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

cpanm Perl::LanguageServer

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Perl::LanguageServer