Changelog
v3.40.0 - 2024-11-05​
- Fixed output of some functions (e.g.
splitArgs
/splitLines
) not working in for loops (#1822, #1823 by @stawii). - Added a new
TASK_OFFLINE
environment variable to configure the--offline
flag and expose it as a special variable in the templating system (#1470, #1716 by @vmaerten and @pd93). - Fixed a bug where multiple remote includes caused all prompts to display without waiting for user input (#1832, #1833 by @vmaerten and @pd93).
- When using the "Remote Taskfiles". experiment, you can now include Taskfiles from Git repositories (#1652 by @vmaerten).
- Improved the error message when a dotenv file cannot be parsed (#1842 by @pbitty).
- Fix issue with directory when using the remote experiment (#1757 by @pbitty).
- Fixed an issue where a special variable was used in combination with a dotenv file (#1232, #1810 by @vmaerten).
- Refactor the way Task reads Taskfiles to improve readability (#1771 by @pbitty).
- Added a new option to ensure variable is within the list of values (#1827 by @vmaerten).
- Allow multiple prompts to be specified for a task (#1861, #1866 by @mfbmina).
- Added new template function:
numCPU
, which returns the number of logical CPUs usable (#1890, #1887 by @Amoghrd). - Fixed a bug where non-nil, empty dynamic variables are returned as an empty interface (#1903, #1904 by @pd93).
v3.39.2 - 2024-09-19​
v3.39.1 - 2024-09-18​
- Added Renovate configuration to automatically create PRs to keep dependencies up to date (#1783 by @vmaerten).
- Fixed a bug where the help was displayed twice (#1805, #1806 by @vmaerten).
- Fixed a bug where ZSH and PowerShell completions did not work when using the recommended method. (#1813, #1809 by @vmaerten and @shirayu)
- Fix variables not working properly for a
defer:
statement (#1803, #1814 by @vmaerten and @andreynering).
v3.39.0 - 2024-09-07​
- Added Env Precedence Experiment (#1038, #1633 by @vmaerten).
- Added a CI lint job to ensure that the docs are updated correctly (#1719 by @vmaerten).
- Updated minimum required Go version to 1.22 (#1758 by @pd93).
- Expose a new
EXIT_CODE
special variable ondefer:
when a command finishes with a non-zero exit code (#1484, #1762 by @dorimon-1 and @andreynering). - Expose a new
ALIAS
special variable, which will contain the alias used to call the current task. Falls back to the task name. (#1764 by @DanStory). - Fixed
TASK_REMOTE_DIR
environment variable not working when the path was absolute. (#1715 by @vmaerten). - Added an option to declare an included Taskfile as flattened (#1704 by @vmaerten).
- Added a new
--completion
flag to output completion scripts for various shells (#293, #1157 by @pd93).- This is now the preferred way to install completions.
- The completion scripts in the
completion
directory are now deprecated.
- Added the ability to loop over a matrix of values (#1766, #1767, #1784 by @pd93).
- Fixed a bug in fish completion where aliases were not displayed (#1781, #1782 by @vmaerten).
- Fixed panic when having a flattened included Taskfile that contains a
default
task (#1777, #1778 by @vmaerten). - Optimized file existence checks for remote Taskfiles (#1713 by @vmaerten).
v3.38.0 - 2024-06-30​
- Added
TASK_EXE
special variable (#1616, #1624 by @pd93 and @andreynering). - Some YAML parsing errors will now show in a more user friendly way (#1619 by @pd93).
- Prefixed outputs will now be colorized by default (#1572 by @AlexanderArvidsson)
- References are now generally available (no experiments required) (#1654 by @pd93).
- Templating functions can now be used in references (#1645, #1654 by @pd93).
- Added a new templating reference page to the documentation (#1614, #1653 by @pd93).
- If using the
Map Variables experiment (1),
references are available by
prefixing a string with a
#
(#1654 by @pd93). - If using the
Map Variables experiment (2),
the
yaml
andjson
keys are no longer available (#1654 by @pd93). - Added a new
TASK_REMOTE_DIR
environment variable to configure where cached remote Taskfiles are stored (#1661 by @vmaerten). - Added a new
--clear-cache
flag to clear the cache of remote Taskfiles (#1639 by @vmaerten). - Improved the readability of cached remote Taskfile filenames (#1636 by @vmaerten).
- Starting releasing a binary for the
riscv64
architecture on Linux (#1699 by @mengzhuo). - Added
CLI_SILENT
andCLI_VERBOSE
variables (#1480, #1669 by @Vince-Smith). - Fixed a couple of bugs with the
prompt:
feature (#1657 by @pd93). - Fixed JSON Schema to disallow invalid properties (#1657 by @pd93).
- Fixed version checks not working as intended (#872, #1663 by @vmaerten).
