CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.8.44 - 2026-06-10

Changed

• Security enhancements (#186, #191, #190, #189)
• upgrade to brighterscript@0.72.5. Notable changes since 0.72.1:
  • Security enhancements (#1703, #1723, #1722, #1720, #1718, #1714)

0.8.43 - 2026-05-11

Added

• Add for-terminator-style rule (#182)

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.72.1. Notable changes since 0.72.0:
  • Recover from mismatched loop terminators with quick fixes (#1696)
  • Add diagnosticReporter config option (#1701)
  • Diagnose reserved BrightScript builtins used as values (#1697)
  • Add bs:disable / bs:enable block directives and diagnostic suppression quick fixes (#1699)
  • feat: add validate bsconfig flag to skip validation phase (#1687)
  • feat: allow line continuation in .brs files when minFirmwareVersion >= 15.3 (#1693)
  • Reload projects when manifest file changes (#1700)
  • Set up Copilot coding agent instructions (#1695)

0.8.42 - 2026-05-01

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.72.0. Notable changes since 0.70.4:
  • Support minFirmwareVersion in bsconfig.json (#1678)
  • perf: Share per-file namespace data via lazy ScopeNamespaceLookup view (#1684)
  • perf: Lazy-allocate NamespaceContainer's optional fields (#1683)
  • perf: Share BscSymbol references in SymbolTable.mergeSymbolTable (#1682)
  • Report const cycle diagnostic per node to match class convention (#1681)
  • Support line continuation (#1667)
  • Fix cross-file const inlining and flag const cycles (#1680)
  • bugfix/small perf improvements (#1663)
  • Add computed property names (compile-time support only) (#1658)

0.8.41 - 2026-03-25

Added

• Add support for "fix all" to most code actions (#178)

0.8.40 - 2026-03-24

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.70.4. Notable changes since 0.70.3:
  • Typedef namespace param fix (#1641)
  • Backport V1 Typed function type syntax to v0 (#1623)
  • Backport for each type syntax from V1 -> V0 (#1617)
  • Backport intersection type and grouped type expressions (#1608)
  • Backports TypeStatement syntax from v1 to v0 (#1600)
  • Backported v1 inline interface syntax (#1592)
  • Fix confusing diagnostic when dottedGet follows function call in ExpressionStatement (#1598)

0.8.39 - 2026-03-19

Fixed

• Fix parameters not getting flagged as unused (#174)
• chore: Fixes issue with running tests on newer node versions (#175)

0.8.38 - 2025-10-31

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.70.3. Notable changes since 0.70.2:
  • Fix crash when bsc plugin in worker loads another version of bsc (#1579)
  • Fix recursive const and enum resolution during transpilation (#1578)

0.8.37 - 2025-10-16

Changed

• Ignore unused parameters if they begin with leading underscore (#165)

0.8.36 - 2025-10-10

Added

• Identify unused function parameters (#163)

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.70.2. Notable changes since 0.70.1:
  • Add manual entries for roUtils and roRenderThreadQueue (#1574)
  • Roku sdk updates (#1573)

0.8.35 - 2025-09-12

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.70.1. Notable changes since 0.69.13:
  • Flag param names that are reserved words (#1556)

0.8.34 - 2025-08-04

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.69.13. Notable changes since 0.69.11:

0.8.33 - 2025-07-03

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.69.11. Notable changes since 0.69.10:

0.8.32 - 2025-06-03

Added

• added brighterscript@0.69.10 as a dependency instead of a devDependency

0.8.31 - 2025-05-12

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.69.9. Notable changes since 0.69.8:
  • removed no-throw-literal lint rule (brighterscript#1489)
  • Add bsc0 cli binary name (brighterscript#1490)

0.8.30 - 2025-05-06

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.69.8. Notable changes since 0.69.7:

0.8.29 - 2025-04-24

Changed

• Migrate to Shared CI (#144)
• upgrade to brighterscript@0.69.7. Notable changes since 0.68.3:
  • Prevent runtime crash for non-referencable funcs in ternary and null coalescing (brighterscript#1474)
  • Fix removeParameterTypes compile errors for return types (brighterscript#1414)
  • Flag incorrect return statements in functions and subs (brighterscript#1463)
  • Updated the type definition of the InStr global callable (brighterscript#1456)
  • Support plugin factory detecting brighterscript version (brighterscript#1438)
  • Fixed getClosestExpression bug to return undefined when position not found (brighterscript#1433)
  • Adds Alias statement syntax from v1 to v0 (brighterscript#1430)
  • Significantly improve the performance of standardizePath (brighterscript#1425)
  • Backport v1 typecast syntax to v0 (brighterscript#1421)
  • Prevent running the lsp project in a worker thread (brighterscript#1423)

