Release: 2021-03-30

This contains the latest versions of bat-modules, batdiff, batgrep, batman, batpipe, batwatch, and prettybat as of commit c538ead (March 30th, 2021).

This is provided as a convenience only.
I would still recommend following the installation instructions in the README for the most up-to-date versions.

Changes

• batdiff: Make --all default behavior for no arguments
• batgrep: Clean up handling of RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH
• batgrep: Remove hardcoded reference to ripgrep executable
• batgrep: Allow searching through STDIN (#42)
• batpipe: Highlight unsupported files using bat
• batpipe: Fix error when external viewers folder exists
• batpipe: Add support for exa
• batpipe: Add support for *.xz files
• batpipe: Fix viewing listings in zip files
• batpipe: Add support for *.gz files
• batpipe: Change viewer_*_supports arg order
• batpipe: Add zip viewer
• batpipe: Improve batpipe when used both inside and outside less
• batpipe: Fix incorrect detection of inner paths
• batpipe: Add better support for less
• batpipe: Add batpipe script
• prettybat: Add checks to ensure that files exist
• prettybat: Add support for python formatter black

Developer

• build: Allow for only specific scripts to be built
• build: Allow manuals to be disabled with --manuals=false
• build: Recommend './test.sh --failed' instead
• build: Fix build.sh install failing when no PREFIX/bin dir
• ci: Prevent fish from creating tempfiles
• ci: Only build manuals for the build job
• ci: Add fish for test packages (used by batpipe tests)
• ci: Update python2 to python3
• lib: Add NO_COLOR support
• lib: Update copyright year to 2021
• lib: Update option parser to better support short options
• lib: Improve tests and docs for opt lib
• mdroff: Support h3-h5
• mdroff: Fix warning that appears in tables
• test: Add batgrep test for searching from stdin contents (#42)
• test: Add tests for batpipe
• test: Fix bat reading data from stdin during tests

Release: 2020-10-05

This contains the latest versions of bat-modules, batdiff, batgrep, batman, batwatch, and prettybat as of commit 6b6016d (October 5th, 2020).

This is provided as a convenience only.
I would still recommend following the installation instructions in the README for the most up-to-date versions.

Changes

• build: Build manuals by default
• docs: Convert usage section into code block to work around mdroff
• docs: Include manpages in release archive

Developer

• mdroff: Trim lines before emitting them
• mdroff: Add very simple support for inline code blocks
• mdroff: Add proper nroff table support

Release: 2020-10-04

This contains the latest versions of bat-modules, batdiff, batgrep, batman, batwatch, and prettybat as of commit 9d356b8 (October 4th, 2020).

This is provided as a convenience only.
I would still recommend following the installation instructions in the README for the most up-to-date versions.

Changes

• batgrep: Add simple parsing of RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH.
• batgrep: Prevent RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH context from breaking batgrep.
• batgrep: Add short flag number parsing for context options
• batdiff/lib: Fix hardcoded git executable name (#35)
• batwatch: Split hook_help into a lib script
• batwatch: small formatting changes
• batwatch changes to reveal a bug and add --help
• bat-modules: Add --modules-file option
• *: Automatically use 'batcat' when 'bat' is missing
• *: Fix gnu stat flag
• doc: Update prettybat caveats for header display fix (#39)
• doc: Clean up command documentation
• doc: Change markdown that may be parsed incorrectly

Developer

• ci: Build manuals
• build: Add experimental support for generating manpages
• build: Avoid unnecessary reprinting when verifying tests
• build: Print failed tests to STDERR instead of STDOUT
• build: Use detected system bat executable
• build: Use STDOUT and STDERR appropriately
• build Add option to prevent full executable paths from inlining
• build: Fix 'will_minify none' not working, leading to unnecessary warning (#30)
• build: Print shfmt error to stderr instead of stdout (#29)
• release: Stop packages from inlining alternate executable names
• release: Fix error and invalid alternate executable in release.sh
• test: Add --no-config to bat shimexec
• test: Fix bat shimexec
• test: Update test framework to fix on Bash 3.2
• test: Update test framework
• lib: Add DEFAULT color to printc
• lib: Add option parsing for short flags followed by number
• lib: Fix term_width to handle cases where stty size returns '0 0'
• lib: Reduce size of term_width function
• lib: Add term.sh to more accurately get terminal width
• lib: Use 'awk' instead of '/usr/bin/awk'

Release: 2020-05-01

This contains the latest versions of batdiff, batgrep, batman, batwatch, and prettybat as of commit 20a0058 (May 1st, 2020).

This is provided as a convenience only.
I would still recommend following the installation instructions in the README for the most up-to-date versions.

Changes

• batdiff: Add batdiff script
• batman: Forward paging options to bat instead of handling them
• batgrep/batwatch: Use stty instead of tput
• prettybat: Add support for GraphQL via Prettier
• prettybat: Add support for bat 0.14.0 --file-name option
• *: Fix issue causing an empty argument being sent to pagers
• *: Fix behavior of PAGER environment var (#24)
• docs: Update README to mention that compiled scripts are faster
• docs: Fix README pointing to the wrong document for batdiff
• docs: Update docs for batgrep

Developer

• build: Use parallel test execution to speed up verification time
• docs: Add CONTRIBUTING.md
• developer: Update build.sh to remove redundant copyright comments
• developer: Fix build.sh to inline EXECUTABLE_DELTA constant
• developer: Update release script for improved release description
• developer: Add copyright/info banner to compressed scripts
• test: Update test framework
• test: Update tests to shim stty instead of tput
• test: Add 'perf' suite to find out which libraries cost the most startup time
• test: Fix argument values given to test.sh not being passed to test framework
• test: Generate snapshot for batdiff
• test: Avoid using 'head' command
• test: Add suite for DSL parsing library
• lib: Add 'dsl.sh' library for parsing simple DSL
• lib: Remove opt_hooks.sh and edit scripts to source lib files directly
• lib: Add include guard to constants.sh to lower startup time

Release: 2020-04-08

This contains the latest versions of batgrep, batman, batwatch, and prettybat as of commit 00eafe6 (April 8th, 2020).

This is provided as a convenience only.
I would still recommend following the installation instructions in the README for the most up-to-date versions.

Changes

• batman: Add --version option support
• batgrep: Add --version option support
• batwatch: Add --version option support
• prettybat: Add --version option support
• docs: Update README to add section on installing with Homebrew
• docs: Improved script descriptions and information

Developer

• developer: Add release message generation to release.sh
• developer: Split hooks into separate files to reduce compiled size
• developer: Update scripts to use $EXECUTABLE_BAT instead of $BAT
• test: Add tests for lib/pager.sh
• test: Add tests for [script] --version
• test: Update test framework`
• test: Skip batgrep tests if ripgrep isn't installed

Release: 2020-04-01

This contains the latest versions of batgrep, batman, batwatch, and prettybat as of commit 47c15dd
(April 1st, 2020).

This is provided as a convenience only.
I would still recommend following the installation instructions in the README for the most up-to-date versions.

Changes

• all: Code quality fixes. (@VeryTastyTomato)
• all: The --paging option now rejects invalid options.
• all: The --color option now rejects invalid options.
• batgrep: Add --less-search-pattern option. (#9) (@HarrisonMc555)
• prettybat: Removed debug print.

Release: 2019-01-17

This contains the latest versions of batgrep, batman, batwatch, and prettybat as of commit d7949c4 (January 17th, 2019).

This is provided as a convenience only.
I would still recommend following the installation instructions in the README for the most up-to-date versions.

Changes

• Since this is the first release, there's nothing to note here.