• Fix replacement-js flag to support referencing matched groups when matching multiple files by @Rockdell in #513
• Ensure predictable sequence of text output when searching more than one file

New Contributors

• Thank you to @Rockdell who made their first contribution 👑

• Use -x [re] or --exclude-re [re] to exclude files with a path that matches this regular expression. Will follow same regex flags and setup as the main search. Can be provided multiple times.
• Use -X [glob] or --exclude-glob [glob] to exclude files found with this glob. Can be provided multiple times.

• Deprecated: RE2 removed as engine options

• Set -L flag to search for the literary search string with no regex special chars

Breaking: § defaults to be an alias for \

• Add: Have . match newline (dot-all notation)
• Breaking: Needs node 10+ to compile the library
• Fix: Groups undefined in javascript replacement
• Fix: Safty issue solved for dependencies
• Fix Error with current work directory for javascript replacements
• Devops: fix build process

• Added: require from relative path with no ./ when replacement is JS code
• Added: require with alias r when replacement is JS code

• Fix: Multiple files with dynamic replacement
• Breaking: Prenamed variables for dynamic replacement

• Add: Access working directory from javascript replacements

• Add: per-file vars for javascript replacements
• Add: Option for backup file (-b)
• Add: More safe life for data (data never only in memory as default)
• Add: Option for sync file interaction
• Add: Option to output matched groups (-m)
• Breaking: Removed -J flag (use -j flag instead)
• Breaking: Removed -O flag (use -m flag instead)
• Fix: Newline in replacement