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The main highlight of this version of argbash is the getopts feature parity - the generated code is supposed to support all features of getopts related to short options.

New features:

• Implemented getopts-like behavior (so e.g. -gIinclude equals to -g -I include etc.).
• Improved feedback in case of mismatch between expected / received arguments.

Bugfixes:

• Argbash-powered scripts with positional arguments can be sourced consecutively without having to manually perform variable reset.
• Fixed issue #7 with newlines in help strings.
• The argbash.spec file has been corrected, so there is a hope that Argbash will make it to Fedora Linux distribution.

New features:

• Behavior that raises an error when a script argument's value looks like option - enabled by the ARG_RESTRICT_VALUES.

New minor features:

• argbash provides more useful feedback in case of unmatched square brackets in the input
• argbash in standalone mode now uses the more fresh of the parsing code .sh or .m4 templates (was undocumented, but the .sh one was always preferred over the .m4).

New minor features:

• argbash tries to warn you when it looks like you have made a typo when attempting to use macros.
• argbash supports commented mode, when the parsing code is explained in detail

Bugfixes:

• Fixed handling of help messages in case of missing ARG_HELP macro

New minor features:

• Added the --mode option to argbash-init.
• Improved help messages for arguments with typed values (experimental).

Bugfixes:

• Fixed quoting-related issues of the underlying code.

(The release 2.2.1 was accidentally skipped).

New features:

• KILLER FEATURE: Introduced the argbash-init simple template generator.
• argbash can read from stdin.
• ARG_HELP gains second argument.
• Preview (preliminary) support for argument values types (a.k.a. typed arguments)

Bugfixes:

• Improved defaults indications in help messages.
• Overall internal code beautification

Bugfixes:

• Fixed help messages for the repeated optional args and added connected it to the delim choice.
• Fixed the installation process in resources/Makefile

Incompatible changes (minor):

• argbash option --standalone has been renamed to --library.

New features:

• Support for configuration of argument-value delimiters (space and equal sign are supported - --some-opt=value as well as --some-opt value may work)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed handling of argbash-xtoy in Makefiles for tests/packaging.
• Added the die function to all generated scripts.
• Beautification of the underlying code.
• Documentation improvements in the Examples section.

This release descends from 1.4.2.

Incompatible changes:

• The variable name in which argument values are stored is different (lowercase) as the bash style guides recommend.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a error handling bug in the argbash-1to2 script.

New features:

• Added the ARGBASH_SET_INDENT macro for indentation control.
• Created scripts are more compliant to the https://www.shellcheck.net/ tool.
• Introduced argbash-1to2 script for migration to Argbash2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some errors related to displaying help.
• Fixed spurious default to ARG_POSITIONAL_INF.
• Fixed handling of empty defaults.
• Fixed broken Makefile that prevented (un)installs. (got broken in 1.4.0, fixed in 1.4.1)
• Fixed broken argbash-1to2 script (broken since 1.4.0)

New features:

• Support for infinitely many (and leftover) arguments.
• Partial POSIX shell compatibility.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed definitions in the parsing part of the script.
• Expanded documentation --- expanded info about related projects.