0.69.0

BayramAnnakov/ux-waiting-audit0.69.0Apr 30, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Difftastic 0.69.0 improves syntax understanding by handling trailing punctuation and adds support for Assembly parsing. It also enhances file detection based on .gitattributes.

Key Highlights

Trailing punctuation handling for Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Swift, and TypeScript.
Added support for Assembly language parsing.
Improved parsing for Clojure, Common Lisp, CSS, Dart, Erlang, F#, OCaml, Scala, TypeScript, and VHDL.
Binary file detection now respects .gitattributes files.

Breaking Changes

Removed support for Hack as the upstream parser is no longer maintained.

New Features

Assembly language support
Trailing punctuation logic
.gitattributes file detection

Full Release Notes

Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See [the manual](https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/) to get started, and [the changelog](https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for historical changes.

## Diffing

Difftastic now understands when trailing punctuation isn't significant, so `foo(1,)` and `foo(1)` are treated as "no syntactic changes". This is supported for Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Swift and TypeScript.

### Parsing

Added support for Assembly.

Substantially improved parsing for Perl.

Improved parsing for Clojure, Common Lisp, CSS, Dart, Erlang, F#, OCaml, Python, Rust, Scala, TypeScript and VHDL.

Removed support for Hack, as the upstream parser is no longer maintained. `.php` files starting with `<?hh` are now treated as text.

### File Detection

Difftastic now considers `.gitattributes` when deciding if a file is binary, recognising both the `-text` and `binary` attributes.

### Build

Difftastic now requires Rust 1.85 or later to build.