0.8.28 - 2025-01-13

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.68.3. Notable changes since 0.68.2:
  • Fix class transpile issue with child class constructor not inherriting parent params (brighterscript#1390)
  • Export more items (brighterscript#1394)

0.8.27 - 2024-12-20

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.68.2. Notable changes since 0.67.8:
  • Add Namespace Source Literals (brighterscript#1353)
  • Enhance lexer to support long numeric literals with type designators (brighterscript#1351)
  • Fix issues with the ast walkArray function (brighterscript#1347)
  • Optimize ternary transpilation for assignments (brighterscript#1341)

0.8.26 - 2024-10-18

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.67.8. Notable changes since 0.67.7:
  • Fix namespace-relative transpile bug for standalone file (brighterscript#1324)
  • Prevent crash when ProgramBuilder.run called with no options (brighterscript#1316)

0.8.25 - 2024-09-26

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.67.7. Notable changes since 0.67.5:
  • Ast node clone (brighterscript#1281)
  • Add support for resolving sourceRoot at time of config load (brighterscript#1290)
  • Add support for roIntrinsicDouble (brighterscript#1291)
  • Add plugin naming convention (brighterscript#1284)

0.8.24 - 2024-08-23

Fixed

• bug where LINT3024 and LINT3025 were doing a case-sensitive check when they should be checking case-insensitive. (#129)

0.8.23 - 2024-08-22

Added

• add rule for roRegex duplicates (#119)

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.67.5. Notable changes since 0.67.4:
  • Add templatestring support for annotation.getArguments() (brighterscript#1264)

0.8.22 - 2024-07-24

Changed

• add rule to prevent use of assocarray and array component fields in xml (#115)
• upgrade to brighterscript@0.67.4. Notable changes since 0.67.1:
  • Fix crash with missing scope (brighterscript#1234)
  • fix: conform bsconfig.schema.json to strict types (brighterscript#1205)
  • Flag using devDependency in production code (brighterscript#1222)

0.8.21 - 2024-05-17

Changed

• fix node14 (#106)
• upgrade to brighterscript@0.67.1. Notable changes since 0.65.27:
  • Fix crash when diagnostic is missing range (brighterscript#1174)
  • Move function calls to separate diagnostic (brighterscript#1169)
  • resolve the stagingDir option relative to the bsconfig.json file (brighterscript#1148)
  • Upgrade to @rokucommunity/logger (brighterscript#1137)

0.8.20 - 2024-03-27

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.27. Notable changes since 0.65.25:
  • Improve workspace/document symbol handling (brighterscript#1120)
  • Plugin hook provide workspace symbol (brighterscript#1118)
  • Upgade LSP packages (brighterscript#1117)
  • Add plugin hook for documentSymbol (brighterscript#1116)
  • Increase max param count to 63 (brighterscript#1112)
  • Prevent unused variable warnings on ternary and null coalescence expressions (brighterscript#1101)

Fixed

• Fix npm audit issues (#98)
• Fix safe colors (#101)

0.8.19 - 2024-03-07

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.25. Notable changes since 0.65.23:
  • Support when tokens have null ranges (brighterscript#1072)
  • Support whitespace in conditional compile keywords (brighterscript#1090)
  • Allow negative patterns in diagnostic filters (brighterscript#1078)

0.8.18 - 2024-02-29

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.23. Notable changes since 0.65.19:
  • empty interfaces break the parser (brighterscript#1082)
  • Allow v1 syntax: built-in types for class member types and type declarations on lhs (brighterscript#1059)
  • Move coveralls-next to a devDependency since it's not needed at runtime (brighterscript#1051)
  • Fix parsing issues with multi-index IndexedSet and IndexedGet (brighterscript#1050)

0.8.17 - 2024-01-30

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.19. Notable changes since 0.65.18:
  • Backport v1 syntax changes (brighterscript#1034)

0.8.16 - 2024-01-25

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.18. Notable changes since 0.65.17:
  • Prevent overwriting the Program._manifest if already set on startup (brighterscript#1027)
  • Improving null safety: Add FinalizedBsConfig and tweak plugin events (brighterscript#1000)

0.8.15 - 2024-01-16

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.17. Notable changes since 0.65.16:
  • adds support for libpkg prefix (brighterscript#1017)
  • Assign .program to the builder BEFORE calling afterProgram (brighterscript#1011)

0.8.14 - 2024-01-08

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.16. Notable changes since 0.65.12:
  • Prevent publishing of empty files (brighterscript#997)
  • Improve null safety (brighterscript#996)
  • Prevent errors when using enums in a file that's not included in any scopes (brighterscript#995)
  • Fix multi-namespace class inheritance transpile bug (brighterscript#990)
  • Add check for onChange function (brighterscript#941)
  • Fix broken enum transpiling (brighterscript#985)

