We're happy to announce the release of Metals v1.5.1, which brings a hotfix for go to definition error reporting.

For full details: https://github.com/scalameta/metals/milestone/76?closed=1

Metals is a language server for Scala that works with VS Code, Vim, Emacs, Zed, Helix and Sublime Text. Metals is developed at the Scala Center and VirtusLab with the help from contributors from the community.

TL;DR​

Check out https://scalameta.org/metals/, and give Metals a try!

• Create an error report only on an empty definition

Create an error report only on an empty definition​

Fix for a bug, where an error report would be created always on go to definition action.

Miscellaneous​

• improvement: Don't fail on creating short type (Scala 2) kasiaMarek
• improvement: Default to empty object if no metals section tgodzik
• improvement: Use only current source tree for searching for local symbols in pc (Scala 3) kasiaMarek

Contributors​

Big thanks to everybody who contributed to this release or reported an issue!

$ git shortlog -sn --no-merges v1.5.0..v1.5.1
     5	kasiaMarek
     2	Scalameta Bot
     3	Tomasz Godzik
     1	Katarzyna Marek
     1	dependabot[bot]
     1	tgodzik

Merged PRs​

v1.5.1 (2025-01-24)​

Full Changelog

Merged pull requests:

• fix: report error only on an empty definition #7155 (kasiaMarek)
• build(deps): Update cli_3, scala-cli-bsp from 1.5.4 to 1.6.1 #7154 (scalameta-bot)
• build(deps): Update scalafmt-core from 3.8.5 to 3.8.6 #7152 (scalameta-bot)
• bugfix: Start http server earlier #7084 (tgodzik)
• improvement: don't fail on shortType #7148 (kasiaMarek)
• improvement: Default to empty object if no metals section #7150 (tgodzik)
• improvement: look for definition in pc only for local symbols in the current tree #7105 (kasiaMarek)
• build(deps): bump undici from 6.19.8 to 6.21.1 in /website #7147 (dependabot[bot])
• docs: release notes for Metals 1.5.0 #7124 (kasiaMarek)