- Fixed a bug where included tasks were run multiple times even if
run: once
was set (#852, #1655 by @pd93). - Fixed some bugs related to column formatting in the terminal (#1350, #1637, #1656 by @vmaerten).
v3.37.2 - 2024-05-12​
- Fixed a bug where an empty Taskfile would cause a panic (#1648 by @pd93).
- Fixed a bug where includes Taskfile variable were not being merged correctly (#1643, #1649 by @pd93).
v3.37.1 - 2024-05-09​
- Fix bug where non-string values (numbers, bools) added to
env:
weren't been correctly exported (#1640, #1641 by @vmaerten and @andreynering).
v3.37.0 - 2024-05-08​
- Released the Any Variables experiment, but without support for maps (#1415, #1547 by @pd93).
- Refactored how Task reads, parses and merges Taskfiles using a DAG (#1563, #1607 by @pd93).
- Fix a bug which stopped tasks from using
stdin
as input (#1593, #1623 by @pd93). - Fix error when a file or directory in the project contained a special char
like
&
,(
or)
(#1551, #1584 by @andreynering). - Added alias
q
for template functionshellQuote
(#1601, #1603 by @vergenzt) - Added support for
~
on ZSH completions (#1613 by @jwater7). - Added the ability to pass variables by reference using Go template syntax when the Map Variables experiment is enabled (#1612 by @pd93).
- Added support for environment variables in the templating engine in
includes
(#1610 by @vmaerten).
v3.36.0 - 2024-04-08​
- Added support for looping over dependencies (#1299, #1541 by @pd93).
- When using the "Remote Taskfiles" experiment, you are now able to use remote Taskfiles as your entrypoint.
- When using the "Any Variables" experiments, templating is now supported in collection-type variables (#1477, #1511, #1526 by @pd93).
- Fixed a bug where variables being passed to an included Taskfile were not available when defining global variables (#1503, #1533 by @pd93).
- Improved support to customized colors by allowing 8-bit colors and multiple ANSI attributes (#1576 by @pd93).
v3.35.1 - 2024-03-04​
- Fixed a bug where the
TASKFILE_DIR
variable was sometimes incorrect (#1522, #1523 by @pd93). - Added a new
TASKFILE
special variable that holds the root Taskfile path (#1523 by @pd93). - Fixed various issues related to running a Taskfile from a subdirectory (#1529, #1530 by @pd93).
v3.35.0 - 2024-02-28​
- Added support for wildcards in task names (#836, #1489 by @pd93).
- Added the ability to run Taskfiles via stdin (#655, #1483 by @pd93).
- Bumped minimum Go version to 1.21 (#1500 by @pd93).
- Fixed bug related to the
--list
flag (#1509, #1512 by @pd93, #1514, #1520 by @pd93). - Add mention on the documentation to the fact that the variable declaration order is respected (#1510 by @kirkrodrigues).
- Improved style guide docs (#1495 by @iwittkau).
- Removed duplicated entry for
requires
on the API docs (#1491 by @teatimeguest).
v3.34.1 - 2024-01-27​
- Fixed prompt regression on Remote Taskfiles experiment (#1486, #1487 by @pd93).
v3.34.0 - 2024-01-25​
- Removed support for
version: 2
schemas. See the deprecation notice on our website (#1197, #1447 by @pd93). - Fixed a couple of issues in the JSON Schema + added a CI step to ensure it's correct (#1471, #1474, #1476 by @sirosen).
- Added Any Variables experiment proposal 2 (#1415, #1444 by @pd93).
- Updated the experiments and deprecations documentation format (#1445 by @pd93).
- Added new template function:
spew
, which can be used to print variables for debugging purposes (#1452 by @pd93). - Added new template function:
merge
, which can be used to merge any number of map variables (#1438, #1464 by @pd93). - Small change on the API when using as a library:
call.Direct
becamecall.Indirect
(#1459 by @pd93). - Refactored the public
read
andtaskfile
packages and introducedtaskfile/ast
(#1450 by @pd93). ast.IncludedTaskfiles
renamed toast.Includes
andorderedmap
package renamed toomap
plus some internal refactor work (#1456 by @pd93).- Fix zsh completion script to allow lowercase
taskfile
file names (#1482 by @xontab). - Improvements on how we check the Taskfile version (#1465 by @pd93).
- Added a new
ROOT_TASKFILE
special variable (#1468, #1469 by @pd93). - Fix experiment flags in
.env
when the--dir
or--taskfile
flags were used (#1478 by @pd93).
v3.33.1 - 2023-12-21​
- Added support for looping over map variables with the Any Variables experiment enabled (#1435, #1437 by @pd93).
- Fixed a bug where dynamic variables were causing errors during fast compilation (#1435, #1437 by @pd93)
v3.33.0 - 2023-12-20​
- Added Any Variables experiment (#1415, #1421 by @pd93).
- Updated Docusaurus to v3 (#1432 by @pd93).
