Bare Bones Software's BBEdit, long the poweruser favorite as a text editor and HTML generation tool, has been updated to version 8.6.1. The new version, a 14.3 megabyte download, brings new features such as syntax coloring for Mac OS X's .strings file format, a reversible documents drawer and support for the LaTeX command "\verb".

Users will also find improved notices about whether a site license or KeyServer license has been used to activate their copy of BBEdit and fixes to the "Apply Text Factory" command to help the program function as a text editor.

A slew of listed bug fixes can be found on the current notes page.

BBEdit requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run and retails for a US$125 purchase fee and US$30/US$40 ugrade fee from older versions.

The program is a Universal Binary and functions natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based hardware.