Serenade Changelog
April 6, 2021
- Plugins for Hyper and iTerm2. See our blog post for more.
- Fix issues with Serenade Pro not starting on Windows and macOS.
- Fix issue on macOS with dark mode setting not taking effect on startup.
- Fix issue where custom command server didn't terminate on app close.
- Fix issue with chaining commands with native keypresses.
March 22, 2021
- Support for creating plugins via the Serenade Protocol
- Switch to the open-sourced serenade-driver for system integrations.
- Support for third-party npm packages in custom commands.
- Microphone settings page now shows current microphone volume, so you can more easily test your microphone.
- Added API function
evaluateInPlugin
to call VSCode APIs from custom commands, rather than relying on keyboard shortcuts. - Added API functions for
click
and setCursorPosition
across macOS, Windows, and Linux. - Added API functions for
mouseDown
and mouseUp
. - Added API function
focusOrLaunch
for focusing an app if it's running, and launching it if not. - Support for non-English keyboard layouts across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Microphone fixes to improve audio quality and accuracy.
- Added complete symbol, key, and selector lists to the documentation.
February 8, 2021
- New mode indicators to make it easier to see which Serenade commands are supported, and which are not.
- Fix issues causing Serenade to lag on long commands.
- Support for unicode characters in source code.
- Save microphone settings between app launches.
- Add entry for using the default system microphone.
- Fix issue where "repeat" didn't work after selecting a different alternative.
- Fix issue where the Serenade app didn't always choose the nearest Cloud server.
serenade.include
API method for including a custom commands file from another.- Add symlink support for
~/.serenade/scripts
.
January 19, 2021
- Support for Mini-mode.
- Support for connecting through proxy servers.
- Support for customizing which styler is used for the style file command. Stylers include Black (Python), yapf (Python), google-java-format (Java), clang (C++), and more.
- Support for prepositional phrases after commands, like insert foo after bar, as an alternative to chaining commands like end of bar insert foo. (Both work!)
- More reliable audio streaming for both Serenade Cloud and Serenade Pro.
- More robust detection for when a command has finished being spoken.
- Fixes for focus across all platforms.
- Fixes for surround with, and introduction of commands like surround with div tag
- Fix change commands that weren't working when changing multiple words.
- Fixes for selecting or changing text that also matches the name of a Serenade command (e.g., "next word paste" will be parsed as "go to next word, then paste" rather than "go to the next word called paste").
- Commands like go to and change match any case, so you don't have to explicitly specify one.
- Add a border to the Windows and Linux applications to make the app stand out more on white backgrounds.
November 23, 2020
- General availability of Serenade Pro.
- New tutorials for Python, Java, and JavaScript, covering frameworks like Flask, React, and Express.
- Added support for C and C++.
- Apple Silicon compatibility.
- When adding code at a blank line, an extra newline won't be created.
- Fix chained commands in Visual Studio Code.
- Support for custom word pronunciations.
- Support for clicking native macOS buttons via click commands.
next line
creates a newline if the cursor is at the end of a file.- Updated our speech engine to improve accuracy across all languages.
- Updated our speech-to-code AI platform to enable more ambiguous descriptions of code.
October 15, 2020
- Added the change all command for changing all instances of a string in a file.
- Added the shift command for moving objects around (e.g.,
shift argument right
and shift line up
). - Added selectors for before and after, so you can say commands like
after foo type bar
. - Added the forward delete key for triggering a forward delete on macOS.
- Improvements to background noise handling.
- Fixed issue with chaining commands in VS Code (e.g.,
next tab line one
).
October 5, 2020
- Added first-class support for JetBrains IDEs via Serenade for JetBrains
- Added first-class support for the Kotlin programming language
- Added first-class support for the Dart programming language
- Added VS Code debugger support with commands like start debugging, step over, and toggle breakpoint
- Added the duplicate command for copying and pasting selectors
- Added the surround command for surrounding selectors with text
- Added the rename command for changing the name of selectors
- Added the join lines command for combining multiple lines into one
- Added the <style> <selector> command for toggling the text style of selectors (e.g.,
capitalize next two words
) - Added the switch window command for toggling among multiple windows of the same application in macOS
- Added the title case text style for formatting text
In Title Case
- Added shorter camel and pascal aliases for camel case and pascal case
- Added stop listening as an alias for pause
- Fixed issue causing the microphone to cut off commands too early
September 21, 2020
- Visual refresh of client application and website
- Added dictate command for speaking text without programming symbols
- Added system command for typing text into native OS fields rather than the editor field
- Fixed open command for VS Code remote projects
- Fixed next/previous behavior in tutorial mode
- Fixed parsing of files with comments inside enclosures