Add changelog notes for the 23.03 release (helix-editor#6455)

* changelog: Checkpoint 2023-01-10 commit: 927fa11 * changelog: Checkpoint 2023-02-05 commit: 9c98043 * changelog: Checkpoint 2023-03-17 commit: bd47392 * changelog: Checkpoint 2023-03-27 commit: 5323020 * Set a tentative release date for 2023-03-31 * Update CHANGELOG.md * Mention virtual text PR in inlayed type hints feature links * Fix description for 5097 * Rebalance features, usability improvements and fixes * Reorganize some out-of-place changes to the proper sections * Eliminate the LSP configurations section This has a lot of overlap with the 'new languages' section with newly supported LSP configurations. Smaller changes to LSP configurations are not so common so I folded those into the 'updated languages and queries' section.
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+# 23.03 (2023-03-31)
+
+> Checkpoint: `5323020c3f02b178f2b6807f13d89bf7f40d3cce`
+
+For the full log, check out the [git log](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/compare/22.12..23.03).
+
+Breaking changes:
+
+- Select diagnostic range in `goto_*_diag` commands (#4713, #5164, #6193)
+- Remove jump behavior from `increment`/`decrement` (#4123, #5929)
+- Select change range in `goto_*_change` commands (#5206)
+- Split file modification indicator from filename statusline elements (#4731, #6036)
+- Jump to symbol ranges in LSP goto commands (#5986)
+
+Features:
+
+- Dynamic workspace symbol picker (#5055)
+- Soft-wrap (#5420, #5786, #5893, #6142, #6440)
+- Initial support for LSP snippet completions (#5864, b1f7528, #6263, bbf4800, 90348b8, f87299f, #6371)
+- Add a statusline element for showing the current version control HEAD (#5682)
+- Display LSP type hints (#5420, #5934, #6312)
+- Enable the Kitty keyboard protocol on terminals with support (#4939, #6170, #6194)
+- Add a statusline element for the basename of the current file (#5318)
+- Add substring matching syntax for the picker (#5658)
+- Support LSP `textDocument/prepareRename` (#6103)
+- Allow multiple runtime directories with priorities (#5411)
+- Allow configuring whether to insert or replace completions (#5728)
+
+Commands:
+
+- `:pipe-to` which pipes selections into a shell command and ignores output (#4931)
+- `merge_consecutive_selections` (`A-_`) combines all consecutive selections (#5047)
+- `rotate_view_reverse` which focuses the previous view (#5356)
+- `goto_declaration` (`gD`, requires LSP) which jumps to a symbol's declaration (#5646)
+- `file_picker_in_current_buffer_directory` (#4666)
+- `:character-info` which shows information about the character under the cursor (#4000)
+- `:toggle-option` for toggling config options at runtime (#4085)
+- `dap_restart` for restarting a debug session in DAP (#5651)
+- `:lsp-stop` to stop the language server of the current buffer (#5964)
+- `:reset-diff-change` for resetting a diff hunk to its original text (#4974)
+
+Usability improvements:
+
+- Remove empty detail section in completion menu when LSP doesn't send details (#4902)
+- Pass client information on LSP initialization (#4904)
+- Allow specifying environment variables for language servers in language config (#4004)
+- Allow detached git worktrees to be recognized as root paths (#5097)
+- Improve error message handling for theme loading failures (#5073)
+- Print the names of binaries required for LSP/DAP in health-check (#5195)
+- Improve sorting in the picker in cases of ties (#5169)
+- Add theming for prompt suggestions (#5104)
+- Open a file picker when using `:open` on directories (#2707, #5278)
+- Reload language config with `:config-reload` (#5239, #5381, #5431)
+- Improve indent queries for python when the tree is errored (#5332)
+- Picker: Open files without closing the picker with `A-ret` (#4435)
+- Allow theming cursors by primary/secondary and by mode (#5130)
+- Allow configuration of the minimum width for the line-numbers gutter (#4724, #5696)
+- Use filename completer for `:run-shell-command` command (#5729)
+- Surround with line-endings with `ms<ret>` (#4571)
+- Hide duplicate symlinks in file pickers (#5658)
+- Tabulate buffer picker contents (#5777)
+- Add an option to disable LSP (#4425)
+- Short-circuit tree-sitter and word object motions (#5851)
+- Add exit code to failed command message (#5898)
+- Make `m` textobject look for pairs enclosing selections (#3344)
+- Negotiate LSP position encoding (#5894)
+- Display deprecated LSP completions with strikethrough (#5932)
+- Add JSONRPC request ID to failed LSP/DAP request log messages (#6010, #6018)
