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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

Bare Bones Software today announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 8.2.1, the latest version of the award-winning HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. BBEdit 8.2.1 is a maintenance release to fix reported issues and add minor interface refinements and enhancements.

The BBEdit 8.2.1 update is available free of charge to all registered BBEdit 8 customers. An update package is available for download from the Bare Bones Software website.

BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of professional Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides a plethora 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.

For more information on BBEdit, or to download a fully functional demo version, visit the company's website.

BBEdit 8 is available at a suggested retail price of US$199. BBEdit 8 may be purchased directly from Bare Bones Software, the retail and online Apple Stores, and numerous major Macintosh software resellers.

A discounted cross-upgrade price of US$129 is available to registered owners of TextWrangler, and to owners of Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver. All registered owners of BBEdit version 2.5 and later are eligible to upgrade to BBEdit 8 by ordering directly from Bare Bones Software. Registered owners of BBEdit 7.0 and 7.1 can upgrade for US$49; registered owners of BBEdit 6.5 and older can upgrade for US$59.

Educational discounts and site license pricing are also available. For details please visit the company's website.