Add changelog notes for 23.10

CHANGELOG.md

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+# 23.10 (2023-10-13)
+
+A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 118 contributors in this release.
+
+Breaking changes:
+
+- Support multiple language servers per language (#2507)
+    - This is a breaking change to language configuration
+- Maintain the cursor position and view when splitting with `:hsplit`/`:vsplit` (#8109)
+    - Previously, splitting would open the new buffer at the top of the file
+
+Features:
+
+- Support multiple language servers per language (#2507, #7082, #7286, #8374)
+- Add a statusline element for the selected register (#7222)
+- Add `%`, `#`, `.`, `*` and `+` special registers (#6985)
+- Add initial support for LSP DidChangeWatchedFiles notifications (#7665)
+- Search buffer contents in `global_search` (#5652)
+- Add a "smart tab" command that intelligently jumps the cursor on tab (#4443)
+- Add a statusline element for whether a file is read-only (#7222, #7875)
+- Syntax highlight regex prompts (#7738)
+- Allow defining alignment in indent queries (#5355)
+- Show visual feedback in `surround_replace` (#7588)
+- Switch to Nucleo for fuzzy matching (#7814, #8148, #8192, #8194)
+- Insert a trailing newline on write (#8157)
+- Add a `-w`/`--working-dir` CLI flag for specifying a working directory on startup (#8223, #8498)
+
+Commands:
+
+- `merge_selections` (`A-minus`) - merge all selections into one selection that covers all ranges (#7053)
+- `move_prev_long_word_end` and `extend_prev_long_word_end` - move/extend to the end of the previous WORD (#6905)
+- `reverse_selection_contents` - swaps the values of each register so they are reversed (#7329)
+- Add `:rl` and `:rla` aliases for `:reload` and `:reload-all` (#7158)
+- `yank_joined` - join the selections and yank to the selected register (#7195)
+- `:write-all!` (`:wa!`) - forcibly write all buffers to disk and create any necessary subdirectories (#7577)
+- `:redraw` - clear re-render the UI (#6949)
+- `:tree-sitter-highlight-name` - show the theme scope name of the highlight under the cursor (#8170)
+
+Usability improvements:
+
+- Allow cycling option values at runtime (#4411, #7240, #7877)
+- Exit gracefully on termination signals (#7236)
+- Add plaintext matching fallback to tree-sitter pair matching (#4288)
+- Persist register selection in pending keymaps (0e08349)
+- Propagate the count and register to command palette commands (b394997)
+- Auto indent on `insert_at_line_start` (#5837)
+- Add a config option to control whether LSP completions are automatically inserted on preview (#7189)
+- Add a config option for default line endings (#5621, #7357)
+- Allow ANSI colors in themes (#5119)
+- Match pairs that don't form a standalone tree-sitter node (#7242)
+- Allow indent sizes of up to 16 columns (#7429)
+- Improve performance of mapping positions through changes (#7408, 8d39a81, #7471)
+- Mark buffers created from stdin as modified (#7431)
+- Forcibly shut down uninitialized language servers (#7449)
+- Add filename completer for shell prompts (#7569)
+- Allow binding F13-F24 (#7672)
+- Resolve LSP code actions (#7677, #8421)
+- Save an undo checkpoint before accepting completions (#7747)
+- Include gitignored files in debugger completions (#7936)
+- Make editor remember the last search register (#5244)
+- Open directories with `goto_file` (#7909)
+- Use relative path to open buffer in `goto_file` (`gf`) (#7965)
+- Support `default` color in themes (#8083, #8114)
+- Toggle between relative and absolute line numbers when the terminal loses focus (#7955)
+- Lower default idle-timeout to 250ms (060e73a)
+- Allow theming diff gutters separately from other diff colors (#8343)
+- Style bold/italic/strikethrough in markdown doc popups (#8385)
+
+Fixes:
+
+- Update diagnostics correctly on language server exit (#7111)
+- Fix off-by-one in `select_references_to_symbol_under_cursor` (#7132)
+- Extend selection with repeat-last-motion only if the original motion extended the selection (#7159)
+- Fix undefined behavior in the diff gutter (#7227)
+- Check that tab width is non-zero (#7178)
+- Fix styles being overwritten in table rows with multiple cells (#7281)
+- Add file for `--log` CLI arg in help text (#7307)
