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Change Log

2.6.2 2023-12-23

  • avoid given/when/smartmatch because these features are deprecated in perl 5.38 (#199) [real-dam]

2.6.1 2023-07-26

  • Fix: Formatting with perltidy was broken in 2.6.0

2.6.0 2023-07-23

  • Add debug setting for running as different user. See sudoUser setting. (#174) [wielandp]

  • Allow to use a string for debuggee arguments. (#149, #173) [wielandp]

  • Add stdin redirection (#166) [wielandp]

  • Add link to issues to META files (#168) [szabgab/issues]

  • Add support for podman

  • Add support for run Perl::LanguageServer outside, but debugger inside a container

  • Add setting useTaintForSyntaxCheck. If true, use taint mode for syntax check (#172) [wielandp]

  • Add setting useTaintForDebug. If true, use taint mode inside debugger (#181) [wielandp]

  • Add debug adapter request source, which allows to display source of eval or file that are not available to vscode (#180) [wielandp]

  • Fix: Spelling (#170, #171) [pkg-perl-tools]

  • Fix: Convert charset encoding of debugger output according to current locale (#167) [wielandp]

  • Fix: Fix diagnostic notifications override on clients (based on #185) [bmeneg]

2.5.0 2023-02-05

  • Set minimal Perl version to 5.16 (#91)

  • Per default environment from vscode will be passed to debuggee, syntax check and perltidy.

  • Add configuration disablePassEnv to not pass environment variables.

  • Support for logLevel and logFile settings via LanguageServer protocol and not only via command line options (#97) [schellj]

  • Fix: "No DB::DB routine defined" (#91) [peterdragon]

  • Fix: Typos and spelling in README (#159) [dseynhae]

  • Fix: Update call to gensym(), to fix 'strict subs' error (#164) [KohaAloha]

  • Convert identention from tabs to spaces and remove trailing whitespaces

2.4.0 2022-11-18

  • Choose a different port for debugAdapterPort if it is already in use. This avoids trouble with starting Perl::LanguageServer if another instance of Perl::LanguageServer is running on the same machine (thanks to hakonhagland)

  • Add configuration debugAdapterPortRange, for choosing range of port for dynamic port assignment

  • Add support for using LanguageServer and debugger inside a Container. Currently docker containers und containers running inside kubernetes are supported.

  • When starting debugger session and stopOnEntry is false, do not switch to sourefile where debugger would stop, when stopOnEntry is true.

  • Added some FAQs in README

  • Fix: Debugger stopps at random locations

  • Fix: debugAdapterPort is now numeric

  • Fix: debugging loop with each statement (#107)

  • Fix: display of arrays in variables pane on mac (#120)

  • Fix: encoding for perltidy (#127)

  • Fix: return error if perltidy fails, so text is not removed by failing formatting request (#87)

  • Fix: FindBin does not work when checking syntax (#16)

2.3.0 2021-09-26

  • Arguments section in Variable lists now @ARGV and @_ during debugging (#105)

  • @_ is now correctly evaluated inside of debugger console

  • $#foo is now correctly evaluated inside of debugger console

  • Default debug configuration is now automatically provided without the need to create a launch.json first (#103)

  • Add Option cacheDir to specify location of cache dir (#113)

  • Fix: Debugger outputted invalid thread reference causes "no such coroutine" message, so watchs and code from the debug console is not expanded properly

  • Fix: LanguageServer hangs when multiple request send at once from VSCode to LanguageServer

  • Fix: cwd parameter for debugger in launch.json had no effect (#99)

  • Fix: Correctly handle paths with drive letters on windows

  • Fix: sshArgs parameter was not declared as array (#109)

  • Disable syntax check on windows, because it blocks the whole process when running on windows, until handling of child's processes is fixed

  • Fixed spelling (#86,#96,#101) [chrstphrchvz,davorg,aluaces]

2.2.0 2021-02-21

  • Parser now supports Moose method modifieres before, after and around, so they can be used in symbol view and within reference search

  • Support Format Document and Format Selection via perltidy

  • Add logFile config option

  • Add perlArgs config option to pass options to Perl interpreter. Add some documentation for config options.

  • Add disableCache config option to make LanguageServer usable with readonly directories.

  • updated dependencies package.json & package-lock.json

  • Fix deep recursion in SymbolView/Parser which was caused by function prototypes. Solves also #65

  • Fix duplicate req id's that caused cleanup of still running threads which in turn caused the LanguageServer to hang

  • Prevent dereferencing an undefined value (#63) [Heiko Jansen]

  • Fix datatype of cwd config options (#47)

  • Use perlInc setting also for LanguageServer itself (based only pull request #54 from ALANVF)

  • Catch Exceptions during display of variables inside debugger

  • Fix detecting duplicate LanguageServer processes

  • Fix spelling in documentation (#56) [Christopher Chavez]

  • Remove notice about Compiler::Lexer 0.22 bugs (#55) [Christopher Chavez]

  • README: Typo and grammar fixes. Add Carton lib path instructions. (#40) [szTheory]

  • README: Markdown code block formatting (#42) [szTheory]

  • Makefile.PL: add META_MERGE with GitHub info (#32) [Christopher Chavez]

  • search.cpan.org retired, replace with metacpan.org (#31) [Christopher Chavez]

2.1.0 2020-06-27

  • Improve Symbol Parser (fix parsing of anonymous subs)

  • showLocalSymbols

  • function names in breadcrump

  • Signature Help for function/method arguments

  • Add Presentation on Perl Workshop 2020 to repos

  • Remove Compiler::Lexer from distribution since version is available on CPAN

  • Make stdout unbuffered while debugging

  • Make debugger use perlInc setting

  • Fix fileFilter setting

  • Sort Arrays numerically in variables view of debugger

  • Use rootUri if workspaceFolders not given

  • Fix env config setting

  • Recongnice changes in config of perlCmd

2.0.2 2020-01-22

  • Plugin: Fix command line parameters for plink

  • Perl::LanguageServer: Fix handling of multiple parallel request, improve symlink handling, add support for UNC paths in path mapping, improve logging for logLevel = 1

2.0.1 2020-01-14

Added support for reloading Perl module while debugging, make log level configurable, make sure tooltips don't call functions

2.0.0 2020-01-01

Added Perl debugger

0.9.0 2019-05-03

Fix issues in the Perl part, make sure to update Perl::LanguageServer from cpan

0.0.3 2018-09-08

Fix issue with not reading enough from stdin, which caused LanguageServer to hang sometimes

0.0.2 2018-07-21

Fix quitting issue when starting Perl::LanguageServer, more fixes are in the Perl part

0.0.1 2018-07-13

Initial Version