New Features and Improvements:

• [#439] Added a new context menu option for opening links in the editor.
• [#2220] Email links from the Link dialog are now encoded by default to prevent being harvested by spammers. (Kudos to asuter for proposing the patch)
• [#2234] Added the ability to create, modify and remove DIV containers.
• [#2247] The SHIFT+SPACE keystroke will now produce a   character.
• [#2252] It's now possible to enable the browsers default menu using the configuration file (FCKConfig.BrowserContextMenu option).
• [#2032] Added HTML samples for legacy HTML and Flash HTML.
• [#234] Introduced the "PreventSubmitHandler" setting, which makes it possible to instruct the editor to not handle the hidden field update on form submit events.

Fixed Bugs:

• [#2319] On Opera and Firefox 3, the entire page was scrolling on SHIFT+ENTER, or when EnterMode='br'.
• [#2321] On Firefox 3, the entire page was scrolling when inserting block elements with the FCK.InsertElement function, used by the Table and Horizontal Rule buttons..
• [#692] Added some hints in editor/css/fck_editorarea.css on how to handle style items that would break the style combo.
• [#2263] Fixed a JavaScript error in IE which occurs when there are placeholder elements in the document and the user has pressed the Source button.
• [#2314] Corrected mixed up Chinese translations for the blockquote command.
• [#2323] Fixed the issue where the show blocks command loses the current selection from the view area when editing a long document.
• [#2322] Fixed the issue where the fit window command loses the current selection and scroll position in the editing area.
• [#1917] Fixed the issue where the merge down command for tables cells does not work in IE for more than two cells.
• [#2320] Fixed the issue where the Find/Replace dialog scrolls the entire page.
• [#1645] Added warning message about Firefox 3's strict origin policy.
• [#2272] Improved the garbage filter in Paste from Word dialog.
• [#2327] Fixed invalid HTML in the Paste dialog.
• [#1907] Fixed sporadic "FCKeditorAPI is not defined" errors in Firefox 3.
• [#2356] Fixed access denied error in IE7 when FCKeditor is launched from local filesystem.
• [#1150] Fixed the type="_moz" attribute that sometimes appear in <br> tags in non-IE browsers.
• [#1229] Converting multiple contiguous paragraphs to Formatted will now be merged into a single <PRE> block.
• [#2363] There were some sporadic "Permission Denied" errors with IE on some situations.
• [#2135] Fixed a data loss bug in IE when there are @import statements in the editor's CSS files, and IE's cache is set to "Check for newer versions on every visit".
• [#2376] FCK.InsertHtml() will now insert to the last selected position after the user has selected things outside of FCKeditor, in IE.
• [#2368] Fixed broken protect source logic for comments in IE.
• [#2387] Fixed JavaScript error with list commands when the editable document is selected with Ctrl-A.
• [#2390] Fixed the issue where indent styles in JavaScript-generated <p> blocks are erased in IE.
• [#2394] Fixed JavaScript error with the "split vertically" command in IE when attempting to split cells in the last row of a table.
• [#2316] The sample posted data page has now the table fixed at 100% width.
• [#2396] SpellerPages was causing a "Permission Denied" error in some situations.

New Features and Improvements:

• [#2150] The searching speed of the Find/Replace dialog has been vastly improved.
• New language file for Gujarati (by Nilam Doctor).
• A new TabIndex property has been added to the JavaScript integration files.
• [#2215] Following the above new feature, the ReplaceTextarea method will now copy the textarea.tabIndex value if available.
• [#2163] If the FCKConfig.DocType setting points to a HTML DocType then the output won't generate self-closing tags (it will output <img > instead of <img />).
• [#2173] A throbber will be shown in the Quick Uploads.
• [#2142] HTML samples will now use sampleposteddata.php in action parameter inside a form.

Fixed Bugs:

• [#768] It is no longer possible for an image to have its width and height defined with both HTML attributes and inline CSS styles in IE.
• [#1426] Fixed the error loading fckstyles.xml in servers which cannot return the correct content type header for .xml files.
• [#2102] Fixed FCKConfig.DocType which stopped working in FCKeditor 2.6.
• [#2039] Fixed the locking up issue in the Find/Replace dialog.
• [#2124] PHP File Browser: fixed issue with resolving paths on Windows servers with PHP 5.2.4/5.2.5.
• [#2059] Fixed the error in the toolbar name in fckeditor.py.
• [#2065] Floating dialogs will now block the user from re-selecting the editing area by pressing Tab.
• [#2114] Added a workaround for an IE6 bug which causes floating dialogs to appear blank after opening it for the first time.
• [#2136] Fixed JavaScript error in IE when opening the bullet list properties dialog.
• [#1633] External styles should no longer interfere with the appearance of the editor and floating panels now.
• [#2113] Fixed unneeded <span class="Apple-style-span"> created after inserting special characters.
• [#2170] Fixed Ctrl-Insert hotkey for copying.
• [#2125] Fixed the issue that FCK.InsertHtml() doesn't insert contents at the caret position when dialogs are opened in IE.
• [#1764] FCKeditor will no longer catch focus in IE on load when StartupFocus is false and the initial content is empty.
• [#2126] Opening and closing floating dialogs will no longer cause toolbar button states to become frozen.
• [#2159] Selection are now correctly restored when undoing changes made by the Replace dialog.
• [#2160] "Match whole word" in the Find and Replace dialog will now find words next to punctuation marks as well.
• [#2162] If the configuration is set to work including the <head> (FullPage), references to stylesheets added by Firefox extensions won't be added to the output.
• [#2168] Comments won't generate new paragraphs in the output.
• [#2184] Fixed several validation errors in the File Browser.
• [#1383] Fixed an IE issue where pressing backspace may merge a hyperlink on the previous line with the text on the current line.
• [#1691] Creation of links in Safari failed if there was no selection.
• [#2188] PreserveSessionOnFileBrowser is now removed as it was made obsolete with 2.6.
• [#898] The styles for the editing area are applied in the image preview dialog.
• [#2056] Fixed several validation errors in the dialogs.
• [#2063] Fixed some problems in asp related to the use of network paths for the location of the uploaded files.
• [#1593] The "Sample Posted Data" page will now properly wrap the text.
• [#2239] The PHP code in sampleposteddata.php has been changed from "<?=" to "<? echo".
• [#2241] Fixed 404 error in floating panels when FCKeditor is installed to a different domain.
• [#2066] Added a workaround for a Mac Safari 3.1 browser bug which caused the Fit Window button to give a blank screen.
• [#2218] Improved Gecko based browser detection to accept Epiphany/Gecko as well.
• [#2193] Fixed the issue where the caret cannot reach the last character of a paragraph in Opera 9.50.
• [#2264] Fixed empty spaces that appear at the top of the editor in Opera 9.50.
• [#2238] The <object> placeholder was not being properly displayed in the compressed distribution version and nightly builds.
• [#2115] Fixed JavaScript (permission denied) error in Firefox when file has been uploaded.