Roadmap.md

• Feature already available in typescript@next

Future

• Variadic types
• Investigate nominal typing support
• Flattening declarations
• Implement ES Decorator proposal
• Implement ES Private Fields
• Investigate Ambient, Deprecated, and Conditional decorators
• Investigate error messages in haiku or iambic pentameter
• Decorators for function expressions/arrow functions

3.1 (August 2018)

• Support for BigInt
• Named type arguments & partial type argument inference
• Refactorings to...
  • Rename files from import/export paths

3.0 (July 2018)

• Support for project references/composite projects
• Tuples in rest parameters and spread expressions
• New unknown top type
• /// <reference lib="..." /> reference directives
• Support for defaultProps and propTypes in React JSX elements
• Error UX improvements
  • Related error spans
  • Improved message quality and suggestions
• Refactors to...
  • Convert named imports to namespace imports and back
  • Add or remove braces from arrow function
• Quick fixes to...
  • Remove unused labels
  • Remove unreachable code
• Outlining spans for JSX expressions
• Auto-closing JSX tags

2.9 (May 2018)

• Support number and symbol named properties with keyof and mapped types
• Support for passing generics to JSX elements
• Support for passing generics to tagged template calls
• Allow import(...)-ing types at any location
• --pretty error output by default
• Support for import.meta
• New --resolveJsonModule
• Declaration source maps and code navigation via them
• Show suggestion diagnostics for open files
• Show unused declarations as suggestions
• Support setting quote style in quick fixes and refactorings
• New Rename File command
• Refactors to...
  • Move to a new file
  • Convert property to getter/setter
• Quick fix to...
  • Convert require to import in .ts files
  • Install @types/node for built-in node modules

2.8 (March 2018)

• Conditional types
• Type inference in conditional types
• Predefined conditional types in lib.d.ts
• Improved control over mapped type modifiers
• Improved keyof with intersection types
• New --emitDeclarationOnly
• Better handling for namespace-patterns in .js files
• Support for per-file JSX pragmas
• New Organize imports command
• Quick fix for uninitialized class properties

2.7 (January 2018)

• Support for properties named with const-declared symbols
• Strict property initialization checks in classes
• Definite assignment assertions
• Improved type inference for object literals
• Improved handling of structurally identical classes
• Fixed length tuples
• Type guards inferred from in operator
• Numeric separators
• Support for import d from "cjs" form CommonJS modules with --esModuleInterop
• Apply all quick fixes in a file
• Refactors to convert CommonJS module to ES6 module
• Support for incremental builder compiler API
• Quick fix to add missing async keyword
• Completion list preselects suggested item based on context
• Completion list includes this., brackets, and curlies for JSX

2.6 (October 2017)

• Strict function types
• Support for JSX Fragments
• Cached tagged template objects in modules
• Include localized diagnostics in npm
• Suppress errors in .ts files using // @ts-ignore comments
• Speed improvements to --watch
• Automatic imports from completion lists
• Refactors to...
  • Extract constants/locals in refactorings
  • Convert JSDoc type annotations to TypeScript
• Quick fixes to...
  • Infer from usage on noImplicitAny errors
  • Invoke uncalled decorators
  • Install from @types
• Support outlining for // #regions

2.5 (August 2017)

• Assertion/cast JSDoc syntax in checkJs mode
• Refactoring to extract functions & methods
• Optional catch binding
• Quick fixes to...
  • correct references to types of properties
  • correct uses of JSDoc types to TypeScript types

2.4 (June 2017)

• Infer from generic function return types
• Contextual generic function types
• Stricter generic signature checks
• Covariant checking for callback parameters
• String valued members in enums
• Weak type detection
• ES dynamic import() expressions
• Refactoring support in Language Service API
  • Refactor ES5 function to ES6 class in .js files
• Suggestions and quick fixes for spelling corrections in error messages

2.3 (April 2017)

• Generator support for ES3/ES5
• Asynchronous iterators
• Generic defaults
• Controlling this in methods of object literals through contextual type
• JSX stateless components overload resolution
• JSX children checking
• New --strict master option
• Report errors in .js files with new --checkJs
• Enhanced tsc --init output
• Language Service Extensibility

2.2 (February 2017)

• Mixin classes
• Allow deriving from object and intersection types
• Support for new.target
• Improved checking of nullable operands in expressions
• Update __extends to use Object.setPrototypeOf
• Allow property (dotted) access for types with string index signatures
• Support for JSX spread children
• New --jsx react-native
• Support for the object type.
• More Quick Fixes!
  • Add missing imports
  • Implement interface/abstract class members
  • Remove unused declarations
  • Add missing this.
  • Add missing property declaration

