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• Changed a couple of aspects of the server suggesting to use a config file
  • Only issue the notification if the user hasn't specified a config file already (fixes #77)
  • Also increased the time to trigger this from 15 to 30 seconds
• Invalidating cache file on version change (fixes #74)
• Disable logging and stderr when starting the server via --log-stream NONE and/or --sterr NONE respectively (fixes #73)
• Adding hook to __main__.py to allow python -m usage
• Added some support for textDocument/references LSP method
  • Please not that this only provides references for items that HDL Checker knows about to support inferring libraries and determining the compilation sequence

• Fixed an issue with the legacy prj file parser (#69)
• Fixed an issue when handling the rebuild project HTTP command (#70)
• Handling git not being installed properly (fixes #72)
• Fixed potential decoding issue when reading a file with non utf8 characters
• Changed default GHDL flags when compiling a target file to --warn-runtime-error, --warn-reserved, --warn-unused when compiling a target file (scope = single)
• Optimized git ignore check to only check files that are not on the repo (should improve performance on Windows)
• Fixed an issue where a Verilog file might not be compiled as a dependency if a VHDL file used an entity defined in it
• Handling Verilog libraries the same way as in VHDL to allow Verilog units to be instantiated from VHDL correctly

• Verilog/SystemVerilog
  • Fixed issues with parsing and identifying dependencies on Verilog and SystemVerilog
  • Verilog/SystemVerilog headers will be parsed as regular sources; the dependency resolution algorithm will compile needed files and pass the include paths to the compiler
  • Auto source discovery now also adds .svh and .vh
• Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where dependency resolution failed if both package declaration and package body were on the same file
  • Fixed an issue where diagnostics from the saved file were being mixed with diagnostics generated by new edits
  • Fixed an issue where the default VHDL library wasn't always being used
  • New version notification won't trigger when installing from git via pip install git+https...
  • Fixed an issue that prevented identification of files that need to be recompiled when when using XVHDL
• Improvements
  • Dependencies that could not be resolved to paths are now reported (#61)

• Removing dependency on 'sort' parm for git ls-remote (should have gone into v0.6.5!)

• Fixed #49 (can't get messages when source has non standard characters)
• JSON config includes key now supports folders (will search for RTL files). The wiki has been updated as well. (#53)
• JSON config file now handles glob patterns on file names. The wiki has been updated as well. (#54)
• When not using a config file, file search will honor ignored git files (#55)
• Errors from dependencies are now published (they were previously being silently ignored). This helps a bit with #58.
• Fixed an issue with parsing XVHDL output
• Fixed an issue that prevented recovering state from cache, resulting in rebuilding the entire project when restarting the server

• Fixed an issue that would prevent the LSP from starting if there's no workspace open
• Ignoring references to library "work" when determining the most common library used for a given design unit
• Server will now report when a file's library can't be uniquely determined
• Adjusted minimum severity to info (VS Code doesn't seem to show hints)
• Fixed an issue where some messages were being displayed with the wrong line number
• Server will now restore its working directory if it gets deleted
• Server will now report if a new release of HDL Checker is out

Other changes:

• Added support for LSP hover and definitions
• Dependencies lines and columns were off by 1
• Handling of files requiring recompilation was broken
• Fixed some issues with testing on Windows

• Files are built on demand (top-down) rather than building the whole project (bottom-up)
• Adding Python3 support
• Added as-you-type support (still experimental)
• Bug fixes

Changelog

• Fixed issue #2 -- Reload configuration file in runtime
• Fixed issue #3 -- Add Verilog support
• Fixed issue #24 -- Add auto detection/selection of the compiler/simulator
• Fixed issue #25 -- Project cache should be placed along the build folder
• Fixed issue #21 -- Provide alternative for syntax check of files not found on project file
• Fixed issue #20 -- Add static check for 'work' as a library
• Improved source file parsing speed
• Auto builder flags assignment
• Added VUnit support (VHDL and Verilog)