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CodeLite v18.2.0

Release Notes – v18.2.0

CodeLite – LSP, AI/LLM, UI & platform upgrades

🚀 Major Improvements

📢 Read more about the new AI feature here

1. AI / LLM – core platform upgrades

  • Support for multiple LLM providers CodeLite supports multiple LLM providers, such as "Ollama" & "Anthropic".
  • Unified LLM manager – new LLMManager component with model‑listing, enable/disable helpers, interrupt support, and history handling.
  • Endpoint wizard & multi‑model UI – a wizard for selecting the active provider, a drop‑down that persists the chosen model, and a “Clear history / Restart client” action.
  • Extended AI‑powered features – code‑review, release‑note generation, doc‑string creation, function documentation, and automatic commit‑message suggestions.
  • Server‑side improvements – timeout configuration (connect/read/write), automatic configuration reload on file‑save, and support for Ollama, Anthropic (Claude), DeepSeek and other providers.
  • RAII helpers – FunctionsDisabler, EnableAllFunctions(), EnableFunctionByName() to safely toggle LLM features.

2. Language Server Protocol (LSP) enhancements

  • Unified manager – LSP::Manager replaces the old LSPManager; all language‑server capabilities (completion, hover, go‑to‑definition/declaration, workspace symbols, semantic tokens, call‑tips, etc.) now go through a single entry point.
  • Accelerated command handling – Find Symbol, Rename Symbol, Find References are grouped in a global accelerator group; per‑editor bindings removed.
  • Selection‑aware navigation – “Go to Definition” now prefers the start of the current selection.
  • Header lookup & workspace symbols – LSP::Manager::FindHeaderFile and WorkspaceSymbols provide direct server queries, replacing the legacy event‑based mechanisms.
  • Semantic‑token driven theming – editor colours now update automatically from LSP semantic tokens.

3. Editor & UI modernisation

  • Unified Outline View – Quick Outline replaced by a single Outline View with its own LSP document‑symbol event (wxEVT_LSP_DOCUMENT_SYMBOLS_OUTLINE_VIEW).
  • Navigation bar enrichment – now shows classes, structs, enums, and interfaces as well as functions.
  • Improved toolbars – all toolbars migrated to wxAuiToolBar; icons, accelerators and sash widths (250 px) refreshed.
  • IndicatorPanel – reusable background‑task status widget used by both Git and ChatAI panels.
  • Prompt editor & preview – PromptEditorDlg and TextGenerationPreviewFrame replace modal dialogs; markdown‑styled prompts, JSON parsing, and scroll‑resilience added.
  • Platform‑native notebooks – Git “Changes” view now uses the native notebook widget on each OS (wxAuiNotebook, wxNativeBook, clGenericNotebook).

4. Git console and file‑tool upgrades

  • AI‑driven Git tools – code‑review integration, release‑note generation button in the Git toolbar, and batch processing of commit logs.
  • Enhanced log handling – FetchLogBetweenCommits splits logs into chunks, filters noise and returns a typed error object.

5. Configuration, build & platform support

  • Centralised config APIs – CreateOrOpenConfig(), full validation, version checks and automatic backups for LLM settings.
  • CMake modernisation – switched to add_compile_definitions, removed obsolete flags, and added hidden build‑directory layout (.build‑debug, .build‑release).
  • Cross‑platform fixes – added OpenBSD support, updated third‑party submodules (assistant, ctagsd, dtl, libssh, yaml‑cpp), migrated many utilities to std::unique_ptr/std::optional, and replaced old typedefs with using.
  • Documentation overhaul – README, download pages and ChatAI docs reorganised; badges, quick‑link tables and animated GIFs added.

6. Refactors & clean‑ups

  • Consolidated XML utilities under XmlUtils.
  • Moved string utilities to StringUtils.
  • Replaced dead event bindings (wxEVT_CC_*, wxEVT_WXC_PROPETY_CHANGED, etc.).
  • Applied modern C++ keywords (override, explicit, nullptr, [[maybe_unused]]).

🐞 Bug Fixes (consolidated)

  • Typo & spelling corrections – hundreds of identifiers, comments and UI strings fixed (e.g., “behaviour → behavior”, “Parentesis → Parenthesis”).
  • Comment‑detection logic – IsPositionInComment added; prevents completions and call‑tips inside comments.
  • Status‑message timeout – reduced from 3 s to 1 s for doc‑string generation and LSP symbol requests.
  • Duplicate/obsolete event removal – cleaned up wxEVT_CC_*, wxEVT_WXC_PROPETY_CHANGED, dead Outline‑view events, and dead LSP bindings.
  • Crash & stability fixes – guard against null pointers in Git dialogs, Text Generation windows, LSP request handling, and remote workspace searches; fixed Linux‑specific crashes with wx3.2.
  • Header‑lookup and workspace‑symbol bugs – resolved missing symbols, corrected file‑path handling (UTF‑8 conversions, proper quoting of paths with spaces).
  • Build‑system issues – fixed missing includes (<memory>, <mutex>, <atomic>), corrected std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max() usage, and resolved GCC 15 and MSVC C++20 compilation errors.
  • Git‑related fixes – improved log chunking, corrected toolbar bitmap handling, fixed rebase tool crashes, and restored missing “Add unstaged file” action.
  • AI UI glitches – toolbar sizer flags, background‑task icon glitches, model‑selection dropdown resizing, and proper handling of empty model lists.
  • Remote & SSH improvements – macro WorkspaceRealPath always resolved, safe deletion of custom SSH keys, and correct handling of special regex characters in remote searches.
  • Miscellaneous – updated README badges, refreshed French localisation, removed unused headers, and applied consistent code‑formatting throughout the code base.

🙏 Acknowledgements

A huge thank‑you to Eran Ifrah, Joris Dauphin, Uffe Jakobsen, Jarod 42, and all other contributors listed above. Your relentless effort makes each release stronger and more feature‑rich.

For a full diff, see the repository history.

📋 Summary of Contributions

Contributor Commits
Eran Ifrah 232
Joris Dauphin 65
Uffe Jakobsen 10
dghart 5
Anders Jenbo 1
Guillermo Bernaldo de Quiros Maraver 1
bztd 1
tuwulin365 1

All contributions are listed in descending order of commit count.