Out now, with some noticeable improvements in bidirectional text support! You can get the zip file or see the patches.
Release notes
5.30.0 (2017-09-20)
Bug fixes
Fixed a number of issues with drawing right-to-left selections and mouse selection in bidirectional text.
search addon: Fix crash when restarting search after doing empty search.
mark-selection addon: Fix off-by-one bug.
tern addon: Fix bad request made when editing at the bottom of a large document.
javascript mode: Improve parsing in a number of corner cases.
markdown mode: Fix crash when a sub-mode doesn’t support indentation, allow uppercase X in task lists.
gfm mode: Don’t highlight SHA1 ‘hashes’ without numbers to avoid false positives.
soy mode: Support injected data and @param in comments.
New features
simple mode addon: Allow groups in regexps when token isn’t an array.