Red syntax errors are displaying in the 12.9 Editor, for code that has blank lines. Blank lines are no longer ignored. (4311273)

The following correct code is flagged as having syntax errors in the Editor in 12.9, but is fine in 12.8 and below. When executed error "ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement" occurs:

WITH PROMPTS AS
(

   SELECT
       1 ONE,
       2 TWO,
       3 THREE
   FROM
      DUAL

...

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A new option has been introduced in 12.9:

View | Toad Options | Execute/Compile | 'Treat blank line as statement terminator', which is checked, by default. For the above code, the blank line after the first bracket is being treated as a statement terminator.