v0.85.0

What's Changed

• Refactor map aspects
  • Types, subprograms and packages are now fully supported in entities.
  • Add checks for missing and duplicate generics in packages
• Usage of the work library no longer cause circular dependency errors
• Sensitivity List linter: Make heuristic for clocked process detection more general
• Add baseline analysis and completions for simple external names
• Fix a code panic when using non-utf8 characters near bitstrings

Full Changelog: v0.84.0...v0.85.0

v0.84.0

What's Changed

• Fix: complete nested records
• Lint sensitivity lists
  • Check for missing and superfluous signals in sensitivity lists
• Analyze mode view elements
• Support excluding files in TOML by @Xcodo in #370
  • Enables libname.exclude = ["excluded/file.vhd"] to exclude file patterns
• Conditionally enable tokenizing
  • Use the --vhdl_ls off and vhdl_ls on directives to conditionally disable / enable parsing

Full Changelog: v0.83.1...v0.84.0

v0.83.1

What's Changed

• Enable command-line option for the libraries location as part of the vhdl_lang executable
• Fix: discrete ranges can be used as choice statements

Full Changelog: v0.83.0...v0.83.1

v0.83.0

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix no diagnostic being shown for binary expressions in certain circumstances
• Enable completions from within subprograms
• Disable completions after the ; token
• Correctly parse and handle arrays of views
• Correctly resolve selected names of types
• Do not resolve symlinks for paths defined in the vhdl_ls.toml config
• Allow underscores in decimal bit strings
• Fix interface view package mismatch
• Fix: signal attributes causes incorrect diagnostic when used in a sensitivity list
• Replace copyright symbol to prevent errors using utf-8 coding by @qarlosalberto in #338

Formatter

This Release features an experimental VHDL formatter. In its current implementation, the formatter simply outputs a VHDL file in a single, pre-defined format. This is not intended to be used right now, but is rather the prerequisite for a fully featured VHDL formatter.

New Contributors

• @qarlosalberto made their first contribution in #338

Full Changelog: v0.82.0...v0.83.0

v0.82.0

What's Changed

• Add support for textDocument/documentHighlight request by @rapgenic in #308
• Improve quality of workspace symbols
  rust_hdl now uses a fuzzy searcher to filter workspace symbols, enabling a better user experience
• Improved completions:
  • Completions now also work in entities, packages and package bodies
  • General-purpose completions now suggest every visible symbol instead of only the immediate visible symbols
  • Completions for selected names (e.g., completions after . for records, packages, e.t.c.) and attribute names (e.g., completions after ') are now supported
  • Fix a bug where completions wouldn't show up for the work library
  • The parser was made more robust so that completions show up more regularly
  • Complete component instantiations. These work similar to entity instantiations
• Performance
  • Avoid sending all diagnostics on every file change. This reduces the communication overhead with the client and improves the user experience.

New Contributors

• @rapgenic made their first contribution in #308

Full Changelog: v0.81.0...v0.82.0

v0.81.0

What's Changed

• Check raw entity IDs from an LSP client to prevent the client from crashing
• Add source code location to all named entities
• Consider /usr/local/lib when looking for the vhdl libraries
• Refactor vhdl_lang executable to be used as tool within pipelines
  • Remove most of the arguments, such as perf or bench
  • Enable passing an optional path to the standard libraries
  • Exit with exit code '1' for any serious errors

v0.80.0

What's Changed

• Add signal and port declarations to the list of completion items
• Enable ignoring files that are not part of the project

VHDL 2019 only

• Add initial support for view declaration
• The second component keyword may be optional for component declarations
• Allow trailing semicolons in interface lists

v0.79.0

What's Changed

• Add Diagnostic Error Codes
• Enable configurable severities
• Add support for different VHDL standards

Full Changelog: v0.78.2...v0.79.0

v0.78.2

Change Variable substitution in windows from $NAME to the %NAME%

v0.78.1

Fix: Using the .all suffix is no longer considered an error for InterfacePackageInstances in use clauses