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VCode v5.0.0 Release Notes 🚀

VCode v5.0.0 is one of our biggest updates yet. We overhauled the Git engine, added a fully customizable keybinding system, upgraded JavaScript/TypeScript language features, introduced live CSS gradient previews, and cleaned up performance under the hood.

🚀 Git & Version Control

  • Full-Screen Diff Viewer: Replaced the cramped bottom-sheet diffs with a full-screen viewer featuring word-level change highlighting, inline commit stats, and a one-tap "Go to file" shortcut.
  • Pre-Merge Inspection: Added a fetch review drawer to inspect incoming commits, author details, and file diffs before running a merge or pull.
  • Smarter Branching & Author Info:
    • Automatically checks out local branches to keep you out of a detached HEAD state.
    • Cleans up stale remote-tracking branches during fetches.
    • Auto-detects author credentials from your linked GitHub account or local .gitconfig.
  • Draft Saving & Clean Dialogs: Automatically saves commit message drafts per project so you never lose your notes, and updated all conflict/uncommitted change prompts to clean Material 3 dialogs.

⌨️ Custom Keybindings & Editor Improvements

  • Fully Configurable Shortcuts: Built a new keybindings manager with support for 37 customizable commands, visual keycap badges, conflict alerts, and keybindings.json import/export.
  • Hardware Keyboard Recording: Detects and binds physical key presses directly from external keyboards.
  • Desktop-Style Editing Shortcuts: Added standard shortcuts for moving lines (Alt+Up/Down), duplicating lines (Shift+Alt+Up/Down), deleting lines (Ctrl+Shift+K), and toggling read-only mode (Alt+R).
  • Touch-Friendly Overflow Menu: Added a quick-action menu to the selection toolbar so you can run line operations without a physical keyboard.
  • Smart Session Memory: Keeps track of your exact cursor position and scroll state across tab switches, project reloads, and file tree clicks.

⚡ JS/TS Intelligence & Language Server

  • Smarter Autocomplete: Better control-flow type narrowing (typeof, instanceof), plus contextual completions for tuples, multiline arrays, inline objects, DOM events, and for..of/forEach loops.
  • Safe Symbol Renaming: Refactor class properties (this.prop), constructor parameters, methods, and TypeScript types (interface, enum, type) cleanly across your project.
  • Unobtrusive LSP Toolbar: The navigation toolbar now waits until you pause typing before showing popups, keeping clutter out of your way while writing code.
  • Parser Fixes & Support:
    • Fixed loop AST corruption bugs and false "variable not defined" lint warnings.
    • Solidified support for ES2022 private fields (#field), arrow function scopes, and complex TypeScript generics.

📁 File System & Automatic Refactoring

  • Custom File Templates: Create project templates using dynamic placeholders like {fileName} and {projectName}, complete with live code previews and safety rules for binary files.
  • Automatic Import Updating: Renaming or moving a file automatically updates relative imports, assets, and links across JS, TS, HTML, CSS, Markdown, and PHP files.
  • Cleaner Single-File Editing: Opening standalone files from an external manager no longer generates unwanted .vcode/ workspace folders.
  • Improved Tree Navigation: Added right-click context menu positioning, hardware key support (Shift+F10 / KEYCODE_MENU), and paste actions for root directories.

🎨 UI, Visual Tools & Diagnostics

  • New VCodeSnackbar: Toast and snackbar notifications now match your active Material 3 color palette.
  • Live CSS Shader Previews: Render CSS gradient shader previews right inside the editor gutter.
  • Cleaner Emmet Aliases: Fixed shortcut collisions for short Emmet triggers (posa, df, db).
  • Visual Toggles: Added toggles for rainbow bracket pairs, boundary bracket highlights, custom accent cursors, and selection handles.
  • Precise Error Navigation: Tapping an error or warning in the Problems panel jumps your caret directly to the exact line and character column.

🛠️ Performance & System Optimizations

  • Memory & String Tuning: Lowered memory overhead and sped up file reading with optimized string buffers and improved font caching.
  • Resource Cleanup: Ensured background Git tasks release file handles properly to avoid memory leaks.
  • Smarter Indexing: Heavy dependency folders (node_modules, build, .gradle, dist) are now ignored during file counts and linter indexing to keep things snappy.

Full Commit Changelog: v4.3.5...v5.0.0

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