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Picocli 4.6.3

The picocli community is pleased to announce picocli 4.6.3.

This release includes bugfixes and enhancements, as well as documentation and security improvements.

Several improvements to the annotation processor and the generated autocompletion scripts.

Much gratitude to the picocli community for the many pull requests and other contributions!

This is the seventy-eighth public release.
Picocli follows semantic versioning.
Artifacts in this release are signed by Remko Popma (6601 E5C0 8DCC BB96).

Table of Contents

New and Noteworthy

Default branch renamed to main

The default branch has been renamed! master is now named main.

If you have a local clone, you can update it by running the following commands:

git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main
git remote set-head origin -a

Autocompletion script improvements

  • Autocompletion now shows subcommand aliases in the completion candidates
  • Autocompletion now displays completion candidates on exact match
  • Autocompletion now supports file names containing spaces
  • Remove file name extension and local dir prefix from the command name in generated autocomplete scripts
  • Fix Bash error compopt: command not found on older versions of Bash
  • Autocompletion on ZSH should only call compinit once

Fixed issues

  • [#1440] Bugfix: annotation processor incorrectly failed with DuplicateOptionAnnotationsException when multiple commands had a subcommand in common and an inherited (scope = ScopeType.INHERIT) option. Thanks to nemetsSY for raising this.
  • [#1472] Bugfix: annotation processor option -Averbose=true no longer incorrectly triggers warning: The following options were not recognized by any processor: '[verbose]'. Thanks to Lorenz Leutgeb for raising this.
  • [#1384][#1493] Bugfix: parser now correctly handles ArgGroups with optional positional parameters. Thanks to Matthew Lewis for raising this and to Kurt Kaiser for the pull request.
  • [#1474] Bugfix: Avoid UnsupportedCharsetException: cp65001 on Microsoft Windows console when code page is set to UTF-8. Thanks to epuni for raising this.
  • [#1528][#1529] Bugfix: Allow aliases of a CommandSpec that is already a subcommand to be properly & consistently modified. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1466][#1467] Bugfix/Enhancement: Autocomplete now shows subcommand aliases in the completion candidates. Thanks to Ruud Senden for the pull request.
  • [#1468] Bugfix/Enhancement: Autocompletion now displays completion candidates on exact match. Thanks to Ruud Senden for raising this.
  • [#1537][#1541] Bugfix: AbbreviationMatcher now treats aliases of the same object as one match. Thanks to Staffan Arvidsson McShane for raising this and NewbieOrange for the pull request.
  • [#1531] Bugfix: Options defined as annotated methods should reset between parseArgs invocations when CommandLine instance is reused. Thanks to kaushalkumar for raising this.
  • [#1458][#1473] Enhancement: Autocompletion now supports file names containing spaces. Thanks to zpater345 for raising this and thanks to NewbieOrange for the pull request.
  • [#1477] Enhancement: Remove file name extension and local dir prefix from the command name in generated autocomplete scripts. Thanks to Andrea Peruffo for the pull request.
  • [#1464] Enhancement: Fix Bash error compopt: command not found on older versions Bash. Thanks to Andres Almiray for raising this.
  • [#1476] Enhancement: improve error message in AbstractCommandSpecProcessor#extractTypedMember. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for raising this.
  • [#1475] Enhancement: Fix typo in annotation target-type error message. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1366][#1370] Enhancement: show in usage help that the built-in help command only works on the first argument. Thanks to Patrice Duroux for the pull request.
  • [#1492] Enhancement: Use EditorConfig to define file formats and coding style; Thanks to Goooler for the pull request.
  • [#1530] Enhancement: Simplified CommandSpec#validateSubcommandName implementation. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1484] Enhancement: Fixed org.junit.Assert.assertThat deprecation warning; Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1485] Enhancement: Fix build warnings; build doc enhancements; Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1483] Enhancement: Improved AbstractCommandSpecProcessor#isSubcommand; Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1499] Enhancement: Improved DefaultFactory#create(Class<T>). Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1518] Enhancement: Simplified detection of getter & setter in TypedMember constructor. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1568] Enhancement: CommandLine cleanup. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1526][#1548] Enhancement: Autocompletion on ZSH should only call compinit once. Thanks to Ben Herweyer for the pull request.