+- Fix underflow when repeating a completion that has a negative shift position (#7322)
+- Prefer longer matches in `select_next_sibling` and `select_prev_sibling` (#7332)
+- Preview scratch buffers in the jumplist picker (#7331)
+- Fix chunking by bytes in tree-sitter parsing (#7417)
+- Discard LSP publishDiagnostic from uninitialized servers (#7467)
+- Use negotiated position encoding for LSP workspace edits (#7469)
+- Fix error message for unknown gutter types in config (#7534)
+- Fix `:log-open` when `--log` CLI arg is specified (#7573, #7585)
+- Fix debouncing of LSP messages to fix the last message sticking around (#7538, #8023)
+- Fix crash when the current working directory is deleted (#7185)
+- Fix piping to Helix on macOS (#5468)
+- Fix crash when parsing overlapping injections (#7621)
+- Clear the statusline when the prompt is visible (#7646)
+- Fix range formatting error message typo (#7823)
+- Skip rendering gutters when gutter width exceeds view width (#7821)
+- Center the picker preview using visual lines (#7837)
+- Align view correctly for background buffers opened with `A-ret` (#7691)
+- Fix cursor resetting to block when quitting via a keybind (#7931)
+- Remove path completions for the `:new` command (#8010)
+- Use binary path resolved by `which` for formatter commands (#8064)
+- Handle crossterm's `hidden` modifier (#8120)
+- Clear completion when switching between windows with the mouse (#8118)
+- Eagerly remove the last picker (`<space>'`) when the picker has many items (#8127)
+- Fix find commands for buffers with non-LF line-endings (#8111)
+- Detect the tmux clipboard provider on macOS (#8182)
+- Fix syntax highlighting in dynamic picker preview pane (#8206)
+- Recognize HTML code tags with attributes as code in markdown previews (#8397)
+- Fix multicursor snippet placeholder directions (#8423)
+
+Themes:
+
+- Improve the selection color in `ferra` (#7138)
+- Add `variable.other.member` theming to `spacebones_light` (#7125)
+- Update `autumn` and theme the soft-wrap indicator (#7229)
+- Add `gruvbox_dark_soft` (#7139)
+- Add `merionette` (#7186)
+- Add `zed_onedark` and `zed_onelight` (#7250)
+- Use light-gray for `onedarker` inlay hint theming (#7433)
+- Update the Nord theme to follow the style guidelines (#7490)
+- Tune `dark_plus` inlay hint colors (#7611)
+- Add `naysayer` (#7570)
+- Add `kaolin-dark`, `kaolin-light` and `kaolin-valley-dark` (#7151)
+- Fix selection highlighting in gruvbox variants (#7717)
+- Add soft-wrap indicator to `gruvbox` (#7736)
+- Add missing palette definitions in `everforest_dark` (#7739)
+- Increase diagnostics clarity in `pop-dark` (#7702)
+- Add `vim_dark_high_contrast` (#7785)
+- Add `new_moon` (#7834)
+- Add `yellowed` (#7849)
+- Improve comment readability for `autumn` (#7939)
+- Distinguish active bufferline buffer in `monokai` (#7983)
+- Update ruler colors in `nord` (#7995)
+- Update Catppuccin themes (#8102)
+- Add text focus scope and diagnostics undercurls for `nord` (#8165)
+- Add material theme collection (#8211)
+- Improve indent line color in `dracula` (#8266)
+- Clean up and refactor `papercolor` to use inheritance (#8276)
+- Fix `zenburn` inlay hint color (#8278a)
+- Fix picker crash when previewing an invalid range (e9d0bd7)
+- Correctly center items in the picker preview (13d4463)
+- Add `cyan_light` (#8293)
+- Theme HTML tags in `onedark` (#8409)
+- Refine `darcula` and `darcula-solid` themes (#8412)
+- Improve `nord` highlights (#8414)
+
+New languages:
+
+- Blueprint (#7213, #8161)
+- Forth (#7256, #7334)
+- t32 (#7140, #7811)
+- WebC (#7290)
+- Persistent DSL for Haskell (#7261)
+- F# (#7619, #8024)
+- Wren (#7765, #7819)
+- Unison (#7724)
+- Todo.txt (#7835)
+- Jinja and Handlebars (#7233)
+- Pod (#7907)
+- Strace (#7928)
+- Gemini (#8070)
+- GNU Assembler (GAS) (#8291)
+- JSON5 (#8473)
+
+Updated languages and queries:
+
+- Add one to the ruler numbers for git-commit (#7072)
+- Recognize XAML files as XML (#7083)
+- Recognize `Cargo.lock` as TOML (#7095)
+- Use Rust grammar for Cairo (c6d1430)
+- Update tree-sitter-nickle (#7059, #7551)
+- Tune auto-pair characters for Nickel (#7059)
+- Recognize `Vagrantfile` as Ruby (#7112)
+- Recognize hidden justfiles as Just (#7088)
+- Update Java and TypeScript highlight queries (#7145)
+- Recognize `.zimrc` as Bash (#7146)
