0.62.0

Wilfred/difftastic0.62.0Dec 21, 2024by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

This release fixes a crash with multiline strings at file end (especially YAML), updates over 20 tree-sitter parsers, and improves syntax highlighting.

Key Highlights

Fixed crash with multiline strings at file end (especially YAML)
Updated 20+ tree-sitter parsers (Bash, C, C++, Go, Java, Python, etc.)
Improved syntax highlighting, particularly for keywords
Rust 1.74.1 now required to build
macOS x86-64 packages now built on macOS 13

New Features

Crash fix for multiline strings at end of file
Improved syntax highlighting for keywords
Better language detection with named pipes

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

Improved handling of multiline strings, which could cause a crash if they occurred at the end of the file. This was particularly noticeable with YAML.

### Parsing

Improved language detection when one argument is a named pipe.

Updated to the latest tree-sitter parser for Bash, C, C++, C#, CSS, Go, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Julia, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, TOML, TypeScript and XML.

### Syntax Highlighting

Improved syntax highlighting, particularly for keywords.

### Build

difftastic now requires Rust 1.74.1 to build.

Prebuilt packages for macOS on x86-64 are now built on macOS 13.