0.68.0

Cinnamon/kotaemon0.68.0Mar 16, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

This release focuses on resolving critical Git integration issues, expanding syntax parser support for a wide variety of languages, and updating build requirements.

Key Highlights

Fixed fatal errors in Git integration when dealing with unmerged paths.
Updated parsers for 12 languages including Rust, Python, Go, and Swift.
Build requirement updated to Rust 1.77 or later.
Improved error reporting in the command-line interface.

Breaking Changes

Difftastic now requires Rust 1.77 or later to build.

New Features

Updated Bash, C, Go, Lua, Nix, Perl, Python, Rust, Scala, Swift, and YAML parsers.
Improved error reporting when invoked with an invalid number of arguments.

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.

### Git Support

Fixed an issue where git with difftastic would terminate with `fatal: external diff died` when there was an unmerged path.

### Parsing

Updated Bash, C, Go, Lua, Nix, Perl, Python, Rust, Scala, Swift and YAML parsers.

Fixed an issue with parsing raw string literals in Rust.

### Build

Difftastic now requires Rust 1.77 or later to build.

Difftastic no longer uses jemalloc on any Windows builds. Previously jemalloc was only disabled for MSVC.

### Command Line Interface

Improved error reporting when invoked with an invalid number of arguments.

### Display

Fixed an issue with inline display where it didn't always respect the value of --context.

Fixed an issue with side-by-side rendering when files contain tabs.