v0.21.0

Features

• Correctly render tab stops in --show-all, see #2038 (@Synthetica9)
• Add a --style=default option and make it the default. It is less verbose than full, see #2061 (@IsaacHorvath)
• Enable BusyBox less as pager, see #2162 (@nfisher1226)
• File extensions are now matched case-insensitively. See #1854, #2181 (@Enselic)

Bugfixes

• Bump regex dependency from 1.5.4 to 1.5.5 to fix CVE-2022-24713, see #2145, #2139 (@Enselic)
• bat no longer crashes when encountering files that references missing syntaxes. See #915, #2181 (@Enselic)

Performance

• Skip syntax highlighting on long lines (> 16384 chars) to help improve performance. See #2165 (@keith-hall)
• Vastly improve startup time by lazy-loading syntaxes via syntect 5.0.0. This makes bat display small files ~75% faster than before. See #951, #2181 (@Enselic)

Other

• Include info about custom assets in --diagnostics if used. See #2107, #2144 (@Enselic)

Syntaxes

• Mapped clang-format config file (.clang-format) to YAML syntax (@TruncatedDinoSour)
• log syntax: improved handling of escape characters in double quoted strings. See #2123 (@keith-hall)
• Associate /var/spool/mail/* and /var/mail/* with the Email syntax. See #2156 (@cyqsimon)
• Added cmd-help syntax to scope --help messages. See #2148 (@victor-gp)
• Slightly adjust Zig syntax. See #2136 (@Enselic)
• Associate .inf files with the INI syntax. See #2190 (@Enselic)

bat as a library

• Allow configuration of show_nonprintable with PrettyPrinter, see #2142
• The binary format of syntaxes.bin has been changed due to syntaxes now being lazy-loaded via syntect 5.0.0. See #2181 (@Enselic)
• Mark bat::error::Error enum as #[non_exhaustive] to allow adding new variants without future semver breakage. See #2181 (@Enselic)
• Change Error::SyntectError(syntect::LoadingError) to Error::SyntectError(syntect::Error). See #2181 (@Enselic)
• Add Error::SyntectLoadingError(syntect::LoadingError) enum variant. See #2181 (@Enselic)