New Features:

• #1751: Introduced the Autocomplete feature that consists of the following plugins:
  • Autocomplete – Provides contextual completion feature for custom text matches based on user input.
  • Text Watcher – Checks whether an editor's text change matches the chosen criteria.
  • Text Match – Allows to search CKEDITOR.dom.range for matching text.
• #1703: Introduced the Mentions plugin providing smart completion feature for custom text matches based on user input starting with a chosen marker character.
• #1746: Introduced the Emoji plugin providing completion feature for emoji ideograms.
• #1761: The Auto Link plugin now supports email links.

Fixed Issues:

• #1458: [Edge] Fixed: After blurring the editor it takes 2 clicks to focus a widget.
• #1034: Fixed: JAWS leaves forms mode after pressing the Enter key in an inline editor instance.
• #1748: Fixed: Missing CKEDITOR.dialog.definition.onHide API documentation. Thanks to sunnyone!
• #1321: Ideographic space character (\u3000) is lost when pasting text.
• #1776: Empty caption placeholder of the Image Base plugin is not hidden when blurred.
• #1592: The Image Base plugin caption is not visible after paste.
• #620: Fixed: The config.forcePasteAsPlainText option is not respected in internal and cross-editor pasting.
• #1467: Fixed: The resizing cursor of the Table Resize plugin appearing in the middle of a merged cell.

API Changes:

• #850: Backward incompatibility: Replaced the replace dialog from the Find / Replace plugin with a tabId option in the find command.
• #1582: The CKEDITOR.editor.addCommand() method can now accept a CKEDITOR.command instance as a parameter.
• #1712: The extraPlugins, removePlugins and plugins configuration options allow whitespace.
• #1802: The extraPlugins, removePlugins and plugins configuration options allow passing plugin names as an array.
• #1724: Added an option to the getClientRect() function allowing to retrieve an absolute bounding rectangle of the element, i.e. a position relative to the upper-left corner of the topmost viewport.
• #1498 : Added a new getClientRects() method to CKEDITOR.dom.range. It returns a list of rectangles for each selected element.
• #1993: Added the CKEDITOR.tools.throttle() function.

Other Changes:

• Updated SCAYT (Spell Check As You Type) and WebSpellChecker (WSC) plugins:
  • Language dictionary update: Added support for the Uzbek Latin language.
  • Languages no longer supported as additional languages: Manx - Isle of Man (gv_GB) and Interlingua (ia_XR).
  • Extended and improved language dictionaries: Georgian and Swedish. Also added the missing word "Ensure" to the American, British and Canada English language.
  • #141 Fixed: SCAYT throws "Uncaught Error: Error in RangyWrappedRange module: createRange(): Parameter must be a Window object or DOM node".
  • #153 [Chrome] Fixed: Correcting a word in the widget in SCAYT moves focus to another editable.
  • #155 [IE8] Fixed: SCAYT throws an error and does not work.
  • #156 [IE10] Fixed: SCAYT does not seem to work.
  • Fixed: After some text is dragged and dropped, the markup is not refreshed for grammar problems in SCAYT.
  • Fixed: Request to FastCGI fails when the user tries to replace a word with non-English characters with a proper suggestion in WSC.
  • [Firefox] Fixed: Ctrl+Z removes focus in SCAYT.
  • Grammar support for default languages was improved.
  • New application source URL was added in SCAYT.
  • Removed green marks and legend related to grammar-supported languages in the Languages tab of SCAYT. Grammar is now supported for almost all the anguages in the list for an additional fee.
  • Fixed: JavaScript error in the console: "Cannot read property 'split' of undefined" in SCAYT and WSC.
  • [IE10] Fixed: Markup is not set for a specific case in SCAYT.
  • Fixed: Accessibility issue: No alt attribute for the logo image in the About tab of SCAYT.