- Added
aliases
to--json
flag output (#1430, #1431 by @pd93). - Added new
CLI_FORCE
special variable containing whether the--force
or--force-all
flags were set (#1412, #1434 by @pd93).
v3.32.0 - 2023-11-29​
- Added ability to exclude some files from
sources:
by usingexclude:
(#225, #1324 by @pd93 and @andreynering). - The Remote Taskfiles experiment now prefers remote files over cached ones by default (#1317, #1345 by @pd93).
- Added
--timeout
flag to the Remote Taskfiles experiment (#1317, #1345 by @pd93). - Fix bug where dynamic
vars:
andenv:
were being executed when they should actually be skipped byplatforms:
(#1273, #1377 by @andreynering). - Fix
schema.json
to makesilent
valid incmds
that usefor
(#1385, #1386 by @iainvm). - Add new
--no-status
flag to skip expensive status checks when runningtask --list --json
(#1348, #1368 by @amancevice).
v3.31.0 - 2023-10-07​
- Enabled the
--yes
flag for the Remote Taskfiles experiment (#1317, #1344 by @pd93). - Add ability to set
watch: true
in a task to automatically run it in watch mode (#231, #1361 by @andreynering). - Fixed a bug on the watch mode where paths that contained
.git
(like.github
), for example, were also being ignored (#1356 by @butuzov). - Fixed a nil pointer error when running a Taskfile with no contents (#1341, #1342 by @pd93).
- Added a new exit code (107) for when a Taskfile does not contain a schema version (#1342 by @pd93).
- Increased limit of maximum task calls from 100 to 1000 for now, as some people have been reaching this limit organically now that we have loops. This check exists to detect recursive calls, but will be removed in favor of a better algorithm soon (#1321, #1332).
- Fixed templating on descriptions on
task --list
(#1343 by @blackjid). - Fixed a bug where precondition errors were incorrectly being printed when task execution was aborted (#1337, #1338 by @sylv-io).
v3.30.1 - 2023-09-14​
- Fixed a regression where some special variables weren't being set correctly (#1331, #1334 by @pd93).
v3.30.0 - 2023-09-13​
- Prep work for Remote Taskfiles (#1316 by @pd93).
- Added the Remote Taskfiles experiment as a draft (#1152, #1317 by @pd93).
- Improve performance of content checksumming on
sources:
by replacing md5 with XXH3 which is much faster. This is a soft breaking change because checksums will be invalidated when upgrading to this release (#1325 by @ReillyBrogan).
v3.29.1 - 2023-08-26​
- Update to Go 1.21 (bump minimum version to 1.20) (#1302 by @pd93)
- Fix a missing a line break on log when using
--watch
mode (#1285, #1297 by @FilipSolich). - Fix
defer
on JSON Schema (#1288 by @calvinmclean and @andreynering). - Fix bug in usage of special variables like
{{.USER_WORKING_DIR}}
in combination withincludes
(#1046, #1205, #1250, #1293, #1312, #1274 by @andarto, #1309 by @andreynering). - Fix bug on
--status
flag. Running this flag should not have side-effects: it should not update the checksum on.task
, only report its status (#1305, #1307 by @visciang, #1313 by @andreynering).
v3.28.0 - 2023-07-24​
- Added the ability to
loop over commands and tasks
using
for
(#82, #1220 by @pd93). - Fixed variable propagation in multi-level includes (#778, #996, #1256 by @hudclark).
- Fixed a bug where the
--exit-code
code flag was not returning the correct exit code when calling commands indirectly (#1266, #1270 by @pd93). - Fixed a
nil
panic when a dependency was commented out or left empty (#1263 by @neomantra).
v3.27.1 - 2023-06-30​
v3.27.0 - 2023-06-29​
- Allow Taskfiles starting with lowercase characters (#947, #1221 by @pd93).
- e.g.
taskfile.yml
,taskfile.yaml
,taskfile.dist.yml
&taskfile.dist.yaml
- e.g.
- Bug fixes were made to the npm installation method. (#1190, by @sounisi5011).
- Added the gentle force experiment as a draft (#1200, #1216 by @pd93).
- Added an
--experiments
flag to allow you to see which experiments are enabled (#1242 by @pd93). - Added ability to specify which variables are required in a task (#1203, #1204 by @benc-uk).
v3.26.0 - 2023-06-10​
- Only rewrite checksum files in
.task
if the checksum has changed (#1185, #1194 by @deviantintegral). - Added experiments documentation to the website (#1198 by @pd93).
- Deprecated
version: 2
schema. This will be removed in the next major release (#1197, #1198, #1199 by @pd93). - Added a new
prompt:
prop to set a warning prompt to be shown before running a potential dangerous task (#100, #1163 by @MaxCheetham, Documentation). - Added support for single command task syntax. With this change, it's now
possible to declare just
cmd:
in a task, avoiding the more complexcmds: []
when you have only a single command for that task (#1130, #1131 by @timdp).
v3.25.0 - 2023-05-22​
- Support
silent:
when calling another tasks (#680, #1142 by @danquah). - Improve PowerShell completion script (#1168 by @trim21).
