Atom Editor Overview and Recent Changes

Atom is a free and open‑source text and code editor developed by GitHub, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux, with support for Node.js‑based plugins and an integrated Git version‑control system. Most extensions are open‑source and community‑maintained. Atom runs on the cross‑platform Electron framework (originally Atom Shell), which uses Chromium and Node.js, and is written in CoffeeScript and Less. It can also serve as an IDE, and its developers describe it as a “hackable text editor for the 21st Century.” Since May 6 2014, Atom’s core program, package manager, and the Chromium‑based desktop framework have been released under the MIT license.

Significant Changes

https://github.com/atom/github/pull/2564 – Read and write Git configuration without a repository.

Atom Core

atom/atom#21665 – Upgrade postcss from 8.1.4 to 8.1.6.

atom/atom#21762 – GitHub package update.

atom/atom#21787 – Fix async confirmation issue.

GitHub

atom/github#2559 – GraphQL schema update.

atom/github#2564 – Read and write Git configuration without a repository.

atom/github#2572 – Increase priority of login prompt on GitHub tab.

atom/github#2573 – Fix a flaky test.

atom/github#2574 – Trim issue and pull‑request templates.

atom/github#2583 – Upgrade superstring from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3.

atom/github#2584 – Upgrade whats‑my‑line to 0.1.14.

atom/github#2587 – Add accept and cancel buttons on the Git identity panel.

atom/github#2592 – Upgrade ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.7.

atom/github#2598 – Upgrade dompurify from 2.0.7 to 2.0.17.

atom/github#2617 – Test: disable failing file‑patch tests for Atom CI.