Since its initial launch, the documentation for Atom has been limited to a simple collection of guides stored in the main Atom repository. We have long been wanting to split that out into a proper documentation project.

It’s been too long since our last package roundup post, so we wanted to share a few neat packages the community developed. If you notice any new and interesting packages, let us know!

We’ve bundled a new theme family called “One” themes. They come in dark and light variations, both for UI and Syntax. They have a blueish tone and a modern appearance. Here are some screenshots:

Update

This is the first article in our new “What’s new in Atom Shell” series, which will walk you through the new features from the most recent Atom Shell releases.

Over the past several months, we’ve spent a lot of energy getting Atom’s API into a condition that we’re confident supporting over the long term. With the release of Atom 0.174.0, we’re happy to announce a stable 1.0 pre-release of Atom’s API. We will be adding a few features in the coming months, but we don’t plan on breaking anything that is documented as public today.

Packages make Atom work. We’ve noticed that it can be sometimes difficult to find packages and adjust their settings, so we’ve made some changes to Atom’s settings view in version 0.167.0 that will help you manage your packages and themes more easily. Packages and themes now have their own tabs, organized by community packages you’ve installed, core packages that ship with Atom, and packages that you’re developing.

After a successful trial period, the shadow DOM is now enabled by default to prevent style pollution in Atom’s text editor component starting in today’s release, 0.166.0. Check out the introductory blog post for more details.

Installing Atom on Windows just got a whole lot easier with the new Atom Windows installer that is now available from atom.io.

tl;dr We’ll be rolling out a breaking change to the text editor’s DOM over the next few releases, encapsulating the editor’s content with the Shadow DOM. It’s behind a feature flag for now, so everyone has a chance to update their themes and packages before we make the change permanent.