v7.1

This release focuses mainly on bugfixes and quality-of-life with the exception of three experimental new major additions:

foreach now supports running processes in parallel
fanout is a new builtin that allows sending stdout to the stdin of many processes
md is a new datatype added. Currently only supports rendering markdown tables but more features will follow in future releases

Breaking Changes

None

fanout: new builtin (EXPERIMENTAL)
REPL: default prompt modernized
ANSI titlebar: Windows support added (PRopen in new window)
autocomplete: add support for substring matches (discussionopen in new window)
autocomplete: remove stat syscall from recursive directory lookups to improve performance
foreach: parallel support added (EXPERIMENTAL) (discussionopen in new window)
macro vars: history support added (history stored in cache.db)
integrations: basti autocomplete
integrations: Charm Bracelet's freeze
tooling: Makefile added for simplified development on POSIX systems
runtime --about: GOMAXPROCS field added
xml: improved interop between CSV and XML
core: data types can now register what their layout type is. Allowing for format to better deduce how to reformat the data. eg next few refinements below
csv: support for JSON and YAML maps
yaml: convert tables to maps
json: convert tables to maps
select: support for maps
config: new option: syntax-completion-enabled
config: new option: history-write-enabled
md: new datatype, markdown (EXPERIMENTAL)
murex: new flag added: -ignore-whatsnew
core: hint text added for cd - (PRopen in new window)
core: errors reformatted to make them slightly easier to read
test: default test report now uses the full width of the terminal, plus other minor readability improvements
docgen: new functions added
docgen: support for metadata
Update dependencies

datetime: stdout datatype set to str
fid-kill: autocomplete fix (issueopen in new window)
exec: don't error on wait if PID is already closed (issueopen in new window)
spellcheck: fixed bug causing users to be re-prompted when aspell isn't installed
REPL: fixed regression bug causing hint text not to display application hints
murex-package: working directory preserved when installing packages
readline: panic fixed in command line preview
cache.db: fixed potential race condition when checking if cache.db is enabled
REPL: fixed potential race condition when instantiating readline
tests: env test skips on Windows, uses full path on POSIX
tests: skip tilde parser test if username contains non-var chars (eg @)
readline: null check when using tab grid
readline: improved SGR detection
readline: fixed wider character rendering bug when using tab grid
readline: fixed potential race condition with read/write access to unicode slices
readline: fixed potential race condition with terminal width caching
readline: fixed potential race condition with asynchronous updates to tab completion
readline: fixed potential race condition with hint text height reporting
readline: fixed potential race condition with tab completion height reporting
readline: fixed potential race condition with previews
readline: fixed potential race condition with hint text cache

Also thank you to everyone in the discussions groupopen in new window and all who raise bug reports.

You rock!

Published: 23.10.2025 at 22:35