This release is not intended to be used, it is only to represent a milestone for Metals. There is still nothing to try out for users and no extension on the VS Code marketplace.
Until now, Metals has been a side-project of several enthusiastic contributors including myself (@olafurpg), @gabro, @laughedelic, @xeno-by, @ShaneDelmore and @jvican. However, for the coming months I will be working full-time on code navigation as part of my job at the Scala Center 🎉
Based on conversations with many Scala developers over the past year, there is demand for a code navigation solution that Just Works™️ with any editor, in any build tool, and Scala 2.11+. Goto definition and find references should be reliable and require minimal indexing overhead and memory usage. Other IDE features such as diagnostics as-you-type or code completions are important but navigation alone is an important first milestone towards those features. If this sounds exciting to you, we invite you to join our efforts and contribute! Stop by our Gitter channel and say hi 👋