About

Package Control R is the community-driven package management solution for Sublime Text. It's a front-to-back, top-to-bottom, rewrite of the original packagecontrol.io, managed entirely by the Sublime Text community.

The system consists of several components:

• This website, listing publicly available packages for Sublime Text.
• A registry of libraries (a.k.a. dependencies) available for package authors.
• A registry of packages, where you can submit your package to be published here.
• A crawler that compiles the data that drives the system: it finds new versions of all packages and makes them available to the site and to the Package Control package.
• The Package Control package that provides the user interface inside Sublime Text to find, install, and update packages.

You can start using the new package registry today by replacing the existing channel in your Package Control package settings with the new one:

https://packages.sublimetext.io/channel.json

If you're still using Sublime Text 3, you can use:
https://packages.sublimetext.io/channel_st3.json

Why does this website exist?

The original Package Control is aging. It was built in a different time, when many of the tools we take for granted today were not available. It has seen some iterations during its time, but it has reached the end of the road in several ways. Most importantly, it's currently not possible for the community to ensure its ongoing stability and performance.

Outages of certain aspects of the system over the past year or so have spurred members of the community (🙇‍♂️ @kaste and crew) to rebuild it from the ground up.

Building this while keeping the original in place allows us to iterate towards feature-completeness and stability. This also enables us to find new solutions that better fit the project's new "governance model". Hopefully we will eventually be able to fully replace Will Bond's original project (and domain name), but these things take time to organize properly.

State of affairs

This project is a work in progress. Some features are currently missing, and detailed installation statistics have only collected since August 2025. While the project is in flux, many of the user-facing aspects of Package Control remain unchanged to avoid disturbing users with potential breaking or disorienting changes.
The package registry is still in its "old" GitHub repository and might be moved eventually. The "old" website is still up and still much more visible than this new one.

However, the website is functionally very far along, features all packages, and is updated throughout the day with new release versions. And more importantly, the crawler and the channel.json it generates are fully functional and very reliable.

You are very much invited to make the switch and come along for the ride!

Other F.A.Q.

• Q: Where can I ask questions?
  • A: On Discord: look for the "#package-control" channel.
• Q: Where can I contribute or report issues?
  • A: On GitHub.
• Q: What does the "R" stand for?
  • A: Rewrite, refactor, revisited... something along those lines 😉
• Q: How do I even use this?
  • A: Find a package you like using the search feature on the homepage, then paste the name into the "Install Package" command in Sublime Text. See also the documentation.