serena/CHANGELOG.md

Latest

Changes prior to the next official version change will appear here.

• Serena core:

  • Bugfix in FindSymbolTool (a bug fixed in LS)
  • Fix in ListDirTool: Do not ignore files with extensions not understood by the language server, only skip ignored directories (error introduced in previous version)
  • Merged the two overview tools (for directories and files) into a single one: GetSymbolsOverviewTool
  • One-click setup for Cline enabled
  • SearchForPatternTool can now (optionally) search in the entire project
  • New tool RestartLanguageServerTool for restarting the language server (in case of other sources of editing apart from Serena)
  • Fix CheckOnboardingPerformedTool:
    • Tool description was incompatible with project change
    • Returned result was not as useful as it could be (now added list of memories)

• Language Servers:

  • Add further file extensions considered by the language servers for Python (.pyi), JavaScript (.jsx) and TypeScript (.tsx, .jsx)
  • Updated multilspy, adding support for Kotlin, Dart and C/C++ and several improvements.
  • Added support for PhP

2025-04-07

Breaking Config Changes: make sure to set ignore_all_files_in_gitignore, remove ignore_dirs and (optionally) set ignore_paths in your project configs. See updated config template

• Serena core:
  • New tool: FindReferencingCodeSnippets
  • Adjusted prompt in CreateTextFileTool to prevent writing partial content (see here).
  • FindSymbolTool: allow passing a file for restricting search, not just a directory (Gemini was too dumb to pass directories)
  • Native support for gitignore files for configuring files to be ignored by serena. See also in Language Servers section below.
  • Major Feature: Allow Serena to switch between projects (project activation)
    • Add central Serena configuration in serena_config.yml, which
      • contains the list of available projects
      • allows to configure whether project activation is enabled
      • now contains the GUI logging configuration (project configurations no longer do)
    • Add new tools activate_project and get_active_project
    • Providing a project configuration file in the launch parameters is now optional
• Logging:
  • Improve error reporting in case of initialization failure: open a new GUI log window showing the error or ensure that the existing log window remains visible for some time
• Language Servers:
  • Fix C# language server initialization issue when the project path contains spaces
  • Native support for gitignore in overview, document-tree and find_references operations. This is an important addition, since previously things like venv and node_modules were scanned and were likely responsible for slowness of tools and even server crashes (presumably due to OOM errors).
• Agno:
  • Fix Agno reloading mechanism causing failures when initializing the sqlite memory database #8
  • Fix Serena GUI log window not capturing logs after initialization

2025-04-01

Initial public version