Textile 2.0 is finally released.

It’s available for preview and download at http://textile.thresholdstate.com/.

Textile 2.0.0 is a direct descendant of Dean Allen’s original PHP Textile, as included in Textpattern. It’s more compact, and perhaps more reliable, than most other versions, which are generally based on Brad Choate’s Perl version.

Major changes since earlier versions include:

• New bc., pre. and notextile. block modifiers
• Extended block syntax (bc..)
• A new TextileRestricted feature for handling untrusted user input (comment forms, forums etc)
• Better “smart quotes” behaviour
• Improved handling of complex class/language/id/style syntax
• Much better escaping and handling of code, pre and notextile blocks
• New [*foo*] square bracket feature allows Textile syntax without surrounding whitespace
• Localizable punctuation
• Improved CSS hooks for style junkies (classes on caps, footnotes, etc)
• Improvements to code maintainability
• Too many bug fixes to list

Also new: Threshold State is offering commercial support, maintenance and regression testing services for developers who use Textile in their web applications. Contact us for details.

Textile 2.0.0 is included in Textpattern 4.0.4.