+- Ignore case when filtering LSP completions (#6008)
+- Show current language when no arguments are passed to `:set-language` (#5895)
+- Refactor and rewrite all book documentation (#5534)
+- Separate diagnostic picker message and code (#6095)
+- Add a config option to bypass undercurl detection (#6253)
+- Only complete appropriate arguments for typed commands (#5966)
+- Discard outdated LSP diagnostics (3c9d5d0)
+- Discard outdated LSP workspace edits (b6a4927)
+- Run shell commands asynchronously (#6373)
+- Show diagnostic codes in LSP diagnostic messages (#6378)
+
+Fixes:
+
+- Fix behavior of `auto-completion` flag for completion-on-trigger (#5042)
+- Reset editor mode when changing buffers (#5072)
+- Respect scrolloff settings in mouse movements (#5255)
+- Avoid trailing `s` when only one file is opened (#5189)
+- Fix erroneous indent between closers of auto-pairs (#5330)
+- Expand `~` when parsing file paths in `:open` (#5329)
+- Fix theme inheritance for default themes (#5218)
+- Fix `extend_line` with a count when the current line(s) are selected (#5288)
+- Prompt: Fix autocompletion for paths containing periods (#5175)
+- Skip serializing JSONRPC params if params is null (#5471)
+- Fix interaction with the `xclip` clipboard provider (#5426)
+- Fix undo/redo execution from the command palette (#5294)
+- Fix highlighting of non-block cursors (#5575)
+- Fix panic when nooping in `join_selections` and `join_selections_space` (#5423)
+- Fix selecting a changed file in global search (#5639)
+- Fix initial syntax highlight layer sort order (#5196)
+- Fix UTF-8 length handling for shellwords (#5738)
+- Remove C-j and C-k bindings from the completion menu (#5070)
+- Always commit to history when pasting (#5790)
+- Properly handle LSP position encoding (#5711)
+- Fix infinite loop in `copy_selection_on_prev_line` (#5888)
+- Fix completion popup positioning (#5842)
+- Fix a panic when uncommenting a line with only a comment token (#5933)
+- Fix panic in `goto_window_center` at EOF (#5987)
+- Ignore invalid file URIs sent by a language server (#6000)
+- Decode LSP URIs for the workspace diagnostics picker (#6016)
+- Fix incorrect usages of `tab_width` with `indent_width` (#5918)
+- DAP: Send Disconnect if the Terminated event is received (#5532)
+- DAP: Validate key and index exist when requesting variables (#5628)
+- Check LSP renaming support before prompting for rename text (#6257)
+- Fix indent guide rendering (#6136)
+- Fix division by zero panic (#6155)
+- Fix lacking space panic (#6109)
+- Send error replies for malformed and unhandled LSP requests (#6058)
+- Fix table column calculations for dynamic pickers (#5920)
+- Skip adding jumplist entries for `:<n>` line number previews (#5751)
+- Fix completion race conditions (#6173)
+- Fix `shrink_selection` with multiple cursors (#6093)
+- Fix indentation calculation for lines with mixed tabs/spaces (#6278)
+- No-op `client/registerCapability` LSP requests (#6258)
+- Send the STOP signal to all processes in the process group (#3546)
+- Fix workspace edit client capabilities declaration (7bf168d)
+- Fix highlighting in picker results with multiple columns (#6333)
+
+Themes:
+
+- Update `serika` (#5038, #6344)
+- Update `flatwhite` (#5036, #6323)
+- Update `autumn` (#5051, #5397, #6280, #6316)
+- Update `acme` (#5019, #5486, #5488)
+- Update `gruvbox` themes (#5066, #5333, #5540, #6285, #6295)
+- Update `base16_transparent` (#5105)
+- Update `dark_high_contrast` (#5105)
+- Update `dracula` (#5236, #5627, #6414)
+- Update `monokai_pro_spectrum` (#5250, #5602)
+- Update `rose_pine` (#5267, #5489, #6384)
+- Update `kanagawa` (#5273, #5571, #6085)
+- Update `emacs` (#5334)
+- Add `github` themes (#5353, efeec12)
+    - Dark themes: `github_dark`, `github_dark_colorblind`, `github_dark_dimmed`, `github_dark_high_contrast`, `github_dark_tritanopia`
+    - Light themes: `github_light`, `github_light_colorblind`, `github_light_dimmed`, `github_light_high_contrast`, `github_light_tritanopia`
+- Update `solarized` variants (#5445, #6327)
+- Update `catppuccin` variants (#5404, #6107, #6269)
+- Use curly underlines in built-in themes (#5419)
+- Update `zenburn` (#5573)
+- Rewrite `snazzy` (#3971)
+- Add `monokai_aqua` (#5578)
+- Add `markup.strikethrough` to existing themes (#5619)
+- Update `sonokai` (#5440)
+- Update `onedark` (#5755)
+- Add `ayu_evolve` (#5638, #6028, #6225)
+- Add `jellybeans` (#5719)
+- Update `fleet_dark` (#5605, #6266, #6324, #6375)
+- Add `darcula-solid` (#5778)
+- Remove text background from monokai themes (#6009)
+- Update `pop_dark` (#5992, #6208, #6227, #6292)