+- Recognize `.gir` as XML (#7152)
+- Update tree-sitter-scala (#7147)
+- Recognize make file-type as Makefile (#7212)
+- Update tree-sitter-verilog (#7262)
+- Update tree-sitter-cpp (#7285)
+- Support core mode for delve debugger (#7300)
+- Add Fortran comment injections (#7305)
+- Switch Vue language server to `vue-language-server` (#7312)
+- Update tree-sitter-sql (#7387, #8464)
+- Replace the MATLAB tre-sitter grammar (#7388, #7442, #7491, #7493, #7511, #7532, #8040)
+- Highlight TOML table headers (#7441)
+- Recognize `cppm` file-type as C++ (#7492)
+- Refactor ecma language queries into private and public queries (#7207)
+- Update tree-sitter-dart (#7576)
+- Add shebang for nushell files (#7606)
+- Recognize systemd files as INI (#7592)
+- Update TypeScript, TSX and Svelte grammars (#6874)
+- Enable inlay hints in the Svelte language server (#7622)
+- Recognize `Brewfile`s as Ruby (#7629)
+- Add more file-types for R (#7633)
+- Switch tree-sitter-perl to official upstream parser (#7644, #7947)
+- Fix predicate typo in comment highlights (#7732)
+- Update tree-sitter-prql (#7771)
+- Recognize `.gitf` as JSON (#7781)
+- Switch V language server to `v-analyzer` (#7760)
+- Add protobuf language servers (#7796)
+- Update tree-sitter-zig (#7803)
+- Update tree-sitter-hare (#7784)
+- Add Java indent queries (#7844)
+- Update tree-sitter-scheme (979933b)
+- Recognize `scm` as Scheme instead of TSQ (5707151)
+- Update tree-sitter-git-commit (#7831)
+- Update JavaScript, TypeScript and TSX grammars (#7852)
+- Update tree-sitter-nu (#7873)
+- Fix YAML indentation (#6768)
+- Add `csharp-ls`, Pyright, Pylyzer and add roots for Python (#7897, #8032)
+- Update tree-sitter-slint (#7893)
+- Recognize more ZSH file-types as Bash (#7930)
+- Recognize `star` extension as Starlark (#7922)
+- Fix inline HTML tag highlighting in markdown (#7960)
+- Update tree-sitter-robot (#7970)
+- Highlight Dart 3 `sealed` and `base` keywords (#7974)
+- Add configuration for `ltex-ls` to the default `languages.toml` (#7838)
+- Update tree-sitter-strace (#8087)
+- Update tree-sitter-gleam, enable auto-format (#8085)
+- Update tree-sitter-esdl (#8222)
+- Expand ignore file-types (#8220)
+- Recognize feed related formats as XML (#8232)
+- Improve YAML injections (#8217)
+- Add shebangs for TypeScript, Julia, Java and OCaml (95e994a)
+- Highlight abbreviations in Scheme (ef23847)
+- Remove backtic auto-pair in OCaml (#8260)
+- Recognize `flake.lock` as JSON (#8304)
+- Add Python test script injection for Nix (b4494e1)
+- Fix Nix comment injection precedence (37e48f4)
+- Recognize editorconfig files as INI (#8308)
+- Recognize `.babelrc` as JSON (#8309)
+- Switch Purescript to its own tree-sitter parser (#8306, #8338)
+- Update Unison highlights (#8315)
+- Recognize `.webmanifest` as JSON (#8342)
+- Recognize polkit policy files as XML (#8369)
+- Recognize polkit rules files as JavaScript (#8370)
+- Update Go highlight queries (#8399)
+- Add shebangs for Makefiles (#8410)
+- Add file-type associations from VSCode (#8388)
+- Add validation to JSON/CSS language server configs (#8433)
+- Add a configuration for the tailwind language server (#8442)
+- Add a configuration for the ansible language server (#7973)
+- Add a configuration for the GraphQL language server (#8492)
+
+Packaging:
+
+- Add an overlay to the Nix flake (#7078)
+- Check for `git` before fetching or building grammars (#7320)
+- Refactor Nix flake to use Crane (#7763)
+- Remove the aarch64 appimage from the release CI (#7832)
+- Add desktop and icon files to Nix flake output (#7979)
+- Build flake packages with the latest stable Rust (#8133)
+
 # 23.05 (2023-05-18)
 
 23.05 is a smaller release focusing on fixes. There were 88 contributors in this release. Thank you all!

VERSION

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-23.05
+23.08

contrib/Helix.appdata.xml

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   <content_rating type="oars-1.1" />
 
   <releases>
+    <release version="23.08" date="2023-08-31">
+      <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-08-highlights/</url>
+    </release>
     <release version="23.05" date="2023-05-18">
       <url>https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/23.05</url>
     </release>