0.64.0

dgtlmoon/changedetection.io0.64.0Jun 15, 2025by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

This release introduces significant updates to parsing support for several programming languages, adds new language support, and updates the build infrastructure and internal memory management.

Key Highlights

Updated parsers for Erlang, F#, Gleam, Pascal, and Swift
Added support for Verilog and SystemVerilog
Stricter file detection and binary recognition for compression formats
CI environment upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04

New Features

Verilog and SystemVerilog support
Stricter file detection for UTF-8 and binary formats

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.

### Parsing

Updated to the latest tree-sitter parser for Erlang, F#, Gleam, Pascal and Swift.

File detection is now stricter for UTF-8, and recognises more compression file types as binary (e.g. zstd or bzip2).

Added support for Verilog and SystemVerilog.

### Build

CI on GitHub now uses Ubuntu 22.04 for Linux builds (previously Ubuntu 20.04), so prebuilt binaries will require a newer glibc version to run.

### Internal

Difftastic has switched from MiMalloc to Jemalloc for allocation. This is modest performance regression (up to 20% longer runtime in testing). Jemalloc is currently easier to build (see issue #805) and has fewer pathological performance corner cases.