2021.10.0

Notable changes:

• Return type inference is now skipped for high-complexity unannotated functions, which prevents hangs in sympy, scipy, and other unannotated libraries.
  (pylance-release#946, pylance-release#1890, pylance-release#1895)
• The bundled stubs for pandas have been updated.
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.
  (pylance-release#1909)

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.9.4

Notable changes:

• Completion is now supported for TypedDict keys and values. Thanks to Robert Cragie for this contribution!
• Variables captured by lambdas and functions are now narrowed when they are known to not be reassigned.
  (pylance-release#261, pylance-release#1016)
• Auto-imports no longer incorrectly add to * import lines.
  (pylance-release#1679)
• The "Add Optional to Type Annotation" quick fix no longer fails to run.
  (pylance-release#1873)
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.
  (pylance-release#1872)

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.9.3

Notable changes:

• A number of IntelliCode bugs have been fixed, including cases where starred entries would disappear when more code is typed.
  (pylance-release#89)
• Signature help should no longer trigger when typing a parenthesis in a string.
  (pylance-release#1677)
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.9.2

Notable changes:

• Method override completions now correctly include default parameters.
  (pylance-release#869)
• PEP 258 style attribute docstrings now work on type aliases.
  (pylance-release#1815)
• Parenthesized expressions are now better handled in hover, document highlight, and semantic highlighting.
  (pylance-release#591)
• A number of errors and inconsistencies with unrooted environments (like open file mode) have been fixed.
  (pylance-release#1586)
• The docstring for os.path.splitext is now correctly handled.
  (pylance-release#1408)
• The bundled stubs for pandas have been updated.
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.9.1

Notable changes:

• Docstrings are no longer inherited from builtins like object.
  (pylance-release#653, pylance-release#1047, pylance-release#1205)
• Builtin module variables (like __file__ and __package__) are now correctly highlighted.
  (pylance-release#964)

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.9.0

Notable changes:

• Docstrings for the decimal module are now supported.
  (pylance-release#1350))
• The None, True, False, and __debug__ builtin constants are now correctly colorized within quoted type annotations.
  (pylance-release#1039))
• Completions for keywords that aren't available in the currently selected version of Python will no longer be offered.
  (pylance-release#1724))
• Import completions will no longer include imports which will not resolve if accepted.
  (pylance-release#1046))
• The bundled stubs for pandas have been updated.
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.8.3

Notable changes:

• A bug that prevented navigation to directory-based eggs has been fixed. (pylance-release#1685))
• Corrupt eggs and zips will no longer cause a crash. (pylance-release#1692)
• Triple quote auto-close has been disabled for multi-line selections. (pylance-release#1716)
• The bundled stubs for django and pandas have been updated.
• pth files in directories in extraPaths will now be processed for additional paths. (pylance-release#1709)
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.8.2

Notable changes:

• Attribute doc strings are now supported in hover tooltips.
• Diagnostics and other language features now work in untitled files and files manually marked as Python.
• The "remove unused imports" code action now handles multiple statements on the same line properly. (pylance-release#1547)
• Support for native modules stored in dist-packages has been improved, including numpy when installed globally on Debian-based Linux distributions.
• Support for cv2 has been improved. (pylance-release#1339), (pylance-release#1609)

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.8.1

Notable changes:

• More literal completions are now supported. (pylance-release#1497)
• The bundled pandas stubs have been updated.
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.
• Creating new file in open file mode no longer causes a hang.

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md

2021.8.0

Notable changes:

• Performance of completions for huggingface/transformers has been improved by adding partial stubs. (pylance-release#1258)
• Variable renaming now works in open file mode. (pylance-release#1300)
• Pylance's copy of typeshed has been updated.

For the full changelog, see CHANGELOG.md