Click Changelog
This contains all major version changes between click releases.
Version 2.4
(bugfix release, released on July 4th 2014)
- Corrected a bug in the change of the help option in 2.3.
Version 2.3
(bugfix release, released on July 3rd 2014)
- Fixed an incorrectly formatted help record for count options.’
- Add support for ansi code stripping on Windows if colorama
is not available.
- restored the Click 1.0 handling of the help parameter for certain
edge cases.
Version 2.2
(bugfix release, released on June 26th 2014)
- fixed tty detection on PyPy.
- fixed an issue that progress bars were not rendered when the
context manager was entered.
Version 2.1
(bugfix release, released on June 14th 2014)
- fixed the launch() function on windows.
- improved the colorama support on windows to try hard to not
screw up the console if the application is interrupted.
- fixed windows terminals incorrectly being reported to be 80
characters wide instead of 79
- use colorama win32 bindings if available to get the correct
dimensions of a windows terminal.
- fixed an issue with custom function types on Python 3.
- fixed an issue with unknown options being incorrectly reported
in error messages.
Version 2.0
(codename “tap tap tap”, released on June 6th 2014)
- added support for opening stdin/stdout on Windows in
binary mode correctly.
- added support for atomic writes to files by going through
a temporary file.
- introduced BadParameter which can be used to easily perform
custom validation with the same error messages as in the type system.
- added progressbar(); a function to show progress bars.
- added get_app_dir(); a function to calculate the home folder
for configs.
- Added transparent handling for ANSI codes into the echo()
function through colorama.
- Added clear() function.
- Breaking change: parameter callbacks now get the parameter object
passed as second argument. There is legacy support for old callbacks
which will warn but still execute the script.
- Added style(), unstyle() and secho() for ANSI
styles.
- Added an edit() function that invokes the default editor.
- Added an launch() function that launches browsers and applications.
- nargs of -1 for arguments can now be forced to be a single item through
the required flag. It defaults to not required.
- setting a default for arguments now implicitly makes it non required.
- changed “yN” / “Yn” to “y/N” and “Y/n” in confirmation prompts.
- added basic support for bash completion.
- added getchar() to fetch a single character from the terminal.
- errors now go to stderr as intended.
- fixed various issues with more exotic parameter formats like DOS/Windows
style arguments.
- added pause() which works similar to the Windows pause cmd
built-in but becomes an automatic noop if the application is not run
through a terminal.
- added a bit of extra information about missing choice parameters.
- changed how the help function is implemented to allow global overriding
of the help option.
- added support for token normalization to implement case insensitive handling.
- added support for providing defaults for context settings.
Version 1.1
(bugfix release, released on May 23rd 2014)
- fixed a bug that caused text files in Python 2 to not accept
native strings.
Version 1.0
(no codename, released on May 21st 2014)