- Add more languages to the website menu and show translation progress percentage (#1173 by @misitebao).
- Starting on this release, official binaries for FreeBSD will be available to download (#1068 by @andreynering).
- Fix some errors being unintendedly suppressed (#1134 by @clintmod).
- Fix a nil pointer error when
version
is omitted from a Taskfile (#1148, #1149 by @pd93). - Fix duplicate error message when a task does not exists (#1141, #1144 by @pd93).
v3.24.0 - 2023-04-15​
- Fix Fish shell completion for tasks with aliases (#1113 by @patricksjackson).
- The default branch was renamed from
master
tomain
(#1049, #1048 by @pd93). - Fix bug where "up-to-date" logs were not being omitted for silent tasks (#546, #1107 by @danquah).
- Add
.hg
(Mercurial) to the list of ignored directories when using--watch
(#1098 by @misery). - More improvements to the release tool (#1096 by @pd93).
- Enforce gofumpt linter (#1099 by @pd93)
- Add
--sort
flag for use with--list
and--list-all
(#946, #1105 by @pd93). - Task now has custom exit codes depending on the error (#1114 by @pd93).
v3.23.0 - 2023-03-26​
Task now has an
official extension for Visual Studio Code
contributed by @pd93! 🎉 The extension is maintained in a
new repository under the go-task
organization. We're looking to gather feedback from the community so please give
it a go and let us know what you think via a
discussion,
issue or on our
Discord!
NOTE: The extension requires v3.23.0 to be installed in order to work.
- The website was integrated with Crowdin to allow the community to contribute with translations! Chinese is the first language available (#1057, #1058 by @misitebao).
- Added task location data to the
--json
flag output (#1056 by @pd93) - Change the name of the file generated by
task --init
fromTaskfile.yaml
toTaskfile.yml
(#1062 by @misitebao). - Added new
splitArgs
template function ({{splitArgs "foo bar 'foo bar baz'"}}
) to ensure string is split as arguments (#1040, #1059 by @dhanusaputra). - Fix the value of
{{.CHECKSUM}}
variable in status (#1076, #1080 by @pd93). - Fixed deep copy implementation (#1072 by @pd93)
- Created a tool to assist with releases (#1086 by @pd93).
v3.22.0 - 2023-03-10​
- Add a brand new
--global
(-g
) flag that will run a Taskfile from your$HOME
directory. This is useful to have automation that you can run from anywhere in your system! (Documentation, #1029 by @andreynering). - Add ability to set
error_only: true
on thegroup
output mode. This will instruct Task to only print a command output if it returned with a non-zero exit code (#664, #1022 by @jaedle). - Fixed bug where
.task/checksum
file was sometimes not being created when task also declares astatus:
(#840, #1035 by @harelwa, #1037 by @pd93). - Refactored and decoupled fingerprinting from the main Task executor (#1039 by @pd93).
- Fixed deadlock issue when using
run: once
(#715, #1025 by @theunrepentantgeek).
v3.21.0 - 2023-02-22​
- Added new
TASK_VERSION
special variable (#990, #1014 by @ja1code). - Fixed a bug where tasks were sometimes incorrectly marked as internal (#1007 by @pd93).
- Update to Go 1.20 (bump minimum version to 1.19) (#1010 by @pd93)
- Added environment variable
FORCE_COLOR
support to force color output. Useful for environments without TTY (#1003 by @automation-stack)
v3.20.0 - 2023-01-14​
- Improve behavior and performance of status checking when using the
timestamp
mode (#976, #977 by @aminya). - Performance optimizations were made for large Taskfiles (#982 by @pd93).
- Add ability to configure options for the
set
andshopt
builtins (#908, #929 by @pd93, Documentation). - Add new
platforms:
attribute totask
andcmd
, so it's now possible to choose in which platforms that given task or command will be run on. Possible values are operating system (GOOS), architecture (GOARCH) or a combination of the two. Example:platforms: [linux]
,platforms: [amd64]
orplatforms: [linux/amd64]
. Other platforms will be skipped (#978, #980 by @leaanthony).
v3.19.1 - 2022-12-31​
- Small bug fix: closing
Taskfile.yml
once we're done reading it (#963, #964 by @HeCorr). - Fixes a bug in v2 that caused a panic when using a
Taskfile_{{OS}}.yml
file (#961, #971 by @pd93). - Fixed a bug where watch intervals set in the Taskfile were not being respected (#969, #970 by @pd93)
- Add
--json
flag (alias-j
) with the intent to improve support for code editors and add room to other possible integrations. This is basic for now, but we plan to add more info in the near future (#936 by @davidalpert, #764).
v3.19.0 - 2022-12-05​
- Installation via npm now supports pnpm as well (go-task/go-npm#2, go-task/go-npm#3).
