# TextMate 1.5
It is with great pleasure that I am releasing [1.5 of TextMate][1] (5.4 MB).
This is a free upgrade for all registered users and it features hundreds of major improvements over the last non-beta (1.0.2) which was released a year ago.
The jump in version number from last beta (1.1ß17 r898) is to indicate how much has changed since 1.0.2, and that this release is to be seen as half-way towards the 2.0 release.
_TextMate is a text editor that combines the beauty of Cocoa with the power of UNIX and is intended for programmers and power users._
_TextMate has been built for both PPC and i386 and comes with a [complete manual][2]._
[1]: http://macromates.com/textmate/files/TextMate_1.5.dmg [2]: http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/