+- Add `everblush` (#6086)
+- Add `adwaita-dark` (#6042, #6342)
+- Update `papercolor` (#6162)
+- Update `onelight` (#6192, #6276)
+- Add `molokai` (#6260)
+- Update `ayu` variants (#6329)
+- Update `tokyonight` variants (#6349)
+- Update `nord` variants (#6376)
+
+New languages:
+
+- BibTeX (#5064)
+- Mermaid.js (#5147)
+- Crystal (#4993, #5205)
+- MATLAB/Octave (#5192)
+- `tfvars` (uses HCL) (#5396)
+- Ponylang (#5416)
+- DHall (1f6809c)
+- Sagemath (#5649)
+- MSBuild (#5793)
+- pem (#5797)
+- passwd (#4959)
+- hosts (#4950, #5914)
+- uxntal (#6047)
+- Yuck (#6064, #6242)
+- GNU gettext PO (#5996)
+- Sway (#6023)
+- NASM (#6068)
+- PRQL (#6126)
+- reStructuredText (#6180)
+- Smithy (#6370)
+- VHDL (#5826)
+- Rego (OpenPolicy Agent) (#6415)
+- Nim (#6123)
+
+Updated languages and queries:
+
+- Use diff syntax for patch files (#5085)
+- Add Haskell textobjects (#5061)
+- Fix commonlisp configuration (#5091)
+- Update Scheme (bae890d)
+- Add indent queries for Bash (#5149)
+- Recognize `c++` as a C++ extension (#5183)
+- Enable HTTP server in `metals` (Scala) config (#5551)
+- Change V-lang language server to `v ls` from `vls` (#5677)
+- Inject comment grammar into Nix (#5208)
+- Update Rust highlights (#5238, #5349)
+- Fix HTML injection within Markdown (#5265)
+- Fix comment token for godot (#5276)
+- Expand injections for Vue (#5268)
+- Add `.bash_aliases` as a Bash file-type (#5347)
+- Fix comment token for sshclientconfig (#5351)
+- Update Prisma (#5417)
+- Update C++ (#5457)
+- Add more file-types for Python (#5593)
+- Update tree-sitter-scala (#5576)
+- Add an injection regex for Lua (#5606)
+- Add `build.gradle` to java roots configuration (#5641)
+- Add Hub PR files to markdown file-types (#5634)
+- Add an external formatter configuration for Cue (#5679)
+- Add injections for builders and writers to Nix (#5629)
+- Update tree-sitter-xml to fix whitespace parsing (#5685)
+- Add `Justfile` to the make file-types configuration (#5687)
+- Update tree-sitter-sql and highlight queries (#5683, #5772)
+- Use the bash grammar and queries for env language (#5720)
+- Add podspec files to ruby file-types (#5811)
+- Recognize `.C` and `.H` file-types as C++ (#5808)
+- Recognize plist and mobileconfig files as XML (#5863)
+- Fix `select` indentation in Go (#5713)
+- Check for external file modifications when writing (#5805)
+- Recognize containerfiles as dockerfile syntax (#5873)
+- Update godot grammar and queries (#5944, #6186)
+- Improve DHall highlights (#5959)
+- Recognize `.env.dist` and `source.env` as env language (#6003)
+- Update tree-sitter-git-rebase (#6030, #6094)
+- Improve SQL highlights (#6041)
+- Improve markdown highlights and inject LaTeX (#6100)
+- Add textobject queries for Elm (#6084)
+- Recognize graphql schema file type (#6159)
+- Improve highlighting in comments (#6143)
+- Improve highlighting for JavaScript/TypeScript/ECMAScript languages (#6205)
+- Improve PHP highlights (#6203, #6250, #6299)
+- Improve Go highlights (#6204)
+- Highlight unchecked sqlx functions as SQL in Rust (#6256)
+- Improve Erlang highlights (cdd6c8d)
+- Improve Nix highlights (fb4d703)
+- Improve gdscript highlights (#6311)
+- Improve Vlang highlights (#6279)
+- Improve Makefile highlights (#6339)
+- Remove auto-pair for `'` in OCaml (#6381)
+- Fix indents in switch statements in ECMA languages (#6369)
+- Recognize xlb and storyboard file-types as XML (#6407)
+- Recognize cts and mts file-types as TypeScript (#6424)
+- Recognize SVG file-type as XML (#6431)
+- Add theme scopes for (un)checked list item markup scopes (#6434)
+- Update git commit grammar and add the comment textobject (#6439)
+- Recognize ARB file-type as JSON (#6452)
+
+Packaging:
+
+- Fix Nix flake devShell for darwin hosts (#5368)
+- Add Appstream metadata file to `contrib/` (#5643)
+- Increase the MSRV to 1.65 (#5570, #6185)
+- Expose the Nix flake's `wrapper` (#5994)
+
 # 22.12 (2022-12-06)
 
 This is a great big release filled with changes from a 99 contributors. A big _thank you_ to you all!

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-22.12
+23.03
diff --git a/contrib/Helix.appdata.xml b/contrib/Helix.appdata.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
   <content_rating type="oars-1.1" />
 
   <releases>
+    <release version="23.03" date="2023-03-31">
+      <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-03-highlights/</url>
+    </release>
     <release version="22.12" date="2022-12-6">
       <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-22-12-highlights/</url>
     </release>