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All Rad releases. Newest first.

v0.7.1 - 2026-01-26

  • Release VSCode extension v0.3.0 (9443d85)
  • ci: add automated docs deployment and release notes (883a593)
  • ci: add cross-platform testing for macOS and Windows (e085011)
  • ci: fix Windows build output filename in cross-platform tests (4474ee3)
  • ci: treat all platforms as equal first-class citizens (668a509)
  • feat: add platform abstraction for Windows compatibility (5fdf8fd)
  • feat: add underscore to v0.7 for-loop migration hint detection (cf4af1a)
  • feat: complete platform normalization for Windows compatibility (83c839e)
  • fix: improve gen_fid collision resistance (0ee37ff)

v0.7.0 - 2026-01-16

  • docs(SYNTAX.md): add script commands (9e4e595)
  • feat!: redesign for-loop syntax with explicit context access (e98f7fc)
  • See v0.7 migration guide for more information.
  • feat: add context support to rad block map/filter lambdas (21976ec)

v0.6.27 - 2026-01-11

  • Release VSCode extension v0.2.0 (80c4102)
  • fix: multiline string interpolation followed by content (5365366)

v0.6.26 - 2026-01-02

  • ci: optimize ci benchmarks by interleaving & reducing runs (3a4a7f4)
  • feat(pick): implement 'prefer_exact' named arg (a3092c7)
  • feat: improve syntax error messages with specific diagnostics (82d9472)
  • feat: unpackage radls from vs code extension, use PATH instead (d79186f)

v0.6.25 - 2025-12-16

  • Release VSCode extension v0.1.13 (c492a49)
  • docs(thinking): Rewrite imports.md and add some quick counter thoughts (f50a960)
  • feat: add additional get_path fields e.g. modified_millis (f536f12)
  • feat: allow parse_epoch to accept floats (c15def5)
  • fix: avoid Go 'MISSING' formatting malformed print in shell cmds (6a69141)

v0.6.24 - 2025-12-14

  • feat: add flat_map function (0f72798)

v0.6.23 - 2025-12-10

  • feat: allow min/max to accept var args of numbers (fb6582d)

v0.6.21 - 2025-12-03

v0.6.20 - 2025-12-03

  • ci: attempt brew CI fix by pulling latest commit (775afad)

v0.6.19 - 2025-12-02

  • ci: attempt to fix homebrew release (da006f4)

v0.6.18 - 2025-11-29

  • feat: implement 'filter' rad block field modifier syntax (022267b)
  • fix: un-indent command descriptions (5f1480e)

v0.6.17 - 2025-11-20

  • Release VSCode extension v0.1.12 (d70dbbe)
  • feat(checker): add warning against undefined cmd callback references (868d6f8)
  • feat: add function 'multipick' (8c96666)
  • fix: delete pointless multipick tests (6a0ebba)

v0.6.16 - 2025-11-19

  • Implement commands in Rad (cef9661)

v0.6.15 - 2025-11-09

  • Release VSCode extension v0.1.11 (1c6bb65)
  • feat: recognize hoisted functions for unknown functions check (e535795)
  • fix: allow --version --src and --src-tree on invalid scripts (4220c18)
  • fix: avoid passing arg-less prints through printf (7e16b1a)
  • fix: fix x/crypto dependency (5bb2ea7)

v0.6.14 - 2025-11-04

  • feat(check): add error check against hoisted functions shadowing args (ff839e6)
  • feat: allow non-str types in colorize function (ba71c19)

v0.6.13 - 2025-11-03

  • Release VSCode extension v0.1.10 (e27b21c)
  • ci: fix test-runner.rad syntax (18c9bad)
  • docs(guide): add complete example to getting started (c4df48a)
  • docs(guide): add error-handling.md (4a7f9f5)
  • docs(guide): add type-annotations.md (20fe398)
  • docs(guide): shorten shell-commands.md header (d704c25)
  • docs(guide): update args.md (ab615c6)
  • docs(guide): update basics.md (0a38d12)
  • docs(guide): update functions.md (67b5fdc)
  • docs(guide): update getting started (7974f4c)
  • docs(guide): update rad-blocks.md (5c58d83)
  • docs(guide): update shell-commands.md (863c3c1)
  • docs(guide): update strings-advanced.md (2776ef6)
  • feat: revamp http url encoding behavior (d91350b)
  • fix(fomatting): accept thousands_separator before alignment/padding (c18c971)
  • fix(shell): fix shell modifier keywords (e448f72)
  • fix: check built-in function signatures for parsing errors (17b14fe)
  • fix: use Print, not Printf for --src (8579dac)
  • tests: fix broken tests from earlier commit (0dba710)

v0.6.12 - 2025-10-16

Breaking!

This release changes shell and error handling syntax, expect breaks.

