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Official Bluefish releases and documentation

The latest stable version is Bluefish 2.0.3.

The Bluefish wiki has a page how to install Bluefish on various different operating systems and distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Mac OSX, AltLinux, OpenSolaris and Windows.

The 2.0.3 release requires gtk 2.12 or newer and optionally libenchant for spell checking and libgucharmap for the character map plugin. The old 1.0.7 release requires gtk version 2.0 or newer (gtk 2.4 or newer is recommended), libpcre and (optional) libaspell 0.50 or higher and (optional) gnome-vfs for remote files.

There are several mirrors available for Bluefish releases and manuals:

Alternatively some files are also available through Sourceforge:

Check your download

If you want to make that the file you've downloaded is not corrupted check the md5 checksum of the file:

b4e385076a39e8e239e3671839cccf18  bluefish-2.0.3.tar.bz2
2484da72e73d009a69610469b993e19a  bluefish-2.0.3.tar.gz

Or the SHA-1 checksums:

48ab31fbd0e664db4d0a1f90eae6e1f8a3597f21  bluefish-2.0.3.tar.bz2
cc9a1a1372a2ee3a83d813075d38f9379f8075fc  bluefish-2.0.3.tar.gz

If you want to make sure that the file is guaranteed to be identical to the file released by the bluefish team, download and check the digital signature made with key DAC576E6: 

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.noreply.org 0xDAC576E6
gpg --verify bluefish-2.0.3.tar.bz2.sig
this should show 
gpg: Signature made date here using RSA key ID DAC576E6
gpg: Good signature from "Olivier Sessink <olivier@bluefish.openoffice.nl>"

Bluefish-unstable

Bluefish-unstable is the development version of Bluefish. The development releases are currently suspended until the development team is finished with the 2.0 releases!

You may download the development releases from our master download server.

Subversion

Bluefish code is managed in Subversion. You can get the very latest code from the SourceForge.net SVN repository. Check the development page for instructions.

Contributed data

There are several different sets of contributed data. If you have anything please send it to the bluefish team!