Latest

Latest

Status of the `main` branch. Changes prior to the next official version change will appear here.

• New language support:

  • Add Solidity language server support (Language.SOLIDITY) using the Nomic Foundation @nomicfoundation/solidity-language-server. Automatically installed via npm. Supports .sol files with go-to-definition, find references, document symbols, hover, and diagnostics. Works best with a foundry.toml or hardhat.config.js in the project root.

• General:

  • Add monorepo/multi-language support
    • Project configuration files (project.yml) can now define multiple languages. Auto-detection adds only the most prominent language by default.
    • Additional languages can be conveniently added via the Dashboard while a project is already activated.
  • Add support for querying projects other than the currently active one via new tools QueryProjectTool and ListQueryableProjectsTool. The QueryProjectTool allows Serena tools to be called on other projects.
    • For the LSP backend, calling symbolic tools require a project server to be spawned that will launch the respective language servers
    • For the JetBrains backend, all projects for which IDE instances are open can directly be queried
  • Support overloaded symbols in FindSymbolTool and related tools
    • Name paths of overloaded symbols now include an index (e.g., myOverloadedFunction[2])
    • Responses of the Java language server, which handled this in its own way, are now adapted accordingly, solving several issues related to retrieval problems in Java projects
  • Major extensions to the dashboard, which now serves as a central web interface for Serena
    • View current configuration
    • View news which can be marked as read
    • View the executions, with the possibility to cancel running/scheduled executions
    • View tool usage statistics
    • View and create memories and edit the serena configuration file
    • Log page now has save (downloads a snapshot) and clear (resets log view) buttons alongside the existing copy button
  • Language server backend:
    • New two-tier caching of language server document symbols and considerable performance improvements surrounding symbol retrieval/indexing
    • Allow passing language server specific settings through ls_specific_settings field (in serena_config.yml)
  • Add the JetBrains language backend as an alternative to language servers
  • Improve management of the Serena projects
    • Facilitate project activation based on the current directory (through the --project-from-cwd parameter)
    • Add notion of a "single-project context" (flag single_project), allowing user-defined contexts to behave like the built-in ide-assistant context (where the available tools are restricted to ones required by the active project and project change