- It's now possible to run Taskfiles from subdirectories! A new
USER_WORKING_DIR
special variable was added to add even more flexibility for monorepos (#289, #920). - Add task-level
dotenv
support (#389, #904). - It's now possible to use global level variables on
includes
(#942, #943). - The website got a brand new translation to Chinese by @DeronW. Thanks!
v3.18.0 - 2022-11-12​
- Show aliases on
task --list --silent
(task --ls
). This means that aliases will be completed by the completion scripts (#919). - Tasks in the root Taskfile will now be displayed first in
--list
/--list-all
output (#806, #890). - It's now possible to call a
default
task in an included Taskfile by using just the namespace. For example:docs:default
is now automatically aliased todocs
(#661, #815).
v3.17.0 - 2022-10-14​
- Add a "Did you mean ...?" suggestion when a task does not exits another one with a similar name is found (#867, #880).
- Now YAML parse errors will print which Taskfile failed to parse (#885, #887).
- Add ability to set
aliases
for tasks and namespaces (#268, #340, #879). - Improvements to Fish shell completion (#897).
- Added ability to set a different watch interval by setting
interval: '500ms'
or using the--interval=500ms
flag (#813, #865). - Add colored output to
--list
,--list-all
and--summary
flags (#845, #874). - Fix unexpected behavior where
label:
was being shown instead of the task name on--list
(#603, #877).
v3.16.0 - 2022-09-29​
- Add
npm
as new installation method:npm i -g @go-task/cli
(#870, #871, npm package). - Add support to marking tasks and includes as internal, which will hide them
from
--list
and--list-all
(#818).
v3.15.2 - 2022-09-08​
- Fix error when using variable in
env:
introduced in the previous release (#858, #866). - Fix handling of
CLI_ARGS
(--
) in Bash completion (#863). - On zsh completion, add ability to replace
--list-all
with--list
as already possible on the Bash completion (#861).
v3.15.0 - 2022-09-03​
- Add new special variables
ROOT_DIR
andTASKFILE_DIR
. This was a highly requested feature (#215, #857, Documentation). - Follow symlinks on
sources
(#826, #831). - Improvements and fixes to Bash completion (#835, #844).
v3.14.1 - 2022-08-03​
- Always resolve relative include paths relative to the including Taskfile (#822, #823).
- Fix ZSH and PowerShell completions to consider all tasks instead of just the public ones (those with descriptions) (#803).
v3.14.0 - 2022-07-08​
- Add ability to override the
.task
directory location with theTASK_TEMP_DIR
environment variable. - Allow to override Task colors using environment variables:
TASK_COLOR_RESET
,TASK_COLOR_BLUE
,TASK_COLOR_GREEN
,TASK_COLOR_CYAN
,TASK_COLOR_YELLOW
,TASK_COLOR_MAGENTA
andTASK_COLOR_RED
(#568, #792). - Fixed bug when using the
output: group
mode where STDOUT and STDERR were being print in separated blocks instead of in the right order (#779). - Starting on this release, ARM architecture binaries are been released to Snap as well (#795).
- i386 binaries won't be available anymore on Snap because Ubuntu removed the support for this architecture.
- Upgrade mvdan.cc/sh, which fixes a bug with associative arrays (#785, mvdan/sh#884, mvdan/sh#893).
v3.13.0 - 2022-06-13​
- Added
-n
as an alias to--dry
(#776, #777). - Fix behavior of interrupt (SIGINT, SIGTERM) signals. Task will now give time for the processes running to do cleanup work (#458, #479, #728, #769).
- Add new
--exit-code
(-x
) flag that will pass-through the exit form the command being ran (#755).
v3.12.1 - 2022-05-10​
- Fixed bug where, on Windows, variables were ending with
\r
because we were only removing the final\n
but not\r\n
(#717).
v3.12.0 - 2022-03-31​
- The
--list
and--list-all
flags can now be combined with the--silent
flag to print the task names only, without their description (#691). - Added support for multi-level inclusion of Taskfiles. This means that included Taskfiles can also include other Taskfiles. Before this was limited to one level (#390, #623, #656).
