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 Type: Package
 Package: languageserver
 Title: Language Server Protocol
-Version: 0.3.16.9001
-Date: 2026-02-20
+Version: 0.3.17
+Date: 2026-03-04
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Randy",
              family = "Lai",
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+# languageserver 0.3.17
+
+**Closed issues:**
+
+- Support semanticTokens (#692)
+- lintr 3.3.0-1 changed default parse_settings to FALSE for lint() (#709)
+- LanguageClient-neovim is abandoned (#701)
+- languageserver does not respect lintr file (#700)
+- languageserver warns about undefined global functions even when they are imported via NAMESPACE (#698)
+- Semantic highlighting appears incomplete (#694)
+- Completions without {library}:: (#686)
+- Disabling indentation warnings, can't disable `lintr` warnings (#674)
+
+**Merged pull requests:**
+
+- Ignore didSave without didOpen (#714)
+- Implement semantic tokens support (#692)
+- Implement type hierarchy provider (#703)
+- explicit parse_settings = TRUE (#706)
+- Update comment folding to ignore `# %%` code chunks (#644)
+- Add `nline_to_break_succession` as option (#643)
+- Check path in diagnose_file (#654)
+- Add devcontainer configs (#655, #656)
+- Use built-in LSP instead of abandoned LanguageClient-neovim (#702)
+- Fix covr readRDS error by gracefully closing background sessions
+- Fix test failure: only send shutdown request if language server is alive
+- Support class members for document symbols
+- Performance improvements with C implementation of semantic tokens and encoding
+
 # languageserver 0.3.16
 
 **Closed issues:**
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 [![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/REditorSupport/languageserver/actions/workflows/rcmdcheck.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/REditorSupport/languageserver/actions/workflows/rcmdcheck.yml)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/REditorSupport/languageserver/graph/badge.svg)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/REditorSupport/languageserver)
-[![CRAN\_Status\_Badge](http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/languageserver)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=languageserver)
-[![CRAN Downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/languageserver)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=languageserver)
-[![r-universe](https://reditorsupport.r-universe.dev/badges/languageserver)](https://reditorsupport.r-universe.dev/ui/#package:languageserver)
+[![CRAN\_Status\_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/languageserver)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=languageserver)
+[![CRAN Downloads](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/languageserver)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=languageserver)
+[![r-universe](https://reditorsupport.r-universe.dev/badges/languageserver)](https://reditorsupport.r-universe.dev/#package:languageserver)
 
 `languageserver` is an implementation of the Microsoft's [Language Server Protocol](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/) for the language of R.