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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

v7.1.xxxx

Features

fanout: new builtin (EXPERIMENTAL)
REPL: default prompt modernized
ANSI titlebar: Windows support added (PR)
autocomplete: add support for substring matches (discussion)
autocomplete: remove stat syscall from recursive directory lookups to improve performance
foreach: parallel support added (EXPERIMENTAL) (discussion)
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 - (PR)
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
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Bug Fixes

datetime: stdout datatype set to str
fid-kill: autocomplete fix (issue)
exec: don’t error on wait if PID is already closed (issue)
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

Special Thanks

Thank yous for this release goes to TheBearodactyl, JeffMelton, Th0rgal, lokalius, tiymat for your code, testing and feedback.

Also thank you to everyone in the discussions group and all who raise bug reports.

You rock!

Published: 23.10.2025 at 22:35

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