v3.4.0

Added

• Add a suggestion to replace vague version tags like latest or next with their actual current version
  • Can be disabled in the settings
• Add support for npm:-prefixed comparators

Changed

• Add back the ability to check for updates on static comparators (#148)
  • This feature was intentionally removed in 3.1.0 but is now back as an option in the settings
• Widen the kind of dependencies that can be checked for deprecations

Fixed

• Fix plugin hanging forever when scanning for registries (#146)
• Fix wrong order being applied for unmaintained dependencies quick-fixes

v3.3.0

Added

• Add warnings for unmaintained dependencies (#140)
  • Dependencies are considered likely unmaintained if they have not been updated for a long time, configurable in the settings
• Suggest replacing a deprecated dependency with its latest version when applicable

Fixed

• Fix inaccurate cache invalidation when tweaking excluded packages setting
• Fix some deprecations not being detected
• Fix deprecation replacement action sometimes leading to weird results when auto-sorting is enabled
• (Likely) fix a concurrency crash (#144)

v3.2.1

Fixed

• Fix a crash when no packageManager tag is present in the package.json file

v3.2.0

Added

• Add support for updating the packageManager tag
• Add HTTP caching for some requests to the npm registry, improving performance (#135)
• Attempt to batch registries scan without network requests before falling back to the original behavior, speeding up the first scan (#136)
  • Many thanks to @SCjona for the whole 3.1.0 and the two issues of this release!

Fixed

• Remove a useless call to the local npm command when checking for deprecations, slightly speeding up the scan (#136)

v3.1.0

Changed

• Cache the "no deprecation" and "no update" status, avoiding checking every time (#129)
• Cache the comparator compared upon, avoiding re-scanning the same dependency multiple times (#129)
• Invalidate the cache after a configurable amount of time (#129)
• Check the validity of a comparator before trying to scan for deprecations, as already done for updates (#130)
• Improve the accuracy of the comparator validity verifier (#130)

Thanks to @SCjona for their very helpful issues!

v3.0.2

Fixed

• Fix compatibility with 2024.3 IDEs

v3.0.1

Fixed

• Fix false deprecated field flagging dependencies as deprecated (#122)
• Fix registry affectation logic freezing the plugin

v3.0.0

Removed

• Drop support for 2022.1 and 2022.2 IDEs (#116)

v2.3.3

Fixed

• Fix plugin hanging forever when trying to find a dependency's registry (#110)
• Mitigate crashes when checking version for some dependencies (#109)

v2.3.2

Fixed

• Fix compatibility with 2024.2 IDEs