2.6.0.0

Binaries for this release are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~hls/haskell-language-server-2.6.0.0/.

These binaries can be installed using GHCup, using the vanilla metadata channel.

ghcup --url-source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/master/ghcup-vanilla-0.0.8.yaml install hls 2.6.0.0

All of these tarballs have associated GPG signatures. The signature should be from Zubin Duggal <zubin@well-typed.com> (key ID 588764FBE22D19C4).

The prebuilt binaries in this release support the following GHC versions:

• 9.2.8
• 9.4.8
• 9.6.4
• 9.8.1

Changelog

• Bindists for GHC 9.6.4
• A new semantic tokens plugin (#3892, @soulomoon).
• Improvements to multiple home unit support with GHC 9.4. Using cabal 3.11+ will
  load proper multiple home unit sessions by default, fixing a lot of issues with
  loading and reloading projects that have more than one component (#3462, @wz1000).
• Removed implicit-hie, resulting in better behaviour for projects without cradles.
• Don't produce diagnostics for disabled plugins (#3941, @fendor).
• Many other bug fixes.

Pull Requests

• fix: semantic token omitting record field in {-# LANGUAGE DuplicateRecordFields #-} #3950
  (#3951) by @soulomoon
• Properties API: Remove unsafe coerce in favor of type class based method in
  (#3947) by @soulomoon
• Bump to hiedb 0.5.0.0 to fix #3542
  (#3943) by @wz1000
• Don't produce diagnostics if plugin is turned off
  (#3941) by @fendor
• add config for semantic-tokens-plugin for mapping from hs token type to LSP default token type
  (#3940) by @soulomoon
• add doc and ci test for semantic tokens
  (#3938) by @soulomoon
• update Floskell to 0.11.*
  (#3933) by @peterbecich
• Remove some people from CODEOWNERS
  (#3930) by @michaelpj
• Adapt to minor API change for 9.6.4 compatibility
  (#3929) by @wz1000
• Fix multi unit session when some packages have reexported modules.
  (#3928) by @wz1000
• Switch to haskell-actions/setup since haskell/actions is deprecated
  (#3926) by @fendor
• Make vscode-extension-schema honour default values
  (#3925) by @fendor
• Add golden tests for public configs
  (#3922) by @fendor
• Bump geekyeggo/delete-artifact from 2 to 4
  (#3921) by @dependabot[bot]
• Fix positionMapping in stale data
  (#3920) by @soulomoon
• Disable stan plugin by default
  (#3917) by @fendor
• Use stan config files for stan plugin (#3904)
  (#3914) by @0rphee
• Bump both upload and download artifact
  (#3913) by @michaelpj
• Update ghc-version-support.md for 2.5.0
  (#3909) by @lehmacdj
• Give plugins descriptions, include versions of key dependencies
  (#3903) by @michaelpj
• Remove some buildability blockers that aren't needed
  (#3899) by @michaelpj
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5
  (#3895) by @dependabot[bot]
• Update index-state to get latest stan version
  (#3894) by @0rphee
• Generate FileTarget for all possible targetLocations
  (#3893) by @fendor
• Implement semantic tokens plugin to support semantic highlighting(textDocument/semanticTokens/full)
  (#3892) by @soulomoon
• session-loader: Set working directory on GHC 9.4+
  (#3891) by @wz1000
• Demote home unit closure errors to warnings.
  (#3890) by @wz1000
• Bump cachix/install-nix-action from 23 to 24
  (#3889) by @dependabot[bot]
• Bump cachix/cachix-action from 12 to 13
  (#3888) by @dependabot[bot]
• Add more docs for implicit discovery
  (#3887) by @fendor
• Prepare release 2.5.0.0
  (#3879) by @wz1000
• Improve no plugin messages
  (#3864) by @joyfulmantis
• Add support for multi unit argument syntax
  (#3462) by @wz1000
• Fix completion for qualified import
  (#2838) by @xsebek