Update download links and add blog post for Pulsar v1.117.0

[DeeDeeG]

Note: The blog post content for this Pulsar v1.117.0 release was written by confused-Techie. This is just posting that content here as a new blog post and updating the download links from 1.116.0 to 1.117.0.

Alternative blurb option

Also consider this alternate blurb re-worked by me, I posted this in the Discord and did not receive any outright feedback there, so I went with the existing blurb by @confused-Techie to be safer. But we have this as an option:

As you may have come to expect, this release is full of new improvements for Tree-sitter grammars! From SCSS now having Tree-sitter support, to Ruby getting an updated parser, to performance and highlighting enhancements in Markdown and TypeScript, there's hopefully something in there for everybody. Speaking of Markdown, the markdown-preview package has gotten significant performance increases in the preview pane (especially for documents with lots of fenced code blocks), and boasts brand new dark mode support for the "GitHub.com style" option! But dark mode support doesn't stop there! Pulsar can now (optionally) use the OS's light or dark mode window theming based on the active Pulsar theme. This works with any built-in or community theme based on its color values.

Beyond the fixes and features within the editor itself, you'll be glad to know this release also saw many improvements for our Continuous Integration to ensure we can deliver timely and bug-free updates in the future.

I'd be okay to go over this and receive suggestions/feedback, either here or on Discord, if there is a desire to go over the blog post wording with a finer-toothed comb. But it works as-is too (as @confused-Techie wrote it, which is how it is committed for this PR already). So this ^ text is just an alternate second draft to consider.

[confused-Techie]

Apologies for not providing feedback and your reworked blurb.

I see no issue at all for swapping your work with what's here if you'd like, and the approval with both apply since as I see it both are effective to communicate the details, ones just a bit more refined lol.

Otherwise thanks for getting this PR put together!

[savetheclocktower]

To make the mother of all nitpicks, I'd break this up into paragraphs for ease of skimming…

As you may have come to expect, this release is full of new improvements for Tree-sitter grammars! From SCSS now having Tree-sitter support, to Ruby getting an updated parser, to performance and highlighting enhancements in Markdown and TypeScript, there's hopefully something in there for everybody.

Speaking of Markdown, the markdown-preview package has gotten significant performance increases in the preview pane (especially for documents with lots of fenced code blocks), and boasts brand new dark mode support for the "GitHub.com style" option!

But dark mode support doesn't stop there! Pulsar can now (optionally) use the OS's light or dark mode window theming based on the active Pulsar theme. This works with any built-in or community theme based on its color values.

…but that's just a suggestion.

[DeeDeeG]

Yeah, it occurred to me a number of times to break it up, and I didn't feel it had to as the ideas flow into each-other so much, but some part of me was nudging to break it up nonetheless. I think it's a fair suggestion.

[DeeDeeG]

@savetheclocktower what do you think about this?:

But dark mode support doesn't stop there! Pulsar can now (optionally) use the OS's light or dark mode window theming based on the active Pulsar theme. This works with any built-in or community theme based on its color values.

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But dark mode support doesn't stop there! Pulsar can now (optionally) use the OS-level dark mode window theme, based on the lightness or darkness of the colors in the active Pulsar theme.

Going back to some of the wording that the original had that I think was better. ("OS-level dark mode").

[savetheclocktower]

Either is fine with me.

[DeeDeeG]

Tweaked the wording a bit, mostly as discussed above but not 100% exactly.

Ready to merge, I suppose.

Will do so if no objections in the next hour or three.

[confused-Techie]

LGTM! Thanks again for getting it put together

[DeeDeeG]

Okay, with this merged, and CI having done its thing, this Regular release post is now LIVE --> https://pulsar-edit.dev/blog/20240520-confused-Techie-v1.117.0.html

(A little late, but the Release itself was on time!!)