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New Features

• Add intentions for converting between regular and triple-quoted strings. (#691 by @yonigibbs)

Workflow Improvements ("quality of life")

• Automatically install package dependencies when attaching elm.json (#688)
• Auto-discover path to Elm tools and the elm.json file (#692)
• New project template has updated elm.json package dependencies (#689)
• Allow elm-format to run on-save even if there are syntax errors (#693)

Bug-fixes for the "Elm Compiler" tool window

• fixed a bug that prevented it from displaying errors the first time the tool window is opened
• fixed a bug that prevented the entry point from being shown if there were 0 errors

This release of the plugin drops support for Elm 0.18. If you still work with Elm 18, you should stay on version 3.5.4 of intellij-elm.

Changes

• Removed support for Elm 0.18 (#673)
• Added a quick-fix to convert List.map to List.foldr (#678 thanks @dillonkearns)
• Major improvements to dependency version resolution (#683)
• Go-to-declaration now works for indirect dependencies (also #683)

Adds support for IntelliJ 2020.2

• Fixed missing icons in the Elm tool window when running IntelliJ 2020.1 (#652)
• Fixed a regression in the 'add import' feature related to types in union variants. (#656)

@ajalt made some nice quality-of-life improvements in this release.

• Improved sorting of modules in the 'add import' popup. (#620)
• Added a hint popup to add an import to fix an unresolved reference. (#620)
• Type Inference optimizations: faster and uses less memory (#602)

Bugfixes

• Fixed an 'add import' bug where types and values were mixed up in some cases. (#620)
• Fixed a shadowing error false negative involving let/in expressions. (#622)

Thanks @ajalt !!!!! 💯

@ajalt found a fixed some big bugs in my code. Thank you! And thanks to @MartinSStewart for sending me the code that reproduced the bug.

• Fixed bug where some functions/types resolved to incorrect definition (#614)
• Enabled support for IntelliJ 2020.1 EAP

Pretty much everything in this release was the work of @ajalt and @yonigibbs. Thanks!

New

• CSS colors are now shown in the gutter and can be edited using a color picker (#569)
• Added "breadcrumbs" UI (#586)
• Tests can now be run from non-standard locations (#601)

Improvements

• Major performance optimizations (#585)
• Syntax highlighting can now distinguish between doc comments and other comments (#593)
• Generated code now honors your indent size config (#597)
• Line markers can now be disabled individually (#591 )

Expanded Error Checking

• Duplicate function/type definitions are now marked as an error (#587 )
• Tuples with more than 3 elements are now marked as an error (#582)
• Attempting to use (..) on a type alias is now marked as an error (#581)

Other

• Added troubleshooting instructions for nvm configurations (#572)

• Live templates are now suggested in appropriate contexts only (#566 by @ajalt)
• Fixed a type inference bug, ConcurrentModificationException (#568 by @ajalt)

• Added nested functions/values to Structure View (#556)
• Added scroll-from-source in Structure View (#557)
• Fixed 'New Project Wizard' bug on IntelliJ 2019.3 (#560)

Thanks @ajalt

Improvements

• Improved generation of function params from a type annotation (#528 and #529)
• Improved commenter to play nicely with elm-format (#527)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with the Elm Compiler panel where it found the wrong entry-point (#524)
• Fixed a stack overflow in type inference on some malformed programs (#553)
• Fixed refs to union constructors in arguments to other constructors in patterns (#534)

Thanks @AleksandrSl and @ajalt for your contributions!