- Add ability to specify vars when including a Taskfile. Check out the documentation for more information (#677).
v3.11.0 - 2022-02-19​
- Task now supports printing begin and end messages when using the
group
output mode, useful for grouping tasks in CI systems. Check out the documentation for more information (#647, #651). - Add
Taskfile.dist.yml
andTaskfile.dist.yaml
to the supported file name list. Check out the documentation for more information (#498, #666).
v3.10.0 - 2022-01-04​
- A new
--list-all
(alias-a
) flag is now available. It's similar to the exiting--list
(-l
) but prints all tasks, even those without a description (#383, #401). - It's now possible to schedule cleanup commands to run once a task finishes
with the
defer:
keyword (Documentation, #475, #626). - Remove long deprecated and undocumented
$
variable prefix and^
command prefix (#642, #644, #645). - Add support for
.yaml
extension (as an alternative to.yml
). This was requested multiple times throughout the years. Enjoy! (#183, #184, #369, #584, #621). - Fixed error when computing a variable when the task directory do not exist yet (#481, #579).
v3.9.2 - 2021-12-02​
- Upgrade mvdan/sh which contains a fix a for a important regression on Windows (#619, mvdan/sh#768, mvdan/sh#769).
v3.9.1 - 2021-11-28​
- Add logging in verbose mode for when a task starts and finishes (#533, #588).
- Fix an issue with preconditions and context errors (#597, #598).
- Quote each
{{.CLI_ARGS}}
argument to prevent one with spaces to become many (#613). - Fix nil pointer when
cmd:
was left empty (#612, #614). - Upgrade mvdan/sh which contains two relevant
fixes:
- Fix quote of empty strings in
shellQuote
(#609, mvdan/sh#763). - Fix issue of wrong environment variable being picked when there's another very similar one (#586, mvdan/sh#745).
- Fix quote of empty strings in
- Install shell completions automatically when installing via Homebrew (#264, #592, go-task/homebrew-tap#2).
v3.9.0 - 2021-10-02​
- A new
shellQuote
function was added to the template system ({{shellQuote "a string"}}
) to ensure a string is safe for use in shell (mvdan/sh#727, mvdan/sh#737, Documentation) - In this version mvdan.cc/sh was upgraded with
some small fixes and features
- The
read -p
flag is now supported (#314, mvdan/sh#551, mvdan/sh#772) - The
pwd -P
andpwd -L
flags are now supported (#553, mvdan/sh#724, mvdan/sh#728) - The
$GID
environment variable is now correctly being set (#561, mvdan/sh#723)
- The
v3.8.0 - 2021-09-26​
- Add
interactive: true
setting to improve support for interactive CLI apps (#217, #563). - Fix some
nil
errors (#534, #573). - Add ability to declare an included Taskfile as optional (#519, #552).
- Add support for including Taskfiles in the home directory by using
~
(#539, #557).
v3.7.3 - 2021-09-04​
- Add official support to Apple M1 (#564, #567).
- Our official Homebrew tap will support more platforms, including Apple M1
v3.7.0 - 2021-07-31​
- Add
run:
setting to control if tasks should run multiple times or not. Available options arealways
(the default),when_changed
(if a variable modified the task) andonce
(run only once no matter what). This is a long time requested feature. Enjoy! (#53, #359).
v3.6.0 - 2021-07-10​
- Allow using both
sources:
andstatus:
in the same task (#411, #427, #477). - Small optimization and bug fix: don't compute variables if not needed for
dotenv:
(#517).
v3.5.0 - 2021-07-04​
v3.4.3 - 2021-05-30​
- Add support for the
NO_COLOR
environment variable. (#459, fatih/color#137). - Fix bug where sources were not considering the right directory in
--watch
mode (#484, #485).
v3.4.2 - 2021-04-23​
- On watch, report which file failed to read (#472).
- Do not try to catch SIGKILL signal, which are not actually possible (#476).
- Improve version reporting when building Task from source using Go Modules (#462, #473).
v3.4.1 - 2021-04-17​
- Improve error reporting when parsing YAML: in some situations where you would just see an generic error, you'll now see the actual error with more detail: the YAML line the failed to parse, for example (#467).
- A JSON Schema was published here and is automatically being used by some editors like Visual Studio Code (#135).
- Print task name before the command in the log output (#398).
v3.3.0 - 2021-03-20​
- Add support for delegating CLI arguments to commands with
--
and a specialCLI_ARGS
variable (#327). - Add a
--concurrency
(alias-C
) flag, to limit the number of tasks that run concurrently. This is useful for heavy workloads. (#345).
v3.2.2 - 2021-01-12​
- Improve performance of
--list
and--summary
by skipping running shell variables for these flags (#332). - Fixed a bug where an environment in a Taskfile was not always overridable by the system environment (#425).
- Fixed environment from .env files not being available as variables (#379).
- The install script is now working for ARM platforms (#428).
v3.2.1 - 2021-01-09​
- Fixed some bugs and regressions regarding dynamic variables and directories (#426).
- The slim-sprig package was updated with the upstream sprig.
v3.2.0 - 2021-01-07​
- Fix the
.task
directory being created in the task directory instead of the Taskfile directory (#247). - Fix a bug where dynamic variables (those declared with
sh:
) were not running in the task directory when the task has a custom dir or it was in an included Taskfile (#384). - The watch feature (via the
--watch
flag) got a few different bug fixes and should be more stable now (#423, #365).
v3.1.0 - 2021-01-03​
- Fix a bug when the checksum up-to-date resolution is used by a task with a
custom
label:
attribute (#412). - Starting from this release, we're releasing official ARMv6 and ARM64 binaries for Linux (#375, #418).
