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I think the title of this should be updated, as it is not correct. The sublime text homepage has been displaying builds for sublime text 3 since mid February[0]

Sublime Text 3 is still in beta.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160211015747/http://www.sublim...

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This is correct, Sublime Text hasn't officially hit "3.0", but the current builds of Sublime Text 3 have been the reccomended versions to use for quite a while now, hence why the front page points to 3 rather than 2.

When 3.0 is out, there will be a blog post about it.

Thanks Jon. My apologies; again, love your work.

Ok, we'll use your phrase as the title. If someone suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again. (Though that may have to wait overnight...)

The current title ("Sublime Text 3 is still in beta") sounds like an attack to me, implying slow development. I'd suggest "Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build (Feb 2016)", or something like that. More wordy, but more accurate.

I certainly didn't intend any negative connotations to that sentence, but I agree in the context of the title it does give undue emphasis to 'still'. FWIW I use ST3 beta every day and it is an excellent text editor. I have no qualms about the development rate.

I think something like your title or even along the lines of 'Sublime Text 3 released [false alarm]' would work.

I agree, that's a much better title. It reflects the transition that has occurred.

Ok.

Wow, great pickup. I've been using my SublimeText install from 2015 and receiving RC updates; last time I installed it I had to go to the beta page to do so, etc.

When I hit the ST front page today (after having reset my Windows 10 install due to issues going from RC1 to RC2 of dotNetCore) and saw the direct download link to ST3 I got the impression that it must just have been released - I got rather excited, not having seen any posts on HN to the effect (I searched).

Unable to edit the post now; I feel incredibly silly, and sorry to have created false expectations by posting the submission using that title. My apologies to Jon Skinner; I love his work.

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