2.1 (December 2016)

• Switch to a transformation-based emitter
• async/await support for ES5/ES3
• Support for external helpers library
• Static types for dynamically named properties (keyof T and T[K])
• Mapped types (e.g. { [P in K]: T[P] })
• Support ESNext object property spread and rest
• Better inference for literal types
• Use returned values from super calls as 'this'
• Control flow analysis for implicit any variables
• Control flow analysis for array construction
• Narrow string and number types in literal equality checks
• Contextual typing of partially annotated signatures
• Normalize union/intersection type combinations
• New --jsxFactory
• New --alwaysStrict
• Support for --target ES2016, --target ES2017 and --target ESNext
• Configuration inheritance
• Go to implementation support
• Completions in imports and triple-slash reference paths
• Quick fixes support in language service API
• Untyped (implicit-any) imports

2.0

• Non-nullable types
• Control flow based type analysis
• Discriminated union types
• Improved definition file acquisition
• Specifying this types for functions
• Type guards on property access
• Readonly properties and index signatures
• Use path mappings in module resolution
• Shorthand ambient module declarations and wildcard matching in module names
• Implicit index signatures
• Support private and protected constructors
• Support abstract properties
• Optional properties in classes
• The never type
• --skipLibCheck compiler option
• Support for declaration output folder using --declarationDir
• Glob support in tsconfig.json
• Improve lib.d.ts modularity and new --lib support
• Support for UMD module definitions
• Trailing Commas in Function Param Lists
• Support for jsdoc @typedef for JS files
• Completion lists for string literals
• Module name in imports allow .js extension
• Support 'target:es5' with 'module:es6'
• Flag unused declarations with --noUnusedLocals and --noUnusedParameters
• Number, boolean, and Enum literal types

1.8

• Allow JavaScript in TypeScript compilations with --allowjs
• Allow captured let/const in loops
• Flag unreachable code
• Concatenate module output with --outFile
• Accept comments in tsconfig.json
• Stylize error messages in terminal output with --pretty
• Support for --outFile with named pipes, sockets, and special devices
• Support computed property with literal names
• String literal types
• Stateless Functional Components in JSX
• Improved union/intersection type inference
• Support for F-Bounded Polymorphism
• Support full path for -project/-p parameter
• Extract type information from JSDoc in js files
• Support for default import interop with SystemJS using --allowSyntheticDefaultImports
• Recognize prototype assignments in JavaScript files
• Augmenting global/module scope from other modules
• Use tsconfig.json as higher priority source of configuration in Visual Studio
• this-based type guards
• Support for custom JSX factories using --reactNamespace
• Improved checking of for-in statements
• Colorization of JSX code in VS 2015
• Publish official TypeScript NuGet packages

1.7

• ES7 exponentiation operator
• Polymorphic this type
• Support --module with --target es6
• Support for decorators when targeting ES3
• async/await support for ES6 (Node v4)
• Improved checking of destructuring with literal initializers

1.6

• ES6 Generators
• Local types
• Generic type aliases
• Expressions in class extends clauses
• Class expressions
• exclude property in tsconfig.json
• User defined type guard functions
• External module resolution enhancements
• JSX support
• Intersection types
• abstract classes and methods
• Strict object literal assignment checking
• Declaration merging for classes and interfaces
• New --init

1.5

• Support for Destructuring
• Support for Spread Operator
• Support for ES6 Modules
• Support for for..of
• Support for ES6 Unicode specification
• Support for Symbols
• Support for Computed properties
• Support for tsconfig.json files
• Support for let and const in ES3/ES5
• Support for tagged templates in ES3/ES5
• Expose a new editor interface through TS Server
• Support for ES7 Decorators proposal
• Support for Decorator type metadata
• New --rootDir
• New ts.transpile API
• Support --module umd
• Support --module system
• New --noEmitHelpers
• New --inlineSourceMap
• New --inlineSources
• New --newLine
• New --isolatedModules
• Support for new namespace keyword
• Support for tsconfig.json in Visual Studio 2015
• Improved template literal highlighting in Visual Studio 2013

1.4

• Support for Union Types and Type Guards
• New --noEmitOnError
• New --target ES6
• Support for Let and Const
• Support for Template Literals
• Library typings for ES6
• Support for Const enums
• Export Language Service public API

1.3

• Language service re-write to target new compiler
• Support for protected members in classes
• Support for Tuple Types