- Task now respects the order of declaration of included Taskfiles when evaluating variables declaring by them (#393).
set -e
is now automatically set on every command. This was done to fix an issue where multiline string commands wouldn't really fail unless the sentence was in the last line (#403).
v3.0.1 - 2020-12-26​
- Allow use as a library by moving the required packages out of the
internal
directory (#358). - Do not error if a specified dotenv file does not exist (#378, #385).
- Fix panic when you have empty tasks in your Taskfile (#338, #362).
v3.0.0 - 2020-08-16​
- On
v3
, all CLI variables will be considered global variables (#336, #341) - Add support to
.env
like files (#324, #356). - Add
label:
to task so you can override the task name in the logs (#321, #337). - Refactor how variables work on version 3 (#311).
- Disallow
expansions
on v3 since it has no effect. Taskvars.yml
is not automatically included anymore.Taskfile_{{OS}}.yml
is not automatically included anymore.- Allow interpolation on
includes
, so you can manually include a Taskfile based on operation system, for example. - Expose
.TASK
variable in templates with the task name (#252). - Implement short task syntax (#194, #240).
- Added option to make included Taskfile run commands on its own directory (#260, #144)
- Taskfiles in version 1 are not supported anymore (#237).
- Added global
method:
option. With this option, you can set a default method to all tasks in a Taskfile (#246). - Changed default method from
timestamp
tochecksum
(#246). - New magic variables are now available when using
status:
:.TIMESTAMP
which contains the greatest modification date from the files listed insources:
, and.CHECKSUM
, which contains a checksum of all files listed instatus:
. This is useful for manual checking when using external, or even remote, artifacts when usingstatus:
(#216). - We're now using slim-sprig instead of sprig, which allowed a file size reduction of about 22% (#219).
- We now use some colors on Task output to better distinguish message types - commands are green, errors are red, etc (#207).
v2.8.1 - 2020-05-20​
- Fix error code for the
--help
flag (#300, #330). - Print version to stdout instead of stderr (#299, #329).
- Suppress
context
errors when using the--watch
flag (#313, #317). - Support templating on description (#276, #283).
v2.8.0 - 2019-12-07​
- Add
--parallel
flag (alias-p
) to run tasks given by the command line in parallel (#266). - Fixed bug where calling the
task
CLI only informing global vars would not execute thedefault
task. - Add ability to silent all tasks by adding
silent: true
a the root of the Taskfile.
v2.7.1 - 2019-11-10​
- Fix error being raised when
exit 0
was called (#251).
v2.7.0 - 2019-09-22​
- Fixed panic bug when assigning a global variable (#229, #243).
- A task with
method: checksum
will now re-run if generated files are deleted (#228, #238).
v2.6.0 - 2019-07-21​
- Fixed some bugs regarding minor version checks on
version:
. - Add
preconditions:
to task (#205). - Create directory informed on
dir:
if it doesn't exist (#209, #211). - We now have a
--taskfile
flag (alias-t
), which can be used to run another Taskfile (other than the defaultTaskfile.yml
) (#221). - It's now possible to install Task using Homebrew on Linux (go-task/homebrew-tap#1).
v2.5.2 - 2019-05-11​
- Reverted YAML upgrade due issues with CRLF on Windows (#201, go-yaml/yaml#450).
- Allow setting global variables through the CLI (#192).
2.5.1 - 2019-04-27​
- Fixed some issues with interactive command line tools, where sometimes the output were not being shown, and similar issues (#114, #190, #200).
- Upgraded go-yaml/yaml from v2 to v3.
v2.5.0 - 2019-03-16​
- We moved from the taskfile.org domain to the new fancy taskfile.dev domain. While stuff is being redirected, we strongly recommend to everyone that use this install script to use the new taskfile.dev domain on scripts from now on.
- Fixed to the ZSH completion (#182).
- Add
--summary
flag along withsummary:
task attribute (#180).
v2.4.0 - 2019-02-21​
- Allow calling a task of the root Taskfile from an included Taskfile by
prefixing it with
:
(#161, #172). - Add flag to override the
output
option (#173). - Fix bug where Task was persisting the new checksum on the disk when the Dry Mode is enabled (#166).
- Fix file timestamp issue when the file name has spaces (#176).
- Mitigating path expanding issues on Windows (#170).
v2.3.0 - 2019-01-02​
- On Windows, Task can now be installed using Scoop (#152).
- Fixed issue with file/directory globing (#153).
