0.68.0

OpenReplicant/ProtoReplicant0.68.0Mar 16, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Updates parsers for a wide range of programming languages, fixes critical Git support issues, and updates build requirements to Rust 1.77 or later.

Key Highlights

Updated parsers for Bash, C, Go, Rust, Python, and YAML
Fixed Git support to prevent fatal external diff errors
Requires Rust 1.77 or later to build
Improved error reporting for CLI arguments
Fixed side-by-side rendering for files with tabs

Breaking Changes

Requires Rust 1.77 or later to build

New Features

Updated parsing capabilities for 11 languages
Fixed inline display context handling
Fixed side-by-side rendering for files with tabs

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.