8.0.0 — “The Setting Transformation”

• 🔧 Change: Upgrade from Java 8 to Java 11 (see announcement) — #39
• ✨ New: Add workaround to eliminate the need for workspace-specific setting names; ltex.dictionary, ltex.disabledRules, and ltex.enabledRules can now be used in multiple setting scopes (user settings, workspace settings, and workspace folder settings) at the same time without overriding each other; instead, the settings of the different scopes will be properly merged (see documentation)
• 🔧 Change: Rename ltex.workspaceDictionary, ltex.workspaceFolderDictionary → ltex.dictionary
• 🔧 Change: Rename ltex.workspaceDisabledRules, ltex.workspaceFolderDisabledRules → ltex.disabledRules
• 🔧 Change: Rename ltex.workspaceEnabledRules, ltex.workspaceFolderEnabledRules → ltex.enabledRules
• 🔧 Change: Rename ltex.ignoreInRuleSentence → ltex.hiddenFalsePositives
• 🔧 Change: Rename ltex.commands.ignore, ltex.commands.dummy → ltex.latex.commands
• 🔧 Change: Rename ltex.environments.ignore → ltex.latex.environments
• 🔧 Change: Rename ltex.markdown.ignore, ltex.markdown.dummy → ltex.markdown.nodes
• 🔧 Change: Change format of ltex.latex.commands, ltex.latex.environments, ltex.markdown.nodes to be objects (with key = command and value = action, e.g., "ignore", "dummy", etc.) instead of arrays
• 🔧 Change: Rename addToDictionary → dictionary in ltex.configurationTarget
• 🔧 Change: Rename disableRule → disabledRules in ltex.configurationTarget
• 🔧 Change: Rename ignoreRuleInSentence → hiddenFalsePositives in ltex.configurationTarget
• ✨ New: Add userExternalFile, workspaceExternalFile, and workspaceFolderExternalFile enumeration values to ltex.configurationTarget, which enables saving settings to external files (see documentation) — #144, #145
• 🔧 Change: Change default of ltex.configurationTarget for dictionary, disabledRules, and hiddenFalsePositives to workspaceFolderExternalFile
• ✨ New: Add ltex.statusBarItem to permanently display LT_EX's status in the status bar — #141
• ✨ New: Add ltex.checkFrequency to control when LT_EX checks documents — #142
• ✨ New: Add LTeX: Show Status Information command to show information about the status of LT_EX
• ✨ New: Add support for \usepackage[LANGUAGE]{babel} if in the same file as the text to be checked — #140
• ✨ New: Add support for more BibL^AT_EX commands such as \autocite, \citeauthor, etc. — #143
• ✨ New: Add support for overriding hard-coded command signatures — ltex-ls#27
• ✨ New: Add verification for downloaded files (LT_EX LS and Java)
• 🔧 Change: Move handling of external setting files from ltex-ls to vscode-ltex
• 🔧 Change: Better resolve relative paths to external setting files, either with respect to the .vscode directory of the workspace folder if any, the .vscode directory of the workspace if any, or the global storage directory of the extension (see documentation) — #146
• 🔧 Change: Slightly change logo
• 🔧 Change: Improve logging in case of problems with the initialization of ltex-ls
• 🔧 Change: Increase duration before sentences expire in the result cache to 60 minutes
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix many settings changes cleared sentence cache, which led to performance issues, e.g., changing the ltex.enabled setting via magic comments — #134
• 🗑 Removal: Remove dependency on org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient by using the HTTP client that comes with Java 11 when connecting to an HTTP LanguageTool server
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 8.0.0

7.3.1 — “The Delay Correlation”

• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix delayed publication of diagnostics by adding workaround to guess the caret position
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix recheck being triggered when generating list of quick fixes; this should improve speed
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix comment in readme
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 7.3.1

7.3.0 — “The Debugging Formulation”

• ✨ New: Add support for \ell as well as \mathcal, \mathfrak, etc. to vowel detection — #131
• ✨ New: Add setting ltex.ltex-ls.logLevel to control the verbosity of the server log of LT_EX LS
• ✨ New: Add command ltex.requestFeature to quickly request a new feature in LT_EX via VS Code
• ✨ New: Add button to set ltex.trace.server to "verbose" when reporting a bug
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix diagnostics sometimes not lined up with the text with switching back from incremental to full document updates; unfortunately, this disables the delayed publication of diagnostics at the caret position
• 🔧 Change: Restructure and simplify internal quick fix and command structure, removing the need for pseudo-telemetry notifications
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 7.3.0

