0.68.0

eisenzopf/rvoip0.68.0Mar 16, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Improves Git support, updates parsers for 10 programming languages, and requires Rust 1.77 or later to build. It also fixes various display and parsing issues.

Key Highlights

Fixed git diff termination with unmerged paths
Updated parsers for Bash, C, Go, Lua, Nix, Perl, Python, Rust, Scala, Swift, and YAML
Requires Rust 1.77 or later

Breaking Changes

Requires Rust 1.77 or later to build
No longer uses jemalloc on Windows builds

New Features

Git support fixes
Parser updates for 10 languages
Improved error reporting for CLI
Fixed inline display and side-by-side rendering issues

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.