What's new in jEdit 5.1

## What's new in jEdit 5.1

### The jEdit all-volunteer development team

Detailed changes can always be found in the Detailed Change Log, but here are some of the major features of this version.

- VFS WorkThreads have been rewritten into Tasks, making it possible to completely remove the old "I/O Progress Monitor" and the wasteful space it took up in the Task Monitor. Old deprecated classes related to WorkThread and WorkThreadPool have been removed.

- New Plugin Manager option to check for and disable obsolete plugins. Enabled by default, this will ensure that old unsupported plugins do not interfere with the running operation of jEdit.

- Added another language to our list of translated languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Czech, Russian, and now Chinese! We are always looking for volunteers to help translate jEdit into Hindi, Korean, or Spanish, or any other language, really! It is fairly easy to add a new translation to jEdit or the plugins.

- There is now a new encoding Native2ASCII which collapses unicode escapes in ISO-8859-1 files on read and expands characters that cannot be encoded with ASCII as unicode escapes on write. This encoding is the one Java properties files should be in.