- Added ability to globally set environment variables (#138, #159).
v2.2.1 - 2018-12-09​
- This repository now uses Go Modules (#143). We'll still keep the
vendor
directory in sync for some time, though; - Fixing a bug when the Taskfile has no tasks but includes another Taskfile (#150);
- Fix a bug when calling another task or a dependency in an included Taskfile (#151).
v2.2.0 - 2018-10-25​
- Added support for
including other Taskfiles
(#98)
- This should be considered experimental. For now, only including local files is supported, but support for including remote Taskfiles is being discussed. If you have any feedback, please comment on #98.
- Task now have a dedicated documentation site: https://taskfile.org
v2.1.1 - 2018-09-17​
- Fix suggestion to use
task --init
not being shown anymore (when aTaskfile.yml
is not found) - Fix error when using checksum method and no file exists for a source glob (#131)
- Fix signal handling when the
--watch
flag is given (#132)
v2.1.0 - 2018-08-19​
v2.0.3 - 2018-06-24​
- Expand environment variables on "dir", "sources" and "generates" (#116)
- Fix YAML merging syntax (#112)
- Add ZSH completion (#111)
- Implement new
output
option. Please check out the documentation
v2.0.2 - 2018-05-01​
- Fix merging of YAML anchors (#112)
v2.0.1 - 2018-03-11​
- Fixes panic on
task --list
v2.0.0 - 2018-03-08​
Version 2.0.0 is here, with a new Taskfile format.
Please, make sure to read the Taskfile versions document, since it describes in depth what changed for this version.
- New Taskfile version 2 (#77)
- Possibility to have global variables in the
Taskfile.yml
instead ofTaskvars.yml
(#66) - Small improvements and fixes
v1.4.4 - 2017-11-19​
- Handle SIGINT and SIGTERM (#75);
- List: print message with there's no task with description;
- Expand home dir ("~" symbol) on paths (#74);
- Add Snap as an installation method;
- Move examples to its own repo;
- Watch: also walk on tasks called on on "cmds", and not only on "deps";
- Print logs to stderr instead of stdout (#68);
- Remove deprecated
set
keyword; - Add checksum based status check, alternative to timestamp based.
v1.4.3 - 2017-09-07​
- Allow assigning variables to tasks at run time via CLI (#33)
- Added support for multiline variables from sh (#64)
- Fixes env: remove square braces and evaluate shell (#62)
- Watch: change watch library and few fixes and improvements
- When use watching, cancel and restart long running process on file change (#59 and #60)
v1.4.2 - 2017-07-30​
- Flag to set directory of execution
- Always echo command if is verbose mode
- Add silent mode to disable echoing of commands
- Fixes and improvements of variables (#56)
v1.4.1 - 2017-07-15​
- Allow use of YAML for dynamic variables instead of $ prefix
VAR: {sh: echo Hello}
instead ofVAR: $echo Hello
- Add
--list
(or-l
) flag to print existing tasks - OS specific Taskvars file (e.g.
Taskvars_windows.yml
,Taskvars_linux.yml
, etc) - Consider task up-to-date on equal timestamps (#49)
- Allow absolute path in generates section (#48)
- Bugfix: allow templating when calling deps (#42)
- Fix panic for invalid task in cyclic dep detection
- Better error output for dynamic variables in Taskvars.yml (#41)
- Allow template evaluation in parameters
v1.4.0 - 2017-07-06​
- Cache dynamic variables
- Add verbose mode (
-v
flag) - Support to task parameters (overriding vars) (#31) (#32)
- Print command, also when "set:" is specified (#35)
- Improve task command help text (#35)
v1.3.1 - 2017-06-14​
- Fix glob not working on commands (#28)
- Add ExeExt template function
- Add
--init
flag to create a new Taskfile - Add status option to prevent task from running (#27)
- Allow interpolation on
generates
andsources
attributes (#26)
v1.3.0 - 2017-04-24​
- Migrate from os/exec.Cmd to a native Go sh/bash interpreter
- This is a potentially breaking change if you use Windows.
- Now,
cmd
is not used anymore on Windows. Always use Bash-like syntax for your commands, even on Windows.
- Add "ToSlash" and "FromSlash" to template functions
- Use functions defined on github.com/Masterminds/sprig
- Do not redirect stdin while running variables commands
- Using
context
anderrgroup
packages (this will make other tasks to be cancelled, if one returned an error)
v1.2.0 - 2017-04-02​
- More tests and Travis integration
- Watch a task (experimental)
- Possibility to call another task
- Fix "=" not being recognized in variables/environment variables
- Tasks can now have a description, and help will print them (#10)
- Task dependencies now run concurrently
- Support for a default task (#16)
v1.1.0 - 2017-03-08​
- Support for YAML, TOML and JSON (#1)
- Support running command in another directory (#4)
--force
or-f
flag to force execution of task even when it's up-to-date- Detection of cyclic dependencies (#5)
- Support for variables (#6, #9, #14)
- Operation System specific commands and variables (#13)
v1.0.0 - 2017-02-28​
- Add LICENSE file