Release v0.20.0

v0.20.0: 21 February 2024

Highlights

• Selection ranges provider added. This provider handles expand/shrink selection editor commands in a semantic aware way
• Completions, hover and signature help providers now are able to display @doc and other attributes data from the currently edited buffer
• Hover provider now returns markdown with working links to hexdocs and erlang documentation. Support for ExDoc autolinking and erlang see tags has been added

Improvements

• Completions provider renders metadata about returned items. Metadata includes info on since, deprecated, impl attributes as well as a number of other flags (hidden, optional, opaque, overridable etc.)
• Completions provider is now able to suggest callbacks and protocol functions defined in the current buffer
• Completions provider is now able to suggest return values when implementing callbacks and protocol functions defined in the current buffer
• Documentation and signatures is provided on builtin function in more cases
• Avoid race conditions when reading mix project in workspace symbols provider
• Avoid a crash in document symbols provider when unable to determine the end of expression
• Avoid a crash when locals_without_parens contains invalid elements
• Improved resilience of alias expander

Fixes

• Hover provider would emit invalid markdown when it contained escaped # and links with anchor
• Fixed a crash in workspace symbols provider when the directory is no longer a mix project
• Workaround an issue when elixir compiler would emit a diagnostic with invalid Unicode
• Fixed a crash when Mix.env cannot be retrieved
• Fixed a crash in spec code lens on protocol def with default arguments
• Added a workaround for a crash when reading module exports while it is being compiled
• Fixed a crash when formatting an atom argument
• Fixed a crash when handling an invalid typespec
• Fixed a crash when in complete provider when unable to expand a phoenix controller