// OLD: Critical command
$!`make build`

// NEW: Same behavior (critical by default)
$`make build`

// OLD: Unsafe command
unsafe $`command_that_might_fail`

// NEW: Use catch block
$`command_that_might_fail` catch:
    pass

// OLD: Recover block
$`curl {url}`
recover:
    print_err("Failed but continuing")

// NEW: Use catch block
$`curl {url}` catch:
    print_err("Failed but continuing")

// OLD: Fail block
$`curl {url}`
fail:
    print_err("Failed, exiting")
    exit(1)

// NEW: Use catch block with exit
$`curl {url}` catch:
    print_err("Failed, exiting")
    exit(1)
  • Release VSCode extension v0.1.9 (46e3eed)
  • feat: implement new error handling syntax (catch suffix) (5c0253c)
  • feat: implement new shell syntax + catch suffix syntax (7ef3f46)
  • feat: update syntax dump tests for new shell & error handling syntax (78a4857)
  • feat: update textmate grammar for new shell + error handling syntax (981fdfb)

v0.6.11 - 2025-10-12

  • feat: add --from-logs flag to check cmd (468b455)
  • feat: add global config loading (a068c49)
  • feat: add invocation logging & rolling (c5ee8e7)
  • refactor: move Run up in runner.go (2257aa7)

v0.6.10 - 2025-10-06

  • Release VSCode extension v0.1.8 (5b94a4e)
  • feat: add stdin support for Unix-style piping (cd880f7)

v0.6.9 - 2025-10-05

  • feat: allow scientific notation for int defaults (8fd724a)
  • feat: validate script immediately after parsing (127f484)
  • fix: correctly allow unknown flags to be absorbed in var args (34ee9be)
  • fix: resolve shell command pipe race condition (319a956)

v0.6.8 - 2025-09-30

  • Release VSCode extension v0.1.7 (4b6613e)
  • ci: implement 5 more PR benchmarks (f8310f0)
  • feat: allow int short count arg input style (05b7ee2)

v0.6.7 - 2025-09-28

  • Bump version to v0.6.7 (379d785)
  • ci: add PR benchmarking (046a3c2)
  • ci: add PR check automation (9efd9b4)
  • ci: add benchmark-scripts (7f6349c)
  • feat: support formatting numbers with commas separating thousands (9e2bc45)
  • tests: fix local TZ-dependent time tests (8e2dd59)

v0.6.6 - 2025-09-27

v0.6.5 - 2025-09-27

v0.6.2 - 2025-09-21

v0.6.1 - 2025-09-21

v0.6.0 - 2025-09-21

  • fix: returning from fn in for loop by @amterp in https://github.com/amterp/rad/pull/44
  • feat(args): support var args by @amterp in https://github.com/amterp/rad/pull/45

v0.5.59 - 2025-09-14

  • Replace pflag with Ra by @amterp in https://github.com/amterp/rad/pull/38
  • feat: add function 'matches' for regex matching by @amterp in https://github.com/amterp/rad/pull/39
  • fix: convert arg constraint targets to external name format by @amterp in https://github.com/amterp/rad/pull/40
  • feat: add global flag '--rad-args-dump' by @amterp in https://github.com/amterp/rad/pull/41
  • feat(repl): implement REPL by @amterp in https://github.com/amterp/rad/pull/43

Historical Releases

Releases before automated GitHub releases. Notable changes only.

v0.5 - 2025-02-12

  • Replaced handwritten lexer/parser with tree sitter
  • defer statements
  • Further shell command support improvements, critical shell commands
  • Emoji support
  • Basic syntax highlighter
  • Reworked JSON field extraction algo
  • errdefer
  • Reworked string character escaping
  • Improved rad block sorting operation, added matching sort function
  • Added more functions: confirm, range, split etc
  • Removed Cobra
  • Reworked strings (RslString, attributes, colors)
  • http functions
  • parsing functions e.g. parse_int, parse_float
  • .dot.syntax for map key access
  • Truthy/falsy logic
  • Raw strings
  • Multiline strings
  • Arg constraints - enum, regex
  • Modulo operator %
  • ++/-- operators

v0.4 - 2024-10-28

  • exit function
  • Allow output pass-through in rad blocks
  • rad field modifiers: truncate, color
  • Reworked arrays: all arrays now allow mixed types
  • maps
  • collection entry assignment
  • del
  • in and not in
  • Json algo: allow capturing json nodes as maps
  • Added list/string slicing
  • Improved indexing, including negative indexing
  • Added ternary expressions
  • Added inline expressions for string interpolation, including formatting
  • Implemented shell command invocation

v0.3 - 2024-09-29

  • Improved shell embedding
  • Improved table-to-terminal size adjustment
  • Good unit testing
  • Compound assignments
  • Allow mocking responses --MOCK-RESPONSE
  • Json algo: add * wildcard capture
  • rad sort statements
  • Colorized headers
  • Switch from int to int64 representation of ints
  • Add pick functions, including pick_from_resource
  • Add list comprehensions
  • request and display blocks

v0.2 - 2024-09-09

  • Added Apache License 2.0
  • Arg defaults
  • std functions: date functions, replace, join, upper/lower, etc
  • 'Single quote' strings

v0.1 - 2024-09-08

  • Initial version
  • Newest notable feature was --STDIN and output shell export commands.