7.2.0 — “The LanguageTool Acquisition”

• 🔧 Change: Update LanguageTool to 5.1 (see LT 5.1 release notes)
• ✨ New: Add support for HTML entities such as ä and © in Markdown
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix missing tilde expansion for external dictionary files
• 🔧 Change: Improve logging of LT_EX LS
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 7.2.0

7.1.2 — “The Magic Configuration”

• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix performance issue with multiple languages in one document via magic comments due to LanguageTool being reinitialized on each keystroke — #124
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 7.1.2

7.1.1 — “The Relative Malfunction”

• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix NullPointerException when supplying relative paths to external dictionary files
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix German log messages
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 7.1.1

7.1.0 — “The External Accumulation”

• ✨ New: Add support for external dictionary files — #118
• ✨ New: Add support for enabling/disabling LT_EX only for specific file types via ltex.enabled — #19
• ✨ New: Add support for acro commands such as \DeclareAcronym and \ac — #19
• ✨ New: Add support for \addcontentsline — #19
• ✨ New: Add support for \printbibliography and \printglossary without argument
• 🔧 Change: Ignore parenthesis arguments of textblocks — #19
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix optional argument of heading commands such as \section parsed incorrectly — #123
• 🔧 Change: Include stack traces when logging exceptions
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix some links (bug reporter, offline installation, readme)
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 7.1.0

7.0.0 — “The Workspace Solution”

• 🔧 Change: Change scope of ltex.dictionary, ltex.disabledRules, and ltex.enabledRules to application; these are now user-specific settings that can only be configured in user settings
• ✨ New: Add settings ltex.workspaceDictionary, ltex.workspaceDisabledRules, and ltex.workspaceEnabledRules with window scope to amend the corresponding user-specific settings; these are workspace-specific settings that should be configured in workspace settings
• ✨ New: Add settings ltex.workspaceFolderDictionary, ltex.workspaceFolderDisabledRules, and ltex.workspaceFolderEnabledRules with resource scope to amend the corresponding user-specific and workspace-specific settings; these are workspace-folder-specific settings that should be configured in workspace folder settings
• 🔧 Change: Change default of ltex.configurationTarget for addToDictionary to workspaceFolder, i.e., by default, words will now be added to the workspace-folder-specific settings instead of the user-specific settings
• ✨ New: Rename "global" value for ltex.configurationTarget to "user" ("global" is still supported, but deprecated)
• 🗑 Removal: Remove deprecated settings ltex.javaHome, ltex.performance.initialJavaHeapSize, ltex.performance.maximumJavaHeapSize, ltex.performance.sentenceCacheSize, ltex.*.dictionary, ltex.*.enabledRules, and ltex.*.disabledRules (deprecation since 5.0.0)
• 🔧 Change: Update LanguageTool to 5.0.2 (see LT 5.0.2 release notes)
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix skipping of YAML front matter — #104
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 7.0.0

6.3.0 — “The Vowel Extraction”

• ✨ New: Add support for an article when before a formula starting with a vowel (e.g., an $n$-dimensional problem) — #92
• ✨ New: Add support for ~/ and ~\ in settings — #99
• 🐛 Bug fix: Fix links to documentation in various places (readme, changelog, error messages, etc.)
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 6.3.0

6.2.0 — “The Command Isotope”

• ✨ New: Add commands LTeX: Check Current Document and LTeX: Check All Documents in Workspace — #84
• ✨ New: Add commands LTeX: Clear Diagnostics in Current Document and LTeX: Clear All Diagnostics
• ✨ New: Add setting ltex.clearDiagnosticsWhenClosingFile
• 🔧 Change: Skip front matter in Markdown
• 🔧 Change: Ignore more L^AT_EX preamble commands (e.g., \automark, \color, \DeclareSIUnit, \directlua, \setuptoc)
• ✨ New: Add support for German babel hyphenation commands "-, "", "|, "=, "~
• 🔧 Change: Use non-breaking space for ~
• 🔧 Change: Update LT_EX LS to 6.2.0