0.8.13 - 2023-12-07

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.12. Notable changes since 0.65.9:
  • Add optional modifier for interface and class members (brighterscript#955)
  • Use regex for faster manifest/typedef detection (brighterscript#976)
  • fix the create-package script (brighterscript#974)
  • Correct RANGE in template string when dealing with quotes in annotations (brighterscript#975)
  • Add manifest loading from files (brighterscript#942)
  • Enums as class initial values (brighterscript#950)

0.8.12 - 2023-11-08

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.9. Notable changes since 0.65.8:
  • Fix issue with unary expression parsing (brighterscript#938)

0.8.11 - 2023-10-08

Added

• color format checking for bslint (#94)

Changed

• chore: copy expectDiagnostics from brighterscript for tests (#95)
• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.8. Notable changes since 0.65.5:
  • Bump postcss from 8.2.15 to 8.4.31 (brighterscript#928)
  • Add interface parameter support (brighterscript#924)
  • chore: better typing for Deferred (brighterscript#923)
  • chore: add missing emitDefinitions to docs and fix iface (brighterscript#893)
  • Add some more details to the plugins docs (brighterscript#913)
  • Fix incorrect quasi location in template string (brighterscript#921)
  • Fix UnaryExpression transpile for ns and const (brighterscript#914)
  • fix bug in --noproject flag logic (brighterscript#922)
  • add noProject flag to bsc so BSConfig.json not expected (brighterscript#868)

0.8.10 - 2023-09-11

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.5. Notable changes since 0.65.4:
  • support bs_const in bsconfig.json (brighterscript#887)
  • allow optionally specifying bslib destination directory (brighterscript#871)
  • ensure consistent insertion of bslib.brs (brighterscript#870)
  • Fix crashes in util for null ranges (brighterscript#869)
  • Print diagnostic related information (brighterscript#867)
  • Fix tab issue when printing diagnostics (brighterscript#865)

0.8.9 - 2023-07-24

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.4. Notable changes since 0.65.2:
  • Install v8-profiler-next on demand instead of being a dependency (brighterscript#854)
  • Bump word-wrap from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 (brighterscript#851)

0.8.8 - 2023-07-17

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.2. Notable changes since 0.65.1:
  • Prevent crashing when diagnostic is missing range. (brighterscript#832)
  • Prevent crash when diagnostic is missing range (brighterscript#831)

Fixed

• code flow bug with try/catch (#93)
• performance issues due to needless duplicate global var lookups (#92)

0.8.7 - 2023-07-05

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.1. Notable changes since 0.65.0:
  • Fix injection of duplicate super calls into classes (brighterscript#823)

0.8.6 - 2023-05-17

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.65.0

0.8.5 - 2023-05-10

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.64.4

0.8.4 - 2023-04-28

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.64.3. Notable changes since 0.64.2:
  • Improves performance in symbol table fetching (brighterscript#797)

0.8.3 - 2023-04-18

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.64.2. Notable changes since 0.62.0:
  • Fix namespace-relative enum value (brighterscript#793)
  • Fix namespace-relative items (brighterscript#789)
  • Wrap transpiled template strings in parens (brighterscript#788)
  • Simplify the ast range logic (brighterscript#784)

Fixed

• do not consider consts as unused variables (#85)

0.8.2 - 2023-03-17

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.62.0. Notable changes since 0.61.3:
  • Optional chaining assignment validation (brighterscript#782)
  • Fix transpile bug with optional chaning (brighterscript#781)
  • Add 'severityOverride' option (brighterscript#725)
  • Fix crash when func has no block (brighterscript#774)
  • Move not-referenced check into ProgramValidator (brighterscript#773)

0.8.1 - 2023-01-12

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.61.3. Notable changes since 0.61.1:
  • Add diagnostic for passing more than 5 arguments to a callFunc (brighterscript#765)

0.8.0 - 2022-12-09

Changed

• re-released the content from v0.7.6 but with a minor version bump instead of patch

0.7.7 - 2022-12-09

Changed

• Roll back v0.7.6 because it introduced breaking peerDependency changes. That should have been introduced in v0.8.0

0.7.6 - 2022-12-08

Added

• Add new aa-comma-style all-except-single-line. (#80)

