[0.24.0] - 2024-10-04

Breaking

• Remove C++ support for external scanners (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3602)
• Remove filter flag from commands in favor of include and exclude (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3604)
• Remove the build-wasm subcommand (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3605)
• Move generation of grammar files to an init command (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3694)
• Implement StreamingIterator instead of Iterator for QueryMatches and QueryCaptures (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3504)
• generate: Remove unused rules (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3722)
• lib: Treat nodes' end ranges exclusively in goto_first_child_for_{byte,point} (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3263)

Features

• Add an API to time out query executions (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3559)
• Add field_name_for_named_child (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3614)
• Add root field in node-types.json (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3615)
• Add eslint configuration package (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3666)
• Provide a rebuild flag to force rebuild parsers (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3672)
• Add shell completions (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3675)
• Move generate logic to its own crate (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3689)
• Add --overview-only to test subcommand (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3501)
• Move tree-sitter configuration to dedicated file (#3700) (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3700)
• api: Expose function to check if symbol represents a supertype (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3616)
• bindings: Bump go-tree-sitter version (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3564)
• cli: Add a no-ranges flag to the parse command (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3687)
• generate: Bump tree-sitter dev dependency to 0.23 (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3563)
• generate: Add a no-op --no-bindings flag
• init: Add an update flag (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3698)
• language: Derive Clone and Copy on LanguageFn (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3585)
• schema: Misc improvements (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3681)
• test: Test all queries

Bug Fixes

• Correct comment quote (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3630)
• Properly handle utf8 code points for highlight and tag assertions (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3610)
• Do not generate spurious files if the grammar path is not the default path (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3677)
• Disallow empty string literals in rules (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3679)
• Correct test name parsing when the prior test has equal signs (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3704)
• Handle more cases of editing subtrees that depend on column values (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3257)
• Exclude APIs that dup given file descriptors from WASI builds (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3475)
• Deprecate child_containing_descendant and add child_with_descendant instead (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3708)
• binding_web: Correct edit signature (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3599)
• binding_web: Remove nonexistent function definition (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3612)
• bindings: Use RUST_BINDING_VERSION in Cargo.toml template
• bindings: Lower go version to 1.22 (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3711)
• build: Correct wasm root path lookup (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3723)
• build: Force rebuild parsers when build is invoked (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3729)
• cli: Remove conflicting short flags in the fuzz subcommand (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3562)
• cli: Keep skipped tests unchanged in the test/corpus (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3590)
• cli: Remove duplicate short options from fuzz command (#3635) (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3635)
• cli: Generate the parser version from the config as well
• docs: Fix highlight readme example using compatible versions (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3573)
• fuzz: Skip tests marked with :skip & don't report errors on tests marked with :error (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3640)
• generate: Remove necessary files from gitignore template (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3561)
• generate: Disallow inline variables referencing themselves (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3569)
• generate: Add tree-sitter to the dev-dependencies of the Cargo.toml (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3597)
• generate: Do not generate large character sets for unused variables (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3606)
• generate: Remove excludes in Package.swift (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3631)
• generate: Add *.scm section to .editorconfig template (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3724)
• generate: Filter out unused rules in other spots (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3726)
• init: Fix some schema issues
• init: Don't prompt to reconfigure (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3713)
• init: Do not migrate package.json on error (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3718)
• lib: Correct extra node creation from non-zero root-alias cursors (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3568)
• lib: Backtrack to the last relevant iterator if no child was found (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3570)
• lib: Peek at the next sibling when iterating to find the child that contains a given descendant (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3566)
• lib: Correct descendant-for-range behavior with zero-width tokens (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3688)
• lib: Silence warnings with -Wpedantic (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3691)
• lib: Ensure an unfinished state was found before removing it (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3727)
• rust: Add missing TSNode functions (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3571)
• test: Exit with an error if a test marked with :error has no error
• test: Retain attributes when running test -u (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3572)
• test: Correctly handle assertions on empty lines (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3674)
• wasm: Use / paths for workdir (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3658)

Documentation

• Add Kotlin to the playground (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3560)
• changelog: Add 0.23.0 release notes (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3565)

Refactor

• Improve the grammar schema
• cli: Break out subcommand logic into separate functions (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3676)

Build System and CI

• Add backport workflow (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3575)
• Bump deps (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3696)
• Bump language to 0.1.1 (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3730)
• bindings: Add CMakeLists.txt file (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3608)
• cmake: Link wasmtime dependencies (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3717)
• deps: Bump the cargo group across 1 directory with 11 updates (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3644)
• deps: Bump the cargo group with 3 updates (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3671)
• lib: Build using cmake (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3541)
• make: Support darwin cross-compile (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3641)
• xtask: Bump cmake version in bump-version
• xtask: Only consider major and minor versions when validating the current version
• xtask: Ignore the language crate

Other

• Remove compile_flags.txt (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3667)
• Update generate crate paths (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3697)
• bindings: Update rust lib docs (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3621)
• lib: Add parameter names in declarations that are missing them (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3692)
• tests: Do not use .as_bytes().len() on strings (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/3664)