BBEdit 16 is a major upgrade which brings new automation, search, editing, project, and performance improvements.

Highlights include:

- Expanded support for macOS Shortcuts, including one-shot text transformations for extracting or deleting matching lines, sorting lines, and text replacement.

- Improved HTML5 syntax checking using the W3C HTML checker service, with options for project-specific, language-specific, remote, or local checking.

- Text search in image files using macOS image text recognition, available from Find and Multi-File Search, with recognized text also shown in the image inspector.

- A new search field for notebook sidebars, for finding matches in note names and contents.

- Project-, instaproject-, and notebook-specific color scheme settings, plus separate color scheme choices for printing.

- Expanded web site deployment settings, including separate Testing and Production deployment destinations.

- Optional vi keyboard emulation, with mode and command status shown in the editor.

- Easier installation of language modules directly from the Languages preferences.

- Expanded Language Server Protocol support, including semantic token coloring when provided by the language server.

- Standard macOS sharing for selected text.

- New commands for gathering untitled documents and moving documents between windows.

- More flexible hidden-item and file-type filtering in projects, disk browsers, and the Open panel.

- Enhancements to the Character Inspector, Minimap, Git revision lists, and image inspector.

- Markdown improvements, including Pandoc/R-Markdown style citation coloring and improved CommonMark emphasis handling.

- A new Process Duplicate Lines option to include duplicate counts.

BBEdit 16.0 also includes significant performance improvements, especially for SFTP operations, large-file parsing and scanning, case-insensitive search, columnar selections, archive filtering, shell worksheet idle behavior, built-in language modules, and other large-scale text operations.