Bugfixes

• Fix long file name wrapping in header, see #2835 (@FilipRazek)
• Fix NO_COLOR support, see #2767 (@acuteenvy)
• Fix handling of inputs with OSC ANSI escape sequences, see #2541 and #2544 (@eth-p)
• Fix handling of inputs with combined ANSI color and attribute sequences, see #2185 and #2856 (@eth-p)
• Fix panel width when line 10000 wraps, see #2854 (@eth-p)
• Fix compile issue of time dependency caused by standard library regression #3045 (@cyqsimon)
• Fix override behavior of --plain and --paging, see issue #2731 and PR #3108 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
• Fix bugs in $LESSOPEN support, see #2805 (@Anomalocaridid)

Other

• Upgrade to Rust 2021 edition #2748 (@cyqsimon)
• Refactor and cleanup build script #2756 (@cyqsimon)
• Checks changelog has been written to for PRs in CI #2766 (@cyqsimon)
  • Use GitHub API to get correct PR submitter #2791 (@cyqsimon)
• Minor benchmark script improvements #2768 (@cyqsimon)
• Update Arch Linux package URL in README files #2779 (@brunobell)
• Update and improve zsh completion, see #2772 (@okapia)
• More extensible syntax mapping mechanism #2755 (@cyqsimon)
• Use proper Architecture for Debian packages built for musl, see #2811 (@Enselic)
• Pull in fix for unsafe-libyaml security advisory, see #2812 (@dtolnay)
• Update git-version dependency to use Syn v2, see #2816 (@dtolnay)
• Update git2 dependency to v0.18.2, see #2852 (@eth-p)
• Improve performance when color output disabled, see #2397 and #2857 (@eth-p)
• Relax syntax mapping rule restrictions to allow brace expansion #2865 (@cyqsimon)
• Apply clippy fixes #2864 (@cyqsimon)
• Faster startup by offloading glob matcher building to a worker thread #2868 (@cyqsimon)
• Display which theme is the default one in basic output (no colors), see #2937 (@sblondon)
• Display which theme is the default one in colored output, see #2838 (@sblondon)
• Add aarch64-apple-darwin ("Apple Silicon") binary tarballs to releases, see #2967 (@someposer)
• Update the Lisp syntax, see #2970 (@ccqpein)
• Use bat's ANSI iterator during tab expansion, see #2998 (@eth-p)
• Support 'statically linked binary' for aarch64 in 'Release' page, see #2992 (@tzq0301)
• Update options in shell completions and the man page of bat, see #2995 (@akinomyoga)
• Update nix dev-dependency to v0.29.0, see #3112 (@decathorpe)
• Bump MSRV to 1.74, see #3154 (@keith-hall)
• Update clircle dependency to remove winapi transitive dependency, see #3113 (@niklasmohrin)

Syntaxes

• cmd-help: scope subcommands followed by other terms, and other misc improvements, see #2819 (@victor-gp)
• Upgrade JQ syntax, see #2820 (@dependabot[bot])
• Add syntax mapping for quadman quadlets #2866 (@cyqsimon)
• Map containers .conf files to TOML syntax #2867 (@cyqsimon)
• Associate .xsh files with xonsh syntax that is Python, see #2840 (@anki-code)
• Associate JSON with Comments .jsonc with json syntax, see #2795 (@mxaddict)
• Associate JSON-LD .jsonld files with json syntax, see #3037 (@vorburger)
• Associate .textproto files with ProtoBuf syntax, see #3038 (@vorburger)
• Associate GeoJSON .geojson files with json syntax, see #3084 (@mvaaltola)
• Associate .aws/{config,credentials}, see #2795 (@mxaddict)
• Associate Wireguard config /etc/wireguard/*.conf, see #2874 (@cyqsimon)
• Add support for CFML, see #3031 (@brenton-at-pieces)
• Map *.mkd files to Markdown syntax, see issue #3060 and PR #3061 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
• Add syntax mapping for CITATION.cff, see #3103 (@Ugzuzg)
• Add syntax mapping for kubernetes config files #3049 (@cyqsimon)
• Adds support for pipe delimiter for CSV #3115 (@pratik-m)
• Add syntax mapping for /etc/pacman.conf #2961 (@cyqsimon)
• Associate uv.lock with TOML syntax, see #3132 (@fepegar)

Themes

• Patched/improved themes for better Manpage syntax highlighting support, see #2994 (@keith-hall).

bat as a library

• Changes to syntax_mapping::SyntaxMapping #2755 (@cyqsimon)
  • SyntaxMapping::get_syntax_for is now correctly public
  • [BREAKING] SyntaxMapping::{empty,builtin} are removed; use SyntaxMapping::new instead
  • [BREAKING] SyntaxMapping::mappings is replaced by SyntaxMapping::{builtin,custom,all}_mappings
• Make Controller::run_with_error_handler's error handler FnMut, see #2831 (@rhysd)
• Improve compile time by 20%, see #2815 (@dtolnay)
• Add theme::theme for choosing an appropriate theme based on the terminal's color scheme, see #2896 (@bash)
  • [BREAKING] Remove HighlightingAssets::default_theme. Use theme::default_theme instead.
• Add PrettyPrinter::print_with_writer for custom output destinations, see #3070 (@kojix2)