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ripgrep v0.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-02-11 // about 6 years ago

  • 🚀 This is a new minor version release of ripgrep that satisfies several popular 🔋 feature requests (config files, search compressed files, true colors), fixes many bugs and improves the quality of life for ripgrep maintainers. This 📚 release also includes greatly improved documentation in the form of a 🙋 [User Guide](GUIDE.md) and a [FAQ](FAQ.md).

    👍 This release increases the minimum supported Rust version from 1.17 to 1.20.

    💥 BREAKING CHANGES:

    Note that these are all very minor and unlikely to impact most users.

    • 🔧 In order to support configuration files, flag overrides needed to be rethought. In some cases, this changed ripgrep's behavior. For example, in ripgrep 0.7.1, rg foo -s -i will perform a case sensitive search since the -s/--case-sensitive flag was defined to always take precedence over the -i/--ignore-case flag, regardless of position. In ripgrep 0.8.0 however, the override rule for all flags has changed to "the most recent flag wins among competing flags." That is, rg foo -s -i now performs a case insensitive search.
    • The -M/--max-columns flag was tweaked so that specifying a value of 0 now makes ripgrep behave as if the flag was absent. This makes it possible to set a default value in a configuration file and then override it. The previous ripgrep behavior was to suppress all matching non-empty lines.
    • In all globs, [^...] is now equivalent to [!...] (indicating class negation). Previously, ^ had no special significance in a character class.
    • 📦 For downstream packagers, the directory hierarchy in ripgrep's archive releases has changed. The root directory now only contains the executable, README and license. There is now a new directory called doc which contains the man page (previously in the root), a user guide (new), a FAQ (new) and the CHANGELOG (previously not included in release). The complete directory remains the same.

    🔋 Feature enhancements:

    • ➕ Added or improved file type filtering for Apache Avro, C++, GN, Google Closure Templates, Jupyter notebooks, man pages, Protocol Buffers, Smarty and Web IDL.
    • FEATURE #196: Support a configuration file. See [the new user guide](GUIDE.md#configuration-file) for details.
    • FEATURE #261: Add extended or "true" color support. Works in Windows 10! [See the FAQ for details.](FAQ.md#colors)
    • FEATURE #539: Search gzip, bzip2, lzma or xz files when given -z/--search-zip flag.
    • FEATURE #544: Add support for line number alignment via a new --line-number-width flag.
    • FEATURE #654: Support linuxbrew in ripgrep's Brew tap.
    • FEATURE #673: Bring back .rgignore files. (A higher precedent, application specific version of .ignore.)
    • FEATURE #676: Provide ARM binaries. WARNING: This will be provided on a best effort basis.
    • FEATURE #709: Suggest -F/--fixed-strings flag on a regex syntax error.
    • FEATURE #740: Add a --passthru flag that causes ripgrep to print every line it reads.
    • FEATURE #785: Overhaul documentation. Cleaned up README, added user guide and FAQ.
    • FEATURE 7f5c07: Add hidden flags for convenient overrides (e.g., --no-text).

    🐛 Bug fixes:

    • BUG #553: Permit flags to be repeated.
    • BUG #633: Fix a bug where ripgrep would panic on Windows while following symlinks.
    • BUG #649: Fix handling of !**/ in .gitignore.
    • BUG #663: BREAKING CHANGE: Support [^...] glob syntax (as identical to [!...]).
    • BUG #693: Don't display context separators when not printing matches.
    • BUG #705: Fix a bug that prevented ripgrep from searching OneDrive directories.
    • BUG #717: Improve --smart-case uppercase character detection.
    • BUG #725: Clarify that globs do not override explicitly given paths to search.
    • BUG #742: Write ANSI reset code as \x1B[0m instead of \x1B[m.
    • BUG #747: Remove yarn.lock from YAML file type.
    • BUG #760: ripgrep can now search /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* files.
    • BUG #761: Fix handling of gitignore patterns that contain a /.
    • BUG #776: BREAKING CHANGE: --max-columns=0 now disables the limit.
    • BUG #779: Clarify documentation for --files-without-match.
    • BUG #780, BUG #781: Fix bug where ripgrep missed some matching lines.

    🚧 Maintenance fixes:

    • MAINT #772: Drop env_logger in favor of simpler logger to avoid many new dependencies.
    • MAINT #772: Add git revision hash to ripgrep's version string.
    • MAINT #772: (Seemingly) improve compile times.
    • MAINT #776: Automatically generate man page during build.
    • MAINT #786: Remove use of unsafe in globset. :tada:
    • MAINT e9d448: Add an issue template (has already drastically improved bug reports).
    • MAINT ae2d03: Remove the compile script.

    Friends of ripgrep:

    I'd like to extend my gratitude to @balajisivaraman for their recent hard work in a number of areas, and in particular, for implementing the "search compressed files" feature. Their work in sketching out a specification for that and other work has been exemplary.

    Thanks @balajisivaraman!