSpice 1.7.3
• Diamond Editor 1.3.7 release

February 2022

• Corrected path for icon file

March 2022

• Update enum names for keyboard modifiers to sync with CopperSpice
• Remove file dialog option which set a path for Windows XP, no longer required

April 2022

• Update readme file
• Update Info.plist file for OS X
• Modify calls to connect to use method pointers
• Change slot macros to use standard method declarations

May 2022

• Add additional keywords and data types for syntax highlighting for C++ files
• Add rc file to embed the program icon file in the executable, used on Windows
• Documentation updated

• Diamond Editor 1.3.8 released

August 2022

• In advanced find, separate match whole words from regular expressions
• Improve syntax highlighting for C++ code

2023

January 2023

• Change copyright
• Minor improvement in syntax highlighting
• Diamond Editor 1.4.0 released

2024

January 2024

• Change copyright
• Diamond Editor 1.5.0 released

March 2024

• Multiple change to clean up compiler warnings

April 2024

• Add new featur to sort selected lines (useful for sorting include file names)
• Modify CMake build file to dsiable cosole window on Windows

July 2024

• Improve variable names for readability, other minor changes
• Change title for csMsg() overloads
• Redesign how the Hunspell library is loaded

• Reimplement and restructure option for loading/saving open list of files (Tools Menu)
• Add support for multiple unique lists of open files
• Name for each open file list can be changed to identify each list

• Improve how macros are loaded

September 2024

• Update minimum version to CMake 3.18
• Clean up UI files

• Diamond Editor 1.5.1 released

2025

January 2025

• Minimum required version for Mac is OS X 14.7.4 with XCode 15.3

• Change copyright
• Minimum compiler requirement is now C++20
• Modify readme file to reflect compiler requirements

• Remove support of older versions of Hunspell

March 2025

• Diamond Editor 2.0.0 released