4.9-501preview

CHANGES:

unreleased

• merlin binary
  • Preview support for OCaml 5.1-alpha1. Short path is temporary disabled and
    inline records might not behave as expected.
  • Allow monadic IO in dot protocol (#1581)
  • Add a scope option to the occurrences command in preparation for
    the upcoming project-wide-occurrences feature (#1596)
  • Construct bool-typed holes as false instead of true in the
    construct command, for consistency (#1599).
  • Add a hook to configure system command for spawning ppxes when Merlin is
    used as a library. (#1585)
  • Implement an all-or-nothing cache for the PPX phase (#1584)
  • Cleanup functors caches when backtracking, to avoid memory leaks
    (#1609, fixes #1529 and ocaml-lsp#1032)
  • Fix construct results ordering for sum types sand poly variants (#1603)
  • Fix object method completion not working (#1606, fixes #1575)
  • Improve context detection for package types (#1608, fixes #1607)
  • Fix incorrect locations for string literals (#1574)
  • Fixed an issue that caused errors to erroneously alert about missing
    cmi files (#1577)
  • Prevent destruct from crashing on closed variant types (#1602,
    fixes #1601)
  • Improve longident parsing (#1612, fixes #945)
• editor modes
  • emacs: call the user's configured completion UI in
    merlin-construct (#1598)
• test suite
  • Add missing dependency to a test using ppxlib (#1583)
  • Add tests for the new PPX phase cache (#1584)
  • Add and update tests for construct ordering (#1603)

4.9-500

CHANGES:

Fri May 26 15:23:42 CEST 2023

• merlin binary
  • Allow monadic IO in dot protocol (#1581)
  • Add a scope option to the occurrences command in preparation for
    the upcoming project-wide-occurrences feature (#1596)
  • Construct bool-typed holes as false instead of true in the
    construct command, for consistency (#1599).
  • Add a hook to configure system command for spawning ppxes when Merlin is
    used as a library. (#1585)
  • Implement an all-or-nothing cache for the PPX phase (#1584)
  • Cleanup functors caches when backtracking, to avoid memory leaks
    (#1609, fixes #1529 and ocaml-lsp#1032)
  • Fix construct results ordering for sum types sand poly variants (#1603)
  • Fix object method completion not working (#1606, fixes #1575)
  • Improve context detection for package types (#1608, fixes #1607)
  • Fix incorrect locations for string literals (#1574)
  • Fixed an issue that caused errors to erroneously alert about missing
    cmi files (#1577)
  • Prevent destruct from crashing on closed variant types (#1602,
    fixes #1601)
  • Improve longident parsing (#1612, fixes #945)
• editor modes
  • emacs: call the user's configured completion UI in
    merlin-construct (#1598)
• test suite
  • Add missing dependency to a test using ppxlib (#1583)
  • Add tests for the new PPX phase cache (#1584)
  • Add and update tests for construct ordering (#1603)

4.9-414

CHANGES:

Fri May 26 15:23:42 CEST 2023

• merlin binary
  • Allow monadic IO in dot protocol (#1581)
  • Add a scope option to the occurrences command in preparation for
    the upcoming project-wide-occurrences feature (#1596)
  • Construct bool-typed holes as false instead of true in the
    construct command, for consistency (#1599).
  • Add a hook to configure system command for spawning ppxes when Merlin is
    used as a library. (#1585)
  • Implement an all-or-nothing cache for the PPX phase (#1584)
  • Cleanup functors caches when backtracking, to avoid memory leaks
    (#1609, fixes #1529 and ocaml-lsp#1032)
  • Fix construct results ordering for sum types sand poly variants (#1603)
  • Fix object method completion not working (#1606, fixes #1575)
  • Improve context detection for package types (#1608, fixes #1607)
  • Fix incorrect locations for string literals (#1574)
  • Fixed an issue that caused errors to erroneously alert about missing
    cmi files (#1577)
  • Prevent destruct from crashing on closed variant types (#1602,
    fixes #1601)
  • Improve longident parsing (#1612, fixes #945)
• editor modes
  • emacs: call the user's configured completion UI in
    merlin-construct (#1598)
• test suite
  • Add missing dependency to a test using ppxlib (#1583)
  • Add tests for the new PPX phase cache (#1584)
  • Add and update tests for construct ordering (#1603)

4.8-501preview

CHANGES:

Tue Apr 24 16:55:42 CEST 2023

• merlin binary
  • Preview support for OCaml 5.1-alpha1. Short path is temporary disabled and
    inline records might not behave as expected.

4.8-500

CHANGES:

Fri Feb 24 16:55:42 CEST 2023

• merlin binary
  • Recognize OCaml 5.0 cmi magic number in compiler version mismatch message
    (#1554, fixes #1553)
  • Upgrade Merlin from the RC2 to the stable 5.0.0 compiler release (#1559,
    fixes #1558)
  • Improve type-enclosing behaviour when used on records' labels (#1565,
    fixes #1564)
  • Restore compatibility with the compiler's command line by accepting the
    -safe-string flag as a no-op instead of rejecting it (#1544, fixes
    #1518)
  • Traverse aliases when jumping to declaration. This matches
    jump-to-definition's behavior (#1563)
  • Improve locate's behavior in various ill-typed expressions (#1546, fixes
    #1567 and partially #1543)
  • Correctly traverse patterns when looking for docs in the typedtree (#1572)
  • Get documentation when the declaration or definition is selected (#1542,
    fixes #1540)
  • On Windows, change to a harmless directory when launching server to avoid
    locking down current directory (#1569, fixes #1474)
• editor modes
  • emacs: Fix misuse of eq comparison (#1549, @mattiase)
  • emacs: xref works from context menus; better highlighting of xref matches;
    xref recognises operators and binding operators at the cursor position;
    bad locations are filtered out (#1385, fixes #1410, @mattiase)
• test suite
  • Add a test for incorrect alert defaults (#1559)
  • Add multiple tests for locate over ill-typed expressions (#1546)
  • Add non-regression tests for other fixes in this release

