3.3.1

A number of fixes and improvements in this release:

• Unicode handling in comments has been fixed #396
• Comments save their original positions #427, #343
• Array indentation has been fixed #343
• Convert to Json (andexplode yaml) speed has significantly improved #422
• Strip comments now works for compare #450
• Explode anchors now works for compare
• Delete now works properly with deep splat #421
• Add missing 'flow' style #417
• Fixed printing errors to stdout (#440)
• You can write aliases and anchors (#377) (https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/write-update#writing-anchors)
• YQ can now generate bash/zshell/fish/powershell completions! Check out the shell-completion command

3.3.0

New features and fixes in this release:

• You can control string styles (quotes) using the new --style flag (https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/usage/value-parsing#the-style-flag). Fixes: #413, #387)
• String values now always have quotes when outputting to JSON. Fixes: (#392, #388, #341) and you can optionally turn off unwrapping of scalars when outputting to yaml by setting --unwrapScalar=false (https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/usage/output-format#unwrap-scalars)
• Negative array indices now traverse the array backwards https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/usage/path-expressions#arrays. Fixes: (#398)
• Added a --stripComments flag to print yaml without any comments (https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/usage/output-format#strip-comments), Fixes: #385
• Bumped go version to 1.14 (#409)

Important: 3.3.0 Windows 386 build has been removed due to issues found in VirusTotal (despite being cleanly built several times)

3.2.1 - Bug fix + checksums

Fixes

• #381
• #370
• #295

3.2.0 - Color output, array lengths and find matching values

Some great new features in this release, particularly the long await colourised output thanks @risentveber

Backwards breaking change:
Compare function now returns exit code (1) when there are differences (#360)

Fixes:

• #134
• #375
• #360
• #353
• #283

3.1.2 - Bug Fixes

Fixes:

• #355
• #347
• #361
• #356
• #363
• #362
• #359

Thanks for raising clear bugs :)

3.1.1 - Bug Fixes, can write using a yaml file

New Feature:

• #350

Fixes:

• #352
• #354
• #346

3.1.0 - Compare, Pretty Print and more

New features!

• new Compare command for comparing yaml files
• Pretty Print and indent flags
• Default values when reading
• Explode anchors

Heaps of bugs fixes - thank you for raising bugs with clear examples, extra thanks for @coryrc for helping with your PR.

• #25
• #185
• #236
• #298
• #310
• #331
• #336
• #338
• #333
• #339
• #340
• #345

Official v3 Release!

V3 is out of beta - and has some cool new features!

Upgrade guide, including new v3 features here: https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/upgrading-from-v2

Checkout the new Validate command

New Major Version! 3.0.0-beta

Major release! Upgraded underlying yaml parser, re-written majority of yq. This has brought on a number of features that have been in demand for a while (see below).

This is in beta and needs some community feedback and testing :)

Check out the (beta) docs too! https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/

New Features

• Keeps yaml comments and formatting, can specify yaml tags when updating. #19, #169, #107, #171, #245, #303
• Handles anchors! #310, #178
• Can print out matching paths and values when splatting #20
• JSON output works for all commands! Yaml files with multiple documents are printed out as one JSON document per line.
• Deep splat (**) to match arbitrary paths

Breaking changes

See https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/upgrading-from-v2#breaking-changes

Go Modules + 'invalid cross-device link' bug fix

Minor fixes - affects go get and rename files that place on different fs volumes (#268).