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Official Bluefish releases and documentation

The latest stable version is Bluefish 2.2.1.

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 2.2.1 release requires gtk-2 gtk 2.12 or newer or gtk-3 and optionally libenchant for spell checking, libgucharmap for the character map plugin, and python for the zencoding plugin.

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:

991ac54a6067281017ccbced5b43f2b6  bluefish-2.2.1.tar.bz2
b473b95b3d736cbd85ffff59158ba433  bluefish-2.2.1.tar.gz

Or the SHA-1 checksums:

f7b2e9915e196c971c6bcca04d8d6b87efab1ae6  bluefish-2.2.1.tar.bz2
2433beb14d947ca2e93ac763097dc1b2f83f76a9  bluefish-2.2.1.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-2.2.1.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 2.2 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!