4.8-414

CHANGES:

Fri Feb 24 16:55:42 CEST 2023

• merlin binary
  • Update internal typer to match OCaml 4.14.1 release (#1557)
  • Improve type-enclosing behaviour when used on records' labels (#1565,
    fixes #1564)
  • Restore compatibility with some OCaml compiler's debug flags that were
    incorrectly rejected by Merlin (#1556)
  • Traverse aliases when jumping to declaration. This matches
    jump-to-definition's behavior (#1563)
  • Improve locate's behavior in various ill-typed expressions (#1546, fixes
    #1567 and partially #1543)
  • Correctly traverse patterns when looking for docs in the typedtree (#1572)
  • Get documentation when the declaration or definition is selected (#1542,
    fixes #1540)
  • On Windows, change to a harmless directory when launching server to avoid
    locking down current directory (#1569, fixes #1474)
• test suite
  • Add multiple tests for locate over ill-typed expressions (#1546)
  • Add non-regression tests for other fixes in this release

4.7.1-500

CHANGES:

Thu Dec 13 11:49:42 CEST 2022

• merlin binary
  • Restore compatibility with the compiler's command line by accepting
    the -safe-string flag as a no-op instead of rejecting it. (#1544,
    fixes #1518)
  • Mark some C variables as unused to remove warnings (#1541, @antalsz)

4.7-500

CHANGES:

Thu Nov 24 17:49:42 CEST 2022

• merlin binary
  • Replace custom "holes" AST nodes by extensions. This restores binary
    compatibility and fixes issues with PPXs when using typed-holes.
    (#1503)
  • Do not change temporarily Merlin's cwd when starting a PPX (#1521,
    fixes #1420)
  • Fix a parsing issue when declaring the (??) custom prefix operator.
    (#1507, fixes #1506)
  • Fix variant constructors' comments grouping (#1516, @mheiber, fixes #1513)
  • Filter-out duplicates from the enclosing command result (#1512)
  • Add a new verbosity=smart mode for type enclosing that only expand
    modules' types (#1374, @ulugbekna)
  • Improve locate for labels' declarations in the current buffer.
    (#1505, fixes #1524)
  • Fix locate on module without implementation (#1522, fixes #1519)
  • Allow program name customization when merlin is used as a library. (#1532)
• editor modes
  • vim: load the plugin when necessary if it wasn't loaded before (#1511)
  • emacs: update CI for newer releases and fix some warnings (#1454,
    @mattiase)
• test suite
  • Add tests for constructors' documentation (#1511)
  • Add test cases for label comment documentation (#1526, @mheiber)
  • Add a test for the enclosing command (#1512)
  • Add tests for interactions between locate and record labels (#1505)
  • Add test showing an issue with locate and implicit transitive deps

4.7-414

CHANGES:

Thu Nov 24 13:31:42 CEST 2022

• merlin binary
  • Replace custom "holes" AST nodes by extensions. This restores binary
    compatibility and fixes issues with PPXs when using typed-holes.
    (#1503)
  • Do not change temporarily Merlin's cwd when starting a PPX (#1521,
    fixes #1420)
  • Fix a parsing issue when declaring the (??) custom prefix operator.
    (#1507, fixes #1506)
  • Fix variant constructors' comments grouping (#1516, @mheiber, fixes #1513)
  • Filter-out duplicates from the enclosing command result (#1512)
  • Add a new verbosity=smart mode for type enclosing that only expand
    modules' types (#1374, @ulugbekna)
  • Improve locate for labels' declarations in the current buffer.
    (#1505, fixes #1524)
  • Fix locate on module without implementation (#1522, fixes #1519)
  • Allow program name customization when merlin is used as a library. (#1532)
• editor modes
  • vim: load the plugin when necessary if it wasn't loaded before (#1511)
  • emacs: update CI for newer releases and fix some warnings (#1454,
    @mattiase)
• test suite
  • Add tests for constructors' documentation (#1511)
  • Add test cases for label comment documentation (#1526, @mheiber)
  • Add a test for the enclosing command (#1512)
  • Add tests for interactions between locate and record labels (#1505)
  • Add test showing an issue with locate and implicit transitive deps

4.7-413

CHANGES:

Thu Nov 24 13:31:42 CEST 2022

• merlin binary
  • Replace custom "holes" AST nodes by extensions. This restores binary
    compatibility and fixes issues with PPXs when using typed-holes.
    (#1503)
  • Fix a parsing issue when declaring the (??) custom prefix operator.
    (#1507, fixes #1506)
  • Fix variant constructors' comments grouping (#1516, @mheiber, fixes #1513)
  • Filter-out duplicates from the enclosing command result (#1512)
• editor modes
  • vim: load the plugin when necessary if it wasn't loaded before (#1511)
• test suite
  • Add tests for constructors' documentation (#1511)
  • Add test cases for label comments documentation (#1526, @mheiber)
  • Add a test for the enclosing command (#1512)