Fixed

• Avoid false positive for missing return (#78)
• upgrade to brighterscript@0.61.1. Notable changes since 0.57.0:
  • Fix exception while validating continue statement (brighterscript#752)
  • Add missing visitor params for DottedSetStatement (brighterscript#748)
  • Flag incorrectly nested statements (brighterscript#747)
  • Cache getCallableByName (brighterscript#739)
  • Prevent namespaces being used as variables (brighterscript#738)
  • Refactor SymbolTable and AST parent logic (brighterscript#732)
  • Fix crash in getDefinition (brighterscript#734)
  • Remove parentStack to prevent circular references (brighterscript#731)
  • Allow continue as local var (brighterscript#730)
  • Add name to symbol table (brighterscript#728)
  • better parse recover for unknown func params (brighterscript#722)
  • Fix if statement block var bug (brighterscript#698)
  • Beter location for bs1042 (brighterscript#719)
  • adds goto definition for enum statements and enum members (brighterscript#715)
  • fixes signature help resolution for callexpressions (brighterscript#707)
  • Allow nested namespaces (brighterscript#708)
  • Expose an 'isThrowStatement' utility function for plugins (brighterscript#709)
  • Migrate to stagingDir away from stagingFolder (brighterscript#706)
  • Fix enum error for negative values (brighterscript#703)
  • Support pkg:/ paths for setFile (brighterscript#701)
  • Syntax and transpile support for continue statement (brighterscript#697)
  • Add AST child searching functionality. (brighterscript#695)
  • Finds and includes more deeply embedded expressions (brighterscript#696)
  • Fix xml parse bug during benchmarking (#brighterscript0805c1f)
  • Scope validation performance boost (brighterscript#656)
  • Rename refs to isClass(field|method)Statement (brighterscript#694)
  • Create common ancestor for Expression and Statement (brighterscript#693)
  • Move file validation into BscPlugin (brighterscript#688)
  • Fix brightscript.configFile workspace config bug (brighterscript#686)
  • fix(parser): consider namespace function transpiled names (brighterscript#685)

0.7.5 - 2022-09-02

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.57.0. Notable changes since 0.56.0:
  • Allow mod as an aa prop, aa member identifier kinds forced to Identifier (brighterscript#684)
  • Doc Scraper Fixes (brighterscript#585)
  • Validate too deep nested files (brighterscript#680)
  • Fix case sensitivity issue with bs_const values (brighterscript#677)

0.7.4 - 2022-08-24

Changed

• Fixes issue with tagging namespaced function as Unitialized Vars (#74)
• upgrade to brighterscript@0.56.0. Notable changes since 0.55.1:
  • Fix compile crash for scope-less files (brighterscript#674)
  • Fix parse error for malformed dim statement (brighterscript#673)
  • Add validation for dimmed variables (brighterscript#672)
  • Allow const as variable name (brighterscript#670)
  • Dedupe code completions in components (brighterscript#664)

0.7.3 - 2022-08-12

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.55.1. Notable changes since 0.53.1:
  • Fix scope-specific diagnostic grouping issue (brighterscript#660)
  • Fix typescript error for ast parent setting (brighterscript#659)
  • Fix missing constant references (brighterscript#658)
  • Link all brs AST nodes to parent onFileValidate (brighterscript#650)
  • Add a toJSON function to SymbolTable (brighterscript#655)
  • Performance boost: better function sorting during validation (brighterscript#651)
  • Add semantic token color for consts (brighterscript#654)
  • Add go-to-definition support for const statements (brighterscript#653)
  • Fix broken plugin imports with custom cwd (brighterscript#652)
  • Fix bug in languageserver hover provider (brighterscript#649)
  • Add hover for CONST references. (brighterscript#648)
  • Allow plugins to contribute completions (brighterscript#647)
  • Plugin support for hover (brighterscript#393)
  • Export some vscode interfaces (brighterscript#644)
  • Better plugin docs (brighterscript#643)

0.7.2 - 2022-07-18

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.53.1

Fixed

• Use smaller range for LINT3010 (#70)

0.7.1 - 2022-05-09

Fixed

• error variable from catch statement should be available within the catch block (#64)
• Prevent "unused var" in goto loop (#65)

0.7.0 - 2022-04-13

Added

• no-todo code style rule (#56)
• no-stop rule (#57)
• newline-last rule (#58)

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.48.0

Fixed

• do not consider enums as unused variables (#59)

0.6.0 - 2022-03-24

Changed

• upgrade to brighterscript@0.45.3

Fixed

• npm audit issues

0.6.0 - 2021-10-27

Added

• associative array comma linting and fixing (#40)
• automatic code fix for removing as void when changing a function to sub (#42)

0.5.0 - 2021-07-07

Added

• check scripts/components usage (behind --checkUsage flag). (#35)

0.4.0 - 2021-05-25

Added

• automatic code fixes (#28)
  • function/sub style
  • then style
  • if condition grouping with/without parenthesis

0.3.0 - 2021-05-19

Added

• Add ignores and globals (#27)

Fixed

• invoking classes fix (#26)

0.2.0 - 2021-05-13

Added

• no-print-rule (#19)
• Add namespaces and super (#24)

0.1.0 - 2021-02-22

Added

Initial release