0.68.0

chaitin/SafeLine0.68.0Mar 16, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Release adding Git support and updating parsers for multiple programming languages.

Key Highlights

Fixed Git support to prevent fatal errors with unmerged paths
Updated parsers for Bash, C, Go, Lua, Nix, Perl, Python, Rust, Scala, Swift, and YAML
Fixed parsing of raw string literals in Rust
Removed jemalloc usage on all Windows builds

Breaking Changes

Requires Rust 1.77 or later to build

New Features

Git support
Updated language parsers

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.