[llvm-branch-commits] [clang-tools-extra] [clangd] Add clangd 18 release notes (PR #84436)

[via llvm-branch-commits]

llvmbot wrote:


<!--LLVM PR SUMMARY COMMENT-->

@llvm/pr-subscribers-clang-tools-extra

Author: Nathan Ridge (HighCommander4)

<details>
<summary>Changes</summary>



---
Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/84436.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (+31-2) 


``````````diff
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 5758b5acbc0b56..d963642b812fbf 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -51,21 +51,40 @@ Improvements to clangd
 Inlay hints
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- Type hints
+    * Improved heuristics for showing sugared vs. desguared types
+    * Some hints which provide no information (e.g. ``<dependent-type>``) are now omitted
+- Parameter hints
+    * Parameter hints are now shown for calls through function pointers
+    * Parameter hints are now shown for calls to a class's ``operator()``
+    * No longer show bogus parameter hints for some builtins like ``__builtin_dump_struct``
+
 Diagnostics
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Semantic Highlighting
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+- Improved quality of include-cleaner diagnostics (missing and unused includes)
 
 Compile flags
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- System include extractor (``--query-driver``) improvements
+    * The directory containing builtin headers is now excluded from extracted system includes
+    * Various flags which can affect the system includes (``--target``, ``--stdlib``, ``-specs``) are now forwarded to the driver
+    * Fixed a bug where clangd would sometimes try to call a driver that didn't have obj-c support with ``-x objective-c++-header``
+    * The driver path is now dot-normalized before being compared to the ``--query-driver`` pattern
+    * ``--query-driver`` is now supported by ``clangd-indexer``
+- Fixed a regression in clangd 17 where response files would not be expanded
+
 Hover
 ^^^^^
 
+- Hover now shows alignment info for fields and records
+
 Code completion
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- Refined heuristics for determining whether the use of a function can be a call or not
+
 Code actions
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
@@ -75,15 +94,25 @@ Code actions
 Signature help
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- Improved support for calls through function pointer types
+
 Cross-references
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- Improved support for C++20 concepts
+- Find-references now works for labels
+- Improvements to template heuristics
+
 Objective-C
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 Miscellaneous
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- Various stability improvements, e.g. crash fixes
+- Improved error recovery on invalid code
+- Clangd now bails gracefully on assembly and IR source files
+
 Improvements to clang-doc
 -------------------------
 

``````````

</details>


https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/84436