Pause debugging, add/remove breakpoints while debugging and whole lot of other improvements to the debugging process along with code navigation improvements in module mode

Debugging improvements

• @xiphon

  • Fix the Pause command. Fixes Bug 978 with PR 2126
  • Allow adding/removing breakpoints when debuggee is running. Fixes Bug 2002 with PR 2128
  • Use unique stack frame ids to be compliant with Debug Adapter Protocol. PR 2130

• Joel Hendrix (@jhendrixMSFT)

  • Display nested content of structs in variables pane. Fixes Bug 1010 with PR 2198
  • Display shadowed variables in variables pane. Fixes Bug 1974 with PR 2254
  • Fix the slowness during debugging that got introduced a few releases ago, by caching the package info used to call ListPackageVars command in delve. PR 2289

• Adrian Suwała (@Ashiroq) & * Vlad Barosan (@vladbarosan)

  • New command Go: Debug Test at Cursor to debug the test function under the cursor. This provides the same feature as the debug codelens, but in the form of a command. Feature Request 1088 implemented with PR 2059

• Segev Finer (@segevfiner)

  • Fix bug that got introduced in the previous release where only the top call stack frame was shown. Fixes Bug 2187 with PR 2200
  • Upstream bug fix in VS Code to avoid the frequent jump to proc.go file when stepping in/out during debugging. Fixes microsoft/vscode#65920

• Bryce Kahle (@brycekahle)

  • Use LoggingDebugSession to show logs from the VS Code debug adapter. Feature Request 858 implemented with PR 2081

• Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

  • Trace levels updated to include log which would be the old verbose. The new verbose will include logs from the VS Code debug adapter.
  • Avoid showing global variables by default as it affects performance. PR 2133

• Kuntal Majumder (@hellozee)

  • Use the new respository link for delve. PR 2277

• Jonathan Hernández (@aggressivepixels)

  • Skip installing delve on 32 bit platforms that dont support it. Fixes Bug 2191 with PR 2195

Others

• Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

  • When no folder is opened in VS Code, Go to definition feature now works on individual files. Fixes Bug 2246 with commit 58817b8
  • When the main module is opened in VS Code, Go to definition feature now works for sub modules as well. Fixes Bug 2180 with PR 2262
  • Run the on save features only for current file. This will improve performance when multiple files are being saved at once, for eg: after find replace across files. Fixes Bug 2202 with commit cf0a61c
  • Allow disabling of documentation in the auto-completion widget to solve the perf issue due to multiple go doc processes being spawned. Fixes Bug 2152 with commit e4522ba1. This is done using the flag -excludeDocs in the go.gocodeFlags setting.

• Catalin Pirvu (@katakonst)

  • Show test coverage even if the test fails. Feature Request 2193 implemented with PR 2263

• Karl Goffin (@kagof)

  • Suggest exported member name only at the start of the comment. Fixes Bug 2063 with PR 2070

• Kaarthik Rao Bekal Radhakrishna (@karthikraobr)

  • Avoid invalidating code coverage when updating single line comments. PR 1996

• Shreyas Karnik (@shreyu86)

  • Fix tool descriptions in the dropdown from Go: Install/Update Tools command. [PR 2235](https://github.com/
    /pull/2235)

• Sardorbek (@oneslash)

  • Use godef instead of the fork for modules as all changes are merged upstream now. PR 2234
  • Replace use of megacheck with staticcheck as the former is deprecated. Fixes Bug 2231 with PR 2232

• kerem (@keremgocen)

  • Check if the file at the expected tool path is executable before using it. Fixes Bug 2220 with PR 2230

• Segev Finer (@segevfiner)

  • Use the right documentation in auto-completion widget when there are multiple functions of the same name but on different receivers. Fixes Bug 2107 with PR 2215

• @richardatphilo

  • Fix Find all references feature when text is selected. Fixes Bug 2197 with PR 2226