0.69.0

dgtlmoon/changedetection.io0.69.0Apr 30, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Difftastic enhances its structural diffing capabilities with improved syntax understanding for trailing punctuation and adds support for Assembly language while removing deprecated Hack support.

Key Highlights

Trailing punctuation is now correctly ignored (e.g., `foo(1,)` vs `foo(1)`)
Added support for Assembly language parsing
Improved parsing for Perl, Clojure, CSS, Dart, and other languages
Updated `.gitattributes` support for better binary file detection
Updated build requirement to Rust 1.85 or later

Breaking Changes

Removed support for Hack language parser

New Features

Improved trailing punctuation handling
Assembly language support
Enhanced parsing for multiple languages
Binary file detection via gitattributes

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

Difftastic now understands when trailing punctuation isn't significant, so `foo(1,)` and `foo(1)` are treated as "no syntactic changes". This is supported for Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Swift and TypeScript.

### Parsing

Added support for Assembly.

Substantially improved parsing for Perl.

Improved parsing for Clojure, Common Lisp, CSS, Dart, Erlang, F#, OCaml, Python, Rust, Scala, TypeScript and VHDL.

Removed support for Hack, as the upstream parser is no longer maintained. `.php` files starting with `<?hh` are now treated as text.

### File Detection

Difftastic now considers `.gitattributes` when deciding if a file is binary, recognising both the `-text` and `binary` attributes.

### Build

Difftastic now requires Rust 1.85 or later to build.