  • [#1539] DOC: Various documentation improvements. Thanks to Hamid Nazari for the pull request.
  • [#1481] DOC: Removed repeated "whether" typo in JavaDoc; Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1125][#1538] DOC: Update "Option Names or Subcommands as Option Values" section in user manual; Thanks to Scott Turner for raising this.
  • [#1409][#1463] DOC: add documentation section on using default values in argument groups. Thanks to Ben Kedo for the pull request.
  • [#1383][#1502] DOC: add tests demonstrating usage of multiple arguments. Thanks to Ben Kedo and lind6 for the pull request.
  • [#1462] DOC, BUILD, DEP: Extend documentation on argument files, fix broken/outdated links, update dependencies. Thanks to Andreas Deininger for the pull request.
  • [#1457] DOC: add caution about arguments in @files with quoted option parameters. Thanks to Andreas Deininger for the pull request.
  • [#1544][#1545] DOC: Add NOTICE file with GPL v2 + CPE license. Thanks to Keith M Swartz for the pull request.
  • [#1553] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - Token-Permissions
  • [#1554] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - Pinned-Dependencies
  • [#1555] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - Create SECURITY.md
  • [#1556][#1557] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - SAST
  • [#1558] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - Pinned-Dependencies in codeql-analysis.yml
  • [#1559] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - Token-Permissions in codeql-analysis.yml
  • [#1560] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - Binary-Artifacts - Validate Gradle Wrapper
  • [#1561] SECURITY: Fix code scanning alert - Doc/example code uses a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm
  • [#1562] BUILD: Rename 'master' branch to 'main'
  • [#1491] BUILD: Add build job in CI; Thanks to Goooler for the pull request.
  • [#1482] BUILD: Optimize gradle; Thanks to Goooler for the pull request.
  • [#1461] BUILD: Allow publishing without signing for non-release versions. Thanks to Andreas Deininger for raising this.
  • [#1459] BUILD: The nexus-staging Gradle plugin must be applied to the root project, not to subprojects. Thanks to Andreas Deininger for raising this.
  • [#1503] BUILD: Fix failing System.exit tests on Java 18.
  • [#1504] BUILD: Run tests on Java 6-7 in CI environment, semi-automate testing on Java 5.
  • [#1516] DEP: Remove redundant dependency on jline-console in picocli-shell-jline3. Thanks to kaushalkumar for raising this.
  • [#1495] DEP: Bump validation-api from 2.0.0.Final to 2.0.1.Final
  • [#1496] DEP: Bump biz.aQute.bnd.gradle from 5.1.2 to 6.1.0
  • [#1494] DEP: Bump kotlin-gradle-plugin from 1.5.31 to 1.6.0
  • [#1497] DEP: Bump badass-jar from 1.1.3 to 1.2.0
  • [#1498] DEP: Bump hibernate-validator from 6.1.2.Final to 7.0.1.Final
  • [#1490] DEP: Bump hibernate-validator-annotation-processor from 6.1.2.Final to 7.0.1.Final
  • [#1489] DEP: Bump log4j-core from 2.13.0 to 2.14.1
  • [#1488] DEP: Bump log4j-api from 2.13.0 to 2.14.1
  • [#1487] DEP: Bump kotlin-script-runtime from 1.5.31 to 1.6.0
  • [#1486] DEP: Bump gradle-nexus-staging-plugin from 0.21.0 to 0.30.0
  • [#1500][#1517] DEP: Bump gradle from 7.3 to 7.3.3. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1569] DEP: Bump gradle from 7.3.3 to 7.4. Thanks to Ross Goldberg for the pull request.
  • [#1515] DEP: Bump kotlin-gradle-plugin from 1.6.0 to 1.6.10
  • [#1512] DEP: Bump kotlin-script-runtime from 1.6.0 to 1.6.10
  • [#1514] DEP: Bump log4j-api from 2.14.1 to 2.17.1
  • [#1513] DEP: Bump log4j-core from 2.14.1 to 2.17.1
  • [#1543] DEP: Bump asciidoctorj-pdf from 1.6.0 to 1.6.2
  • [#1547] DEP: Bump scala-library from 2.13.7 to 2.13.8
  • [#1550] DEP: Bump hibernate-validator from 7.0.1.Final to 7.0.2.Final
  • [#1551] DEP: Bump hibernate-validator-annotation-processor from 7.0.1.Final to 7.0.2.Final

Deprecations

No features were deprecated in this release.

Potential breaking changes

This release has no breaking changes.

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