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The title doesn't explain that Atom 1.1 is a beta test and the main page still has Atom 1.0 for download.

I went to download and got Atom 1.0, there is a special link to click to get the 1.1 beta test.

This may be confusing to people expecting 1.1 but getting 1.0 because they clicked on the wrong link.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is based on Atom, so I expect it will get updated sooner or later as well with these changes.

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This is incorrect (possibly updated since you commented). The download link on the main atom.io site will download version 1.1. This is the first release that went through the BETA channel (i.e the beta channel was recently introduced as a way of trying out the latest version) to a stable release.

Although, the header on the blog post does still have "1.0" so it is confusing.

VS Code is actually based on Electron (formerly Atom Shell)

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