v3.10.0

• cmd/shfmt
  • Report the correct language variant in parser error messages - #1102
  • Move --filename out of the parser options category - #1079
• syntax
  • Parse all CRLF line endings as LF, including inside heredocs - #1088
  • Count skipped backslashes inside backticks in position column numbers - #1098
  • Count skipped null bytes in position column numbers for consistency
• interp
  • Fix a regression in v3.9.0 which broke redirecting files to stdin - #1099
  • Fix a regression in v3.9.0 where HandlerContext.Stdin was never nil
  • Add an Interactive option to be used by interactive shells - #1100
  • Support closing stdin, stdout, and stderr via redirections like <&-

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CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -X=main.version=v3.10.0"

v3.9.0

This release drops support for Go 1.21 and includes many fixes.

• cmd/shfmt
  • Switch the diff implementation to remove one dependency
• syntax
  • Protect against overflows in position offset integers
• interp
  • Use os.Pipe for stdin to prevent draining by subprocesses - #1085
  • Support cancelling reads in builtins when stdin is a file - #1066
  • Support the nocaseglob bash option - #1073
  • Support the Bash 5.2 @k parameter expansion operator
  • Support the test -O and test -G operators on non-Windows - #1080
  • Support the read -s builtin flag - #1063
• expand
  • Add support for case insensitive globbing - #1073
  • Don't panic when pattern words are nil - #1076

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CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -X=main.version=v3.9.0"

v3.8.0

This release drops support for Go 1.19 and 1.20 and includes many features and bugfixes, such as improving EditorConfig support in shfmt.

• cmd/shfmt
  • Support EditorConfig language sections such as [[shell]] - #664
  • Add --apply-ignore for tools and editors - #1037
• syntax
  • Allow formatting redirects before all command argumetnts - #942
  • Support brace expansions with uppercase letters - #1042
  • Unescape backquotes in single quotes within backquotes - #1041
  • Better error when using function in POSIX mode - #993
  • Better column numbers for escapes inside backquotes - #1028
• interp
  • Support parentheses in classic test commands - #1036
  • Determine access to a directory via unix.Access - #1033
  • Support subshells with FuncEnviron as Env - #1043
  • Add support for fs.DirEntry via ReadDirHandler2
• expand
  • Add support for fs.DirEntry via ReadDir2
  • Support zero-padding in brace expansions - #1042

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CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -X=main.version=v3.8.0"

v3.7.0

This release drops support for Go 1.18 and includes many features and fixes.

• syntax
  • Correctly parse $foo#bar as a single word - #1003
  • Make &> redirect operators an error in POSIX mode - #991
  • Avoid producing invalid shell when minifying some heredocs - #923
  • Revert the simplification of ${foo:-} into ${foo-} - #970
• interp
  • Add ExecHandlers to support layering multiple middlewares - #964
  • Add initial support for the select clause - #969
  • Support combining the errexit and pipefail options - #870
  • Set EUID just like UID - #958
  • Replace panics on unimplemented builtins with errors - #999
  • Tweak build tags to support building for js/wasm - #983
• syntax/typedjson
  • Avoid reflect.Value.MethodByName to reduce binary sizes - #961

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CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -X=main.version=v3.7.0"

v3.6.0

This release drops support for Go 1.17 and includes many features and fixes.

• cmd/shfmt
  • Implement --from-json as the reverse of --to-json - #900
  • Improve the quality of the --to-json output - #900
  • Provide detected language when erroring with -ln=auto - #803
• syntax
  • Don't require peeking two bytes after echo * - #835
  • Simplify ${name:-} to the equivalent ${name-} - #849
  • Don't print trailing whitespaces on nested subshells - #814
  • Don't print extra newlines in some case clauses - #779
  • Don't indent comments preceding case clause items - #917
  • Allow escaped newlines before unquoted words again - #873
  • Parse a redirections edge case without spaces - #879
  • Give a helpful error when <<< is used in POSIX mode - #881
  • Forbid ${!foo*} and ${!foo@} in mksh mode - #929
  • Batch allocations less aggressively in the parser
• syntax/typedjson
  • Expose --from-json and --to-json as Go APIs - #885
• expand
  • Improve support for expanding array keys and values - #884
  • Don't panic on unsupported syntax nodes - #841
  • Don't panic on division by zero - #892
  • Properly expand unquoted parameters with spaces - #886
  • Trim spaces when converting strings to integers - #928
• interp
  • Add initial implementation for mapfile and readarray - #863
  • Improve matching patterns against multiple lines - #866
  • Support %b in the printf builtin - #955
  • Display all Bash options in shopt - #877
• pattern
  • Add EntireString to match the entire string using ^$ - #866

A special thanks to all the contributors to this release!
@fauust @graf0 @hristiy4n @ihar-orca @lollipopman @mkhl @przmv @reubeno @riacataquian @scop @tmillr

Binaries built on go version go1.19.4 linux/amd64 with:

CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -X=main.version=v3.6.0"

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v3.5.1

This release was tagged two weeks ago; we forgot to do the GitHub release with prebuilt binaries.

• cmd/shfmt
  • Fix the Docker publishing script bug which broke 3.5.0 - #860
• interp
  • Support multi-line strings when pattern matching in [[ - #861
  • Invalid glob words are no longer removed with nullglob - #862
• pattern
  • Regexp now returns the typed error SyntaxError - #862

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v3.5.0

This release drops support for Go 1.16 and includes many new features.

• cmd/shfmt
  • Switch to -ln=auto by default to detect the shell language
  • Add support for long flags, like --indent for -i
• syntax
  • Allow extglob wildcards as function names like @() { ... }
  • Add support for heredocs surrounded by backquotes
  • Add support for backquoted inline comments
  • Add NewPos to create Pos values externally
  • Support escaped newlines with CRLF line endings
  • Minify no longer omits a leading shebang comment
  • Avoid printing escaped newlines in non-quoted words
  • Fix some printer edge cases where comments weren't properly spaced
• fileutil
  • Add Shebang to extract the shell language from a #! line
• expand
  • Reimplement globstar ** globbing for correctness
  • Replace os.Stat as the last direct use of the filesystem
• interp
  • Add CallHandler to intercept all interpreted CallExpr nodes
  • Add ReadDirHandler to intercept glob expansion filesystem reads
  • Add StatHandler to intercept os.Stat and os.Lstat calls
  • Always surface exit codes from command substitutions
  • Add initial and incomplete support for set -x
  • Add support for cd - as cd "$OLDPWD"
  • Avoid panic on set - args

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v3.4.3

• cmd/shfmt
  • New Docker v3 tag to track the latest stable version
  • Don't duplicate errors when walking directories
• interp
  • Properly handle empty paths in the test builtin
  • Allow unsetting global vars from inside a function again
  • Use %w to wrap errors in Dir

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v3.4.2

• syntax
  • Don't return an empty string on empty input to Quote
• expand
  • Properly sort in ListEnviron to avoid common prefix issues
• interp
  • export used in functions now affects the global scope
  • Support looking for scripts in $PATH in source
  • Properly slice arrays in parameter expansions

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v3.4.1

• syntax
  • Don't return an empty string on empty input to Quote
• expand
  • Properly sort in ListEnviron to avoid common prefix issues
• interp
  • export used in functions now affects the global scope
  • Support looking for scripts in $PATH in source
  • Properly slice arrays in parameter expansions

Binaries built on go version go1.17.3 linux/amd64 via a shell script.

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